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In this study, the speaker examines the post-flood world in Genesis 9, exploring God's covenant with Noah and all living creatures. The teaching covers the origin of the rainbow as a sign of God's promise, the sanctity of human life, dietary changes after the flood, the tragic sin of Ham, and the prophetic curse of Canaan. Practical reflections are included on justice, God's mercy, and the enduring significance of the covenant for believers today.
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In this episode, we explore Genesis 9 in depth, looking at how God re-established the world after the flood. The session covers the divine permission to eat meat and the protective fear God placed within animals, the sanctity of human life and why God instituted capital punishment after the flood, the Noahic covenant and the rainbow as its sign, and the troubling incident involving Noah's son Ham—examined in the original Hebrew context. We also discuss how the same covenant extends to all living creatures
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Here we are, once again, in Dallas, and doing our expository Bible study, we're in Genesis, chapter 9 now, and God's covenant and instructions to know. First time that God uses covenant in the Word of God is in this chapter. So let us read verses 1 through 4, and then we'll go ahead and break down each verse. Tracy, would you read for us Genesis chapter 9 verses 1 through 4?
Before you read, let us open up with prayer. Father in heaven, we praise you, we glorify you, we exalt you, we thank you for your grace, your mercy, for sending your son, for being so long suffering with us, Lord. We're not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. We ask, Father, that your Holy Spirit would lead and guide and direct us, and trick our hearts, Father, to desire to become evermore like you, applying your word, that we would glean all the lessons that you have for us.
You say in Romans 15, Father, that all in Scripture has been written for our learning, and in Corinthians, you tell us and to warn us as well, especially in the end of the days. So we praise you, we glorify you, Lord, let us be a light to this world that is in desperate need of the gospel. People are exchanging 60, 70, 80, 90 years, maybe 100 at the most for a life that's going to perish, end up dying, and forsaking eternity. What a sad proposition.
Wake us up. Wake the world up, Lord, and let us be the ambassadors you call us to be. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. One through nine, one through four?
Yes, please. And God bless Noah and his sons, and set him to them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you shall be upon every beast on the earth, and upon every fowl in the air, and upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea to your hand, or may deliver every moving thing that liveeth, shall be meet with you, even as the grain of earth cannot give you all things, but flesh with the life thereof, which is a blood thereof shall ye not eat. Be fruitful and multiply.
The world that Noah and his family entered from the ark was significantly different. Was it not from the world that he knew before God gave Noah the same kind of mandate? He gave Adam, in the beginning of creation, Genesis 1.28, he says, go forth, be fruitful, and multiply. There's an echo.
So we see that the same thing is happening as Adam was called to populate the world, so the same thing is happening with Noah. So, in a sense, Noah is beginning all over again, just like Adam and Eve. And then notice, it says, everything moving that lives shall be food for you, even as Adam received instructions for eating in Genesis 1.29 and Genesis 2.15 through 17. But you notice there was not a call to eat any animals, so the same thing was applied to Noah.
But Noah now receives specific permission to do what? To eat animals. Permission that Adam was not given. But, you know, as far as what we've read in Genesis, he was to eat him and Adam, and Eve were to eat nothing but the plants.
I believe that the plants, then, because there is a firmament around the world, a layer of water. Remember, it talks about the waters of heaven, not only from the ground coming up, but also from the expanse above fell for 40 days and 49 days. And I think that protected the earth from all the ultraviolet rays that would come down, and therefore, the food probably had such sustenance to it that there was no need to eat any animals. And I think it was the best, can you imagine, the best food you could possibly imagine.
But now this protective covering was no longer around the earth, so the ultraviolet rays would come through. Not only that, imagine the world was covered with all kinds, with water, three cubits, 15 cubits deep above the highest mountain. So therefore, when all the water receded and went to the oceans and the land rose up, then what I believe has happened is that all the water took all the nutrients as well. So therefore, the food was not the quality that was before the flood.
