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But Genesis chapter 9 here is really where we get into what's going on after they get off the ark. And so the first thing that we see said here unto Noah and to his sons in verse 1 there, it says, And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. What's interesting is that it actually says that again in verse 7. Verse 7 says, And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein. This is something that's repeated and I believe this commandment that he gave to Noah and his sons is still a commandment to this day. So that's why when he said to Adam and Eve, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. It's a continual or perpetual commandment and that's why it says replenish because it's a constant thing that's being done because people are all dying and being born, dying and being born. And so they are obviously starting off from scratch because everybody else is dead. So it talks about how him and his sons, through his sons was the earth overspread. And so we know that to be true obviously that it all goes back to Noah and the floods. We all go back, our grandfather, every single one of us is Noah. So if you go back far enough. Basically we all go back to Adam and Eve, but we see that everything's kind of reset here and now they need to multiply. And so I believe this to be true and I don't want to go too far into this as far as just having children and stuff like that, but it is something that's very biblical that we're supposed to have children and that basically I don't believe in any type of birth control or anything like that to control that. I believe that you should just let the chips fall where they may and so have as many children as God will give you. And people think I'm nuts and obviously since our children are very emotional and very needy children, the fact that they'd be like, oh you want to have more? Some days, but obviously in all honesty I want to have as many children as God will give me and you never know, maybe this will be the only two that God gives me. And I hope not, I hope I have more children because children I believe are truly a blessing. They're a lot of work, they're definitely a lot of work. And if there's anything that children have taught me it's patience, patience, long suffering. Those are the two things that I thought I had patience before, but if you knew me back in the day, actually I was going to talk about this in my modalism sermons, talking about the fact of calling somebody somebody. We call someone a Judas, we call them by that name even though they're not really Judas. Brother Matt Stuckey used to call me Moses and he literally just called me Moses. And the reason he called me Moses is because I had a temper and I almost, we lived together when we were in college and we were both in engineering together and I was just ready to kill him. But anyway, he's a good friend of mine. We shouldn't live together. I'm glad I'm married and we're both married and we're both living with our wives, that's the way it's meant to be. But all that to say is that it's taught me patience and yes, children are a lot of work but they are a heritage of the Lord and that's what you need to remember and obviously there's only a window of opportunity to have children so I believe take advantage of that and the Bible's very clear on that as far as that we're supposed to have. It never says not to have children, let's put it that way. It doesn't say not to have children and so it only says to be fruitful and multiply and so that's another sermon for another day as far as what we should do with children and all that stuff. But I just want you to see that this is a commandment that was given to Adam and Eve. It's given to Noah and his sons and he says it twice. Any time the Bible repeats itself, especially in the same chapter, you should probably listen to it and so just something to think about with that. But as we go on here, in verse 2, we see that the same type of stuff that was said to Adam and Eve is being said to Noah and his children. So you can see how it's almost like a reset button that's being set here because notice what it says in verse 2. It says in the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you, even as the green herb have I given you all things. Now the first thing that you see here is that it's the same pretty much thing that he's saying that he said to Adam and Eve only he said you're going to have dominion over them and here he's saying that they're going to be afraid of you pretty much. So it's just another way of saying you're going to have dominion over them and they're going to fear you. But notice what it says here. It says every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. So what we see here is that actually every living creature was meat for them. You know that's the way it is now. But there was a period of time where he restricted some of the food that they would eat. And so as we know and as I've already preached as far as dealing with the Old Testament and New Testament, we haven't got into the Old Testament yet. The Old Testament doesn't start until Moses and the Bible calls it the First Testament. It's old because the New Testament replaced it. And so it wasn't called the Old Testament when Moses was in it. It was just called the covenant, the covenant that he made with them in Mount Sinai. But these restrictions on what you should eat and not eat didn't come about until Moses. So at this point everything that moveth is meat for them. Now go to Leviticus chapter 11 and I promise you we're not going to stay in Leviticus too long and we're not going to go through this whole list but I do want to show you where it does give the children of Israel a list of animals and stuff that they're not supposed to eat. So this is where you get into that you're not supposed to eat a pig, you're not supposed to eat swine, you're not supposed to eat things that don't have scales so like shellfish and stuff like that. So obviously in the New Testament, I'll show you that it's lifted, so the Old Testament there's a lot of things that were put on them that wasn't before that. The Sabbath day, that wasn't kept until Moses and the law but Leviticus chapter 11 and later on if you want to read all the different animals that you're supposed to eat or not eat but in verse 1 there it says in the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron saying unto them speak unto the children of Israel saying these are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven footed and cheweth the cud among the beasts that shall ye eat. Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud or of them that divide the hoof as the camel because he cheweth the cud but divideeth not the hoof he is unclean unto you. So I'm not going to go through this whole list but I just want to basically what he's saying is that if an animal chews the cud and is cloven footed or divided the hoof, now chewing the cud, I don't want to get gross you out or anything like that but cows what do they do? They start eating something and then they regurgitate it and chew it again and then swallow it again. That's what chewing the cud means. So animals that would do that pigs don't chew the cud and there's just different animals that don't chew the cud and there's animals that chew the cud but they don't part the hoof or those that part the hoof but they don't chew the cud and it has to be both. So anyway those are the restrictions that they put on the Old Testament but here with Noah and his family none of these restrictions were on there. This is like being in the New Testament when it came to food and Colossians chapter 2 really makes this plain that all this is done away with. In Colossians chapter 2 this is a great, if you want a verse on showing someone that we don't need to keep the Sabbath this is the heavy hitter. I got to win a couple guys to the Lord and there was actually three guys there and I don't know if they were seventh day Adventists or what they were but they were all about the Sabbath. Maybe they were Hebrew roots guys I don't know but they were basically saying no you need to keep the Sabbath it's one of the Ten Commandments. And so they were all on that and I'm like what if I could show you a verse where it says that we don't have to keep the Sabbath and they're like oh I want to see that. So I took them to this and this changed their mind and so in Colossians chapter 2 and verse 16 it says let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of in holiday or holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ. So there's a lot of things in here that he's saying is done away in the New Testament obviously is the meat, the drink, the respect of a holiday, new moon or the Sabbath days. So obviously and what most people don't realize is that there's other Sabbath days besides just the end of the week Sabbath. The Passover or the Feast of Unleavened Bread the first day was the Sabbath the last day of that feast was the Sabbath. There's other Sabbaths and that's why they link that in with new moons and holidays because there was holidays that were Sabbaths their feasts and stuff like that. And so anyway that's done away in Christ but before the Old Testament when we're here with no one his sons none of that stuff was done anyway. So as far as like the restrictions on their diet or keeping the Sabbath or anything like that. In Acts chapter 10 we definitely see that it's done away because Peter has this vision. So Acts chapter 10 this is the vision that he sees before he goes to Cornelius. Acts chapter 10 and so Peter was hungry and they're getting ready to make food so it's probably why God gave him this vision at this point because he's wanting to eat and notice what it says in verse 9 Acts chapter 10 verse 9 it says on the morrow as they went on their journey and drew nigh unto the city Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour and he became very hungry and would have eaten but while they made ready he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth wherein were all manner of four footed beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and fowls at the air and there came a voice to him rise Peter kill and eat but Peter said not so Lord for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean and the voice spake unto him again the second time what God hath cleansed that call not thou common this was done thrice and the vessel was received up again into heaven so we see that he has this vision and why is he saying unclean or common well because in Leviticus 11 there's animals that were considered unclean and they weren't supposed they weren't allowed to eat those and so but even when in the ark remember they had the unclean they knew they were unclean there's unclean beasts and there was clean beasts because the clean beasts are what they were supposed to give to sacrifice right and so that's why there were seven you know and sevens instead of twos and but they were still allowed to eat them because in Genesis chapter 9 it says every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you but then there's restrictions are put on there they're lifted in the New Testament and he's giving him this vision to say hey you can eat this because God has cleansed it meaning that everything is good and first Timothy you know just another verse to really show this first Timothy chapter 4 really nails this down that yes we can eat whatever creature we want does that mean I'm going to eat every creature that's out there no there's certain things I'm not going to eat you know that balut stuff or it's like some like chicken that's half like a lot you know like a fetus of a chicken inside an egg and they cook it and then you see like the little baby bird with like fur or feathers and all that stuff no I'm not eating that I don't care you know everything is good you know every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you but you know what doesn't mean I want to eat it so anyway that's a side note I'm still waiting for Richie Simms to eat that I'm waiting to see a video where he eats that but I don't think it's going to happen so in first Timothy chapter 4 verse 4 it says for every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer so we see that before the Old Testament they could eat anything that moved and in the New Testament we could eat anything that moved as long as we sanctify with the word of God and prayer so obviously we need to give thanks for what God gives us and you know I don't recommend eating roadkill and stuff that's like you know bad to eat like it's spoiled obviously don't be dumb when we're talking about this ok but what I'm saying is that basically anything that's an animal or anything like that you can eat God is not a vegan ok when it comes to this we're allowed to eat meat even Jesus in his glorified body ate a broiled fish and so that's an interesting story but something to think about anyway so moving on back to Genesis chapter 9 Genesis chapter 9 verse 4 what's awesome about going through Genesis is we're seeing the first mention of a lot of things and so we're already seeing the definitions for things because we're in Genesis ok so you don't go back any further than that but Genesis chapter 9 verse 4 notice what it says it says but flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall ye not eat so this is saying that you're not supposed to drink blood ok now this is something that's throughout the Bible as far as not drinking blood but this is why when you like would kill a deer you hang it up to let it bleed out you don't want the blood to be in with the meat and in the New Testament it talks about staying away from things that are strangled so you can imagine what that means is that normally when you kill an animal you would slit its throat and not to get graphic but I already did and let it bleed out and so that the blood is you know all out of its system ok and so anyway that's why you do that and you're not supposed to eat the blood and you're supposed to spill it out as water it talks about so we're not to eat the blood as