Israel - A Coventant Relationship

Last Lesson

Area only about 5 times the size of the Big Island

20,000 sq miles

Only Jewish State in the world

Arabs want all that land and all Jewish people gone

Chosen people

Witnesses

Show the blessings of a relationship of God

The Scriptures

The Messiah

Israel - Covenant Nation

In dealing with His people God established a number of covenants with them

An agreement between two parties

Conditional - If you do this, I’ll do that

Unconditional - I will do that, regardless

Covenants include

Blessings for obedience

Curses for disobedience

6 Covenants mentioned in the OT

Noahic

Abrahamic

Mosaic

Palestinian

Davidic

New

Noahic Covenant

Type - Unconditional covenant

Summary

Covenant between God and all of creation that he will never again destroy the earth with a flood.

Divine pledge between God and Noah given unconditionally . No matter what this world does, God will not cause a flood to take place that destroys anything ever again

The sign of this covenant is a rainbow

It is an everlasting covenant

Beginnings

Genesis 6:1-7

This area of Scripture is extremely easy to understand if we do not allow unbiblical sources to cloud our understanding

Over time, man got busy populating the earth

Family trees can grow pretty quickly

Over a generation of a family with 5 kids and produce 25 grandchildren

Verse 2-4

Two people types

Sons of God

Daughters of men

Really simple

God’s people - Sons of God

Those that feared Him

Those that sought Him

The world - Daughters of men

Those that reject Him

Those that run from Him

These two groups started to intermarry and reproduce resulting in a mixed group of people

Giants

Physical - Goliath

Before the flood, this earth very different

What we see in our bodies today is the cost of 6,000 years of sin

Prominence - Harry Kim; not a giant in stature but a giant over 50 years of service to the community

But, the book of enoch says.... Don’t care what the book of enoch says because the book of enoch is false and has been rejected by the church for centuries.

Verse 5-7

Over time the more man focuses on man the more wicked man becomes.

Continually devolving into more and more wickedness

Imagination has no bounds

God says enough is enough

Need a reset

Used Noah to reset this world

Genesis 6:17 - Telling of judgement

Genesis 6:18 - Salvation, type of Christ, through the ark

Command - Genesis 9:1-7

Be fruitful and multiply

You have dominion over all

Eat meat, but slay the animal first so that is is dead

Don’t kill each other

Sounds really simple

But man devolved again

Today, whales have more rights than unborn children

The nordic tree fern is more protected than man

We are killing eachother every minute

Covenant - Genesis 9:8-11

God unto Noah

Perpetual, everlasting between God and creation

No more flood to destroy everything

Sign - Genesis 9:12-17

God promises to remember

Gives us a rainbow so that we will remember

Universal, unconditional and everlasting covenant between God and man sealed by God and man given given a sign through a rainbow

Despite how man is today in violating those simple commands, God will never destroy the earth and all the inhabitants there of with a flood.

Conclusion

God’s chosen people

God’s providence in His choosing

God’s purpose

Witnesses

Show the blessings of a relationship of God

The Scriptures

The Messiah

Israel a Covenant Nation

God would deal with them through agreements

Some conditional and some unconditional

First example is that of Noah and God’s promise to never flood the earth again.

We have rainbows today, remember!