So therefore, God has given permission to eat animals, so to sustain the human being. Perhaps the earth was less productive agriculturally because after the flood, you know when a flood happens, what it does is that flood takes away all the nutrients and takes them into the ocean. So I'm thinking that it made it less productive. Just consider the ecological changes that are mentioned.
And therefore, God gave man permission so that he could eat meat and survive. The word of God says, the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth. If man now could and would eat animals, God would help the animals for their protection. God put a dread of mankind within them.
So you know the animals, you notice like most animals are fearful of human beings right in the wild even with the exception of maybe like a lion and we contain those even. So but imagine if a horse would, if God didn't put this dread in them, a horse could is much more powerful than a man and could cause us great damage and hurt. I thought my uncle Fred was kicked in his chest one time by one of his horses. One of his horses and he flew about 20 feet behind him being hit in the chest.
So if God didn't put that dread, I think we wouldn't be in a position to be able to tame animals and they wouldn't be in subjection to us. But God apparently put some kind of dread of mankind within them. Before the flood, man had a different relationship with the animals in the garden. I think God did not put the fear of animals because before the flood, man didn't have to look at them for food, right?
So therefore God does this afterwards after the flood. So as I said, if the animals knew their strength, we wouldn't be able to tame the horses, the elephants, even the lions. So I think that is one of the main reasons. But while God hides these things from him, he impresses his mind with the fear of his owner so that he is trained up for and employed in the most useful and important purposes.
That is the statement made by Clark in regards to the animals. But you shall not eat flesh with this life. That is, it's blood. God also commanded Noah that if the animals were killed and eaten, there must be a proper respect for the blood.
But why is there this respect for the blood, you think? But what does the blood in the Bible represent? It represents the life principle. Read for us Leviticus 1711 through 14.
Will you, Tracy, please? Leviticus 1711 through 14. Let's see what Leviticus has to say about the blood. Okay, so the blood, the life of the human is in the blood.
And then here in Leviticus it's called for the atonement. It's for a covering, a covering for man's sin. It's the blood of Jesus that atones for our sin. The importance of the idea of blood in the Bible is shown by how often the word is used.
It is used over 400 times in 300 plus separate verses in the King James version. The respect for blood isn't based on mysticism or superstition, but because blood represents the life of the being, whether it's animal or human, and blood is poured out, life is poured out. And Jesus poured his blood out on Calvary for you and I. And blood was the sign of mercy for Israel for the first Passover.
Remember in Exodus they had to put blood on the lentils and on the post. And if they put the blood there, that protected everybody that was inside that house. Blood sealed God's covenant with Israel in Exodus 24.8. Blood sanctified the altar in Exodus 29.12.
Blood set aside the priests in Exodus 29.20. A blood made atonement for God's people. You, you read that in Leviticus and blood sealed the new covenant in Matthew 26.28. Blood justifies you and I, believers, Romans 5.8.
Blood brings redemption, Ephesians 1.7. Blood brings peace with God, Colossians 1.20. Blood cleanses believers, Hebrews 9.14 and 1 John 1.7. Blood gives entrance to God's holy place, Hebrews 10.19.
Blood sanctifies the Christian Hebrews 13.12. Blood enables believers to overcome Satan, Revelation 12.11. Okay, let us move on to Genesis 9 and read for us verses 5 through 7, Tracy. Genesis chapter 9 verses 5 and 7.
And surely your blood of your lives will not require that the hand of every beast will not require it, and that the hand of man, and that the hand of every man's brother, will not require the life of man. And so should it be blood, my man shall his blood be shed for the image of God, men. Made, done, image of God, made, keep, man. And you be faithful, fruitful, and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein.
So surely for your life blood, I will demand a reckoning, God says. According to God's command, when a man's blood is shed, there must be an accounting, because that person is in the image of God, and God has made man. Because man is made in the image of God, his life is inherently precious, and cannot be taken without giving account for. You know, we look at, in the United States, we see the murdered rates have risen, mean just astronomically in the United States, and we have people that are murdering individuals, and they're not getting life sentences any longer.
