2. Genesis 9

3. New World
New Covenant
Genesis 9

4. Gen 9:1-7, Last Time We Covered
• Unilateral Covenants
• The fear and dread of you
• Lifeblood
• Shall His Blood Be Shed (Capital Punishment)

5. Gen 9:1-7, This Week
• Be fruitful and increase in number….vs. 1 & 7
• An imperative in Greek (7x;s) & Hebrew
• When God says it twice…
• plhqu,nesqe verb imperative present
passive 2nd person plural
increase, multiply,

6. Be Fruitful And Increase In Number
• Gen 16:10 I will so increase your descendants [all are ellipses]
• Gen 17:2 I will …and will greatly increase your numbers.
• Gen 17:20 I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his
numbers.
• Gen 26:24 I will bless you and will increase the number of
your descendants
• Gen 28:3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful
and increase
• Gen 35:11 I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in
number.
• Gen 48:3 "God Almighty … blessed me 4 and said to me, 'I
am going to make you fruitful and will increase your numbers.
• Lev 26:9 'I will look on you with favor and make you
fruitful and increase your numbers,
• Deut 1:11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, increase you
• Deut 6:3 obey so that …you may increase

7. Gen 9:1-7 Animal Capital Punish
• Ex 21:28-29 "If a bull gores a man or a woman
to death, the bull must be stoned to death, and
its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the
bull will not be held responsible. 29 If, however,
the bull has had the habit of goring and the
owner has been warned but has not kept it
penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull
must be stoned and the owner also must be put
to death. [Pit Bulls?]

8. Gen 9:8-11
• 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with
him: 9 "I now establish my covenant with you
and with your descendants after you 10 and with
every living creature that was with you — the
birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all
those that came out of the ark with you —
every living creature on earth. 11 I establish
my covenant with you: Never again will all life
be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again
will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

9. Local Flood?
• Gen 9:10-11 and with every living creature that
was with you — the birds, the livestock and all
the wild animals, all those that came out of
the ark with you — every living creature
on earth.

10. Universal, Unilateral Covenant
• This is a universal, unilateral covenant with
“every living creature on earth”
• What is required of the living creatures to keep
their end of the bargain?
• The very nature and character of God are at
stake here.
• Everything hangs in the balance. If God is not
faithful to absolutely keep His promises what
hope do we have? We should cringe and cower at
the sight of every rain cloud, or local flood.

11. Universal, Unilateral Covenant
• Those in the amillennial camp seem to be willingly
ignorant of this universal, unilateral covenant with
“all life,” and especially the other unilateral
covenants with Israel.
• R.C. Sproul in his book “The Truth Of The Cross” on
page 122 says “All covenants have stipulations…..
God’s covenant with Israel was no exception….”
• An outright denial of God’s unilateral covenants
with Israel are required by their replacement
theology.

12. Unilateral Covenants
• Gen 12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To
your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar
there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
• Gen 13:16-17 I will make your offspring like the dust of
the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then
your offspring could be counted.
• Gen 15:4-5 a son coming from your own body will be
your heir." 5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at
the heavens and count the stars — if indeed you can
count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your
offspring be."
• Gen 15:18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with
Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land…

13. Unilateral Covenants
• Gen 17:7….I will establish my covenant as an
everlasting covenant between me and you and your
descendants after you for the generations to come,
• Gen 17:21…But my covenant I will establish with
Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next
year.
• Gen 22:16…and said, "I swear by myself, declares
the Lord
• Gen 26:3…For to you and your descendants I will
give all these lands
• Gen 28:13…I will give you and your descendants the
land on which you are lying.

14. Unilateral Covenants
• Gen 35:12…The land I gave to Abraham and
Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land
to your descendants after you."
• Gen 48:4…I will give this land as an everlasting
possession to your descendants after you.'
• 2 Sam 7:8-16…Your house and your kingdom
will endure forever before me; your throne will
be established forever.'"

