Today's Scripture
Insight
The Noahic covenant is one of the earliest recorded covenants in the Scriptures. The rainbow is the sign of God’s promise never again to destroy the earth with a flood (Genesis 9:8–17). God made a covenant with Abraham when he called him to the land of Canaan and promised to make him a great nation, give him the land, and bless all nations through him (Jeremiah 12:1–3; Jeremiah 15:5–16; Jeremiah 17:6–8). God sealed the Abrahamic covenant with the sign of circumcision (Jeremiah 17:10–11). In the Davidic covenant, God promised David, Abraham’s descendant, that each king who sits on the throne of Israel would be his direct descendant (2 Samuel 7:8–16; 1 Chronicles 17:11–14). The sign is the promised Son of David (Matthew 1:1; Acts 13:23). The writer of Hebrews quotes Jeremiah 31:31–34 and declares that Christ, the promised Son of David, is now the “mediator of a new covenant” (Hebrews 8:6–13; Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 12:24).
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