And a lot of them are getting out after just a few years. There are people that murder and get out. God's word says that if a person takes a person's life, then their life should be taken. And the Bible says that if mankind would follow this, then the fear would come over all the land, and then people would not commit murders as often as they are doing today.
So now they know they can kill somebody, and maybe just do 20, 30 years, and maybe get out even after a decade. So there is no respect for mankind, and because we violate God's word, then lawlessness runs rampant. God says, see if a person is killed, and they're sent straight to the Lord, but so many people don't believe in the Bible, they don't believe this process. But it's good, and if somebody makes a mistake, well then guess what?
That mistake is done, and those would be very, very few and minute. Just like when they push abortion, they're saying, well what about the rape and the incest? They've done the math on that, and they're very, very minute not to make it less atrocious, but the fact is it's so minuscule in comparison to all the murders, all the abortions. They're doing the same thing with this.
Very few would fall through the cracks, and guess what? We'd have far less murders if we did it the Bible's way, the way that God commands it. Surely for your lifeblood, I will demand a reckoning. According to God's command, when a man's blood is shed, there must be an accounting for it, because in the image of God, he made man.
Because man is made in the image of God, his life is inherently precious, he cannot be taken without giving account to God. That's why we must do that. Very, very few places in the United States, even when somebody does some atrocious. I heard about somebody murdering a couple, and just it was a horrible murder, and this person got life in prison.
In the ones that are sentenced to death, stay in prison for a decade before they die. We should send them straight to the father, and allow the family. I think the family would feel a whole bunch better than somebody tax paying. Can you imagine the money we'd save on all that too?
You know, I mean, it maybe sounds heartless, but it isn't. God's ways are higher than our ways. God knows best. So, by man, his blood shall be shed, and God has put people in places to shed.
Man's blood means because life is valuable in many cases. When murder is committed, the death penalty is the appropriate punishment. That's what God says, that God be true in every man a liar. In its original language, the Bible makes a distinction between killing and murder.
Not all killing is murder, because there are cases where there is a just cause for killing. Self-defense, capital punishment, God has deemed that these are okay. I mean, the creator, he knows better than the creature. So, we see that if we did it God's ways, I'm telling you, our societies would be a whole bunch safer.
The due process of law, killing in a just war. There are other instances where killing is accidental. This is killing, but not murder. The Bible also consistently teaches that the punishment of the guilty is the role of human government.
Romans chapter 13, 1-4 tells us that, in order to restrain man's depravity. See, society will just keep getting worse, and God knows that if you do this, then it's going to make people think, well, guess what, that other individual that I knew that murdered a couple people, they killed them. I think people would have second thoughts about murder if they knew people were paying the ultimate price. I know they would.
In order to restrain man's depravity, it also teaches that the guilt of unpunished murder defiles the land. The land is even defiled. That is stated in Numbers 35 verses 31 to 34. Martin Luther King, Martin Luther, not Martin Luther King, excuse me, but Martin Luther said, God established governments and gives it a sword to withhold, wantonness, and check less violence and other sins proceed without limit.
And this is happening in the cities, in the major cities, it's out of control. From the hand of every beast, I will require it. To see the strength of God's command, he even requires a reckoning for the life of man from every beast. God does not approve of unlawful killing of any kind.
Be fruitful and multiply. This point was repeated because it needed emphasis. Why did it need the emphasis, saints? Because there was only eight people that came out of the yard, had to populate the world again.
Okay, let us move on to Genesis 3 for us, Tracy, verses 8 through 11, please. And God spoke unto Noah in interest and with no sin. And that be told, I establish my covenant with you and will proceed after you. And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, of every beast, of every of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth.
And I will establish my covenant with you, and neither shall all flesh be cut off any more but the waters of the flood, neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. God said, I establish my covenant. This covenant was made with mankind, you and your descendants after you. And even with the animals, every living creature that is with you, God promised that he would never again destroy the world with a flood.
