Michael Horton. Introducing Covenant Theology (pp. 20-21). Kindle Edition:

To read Deuteronomy, for example, as if it were timeless principles of blessing and cursing is to confuse this covenant concerning a national, geopolitical entity (i.e., the nation of Israel) with the eternal plan of redemption carried forward in the unconditional divine promise to Abraham and fulfilled in Christ. Again, covenant theology helps enormously in understanding both the continuities and discontinuities as we read Scripture. It helps us to see the basic continuity between the old and new covenants in terms of a single covenant of grace running throughout, as well as the discontinuity within even the Old Testament itself when it comes to the principle of a unilateral divine promise and an arrangement dependent on personal obedience to all that God commands.

Horton is so close to what the Bible actually teaches. But the distance in an unbridgeable gap. The Bible does not say anywhere that there is a "single covenant of grace running throughout." Rather, it says that Jesus runs throughout. All things are summed up and united in Him (Ephesians 1:9-10). God's purpose for history is not covenant, it's Christ.

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