We see the promised covenant and the rainbow as Noah enters the renewed world. God had promised to make a covenant with Noah when He warned of the coming flood. Genesis 6:17 Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die. …
As the ark’s occupants left, God gave them a command for purposeful proliferation. The flood had destroyed all other life on the land. Now, God wanted them to multiply and populate the earth. Genesis 9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth… 7 Now be fruitful …
Jesus proclaimed that He had come to proclaim the time of the Lord’s favor when He quoted from Isaiah 61 in His teaching time. Luke 4: 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will …