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The “New Covenant”—The Rest of the Story
Genesis 6:17-9:17 I am going to bring a flood on the earth to destroy every living thing that breathes under the sky. Everything on earth will die. 18 But I’ll establish My covenant with you. You’ll go into the ark together with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. 19 Bring pairs of every kind of bird and every kind of animal and every kind of small animal, and every kind of crawling animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive. 20 Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock and each kind of every creature that crawls on the ground—a pair from each will go in with you to stay alive. 21 Gather some from every kind of edible food and store it as food for you and for them.” 22 So Noah did everything exactly as Elohim had commanded him to do.[1] Very few individuals live to be 120 years of age, and the context does not really indicate a life span conversation, but 120 Jubilee years would cover exactly 6,000 years¨—as I now see it ending in Jubilee 2030 or 2031 when His “spirit will no longer tolerate striving with men”.
The Flood Recedes
Genesis 8:14-22 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. 15 Then Elohim said to Noah: 16 “Leave the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Release all the animals—birds, livestock, and everything that scurries along the ground—so they can be fertile and multiply on the earth.”
18 So Noah came out along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19 Every animal, every scurrying thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth went out by their kind from the ark.
20 Noah built an altar to Yehovah, and took some of every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burned offerings on the altar. 21 Yehovah smelled the pleasing aroma. Yehovah told Himself, “I’ll never again curse the ground because of human beings since their thoughts are evil from their youth, and I will never again destroy every living thing as I’ve done. [1] 22 As long as the earth exists, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
[1] The earth will take another pummeling soon, but it won’t be as destructive to life as the great flood!The Rainbow Covenant
Genesis 9:8-17 Elohim spoke to Noah and to his sons who were with him, 9 “I am now establishing My covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that accompanied you, the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals of the earth leaving the ark with you, every animal on earth. 11 I confirm My covenant with you: I will never again destroy all living things by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”12 Elohim said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I’m making between Me and you and every living creature that’s with you for PERPETUAL GENERATIONS! 13 I have placed my rainbow in the clouds; and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and a rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I’ll remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature 'made of' flesh. Never again will the flood water destroy all life. 16 When a rainbow appears in the clouds, I’ll see it and remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living creature of every 'kind' on earth.” 17 Elohim said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I’ve established between Me and all the flesh on earth.”
Deuteronomy 7:9 +ft #1 2Chronicles 4:29-33 Isaiah 49:5-26 Isaiah 54: All
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