Covenants - Part 1 - David Emanuel

Confronting well, good morning. Thank you for coming out on a Saturday morning. To do my appreciate. It's good to see you out here as well. I need to Festival begin before we We touch any of my material. I need the first of all. I'm express my gratitude to church of Messiah. A praise, I was in Skiatook, quite poorly during covid. And this was a church that prayed for me and I even received the card from the youth group here, which was extremely touching, extremely touching brought tears to my eyes. So I'm extremely grateful for the price. I do, I wholeheartedly believe that my life has been preserved through prayer and intercession so it's your fault. I'm here. So Which is one way of looking at it. So I am grateful. I do need to express that gratitude. I'm so we're going to be looking at covenant, the idea of cabinets this morning, she's going to try and go out for about 45 minutes to 50 minutes. Each session will get a bit of a break and off to each session to be time for questions and answers as well. So that's approximately how it's going to work, how it how it actually finishes up. We'll have to wait and see you on the British citizen. You probably had already. I'm not from around here, which is okay. Currently I teach my Maine teaching gig is out of high school, North Central University Minnesota, ITT Brew there and that's what is Old Testament. I also take lead a number of toys for the center for Holy Land studies, you haven't heard of it.

Studies teaching videos there. And I also a couple times a year when I'm well about three, three times a year. I take tours to the lands of the Bible. Israel, turkey, we do Greece, Italy, and Egypt now as well. So if you're interested in that, it's definitely is a good good to go with because they prefer to have a professor on the ground. So, you know, at the mercy of a local guide me to do actually have usually a PhD professor of the grounds are responsible for teaching them to begin with. I want you to take a look, you see this picture and I'm hopefully you can see this boat. And that boat is on a large body of water and would want to Hazard a guess where that is.

See if the Lake of galio, the point of Galilee depending on how you want to look at it, I'll be at the Sea of Galilee and we took a tour a number of years ago. I was on a boat, very much like this one on the sea and the Party tour group that were there were two girls. That is where you want for two girls that mother and a grandmother. All of the same trip which I just was really wonderful, and they will ask me questions all of the time on the whole trip, and when I'm on the boat, They asked me if you as an Old Testament Professor, if there was one thing from the Old Testament, you really want the church to know, what would it be? That's what I asked me and ordinarily. That question would have stopped me and I would have thought, I have no idea. But at that particular time bubbling up in my mind with the idea covenants and I would wish. And I thought about it, that's big besties, the foundation of everything I'm going to teach. Now I just wished that the church had a growth of Covenant and understanding of what it means to be in Covenant. Both God be coming with God. More importantly being in conflict with each other as well and I just it's one of those things where and I know you retrieve these things have. I just feel. So if it's believed every believer has a firm grasp of Covenant the church Would be really improved. I'm really fought the improved. And so it was from that that I began screaming began putting together, this course with this seminar. Which I, I teach at another church in in Long Island once a year are better than a built on it, two times going on. And I I see this is passionately about that even today. That's basically what we're what we're going to be talking about this morning. I'm I put a disclaimer Festival up your notes, some of you have been to a Bible school. What do you know about something called covenant theology, which is a specific a field of theology biblical. Is divided up into