And this was a repetition of the clarification, the promise that God made in Genesis 8, 21 to 22. It cheered my heart when thinking this matter over to remember that although I depend upon covenant faithfulness, I am not alone in dependence for every living thing upon the face of the earth lives by virtue of the immutable covenant God. Every breath we take, our next heartbeat, is predicated upon God. God's covenant engagements, they preserved the world, and they preserved the world from flood because God never breaks a promise.
And so therefore, God is saying that he's not going to judge the world anymore with a flood, but he's going to judge it again next time he's going to do it with fire. Never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth, God said. God did not believe he did something wrong. He didn't believe it was too harsh on the flood.
He made the promise because he acted in the post flood world to guarantee that the exact evil conditions of the pre flood world would not be precisely duplicated. These things include the prismant of the angels that sinned in Jude 1 6. A lot of people think that angels came down and cohabited with man. Jesus very plainly says that when we gather together in heaven, there will no longer be marriage.
There will be no longer a need to duplicate and replicate one another. Will be like the angels that do not engage into sexual intercourse. So I don't think the Bible supports angels coming down and cohabiting. We studied that in the sixth chapter earlier in our study of Genesis.
However, when things again become similar to the days of Noah, what does God say is going to happen in Matthew 24? God will destroy the earth, not by water, not by a flood, but by fire. And that is stated in 2 Peter 3 1 through 7. Okay, the sign of God's covenant.
I'll read for us Tracy Genesis 12 through 17 please. And God said this is the covenant of the covenant which I make between me and you and every little creature that is with you for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for the covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass when I bring the cloud over this earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.
And I will remember my covenant between me and you and every little creature of all flesh. And the water shall no water put in the flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember that every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said to Noah this is the token of covenant which I will establish between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
So this is a sign of the covenant which I make God said between me and you and every living creature. God doesn't only make it between mankind, but he made a covenant between mankind and all the earth. This is an impressive covenant. It was not made only between God and humanity, but also the animals.
God said I set my rainbow in the cloud because the blanket of water vapors that was released in the flood and the water cycle of the earth changed after the flood. This may have been the first occurrence of a rainbow. God used the rainbow as a sign to Noah in all generations that he would be faithful to his covenant. There is a rainbow that is around the very throne of God.
And isn't it interesting that the rainbow, if you look at a rainbow, as if it was a bowl where you shoot an arrow, which way is the bowl facing? Facing towards God. So therefore we see that it is no longer, the bow is not facing down, so the wrath of God is no longer pointed to the earth, but pointed away. And you see this, the perversion that Satan has done with the LBGTQ and they call the rainbow, that's the symbol of this immorality that they are living.
Isn't it interesting that Satan fell and what did he fall behind? What was that that it says Satan fell in Isaiah chapter 14? The five eye wills. I will be like the most high.
I will send to the mount of Olives. I will walk on the the stones of fire. I will be like the most high God. What is that all about?
Pride. And isn't it interesting that they call that pride? Same thing that Satan fell. Pride.
We have a whole month dedicated to this perversion. Dear saints, Christians need to rise up. We need to be praying for these individuals. We need to be loving on these individuals, but we need to be pointing them that God will not tolerate fornication.
He will not tolerate adultery. He will not tolerate our sin of koitai, which is a same sex marriage in Romans. He speaks about it. He speaks about it in sixth chapter of 1 Corinthians and God will not tolerate this sin.
And these people are living in this sin and for this short life that they live and they're exchanging this sin for an eternity with God. We need to be praying for these individuals and we need to make sure that we let them know the consequences. God says this shall be for a sign of the covenant between God and the earth. Every rainbow is a reminder of God's faithfulness.
Everyone knows of his promise. God declared that his covenant of peace with mankind is just as sure as his covenant with Noah and all generations. For this is like the waters of Noah to me, for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no longer cover the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you, for the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord, who has mercy on you, Isaiah 54-9-10. God says I will look on to and remember the everlasting covenant.
