Genesis 9:8-11 - The Recipients of God’s Covenant with Noah (Part 2) - Who else was there?
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
As described in Genesis 9:8-11 - The Recipients of God’s Covenant with Noah, the recipients of God’s promise to never wipe out all people from a land are Noah and his descendants. This was not the first time God excluded most of the world from a covenant (Adamic covenant was only with Adam and his descendants, not the rest of the world). It would not be the last (The Mosaic covenant would only be with the descendants of Isaac). That said, God reserves the right to graft non-recipients into a covenant, hence making them recipients if He so chooses. Consider this passage from Romans 11…
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