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Covenant – Lesson 1 The progressive revelation of the blood of the eternal covenant was made by God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The covenant was made through blood. Review When Adam and Eve sinned, God promised a redeemer God provided a covering of skins of innocent animals We see that God sheds blood to cover man’s sin Genesis Chapter 4 We saw the first blood offering to honor God Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin Seth was the son of Adam and Eve, from Seth came Enosh, then Enoch Hebrews 11 tells us that Enoch walked by faith Genesis 5 gives the generations of descendants Genesis 6:3, 5-6 3 Then the LORD said, " My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Kay’s children are a delight to her, but what if they were wicked? God was grieved because He made man in His image and that image had become so distorted Genesis 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth Genesis 6:18 "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. I will establish My covenant with you This is the first mention of the covenant Beriyth – means a covenant or contract made through pieces of flesh Genesis 6:22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. God commands Noah to build the ark Noah is in the ark and God destroys everyone else on earth 1 Genesis 8:20-22 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done. 22"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Noah built an altar to the Lord and offered the clean animals and birds as sacrifices There is blood involved in Noah’s sacrifice Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. God makes a covenant – tells Noah and his sons to multiply and fill the earth Genesis 9:9-16 God promised never to destroy the earth again through flood God put a bow in the sky to remind of the covenant God made the covenant with Noah and all his descendants Every human on earth is a descendant of Noah God also made the covenant with all living creatures on the earth God did not promise that He would never destroy the earth, only that He would never destroy it again with flood Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it? The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked We will see at the end of this course how to deal with our deceitful hearts (Kay says it’s so good you won’t be able to stand it) Noah Shem Ham Eber Cush Peleg Japeth Nimrod (king of Babel) Nahor Terah Canaan Abram 2 Ham was the one who saw Noah naked – some believe that Ham didn’t understand what God had done with the flood Because of Ham’s disregard of his father, Canaan was cursed Shem is where the Semetic people come from – this will eventually be the line of Israel Japheth will be blessed by his association with Shem Genesis 10:8-10 8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD." 10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Nimrod became the King of Babel Genesis 11:1-4 1 Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. 2It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." God had told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth (Genesis 9:1) These people didn’t want to, they wanted to stay in one place and build a tower that reached to heaven They wanted to worship the heavens and not the God who made them They were going to make a name for themselves Genesis 11:5-8 5 The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. 7"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech." 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. They went in different directions according to the languages they spoke Genesis 11:9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth. 3 Genesis 11:16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg; Why do we talk about Peleg? What did he do that was significant> Kay believes that this shows how God made the blood covenant known throughout the whole earth. Genesis 10:25 Two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. God is giving genealogy In chapter 11, He tells about Nimrod, then about Babel. Then He backs up and gives more genealogy. In both chapters (10 & 11) He mentions Peleg What is God telling us in this verse? Genesis 1:9 Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. When God created the world, He had one big body of land and one big body of water But in the days of Peleg, the earth was divided. What was God doing? Earth is the word erets this is the same word used in Genesis 1:10, Genesis 10:25 and Genesis 10:32. The word divided is palag (Genesis 10:25) – it means to split or divide Genesis 9:25-27 25 So he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brothers." 26He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant. 27"May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant." Shem has the truth, he is the one God has chosen Does that leave the earth without a witness? No, because the three men (Shem, Ham, and Japheth) took the knowledge out where they went The problem is that as they took the knowledge they distorted it Illustration 1 Don Richardson wrote a book called Peace Child about the Sawi tribe in New Guinea They Sawi were isolated from the rest of the world and lived in a stone age culture until 1962 They were cannibals and they were masters of deceit The highest honors in the tribe went to men of treachery The Sawi lived fighting among themselves and Don got nowhere with them at all. He eventually threatened to leave. One day, the Sawi came to him and told Don (they called him Twan) not to leave. They said they would make peace. 4 Then one man picked up his infant son and walked toward through the village and toward another village. When he got to the other village, he offered his son. A man in the second village went and got his son and they exchanged their sons. Twan asked why they did this and they told him that it is impossible to have peace without a peace child God brought his only Son to make peace with us The two villages began to exchange gifts and exchanged names Don used the peace child to show the Sawi the gospel of Jesus How did they know about the concept of a peace child? When God divided the earth, He did not leave the earth without the redemptive analogies of covenant Illustration 2 Don Richardson’s other book Eternity In Their Hearts is about a Muslim village that has a group by the name of Karen prophets The Karen prophets did not adopt the Muslim religion They had songs that had been passed down from generation to generation One of the songs goes “Y’wa (can you hear Yahweh) formed the world originally, he appointed food and drink…” The song is the story of creation and Adam & Eve These people had no written language, but passed the creation story down through song The truth – the blood of the eternal covenant has been passed down Abraham Abram’s father was an idol worshiper and Abram didn’t know God until God appeared to him Genesis 12:1-3 This is the gospel that God gave to Abram Now the LORD said to Abram,"Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you; And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed." Galatians 3:8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU." Here is the pattern of the blood of the eternal covenant 5 Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great." After what things? Canaan is a horrible, wicked land When Abram gets to Canaan, Abram’s nephew Lot moves down to Sodom to live One day a king comes along and takes the people in Sodom captive It comes to the ears of Abram and he goes down to rescue his nephew. When he’s down there, the king of Sodom comes to Abram and offers him the spoils of war. The king of Salem also comes down. Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. God most high is El Elyon – the One who is the sovereign ruler of the earth Genesis 14:19-20 He blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand. "He gave him a tenth of all. Hebrews 5:10; Hebrews 7:1-2 10 being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace. We have insight into Melchizedek Hebrews is all about covenant The end of the name Melchizedek is the word for righteousness He is living in the middle of the wicked 1 Hebrews 7:2-3 2 to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth part of all the spoils, was first of all, by the translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace. 3Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually. Salem means peace (the king of peace) Abram finds a witness (Melchizedek) in the land that is wicked and supposedly without a witness Abram pays tithes to the king of Salem David later would conquer Salem and change the name to Jeru-Salem (Jerusalem) meaning the city of peace 6 Genesis 15:6 Then he believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness. God makes a covenant with Abram Abram believes God when he promised Abram a seed (the Messiah) The word believe means a total committal of oneself to another The blood of the eternal covenant has been made known down through the ages because God is faithful Are you going to be faithful telling the same testimony? 7