God’s Promises - The Rainbow
Genesis 9
God has given us many promises in the bible. Let’s look at a one of them. Read the story of Noah together as a family
trading off sections, Genesis chapters 6-8.
Answer these questions as you go:
1) What
was man up to? – Genesis 6, 5
The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the
earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil all the time. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was
full of violence.
2) How
did God fell about it? – Genesis 6:7, The
LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled
with pain. . . .
3) What
was God’s plan? – Genesis 6:8, So the LORD said, "I will wipe
mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and
creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air
4) What did he ask Noah to do? - Genesis 6:14, make yourself an ark of cypress wood
5) Who shut the door to the Ark?
– Genesis 7:16, Then the LORD shut him
in.
6) What
happened next? – Genesis 7:24, The waters flooded the earth for a
hundred and fifty days.
God made it rain for the first time and a flood covered the
whole earth. As a little background,
most scholars believe that it had never rained before the flood. God watered the earth with mist, dew, and
with other means, just not rain. So
when it started to rain, this was something new to all the people.
God flooded the earth for 150 days, man was gone except for
Noah, his family, and all that he brought aboard the ark. God then dried up the land, let everyone out
of the ark, and blessed Noah and his family.
Finally God made a covenant, a promise with Noah and the rest of us
Now, lets look at the promise God made. Chapter 9 verses 8-17.
11 I establish my covenant
with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never
again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
13I have set my rainbow
in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the
earth.
Scholars also believe that the word for Rainbow was also
used for “Bow” as in bow and arrow that God used to go to war against man. God put down his arms or “Bow” in the clouds
Think about this promise, this is huge! If God didn’t give this promise to never
flood the earth again, every time it rained - everyone would be running for
hills thinking God was not happy and was going to flood the earth again. Be he did promise. Wow, I’m glad he made that promise and that He keeps his promises
or all of us would have to keep both umbrellas and boats!!!
To this day we see God keeping this promise, we have
rainbows in the sky and no world-wide floods.
God keeps his promises, the rainbow is proof.
What other promises has God made that he also keeps? Look up each scripture.
· Hebrews
13:5 – God will never leave you or forsake you.
· John
10:28 – No one can snatch you out of the hand of Jesus
· John
14:16-17 - Give us the Holy Spirit
Summary
What does God Keep?
What will God never do again?
What does the Rainbow mean to you?
What other promises does God
keep?
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