God's Covenant with Noah
- Noah received the same Covenant that Enoch received with some minor changes:
- No more floods will be sent to destroy all flesh [1]
- The "Everlasting Covenant": Zion will return and part of Noah's seed will be there. [2]
- The Token of the Covenant is the "bow in the cloud" [3]
- Dietary restrictions and Penalties of the Covenant [4]
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Denver
Snuffer – Lecture 6 – Grand Junction
The covenant to bring Zion originally promised to
Adam, then to Enoch, was made again by God with Noah. The covenant requires
some generation at last to rise up and vindicate. Whether that is you or
whether you go to the grave without realizing it, is entirely up to you.
The Lord sends ministers with a commission to
transition from one dispensation of the Gospel to another. From Adam until
Enoch there was an order, but with Enoch that order changed. Wickedness and
rebellion required a new approach, and Enoch was commissioned to bring it
about. (Moses 6: 32-34.) Mankind was in such a state of rebellion that their
time was to end. Enoch gathered together
people upon a high mountain where he established a city which would survive the
destruction by becoming Zion. (Moses 7: 17-21.)
Soon after Enoch was called, the Lord called
another, giving him also a dispensation of the Gospel. He, however, was to
remain on the earth. (Moses 7: 42-43; Genesis 6: 12-14.) With him a new
covenant was made. (Genesis 9: 8-9.)
Both Enoch and Noah were contemporaries, but each
had been given a dispensation of the Gospel. The covenant with Enoch did not
disannul the covenant with Adam. Nor did the covenant with Noah contradict the
covenant with Enoch.
[1]And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all
flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any
more be a flood to destroy the earth. - Genesis 9:11
[2] And God spake unto Noah, and to
his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I will establish my covenant with
you, which I made unto your father Enoch, concerning your seed after you…And
this is mine everlasting covenant, that when thy posterity shall embrace the
truth, and look upward, then shall Zion look downward, and all the heavens
shall shake with gladness, and the earth shall tremble with joy; And the
general assembly of the church of the firstborn shall come down out of heaven,
and possess the earth, and shall have place until the end come. And this is
mine everlasting covenant, which I made with thy father Enoch. - JST Genesis 9:15, 21-23
[3] And the bow shall be in the
cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant,
which I made unto thy father Enoch; that, when men should keep all my
commandments, Zion should again come on the earth, the city of Enoch which I
have caught up unto myself…And the bow
shall be in the cloud, and I will establish my covenant unto thee, which I have
made between me and thee, for every living creature
of all flesh that shall be upon
the earth. And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I
have established between me and thee;
for all flesh that shall
be upon the earth. – JST
Genesis 9:21, 24-25
[4] But, the blood of all flesh
which I have given you for meat, shall be shed upon the ground, which taketh
life thereof, and the blood ye shall not eat. And surely, blood shall not
be shed, only for meat, to save your lives; and the blood of every beast will I
require at your hands. And whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his
blood be shed; for man shall not shed the blood of man. For a
commandment I give, that every man’s brother shall preserve the life of man, for
in mine own image have I made man. And a commandment I give unto you, Be
ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply
therein. - JST Genesis 9:10-15
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