Rain and Reign

"I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 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. 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." (Genesis 9:9-11)

We know the Noahic covenant to be an unconditional or unilateral covenant. God says in v11, 'I establish my covenant with you', Not 'we' establish 'our covenant' with each other, but, I now establish my covenant with you...and with your descendants after you' (v9)

A simple revelation, but my thought was this; What does it mean for God to say that '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." (v11) Does this mean that if man again became as wicked as the people of Noah's time, that God would tolerate our wickedness, and not destroy us? And does this mean that we're currently better people than those of Noah's time? Or is God saying, my people need a savior, never again will I allow them to reach a point where I have no choice but to destroy them? I think it means this; To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. (Jude 1:24)

Perhaps this is why we symbolically sing 'rain down on me'. Thank you Lord that the rain of your Spirit has washed away the sin of my heart.

Every time we see a rainbow, we should remember two things;
(1) That God has promised himself he will never again destroy all the earth with the flood of rain

(2) God will send an all consuming rain again...not an r.a.i.n rain, but an r.e.i.g.n reign ...and you'd want to make sure you're in the boat!

God is not seeking the destroy the earth, but to redeem it back unto himself.

But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself. Selah (Psalm 49:15)