The Covenants Flashcards
What is the Noahic covenant?
The Noahic Covenant is the promise that God made to Noah and his descendants after the flood which destroyed the world. The Noahic Covenant has several distinguishing features. First, it is an unconditional covenant. Second, it was made to Noah and all his descendants as well as “every living creature” and the earth in general. Third, it was sealed with a sign, the rainbow. Animals are now food.
What is the Mosaic covenant?
The Jews agreed to stay true to the one God and in return he promises to protect and watch over them.
What is the Abrahamic covenant?
God promises land: the land of the new people.
God promises a nation of Abrahams descendants.
God promises that all the families of the world will be blessed.
What is the Davidic covenant?
This is an unconditional covenant made between God and David through which God promises David and Israel that the Messiah (Jesus Christ) would come from the lineage of David and the tribe of Judah and would establish a kingdom that would endure forever.
