Under the Rainbow The Angel Speaks

Covenant with God

Signs of God's Covenant

The Rainbow

Revelation 10:1-7 The Message

10 ^1-4 I saw another powerful Angel coming down out of Heaven wrapped in a cloud. There was a rainbow over his head, his face was sun-radiant, his legs pillars of fire. He had a small book open in his hand. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on land, then called out thunderously, a lion roar. When he called out, the Seven Thunders called back. When the Seven Thunders spoke, I started to write it all down, but a voice out of Heaven stopped me, saying, “Seal with silence the Seven Thunders; don’t write a word.”

^5-7 Then the Angel I saw astride sea and land lifted his right hand to Heaven and swore by the One Living Forever and Ever, who created Heaven and everything in it, earth and everything in it, sea and everything in it, that time was up—that when the seventh Angel blew his trumpet, which he was about to do, the Mystery of God, all the plans he had revealed to his servants, the prophets, would be completed.

For Reflection

So, is this a description of a threat or celebration? God's sovereignty is placed between the God's people and the idolatry of the nonbelievers. The angel messenger descends in the rainbow halo of God's covenant of mercy, a sign of a peaceful mission. This vision is the hope of salvation; the triumph of the Kingdom of God.

Pray
Pray prayers of praise, adoration, and thanksgiving for the living God whose mercy abounds and whose will for human kind can not be thwarted.