The Bow in the Cloud

Genesis 9:8-17  King James Version

8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

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.

On Sunday morning, Tricia and I exited the barn at around 6:45 AM.  We had opened the hen house and the nesting boxes and fed the chickens.  We fed the Jersey Cows and bull.  We fed the chickens in the chicken tractor.  Finally, we milked the goats and headed inside.  It's been a couple of weeks since we dried LuLu off, so we're no longer milking her.  We do feed her some sweet feed and hay and so when she's finished eating, I walk her out of the barn.  This is the sight just west of our barn.  There we see it.  The bow that God hung in the cloud as a promise never to destroy the earth by flood again.  

It's a double-rainbow.  For quite sometime there have been legends that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Horsefeathers!  Sadly, in recent years, groups have co-opted the rainbow to completely change the meaning of it.  But in truthfulness, the rainbow was created by God as a sign to man and beast of His everlasting covenant to never destroy the world again by flood.  God always keeps His promises.

As we look upon the rainbow, we're in awe of the awesome God who made all creation and the many promises He has made and will keep.