And God Blessed Noah and his sons (v1-7)
Enjoy repopulating the earth: Get married, have families, build homes.
Enjoy eating whatever you like: plants and meat
Ensure human life is revered: God made man in His own image.
Human life is the most sacred of all life. It must be protected from the first second of conception in the womb to the very last breath of the aged.
The nuclear family is the foundation for human and societal flourishing.
And God made a promise to them and to all future generations of the earth.
I have set my rainbow in the cloud serving as a reminder I will never flood the earth again.
When I bring clouds upon the earth, I will see the rainbow and remember my promise.
The rainbow is my everlasting promise to everyone and to all the earth.
How can we cultivate a consistent awareness of God’s promises, symbolized by the rainbow?
Then Noah and his sons went forth in to the new world (v18-29)
Noah became drunk and uncovered
“He uncovered himself” is associated with shame and is incompatible with living in God’s presence.
Though Noah is described as a man “blameless" in his generation” and who “walked with God” sin still had to be mastered in a post-flood world.
Post-flood humanity still had a sin nature to be ruled over lest it rule over them.
Ham saw his father uncovered and left him that way.
“He looked searchingly” is associated with dishonoring image bearers of God.
He told his brothers is associated with the shameful mention of sin.
The besetting sin of every nation has roots found in the ancestors of those nations.
Shem and Japheth id not see their father uncovered but covered him.
“Blessed be the Lord” associates Shem in relationship with God (Yaweh) personally and recognizes Shem as the Messianic line (Luke 3:36). Shem’s line becomes Israel.
“May God enlarge” associates Japheth in relationship with God (Elohim) as the only creator. Japheth’s line becomes the Gentiles.
All nations need Christ’s work and redemption.