It's not like God's going to forget and he needs a rainbow. He's putting that rainbow so you and I will know that God keeps his promises. I will look on it and remember the everlasting covenant. The other mention of the rainbow in the Bible that I mentioned just a few minutes ago is God's glory is enthroned.
Read for us, Tracy, go to Ezekiel. We have Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and then the Book of Ezekiel. Right after Psalms, Proverbs, then we have the major, as they're called, major. The reason they're called major prophets is because the books have more content, more words, more teachings.
They're not any more inspired than what they call the minor. The minor means that there's less revelation in their books, less words from God. So Ezekiel chapter 1 verse 28. 1 28.
Yes. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud and the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness around about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face and I heard the voice of one that spoke.
So we see Ezekiel, he's seen a vision and he's seen the throne of God surrounded by a rainbow. I think it's impressive that God has set so close to himself a evidence of his promise to man. God does not only look at the rainbow on earth and remember the covenant. God never forgets, he's an inipotent.
He also looks at the rainbow that surrounds his throne. God is committed to remaining faithful to his covenant. On the same principle, the believer glories in the sovereignty of God because he knows God's sovereignty is on his side, on our side, on your side, on my side. It means no good purpose of God relating to the believer will ever be left undone.
Let us move on to Noah and the sons of verses 18 to 19. Please, sister Tracy, 18 and 19. And the sons of Noah that went forth on the ark were Shem and Ham in the bed, and Ham was the father of Cain. These are the three sons of Noah and one of them was the whole earth overspread.
Okay, so the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japhat. I think it's interesting how Shem is the youngest of them and God is always reversing the orders. You know, like he blesses Jacob and he's the younger and Esau is the older. And the same thing we see with Joseph, Joseph being the youngest besides Benjamin.
Benjamin was younger than him, but he had 11, 10 brothers older than him and God showed favor upon Joseph. He's the one that ended up saving the whole family after he was sold into slavery and thrown into prison behind Potiphar's wife, accusing him falsely and then thrown into prison and then from prison saving the cup holder and then telling the revelation that the baker would get posted on a tree and his eyes would be plucked out and he would die and lose his head and then from there Pharaoh has a dream and the guy that was the cup holder, he remembered Joseph and after two years he remembered Joseph and told Pharaoh. Imagine Joseph in prison all those years and you never hear one complaint. He's thrown into a pit by his brothers.
He's falsely accused by Potiphar's wife and then he's thrown into prison. We know that Potiphar's wife, that Potiphar didn't believe his wife because anybody especially a slave that was accused of having, trying to rape a master's wife would have been stoned and killed immediately, but he wasn't. He was put into prison and we see what happened. He rose to being second in power.
We see how God will watch over his anointed. He'll watch over you Tracy. He watches over us where the apple of his eye. He'll watch over us no matter what happens and then something horrible happens just like Shadrach Meshach and Abednego.
Remember they were getting ready to be tossed in the fire and Nebuchadnezzar says, bow before me and I won't throw you in there and they said, nope, we're not going to do it. We trust that God will save us, but even if he doesn't save us, we're not going to bow down. So that's the kind of testimony we need to have. Trust God and the bottom line is if we do die, if we do suffer, best temporary, we're going to be with him in glory.
Corinthians tells us that I has not seen ear heard nor can mine imagine what God has prepared for those that love him. The best time you've ever had on this planet, multiply it by a zillion and it won't even scratch the surface on what God has for you and I in paradise. So dear saints, we need to not forget this, not forget these blessings. Just we need to be focused on God, trusting God, meaning not on our own understanding.
Okay, sister, read for us the sin of Ham, Noah's son, verses 20 to 23. Okay, so Noah began to be a farmer. Who does this kind of remind us of? The first son of Adam and Eve came as a farmer, right?
