What is the interpretation of the bow in the cloud after the Flood?
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Jesus spoke in parables that were full of very familiar imagery to his hearers, turning them into spiritual lessons.
The Lord commanded Abraham to circumcise all his male descendants, a custom which was already being practiced before the time of Abraham, but God made it a token of his covenant with Abraham.
Likewise, there's no reason to believe that rainbows, being a natural phenomenon, did not exist before the Flood. But as a part of God's covenant with Noah, he gave them a new, special significance.
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He (God) was referring to the milky way arch. It arches over the earth. Notice in the King James bible it clearly said "set My bow in the cloud; not clouds but cloud. Also that this was over the earth and not in the earth. This was purposely hidden because when you find the milky way you also find Orion which was mentioned twice in the book of Job. 9:9 & 38:28 I think. Definately in Job 38 though. A rainbow is seen when water drops meet the sunlight and again clearly the word in Genesis chp 3 says the rains had stopped and the ground was dry.
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The King James version stipulates a rainbow on an angel's head; as well as another having the seal of the Living God on the forehead.Is this not one and the same ? I bear " the set bow in the cloud" on my head; though it was not put there by my choice, I have come to recognize it for what it is. Jesus says of the Holy Spirit, even the Spirit of truth, He shall testify of me. When reviewing this passage, the words: Spirit, truth, and even; spelled out my name. Coincidence, I don't think so. What 'Christianity' has done to the God of Abraham is truly a sin; Jesus came to fulfill the Law, not to destroy it.
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I think the bow in the cloud is literally the image of God's bow, His weapon for war, besides His double-edged sword. It could be why it was shaped like that (even in the scientific sense, since all scientific explanations are God's creation). The symbolism and meaning of that is what was stated in the Bible.
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The bow in the sky I believe is more than the rainbow. I believe God is saying what Kirk Cameron said in "Unstoppable." The bow is arched towards heaven and if He chooses to shoot His arrows they would go upward.
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The bow is a rainbow.
The pre-flood world was very different. It's not clear there was rain before the flood.
Genesis 2:5-6 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Genesis 1:6 tells us there was water above the sky. This could have been a layer of clear ice keeping the atmosphere in and under greater pressure. This would explain how some larger dinosaurs (dragons) could breathe despite having relatively small nostrils, and dragonflies could grow with wingspans of over two feet (see Meganeura). (Insects breathe by diffusion which limits their size.) This layer was destroyed in the flood and is no longer there.
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The tear around the earth (see fault line in the mid atlantic and others) is a witness to the breaking open of the fountains of the great deep. The windows of heaven could be a reference to the layer of ice above the sky.
There were also no seasons before the flood, as seasons only came after the flood:
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
The catastrophe that caused the flood may have also caused the tilt in the earths axis that gives us our seasons. This would explain why we find large numbers of animal fossils under the Arctic (including, for example, camels).
The flood was a great catastrophe that gave rise to our current day geology and weather systems. There is no reason to believe there were conditions for a rainbow to form before the flood.
I believe the bow was a rainbow and the earth only had the right conditions for one to form after the flood.
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There are several theories about major differences in climate pre and post flood. There is some reason to believe that our atmosphere had a rather different makeup before the flood: perhaps along the lines of perpetual heavy cloud cover.
In these scenarios it is entirely possible that a natural phenomenon like a rainbow had actually never been observed before and that it was burned across the sky in all its glory when they climbed out of the ark.
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