Anticipation in the Pentateuch

William Dumbrell on the trajectory of the Pentateuch:

The remainder of the Pentateuch comments on Genesis 1-11. By the time that the covenantal theology of Israel is fully developed in Deuteronomy, a program to which the rest of the OT remains committed, the national failure of Israel has been anticipated. The Pentateuch makes clear, however, that this failure in no way vitiates the eschatology already developed in these books. A people of God will be constructed and will enjoy the ideal of rest in a Promised Land. God will be their God and will indwell them forever.

—The Faith of Israel: A Theological Survey of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002), 68.