And look what happens. He makes his way into the new world after the flood. Noah began to provide for himself and his family. And he probably planted many other things and among them, he planted a vineyard and he drank the wine and was drunk.
This is the first mention of drunkenness in the Bible. Some think it was only after the flood that man made it or was able to make it an intoxicating drink. Noah's own simple and shameful actions show the foolishness of drunkenness. We are priests and kings and we are not to be partaking of any alcoholic beverages, anything in our system that's going to alter us.
The Lord of Glory says be filled with the Holy Spirit and not be drunken with wine. And you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. So we as Christians, I believe, should not be involved in any intoxicating or any kind of drugs for that matter. Anything that is foreign should not be put into our bodies.
We belong to the Lord. He's died for us. He's purchased us with his blood. And a matter of fact, we remember Abihu and the two sons of the father of the two sons, Lord, of Noah, of Moses' brother, Aaron, his two sons.
Remember they offered false fire and they were consumed and why did they offer false fire? What was it? They had been drinking. They were drunk and God made a law that none of the priests from that day forward would drink any type of intoxication.
So since we are priests of the living God, that applies to us, I believe, 100%. So Noah began to be a farmer and he drank the wine and was drunk. So we see here that, listen what the Word of God says, the Proverbs say, wine is a mockery. Strong drink is a brawler.
Whoever is led astray by it is not wise. Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions?
Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who linger long at the wine red when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly at the last advice like a serpent and it stings like a viper, your eyes will see strange things in your heart will utter perverse things.
Proverbs 21 to 33. Not only that, isn't it interesting that alcohol, especially hard alcohol, what mention do they call it? What is another word that they call alcohol? Yeah, a drink, but have you ever heard it referred to starting with an S?
Spirits? Isn't that interesting? It's spirits and we announce it right there and sure enough, it also shows the foolishness of those who claim God's desire is to make people drunk in the spirit as the Holy Spirit is some kind of bartender. No, a thousand times never.
In Ephesians 5 18 says, do not be drunk with wine in which is dispensation, but be filled with the spirit, makes the contrast of the work of the spirit and the effects of drunkenness. Alcohol is a depressant, it loosens people because it depresses their self control, their wisdom, their balance and judgment. When police officers take somebody out and do a sobriety test, they check out their balance. That's one of the first ways they can tell if somebody's drunk.
So the filling of the Holy Spirit has an exactly opposite effect. The Holy Spirit is a stimulant. He influences every aspect of our being to be better, to be holy, to be more like the Lord of glory, to enhance ourselves, to seek perfection. So Noah became uncovered in his tent.
It is possible that Noah was abused. I want y'all to hear this sexually by one of his sons or relatives. The phrase become uncovered and the idea of nakedness are sometimes associated with sexual conduct. Leviticus 18, 6-20.
I encourage y'all to read Leviticus 18, 16-20. This is repulsive, but not terribly surprising. Many people who get drunk become victims of abuse, sexual and otherwise. A large majority of men and women involved in date break situations were drinking or taking drugs just before the act.
According to some statistics, half of all rapes include alcohol and saw the nakedness of his father. Others think Ham's only sin was in seeing Noah being drunk in an uncovered state that he made fun of him, mocking him as a father and a man of God. The ancient Hebrew literally says that Ham told with delight what he saw in his father's tent. He determined to mock his father and was undermining his authority as a man of God.
Yes, there's much more than just seeing his father uncovered. Something went down and based upon the Hebrew, the understanding of the etymology of the words, there was some type of sexual conduct that pursued. Okay, read for us. Let's move forward and go on to Genesis 24-27.
Noah's curse, just think about this. Noah cursed Canaan as the son of Ham, so he's cursing his sons. If he had just seen his father laying there naked, why would he curse his sons? Unless it was something egregious that had been done, something really bad.
Okay, so read for us 24-27, please, Sister Tracy. Noah lived after a flood 300 years, 350 years, and all the days of Noah 950 years. Yeah, he was the second longest living. Who was the first longest living?
