God made great promises to Noah after He destroyed the earth with the flood. For one, God said He would never destroy life again, by water. But as some know, God will destroy life again by fire. Jesus said, “I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!” Luke 12:49-50 God also promised Noah that he and his sons, (and their wives who were considered to be one with them), that they would be fruitful and multiply and fill the whole earth. God also said the animals would walk in fear and dread, because man would now see them as food. “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.” Genesis 9:3 But there is one thing man could not do - God said, “You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.” God created man in his image, male and female he created them, and life was in the blood. This reminds me of the Passover Lamb as told in Exodus 12. “Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire - its head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.” Exodus 12:9-11 The Lord also said, “And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.” Genesis 9:4-5 According to the covenant, God gave to Noah, Man was not to kill another man- under no circumstances, not even himself. For a man is held accountable for taking his, or another man’s life. And if a man killed an animal, he would also be held accountable for it. Everything with life will give an account. Now notice, this passage is not about capital punishment - at least not the way that our society defines it. There is no where in the Noah covenant, that says that a person can serve as a judge and jury to determine if life or death is worthy of a person. No - that is not what this says at all! We have twisted the meaning of social justice - We believe a person not only gets to judge what is right and just, but we gets to choose whether a person gets to live or die. You see, in the promise to Noah, God gave men tons of power and the ability to rule and reign all over the earth (which by the way is the same power given to Satan). He even allowed men to see all animals as sources of food. He said the animals would now fear men, and that men would have to give an account for them. He promised Noah and his sons, they would be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. From a remnant of eight, four pairs of men and women, God would repopulate the earth with human life. But there was still one thing God wanted humans to know - God is sovereign and ruler of all, and man will be held accountable to God alone!
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