15. Unilateral Covenants
• Mal 3:6-7…"I the Lord do not change. So you, O
descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 7 Ever
since the time of your forefathers you have turned
away from my decrees and have not kept them.
Return to me, and I will return to you," says the
Lord Almighty.
• Please open your Bibles to Isaiah 54;
• Isa 54:5-10..."To me this is like the days of Noah…
• Isa 55:3 Give ear and come to me; hear me, that
your soul may live. I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, my faithful love promised to
David.

16. Unilateral Covenants
• Please open your Bibles to Jeremiah 31;
• Jer 31:33…"This is the covenant I will make
with the house of Israel after that time,"
declares the Lord. "I will put my law in their
minds and write it on their hearts.
• Jer 33:12-22…'If you can break my covenant
with the day and my covenant with the night…

17. Unbreakable Unilateral Covenants
• Ps 89:30-37 "If his sons [David’s] forsake my law
• and do not follow my statutes, 31 if they violate my decrees and fail
to keep my commands, 32 I will punish their sin with the rod, their
iniquity with flogging; 33 but I will not take my love from him, nor
will I ever betray my faithfulness. 34 I will not violate my
covenant or alter what my lips have uttered. 35 Once for all, I have
sworn by my holiness — and I will not lie to David — 36 that his line
will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun;
37 it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in
the sky.“
• Luke 1:32 -33…the Lord God will give him the throne of his father
David. 33 He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his
kingdom will never end."
• Ps 94:14 For the Lord will not reject his people; he will never
forsake his inheritance.

18. Unbreakable Unilateral Covenants
• Lev 26:40-45 "'But if they will confess their sins
and the sins of their fathers — their treachery
against me and their hostility toward me, 41 which
made me hostile toward them so that I sent them
into the land of their enemies — then when their
uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for
their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with
Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant
with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 For
the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its
sabbaths while it lies desolate without them.

19. Unbreakable Unilateral Covenants
• They will pay for their sins because they rejected
my laws and abhorred my decrees. 44 Yet in
spite of this, when they are in the land of their
enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so
as to destroy them completely, breaking my
covenant with them. I am the Lord their God. 45
But for their sake I will remember the covenant
with their ancestors whom I brought out of
Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God.
I am the Lord.'"

20. Unbreakable Unilateral Covenants
• Rom 9:4…the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as
sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving
of the law, the temple worship and the promises….
• Rom 9:6…It is not as though God's word had failed. For
not all who are descended from Israel are Israel…
• Rom 9:27…."Though the number of the Israelites be like
the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved….
• Rom 11:1… I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no
means!...
• Rom 11:11…Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall
beyond recovery? Not at all!...
• Rom 11:25-26…Israel has experienced a hardening in part
until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And
so all Israel will be saved, as it is written…
• Rom 11:28-30…they are loved on account of the
patriarchs, 29 for God's gifts and his call are
irrevocable….

21. Promise = Unilateral Covenant
• Gal 3:17-18 What I mean is this: The law,
introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the
covenant previously established by God and thus do
away with the promise. 18 For if the inheritance
depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a
promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham
through a promise. NIV [promise not a reward]
• Their unfaithfulness does not make God unfaithful!
• Romans 3:4 May it never be! Rather, let God be
found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is
written, "THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR
WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE
JUDGED."

22. Only The Remnant Will Be Saved
• Rom 9:27…."Though the number of the
Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the
remnant will be saved….
• Romans 11:26 and so all Israel will be saved; just
as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME
FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE
UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB."

23. Amos 9:9-15, 755 B.C.
• Amos 9:9-15 "For I will give the command,
• and I will shake the house of Israel
• among all the nations
• as grain is shaken in a sieve,
• and not a pebble will reach the ground.
• 10 All the sinners among my people
• will die by the sword,
• all those who say,
• 'Disaster will not overtake or meet us.'
• 11 "In that day I will restore
• David's fallen tent.
• I will repair its broken places,
• restore its ruins,

24. Amos 9:9-15, 755 B.C.
• and build it as it used to be,
• 12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom
• and all the nations that bear my name,"
• declares the Lord, who will do these things.
• 13 "The days are coming," declares the Lord,
• "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman
• and the planter by the one treading grapes.
• New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills.
• 14 I will bring back my exiled people Israel;
• they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.
• They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;
• they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
• 15 I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be
uprooted from the land I have given them,"

25. James, “TABERNACLE OF DAVID”
• Acts 15:16-18 'AFTER THESE THINGS I will
return, AND I WILL REBUILD THE
TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS
FALLEN, AND I WILL REBUILD ITS RUINS,
AND I WILL RESTORE IT, 17 SO THAT THE
REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD,
AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED
BY MY NAME,'
• 18 SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE
THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.