the Bible says and go to Leviticus chapter 17 because notice that in Genesis 9 for it says but the flesh with the life thereof and what does it say which is the blood thereof so it's saying that the blood is the life and so from the Genesis chapter 9 we understand that the blood represents the life of the flesh and so Leviticus chapter 17 and obviously you know where I'm going with this as far as the blood of Christ and how the blood of Christ gives us life the blood of Christ is our atonement our redemption but go to you're in Leviticus chapter 17 and verse 10 notice what it says it says and whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood and will cut him off from among his people for the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul what's interesting about this is that there's only one place in the New Testament where the word atonement is used and it's in Romans chapter 5 go to Romans chapter 5 so we see here that for the life of the flesh is in the blood and he it says it says and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls sound familiar to which we haven't got there yet but Genesis 22 where it says the Lord will provide himself a lamb you see how he uses those personal pronouns you know I have provided it upon the altar because that's what Jesus did and so Romans chapter 5 I'm going to show you the only place that atonement is used and I don't think it's a coincidence that the blood is brought up here when talking about our salvation but Romans chapter 5 verse 8 one of the very famous verse I use it out solely all the time it says but God commendeth his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us much more than being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him for if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life and not only so but we also join God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement so the only place in the New Testament atonement is used and it's referring to the blood the blood saving us the blood justifying us and so I go to Hebrews chapter 9 and I just you know this is the last verse I'm going to show you on this there's plenty of verses in the Bible about how he's washed us from our sins in his own blood the blood of his son Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin like all these verses about this but I want to show you the difference between the blood of animals and the blood of Christ okay because I've already covered this but in the Old Testament and even before the Old Testament they would sacrifice animals and it was all about the shedding of blood without the shedding of blood is no remission but the difference is is that Christ's blood is upon the altar for the atonement of our souls and the blood of those animals it atoned and it purified the flesh but not not our souls it didn't save us and take us to heaven but Hebrews chapter 9 verse 11 it says but Christ Hebrews chapter 9 verse 11 but Christ being come and high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us for if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling to the unclean sprinkling the unclean sanctified through the purifying of the flesh how much more should the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God see the difference talking about how the blood of bulls and of goats they only sanctified through the purifying of the flesh but Jesus' blood that was upon the altar and he took it up to the mercy seat and that's what it's saying there is that he by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us so he went into the tabernacle made without hands and sprinkled his blood and it talks about through obedience and sprinkling the blood of Jesus Christ and the blood of sprinkling is how our salvation was bought. So the blood is very important and there's no coincidence that the life of the flesh is in the blood the life of our souls is through the blood but through the blood of Christ and so but go back to Genesis chapter 9 so we see that the life of the flesh is in the blood we see that in Genesis chapter 9 so all these fundamental truths about just doctrines in the Bible I go from Genesis to Revelation here is just very consistent and so Genesis chapter 9 and verse 5 here Genesis 9 verse 5 it says and surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of every beast will I require it and at the hand of man at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man whosoever shed of man's blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man. So this is where the death penalty comes in. Remember when we were talking about the flood you know the earth was filled with violence but when Cain killed Abel he just put a mark on him he didn't you know there was not as far as what the Bible shows here there's no death penalty before this and I believe this is a big reason why things got out of hand and why you know all the stuff all the stuff started going really rampant and as we get into a society where they are against the death penalty and against all this type of stuff you can imagine why the end times talk about the days of Noah because that's exactly what happened there but the death penalty here and it may seem a little weird where it says at the hand of every beast will I require it I believe what that's saying is basically if you look in the law in Exodus if someone had an ox and it gored you it gored somebody and they died there to put the ox to death and so that's what that's saying is that basically if an animal killed somebody that animal is to be put to death and it even says that if that ox were to push in times past as it says and so basically you knew that that animal was violent and that it could hurt somebody and it killed somebody then not only the ox or the animals were to be put to death but also the owner was to be put to death that's what the Bible teaches so but why is that so important well go to Deuteronomy chapter seventeen Deuteronomy chapter seventeen because well I'm just going to say it the death penalty will put the fear of God into a society if you have public executions for rapists for pedophiles for murderers obviously it needs to be a just system I'm not saying just to put people to death I mean it's obviously got to be you know just and two or three witnesses but if you had public executions and in the law when you get to the Old Testament you know the executions were the people and so they had a hand in the execution and that would put the fear of God in people now that's what it says in Deuteronomy chapter seventeen now this isn't necessarily talking about murder itself but it is talking about someone being put to death and it says in verse twelve so Deuteronomy seventeen verse twelve it says and the man that will do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God or unto the judge even that man shall die and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel and all the people shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously now what's another word for presumptuously willingly so in Hebrews chapter ten it's actually going back