Playing Chess With the Devil: Making Sense of the Most Popular Book In the World. Genesis 6-11. The Covenant With Noah and Babel. Lesson 6
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covenants before them. The covenants build on one another. They are not like adding beads to a string. The are like extensions of a telescope. There is ONE, unified covenant of redemption that is revealed in parts over time. It looks like the diagram below. (See diagram at http://public.iwork.com/document/?a=p38279198&d=Lesson_6_-_Genesis_6-11_-_The_Covenant_With_Noah_and_Babel.pages)
You will be able to see that the one Covenant of Redemption, like a single telescope, can be pushed in and pulled out of the last extension, Christ. The entire telescope, you could say is about Christ and can be folded into Christ, which, as has been said, is the whole story of the Bible in one word. This is the Covenant of Redemption that God made with Adam and fulfilled in Christ.
The covenant with Noah was essentially a reiteration of the covenant with Adam. The very same
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