The Noahic Covenant II

The Noahic Covenant

let’s review...

Establishing Diving Viewpoint on certain matters:

The existence & attributes of God

Origin of creation

creator/creature distinction

Plan of salvation is by God’s grace through faith via a substitutionary sacrifice

Divine institution of Family

Incredible pre-flood intelligence

Noah’s TOLEDOT (++):

Righteous judgment of God upon man’s sin

sin always has consequence , Num 32:23

God’s patience and grace

New Beginnings after Judgment

Plan of salvation is by God’s grace through faith via a substitutionary sacrifice

Divine institution of Family

Incredible pre-flood intelligence

Noah’s TOLEDOT (Gen 6++):

Righteous judgment of God upon man’s sin

God’s patience and grace

Noah’s Toledot:

“New rules of the game” (Ray Stedman)

“New rules of the game” (Ray Stedman)

Fear of man

Universal change in diet

Life is sacred (lifeblood)

At the foundation of the Noahic covenant

Capital punishment for capital crime of murder

Institution of Human government and rule of conscience and civil law

restraint from chaos

will be removed?

Divine viewpoint determines how you see:

Marriage, Family, Church, Government, Science, History, Politics, Foreign policy, Israel as a nation, social issues,

Family

Church

The way you come to determine your view on these matters is crucial!!

Government

Science

If people take these terms and redefine them, it changes your belief system.

History

Example:

Politics, Foreign policy, Israel as a nation, social issues,

Depending on your perspective, what the rainbow reminds you of is a great example. The rainbow as of 1984 has been hijacked. if you ask a young person today what a rainbow means, what answer do you think you will get? There’s a pretty big chance we not hear the divine viewpoint.

Satan is a counterfitter, he supplants the promise of God with the perversion of sin instead.

God establishes an everlasting Covenant

initiated and dictated by God

God’s covenant. Stated 7x

Covenant is a binding agreement. Marriage is a covenant. Some covenants are unconditional. Some conditional. Marriage is unconditional bi-lateral. The Noahic covenant is both unconditional and unilateral.

A covenant reflected the character of a person. His name was bound to his word.

God spoke to Noah and to his sons

Makes a unilateral (one-sided), unconditional binding or pact

Noah never asked God. God initiated it

Noah never deserved or did something to earn it.

God established it because of His grace.

and with your descendants after you

and with every living creature that is with you…all that comes out of the ark

and with every living creature that is with you

I establish My covenant with you

Genesis 9:11b NASB95

“I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

- and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood

and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. (1995). (). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

- neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth

Judges 2:1 NASB95

Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. (1995). (). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:31 NASB95

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Romans 11:25–29 NASB95

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.” “This is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.” From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Romans 11:26–29 NASB95

and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.” “This is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.” From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Rom 11:26-29

The Sign of the Covenant

a This is a sign...

between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations...

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 9

I set My bow in the cloud

between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations

I set My bow in the cloud

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. (1995). (). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update. (1995). (). La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

A bow (Hebrew for hunting bow of a warrior) in the Sky

A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible 7198. קֶשֶׁת

קֶשֶׁת qesheth, keh´-sheth; from 7185 in the orig. sense (of 6983) of bending; a bow, for shooting (hence fig. strength) or the iris:—× arch (-er), + arrow, bow ([-man, -shot]).

God's ‘bow’ is used in connection with judgment

Psalm 7:12 NASB95

If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

Instead, after the flood, God laid His bow down. He will never again destroy the earth with a global flood.

++Visible reminder - rainbow will be in cloud

++Physical - not spiritual - all living creatures

++Perpetual - as long as the present earth lasts

++Universal - “between me and you”

++Unconditional - Not conditioned on man’s response

The “sign” of the rainbow is appropriate.

It consists of the reflection of the rays of the sun in the particles of moisture in the clouds. The water which destroyed the earth causes the rainbow. Also, the rainbow appears at the end of a storm. So this sign assures man that the storm of God’s wrath (in a flood) is over. - Bob Deffinbaugh

Most interesting is the fact that the rainbow is not designed so much for man’s benefit (in this text, at least) but for God’s. God said that the rainbow would cause Him to remember His covenant with man. What a comfort to know that God’s faithfulness is our guarantee.

A Short Review of Biblical Covenants

Edenic

Noahic

Abrahamic

Mosaic

Davidic

Has God canceled his covenants to Israel?

The New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:31 NASB95

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Romans 11:25–29 NASB95

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.” “This is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.” From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

How can the Believer today view the Covenant keeping God?

The rainbow reminds him that God is remembering not to ever destroy with a global flood again.

Presence of God: God sits on the throne with a rainbow surrounding him. It reminds us of the covenant keeping God.