Genesis
9:8 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to
his sons with him, saying, 9 And I,
behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with
you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from
all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 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.
Genesis
9:12 ¶ 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: 15 And I will
remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of
all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud;
and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of
the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon
the earth.
God made a
covenant with Noah, his sons, and all of the creatures with Noah, that He would
never destroy the earth with a great flood again. All of those waters under the
surface of the earth that I referenced earlier will stay under the earth and
although devastating floods are possible none like this one that reduced life
on earth to a precious few will be permitted again.
The rainbow we see
in the sky is an ever-present reminder of God’s covenant that the world will
never be destroyed by a great flood. A rainbow is an optical phenomenon that
happens when the sun shines through water droplets in the atmosphere. Its
existence is verification that the atmosphere of the pre-Flood earth was very
different from that of the post-Flood earth. The fact that it was possible
after and not before the Flood might be evidence of the vast difference between
the conditions. Just as Mount Saint Helens’ eruption showed us that geological
events that were thought took hundreds of millions of years to occur took place
in the span of hours and that formations like the Grand Canyon and The
Scablands also could have been formed quickly are evidences of the Great Flood
of Noah, so the rainbow, God’s sign of a covenant not to cause the Flood again,
is evidence of the great change between old and new earth.
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