Along with other police. And as I said, when I finished doing all of my alarms recently. So I found that I'm not teaching that okay? I am not teaching that that I must say, this is what I'm saying is this is not what I am pushing on you talk and I want to look at the biblical, text concerning Covenant and to see what we can learn from that and apply to contemporary Christian or believing live. So I do need to make that disclaimer. So I want to talk about the relevance of a covenant, we going to begin with that the foundation of it. I also a big part of what I do is I am very keen to maintain the connection between the Old and New Testaments was called the old New Testament that a bit later on as well. But I want to maintain the connection between the two because this congregation But there are many congregations that like to implicity separate the two, even if they don't actually say that, I think you don't understand the new without properly understanding you. Anyway, I was going for by the degree of difficulty me, the IRT, I think we're going to be, I'll be talkin about a couple of texts which some of you may not have thought about it too much. So I do want to open your eyes to some of the desert, the wonderful biblical texts which I'm sure people is over to overlook talk about a bit more as well. This is linked to the sacrament of communion. So I wanted to get a better appreciation of communion this gets personal because I I very much feel very strongly about communion at the way in which was performed by the early church Coolpix what way to it. Now it is really two very different things. I'm so I wanted to at least to think a little bit more about what we called the Lord's Supper as well. I want someone to try and reshaping and indeed, I know, it's just going to be fully 102 degrees but to reshape our perspective and I will view of what's called Christianity. Can I put Christianity quotes today? Because I personally don't like using you often hear me use the temple, even look up Christian because the word Christian has pretty much become profane because it was a Christian with you. You know, you're born in if your born in England, or if you're born in the western Society has become like that. But I'm about maybe I start using the expression Disciples of Christ now because that's basically what we all choose better. But I want to reshape our perspective of that. Looking at our faith, in light of Covenant, looking our relationship with God in light of Covenant, looking at our relationship, boring person with each other in light of covenants, as well as an extension of that are looking at how we Marriage. In light of Covington, all of these are expressions of coming into relationships, so that's kind of where I want to go. So I'm going to begin talking about covenants, the basic knowledge were Covenant is I'm going to move on then to talk about some Old Testament covenants. I have me to Covenant unless a covenant is good of an artificial distinction, but probably all tested major, particularly as well as some other one and then let the covenants is found all over the place in scripture. So I do want to make mention of provenance even if I don't spend too much time looking into them, look at the New Covenant Church and also covenants in sacraments I talked about some of the Lord's supper supper, and also, Covenant and community, and all of these things necessarily connected. To stick together.

So to talk about Covenants, It's a language that we use today. It's not living language that we use. Today, we are separated, when you read about confident in the Bible, we are separated through time and culture. The ancient near East. When they speak of covenants, we're looking at a culture that is different even today, Middle Eastern culture. In case you didn't know, is vasvi difference to Western culture. And it's something, which I pray, everybody would really begin to Grapple with. We can't do the same things. We say, the same thing for the same meanings and you aren't as we can here that we can over there. But we are also distance to time because I'm simply to time call to changes if I grab us and I move this back in in in the same country for four hundred years ago, it would be very different words would have a very Different meaning of the notably, I would be the word holocaust. If I use the word holocaust 200 years ago, you would not be thinking about a massacre of Jews. You'll be thinking of a whole burnt offering. So that just shows how time changes things, the meanings of words, to the way we perceive the world as well, but even though it is not that familiar with us, it was extremely common in the ancient near East. I'm not saying extremely common, I'm going to say it was a vital part of the successful Society in the ancient near East. So we don't think about it, but it was crucial. Absolutely crucial back. Then the only way in which relationships could ever work and ever function, so it was important even though we don't really care too much about them as well, more importantly, Covenants. Is the means by which God expresses his relationship with mankind, it is the way it is, the message that God chose to interact with Humanity. That's powerful. In many ways of doing. He didn't do it by a legal document or anything like that. He did it by cutting it. He understands that. The only way he can have a relationship with the creation with mankind is Vaya a covenant. And that's important because for us to understand that relationship how that relationship works out for you to see the relationship. If he wants us to pursue that relationship, we have to dig into little bits to this idea, so I really do believe it is crucially important that we understand it. The need for Covenant in the ancient near East Covenant, arises Leaf, arises primarily from conflict primary from conflict. I'm not exclusively between contact if there is, there is no enmity or conflict. There's no need for Covenant. Everything works fine. And I don't think about it. I can't think of it as a natural relationship between you and your pets. You of your cattle, dog, not to people but you don't have to come. If you know your cat is going to do everything. You wanted to do pretty much. I'm in, you've got to step down trees, but you do if you if you were going to see if you were going to move into a dorm and you sharing a room with somebody, there's probably going to be some kind of conflict. You're going to need to have some kind of range. Got to say well you know this is my fridge, you can use it but you don't, you know, after 4 weeks to go to pull the milk out, you know, you did that type of thing, you go to stay, but you have these agreements, you use that. I can use this if I do that. And this is the type of thing that you need it because of her. Conflict because of potential energy. You have to have a covenant if you if there were two perfect people and it was coming into agreement or anything. But I haven't seen the situation yet, maybe I'm just pessimistic. I can see that in the future either. So, we have this potential conflict between individuals, it might be a more personal between city-states 1, teaching my students. At remind myself, when you look at the days of Joshua, Judges in the days of going back before that, in the Exodus and Moses are the countries with divided into city-states ringbolt, realize this. And so you would have a city such as and you would have, you would have the king of shechem. The king of the city he would own the city and a large plot of land around it and then you would have another city next to it and he will you have the king of that City and the large plot around it. I mean, that's how it works when you read the Book of Judges and you read the king of, don't think country, think in terms of the city-state, that's what it was. And that's it. It's that's when you take that in order to judges Joshua, Judges, particularly it would make much more sense. And so she has a role within, which if you had a particular City, if you are the king of Deborah's, let's say A you had a large area and you area is growing. You might start to impinge on somebody else's area. Now it was sad, you need to have a Coven into agreements between you, otherwise there is going to be some kind of conflict between you and if you match The situation Church you today, this church here in this church, grows really large and you start impinging on another Church's congregation which is a No-No. Then you need to get a cover up, some to the cabinet with that chair to say no, you know, you can't do this, you need an agreement to be set. Later on his wealth unique Covenant with Nations and their Covenant, Israel Augustin you that Israel had covenants made and they broke that Covenant with a serious history with the dominating Force. I'm an officer with Babylon and also, with other nations around and around as well. So you have to have with his Covenant and they counted. So empty is one of the preconditions that we see become the Covenant. The other one is deliverance and rescue. If you have a small village, let's say that's being attacked by a city-states and they get into trouble. They make call to another city state and say Hi. And then that city-state would come and deliver them from this energy force that situation occurs. Then this small village will go to the city-state say Thank you for delivering us. We want to be in Covenant with you and so they would make a covenant in this is very important. You can see why it's important. The small state is going to be is going to say. Now the agreements going to be you guys are going to protect us from them. We're going to give you so many a percentage of our crops and send you work as well. And we have this a covenant, which is called the suzerain confidence. We have a greater force was delivered through them too messy to kindness delivered. This small village supposed to ask me to bring forth. Remember the end the conflict as the precursor of the Covenant or an act of Deliverance. Rescue is another precursor Covidence. Spiritually. There is a need for Covenant as well.

