Recapturing the Rainbow
The waters of the flood had finally receded, and just eight people remained alive. As Noah and his family stepped off the ark into this new world, there remained virtually no trace of the old. The old world they had known was now buried deep in the ground. And mercifully so, for mankind had grown so corrupt that “every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen. 6:5). So God put the wicked out of their own misery and began life anew with the family of one righteous man, Noah. In this new world, God made a covenant with Noah and his three sons, and He said, 9 “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, 10 “and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. 11 “Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a...