Genesis 9:17
God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Tag: God is a Covenant God
In the above verse we see the reminder by God about the rainbow. The rainbow was set in the sky to remind man that God keeps His covenant. Here is what we know about the Hebrew word for “covenant:”
berit - “covenant; league; confederacy.” This word is most probably derived from an Akkadian root meaning “to fetter”; it has parallels in Hittite, Egyptian, Assyrian, and Aramaic. Berit is used over 280 times and in all parts of the Old Testament. The first occurrence of the word is in Gen. 6:18: “But with thee [Noah] will I establish my covenant.”
God is a covenant keeping God. Notice what the prophet Micah says about God’s keeping His covenant:
Micah 7:18-20
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
He will again have compassion on us;
he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea.
You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.
We must never forget that God keeps His promises. We have little in our lives to relate to this. No one we know always keeps their promises. Only God can and does keep every promises He makes. We are not used to that. We are humans and we never see this type of thing. This is why when God said He would never, again, destroy man with a flood and puts a “rainbow” in the sky, we need this type of sign. It reminds us that God is a covenant keeping God and we have nothing to fear. God ALWAYS keeps His promises.
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