So far …
God remembered – Gen 8:1
An offering to God
An everlasting covenant
… what God is going to do. “I will…” “I will never…”
… in the face of God’s righteous judgement there is the offer of God’s merciful grace.
But what about…
… the floods we see today?
… sin?
Gen 8:21 … “every inclination of their hearts is evil from childhood”.
Noah’s Fall
Gen 9:18-27
Sadly … used to justify the slave trade.
… wrongly claimed that the curse of Ham’s son was dark skinned.
… in heaven there will be people from every tribe and nation and tongue (Rev 7:9-17).
See also Isaiah 19:23-25
What is happening here?
… something to with his failure to honour his dad.
… sin has not gone
For us today
i) Judgement to come
2 Peter 3.
ii) A new start… but different
iii) A flood doesn’t fix a broken world
“why doesn’t God fix up the problem and simply get rid of evil?”
The one who will crush the serpents head
… no hope until God sends his own son
iv) Made in God’s image…
Gen 9:5-6 “And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.“