Rainbows

What are Rainbows? Wikipedia explains it here, as "an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere."

That would be the textbook definition of a rainbow. But what really is a rainbow? What does it mean?

There are songs about rainbows like, "Over the Rainbow", "Rainbow Connection", "Catch the Rainbow", and "Rainbow Eyes", just to name a few.

There are myths about rainbows like, the Pot of Gold, the Other Side as in another dimension, the Pathway to Heaven, and many more.

Today the rainbow is the symbol of diversity, and the flag of the LGBT. (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender)

I don't know about you, but every time I see a rainbow, I think about God. I think about the flood that destroyed the earth. I think about the Ark, Noah and his family, and all the animals that were spared. I remember what the Bible says about why the flood occurred, and that the rainbow is the symbol of the covenant God made to never destroy the earth with a flood again. I also think about what the earth looks like now and imagine that it is as bad or maybe even worse than it was in the days of Noah. I think about the second coming of Christ, and anxiously await His return.

I am in awe every time I see a rainbow. The beauty and the details that have to be in place for it to exist. Only God can make that happen. This also makes me think about Creation. There are so many things that prove Creation, yet some refuse to admit it. That is another post entirely though.

Genesis 9:8-17
⁸ Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: ⁹ “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth. ¹¹ Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
¹² And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: ¹³ I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴ It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; ¹⁵ and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”