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The Bow In the Sky As a Picture of God's Grace

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« on: February 08, 2012, 08:47:06 am »

The Bow In the Sky As a Picture of God's Grace

When God promised mercy to Noah, He gave a bow in the sky as a symbol of His covenant of grace. Notice, I said 'bow.' We commonly speak of the covenant symbol as a rainbow, but the actual symbol of God's grace is a brightly colored bow--a weapon of vengeance. Noah's culture had just endured the righteous display of God's wrath in a flood. To illustrate that His Divine wrath was assuaged, God gave to Noah and his family a bow in the sky. There are three things true of this bow:
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(1). The bow is pointed away from the earth, away from mankind.
(2). The bow has no string and thus cannot shoot any arrow of vengeance.
(3). The bow is unbent and as such serves as a true symbol of peace with God.

God gave the bow to Noah after the 'burnt offering' had been sacrificed on the altar, an act that gave the Lord 'a soothing aroma' (Genesis 8:20-21). Burnt offerings in the Old Covenant Scriptures prefigure the Messiah, the Lamb of God who would come to bear the wrath of God for His people and be well-pleasing (soothing) to the Father. Jesus Christ indeed came and fulfilled the Law, offering Himself once and for all for our sins (Hebrews 10:10-14).

Nature itself reveals the gospel. Next time you see a bow in the sky, tell your kids the story of Noah and the burnt offering that resulted in a promise of peace with God and the bow in the sky as a reminder of that peace. Impress on your hearers that because of the person and work of Jesus Christ, the bow of God's righteous wrath and vengeance is unstringed, unbent and unaimed toward we who have embraced His Son.

http://www.wadeburleson.org/2012/02/bow-in-sky-as-picture-of-gods-grace.html
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2012, 03:03:24 am »

Thanks for posting that heart warming information. Smiley

Praise be to the LORD!!
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« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2012, 11:40:36 pm »

When God promised mercy to Noah, He gave a bow in the sky as a symbol of His covenant of grace. Notice, I said 'bow.' We commonly speak of the covenant symbol as a rainbow, but the actual symbol of God's grace is a brightly colored bow--a weapon of vengeance.
Total shocker!  I'm just going to have to look this up!  I really, really thought that the word 'rainbow' is in the bible!
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« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2012, 12:13:20 am »

Total shocker!  I'm just going to have to look this up!  I really, really thought that the word 'rainbow' is in the bible!

Yeah, I didn't realize that it was a weapon either. But here it is.

Gen 9:9  And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10  And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11  And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12  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:
13  I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14  And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15  And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16  And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
17  And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.


7198. qesheth, keh'-sheth; from H7185 in the orig. sense of (H6983) of bending; a bow, for shooting (hence fig. strength) or the iris:-- X arch (-er), + arrow, bow ([-man, -shot]).
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« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2012, 12:52:44 am »

14  And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
  And we don't even see this bow. 

There are three things true of this bow:
(1). The bow is pointed away from the earth, away from mankind.
(2). The bow has no string and thus cannot shoot any arrow of vengeance.
(3). The bow is unbent and as such serves as a true symbol of peace with God.
  I wonder if the writer at www.wadeburleson.org has scripture reference on numbers 1 through 3.

Next time you see a bow in the sky
  If we're not talking about a rainbow, are we talking about a cloud in the shape of a bow?
ww.wadeburleson.org/2012/02/bow-in-sky-as-picture-of-gods-grace.html
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« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2012, 01:16:50 am »

  And we don't even see this bow. 

I can see it. All these years I was thinking of some cutesy bow like on a gift when really, God was talking about a long bow.



Kind of comforting, actually.
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« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2012, 04:02:12 am »

Hmm, I initialy passed on reading this fully, so I missed what was really being said. My bad. I would like this person to provide more to back his really weak claim.

I have NEVER seen anything in the sky that I can call a bow, long bow or not. I'd really like to know what this guy is talking about because he provides nothing but a comment and no proof. Those 3 points? Um yeah, that comes from where? Must be personal interpretation because it surely isn't biblical.

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a brightly colored bow--a weapon of vengence

And that is where in scripture?
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« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2012, 05:42:53 am »

The "bow" is the rainbow. He just isnt calling it that. Kind of like we should call gay people sodomites and not gay.

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a brightly colored bow--a weapon of vengence
And that is where in scripture?

Deu 32:35  To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Deu 32:36  For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

Rom 12:19  Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.


The flood was an act of vengence on the world. The Lord hung up his bow vowing to never again use it, and put it in the sky for all to see.
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« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2012, 01:00:39 pm »

Indeed, vengence is the Lord's. I do appreciate the pointing out that the word "rainbow" isn't in scripture, but to call it a weapon when it is not just isn't doctrinal. It's a curved band of color, not an archer's bow.

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The Lord hung up his bow vowing to never again use it, and put it in the sky for all to see.

No, read the scripture. It has to do with water. The rainbow is a sign that God would never kill everybody by flood, that's it...

"15  And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh."
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« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2012, 02:53:08 pm »

Psa 7:10  My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
Psa 7:11  God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
Psa 7:12  If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Psa 7:13  He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.


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