There is One Covenant

It is very often taught that in the Bible there is the making a number of covenants.  Usually this begins with Noah and the rainbow but sometimes begins with Adam.  In this way God's covenant with Abraham is seen as being one in a list that includes the covenant of circumcision, the Mosaic or Sinai covenant, God's covenant with David, the new covenant, and sometimes others.  This idea of many covenants is the result of the need to translate a fundamental idea from the Hebrew language and consciousness into English and other gentile languages and forms of thought.  There is really only one covenant of God just as there is only one word of God.  The idea of God's covenant is the idea of God's personally giving His word to someone.  God first personally gave His world to Abraham.  Since then He has not personally given His word to anyone other than Israel.  It is true that personally gave His word to Noah and that He called this a covenant, but in truth He only gave His word in part to Noah.  That is, what He said or promised to Noah was limited in its nature and even what He promised him was conditional.  God did not promise Noah that He would never destroy the earth again or that if he destroyed the earth He would save even eight souls.  God only promised Noah that He would not destroy the earth again by water.  He did not give His personal word to Noah that He would bless the earth.  Even to preserve the world from further dissolution and the cutting off of the line of Noah, so that no life would be saved, It was necessary for God to personally make His covenant with Abraham.