![]() Again I say, this must not be merely a teaching to us. At the end of the whole Bible is a city whose foundation has the appearance of a rainbow and surrounds the eternal God as His strong testimony. The experience of the Christian life and the experience of the church life will consummate in such a rainbow. By His holiness, His righteousness, and His glory, we will have the appearance of a rainbow declaring to the whole universe God’s saving faithfulness. So even the holy city, New Jerusalem, looks like a rainbow. I read an article which stated that the twelve layers of the foundation stones had the appearance of a rainbow. The foundation stones of the New Jerusalem are of twelve layers, each layer being a different color (Rev. Thus every local church should bear the testimony of such a rainbow.Įven the New Jerusalem has the appearance of a rainbow. All the fallen ones have become a testimony of this. The rainbow is the sign of God’s faithfulness in sparing His fallen ones. All the demons, the angels, and Satan will have to come and see this rainbow. Then we will have the appearance of a rainbow. We all must bear the righteousness, the holiness, and the glory. We should also have the electrum with us, glowing, shining, and weighty. They should be able to sense that we have a clear sky, that we have a throne, and that we are righteous and proper-we are no longer sloppy and loose. We must experience the Lord in such a way that when others contact us, they can sense the righteousness, holiness, and glory. This must not be simply a kind of teaching and doctrine to us. ![]() Do you realize that in God’s eyes we look like righteousness, holiness, and glory? This is because we are in Christ. We bear Christ as our righteousness, our holiness, and our glory. But, today we are in Christ, and He becomes our righteousness, our holiness, and our glory. In ourselves we are short of God’s glory we are under God’s righteous judgment and we are kept away by God’s holiness. But praise the Lord! The Lord Jesus came, died on the cross, was resurrected, and is now our righteousness, our sanctification, and our redemption (1 Cor. These are the three things that keep sinners away from God. Thus we have three things: holiness, glory, and righteousness. Yellow signifies God’s glory in the glowing electrum. Red signifies the sanctifying, separating, and consuming fire and refers to God’s holiness. Thus, the blue throne signifies the righteousness of God. According to Psalm 89:14, righteousness is the foundation of God’s throne. What is the meaning of these three colors? Blue signifies the throne. By their refracting and shining, these three colors combine to make a rainbow. We have seen that the throne looks like a blue sapphire stone, the electrum is yellow, and the fire is red. It is very significant that the three main colors are red, yellow, and blue because they correspond to what we have already seen in Ezekiel. By being mixed together, they give orange, green, and violet. When these three colors are shining and blending they produce other colors. In a rainbow, there are six or seven different colors, but the basic colors are only three: red, yellow, and blue. ![]() We have a rainbow as the sign of His faithfulness.Īlthough God is a holy God and a consuming God and none can exist in His presence, by His faithfulness we are spared. ![]() Praise the Lord! We are spared by His faithfulness. Do you realize that we all have been spared by God? We are all fallen and deserve to be destroyed, but God spared us. In His judgment and destruction of the fallen race, God spared some by His faithfulness. The rainbow was a sign of God’s faithfulness and promise not to destroy the fallen human race. So God made a covenant with them and said that whenever there were clouds in the heavens there would also be a rainbow with them, signifying that there would be no more flood to destroy the earth (Gen. After the flood, all the human beings were afraid of being destroyed by another flood. Only eight people were spared from that judgment. During Noah’s time a flood destroyed the whole earth. In order to understand the significance of the rainbow, we need to remember the rainbow at the time of Noah. This brightness signifies the splendor and glory around the Lord on the throne. A rainbow is the brightness around the man who is sitting on the throne. As a result of having a clear sky with the throne and of experiencing a man who looks like electrum and like a consuming fire, we will have the appearance of a rainbow (1:28).
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