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Genesis 9:1 open_in_new
and said unto them
The Noahic Covenant. The elements are:
(1) The relation of man to the earth under the Adamic Covenant is confirmed
( See Scofield) - (Genesis 8:21)
(2) The order of nature is confirmed (Genesis 8:22)
(3) Human government is established (Genesis 9:1-6)
(4) Earth is secured against another universal judgment by water (Genesis 8:21); (Genesis 9:11).
(5) A prophetic declaration is made that from Ham will descend an inferior and servile posterity (Genesis 9:24); (Genesis 9:25).
(6) A prophetic declaration is made that Shem will have a peculiar relation to Jehovah (Genesis 9:26); (Genesis 9:27). All divine revelation is through Semitic men, and Christ, after the flesh, descends from Shem.
(7) A prophetic declaration is made that from Japheth will descend the "enlarged" races (Genesis 9:27). Government, science, and art, speaking broadly, are and have been Japhetic, so that history is the indisputable record of the exact fulfilment of these declarations.
( See Scofield) - (Genesis 8:21).
for the other seven covenants:
EDENIC (Genesis 1:28)
ADAMIC (Genesis 3:15)
ABRAHAMIC (Genesis 15:18)
MOSAIC (Exodus 19:25)
PALESTINIAN (Deuteronomy 30:3)
DAVIDIC (2 Samuel 7:16)
NEW (Hebrews 8:8).
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Genesis 9:13 open_in_new
bow
The bow is not said to have come into existence at this time, but only to have been here invested with the character of a sign.
Compare (Exodus 31:13).
Typically, the bow, seen upon the storm clouds of judgment (Genesis 7:11) has been thought to speak of the cross where judgment, never to be repeated has been visted upon the believer's sins. (Galatians 3:10-14); (Hebrews 10:14-18).