to this passage in Deuteronomy seventeen if you go to Hebrews chapter ten that's I believe what this is talking about because we talk about presumptuous sins and then there's sins of ignorance and we're not getting into all the ignorance offering you know the offerings that they would make for ignorance and so basically there's a big difference between sinning by ignorance and sinning presumptuously meaning that if I didn't know something was wrong to do and I did it it's still a sin but the punishment is less severe whereas if I know that it's wrong and I do it anyway that's called doing it presumptuously or willingly sinning and so that's that's that's what this is saying here is that if they are presumptuously willingly going against and despising the law then they're put to death and all the people are going to hear and fear and so that's a big reason why the death penalty is put there so that you know that other people around will hear and fear and that they won't do it so Hebrews chapter ten verse twenty six it says for if we sin willfully now notice this is in the you know Paul is linking himself and I believe Paul wrote Hebrews but he's linking himself in with this he says for if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries notice what it says verse twenty eight he that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses isn't that exactly what was talked about in Deuteronomy chapter seventeen where it talked about how that they were basically against the law and it says it says the priest that stands to minister it says he will not hearken unto the judge or the priest or anything like that and so it's giving that same thing and at verse thirty three it says it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God so the whole point besides cleansing the land of innocent blood we've gone through that many times we're talking about murder and the only way to cleanse the land is by shedding the blood of him that shed it okay and so that's why in Genesis chapter nine whosoever shed his blood by man shall his blood be shed because that's the only way that you can cleanse the land is to shed the blood of the murderer okay and so that's what it's saying go to Proverbs chapter nineteen and so that's a big reason why people they don't have a consequence they don't have a major consequence and the death penalty is a major consequence and I believe there be a lot less murder going on if people were actually knew that it wasn't a matter of them going to jail for a little bit or or just getting a slap on the wrist a lot of times that they would actually be in danger of dying of being put to death and so it's a serious thing but it's biblical it's not inhumane and nowadays you have a lot of people that look at Sharia law you know with the Muslims who are all anti-Christ I mean they're all obviously unsaved I'm not for that religion but they have a law that says they put to death adulterers and murderers and queers amen I mean that's what the Bible teaches and for Baptist pastors to say that it's inhumane is for them to blaspheme against God's word because that's what God said to do and even in the New Testament that's what he said to do and so it's not like God has changed or his morality has changed it's always been that way so just because some false religion you know a blind squirrel finds it not every once in a while and every once in a while they'll say something that's true and right and so it's not inhumane and it actually will do our society a service if our government actually did what they're supposed to be doing our government does everything it's not supposed to do and it doesn't fulfill anything it's supposed to do the only thing our government's supposed to do is punish evildoers and they don't do that all they do is tell me what I can eat what I can drink when I can carry a gun when I can do this or that take all my money and then give it to people that are derelicts I mean the government wasn't meant to do that God didn't ordain the government to do that the government was supposed to not bear the sword in vain the government was supposed to be the executor of righteousness and they're dropping the ball and they're not doing it and why is our country in the state that it's in so Proverbs chapter 19 notice what it says Proverbs chapter 19 verse 25 it says smite a scorner in the simple will beware and reprove one that hath understanding and he will understand knowledge smite a scorner in the simple will beware you know back when they would give stripes to men you know when they give you know and here's the thing I'd rather get stripes than go to prison you know and ruin my life ruin you know I can't provide for my family because I'm in a cage and so you know who's inhumane there when you ruin someone's like marriage and you ruin their children's lives by putting them in a cage and locking them in there and so but anyway smite a scorner in the simple will beware put to death pedophiles they'll beware put to death queers they'll beware put to death murderers they will beware and so that's the one big downfall I see of what led up to the flood and what led up to the world being filled with violence and I also see that happening in our day now going on here in Genesis chapter 9 and verse 8 there I want to talk about this this token that God gives in this rainbow this bow that he puts in the sky so in Genesis chapter 9 and verse 8 it says and God spake unto Noah and to his sons with him saying and I behold and I behold I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you and with every living creature that is with you of the fowl of the cattle and of every beast of the earth with you from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth 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 so he's making a covenant here and it's a little different than the covenant that he said before in chapter 8 at the end there because in chapter 8 he's saying you know summer winter seed time harvest cold heat you know night day none of that's going to cease while the earth remains and so he's making kind of a different covenant there and now he's making a covenant saying hey I'm not going to flood the earth again but notice what he says in verse 12 and we kind of already talked about that and we rebuked Leonardo DiCaprio for his stupid film but in chapter 12 I mean verse 12 it says and God said this is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations I do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth and in verse 17 it says the same thing it says and God said to Noah this is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth so he puts a bow in the sky and we know that the rainbow we see that you know when it's usually when it's you have the sun coming out like a cloudy day or cloudy sky with rain and so he calls that a token this is the first time tokens used in the Bible and actually I've done a study on this and preached a little sermon when I was out of Verity one time about the token the tokens of God because there's actually seven different tokens that