Friday, October 16, 2015

God's Rainbow around the Throne


"The rainbow above the throne, the bow of promise, testifies to the whole world that God will never forget His people in their struggle.
Temptations will come upon us.
Iniquity abounds;
where you least expect it,
dark chapters will open that are most terrible,
to weigh down the soul;
but we need not fail nor be discouraged while we know that the bow of promise is above the throne of God. 

And as we near the close of this earth's history, we advance more and more rapidly in Christian growth, or we retrograde just as decidedly.
   
"I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a
covenant between Me and the earth . . . And I will remember My covenant, . . . and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh" [Genesis 9:13-15]. In the rainbow above the throne is an everlasting testimony that "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" [John 3:16]. Manuscript Releases vol.2, p.232 E.G.W.