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July 31, 2012—SnyderTalk Editorial: Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah

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Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah

Noah was the only righteous person in his generation, and Yahweh made a covenant with him and his family when He destroyed every living creature on the earth with the flood.  Genesis 6: 8 says, “Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.”[i]  The Hebrew word translated as “favor” in this verse is “chen,” and it actually means “grace,” or the “unmerited favor of a superior person to an inferior one.”[ii]

This is the first verse in the Bible that mentions “grace.”  In the next chapter, you will see that understanding grace is crucial in helping us grasp what Yahweh did for us through the Messiah.  In a nutshell, grace means that our redemption and salvation are not dependent on anything we have done, will do, or even can do.  They are gifts from God that are based on His righteousness, not ours.

Yahweh told Noah to build an ark, which took more than 100 years to complete, and he obeyed God.  This may not sound like a big deal, but it was.  During Noah’s day, there was no rain.  A mist rose from the ground every day and watered the earth,[iii] so flooding was unheard of.

Building a huge boat on dry land made no sense to Noah’s neighbors.  For many decades, he endured their ridicule as he worked diligently to obey Yahweh’s command.  When the rain came, Noah, his family, and the animals Yahweh sent to him entered the ark, and God shut the door behind them.  Literally, He sealed them in the ark and saved them.  Their salvation was entirely dependent on Yahweh’s grace since there was no way Noah could have known what would happen more than 100 years after God told him to build the ark.

After the flood, Yahweh made this promise:

“I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.”[iv]

Then God established a covenant between Himself and everything He created:

“‘Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.  I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.’  God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations.  I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.’”[v]

This is an excerpt from His Name is Yahweh.  It explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s a book that you need to read and share.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.


[i] Genesis 6: 8.

[ii] Ryrie, Charles.  Ryrie Study Bible Expanded Edition, Moody Press, Chicago, 1995, p. 13.

[iii] Genesis 2: 6.

[iv] Genesis 8: 21.

[v] Genesis 9: 9-13.

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Ezekiel 11: 22-25

Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them. The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city and stood over the mountain which is east of the city. And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen left me. Then I told the exiles all the things that Yahweh had shown me.

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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.

  • God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
  • “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
  • “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.  In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)

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Hosea 4: 6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

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