he mentions in the Bible but what is a token? Have you ever been to Chuck E. Cheese? Right? You get those tokens that so it's just a coin like it's basically saying this is a you know something signify something but when I think of it I think of a coin and there's always two sides to a coin and so this rainbow that's in the sky is a token but it's not just a token of the fact that he saved the world or saved Noah and his family but it's a token that he destroyed the world so there's always two sides to the coin salvation damnation heaven hell life death good evil and that's what we see here with this token is that it does remind us of his grace and mercy that he didn't destroy all the man on the earth that he saved Noah and his family but it's more so when I see it a reminder that and it's a reminder that he won't flood the earth again but it's a reminder that he did flood the earth and of his wrath and go to second Thessalonians chapter one I want to show you this another place where the word token is used and see how this lines up perfectly with what we're dealing with after the flood and how he put this token in the sky in second Thessalonians chapter one and verse four notice what it says it says so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith and all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which ye also suffer seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in the saints and to be admired in all them that believe because our testimony among you was believed in that day so we see that the token here of God's righteous judgment that people are persecuting you now they're giving you trouble but God's going to give them trouble and persecutions and you see the two sides of the coin and so God is saying that his he has a token the manifest token of the righteous judgment of God and that's what that bow is is that it's a token of the righteous judgment of God God was righteous to completely flood the earth and kill everything that was on the earth but he was also merciful in the fact that he saved Noah and his family and since that we're all here but go to Philippians chapter 1 because when you deal with the gospel the gospel is a token as well so in Philippians chapter 1 verse 27 the Bible says only let your conversation be as it become at the gospel of Christ that whether I come and see you or else be absent I may hear of your affairs that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel and in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God do you see the two contrasts there to them it's perdition to us it's salvation because the gospel means that if they don't believe on them they're all going to go to hell but since we believe the gospel we're all going to go to heaven see the token there the two sides of the coin and that bow that's in the sky is it's a promise that he's not going to flood the earth but it's a token of his righteous judgment it's a token to remind us hey he was merciful and saved Noah and his family but he also killed everybody else and so not to forget God's righteous judgment because that righteous judgment is going to come again in the end times when he when he baptizes this world with fire when he melts all the elements with fervent heat but God did promise that he wasn't going to flood the earth in one verse we've kind of already looked at this but Isaiah chapter 54 just kind of recap you know it's just basically stating it again that he's not going to flood the earth so Isaiah 54 and verse 7 it says for a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee and a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee said the Lord thy Redeemer for this is as the waters of Noah unto me for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee so he's just reiterating that hey I've sworn that I'm not going to flood the earth and that's definitely going to come to pass so God will never flood this earth again with water but that's the key with water so he didn't say he wasn't going to destroy the earth again because next time it's going to be with fire but he's making that clear that that promise was made but I want to talk about this rainbow now it's called a bow there but there is another place where we're talking about the same thing and it calls it a rainbow which we call it that the reason it's called rainbow is because it's a bow that's in the sky but it's usually when it's raining or rain is what brings it out which is another reason why I believe maybe it didn't rain before the flood you know because they didn't have this rainbow before that obviously because it wouldn't have been a big deal if he's just like hey I got this bow in the sky and be like yeah we saw it before the flood but in Revelation chapter 4 I want to talk about this and I know this is kind of a rabbit trail but I want to talk about this because there's nothing clear about the rainbow there's nothing you know homosexual about the rainbow but yet this is the number one symbol that when you think of the queer pride and all these stupid marches that they put across there what is everything colored rainbow they take in the rainbow and they perverted it they take in the rainbow and associate it with their queer cause it's actually going to I'll show you this is ironic because what does the rainbow represent the righteous judgment of God they're literally holding up the symbol of God God's wrath and his token of his righteous judgment that's their moniker that's their that's their flag and they're just they're just waving around the fact that come kill me God you know because that's exactly what's coming for them but before we get into that in Revelation chapter 4 I want you to see that the rainbow the rainbow is a good thing and it's something that is going to be in heaven we're going to see one day and John sees it here in Revelation chapter 1 this is where he's taken up in the spirit to heaven or to the throne so in Revelation 4 verse 1 it says after this I looked and behold a door was opened in heaven and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which said come up hither and I will show thee the things which must be hereafter so he got raptured and I'm just kidding that's not the rapture but in verse 2 it says and immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone and there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald so we see that when he sees the throne that there's a rainbow round about the throne so this is a big deal that this rainbow is there and this isn't something that's only mentioned there but also in Revelation chapter 10 I want to make sure that I'm not going crazy over time here so yeah so we started at seven right yeah so anyway because this is kind of a side note okay when we're going into this and yes we're going back to Ezekiel talking about the cherubims okay but so in Revelation chapter 10 there's this angel and it talks about this angel and so in verse 1 I want to see because there's something about this rainbow about its head and it says and I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven clothed