How do the covenants in the Bible relate to each other?
The Bible's covenants, though multiple, all boil down to one master covenant: the covenant God made with Abraham, repeated to Isaac and Jacob. It promised Israel would become a great nation, dwell in their own land, and have God as their King and government.
Les explains that God is always bringing up these covenants. There is more than one covenant, but they all boil down to being under the one master covenant God made with Abraham, repeated to Isaac and repeated to Jacob. That covenant promised Israel would become a great nation of people, dwell in their own land, and one day God would be their King and their government. Israel was to be aware of this covenant and obedient in preparing for its fulfillment and being used of God as originally intended. In Exodus 19:5, the conditional 'if' shows Israel had free will under a sovereign God, and faith and obedience become almost synonymous. God deals with the Jew on both national and personal levels.