Visual Theology – The Everlasting Covenant
The Visual Theology charts are designed to help you see the structure and movement of Scripture. They highlight patterns, contrasts, and developments that are often difficult to hold together when reading line by line.
These charts show the structure of the argument. The accompanying articles develop each part in full.
This approach follows a long tradition of visual teaching in the Church. The well-known charts of Clarence Larkin helped many grasp the broad outline of Scripture. In the same spirit, these charts aim to make visible what the Word of God is revealing.
Charts and teaching notes for the book of The Everlasting Covenant. Select a chart below to view the image and article.
About this chart set
Visual Theology – The Everlasting Covenant. These charts and articles are about a distinct covenantal category in Paul—rooted in eternity and grace—and why collapsing it into Abraham or Sinai blurs the whole argument.
Scripture reveals a covenantal category often overlooked in traditional teaching: the everlasting covenant. While most believers recognize the national law given at Sinai or the land promises made to Abraham, Paul’s epistles frequently draw upon a third framework that is older than both and operates on entirely different terms. Identifying the everlasting covenant as a distinct reality is essential; without this distinction, the unique structure of Pauline doctrine begins to blur into a flattened theology.
When we fail to "rightly divide" these covenants, we risk treating grace as merely a softer version of law and the Church as a temporary footnote to Israel’s program. This mixture obscures the specific logic Paul uses when discussing the new creation, the Body of Christ, and the mystery hidden for ages.
These charts illustrate the underlying structure of a covenant rooted in eternity and ratified in the blood of Christ. Operating solely on the basis of grace, this arrangement is fundamentally different from the agreements made at Mamre or Sinai. Seeing this distinction clearly changes more than just our reading of the epistles; it establishes a firm, theological foundation for our standing before God.
Based on the article:
The Everlasting Covenant
A Distinct Covenantal Category in Pauline Dispensational Theology. The full theological foundation paper is available to read online in Writings.
Read it free onlineSelect a chart from the list to view it here.
Every chart in this library is free, and it's going to stay that way. But while these are hosted freely, they are not free to make. A chart series might start at $15–20 in production costs, but by the time I've curated the output, reworked the logic, regenerated images that didn't land, and rewritten the companion articles — sometimes multiple times — a single series can run $60–100 in API costs alone, plus weeks of full-time work. The pipeline I've built that allows me to do things like this at scale is amazing, expensive to run, and rarely gets it right on the first pass. Most of these charts have been through dozens of iterations to get the theology and the visuals to say the same thing.
There's a long list of topics I want to build next — the everlasting covenant, our death with Christ, Christ as our reward, the mystery of the one body — material that's hard to access and harder to visualize. The kind of thing people hear taught once and say "I wish I could see that laid out."
That's what this project does. And if you've been helped by what's here, you can be part of what comes next.