Genesis 6 to 9:GEN 6GEN 7GEN 8GEN 9

Though the Lord is thus removing the scene of His counsels and the hopes of His elect from earth to heaven, yet the earth is not given up. It is, we know, destined to rejoice, by-and-by, in the liberty of the glory, or as I have already quoted, in "the dispensation of the fullness of times." Eph. 1:9, 10. Accordingly, this purpose the Lord will rehearse and illustrate at times, as He does now, in due season in the history of Noah.
The heavenly family, as we have just seen, only died both to and in the earth. They could speak, it is true, both of its coming judgment and blessing. Enoch foretold of the one, and Lamech of the other (Jude 14; en. 5:29). Neither of them was in the scenes they thus talked about, but Noah who comes after them is a man of the earth again. In his day the earth reappears as the scene of divine care and delight. God has communion with man upon it again. It has passed through the judgment of the water, and God makes a covenant with it. He has the prophet, priest and king upon it providing for its continuance and godly government. Noah's connection with it was quite unlike that of either Cain or Seth. He did not, like the former, fill it and enjoy it in defiance of God; nor did he, like the latter, take merely a burying-place in it. He enjoyed the whole of it under the Lord. The Lord sanctioned his inheritance of it, his dominion over it, and his delight in it.