26. Back to Genesis

27. Gen 9:12-17
• And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making
between me and you and every living creature with you, a
covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my
rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant
between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over
the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 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. 16 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."
• 17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I
have established between me and all life on the earth."

29. Genesis 9:16, Bow Or Rainbow?
• NAS ESV CSB KJV YLT NAU Genesis 9:16 "When the
bow is in the cloud....
• NKJ NIV NETGenesis 9:16 When the rainbow is in
the clouds...
• Hebrew, Greek, and English all use “bow” in lots
of ways, but rainbow is specific.

30. My Rainbow
• Only 3 other uses of rainbow;
• Ezek 1:27-28 I saw that from what appeared to be his waist
up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from
there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded
him. 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow [toxon] in the clouds
on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the
appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I
saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
• Rev 4:3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of
jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald,
encircled the throne.
• Rev 10:1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from
heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his
head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery
pillars.

31. Hebrew Word For “bow”
• <07198> qesheth
• Meaning: a bow

32. Rainbow, Grk. = iris
• 2463 ἶπιρ iris {ee'-ris}
• Meaning: 1) a rainbow
• Revelation 4:3 And He who was sitting was like a
jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there
was a rainbow [iris] around the throne, like an
emerald in appearance.
• Revelation 10:1 I saw another strong angel coming
down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and the
rainbow [iris] was upon his head, and his face was
like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;

33. LXX, Bow Grk. toxon
• 5115 τόξον toxon {tox'-on}
• Meaning: 1) a bow
• Revelation 6:2 I looked, and behold, a white
horse, and he who sat on it had a bow [toxon]; and
a crown was given to him, and he went out
conquering and to conquer.
• LXX, Genesis 9:13 I set My bow [toxon]; in the
cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant
between Me and the earth.

34. Gen 9:18-19
• Gen 9:18-19 The sons of Noah who came out of
the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham
was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the
three sons of Noah, and from them came the
people who were scattered over the earth.
• The parenthesis is explanatory of vs.25
• Scattered looks forward to ch. 11

35. Gen 9:20-23
• Gen 9:20-23 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded
to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of
its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered
inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw his father's nakedness and told his two
brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took
a garment and laid it across their shoulders;
then they walked in backward and covered their
father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the
other way so that they would not see their
father's nakedness.

36. Noah, Let’s Reflect
• 2 Peter 2:5…Noah, a preacher of righteousness…
• Heb 11:7…By faith Noah, when warned about
things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to
save his family. By his faith he condemned the
world and became heir of the righteousness that
comes by faith….
• Ezek 14:20….declares the Sovereign Lord, even if
Noah, Daniel and Job were in it….
• Did Noah end well?

37. Ending Well
• Acts 20:24…However, I consider my life worth nothing to me,
if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord
Jesus has given me — the task of testifying to the gospel of
God's grace…
• 1 Cor 9:27…No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that
after I have preached to others, I myself will not be
disqualified for the prize…
• 2 Tim 2:15…Do your best to present yourself to God as one
approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and
who correctly handles the word of truth…
• Rev 2:25-26…Only hold on to what you have until I come. 26
To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give
authority over the nations…
• Heb 6:11…We want each of you to show this same diligence to
the very end, in order to make your hope sure….

38. Noah’s Finish
• Let’s look ahead;
• Gen 9:28-29 After the flood Noah lived 350
years. 29 Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and
then he died.
• This is all that’s said of his last 350 years of
ministry.