We have this issue. Sing falling short of God's requirement. This is this disrupts. Our relationship with God creates a enmity with God enemies of God, and we God works against. This was the common theme throughout the Old Testament, as well. So, sitting disrupt our relationship with God. If Adam and Eve in the garden and they they would, they didn't eat from that tree, okay? If they didn't eat from that tree, No need for Covenant, no, real need for Covenant, that that's my perspective. It won't feel that way because they're living in harmony but because they they, they ate from that tree, it disrupted. The relationship that they had with God. Now all the sudden rules need to be put in place as to how the two can once again, communicate and be brought back together again. So what happened in the garden disrupted man's relationship with God, but it did something else to eat. Disruptive man's relationship with man people. Adam and Eve's relationship was disrupted, and it's a beautiful scene. When God catches Adam in the garden assist and pursue, what, if you got an atom, It was her. He didn't say that. That's what he said. Something was he says something. He says, it was the woman that you put with me, Lord. So we facing say Lord, you kind of brought this on yourself which is horrible, but you said this woman, it was her fault. The woman turns around says, it was that Serpent and who created is that kind of thing. The buck is being passed down all the time. No reasoning up the mistake. But within that as well, we find this enmity between the husband and wife, Adam and Eve, and I put up 20 of the text here, 12 New American Standard in the English Standard Version. The New American Standard says, he will be for your husband and he will rule over you but the ESV differently and I like what the ESPN Is Bruce out, besides your conflict between man and woman. And it says who desire? She'll be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you. Any idea of conflicts between man, as a result of sin, and I'm going to go and say, which one's right or wrong, but that's a whole different class in Biblical Hebrew, which we don't have time for right now but this ESV is brought out the side door conflicts, right? Which I do think is important that we see it coming out again in the contact between Cain and Abel. I will Cain kill his brother out of jealousy and tries to hide it and even try to the night or am. I want to make a very important Point here is well, which is a volcano made Adam and Eve Two things. Equally bad something. There is a crime that is committed, a sin that has been committed, but there has been denial of responsibility as well. Please don't forget those two areas because they are equally important and they have specific ramifications for our lives. As Believers is, well, the sin and the denial of the sin. Those are two areas equally important, the relationship obviously occurs in churches to. We are not exempt from it so there is a spiritual leader of Covenant. My argument is going to be that the ideal Covenant Covenant deals with a lot of these areas and helps to fix them. so what is a covenant basically, in essence, a two-sided agreement

