Noah to Babel Flashcards
In this 1st fresh start God establishes a ___________ with Noah. Before it begins they set up some _______ __________
Covenant, basic ground rules
What are the 2 things God sets down as ground rules that he previously set down with Adam and Eve?
1) Be fruitful and multiply
2) Authority over animal kingdom
What are the 2 new ground rules?
1) All things are to be KOSHER (blood properly drained from animals as they are gifts of food from God)
2) Capital Punishment is to be enforced for murder - as it will replace exile/banishment for murder.
Reason for C.P. is that man is the most precious object on earth thus it is appropriate
What are all 4 ground rules?
- be fruitful and multiply
2) Authority over animal kingdom
3) eat KOSHER food
4) Capital Punishment
God establishes the covenant. it is _________ and ________. What do these words mean?
Unilateral - one-sided, God takes responsibility and initiative
Universal - extending to even the animal kingdom
In this new covenant God says _____ will never ______ __ ___ by ___ _____s. The Sign is a ______ (Note all other covenants flow from this one)
He will never again JUDGE the earth by flood waters. The sign is a Rainbow.
Noahs family ______ and ______ over the earth this is the setting for the ____ __________
Noahs family spreads and grows out over the earth. this is the setting for the 2nd genealogy
Noah has 3 sons their names are _____ _____ & _________
Shem, Ham, & Japeth
From his sons the earth was ______ and from them ______ are born
repopulated, nations are born
The geneaology has a two-fold perspective. It is __________ and ____________ which means?
Retrospective - reports how the earth was repopulated
Prospective - points towards the family of Abraham
In Judgement (of what?) God __________ the __________
In judgement of the tower of babel God disperses the nations
Tower of Babel was a two-fold sin: ???
- City Building
2. False Worship
City Building led to the sin of _______ _______. Therefore city dwelling is no longer _____________
Sin of human autonomy
Theocratic (ruled by God)
City building led to Institutionalized _________’s and __________’s. Both of which are __________ that come _______ God and _______
Palace’s and Temple’s. Both of which are authorities that come between God and Man.
Tower of Babel episode takes place in _________ which is modern day ________. All of the cities there are found to have had _______/__________. Tower is a type of __________
Shinar, Iraq
Palaces/Temples
Ziggurat
False worship was symbolized in a phrase “____ reaching to ____” these _______ were viewed as _________ _______ (where idols were fed, clothed and worshipped)
“Tower reaching to heaven” Towers were viewed as artificial mountains.
Judgement for tower of babel is two-fold
1 Confusing Languages (Babel=babbling)
2 scattering nations throughout earth
History of Man is characterized by ___ _______ and spread of ___
the origin and spread of evil
Heedless of the warning brought about by ___ _____ descendants have ____ God and begun ______ _________
the flood
False Worship
As a result God Judged Noah’s descendants by ________ _________ and _________ ____ ________
confusing languages and scattering their population
This interval of Noah to Babel shows the ________ and _____ of God (by the length of genealogy)
Patience and mercy
Out this history of ______ __________ God calls a new family to make a new start
False Worship
