Spoken
Word no. 180
God’s
Rainbow Covenant
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
August 15th,
2010
Now, that we have seen
this film showing the three rainbows that came down while I was teaching the
Doctrine of Christ in Africa, I would like to take a subject of the rainbow
Covenant, but before I do let us first bow our heads and our hearts in a word
of prayer.
For brother Branham
said in his sermon, Super sign 62-0708 P:19 And you know what? A rainbow makes a covenant.
Let us pray, Dear Gracious and Loving Father, we come
to Thee this morning under the shed blood of your Son, our eldest brother in
this vast family of brothers, and we ask that you would help us to not only
confess what you are doing in this hour, but help us also to walk in the light in
all humility and reverence seeing that this light we are walking in we are
walking alongside of Thee dear father in the form of the Holy Ghost. For we
know that if we walk in the Light as You are in the Light,
that the blood of Your son Jesus will be efficacious to us in
this hour, and knowing as we walk in the
Light of Thy Glorious presence we are
having fellowship with You around Your living word. You promised
us through Your vindicated prophet for this Hour that You would lead us into
the Millennium via that great Pillar of Fire which lets us know where Your
great Shekineh Glory is present, and we know that Your Pillar of Fire will lead
us into the Millennium. We have heard it but now we have seen it with our own
eyes and we have seen Your Pillar of Fire in the form of that threefold
horizontal rainbow showing us that You are still among us leading us by Your
Vindicated Word which you gave us through Your prophet William Branham whom You
vindicated by Your very presence with Him.
We have believed Thy Great Presence was still with us
because of Thy Word and Thy Word alone, as it was promised that You would lead
us via that great Pillar of Fire which shows forth Thy Shekinah Presence, but
now we have also seen Your presence in our midst. When you came to Your prophet
William Branham in the form of that Three Rainbows coming together as One in
the shape of a bowl or cup, we accepted His word for it, not having seen it
ourselves but believing that You had vindicated Him, and therefore we thus
believed by Faith, but You also taught us in Your Word and we can honestly know
that we no longer wait for Your promise because why would we yet hope for that
which we see. But now we have both seen and heard and therefore our hope has
become a reality, that you are indeed still in our midst.
For we have seen Thy Great Presence in the same form
and shape of that Horizontal that Your prophet saw, and You came down to verify
that what we teach is the same Revelation of Jesus Christ as was declared by
Your prophet, for you are not a respecter of persons. We see Your great witness
among us for we know that three speaks of a witness, and we have now on film
that witness of Three wherein You came down over the church in Mbanza Ngungu
and verified that what we were speaking was the same Word that You vindicated Your prophet and it is the same revelation
that your prophet spoke, and Your presence with us in such a supernatural way has
confirmed This great revelation of Jesus Christ to be the same as what was
spoken by Your prophet because You verified his message in the same way as you
have done in Africa. Thank you Father. For allowing others to see that which
only Your prophet saw before us, and thank you father for confirming to us that
You are indeed are the One who is leading us to the Millennium.
Now, Father we have both heard and seen with our own
eyes that same three fold manifestation of Your glorious Presence among us and
we can rejoice knowing that we not only heard a vindicated prophet tell us that
the Pillar of Fire would lead us into the Millennium, but we have also seen it
with our own eyes. Then grant to us Your favor Lord, and hear our prayers, and
help us to also enter into that blessed covenant of Sons that you made with
your first born son, for we ask it in Jesus Christ’s name, Your first born and
our eldest brother, Amen.
Message of grace 61-0827 P. 12 Last year, as all of you know, which is on
print and also in testimony and in the tapes, I was setting at a place here in
Indiana where the Lord God came down and spoke to me, that my second ministry,
that was ready to take place in the near future. And there was spoken into
existence three squirrels. All of you know the story; I'm sure. Somehow, going
up the road I... While I let the rest of the boys off, going hunting, I--I had
a strange feeling to go to this place again. It was before daylight, raining,
and I didn't even know whether I'd get to hunt or not, but that I would get
over in the field there. Hunting means to get alone to yourself to pray. And I
stopped the car, and got off, and walked across the road, and went over into
the bush, and just before it would've been daylight, kinda gray dawn...
