In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),
- The flood story reveals God’s righteousness and wrath. He acts to make Himself known. God desires that His image-bearers understand His character, their need for redemption and His faithfulness to both forgive those who walk by faith and punish all wickedness.
- God defines for Noah all that He is doing. He is destroying every living thing that breathes, but at the same time, He is promising to confirm His covenant with Noah, his sons, and every surviving being. God will give mankind another promise and picture. In the Garden, God promised redemption. In the flood, God points to the reality of a future sweeping and final judgment. The sign of the covenant—the rainbow—will remind all people of God’s act of righteousness and wrath. It will also demonstrate to all people that God is actively withholding this kind of sweeping judgment until some day in the future.
- The rainbow puts all people on notice. The reality of future judgment is sure, but so is the reality of future redemption. God will one day remove all wickedness from the earth, and He will save a people of faith.
- God is administering the eras to bring about the redemption He designed and planned before the foundations of the earth. As God tells His story to the newly liberated Hebrews in the wilderness, He wants them to think rightly about Him, themselves, and the people who currently live in the land He promised them—the Canaanites.
Let’s dive into today’s reading!
