Genesis Lesson 28: A New World Order

The world Noah and his family saw on their disembARKment was drastically different from the world they knew before the Flood. The world, as Noah had known it, had "perished" (II Peter 3:6). It was God's grace that provided the human race a new opportunity for a new beginning in an essentially new world. In this lesson on Genesis 8:20-9:7, we will look at a significant altar Noah built to rightly worship God through an extremely generous burnt offering! We also discuss three promises made by God to Noah and four new conditions presented to Noah for "the new world order" of the post-Flood world. Those conditions had to do with (1) protection regarding animals, (2) permission regarding meat, (3) prohibition regarding blood, and (4) punishment regarding murder (capital punishment).