Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today in Genesis 8 through 11 we read about the aftermath of the great flood and

everything on earth has been destroyed except for eight people on the arc

Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their three wives, plus the animals.

Post-flood, we see God establishing this covenant with Noah that he had promised to establish

pre-flood, and we see God engaging with covenant with

he had promised to establish pre-flood and we see God engaging with this family of people

and promising to be faithful to them despite how every other aspect of

their world has shifted dramatically. Everyone they know is dead, the world is muddy and

gross and they're living in a new location, everything has changed. Even their

lifespan will change. We read about this yesterday in Genesis 6. 3. God gave them a little

heads up not to expect those crazy long lifespans anymore. The environment had

changed dramatically and they're a couple millennia removed from the genetic perfection of

Adam and Eve, so it makes sense that they would drop to 120 years at this point.

Despite all these changes, God makes some promises to them of something that will not change.

He enters into this covenant with them promising that he will never again destroy the earth with a flood.

Later in scripture, 2nd Peter 3,

we find out that he will someday destroy the Earth with a fire,

but not with a flood.

And in the same way that the Earth existed

after it was destroyed by water, because we're standing on it right now,

it will still exist after it's destroyed with fire.

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