A sign of a promise...

"I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign for the covenant between Me and the earth."--Genesis 9:13.  The flood has ended.  It is now time for Noah and his family to exit the ark.  God promises never to destroy the earth in the way He did with a flood.  God would place His bow, the rainbow in the sky as a sign, a sign of a promise. 

A sign of a promise.  God uses the rainbow to remind Noah of His covenant with the earth. God also says in Genesis 9:14-15 that by the bow God will also remember the promise. 

A sign of a promise.  We can't ignore the fact that those of the homosexual community have taken the rainbow, something of God and used it for their own sinful purposes. **That is another discussion for another time**.  It breaks my heart that not only the rainbow but almost everything else God has created has been twisted and destroyed for the purposes of sin. The rainbow was never supposed to be the sign of sin but the sign of a promise. 

A sign of a promise.  We know floods and other natural disasters involving water still occur today. But those are local floods, not global floods.  The promise was that God would never bring a global flood.  Quite honestly, this is why the premise of last year's movie 2012, while not a bad movie, it was unrealistic.  I don't know how the world is going to end but based on what we read in Genesis, I can pretty much guarantee that it is not going to be a global flood like it was in the movie.  How do we know this? Again, we have the rainbow, a sign of a promise. 

A sign of a promise.  Rainbows don't always appear after every rainfall but they are a beautiful sight when they do.  Next time you see a rainbow, don't think of what the world has taken the rainbow and used it for.  Think of it as one of God's many natural wonders.  God has given us such a beautiful world. It's not perfect but God's glory is still seen in nature. When you see the rainbow, be reminded that God has promised never to destroy the world the way He did in Noah's day. The rainbow is a sign of a promise, God's promise.

If you are interested in how God does this, click here for some info on how a rainbow is formed.

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