God's Covenant with Noah
God would not curse the ground any more nor destroy all living things again by flood.
- Genesis 9:1 Noah and his descendants were to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
- Genesis 9:2-4 Man could now eat the flesh of every living thing.
- Genesis 9:5-6 The law of capital punishment was established.
- Genesis 9:8-11 The earth was never again to be destroyed by flood.
- II Peter 3:6-7 The next time the earth is destroyed will be by fire.
- Genesis 9:12-17 God used the rainbow as the token of the covenant that He made with man.
The three sons of Noah
- Genesis 9:18 The names of the three sons of Noah were Shem, Ham, and Japeth.
Ham does wrong.
- Genesis 9:20-27
- Noah began to practice agriculture and planted a vineyard.
- He drank too much wine and lay exposed in his tent.
- Ham mocked Noah> while he was in a drunken state and did not show him the proper respect or minister unto him.
- Shem and Japeth took a garment upon their shoulders and went backward into Noah's tent and covered their father.
- When Noah awoke and knew what his son Ham had done, he pronounced a curse upon him and a blessing upon his two other sons.
Generations of the sons of Noah
- Genesis 10:2-5 The sons of Japeth. By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands (Genesis 10:5).
- Genesis 10:6-20 The sons of Ham. Jebusite, Amorite, Girgasite, Hivite, Arkite, Sinite, Arvadite, Hamathite, and Canaanite (Genesis 10:16-18).
- Genesis 10:21-31 The sons of Shem. And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
One language and one speach
- Genesis 11:1 The whole world was of one language and one speach since they all came from the same parental home.
A city and a tower
- Genesis 10:10 Nimrod king of Babel. Nimrod had turned away from God and convinced the people to follow him just like Satan gets people to follow him instead of God. Nimrod had the people building a great tower to protect them against God's wrath should He ever send another flood. He had somehoow made them forget that God had promised never to destroy the world with another flood.
- Genesis 11:2-4 Once again man was determined to have his own way. The sons of Noah disobeyed God by not going forth to repopulate the earth. Instead, they went forth to one place. They went to the rich plains of Shinar to build a city and a great tower to try and protect themselves from being scattered abroad.
Judgment falls on the dispensation of Human Government
- Genesis 11:5-6 Everything was going great until the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the children of men were building. God not only saw the city and the tower, He saw the motive behind it and the imagination of their hearts to defy Him.
- Genesis 11:7-9 Suddenly the masons could not understand the mortar boys; the carpenters could not understand the architects; and hysterical pandemonium was everywhere. God resolved not to utterly destroy them, but to counfound their language so that they could not understand one another. No doubt they gathered into groups with the members of each group able to understand each other but not the other groups. Each group separated itself from the main body to an area by itself thereby spreading the population over the earth.
- So this third dispensation also ended in judgment by having the language of the people confounded and the people scattered abroad accross the earth.
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