<TITLE>20. Par 172-178</TITLE>L-172 Notice, we're going to start back now and see where we're at. On the 3rd verse yet, aren't we? Are we going to get it? I hope. All right.
He was to look upon as jasper and sardius stone: and there was a rainbow... about the throne, in the sight like unto an emerald, yellowish green.
Now, rainbow, you notice it was a rainbow. Let's go back in Genesis 9 and find out in Genesis 9:13. And we'll find back here the rainbow, when a rainbow first appeared. Genesis the 9th chapter, and we will begin at the 13th verse, Genesis 9:13. All of you like this? Oh, I love it. I just don't like it; I love it. Look.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token,... (Watch.)... token of a covenant betwixt me and the earth... (What? "Betwixt Me and Noah"? No. "Betwixt 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:
And I will remember my covenant, which--which is betwixt me and you... (Now, He come back to His covenant betwixt them, but the rainbow covenant.)...
See, the covenant was life for Noah, that He spared him, but the covenant that God made with Himself was a rainbow, that He would not... Now, I'll show you what Noah's covenant was with God, in a minute. But this here was God's own covenant with Himself (Amen.), a rainbow.

L-175 Now, we find out that a covenant then is a token, a token. God said it was a token here, didn't He? See?
I set my... I do set my bow in the clouds,... (That's after the destruction of the world, destroyed by water; all flesh besides Noah--Noah was destroyed.)... and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. (Not "Me and the world," the world's a cosmos. See? But this is between Me and the earth.)
God said, "I made that earth. And I so evilly entreated it, that I just turned it upside down and flashed her to pieces And--and I--I--I oughtn't to have done it, maybe." He said, "I--I was even sorry; it was such a horrible thing."

L-177 What do you think it'll be when He comes in His anger now? Be right, sinner friend.
Oh, be watching and waiting that sight to behold,
He's coming again. (You believe that?)
He's coming again. (I love that, don't you?)
Oh, would you be numbered as one of His foe? (I wouldn't want to be that, would you? No, sir. Be a foe of--or be a foe for Him, be with Him would be fine. But against Him...)
Be spotless within, be watching and waiting that sight to behold,
He's coming again. (Um.)

L-178 Now, a covenant, a token of what? A token of what? Of a sacrifice that has been accepted. Now, get Genesis 8:20 and 22. Now, Genesis 8:20 and 22, all right, right across the page it is.
And Noah built an altar unto the LORD; and took... every clean beast, and... every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground... (curse the ground)... any more for man's sake; for the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
And now, read the last verse.
And while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest,... cold and heat,... summer and winter,... day and night shall not cease... (a covenant)
Same thing that John saw... Jesus, God's accepted covenant surrounding the heavens. And around about Him was a rainbow around about the throne in the sight like a emerald, amberish, green Light around the throne. Praise be to God.


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