with a cloud and a rainbow was about his head and his face was as it were the sun and his feet as pillars of fire and so we see this angel has a rainbow that was upon his head now what's interesting about this is when you go back to Ezekiel chapter 1 and I'm not going to go through all the stuff about the cherubims we've covered that when we talked about the cherubims that were in the Garden of Eden but I want to show you something here so there's a rainbow around about the throne but then there's also this angel that has a rainbow that is upon his head what's interesting is that it talks about the rainbow when you're talking about these cherubims but I want you to see what that rainbow represents so in Ezekiel chapter 1 and verse 26 Ezekiel chapter 1 verse 26 so just to recap these four living creatures that have four faces four wings they have these wheels that I don't completely understand that the spirits in the wheels and there's a wheel within a wheel that's not important right now but there's these four living creatures and but now it's talking about this firmer man or these things that are above their heads okay and it says in verse 26 and above the firmer man that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire stone and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it so we got this throne we see that in Revelation chapter 4 we saw the throne with the rainbow about it but we also see in Revelation 10 there's a rainbow above these angels head this angels head all the same kind of stuff is being said here about the throne anyway above this firmer man and it says I saw in verse 27 as the color of amber and as the appearance of fire round about within it from the appearance of his loins even upward and from the appearance of his loins even downward and I saw as it were the appearance of fire and it had brightness round about as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about this was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord and when I saw it I fell upon my face and I heard a voice of one that spake the rainbow the Bible says here this bow that was in the sky as a bow that's in the sky it says so was the appearance of the brightness round about and it says this was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord so when you saw that bow that was upon the throne that's what that's talking about now what's interesting about that is the bow represents the glory of the Lord go to Romans chapter 1 because we already talked about how the queers have taken this flag and taken it to their marches and their queer pride and all their filthy perverted vile garbage notice what it says in verse 22 verse 22 professing themselves to be wise they became fools and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like a corruptible man into birds and four footed beasts and creeping things wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator who is blessed forever amen they literally took the symbol of the glory of God and they changed it into something corruptible something that's disgusting to represent something that's vile and wicked and vile affections unnatural things reprobate garbage they take in the rainbow that God has set in the sky as a token that he wouldn't flood the earth again but the ironic part is that it's a righteous judgment of God that's going to come upon them and so it's hilarious how dumb they are professing themselves to be wise they became fools but they're the biggest idiots in the world because they're literally holding up the sign that God's going to destroy them so it's pretty hilarious actually that they would do that so anyway I thought that was cool you know to kind of see what the rainbow represents on top of the fact that it is a token that he put in the sky that he wouldn't flood the earth again but it's also a reminder of his righteous judgment so anyway that was I just thought that was neat but go back to Genesis chapter 9 Genesis chapter 9 and I want to get into Canaan so this is the story that a lot of people have questions about dealing with Ham and Canaan and I really just more so want to get into the curse of Canaan but let me see here where I want to start because I just had the curse of Canaan here so in verse 20 this is where Noah went wrong became a wino this is why it's not good to drink kids men women we haven't even got to Genesis 19 that's even worse but so in Genesis 9 verse 20 here it says and Noah began to be a husband man and he planted a vineyard now there's nothing wrong with that okay but obviously he drank alcoholic wine and it says and he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent and Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without and Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father and their faces were backward and they saw not their father's nakedness and Noah woke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done unto him so this is a kind of a strange story and so Ham goes in here now what I think is more interesting about the story is the fact that he goes and says cursed be Canaan and not Ham now I'm going to get into that and what I believe why he does that but Ham and some people say well maybe it was Canaan that did it no it's very clear that it says and Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness I don't believe you could say well Canaan is the one that saw it but now getting into what he actually did we know he saw his nakedness that much is clear and that obviously is wrong a lot of talks about how we're not supposed to see the nakedness of our father or our mother and obviously we're dealing with adults here right because when you have children you're changing their diapers and that's a different story and obviously that's when I especially when you're dealing with kids that can't even understand the gospel and haven't got to that point where they can't even understand good and evil right but that's another story for another day this is we're dealing with adults here because he's got a wife so obviously he's not a child and so he saw his father naked that enough is a sin okay but the interesting thing is that when Noah awoke from his wine he knew what his younger son had done unto him now if he just saw his nakedness I don't see how he would know once he woke up what he had because Noah was uncovered it doesn't say that Ham uncovered him does that make sense now maybe he overheard the fact that he looked on his nakedness and that's what he's saying that he give he he shamed him by looking on his nakedness that that's a possibility but it could also be when you're dealing with uncovering someone's nakedness when you look in Leviticus when it talks about that uncovering the nakedness of your sister or of your mother's sister and like goes through this whole list of stuff it's not just talking about seeing their nakedness it's talking about lying with them carnally and so it could be that Ham you know committed a homosexual act but it doesn't say that okay so I'm not going to say that that's definitive but it is interesting that it