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Colours in the Bible .....and their meaning... Colours of The Rainbow |
When God appeared unto Noah after the flood, and placed a rainbow in the sky; he did much more than show him a phenomenon. In the seven colours of the rainbow, beginning with red and ending with purple, God was displaying a natural miracle that demonstrated the complete redemption and salvation of man. First let us look at colour in the natural world. In the world of art, we have three primaries; red, yellow and blue. These cannot be formulated by mixing. They come from the earth; but with these three colours, and the addition of black and white, any shade of the spectrum can be obtained. In this fact alone lies a thought provoking, scriptural principle! White is the colour that is comprised of all the colours of the spectrum. Refraction of white light produces the rainbow colours which consist of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo (purple), violet. Other colours consist of the infrared and Ultraviolet spectrum Infrared and Ultraviolet represent that which is unseen. The rainbow
represents the promises of God and was a sign of the covenant that God would never again flood the earth with
water: "I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of
the covenant between Me and the earth... .. the waters shall never again
become a flood to destroy all flesh." Gen 9:13,15 |
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