NIV Rainbow Study Bible: Jacketed Hardcover

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Because so much of our plant life is green, this color is often linked to nature and living naturally. The rainbow was a sign from God to Noah that He promised never to destroy the earth by flood for the judgment of sin. Similarly, ancient Japanese believed that rainbows allowed their deceased ancestors to come back to earth, and the Navajo believed that it was the path for holy spirits. The contrary opinion has been maintained that it now for the first time appeared (Bush, Keil, Delitzsch), or at least that the historian thought so (Knobel); but unless there had been no rain, or the laws of light and the atmospheric conditions of the earth had been different from what they are at present, it must have been a frequent spectacle in the primeval heavens.

As a matter of fact, one of the farthest-reaching (yet subtle) distractions in our contemporary culture happened in 1978 when an artist hijackedthe rainbow to design a flag to represent the LGBT community and celebrate a lifestyle that is sinful, unnatural, and even destructive. God extended the provisions of his covenant with His chosen people—bodies of water parted to let them proceed safely on their journey. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. She has spoken in churches in California, Oregon, Texas, and Mexico and has been featured in Guidepost Magazine and All Recipes Magazine.if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.

The bow in the hands of man was an instrument of battle ( Genesis 48:22; Psalm 7:12; Proverbs 6:2; Zechariah 9:10); but the bow bent by the hand of God has become a symbol of peace" (Wordsworth).Interestingly, the human eye is capable of distinguishing more variations of the color green than any color in the rainbow. By the Chinese it is regarded as the harbinger of troubles and misfortunes on earth, and by the old Scandinavians as a bridge uniting earth and heaven ('Kalisch on Genesis,' pp. Then I looked, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of a man; from His loins and downward there was the appearance of fire, and from His loins and upward the appearance of brightness, like the appearance of glowing metal. After the Flood, God made an everlasting covenant with Noah, his family, their descendants, and all the living creatures.

God makes seven or eight covenants with His children in the Bible, from the time of the Garden of Eden to Christ’s resurrection, the “new covenant” ( Hebrews 12:24). In Genesis, it is described as a sign of God’s Mercy as well as the pact/covenant He made with Noah that such a flood would not be sent again.The most important reference to the rainbow in the Bible occurs in Genesis 9:13-17, where the rainbow serves as a sign of God’s covenant with Noah.