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In summary, the world established under the Noahic cove-
nant had the following aspects:

Names:
God: God Most High, Possessor of heaven
and earth
People: God-fearers (Acts 10:2, 22, 35; 13:16,
26)

Grant: The whole earth
Promise: No future Flood

Stipulations:
Sacramental: No drinking of blood
Societal: No murder
Poli@: Priest-kings with the right to put
murderers to death, ruling separate
nations

Symbol: ‘the seventy nations of the world”

History and Decline
Adam rebelled and was cast from the Garden. Ham rebelled
and was cursed from Noah’s vineyard. After Adam’s sin, Cain
became a murderer and went out and built a city. After Ham’s
sin, the Hamite Nimrod became a “mighty hunter” (of men, by
implication), and built a city: the Tower of Babel (Genesis
10:8-12; 11:1-9). God had put away His warbow, but man had
not. The city of the Prince of Peace is made of rainbow jewels.
The city of this prince of hunters was made of mud bricks.
God had promised, however, to cut off man’s sin in its youth.
Ham, Noah’synmgest son (Genesis 9:24), had been prevented from
seizing forbidden fruit. Now Nimrod, the new Cain, would be
prevented from attaining the heights of power and the depths of
depravity of Cain and Lamech of old. His city was cut down.
Nimrod was attempting at the Tower of Babel to re-create
the pre-Flood world. His goal was a one-state world, with his
might y men, his neo-nephilim, in charge. By scattering the peo-
ple from Babel, God created the seventy nations of the world,