What Does The Rainbow Symbolize?

“The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time” (Genesis 6:5).  “So the Lord said, ’I will wipe mankind whom I have created, from the face of the earth’” (Gen. 6:7).  “Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth.  Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.  The waters flooded the earth” (Gen. 7:23-24).  Then God said, “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind.  Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life” (Gen. 9:13-15).

In the year 2015, evil inclinations in men’s hearts prompted the legalization of homosexual marriages in the United States of America.  Liberals and homosexuals have usurped the rainbow as their symbol of the sanctioning of sexual perversion.  The presidential White House even used colored lights to flood the building in the various colors of a rainbow.  These evil people won a political battle, but God has not changed his mind or the meaning of the rainbow.  God is still the Supreme Judge, marriage is still a covenant relationship between one man and one woman, homosexuality is still a sin and the rainbow is still God’s sign on the earth.

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Rick Cunningham