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And God said, “this is the
token of the covenant which I make between me and you and
every living creature that is with you, for perpetual
generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be
for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it
shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,
that the bow shall be seen in the cloud; (Gen 9:12-13-14
KJV)
As
usual I thought I was going in one direction and the Lord
took me another. I had been thinking about the word bow in
its verb tense, as in every knee shall “bow”. I decided to
do a word study in my computer bible program… you guessed
it, I found bow (the noun) and. bow (the verb) in the same
search.
I saw
that the KJV says “bow” not rainbow …The word there is
translated “of bending; a bow, for shooting (strength) an
arrow. I began to see a bow stretched forth in the
heavenlies … shooting arrows to the earth. I began to
think of Isa 49:2 KJV)
…
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the
shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a
polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me.
I could sense a parallel between the arrow and the sword
…the bow represents His mouth …when He spoke the word it
came forth as arrows which splashed the sky with color as
they went forth …and so the covenant promises were
established. The first covenant promise was that He would
never again destroy the earth with water. That sign was
manifest in the clouds… the sign of the eternal covenant
…Jesus was manifest in the earth.
In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with
God, All things were made by him; and without him was
not any thing made that was made. . (John 1:1-3 KJV)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we
beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 KJV)
Ironically,
the word in Hebrew for children, sons and daughters is
arrow …especially “ben, bane” is son (as a builder of the
family name). Jesus was the firstborn of many brethren.
God,
the father stretched forth His bow and released the Word
(His Son) and established an everlasting covenant with His
people. By and through Jesus… the firstborn, all things
were created including the rainbow.
From
now on when I see the rainbow, I will always see the Hand
drawing back the bow sending arrows to the earth.
So
shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall
not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that
which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I
sent it. (Isa 55:11 NRSV)
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