Back in a call to wear with individuals word was worth, something people actually sat down and they agreed on something. So that's the basic elements of what a covenant is, the Covenant is made and it is bound Beyond feeling very important if I make a covenant with I don't know if I made a small village made a covenant with a larger City and they are after the actor Billy Burns, they turn round and say, why thank you guys to deliver. We will now give you a tenth of all of our grade as part of this agreement and what typically happens, which humanity is, you are grateful for the first year and the second-year, you become a little less grateful because the active Deliverance is a bit further away. Time goes on.

You begin to forget the diet need you in and you starts to think to yourself, well, why are we giving a tenth of our grain to these people and you begin to feel this is not worth it. The Covenant agreement overrides that feeling the covenants agreement says, I don't feel like doing this but because we made the covenants, we will continue to do this. That's crucial. It goes beyond feeling. You make it. You make that promise. You understand what's going on. And you keep it because there is this power of your word. Respectful of your word. In the respect of this agent agreement is well. Covenants, contained defined interactions. I'm so they are between each party. One party has a set of instructions. We must do this. We have to do this, we have to do this, and the greater party says, I will do this. We will do this, we will do this, we will do this. So they are defined interactions between the two governments may exist between equal parties to individuals that say or to equal city-states, they can exist between a greater and lesser party is suzerain Covenant, which is probably the most important covered. We want to be concerned concerned with the one-party is clearly more powerful than the other respected. Covenants, the word covet, the Hebrew breach will see in a moment or so. I'm covers who described would cause an Allegiant statement where it maybe you might be at yourself to a King and all of the power of the allegiance is to see you say, I promise to do that so it's more one-sided or it may be switched around and it may be a problem in which a greater party might just promise to do. Good to another all of these for within the bounds of the word covenant. But besides you have a greater and lesser on party is probably the most important for our discussion today. Biblically. Are we have covenants between God the Divine in man? We have covenants between God and the nation Nations.

We have a covenant between God and all of creation not just the Jewish people not just mankind, but with animals is well and everything that God has created this in this world. And if I don't know if you in case you didn't know this. This world is a beautiful Creations. This is absolutely wonderful. The whole world. And so God does make a covenant with a wolf creation and we also have confidence between individuals to individuals and particularly a bit later on this morning. Good, it's a binding never broken. Technically is how it should work. You break it, it's a big deal. So what happens is you you make your Covenant if situations change, okay? Then the Covenant is modified, nothing is removed. Things are added, conditions are added more stipulations, are added, modifications of stipulations are so if if the large city makes a covenant with the smaller one and we say, for example, every year we're going to give you a tenth of our grade. Now, it could be that. As time goes on, they stop producing grade. Cecily, they may produce wine. So we can modify the covenants and sake instead of brain, we're going to give you a tense about why I'm so the Covenant still exist. It's modified, it's not nullify, Prince modified as it continues. I'm in this when you begin to create trace, the major covenants with God in the Bible, that's an important principle to realize as well. The previous cabinet is not notified but it is basically mortified and that is a standard way. It was covenants work in the ancient near East, based on the commitments not feeling, that's how it works. That's the secret of the covenants working. The Hebrew tap, I didn't write it in the Hebrew but the Hebrew term. Delete is the word used to describe a covenant. Most of the time now I'm going to say is well. Hebrew is what we call a a poor language now before you you cost me. I said heretic, just hold on a second, it's a poor language and I don't mean that pejoratively. I mean in the sense of individual words, have a very broad semantic plane, that can mean, lots of different things. It's one of the things. One of the reasons why I noticed in class that which Hebrew students will not old not no kind of course but generally speaking

