Genesis 9 Commentary
“Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.” This isn’t the famous Genesis Chapter 1 verse 28, the blessing of the LORD God for Adam. Instead, this is Chapter 9. The audience isn’t Adam but Noah!
Of course, our minds go back to the original blessing of mankind at creation. But we understand. Noah and his three children and their wives are the only survivors. The LORD God restarts life with “8” people; the LORD God repeats the blessing because we have a new page in creation.
The LORD God gives Noah everything! Verse 3.
“The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth….and on every creature that moves on along the ground”. Verse 2. Could this be a direct reference to Dominion? Does “every creature that moves along the ground” include serpents (the serpent)? Remember how the serpent was cursed into a legless life!
How about Luke 10 verse 19? “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.”
To trample is the crush, step on, walk on, stamp on, or tread on – you use your feet! Something is on the ground!
Dominion could be the bigger picture. But the details are quite interesting.
We are yet to encounter Moses and his endless “blood laws”! But here we are with strict instructions concerning blood. In this new phase, let there be no Cain experience. Let there be no bloodshed!
“And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.” Verse 4. Let’s not have ‘Cain answers: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Every human being becomes his brother’s keeper! Cain won’t have it easy!
You don’t have to read about it. You don’t even need to know anything about Noah to sense heavenly peace each time you see a rainbow! And guess what, the rainbow has seven colors! The “sevens”!
We have another garden and another nakedness! Eden’s nakedness was solved, first and poorly by Adam and Eve. But secondly and importantly, by the LORD God who covered them with leather jackets!
Noah’s nakedness is covered by humans!
Ham is Noah’s youngest son. He is the source of trouble. But never mind Ham, Canaan bears the curse. Very strange!
The LORD is silent about Noah’s drunkenness; Noah isn’t. We can learn something about the Christian walk. The existence of nakedness isn’t a problem, not to the saint! It’s the saint’s reaction to nakedness that is a problem.
Ham’s wickedness produces slavery. We shall see more “slavery” resulting from human wickedness.
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