CHRISTIANNOTICE.COM.- As beautiful and unique as a rainbow is, there is a simple and non-miraculous explanation for this phenomenon. Scientists have long known that rainbows appear when raindrops act like “little prisms.”
White light from the sun shines on one side of a water droplet, reflects off the other side of the droplet, and then comes out to the other side of the sky as a circular arc or arc of color that refracts or splits into the spectrum of light. colors.
The rainbow contains 1 million colors that are indistinguishable to the human eye. Instead, we can only really see seven shades of color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
In fact, a rainbow is not much more than a “optical illusion” which only appears when a viewer is looking at it from the correct angle relative to the light source.
Myths about the rainbow
However, the beauty and mystical appearance of the rainbow has made it part of different myths among many cultures around the world. For example, the Norse saw it as the “bridge” of Bifrost for the gods to cross him from earth to his home called Asgard.
Similarly, the ancient Japanese believed that rainbows allowed their deceased ancestors to return to earth, and the Navajo believed it to be the path of holy spirits.
Even today, there is an old Irish legend that it is commonly said (often in jest) that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow guarded by a tricky leprechaun.
Because the devil is the “father of lies” (John 8:4), all rainbow myths are falsehoods that distract us from discovering the true symbolic meaning behind them.
Representation of the LGBT flag
In fact, one of the most far-reaching distractions in our contemporary culture occurred in 1978 when an artist hijacked the rainbow to design a flag to represent the LGBT community and celebrate a lifestyle that is sinful, unnatural, and even destructive.
Then, What is the true meaning of the rainbow? To answer that question, we need to look beyond children’s coloring books and really weird movies to the Bible.
The rainbow first appears in Scripture towards the end of the worldwide flood story in Genesis 6-9. Due to mankind’s continued wickedness and wickedness (Genesis 6:5-12), God decided to make the rain fall for 40 days and nights and flood the entire earth, killing everyone and everything except a man named Noah and his family and a group of animals that were kept safe inside a wooden chest.
After several months of interesting events, God’s judgment was “restrained” and the rain stopped (Genesis 8:2), resulting in a rainbow appearing in the sky.
History
Whether this was the first occurrence of a rainbow in human history (because it hadn’t rained yet as Genesis 2:5 seems to say) or it was simply God reusing the phenomenon that already existed (as Ken Ham explains), the Bible is very clear about what the rainbow symbolizes.
After the flood waters receded and Noah was able to get out of the ark, onto dry land, he built an altar and offered a burnt offering to God. In response, God declared this promise to Noah and his family:
“…and never again will there be a flood that destroys the earth… This is the sign of the pact that I make between you and me. and every living thing that is with you, for all future generations. I put my bow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the pact between me and the earth…. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living thing of all flesh that is on the earth” (Genesis 9:8-16, ESV).
Considering this passage, God gave a special meaning to the rainbow so that every time we see it, we can remember God’s covenant that another flood will never happen again.
As fantastic as it sounds, this global flood event actually happened. And while it’s certainly not a myth or even an allegorical story, there are still lessons to be learned for our lives today. It is intriguing that so many myths explain the rainbow as some kind of supernatural “bridge” (as we noted above), because the most important theme that the rainbow illustrates for us is God’s great purpose of redemption (especially in light of his justice and holy judgment) not only to save Noah and his family, but also to give humanity (another) chance to start anew.
Written by: Nino Ruiz.
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