Send me speak with the students a little bit with the language. You let a couple of words and you can go, that's how I know so much and you have to really kind of pump the brakes a little bit because it's very contextual as well. I'm I'm saying breech is the Prime with a covenant. You going to find can be interpreted else with maybe a promise or something of that nature. So one word if it's very very Broad in meaning I'm so keep that in mind. You may see a really weird use of its in in in in a later book. And and that's, and that's okay. That's fine. The prime we meet I'm meeting. I want you to have today is that it's going to be covenants. It has an accompanying verb cover. It is one thing I see a lot of English translations and I have a constant wrestling, a love-hate relationship with English translation. I constantly see the English uses, they don't use the word car at that. Use the word made got specifically beans cut. So you cut a covenant in English, you will see let us make a covenant and I know it sounds Petty to you, but it means a lot to me because it's almost as though they are neutering the word, the expression, you got a covenant, you cut the covenants and I put a? Behind one implication. In that ancient Covenant, they were written down. You don't not on Pirates of the sea but they were taught in stone. I'm so they were the basic ideas of the Covenant in stone. So you cock a covenant and the other reason is because cut is what you do to the sacrifice. You caught a sacrifice when you make a covenant. So it is important that you caught a covenant as opposed to making a covenant because at least it will hint towards the necessity for blood and the necessity for sacrifice which does take place in the majority of covenants. So please keep that in mind. I'm going to all of the versions but in evenings are some of the texts. I'll be used instead, you're going to see a make a covenant In-N-Out squirm just a little bit when we use it. Something else that's related to Covenant. And I did write this in Hebrew down. There is this word. I said, I said a has no translation in English is one way to needs to know when Hebrew it is. I said, and strangely enough, I know we take groups to Israel and for whatever reason, it is many of the groups that you have patient has go. They they, they, you retired people that go to Israel. And so many of so many older people, 70s 80s, 90s. Lee true slim with a tattoo of all their arms. Yes, they do it. I don't get it. It happens often, but you sit down. You see, one of the tables is not saying where are they? Tattoo parlor Jerusalem.

Maybe someone can expect, it is an important word. Nevertheless. It is very often connected with the idea of Covenant, this text and the right that I have here to show me 79. No. Before that, the Lord your God is good, the faithful God, who keeps Covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his Commandments, two thousand Reasons. I bring this word because Covenant is connected to arrested the way in God when he makes his Covenant he keeps it to herself. Steadfast love. He keeps it Through thick and thin, he keeps it, despite feeling he keeps his Covenant Covenant with us or with a people. It is not about feeling and it's not about them, she keeps Covenant Love and so this word is translated loving kindness. Kindness love, loyalty devotion and faithfulness and all of those elements all wound into it very often when we see this word. Now, not always, like I said before, don't forget the Covenant context. This is an important attribute of keeping. Covenant is what the woman's God keeps covered with us. And I'm going to be late to on its God, demands the way in which we keep Covenant with each other as well. That that that that connection. So this Facebook love is a crucial importance. The idea of Covenant when God told us go to these people it depends on him and notes on them. When we going to see that feed pick up somewhere else as well, I have to go over sleep, no testing skull. I have to bring some Greek in. Otherwise people going to say, oh, he doesn't care about the New Testament, stuff like that. Which isn't true. I'm so the Greek be a fake. A is the word for covenants or agreement. Most of the time but this word here is well is also we see translated in Galatians 3:15 particularly as Testament. Unfortunately unfortunately because

