RAINBOW OF GOD:  Do You Respect It?

© 2020 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

“And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:  I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.  And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:  And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.”  (Genesis 9:12-15)

Because of man’s wickedness, God had sent a great flood.  Only those in the ark survived.  All other people and animals, “in whose nostrils was the breath of life,” died. (Genesis 7:22).  There is much archeological evidence of this flood available to people with an open mind.  God’s people recognize the rainbow as a special promise to the descendents of Noah (you and me).  It signifies that God will never again destroy the inhabitants of the earth by a worldwide flood.

However, the rainbow is not just a promise.  It stands as a reminder to all mankind that God will judge sin.  God will even judge the mockery of those using the rainbow as a symbol for wickedness He condemns.  The rainbow is a historical monument to a past worldwide judgment.  It is also a reminder of a final judgment yet to come.  And yet God predicted that these mockers will make themselves known in the final days before that great judgment arrives.

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:3-8)

God does not work according to man’s timetable but His judgment is certain.  Where do you stand?

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