basically says he knew what his younger son had done unto him and so either way he shamed him because you know he saw his father's nakedness and he brought shame so Ham definitely did something wrong here now what's interesting about the story is the fact that in verse 25 and it says so Noah is saying and he said cursed be Canaan a servant of servant shall he be unto his brethren so why does he turn around and curse and it's very clear at the beginning that it's saying Ham is the son or is the father of Canaan that's how it starts off this story what's going on here is that Ham is the father of Canaan and it says cursed be Canaan now what I believe about this is that basically he's not cursing Canaan that person but it's more so like when you deal with Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated that when that was talked about and the elder shall serve the younger that wasn't talking about those two physical people it's talking about nations and I want to talk about that but first I want you to see here too and be like man Canaan is getting a bad rap you know his dad did something he's being punished for it well go to Exodus chapter 20 because no father is to be put to death for the sins of their sons or for their children and no children to be put to death for the sins of their fathers but it doesn't say that you won't reap you know punishment for your father's iniquities and actually we see this throughout history when a nation gets in the wickedness and then the rest of the children have to suffer for millennia and you can see that today look at Japan look at all these other countries that have forsaken God and all their children have been suffering the consequences because of it and so I believe that's what's going on here but I don't believe it's Canaan necessarily that his son Canaan but more so dealing with Canaan the people the nation of Canaan and obviously you can see that right off the cuff that didn't Israel take over Canaan and didn't they become their servants and I'm going to show you that but Exodus chapter 20 obviously is the 10 commandments verse 3 there it says thou shalt have no other gods before me thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments so we see that it's you know it's obviously a thing that happens when you know someone would hate God and then God is visiting the iniquities of the fathers on the children down to the fourth generation and so I believe this is more so a prophecy just like it was a prophecy of the fact that Israel was going to be a greater nation than Esau and that Esau was going to serve Israel and we see these allegories and these things that are done like that but I just want to show you that just so you see that go to Genesis chapter 25 dealing with Jacob and Esau and I think if you understand that you understand because in this passage what we're dealing with Shem and Canaan so we have two people but I believe it's not just Shem the person and Canaan the person I believe it's Shem the people of Shem and Canaan the people of Canaan because obviously who was Abraham and who was Israel of Shem and who was Canaan of obviously of Canaan so but in Genesis chapter 25 verse 23 this is dealing with the birth of Jacob and Esau and so with Rebekah and it says and the Lord said unto her two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels and the one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger so now go to Malachi so we see that that's very clear that this promise of the elder shall serve the younger is not made to Jacob the person and Esau the person but more so their descendants and the nations that are going to come out of them two nations are in her womb and obviously we know that there wasn't a nation of people in her womb right two nations of people he's just showing that that's going to happen in the future but Malachi that helps us make sense when it says Jacob have I loved Esau have I hated and I talked about this when we were in Romans chapter 9 on the fact that he didn't hate Esau in the womb okay because you know this is where the Calvinist will come into and say hey you know Esau God hated him from the very beginning he was damned from the beginning no and I believe Esau was actually saved first of all I believe he was a saved man but that's beside the point so in Malachi chapter 1 and verse 20 or verse 2 it says I have loved you said the Lord yet you say wherein hast thou loved us was not Esau Jacob's brother said the Lord yet I loved Jacob I hated Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness hold on one second that thing's like must have stopped I thought I heard something over here oh well so that one doesn't work anyway so we see that Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated but as you go into chapter or verse 4 there it says whereas Edom saith we are impoverished but we will return and build the desolate places thus said the Lord of hosts they shall build but I will throw down and they shall call them the borders of weakness and the people against him the Lord had the indignation forever so with Jacob and Esau we see that it wasn't when he made that statement the elder shall serve the younger it wasn't to Jacob and Esau the people that were born there it was to the nations that were going to come out of them and we actually see that come true at least in one place and there's probably other places where it talks about that but if you go to first Chronicles chapter 18 just to show you that this did come true at least with David it came true as well but there's probably other cases with the children of Israel and the wilderness but in first Chronicles chapter 18 and verse 12 the Bible says moreover Abishai the son of Jeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt 18,000 and he put garrisons in Edom and all the Edomites became David's servants thus the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went so we see that in David's day when he was king over all Israel the Edomites all the Edomites became his servants so there at least right there that prophecy was fulfilled that the elder shall serve the younger because the Edomites are now serving the Israelites and so that came to pass and so I want to show you though in Judges dealing with the Canaanites now we obviously know that with Joshua he went into the land of Canaan they conquered it they were supposed to kill everybody what's interesting about this prophecy about how Canaan is going to be Shem's servant yeah Canaan is going to be Shem's servant so is the fact that truthfully they were supposed to kill every single Canaanite completely wipe them out but God knew that that wasn't going to happen right you know God's foreknowledge God's you know he knows everything and so in Judges it's stating the fact that they didn't destroy them all but notice what it says about the Canaanites and Judges chapter 1 verse 27 says neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethsheon and her towns nor Taanach and her towns nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns nor the inhabitants of Iblaeum and her