Genesis 9:13-15 “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.”
The month of June has been designated “Noahic Covenant Awareness month. Creator God created all creatures in His creation and when our Maker finished His work on the sixth day He said that “it was good””. All major branches of science were originally began by God-believing creation scientists seeking to “think God’s thoughts after Himself” and reveal their Creator through the physical proofs in nature, as Romans 1 proclaims. Yet, our original parents [Adam and Eve; the father and mother of all mankind] were deceived by the devil [the father of lies], doubted Almighty God bringing sin and death into the world. That sin has been brought forward through every generation through the flesh and all have sinned to fall short of the glory of our just and holy God.
The earth was a much different planet back then; greener, more oxygen in the atmosphere, a canopy layer of water in the atmosphere blocking harmful rays from the Sun was making a greenhouse effect and people lived longer … much longer. Just look at the overlapping genealogy timelines of the patriarchs and see who was alive to see and know Adam before the end of his days. But unfortunately, over the generations that followed Adam, egocentric hearts grew darker, the estimated billions of people’s thoughts turned away from God and they were evil continuously. Genesis 6:11-13 tells us, Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
The Creator of Heaven, the Cosmos, the Universe reached His breaking point and decided to annihilate all of his living creatures from the face of the Earth, sorrowful that he created them. Almighty God caused the water from above the firmament to fall, the waters below the ground burst open and rain fell until the oceans rose above the highest land, so all perished. This is what is known as Noah’s Flood. Evidence of this global flood exists in the rock and fossil layers laid and seen plainly today. Only Noah and his family were spared from the worldwide flood, as God told Noah to build an Ark [a boat to float safely in refuge of a sanctuary from God’s judgement against sin]. The earth had changed drastically, with platonic shifts and mountain upheavals, the protective layer of water in the upper atmosphere was gone, receding flood waters and craved the landscape, a period of massive volcanic activity blanketed the skies and an ice sheets grew from the polar regions for a period, but Noah, his family and two of each kind of animal survived to begin anew.
This is when sovereign God made the Noahic Covenant with the earth that “Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.” When the rains stopped, God set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of this promise. “Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind.” The rainbow is about a promise of God, not prideful rebellion against Him. Love, honor, respect and obey your heavenly Father. His holy Word is truth, His righteous Way is just, and His unadulterated Will is absolutely perfect in every way for our lives. Think about what He has done in the past, what He is doing today, and what He is going to do for you [His child] in the future. Jesus Christ came to save sinners and those who repent of sin, believe and receive Him as Savior and Lord will find refuge from the wrath of God against sin to come and be saved. Glory be to God and may all the earth rejoice in His unmeasurable loving kindness and mercy towards us daily … a day that the Lord has made.
Happy Noahic Covenant Awareness Month
In Christ, Brian
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