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.

Everything on Earth has been destroyed except for what's on the ark.

These 8 people, Noah, his wife, their three sons and their three wives, plus the animals.

Post Flood, we see God establishing the covenant with Noah that he promised pre-flood.

God is 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 heads up not to expect those crazy long lifespans anymore.

The environment has changed dramatically and there are a couple millennia removed from the genetic perfection of Adam and Eve.

So it makes sense that they would drop to 120 issues at this point.

Although to be fair, some scholars say God's mention of 120 years,

referred to the distance of time between God telling Noah the Flood would happen and the flood actually happening.

Despite all the changes they've been through, God makes some promises to them of something that will not change.

He enters into this covenant with them, promising he will never again destroy the Earth with the flood.

Later in Scripture, in 2 Peter 3, we find out that he will someday destroy the Earth with a fire but not 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 also still exist after it's destroyed with fire.

In fact, in the eternal kingdom, all of those who have been adopted into God's family will reign with Christ on the recreated Earth.

We see this in Revelation 5.

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