My Journey to Life, Step 13—The Nature of Humanity

8. Was there a covenant of grace even before humanity’s nature changed at the fall?

Yes! Scriptures point out that even before Creation, the members of the Godhead covenanted to rescue the race if it should fall into sin. Jesus Himself was the surety of the covenant. Christ’s surety meant that if humanity fell into sin, He would bear their punishment. Only Christ the Creator, the representative head of the race, could take that responsibility (Romans 5:12-21; 1 Corinthians 15:22). JTL13 5.7

Today, if we accept God’s offer of grace, we will face hostility from Satan. We will experience conflict! Yet through faith, we may also share in the Savior’s victory at Calvary. Every individual on earth can experience the covenant promises of salvation by meeting the condition: “If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:29). This means that God invites all ethnic groups of the earth into the sacred privileges of the covenantal relationships. In God’s eyes, no ethnic people group is superior to another: “All are one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). JTL13 5.8