From this text that we can see down here in 2nd Corinthians 3:6. I'm it says God made us adequate as Servants of a new covenant. In modern terms is 7th of the New Testament. The New Testament that we have today, that would do you think he should technically be confident as opposed to Testament and New Testament? I hate it's a dreadful time because it's just you right to last will and testament. When you die, and many people want to suggest that the Old Testament is dead. And now we're into this, mute you test me, but that's not the case at all. So that expression, the New Testament should be the New Covenant. And I really do wish that we were the changes. I would make, you know, if I ruled the world, I wouldn't change translations to reflect New Covenant as opposed to New Testament, most of the time because what we you'll see that it was in our new testament or in fact the stipulations of the New Covenant that God spoke of common elements. These are things we can have in your hand out. You may wish to go through the vents to go through each of the Covenants. In a covenant, you were going to have an ideal situation. And let me just say again and again and again you won't necessarily see all of these in every Covenant but they are important elements of speech which would either speak of a conflict or an active Deliverance. Okay, I'm at we'll see how it works out later on. Then very often, you see an invitation covenants Invitational, let us make a covenant. You never enforce a covenant on people, that was by invitation to ask me some sort of mutual agreement Sacrifice blood is going to be shed. I'm somehow. And together with that, there was going to be a meal. You see what happens with the sacrifice, not just in coming to listen a satirist. We sacrifice his people. Usually eat the meat meat was ready to be precious. So don't think that every time you do, you have a sacrifice, you don't Slaughter. An animal is take the caucus away and you have a meal together, both parties, eat the meal and I'm going to be hopping on about that. A lot later on both sides have things. They need to do to maintain this Covenant have to say yes I agree. This is what we're going to do. It's not. One side on another There is also usually what's called a sign, which is some kind of visual representation of the deal. That's made the Covenant that's made, you should be something lasting something. Tangible visible carried with you but usually a sign of a covenant and then Witnesses. Obviously people give to people make a covenant by themselves. They go their separate ways. One party can easily deny that Covenant as time goes on. So they needs to be witnesses to his Covenant and often see is something called A. Theophany, a theophany is a visual appearance of God to man. Fuel for the visual appearance of God. God Appears somehow in some form and these are all I want to say even mysterious texts of the Bible very often. And if I just give you an example for the funeral feel fully, it would be the story of Jacob and the man that he wrestles with. It's a mysterious text is a difficult text because it's a, it's a man at, but he wrestles with God. How could it be the two things? How can you do? How can I could really wrestle with a man could go note to self, it instantly wrestle with him. So this is the mysterious text is a text that needs to have to look at and you have to go out of it but that's a feel for you. So the parents of God is kind of interface between God and man and we often have this in our

