6:18,19
“But I will establish ..” This is the first mention of the word covenant. It is notable that the covenant is established by God. Our salvation is dependent upon the covenant established by God. Noah and his family were to enter the ark. Note that Noah had one wife. Noah was also to bring two of all living creatures into the ark, to keep them alive. So we see that judgement is absolutely real, but God also plans salvation. There are also questions about the absolute “ literal truth”, i.e. does the text mean that two of absolutely all living creatures were brought into the ark? I suspect not. This would be rather difficult, probably impossible. I think what we have here is a playing out of judgement and salvation. That is not to make it any less real. Many people and creatures died in the flood, Noah and his family and many animals survived because of the ark.
6:20-22
The animals and birds would come to Noah in order to be kept alive. Mankind is different from all other creatures. Nature is dependent upon man for its proper functioning. Some secular ideologies put us under nature, the Bible put nature under us. We are to look after nature well, so there are many good aspects about environmentalism, but there are also wrong aspects when it gets the man-nature order wrong.
Noah was also to take food onboard, and he” did everything just as God commanded him”.
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