Tuesday, January 30, 2007

The Flood And The Cross Pt. 2

It was a promise God made on His own ability to keep a promise. It was not based on man’s ability to get the promise to work as we know what would have happened then. It would of course have been broken. God made a promise after He destroyed the world with water that He would never do that again. He now compares the flood to the cross and He makes that same promise. He was saying we would never see His punishment coming to the earth ever again as He had punished all sin on the cross. Same promise in the latter part of verse 9 where it says “so have I sworn that I will not be angry with thee nor rebuke thee any longer. There was a promise that came out of the flood and then there was a promise that came out of the cross.


 

We all know and believe the flood promise but when it comes to the cross promise we tend to turn away from it and not believe that part of it. More people know about the promise of the flood then they know about the promise of the cross and God made the same promise in both of those as He compares one to the other. The Christian community has problems believing the promise that came out of the cross. The promise of the cross was that He would never be angry or rebuke you again.

 

In verse 10 he continues on to say what the impact this would have on the entire earth. He is saying here that catastrophic events may happen even to mountains be removed and hills taken away but it will not be His anger that will be doing it. It will just be things that happen. I know each time something happens that everyone gets on the bandwagon and says it is the judgment of God upon sin. I think to say that is a great insult to the blood and the cross of Jesus Christ. All it does is spread fear amongst people and it is just not scriptural that that it is God sending down His judgment. It is saying God didn’t keep His promise as we have seen He promised that it would not happen again.

 

When we continue on to the latter part of the verse we see that His kindness will not depart nor the covenant of His peace be taken away, regardless of what happens. That covenant of peace is with the whole world because we have seen that He compared the flood to the cross and we know the flood was for the whole world. His covenant of peace will never be removed. He is saying He was making a covenant of peace at the cross and we would never see His anger again.

 

 He has declared peace through the blood of His Son. It is not because we have done good enough that we have His peace. It is because He promised that as He would never destroy the earth again by water, so He would never take away His peace from the earth again because sin has been judged. We only have peace with God because of His blood and not because of anything else. Is the flood over with? So is the cross and its work.

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