Couple texts. Quickest way to stay out of the way, because some of you might be have heard of this expression. Equivalent of salt is something that we are about to mention. If you got here in Leviticus 213, the expression, switched around. But replacing says, you shall cease inaugural grain offering with Stoltz, you shall not let the Salted confidence with your God be missing from your grain offering and stole the notion behind salt is metaphorical idea. And it's an idea of preservation and long-term bonding assault was at 8. We don't think of salt much today but it was a valuable a precious commodity in the ancient near East recognize primarily for its ability to preserve Foods, except other things as well. So he assaulted a covenant of the idea of a permanent Austin a preserved, Covenant. I just included. Texas for 4:14 because we eat the salt of the palace. And it is not fitting for us to witness the Kings dishonor. The beautiful texts because the word salty air is symbolic of a bond or some sort of agreement that Ezra has with the palace over in Persia, but because we are connected, we have this Soul connection. It is to disperse preservation. This this unspoken Covenant. He can't do anything to dishonor the cave. So, that's where we see the idea. And I put this in italics in a? Another idea, some of you might be really, are you be aware of the akkadian text which speaks of salt as a cuss by they say. You see that the often times our blessings and curses and speak to the Duke act, according to the Covenant. But one of the customers was, if you fail to keep the covenants, then met somebody, so your land with salt. You see a bad thing at this particular time that some schools have linked that with the idea of a case I am with, I don't think the case in the biblical picture. I'm great. So we're going to begin old testament old testament, until they know a covenant and will offer. That will take a pause. We all need that. I think it was called in the Wake confidence of which is between God and creation. The context of the Covenant is basically when we look at these initial chapters of Genesis in which God created Mankind, and basically God, Grieves, the Lord with story that he had made man on the earth and the Hebrew word here is, actually, the Lord regretted making man on the earth. I bet that's North We can't talk like that about God, so we say other things around that. But the Hebrew. What is very, very clear. I'm so God created, man and the thousands of years man, multiplies on the earth and what is the final stage of the thousands of years? The Lord. So that with the wickedness of man was great on the Earth, every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually evil of the thousands of years of creating man on the earth, one of my vices, okay, one of my vices is I listen to Sports Talk Radio. Okay, I just the very Sports Talk radio and I listen to it. I want to think like here quite often people just didn't we talkin about stuff is why he Echoes. All this seems to be a an idea amongst our society that we Getting better that we are working on our way to some kind of utopia and Spa, she's getting better. The more legislation we put in place it gets better. The more rules were put in place, it gets better, the more funny things get better, we are getting better. We just need a little bit more time. Okay, we get a little bit more of a hundred years. We have cracked it. Okay we'll have we have created Utopia. That's an idea that some how many people think we're working towards peace on Earth working towards homity. When you look at this text hear, it tells us that that's never going to happen. It tells us that mankind for thousands of years does not get any better. He only makes things worse, and it's kind of important foundational point. We need to understand today. It was true back then, and it's also true today. And so Pecos week, it was good, so that mankind was he becomes Man's enemy. He becomes Man's enemy and he what to do harm towards mankind. I know a lot of people don't like that language, but that's a language that we see often reflected in the biblical text God becomes Man's enemy becomes Israel's enemies in various texts and it's the image that we see. We got turned against man and works against him. He works against him with his idea of the flat. So we see this comment, we see contacts identity that it begins with God Saves man to know what he doesn't. He's not even till he wipe out mankind. Space MattyB find this one, righteous individual and bills on him. Having him build his ark. The often look like that. By the way, it was much more box shaped. I don't want to be misleading on that and he said that the waters cover the Earth and this remnant of mankind is saved and then afterwards the waters recede Noah comes out and Mickey office a sacrifice. He offers a sacrifice and animal is killed. He had seven fuel animals, so it wasn't just make extinct to animals about 7 p.m. and he makes a sacrifice and that kicks off. God, say, behold I establish my Covenant with you and your Offspring off you with every living creature, the whole of creation. And so the end, the tea is resolved and God is a game at peace with man kind and as a sign of the Covenant and God said, this is the sign of the Covenant. I have set my bow in the clouds and it should be a sign of the Covenant between me and the Earth. Remember, Visual Evidence of a covenant. So it is not forgotten. Something tangible about the promise that is made and I just want to say a little bit more about this because the Hebrew word here, I have set my bow, we translate this as I said my rainbow but it doesn't it says I have set my cash it up in the sky. And the image here is powerful receipt as the rainbow but it is also meant to be seen as a cash. It with cash, it anywhere else in scripture, I will describe a bow and arrow at. What is good saying he's saying, see, I'm taking my bow and arrow a symbol of war against mankind. And I'm hanging it up. I'm saying I'm not going to fight you like this ever again and it's a powerful symbol to Simply. Let me see the ancient near east of the man hanging a piece bow off because war is now over and that's what's happening here. But is hanging up his bowl, his weapon of war. And he makes this sign. I off the Covenant, which side is not for us for mankind. It's to God. So he will see it at and he was crying, like, remember like you ever forget that? But it's Echo here, we can hold go to counseling to say hey and he's never going to fight against mankind like that again, Mason's, never against our office, because of the water, the Waters of the flood and never. Again, shall there be a flood to destroy the Earth, God is binding himself to the Covenant. So he has, this is his responsibility and it's made a primarily with the impetus of God not being like this again, but I would argue that they are stipulations for mankind as well. Go to repeat, what he said to Adam be fruitful. Multiply Sylvia and don't eat flesh with its life in it with blood in it as well. In this Covenant it is two-sided and then I've got this idea of sacrifice of Noah building the altar of some of every clean animals and sacrificing is well. So even in this Covenant Which is neuropathy in the typical. We see many of the elements that I mentioned to you and that you have on the sheet. I'm covenantor promise maybe it straddles, the two, there is a conflict between man and God because of man's sin in the world, there is a sacrifice that takes place with no one leaves the author, he sacrifices there. A stipulations. God places on himself as well as he places on man with the blood and everything else. And there is a sign of the Covenant, the bull or the rainbow that God hangs up in the sky and the parties involved are God, and all of creation. Now I'm hoping that you can see that even in distance is not, this is not a great example, but you will nevertheless. See many of the elements that I initially mention of the Covenant or press. Here in what God has called us here. And so I'm much more for you to say that. This is a covenant. I'm going to stop here and a few minutes for questions, if they are, and then we can take a ten-minute recess. Yes, I have 12 questions on my gosh, already 3. 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He talked about the God puts the bow. That it's not a rainbow, it's a bow with arrows but he would never do that to mankind again. But what about in Revelations where he pours out his wrath on mankind? Was it before the Revolution? It's not the connection. Darius is not going to. I don't think he's going to wipe out Mankind and it's the same way when she did it. Now, Revelation as a whole new, this is a whole new boat right here going to be times of persecution to mankind, but I don't think it's going to be too easy to wipe out in Revelation. I don't believe. Lord of mankind except one family. I don't see that in Revelation and I don't know what big Revelation guy, but I don't see that in Revelation persecution. I don't think what we have that situation. We have back then, I don't think we'll ever see that again according to the Covenant. A real quick when I was a kid. I had a bow and arrow with anyone else in here. Have a bow and arrow when they were a kid. Okay, I'm a Genesis Turbo.