39. Let’s Go Back To Gen 9:24-25
• Gen 9:24-25 When Noah awoke from his wine
and found out what his youngest son had done
to him,
• “awoke”= evknh,fw , come to one's senses
• had done = evpoi,hsen verb indicative aorist
active
• It’s an active verb

40. Gen 9:25
• Gen 9:25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The
lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers."
• Cursed be Canaan, not Cursed be Ham. It’s not
about dark skin, Egyptians & Babylonians were
Hamitic. Ham had 4 sons (10:6).
• An angry father lashing out at his grandchild for
the action of “his youngest son”?
• Or a sinful act which triggered the Holy Spirit to
prophesy through Noah about his two sons &
one grandson for centuries to come.

41. Cursed be Canaan
• Bible Knowledge Commentary says, “because of
this incident Noah prophesied about his sons'
descendants. He began with the direct words,
Cursed be Canaan! However, Noah was not
punishing Ham's son for something Ham did.
Instead, Noah's words referred to the nation of
Canaanites that would come from Ham through
Canaan. Ham's act of hubris could not be left
without repercussions.”

42. Consequence Of Not Punishment
• Jeremiah 31:29-30 "In those days they will not
say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children's teeth are set on edge.' 30 "But
everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man
who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on
edge.
• Ezekiel 18:4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul
of the father as well as the soul of the son is
Mine. The soul who sins will die.

43. And Also Afterward
• The “sons of God” could have sinned again and
that is why God wiped out all the Canaanites.
• Numbers 13:29 "Amalek is living in the land of
the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and
the Amorites are living in the hill country, and
the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the
side of the Jordan."

44. Gen 9:25, Servants
• Gen 9:25…The lowest of slaves will he be to his
brothers."
• 1st. Mention of servant
• Josh 9:27 That day he [Joshua] made the Gibeonites
woodcutters and water carriers for the community and
for the altar of the Lord at the place the Lord would
choose. And that is what they are to this day.
• Judg 1:28 When Israel became strong, they pressed the
Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out
completely.
• 1 Kings 9:21…these Solomon conscripted for his slave
labor force…

45. Gen 9:26-27
• "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem!
• May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
• 27 May God extend the territory of Japheth
[=enlarge, it’s a pun];
• may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
• and may Canaan be his slave."

46. The End
• God's center is
everywhere. His
circumference is
nowhere.
•
• Thomas Watson

47. WHY ARE HUMAN FOSSILS SCARCE?
• WHY ARE HUMAN FOSSILS SCARCE?
• Listen
• Psalm 18:30
• "As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in
him."
• One question we are often asked is why more human fossils are not found in older rocks. In order to
become a fossil, a creature must be buried rapidly in sediment so that it does not decay. Aquatic animals
would be much more likely to produce fossils in, say, a worldwide flood than land animals, and, indeed,
geologists universally use small marine creatures as their "index fossils."
Usually, the smaller the creature is, the larger the population, and this is another reason why small
marine fossils are so plentiful. They are found worldwide from almost the very lowest sedimentary rocks
to those at the surface and even at mountaintops. Generally speaking, the birds and the larger mammals,
including man, have much smaller populations and are, indeed, found much less frequently. If all these
deaths resulted from the Great Flood, then as the valleys filled with water, the larger animals would run
for the safety of higher ground; small animals would be exhausted and drown, as would the birds who
could not fly in the heavy 40-days of rain. Mankind would have survived until exhausted on floating
vegetation.
• For the most part, the drowned bodies of birds and small mammals, including man, would decompose
quickly in the swirling waters and not be trapped in sediment. The larger animals, such as the dinosaurs,
would easily be trapped in mud and rising sediment and, thus, be good candidates for fossilization.
• The pattern of fossils actually found worldwide does not support the theory of evolution, but it does,
indeed, support the biblical record of the Genesis Flood.

