Wisdom Wednesday

"When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth." ~Genesis 9:16

Driving home from work yesterday, I got to see this beautiful rainbow. You can't see it as well in this picture, but it was actually a double rainbow. I love seeing rainbows. They always get my attention and remind me that God is always present in our lives and He displays his presence in the sky. So I thought I would share this glorious token that testifies to God's everlasting promise with us. When I look at a rainbow I see God's mercy and grace that was extended to mankind and was ultimately fulfilled through His Son, Jesus Christ. It always amazes me when studying the Old Testament, that everything ultimately points to Jesus and the rainbow is one of those things. The rainbow is also mentioned in Revelation, which I find very interesting.


" And He who was sitting was like a Jasper stone and a sardius in appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne like an emerald in appearance." ~Revelation 4:3

This book of Revelation shows that God will judge the earth with all its inhabitants. The rainbow around His throne signifies that God is a covenanting God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant while executing His judgement upon the Earth. He will not judge mankind again with a flood nor destroy all mankind but will keep a part of mankind to be the nations on the new earth for His glory.

There is another interesting verse that has its reference to the rainbow.
" And I saw another strong Angel coming down out of heaven clothed with a cloud and the rainbow was upon His head and His face was like the sun and His feet like pillars of Fire." ~Rev. 10:1

The rainbow here indicates that Christ in His judgement upon the earth will keep the covenant that God made with Noah concerning the Earth. It also indicates that Christ will execute judgement according to the God who sits on the throne with the rainbow around it. This God is a faithful and a covenant keeping God.

So the rainbow is truly a promise. Not just as it relates to the earth but also as it relates to HOW God executes and carries out His judgement.

I found this picture that shows what the colors that make up the rainbow represent most often in the Bible. Thought it was pretty interesting.

Image from here

Anyways, I know that I deviated from Proverbs this week and all that, but after seeing the rainbow, I wanted to learn a little bit more about it. Plus, I was fresh out of offering up any wisdom today!