Noah built an altar and offered burnt offerings (typifying Christ) to God to please Him (vv. 20-21) so that the earth with its systems of nature could be preserved. The perpetual regularity of the different cycles in nature without end is God’s guarantee that the order of the universe will be maintained for the preservation of the earth and the growth of all kinds of living things, that man may multiply endlessly and replenish the earth to fulfill God’s eternal purpose (Gen. 1:26-28).