Starts with an M. Almost. Methuselah. Methuselah lived 969 and then Noah's second right behind him.
See right here, it says that Noah knew what his younger son had done to him. This strongly suggests that whatever happened to Noah, it was more than one of his sons or grandson seeing him knew. What does the Bible say? What he had done to him.
Not what he had seen, but what he had done to him. So this strongly suggests that perhaps, without a doubt, something egregious was done. Perhaps Canaan was also involved in this sin against Noah in a way not mentioned in the text. Perhaps the strongest punishment against Ham was for Noah to prophetically reveal the destiny of his son Canaan.
We can trust God was not punishing the son Canaan for the sin of the father, Ham. This goes against the heart and justice of God. However, through Noah's prophecy, God told Ham what would happen to his son. May Canaan be his servant.
Listen to the words. In earlier generations, some prejudiced people regarded the descendants of Canaan as black people from Africa, and they used the curse on Canaan to justify slavery. But black people did not come from Canaan. Canaan was the father of the Near Eastern people, many of whom were conquered by Joshua when Israel took the Promised Land.
Let us go forth and read 28 and 29 please. So Noah lived after the flood 350 years. Noah was a remarkable man who served God in his own generation. Yet his last years did not seem to match the glory of his first years.
Isn't it amazing how the word of God, we see how truthful it is, inspired though it is, it will show the flaws of even mighty men of God like Noah, who is the first part of his life. He's preaching the gospel for 100 years, building the ark. He's doing everything God and then the last part of his years. Let that not be true of us.
Let us, as Paul says, run the race. Let us run it to the finish line. And then if we do that, if we remain faithful to the end, there's going to be a crown of glory for all of us. So all the days of Noah were 950 years.
Noah was a man of great triumph and weaknesses. His godliness is remembered in the New Testament, marking him as a man of faith in Hebrews 117. He's one of the men that is mentioned in that hall of fame. A preacher of righteousness, Peter calls him in 2 Peter 2 5.
So dear saints of God, let us look as we close to the gospel revealed in Genesis 9. Genesis 9 reveals a covenant of God's faithfulness and justice that points forward to the gospel of Christ. After the flood, God gives Noah and all creation a new beginning. But the chapter also shows that sin remains and that God promises are grounded in his character.
God's blessings and new mandate. God blesses Noah and his sons, commanding them to be fruitful, multiply, build the earth. This echoes the original creation mandate of Adam and Genesis, but it is now given in a world after judgment. God grants dominion over animals permission to eat, meat, though with prohibition against eating the blood.
The blood points towards the atonement of Jesus Christ and reflects God's promise and his protection of life. The command, whoever sheds the blood of man by man, his blood shall be shed, is a solemn reminder that human life is sacred because God has made man in his image. This principle of justice is founded in the gospel showing that God values human dignity and will not tolerate the taking of human life. God establishes an everlasting covenant with Noah, his descendants and all living creatures.
The rainbow is the sign of this covenant. The promise that God will never again destroy all life by flood. This covenant is not just with humanity, but with all creation itself, showing God's faithfulness to all creation. The gospel in the covenant, the rainbow points to God's unchanging faithfulness in the New Testament.
The rainbow is seen as a sign of God's glory and also, dear saints of God, it shows God's faithfulness to the end. Okay, until our next appointed time, we will be entering into, so read Genesis 10, Glean all you can, and then when we get together on the first week of September, first Saturday of September, we'll continue our study in God's wonderful, revealing, uplifting, encouraging, and rightly transforming words. Let us close. Father in heaven, we praise you.
We thank you for this opportunity to dig deep into your word, to make applications from your word to our life, Father. For there is no glory in just reading and studying if we do not apply your word to our life, but we do not become changed individuals, becoming more like Jesus and thought word indeed. Father, I just pray that you continue to enlarge our ministry, continue to use us, and that you would be honored and glorified. This we ask in the name of Jesus and all God's children said.
Amen. Amen.