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The Covenant
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9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his
sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and
increase in number and fill the earth.
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9:3
Everything that lives and moves
about will be food for you. Just as I
gave you the green plants, I now give
you everything.
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9:6
“Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.
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Genesis 9:11
I establish my covenant with you:
Never again will all life be destroyed
by the waters of a flood; never again
will there be a flood to destroy the
earth.”
Genesis
1 Corinthians9:13-16
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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. Whenever the
rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and
remember the everlasting covenant between God
and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
41 Corinthians
knew pieces
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1. God blessed them – be fruitful and
increase in number
2. Mastery over animals – all animals
now fear & dread before humans
3. Eat Meat – no blood
4. Prohibited shedding of human
blood
God’s
Covenant
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• Never wipe out inhabitants of earth
with flood
• No conditions laid on humans
• Everlasting – through all
generations
• Rainbow as symbol – God will
remember
Deuteronomy
7:9
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Know therefore that the LORD your God
is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his
covenant of love to a thousand
generations of those who love him and
keep his commandments.
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Tower of Babel
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Genesis 11:1
Now the whole world had one
language and a common speech.
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Genesis 11:4-5
Then they said, “Come, let us build
ourselves a city, with a tower that
reaches to the heavens, so that we
may make a name for ourselves;
otherwise we will be scattered over
the face of the whole earth.” But the
LORD came down to see the city and
the tower the people were building.
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What we know
Ancient tower symbolizing human pride
& rebellion – self-gratification and selfsecurity
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What we know
A human initiative apart from God – they
would worship creation rather than
Creator
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What we know
Nimrod was the leader – build so no
water would destroy them again
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What we know
Be the focal point of culture, politics and
religion
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What we know
Great monuments leave an enduring
heritage
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Genesis 11:7-9
Come, let us go down and confuse their
language so they will not understand each
other.” So the LORD scattered them from
there over all the earth, and they stopped
building the city. That is why it was called
Babel—because there the LORD confused the
language of the whole world. From there the
LORD scattered them over the face of the
whole earth.
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What we know
The tower was so small to God He had
to come down to see it
God steps in to stop mankind from
seizing more power for themselves
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What we know
Where different languages began