Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Genesis 9

God’s Promise to Noah

Genesis 9:¹ So God (‘ĕlōhîm) blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:² And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.

Genesis 9:³ Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.

• Note: Prior to this, men ate only vegetables and fruits. God is giving man permission to eat animal meat.

Genesis 9:⁴ But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Genesis 9:⁵ Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

Genesis 9:⁶ “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God (‘ĕlōhîm) He made man.

Genesis 9:⁷ And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”

Genesis 9:⁸ Then God (‘ĕlōhîm) spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: ⁹ “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.

• The covenant is an oath. It’s not for man only but includes the animals.

Genesis 9:¹¹ Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9:¹² And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant (oath, a promise which cannot be broken, a covenant of death) which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

• The sign is in the sky, a sky – which had never before been seen by any man because the earth was created, encapsulated in an orb ice.
  
• It was Paradise! Men lived in a terrarium as mist came up from the ground and watered the earth.
  
  • In the beginning, God separated the waters above the earth, an orb of ice, from the waters below the earth, in the caverns in the earth’s crust. Genesis 1:7
    
    • Men were protected from the rays of the sun with a life span of hundreds of years; but they never saw the sun or the night sky twinkling with billions of stars. They had never felt rain pouring down from above and they had never seen a rainbow.
      
  • Science says it’s impossible to cover the earth with water in only 40 days and nights of rain. They fail to realize that this earth was God’s terrarium: Genesis 2:6 a mist went up from the (chambers under the surface of the) earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
    
    It begins with one or many asteroid fireballs plummeting downward, shattering the orb of ice that shielded men from the sun’s radioactive rays. piercing the surface of the earth opening the chambers of water from creation, breaking open these fountains of the deep, spewing water upwards and raining downwards .

• After the waters became quiet, Noah must have stared upwards through the small window in the ark, pondering the night sky, and witnessing something he had never before seen, a Rainbow.
  
  • Matthew 24:30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Genesis 9:¹³ I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

• See: The Rainbow Covenant

• A “bow” is an arch, literally, an archer, representing a covenant. Furthermore, “rain” is literally translated as “The Faithful Teacher, the Messiah”. See: Jesus as the Rain.

• Jesus is the Rain in the clouds.
  • “Rain” is also translated “Teacher”.
    The “Faithful Rain” refers specifically to the Messiah [H4175 – môrê]:

Genesis 9:¹⁴ It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow (Messiah’s Oath) shall be seen in the cloud;

• Jesus’ return to earth is a time of judgment and fire. He will come in the clouds with His saints and angels.

• James 1:14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints (a cloud of saints), 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
  
• BELOW: A TORNADO AND A RAINBOW IN ONE PICTURE.
  

• Picture Above Shown in the Washington Post By Matthew Cappucci
• April 26, 2021 at 11:58 a.m. EDT

• As I work on this chapter, I see this picture in the Washington Post. I think to myself it is a metaphorical representation of Armageddon, The Rainbow (Jesus) vs The Tornado (Antichrist indwelt by Satan) at the end of the tribulation.

Genesis 9:¹⁵ and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 9:¹⁶ The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God (‘ĕlōhîm) and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

• Jesus is in the cloud of saints and angels, and when the Father looks on Him He remembers the covenant.

Genesis 9:¹⁷ And God (‘ĕlōhîm) said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

• The future Antichrist breaks his covenant (the peace treaty) “in half”. He turns against the Jews, the people of God’s covenant.
• Jesus broke bread. The Antichrist breaks the peace treaty.

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