48. Scientists who believe in creation know that if human remains were found fossilized with dinosaur remains, evolutionists could not ignore the e
The layer is a 15- to 18-inch-thick layer of phosphate rock in the southeastern United States. The rock is 65 percent phosphate, which means that the layer is made primarily of the bo
Did men of the generations recorded in the Bible see great herds of duckbill dinosaurs ranging the grasslands of the Earth? According to the Bible, they could have. Now geology has
• PROOF OF HUMANS AND DINOSAURS TOGETHER
• Listen
• Genesis 1:31
• "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day."
• According to the story of life offered by evolution, dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years before man
ever set foot on Earth. According to the Bible, all living things were made during a six-day period of time.
This means that humans and dinosaurs walked the Earth at the same time. If evidence that they lived
together could be found, evolutionary history would be very seriously challenged.
• Scientists who believe in creation know that if human remains were found fossilized with dinosaur
remains, evolutionists could not ignore the evidence. That evidence has been discovered in a giant fossil
graveyard that has even been described in the scientific literature. Textbooks on evolution neglect to
mention it for obvious reasons.
• The layer is a 15- to 18-inch-thick layer of phosphate rock in the southeastern United States. The rock is
65 percent phosphate, which means that the layer is made primarily of the bones of dead animals. The
bones were clearly deposited by a huge flood; the deposit is at least as large as the Everglades! And mixed
into the layer are bones of all sorts of animals that evolution says could not have lived together, including
human bones and Hadrosaurus bones.
• Did men of the generations recorded in the Bible see great herds of duckbill dinosaurs ranging the
grasslands of the Earth? According to the Bible, they could have. Now geology has finally caught up with
the Bible!

49. HUMAN DNA VARIATION LINKED TO
BIBLICAL EVENT TIMELINE [Excerpts]
•
September 7, 2012
• HUMAN DNA VARIATION LINKED TO BIBLICAL EVENT TIMELINE [Excerpts]
•
• Each person is different, and each, except an identical twin, has unique DNA differences. These differences can be traced across global populations and ethnic groups. Furthermore, recent research
provides interesting insight about the approximate time that these DNA differences entered the human race.
•
• A new study reported in the journal Science has advanced our knowledge of rare DNA variation associated with gene regions in the human genome. 1 By applying a demographics-based model to
the data, researchers discovered that the human genome began to rapidly diversify about 5,000 years ago. Remarkably, this data coincides closely with biblical models of rapid diversification of
humans after the global flood.
•
• The vast majority of DNA base sequences between any two humans are nearly identical, so the few differences are traceable among people groups. The human genome project has continued to
analyze thousands of humans throughout the world for variation in their DNA sequence. Researchers link this variation with many human traits and heritable diseases.2
•
• Typically, this variation is evaluated using single DNA base differences or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between individuals and populations. Because of the type of standardized "gene
chip" technology commonly used, most SNP analyses evaluate only the most variable parts of the human genome and, therefore, exclude the much less variable protein-coding regions.
•
• The recent Science study analyzed the DNA sequences of 15,585 protein-coding gene regions in the human genome for 1,351 European Americans and 1,088 African Americans.
•
• The data proved ideal for examining the course of human genetic variation over time, partly because protein-coding regions are less tolerant of sequence variation than other parts of the genome;
these regions record more reliable, or less "noisy" historical genetic information.
•
• Typically, evolutionary scientists incorporate hypothetical deep time scales taken from paleontology or just borrowed from other authors to develop and calibrate models of genetic change over
time.3 In contrast this Science study used demographic models of human populations over known historical time and known geographical space. The resulting data showed a very recent, massive
burst of human genetic diversification.
• The authors wrote, "The maximum likelihood time for accelerated growth was 5,115 years ago." Old-earth proponents now have a new challenge: to explain why -- after millions of years of hardly
any genetic variation among modern humans -- human genomic diversity exploded only within the last five thousand years?
•
• Footnotes
• 1 Tennessen, J. et al. 2012. Evolution and Functional Impact of Rare Coding Variation from Deep Sequencing of Human Exomes. Science. 337 (6090): 64-69.
• 2 McCarthy, M. et al. 2008. Genome-wide association studies for complex traits: consensus, uncertainty and challenges. Nature Reviews Genetics. 9: 356-369.
• 3 Thomas, B. Circular Reasoning in Polar Bear Origins Date. ICR News. Posted onicr.org May 9, 2012, accessed July 13, 2012.