Reminders of the Covenant

I love reading through the Bible each year…I really don’t know how many times I have done it, but each time I learn something or notice something new.  Earlier this week I was reading Genesis 9, the flood is over, the water has receded, and Noah and his family and the animals have left the ark.  God makes a covenant with Noah, but in 9:10 we find, “and with every living creature that is with you and your offspring after you, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every breast of the earth.”  God established a covenant with man and with creation to never again strike down every living creature as he did with the flood.

He gave a rainbow as a sign of the covenant, but what struck me this time was that He also made the covenant with the animals, the birds, the beasts, the livestock…every beast of the earth.  

I was thinking about this covenant with Noah, about the sign of the covenant, and then about the Throne scene in Revelation 4.  There is a Throne in heaven with One seated on the throne and around the throne we find a “rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.”  

There we also see the twenty-four elders, but then we find four living creatures and one like a lion, one was like an ox, one was like a man, and one was like an eagle.  Isn’t it interesting that before the Throne we find reminders of God’s covenant. He made it with man…one was like a man.  He made it with birds…one was like an eagle.  He made it with livestock…one was like an ox.  And He made it with every beast of the earth…one was like a lion.  And there before all of them was a rainbow.

One writer said, “These creatures are represented perpetually before the throne of God, because the Lord is concerned about His creation. They remind us that all creation worships and praises the God who provides for His creatures and rejoices in their worship.”

God made a covenant that He keeps and before Him are reminders of the covenant.  I wonder…would it help us to have reminder of our covenant with God always before us?  
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