Is There a Covenant of Grace?

Theologically speaking, Birkoff is arguing that in order to have the covenant of grace, there must be this agreement beforehand as something of the blueprint or the plan. We know that there was a plan of salvation before the foundations of the world, right? Ephesians one four tells us this and many other portions of scripture that God predestinated,. That God had a plan to draw people to himself through the death of his son, Jesus Christ.