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F.
Covenant (Genesis 9:8-17)
1.
The participants (v.8-10)
a.
Noah and his sons
b.
Their seed after them
c.
Every living creature
2.
The promise (v.11) – Never will God again destroy all
flesh with a flood
3.
The token of the covenant (v.12-17) – the rainbow
G.
Crisis (Genesis 11:1-6)
1.
One people (v.6; Acts 17:24-28)
2.
One language (v.1, 6)
3.
One-world government (v.2-4a; see Daniel 2:40-43;
7:23-25); “let us build us a city”
4.
One-world religion (v.4b; see Revelation 17:3-18); “a
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven”
5.
One-world goal (v.4); “let us make us a name” – The
only name that should be exalted is the name of God (Psalm
8:1; 102:15; 103:1)
6.
Unlimited imagination (v.6; see Genesis 6:5; 8:21)
7.
They were restrained by God (v.7-9)
H.
Condemnation (Genesis 11:7-9)
1.
Confusion of languages (v.7)
2.
Scattering of peoples (v.8; Deuteronomy 32:8)
3.
No more one-world (v.8-9; Psalm 2:1-3)
I.
Compassion
1.
God did not destroy them
2.
God called a man out of which He would establish a
chosen people and a special nation (Genesis 12:1-3)
J.
Change – the transitional man, Abraham
1.
Born a Gentile (Genesis 11:27-28)
2.
Called before he was justified (Genesis 12:1)
3.
Justified by faith (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:1-3);
while he was still a Gentile (Romans 4:9-11)
4.
Circumcised as a Jew (Genesis 17:4-11)
5.
Justified by works (James 2:21-22; Genesis 22:1-2,
12)