Genesis 9:20–27
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of the most misunderstood and tragically abused passages in all of Scripture. The world is new, washed clean by the judgment of God. The rainbow, a sign of God's covenant promise never again to destroy the earth by water, is fresh in the sky. Noah, the one righteous man in his generation, has stepped out onto dry land with his family, the seed of a new humanity. It is a fresh start, a new creation, a picture of baptismal grace. And what is the first thing we see in this new world? We see a family crisis that will set the course for all of subsequent human history. The Bible is not a collection of airbrushed portraits of saints. It shows us our heroes with their warts and their stumbles. The flood washed away the wicked, but it did not wash away the sin nature that clings to every son of Adam, Noah included.