Got it. He put the bow down, he held the bow this way and put it down like this. Have you put the bow down with the string up? He's ready for war. If he puts the boat down with the string down. He's not going to do anything. When I was a little kid, I learned that. And I thought, well, that's a powerful symbol. Okay. Who is up? Who is second hand?

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You mentioned that the covenants, took the agreement of both parties in some way. Did Noah and creation agree in some way to discover there. Was this more one-sided. The last flight I think I had Covenants will promise. So we've got this this this kind of like open in the word. Covenant has used you got another thing today is there's a very heavy once again as well. So it's very difficult that overlap. I will allow that anything between man and God to be one-sided, some degree

Hi. This is an important question for me. It's kind of going on for years. I'm a I'm a Christian, I love God. And love America is kind of a problem I have and I just got to go skiing. If she's also from Britain and he celebrates America. And so anyways, so for many many years, whenever americab prices, we would hearken to 2nd Chronicles 7:14. If my people who are called by my name and we would say, let's all pray for America because we're in trouble. Now lately, we will for the past, you know, a few years we've been getting a lot of pushback from solid evengelical still owed me. She said no and we just had this discussion. Friday morning, in fact, God made a covenant with Israel but he'd make a covenant with America. George Washington did not come down from Mount Vernon with the Declaration of Independence in his hand. But I contend I got to go push back to their push back. I say no. And I'm in, and so I don't fully understand. I think you might have something to say but this refers to Who are the new Republic could bring it out but apparently they he says they referred to America and the revolution as the Republic as if we were making a covenant with the same God of Israel. Now, when I look at it, the Old Testament prophets, I like to restore Justice in America today in The Same Spirit of the Hebrew prophets in a sentence, right? So when I look at Jeremiah also, when God says, when I speak to an individual or a nation and they repent or don't and I act, then I will do that. And I think that when God says Nation. Yeah. You speaking about Israel but I think that's going Beyond is real to any other nation. And I think that America I went. You know, just to go teach the nation's make disciples. I think America would say look, we studied all ancient government's. We want to get the best of all the governments and we've seen the Hebrew public to something really good. I heard that we mentioned the real, we reference, the real God. Not only our national documents, but I heard that every US Constitution references. Same God, and that now, we are a nation in. Psalm, 972 says all the wicked will be turned into hell and every nation that forgets God, but when I was a little kid, I used to see on the television, which we don't see any more blessed. Is the nation, whose God is the Lord. And the people who is chosen for his own inheritance, I grew up thinking you in my childhood naivety. Well that's America. You know, we are other people, God has chosen course, we now know that it's not necessarily the case, but I'm just contending that I think that was the intent of the Founders Inn and I and I do see that now and I know I've got it covered way too much in this question. So I don't expect you to dress at all but I do I do. It just strictly speaking. I think the