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NOAHIC COVENANT
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SECTION 1: TERMS OF NOAHIC COVENANT
1. No Longer Vegetables Only, Now Can Eat Meat Also
Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
2. Capital Punishment: You Take A Life, God’s Going To Take Your Life
Genesis 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
3. 3 Distinct Races, 3 Sons To Replenish The Earth
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
* God puts a blessings upon Noah’s lineages, his 3 sons that started 3 races and they were told to replenish the earth
4. Fear Of Man And Animals Are Instituted
Genesis 9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
* What’s going on right here? God is trying to put a difference between man and animal because back then mankind used to get along well with the animals
5. Rainbow Symbolizes That God Will Never Drown The Earth Again
Genesis 9:11-14 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
Note:
* Noticed that so many things have changed. If we see this much changed already within 9 chapters, if we go to entire bible, are we going to argue that a lot of the things are the same?
* That’s why there’s a lot of false religion, cults and wrong doctrines out there because they think that the doctrines are the same from beginning to end
SECTION 2: NOAHIC THEME = HUMAN GOVERNMENT
1. God Set Down Some Form Of Rules: Don’t Eat Blood, You Take A Life, God’s Going To Take Your Life
Genesis 9:4-6 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
* Dont eat / drink blood, Avoid cannibalism, murder etc
Note:
* Compared to the law of Moses which have hundreds and scores of rules, God only laid down few rules here
* God had to lay down rules because if God allowed them to go by their conscience, the cycle is going to repeat again
SECTION 3: NOAHIC SALVATION = FAITH + WORKS
1. Works Is Required For Salvation: Doing Works To Obtain Man’s Own Righteousness Was Part Of Their Salvation Plan
a. Because Noah Walked With God, He Was Considered Perfect In His Righteousness
Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
* They had to go by doing somekind of works by their own effort to obtain their own righteousness
* walking with God and obeying His commandments is a work that requires effort
b. People Who Walk In God’s Commandments Is Considered To Be Righteous & Blameless
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
* God was judging them at the best of their ability that time
c. They Have To Deliver The Salvation Of Their Own Soul By Their Own Righteousness
Ezekiel 14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
* they have to do it by their own effort
d. God Condemns Us If We Rely On Our Own Righteousness For Salvation Today
Romans 10:3-4 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted
themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
* When Jesus died, He ended the law of righteousness
* This shows that there was a time period where people's salvation method are by man's righteousness not God's righteousness
Note:
* Their salvation plan is different from ours.
* They had to go by doing somekind of works by their own effort to obtain their own righteousness
* They had to go by this method because Jesus had not died on the cross yet where He can make a legitimate perfect official standard of righteousness for the world
* For christians, we are saved by God’s righteousness not our own righteousness
* Christians are imputeth God's righteousness by faith alone (without works) when we believe in the blood atonement of Jesus Christ (His death, buriel and ressurection) for our salvation
2. Blood Atonement Through Animal Sacrifices Is Required For Forgiveness Of Sins
a. Noah Build An Altar To God And Did Blood Atonement Sacrifices
Genesis 8:20-21 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
SECTION 4: IMPORTANT HIGHLIGHTS
A. GOD DEALS BY PHYSICAL DEALINGS DURING THIS TIME
* Remember, because the spirit is dead, after Adam sinned, God had to deal with them physically
* So it makes sense, even though they had faith, they had to do works out of it physically because God is dealing with physical and he can't based it on spiritual things
* Today's christians we can just go by faith (spiritual) and God can deal with us spiritually because we have a spiritual nature that is alive as a result of Christ sacrifice
* During their time they never had that because when Adam sinned, the spiritual nature died, so God can't do that with them. God deals primarily by physical dealings.
* However we see that God's grace is carried from the beginning to the end (Genesis-Revelation) as He will do some sort of spiritual dealings too but he does not do everything based of spiritual dealings
* Because the spiritual nature was dead, that's why works (physical) that was their salvation system and they cannot do spiritual because the spiritual nature of man was dead
B. INTERMINGLING & UNITY PRODUCES MESS
I. BEFORE THE FLOOD, THE SONS OF GOD (FALLEN ANGELS) INTERMINGLED AND THEIR UNITY PRODUCES MESS
1. The Sons Of God (Fallen Angels) Tainted Man’s Seed: They Intermingled With Man’s Seed And Produced Giants And Superhuman Offsprings
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
2. The Fallen Angel Who Left Their Habitation Had Same Gender Sex (Homosexuality) & Sex With Animals (Beastility)
Jude 1:6-7 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
* The 1st keyword is “even as” Sodom And Gomorrha
* What does "even as" mean? = in a similar way, in like manner, following the example
* the context is at verse 6: its about the angels
* they follow the example of what?
* Like Sodom And Gomorrha = they had same gender sex (homosexuality)
* The 2nd keyword is “strange flesh”
* What is Strange Flesh? = different, other flesh = animal flesh
* They had sex with animals (beastiliaty)
3. That’s Why It Makes Sense Why After The Flood, God Puts This As One Of The Terms Of Noahic Covenant: Fear Of Man And Animals Are Instituted
Genesis 9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
* Because back then, they were too cuddly and because of that, there was beastiality & mess going on and because of that, God put fear among them
Note:
* If we understand all these dispensationalism doctrines, it makes sense why God does these things and it will answer all kinds of things
II. AFTER THE FLOOD, DURING THE TOWER OF BABEL, MAN WANTS TO BE UNIFIED AGAIN BUT GOD SEPERATES THEM, IMPLEMENTED SEGREGATION AND SCATTERED THEM
1. Man Got Together Again & Wants To Be God
Genesis 11:1-4 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
* Man does not want to divide because it says “lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth”
2. God Seperates The People To Hinder Them To Be Unified
Genesis 11:5-6 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
* Remember Genesis 6 before the flood? They followed the imaginations of their heart and through that became wickedness and God had to drown them all in a flood
* That’s why God had to split up the nations with different languages because God knew what was happneing
3. God Puts Segregation Of Language:To Hinder Them To Be Unified And Scattered Them Abroad
Genesis 11:7-8 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
4. God Divided The People Because God Wants Them To Seek God And Find Him
Acts 17:26-27 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
* this is a verse used by many to prove human intergration but in reality it actually proves segregation of physical nations
5. God Seperates The Nations
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Note:
* God implemented segreagation. Why? Because Satan uses these intermingling to produce mess and the unity of man will follow the devil’s system and history will repeat again.
* Why today the world will open to the antichrist? Because they will be unified under a one world religion, one world nation and one world government
* Unity of races can never be done in a physical nation (that’s why God did physical segregation) but spiritual integration (to be unified as a spiritual nation of God) is different. All of us christians are unified as a spiritual nation of God. But because the spiritual nature is dead at this time and spiritual nation is not possible, God scatters them all out.
C. MAN KINDS LIVES SHORTERN
1. Man Kind Lived About 900 Years
Genesis 5:1-32
2. Man Kind Lives Became Shorter
Genesis 11:11-25
3. Man Kind Shall Be A 120 Years
Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.