New Instructions And Arrangements part 1

Our scripture will be coming from:

Genesis 9:1-6 KJV
[1] And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
[2] And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
[3] Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
[4] But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
[5] And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
[6] Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Now it is time for our verse break down:

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

God had made the man and the woman on the sixth day of creation, instructing them to, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, found in Genesis 1: 28. Now, after the judgment carried out through the great flood, God begins what we might call a “re-creation” with Noah and his sons.

Eight people are to fulfill the mandate given to Adam and Eve, found in Genesis 7:13, and 1 Peter 3:20.

The word replenish is meaningful here because we know that there was a civilization before the Flood, and now there is to be a civilization after the Flood.

(When Adam was told to replenish the earth, we assume that there had been living creatures—I don’t know what to call them—before Adam.
They apparently were living creatures of God’s creation; anything I could say beyond that would be pure speculation.)

Notice that the first thing God tells Noah to do is to “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” There is to be the propagation of the race. Remember that God gave this command under special circumstances.

Today we are in a time of population explosion, and there is overpopulation that is quite dangerous.

However, Noah stood in a unique position. He and his family were the only folk around.

Can you imagine driving down the freeway, going to work in the morning, and there are cars in front of you, cars to the right of you, cars to the left of you, cars behind you, cars honking—you’re in a traffic snarl?

Then about a year later you go out on the freeway and there is not another car there.
Yours is the only one. You might as well take down all the traffic lights. You won’t need them because you are the only one driving through.

This would be quite an unusual experience for us, would it not?

Well, this was the experience of Noah in his day.

Genesis 9:2
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

And the fear of you and the dread of you
The second part re-establishes man‘s dominion over the inferior animals. It was now founded not as at first in love and kindness, but in terror; this dread of man prevails among all the stronger as well as the weaker members of the animal tribes and keeps away from his haunts all but those employed in his service.

Another part of the covenant is man’s protection and rulership over the animal world.
I take it that before this time the relationship was different. Apparently man had not been a meat eater before. All the animals were tame, and one is not inclined to eat an animal that is a pet.

Remember that the animals came to Noah when the Flood was