Genesis → Revelation:
The Reformed Spine

Genesis 1:1

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Genesis 1:26–27

"Let us make man in our image…"

Genesis 2:16–17

"You may surely eat… but of the tree… you shall not eat…"

The Covenant of Works — probationary command and sanction.

Genesis 3:15 — Protevangelium

"He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

The first gospel — the Covenant of Grace inaugurated.

Genesis 12:1–3; 15:6

"In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed… And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness."

The Abrahamic Covenant — justification by faith; blessing to all nations through the promised seed.

Exodus 20:1–3

"I am the Lord your God… You shall have no other gods before me."

The Mosaic Covenant — the law as pedagogue pointing to Christ (Gal 3:24).

2 Samuel 7:12–16

"I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever."

The Davidic Covenant — the eternal King who is Christ.

Psalm 51:5, 10

"Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity… Create in me a clean heart, O God."

Total depravity and the cry for regenerating grace.

Psalm 110:1

"The Lord says to my Lord: 'Sit at my right hand…'"

The royal Priest-King; cited more than any other OT text in the NT.

Isaiah 53:4–6

"He was pierced for our transgressions… and with his wounds we are healed."

The Suffering Servant — vicarious, substitutionary atonement.

Jeremiah 31:31–34; Ezekiel 36:26–27

"I will make a new covenant… I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you."

The New Covenant promise — internalized law; the Spirit poured out.

John 1:1, 14

"In the beginning was the Word… And the Word became flesh…"

The incarnation — truly God becoming truly man; the hypostatic union.

John 3:16

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son…"

John 6:37–40

"All that the Father gives me will come to me…"

Effectual calling — the Father gives; the Son receives; none are lost.

Matthew 5:17; 28:18–20

"I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them… All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me."

Active obedience and royal commission — the Great Commission flows from Christ's kingship.

Ephesians 1:3–14 — Pactum Salutis Window

"He chose us in him before the foundation of the world… sealed with the promised Holy Spirit."

Election (Father), redemption (Son), and sealing (Spirit) — the Trinitarian architecture of salvation.

Romans 1:16–17; 3:23–24

"The gospel… the righteousness of God is revealed… all have sinned… and are justified by his grace…"

Romans 5:12–19

"As by one man's disobedience… so by the one man's obedience…"

Federal headship — Adam and Christ as representative heads; imputation of guilt and righteousness.

Romans 8:28–30; 9:15–16

"Those whom he foreknew he also predestined… I will have mercy on whom I have mercy."

The golden chain — predestination to glorification; election grounded in mercy alone.

2 Corinthians 5:21

"For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin…"

The great exchange — imputation of sin to Christ; righteousness to the believer.

Galatians 2:16

"A person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ."

Sola Fide — Luther's articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae.

Ephesians 2:1–10

"By grace you have been saved through faith… this is not your own doing…"

Sola Gratia / Sola Fide — both grace and faith are gifts; works are the result, not the ground.

Philippians 2:5–11

"He humbled himself… therefore God has highly exalted him…"

Humiliation and exaltation — the pattern of the Mediator; the Carmen Christi.

Hebrews 4:14–16; 9:11–15

"We have a great high priest… mediator of a new covenant."

Solus Christus — the permanent high priest; his blood inaugurates the new covenant.

1 Peter 1:3–5

"Born again to a living hope… kept by God's power…"

Perseverance grounded in divine preservation — God's power, not human resolve.

Revelation 5:9–10

"Worthy are you… for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people…"

Definite atonement — a ransom for a particular people from every tribe, language, and nation.

Revelation 21:1–5

"Behold, I am making all things new."

The consummation — the covenant formula fulfilled: "He will dwell with them, and they will be his people." (Rev 21:3)