Restoring the rainbow

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“The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being.
This is and remains my greatest comprehension.”


“All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.”

~Sir Isaac Newton



"And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen."

Sir Issac Newton

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Sir Issac Newton


Revelation 10:1
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
 
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My 9 year old just brought me a picture he just finished working on.
Noah's ark after the flood, with a great big rainbow fills up most of the page :D and guess what?
Even though the water color set doesn't have all the colors (I'm looking at you indigo) it is one of the best artistic rainbows I've ever seen.
Talk about timing ;)
Talk about scanning the pic and sharing with the rest of the class? 😉
 
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Sorry to go off subject for a moment here, but have you ever purchased stuff on Zazzle?
I saw some items come up the other day and was wondering if it's safe/legit to do business with. I don't do much online shopping.
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I'm thinking about doing that. Cafe Press is another site like Zazzle. Big difference between them and Zazzle.

CP charges a monthly fee to have a store on their site and they take a percentage of your items sold. Whereas Zazzle doesn't charge a store fee.
I'm getting these items budget willing.
They have a black membership with perks. Less than $10 a year! Anything ships for free.

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HealthAndHappiness

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#44
My 9 year old just brought me a picture he just finished working on.
Noah's ark after the flood, with a great big rainbow fills up most of the page :D and guess what?
Even though the water color set doesn't have all the colors (I'm looking at you indigo) it is one of the best artistic rainbows I've ever seen.
Talk about timing ;)
Precious!

That's no coincidence. ☕🙂👍
 

birdie

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Unless you've been living under the sand over the past several years.. you would have noticed that the rainbow has become a symbol of something that God did not purpose.

So let's get back to the real meaning of what the rainbow is really about.

Is it about individual rights and freedoms and the spectrum of individual expression?

Or this:

KJV:

Gen_9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Gen_9:15 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.

What did God use to symbolise He would no longer flood the world to destroy all flesh? The rainbow.

This is what it means!

It's nothing at all to do with individual rights and freedoms.. the hippie movement.. flower power.. LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms.

Let's rescue the meaning of the rainbow from this agenda.

Now..

I know the LGBTQ+ rainbow doesn't have 7 colours like God's one. It has 6-- (which is significant in itself)

But that doesn't make it something completely different.. that makes it warped. So come on.. let's restore it's real meaning.

It is best to use the KJV in my opinion:

"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."

Notice that it doesn't say rainbow per se. The bow in the Bible is a picture of Jesus here, in my opinion. We see Jesus depicted with a bow in Rev 6:2, for example. It is my understanding that clouds in the Bible are a picture of judgment. When we read in Genesis that the bow is in the cloud, in my opinion this is speaking about Jesus in the judgment. That would be when Jesus was on the cross. God sees Jesus on the cross and he remembers the covenant for living persons, that is for believers. The waters (a picture of God's word, scripture) will not condemn the true believers by becoming a flood of judgment against them.

It is very much like when a Moses made a pole with a serpent on it:
"And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live." The serpent was a picture of Jesus becoming sin on the cross so that believers could be saved.