Noah Offers a Sacrifice Beneath the RainbowBible World
9:9Genesis 9:9
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
The verse records the inspired, divine words of God, affirmed by Jesus. It establishes that Noah was a literal person who lived and that the Flood was a fact in history. The covenant God establishes in the verse was gracious mercy shown to Noah after the Flood. That generation after the Flood should have gratefully remembered that mercy, but instead they murmured against God. They misjudged Him as arbitrary and severe for destroying the world by the Flood, while by rejecting Him they placed themselves under a cruel tyranny.
The covenant with Noah, more fully stated in the surrounding passage, still restrains judgment and has not been cut off. Sin has kept increasing since the small transgression that closed Paradise against Adam and Eve, yet divine benevolence continues and love and care still flow earthward. Though men trample His law and His Sabbath, God does not come forth to punish the inhabitants of the world for their iniquity nor sweep them away by a flood as in Noah's day. He spares them because of the covenant made with Noah, for He is full of compassion, mercy, and love.
The days of Noah prefigure the present age, and the character of that generation characterizes the age before Christ's appearing in the clouds of heaven. This shows that the Old Testament cannot be divorced from the New Testament.
The verse records the inspired, divine words of God, affirmed by Jesus. It establishes that Noah was a literal person who lived and that the Flood was a fact in history. The covenant God establishes in the verse was gracious mercy shown to Noah after the Flood. That generation after the Flood should have gratefully remembered that mercy, but instead they murmured against God. They misjudged Him as arbitrary and severe for destroying the world by the Flood, while by rejecting Him they placed themselves under a cruel tyranny.
The covenant with Noah, more fully stated in the surrounding passage, still restrains judgment and has not been cut off. Sin has kept increasing since the small transgression that closed Paradise against Adam and Eve, yet divine benevolence continues and love and care still flow earthward. Though men trample His law and His Sabbath, God does not come forth to punish the inhabitants of the world for their iniquity nor sweep them away by a flood as in Noah's day. He spares them because of the covenant made with Noah, for He is full of compassion, mercy, and love.
The days of Noah prefigure the present age, and the character of that generation characterizes the age before Christ's appearing in the clouds of heaven. This shows that the Old Testament cannot be divorced from the New Testament.