Rainbow: Light Broken for Us

The Rainbow is a Reminder
of No Condemnation

"I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth." (Genesis 9: 13)

A token in the Old Testament points to the Finished Work of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The rainbow makes two other significant appearances, both in connection with Jesus seated on His throne:

"As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake."" (Ezekiel 1: 28)

and

"And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." (Revelation 4: 3)

What does the rainbow have to do with Christ and Him Crucified?

Jesus is the light of the world (John 8: 12)

A rainbow is light that is refracted, or broken. Jesus, the Light of the World, was broken for us, that in His light we receive full and forever pardon for all our sins. Just as the rainbow appears after the rain, in the case of the Old Testament, the rain which wiped out the mighty half-men, half-fallen angels which walked the earth, so God has wiped away the mixture of trying to receive God's grace, or trusting in ourselves somewhat yet at the same time trusting in God for other things.

Jesus has been broken for us, so that we might be made fully righteous (2 Corinthians5: 21) and complete in Him (Colossians 2: 10).