"The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, for the Lord has spoken this Word.
The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away; the haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left." ~ Isaiah 24:3-6
So I wondered what "the everlasting covenant" is.
I found the answer in Genesis 9:
"And God said: 'This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember THE EVERLASTING COVENANT between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.'
And God said to Noah, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.' " ~ Genesis 9:12-17
The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away; the haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left." ~ Isaiah 24:3-6
So I wondered what "the everlasting covenant" is.
I found the answer in Genesis 9:
"And God said: 'This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember THE EVERLASTING COVENANT between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.'
And God said to Noah, 'This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.' " ~ Genesis 9:12-17
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