What is the meaning of the rainbow, the token of the covenant?
• WHO MADE THIS COVENANT? The source of this covenant was God alone. This was a covenant which God made with Noah, not a covenant that Noah made with God (Read vv. 11, 12, and 15). This was Gods covenant with Noah. Man had no part in making it, or in keeping it. And man could not break it. So it is with that everlasting covenant of grace that God has made for us. • It is a covenant of pure grace (Rom. 9:11-18). • It is a covenant of unconditional, unqualified promise – “I will” – “You shall” (Gal. 4:22-31). You and I do not stand before God under a covenant that demands anything of us. We live under a covenant of promise. Its favors are unconditional. Its mercies are unlimited. All its blessings are made sure to all the seed by the oath and promise of God. • It is a covenant that has been faithfully kept to this day (8:22). • Nothing in the covenant depends, in any degree, upon man – God says, “I will remember my covenant” – “When I see the blood!” Spurgeon said, “My looking to Jesus b
