Genesis 6:22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.            What exactly did Noah do that God commanded? Plenty. In a world full of wickedness, Noah preached righteousness (2 Pet. 2:5). That in itself is something, especially in light of the fact that after 120 years of preaching repentance, apparently no one believed. For when Noah entered the ark, it was the sa...

Genesis 6:9 Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.            Throughout the Bible, when Noah is mentioned, he is remembered as righteous—one who believed God and lived to serve Him. Around 2000 years after Noah lived, God appointed Ezekiel as one of His spokesmen, ministering to Israel while they were in Babylonian captivity outside of Israel. On one particular occ...

Genesis 6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh (Legacy Standard Bible).The man Noah was a righteous man, born 1056 years after his ancestor Adam who was born on the sixth day of God’s creation (1:26-31). People clearly lived much longer on the pre-Flood earth than they do today, perhaps because the environment allowed for such. Noah himself lived for 950 years (9:29), a typical lifespan in...

Genesis 6:5-6 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.            Though God once “saw” His perfect creation and called it “very good” (1:31), now He is grieved by what He “saw,” for though man was once si...

Hebrews 8:10-13 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, and everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know Me, from the least to the great...

Hebrews 8:8-9 For finding fault with them, He says, “Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not care for them,” says the Lor...

Jeremiah 31:31 “The time is coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.” (Part 2)The first provision of God’s promise to Abraham was the land of Canaan. The second part of God’s promise to Abraham was the special “seed” that would come from him and form a great nation. Abraham had children, but only one, Isaac, was the child of...

Jeremiah 31:31 “The time is coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.” (Part 1).In the Old Testament (OT) there are a number of covenants God made with people. The essential one that He made with Israel was the Abrahamic covenant (Gen. 12, 13, 15, 17, 22)—a divine promise that is being fulfilled in the Mosaic (Exod. 19; Deut....

Hebrews 8:4-7 Now if [Jesus] were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law; 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “See,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.” 6 But now [Jesus] ha...

Hebrews 8:1-3 The main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that he too have something to offer.Hebrews...

Hebrews 7:26-28 For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. 28 For the Law appoints men as high priests who ar...

Hebrews 7:25 Therefore [Jesus] is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. One vital lesson from this section is a phrase from Hebrews 7:19 which concerns drawing near to God. Since God is holy, and man is sinful, it is impossible for man to draw near to God unless God grants some avenue through which to approach Him. Th...

Hebrews 7:20-25 And inasmuch as it was not without an oath 21 (for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, “The Lord has sworn And will not change His mind, ‘You are a priest forever’ ”); 22 so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. 23 The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because th...

Hebrews 7:15-19 And this is clearer still, if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, 16 who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is attested, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” 18 For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because o...

Hebrews 7:11-14 Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also. 13 For the one concerning whom th...