13 I'd stopped and had offered a little
word of prayer, as usual, and telling Father that just what I had need of, to
provide it. I don't believe in wasting anything or destroying; never shot a
bird in my life for a target practice or anything else. What I hunt, I eat, or
give to someone that does eat it. I don't believe in wasting anything. I don't
believe in doing those things, because it's not right. Then as I turned and
started along a familiar little pathway by the side of a pasture that crossed
over to an L-shape in the woods, and something strange took place. All my
experiences, I've never had anything like that. I looked at the top of the hill
to my left from where I was standing, and there, coming up out of like the top
of the hill, came three rainbows. And they were running some thirty-foot high.
First, I looked and seen the Light and I just turned back, because I thought it
might be the sun raising. On the second thought, it wasn't towards the sun; it
was towards the south. And another thing, it was smooth, cloudy, rain, raining
all over. That was August the twenty-fifth, last Friday morning, and you know
how it was raining. And it's smooth clouds everywhere.
14 And I
looked again, and there it was, growing taller and taller, three rainbows. I
took off my hat. I set down my gun. I started walking towards it with my hands
up. Something just seemed to tell me, "This is close enough." I was
going to set down and take off my boots that I had on, to see if I could walk a
little closer. But I got within a few yards of it, and I seen the color of it,
misting like a fog moving around. I stood still for a few moments. It was coming
right out of the top of the little mountain. And I watched, as the three (one
to the right, one to the left, and one in the center) running down into one
bowl like... Ever what it was, was alive. It was moving and making Its motions.
And I stood there just as it was graying dawn. I turned and looked again, and I
screamed out, "O God, what would You have Your servant know?" Just
then the Spirit of the Lord came in and said, "Jesus of the New Testament is Jehovah of the Old, He only changed His
mask from Spirit to man." That
was confirming, of course, my message of Him, letting me know, assured that
these thirty-one years hasn't been in vain.
15 As I
started to approach, It begin to go away, and went down into this bowl-like affair, and then disappeared.
I walked up close. I was afraid to go any closer, because He'd stopped me 'fore
I got there. I turned and noticed that that Light, the way It was shining for
me, was just exactly in line with the tree where I set last year, where the
squirrels appeared. Some thirty-five or forty minutes later, I went down
through the woods and over the creek bottoms and so forth, till I got to this
tree that separates in four directions (east, north, west, and south), four
prongs of the tree, running out. And I climbed into this prong and set down
where I was when He told me of that Scripture, "If you say to this
mountain, 'Be moved.'" And as I stood there a little bit, not thinking yet
of the rainbow, it had left my mind. I stood there. And this has been a very
bad year for squirrel hunting, everything is late, no squirrels.
16 I
thought, "Right here is where God gave me them squirrels last year to
speak into existence." I took off my hat again, and I said, "Lord
God, You are still the same Jesus. You are still God." And Something said
to me, "How many do you need this time?"
I said, "Just as I did the other time: the limit." And then I said,
"I shall have this limit before ten o'clock today." And strange as it
seems, just then I was in a very bad mosquito area, where it was invested with
mosquitoes, and kind of a swamp land, and a great big mosquito came to bite me
right by the eye, and I said, "Not one of them will bother me this
day," no repellent or anything with me. And before I knew it, I said,
"The sun will shine within thirty minutes."
17 And
no more than I'd said that till just behind me a squirrel exactly like that one
last year, young, red, jumped out on the limb about seventy yards away and
begin barking. I turned around. At those long distance, I could barely, through
the powerful scope see his eye. Just shot, that's all; I didn't even have an
aim at, just no more than over the squirrel. And the bullet was just exactly
smack at the eye where it was the other time. On down through the woods I went.
And at exactly three minutes of ten o'clock I shot my third squirrel, just like
it was last year, just exactly the same: At three minutes before ten. God,
being my solemn Judge, not one mosquito even buzzed all day long, right where
there's just tons of them, I suppose, if they could be weighed out. And I never
even seen or heard one. I was listening for them to see if I could. And I heard
a humming, I thought, "There's one somewhere," and I listened and it
was a truck way back on the highway. And exactly thirty minutes from that time
the sun shone out good and bright.