towns nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns but the Canaanites would dwell in that land and it came to pass when Israel was strong that they put the Canaanites to tribute and did not utterly drive them out neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwell in Gezer but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Echidron nor the inhabitants of Nahalal but the Canaanites dwelt among them and became tributaries so they didn't completely destroy all the Canaanites and obviously God did this because he wanted to be a thorn in their side and that's another sermon for another day but did that not come to pass that Canaan was going to serve Shem and so I believe that's what this is talking about that's why I believe he says cursed to be Canaan why because he was going to be the one that the Canaanites were going to come out of so that was showing the future as far as the fact that the Canaanites were going to be taken over by Israel and there's always these pictures of the children of God and the children of the devil and there's a picture with that when you deal with Esau and Jacob go to Obadiah and I'll probably preach a whole sermon on this as far as but sometimes these pictures are an allegory we know that Isaac and Ishmael are an allegory and Sarah and Agar are an allegory because it tells us it is in Galatians chapter 4 dealing with the Old Testament and New Testament and so we know that that's an allegory but I submit to you that I believe that Jacob and Esau is an allegory of the sons of God and the sons of the devil because doesn't he love the children of God and he hates the children of the devil right and Obadiah is actually a great book to show that allegory and I'll probably go do a whole sermon on this at some point to show that allegory but what's interesting is at the end of Obadiah it not only talks about Israel possessing Esau but it also talks about Israel possessing the Canaanites so I believe that when you look at this story with how he cursed Canaan it's the same kind of deal with Jacob and Esau only you have Shem and Canaan and you have that same kind of relationship but in Obadiah chapter 1 verse 18 it says in the house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble and they shall kindle in them and devour them and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau for the Lord hath spoken it and they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau and they of the plain the Philistines and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead and the captivity of the host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites even unto Zarephath and unto the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Zarephath and Zarephath shall possess the cities of the south and the Savior shall come up unto Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. So we can see how that came to pass with both Esau with Edom which is Esau and the Canaanites but also it may make a little more sense too when you think of the queers what are they called in the Bible? A Sodomite. Sodom was destroyed in Genesis chapter 19 and was never a nation again but yet they were still called Sodomites. Why? Because they were called after a place right? And so you actually see, go to Zechariah and this is the last place I'm going to show you here. Zechariah chapter 14 in the last verse there it talks about how there's not going to be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord again or anymore. Now I don't believe it's just talking about the nationality I think it's talking about the fact of what that represents just as much as Esau would you know an allegory would represent someone that's a child of the devil I think you could deal with the same thing with a Canaanite that they're rejected and so Esau was rejected as far as the nation and there's plenty of scriptures on that to show that he hated that nation and rejected that nation but the same thing with the Canaanites. Why did he want to completely annihilate them right? Because he completely rejected that nation but in Zechariah chapter 14 verse 20 it says in that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord and the pots of the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and see therein and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. So you can see you know maybe make a little more sense of why it says that you know that seemed random right no more Canaanite well I think it's just like when you would say a sodomite right because you're not supposed to have a dog in the house of the Lord right and that was a sodomite and you know they broke down the houses of the sodomites that were near the house of God. So anyway I believe that's what it's saying. Obviously there's other interpretations people have different ideas of what why he cursed Canaan and why he didn't curse Ham but I believe that's why. That's why I believe it would make sense because if my dad did something and then I was cursed because of it it seems a little unfair but he's cursing basically Ham and his seed particularly through Canaan. Does that make sense? So it's a curse to Ham but it's particularly through his son Canaan because it was going to be through his descendants that this was actually going to be fulfilled that Shem was going to be his that Canaan was going to be the servant to Shem. Okay and so and at the end of the chapter we just see that Noah lived 350 years after the flood and he was 950 years old so he lived to a ripe old age of almost a thousand so he lived a long time but we see that we're at the end of the days in Noah and so a great chapter here there's a lot of information there the life of the flesh is in the blood the death penalty whosoever shed his man's blood by man shall his blood be shed. We see the token of God's righteous judgment the bow that's in the sky we saw that that rainbow represents the glory of God and also with Canaan why was Canaan cursed? Because I believe it was a judgment of God for what Ham had done and it didn't really happen until later just as much as when the prophecy or the statement that God made about Jacob and Esau didn't happen until way later. Because actually if you read about Jacob and Esau when Jacob comes back you know what he kept saying thy servant thy servant he keeps calling himself Esau's servant and so there's nowhere where you find a place where it seems like Esau's serving Jacob okay and so that's clearly meant to be about the nations that were going to come out of them and how the nations of the nation of Edom was going to serve the nation of Israel and same thing with Canaan the nation of Canaan was going to serve the nation of Shem which was particularly through Israel. So that's Genesis chapter 9 let's end with a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father we thank you for this evening and pray that you be with us as we go back home but I pray that you give us safety in our travels and Lord we love you thank you for your word and Lord we pray all this in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.