TWU God's Perpetual Promise
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In today’s podcast on “The Word Unfolded” we will be picking up where I left off in Genesis 9. In this chapter we find several perpetual promises made by God to Noah that continue to this day.
The first promise we see is found in Genesis 9:1.
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
God wants his creation to marry biblically and enjoy the blessings children bring to parents lives.
3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. 5 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
The second promise we find is that the animals God created are good for food but one cannot consume or eat their blood, for life is in the blood.
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
Though some do not want to believe it, God allows mankind to find joy in eating animals as food. This becomes even more evident under the New Covenant as the restrictions between clean and unclean animals was lifted and all animals are now considered “clean” to eat (Acts 10:9-16).
Even though this is the case, the perpetual promise that life is in the blood continues and therefore even under the New Covenant we are not permitted to eat the blood.
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
The third promise we find is the most well known promise and it is the promise that God will never destroy the earth with water again as found in Genesis 9:8-17.
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Though heathens are using the rainbow as a sign to justify sin, for those that know the truth, the rainbow is a perpetual sign of God’s promise to never destroy humanity by way of water again.
This isn’t to suggest the world will not be destroy ever again, because it will, but at the second coming it will be destroyed with fire and this time it will be completely destroyed (2 Peter 3:10-12).
