A quote from Steve Hays was mentioned:
Ironically, it’s the Calvinist who has a far stronger sense of historical continuity with the people of God. With the elect of all ages.
We don’t begin with the NT covenant community. We identify with the people of God during the Intertestamental era, postexilic era, exilic era, preexilic era, theocratic monarchy, era of the Judges, patriarchal period, and prediluvian era, all the way back to Enosh (Gen 4:26) and Abel (Heb 11:4).
We identify with the pilgrim church of Acts 7 and Hebrews 11. With a portable tabernacle rather than a stony temple.
The Council 