Devotional
A Better Covenant
…right now? Write out, in your own words, the single thread connecting Noah, Abraham, Sinai, David, Jeremiah, and Christ. Every covenant this week has pointed forward. Hebrews 8:6 states the destination plainly: Christ…
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Bible studies (7)
Devotional
No One Knows the Day
…Father alone. The verses that follow compare that day to the days of Noah, when people were eating, drinking and marrying until the flood came and took them all away. The comparison in Matthew 24:38-39 falls on…
Devotional
The Ark Inside the Flood
…things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. WEB The flood narrative does not present judgment and mercy as sequential events, judgment…
Devotional
The Blood of the Covenant
…made with you concerning all these words.” WEB Unlike the covenant with Noah or the one made with Abram in Genesis 15, this covenant has the people respond with a commitment of their own: all that Yahweh has spoken will…
Devotional
The Sign in the Cloud
…nothing from the other party to maintain. The rainbow is not a ritual Noah performs. It is a mark God sets in the sky, a promise he keeps by simply not doing something again. God's first covenant after the flood covers…
52 Week Journey
Week 27: God's Covenants
The Bible is organised around covenants: with Noah, with Abraham, with Israel at Sinai, with David, and finally the new covenant promised through Jeremiah and enacted in Christ's blood. Each one adds to what came before…
52 Week Journey
Week 50: Judgment and Mercy
…things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. WEB Ten Righteous Abraham bargains for mercy, and God answers every request. Genesis 18:32…
Bible topics (4)
Biblical concept
Covenant
…formal bond with promises, obligations and a sign. God's covenants with Noah, Abraham, Israel and David each carry a sign or an oath, and each is initiated by God. Jeremiah 31 promises a new covenant with the law…
Word and phrase
Grace
…to unanswered prayer: my grace is sufficient for you. Genesis 6:8 Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD, before any obedience of his is recorded. The word appears before the flood narrative gives any reason for it,…
Biblical concept
Sacrifice and offering
…commentaries. Genesis Coverings made at cost, Abel's accepted offering, Noah's altar, and the ram provided in Isaac's place (Genesis 22:13). Exodus The Passover lamb, where blood on the doorposts is the difference…
Biblical concept
Vineyard and vine
…bloodshed, He looked for righteousness and heard a cry. Genesis 9:20 Noah plants a vineyard, and the first vineyard in Scripture ends in drunkenness and family shame, which is an honest beginning for an image of…
Questions and answers (2)
Bible question
What does the Bible teach about heaven?
…paralleling how a flood purified rather than erased the world in Noah's day. Does it change your view of the physical world to think of it as awaiting renewal rather than destruction? How might this shape care for…
Bible question
What is faith?
…'by faith' repeated more than twenty times, moving from Abel through Noah, Abraham, Moses and beyond, deliberately accumulating weight so that by the end the reader feels surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, the…
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