Traditionally, I have always thought of the covenant between God and Abram as the first covenant, but when Noah and his family disembarked after a year, God made a covenant with Noah. This covenant recognized the fallen nature of man... "everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood," yet God will have mercy... "As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."
The evil in man continues unabated, yet God continues to be merciful. Doomsday naysayers have continued to depict nuclear holocausts, alien invasion or environmental climate changes that will make the earth barren, yet they dismiss this covenant that God made that declares "As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night." Yes we are capable of great evil and destruction, but we do not have the power to undo what God has done.
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