The Rainbow

Dear Friends and Neighbors: 

            I believe the Lord gives us many indications of His love and of His return.  He gives signs in the heavens, signals upon the earth, and symbols in everything!  I hope you read Sister Taylor’s piece on The Rainbow, attached.  When He returns again, there is to be a great sign in heaven!  Do you know what it is?  I think I do! 

 

See You Soon! 

George & Debra

Terry and Debbie

The Rainbow

 

Since I grew up and lived in the western United States desert areas, I have been concerned about having enough water rather than having too much water.  In the Philippines we have the opposite fears. Whenever anyone feels just one drop of rain they cover their head and run for cover. I thought that this was silly, until I saw 17 inches of rain beat down in 24 hours from the tropical hurricane. 

We see the Sunrise every morning looking out our window over the Temple and the green hills.  I began searching for a “Rain Bow” to set my mind at ease.  The rainbow came!.  I looked to the east and there it was—beautiful and breath-taking— between the Manila Temple and the eastern mountains of Antipolo.  What a relief and inspiration it was to see that spectrum of light and color brightening the eastern horizon—the “mountain of the Lord’s House” and the lush-green Antipolo mountains! 

As I looked at the multi-colored rainbow wondering where it started and where it ended, I thought, of course, of Noah and his family.  I wondered how many of his family members had been left behind.  He was 600 hundred years old when the “…fountains of the deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened” (Genesis 7: 11).  

Noah had probably been building the ark for 100 years; the people—his friends, neighbors, perhaps even members of his family, didn’t believe his warning voice; they scoffed, belittled, mocked and ridiculed his industry.

It wasn’t only 40 days and nights of rain that kept Noah and his family confined in the ark; it was another 10 months before the water receded and before they could leave the ark and plant their feet upon dry earth.  How dark was it during this time?

After exiting the ark and walking on dried ground, Noah built an altar unto the Lord.  The Lord established His covenant to never destroy the earth by another great flood. As a token of His covenant, “I do set my bow in the cloud” (Genesis 8:11). “A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon caused by reflection of light in water droplets, resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of the sky directly opposite the sun.” (Wikipedia.org). Can my life be brightened and colored by facing the light directly from the Son of God!

The next time you see the sky’s rainbow, remember Noah, his family, his covenants, his obedience, and the promised token of the Lord’s covenant with each of us.