18 Then I came back to the place. And I'd
been thinking when I said, "limit," that that meant five squirrels,
which is the limit in
Message of grace 61-0827 P:37 I
thought of the grace of God, how that He could do that: save to the uttermost.
And then would take a poor wretch like myself, and give me the opportunity to
preach the Gospel and to see others saved, see them healed; see homes that's
been broke up, straightened up again; see lives that's been ruined, made right
again. And to give me grace, I thought, "Oh, it's amazing grace. Then come
to a degraded, low squirrel hunter out into the woods, and form Himself in the form of the rainbow, which means a covenant, with a
Message that He give me to preach, and formed it there in a covenant, that He's
behind it. He'll be behind it, because the message is of Jesus Christ and
His glory.
Message of grace 61-0827 P:93 We pray now that You'll keep
them through life. May they, every one, be baptized, calling upon the Name of
the Lord, washing away their sins. Grant it, Lord. Now, I present them to You,
as Your servant, believing that the great Angel of God Who appeared down
there... And, Father, You know all that story, and that great Angel that
appeared there this Friday morning, just at gray dawn, spoke these Words, in the
form of three rainbows coming up from the top of the mountain... Lord God, let that God Who appeared to
me there in the rainbows, let Him save this people by His grace just now. I give them to
You, in expectations of You keeping Your Word, and You will, and I'll meet them
on that great day, without a spot or wrinkle in their soul. Grant it. In Jesus'
Name, I give them to You. Amen.
Let your light so shine
before men 61-0903 P:10 When I go into the mountain change. It isn't so much going
up there for to go hunting. I'm going there to get alone with God. Some of you,
if you'll notice, my greatest experience I have is when I'm out hunting, when I
meet God. Out of all my experiences, I never had one like I had the other
morning, right up here, going squirrel hunting. I've seen many things in my
life, signs and wonders and so forth. But that struck me stronger than anything
that I've ever had yet. Just imagine now, just about the time of the break of
day, raining, solid cloudy all over, and see standing in front of me, rising up
from, like a cup setting on a hill, setting there, three rainbows, rising higher and higher, until you was so numb
all over till you could hardly speak, then walk close to it and hear Him speak and confirm the very
message that you're preaching to be the truth. See?
Breach the 63-0317E P:22 Now,
we see that this seven-sealed Book now, is the mystery of redemption. It's a
Book of Redemption from God. Now, all
the mysteries at this time should be finished at the sounding of this messenger.
Now, here's the angel on earth, and another Angel, mighty Messenger come down.
See, this angel was a earthly angel, messenger. But here comes One down from heaven: a rainbow, covenant.
See? Only Christ, it could be; just
exactly like it was in Revelations 1st chapter, standing in the midst of the
seven golden candlesticks with a rainbow to look upon as jasper and sardius
stone.
Revelation chapter 4 pt 2 24 elders 61-0101
P:74 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 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.
Souls in
prison now 63-1110M P:85 Notice. It was to be the Seventh Angel's
Message that was to reveal the Seventh--the Seven Seals (Revelation 10:7, now
you'll find it.). See? And he saw this Angel come down, put his foot on the
land and on the sea (That was Christ.), had a rainbow over His head. (Notice
Him, you'll find Him in Revelation 1, again with the rainbow over His head:
look upon the jasper and sardius and so on.)Here He come, put one hand--one
foot upon the land, one upon the water, raised up His hand. He had a rainbow
over His head yet; that's a covenant. He was a Covenant Angel, which was
Christ, made a little lower than the Angels to suffer. There He come, and put
His hands up to heaven, and swore by Him that lives forever and ever (the
eternal One, the Father, God) that time shall be no more, when this takes
place.
First
seal the 63-0318 P:90 Let me just read it again. It sounds so
good to me; I--I like to read it.... I saw another mighty angel come down from
heaven, clothed with a cloud:... a rainbow... upon his head, and his face was...
the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: Now, we saw the same thing, which was
Christ. And we know Christ is always the Messenger to the Church. All right.
He's called a Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the covenant and so forth. And he
had in his hand a little book opened:... (Now, the Seals had done been broke
here. We're breaking them now; but this, the thing's opened.)... and he set his
right foot on the sea, and his left... on the earth, And he cried... a loud
voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he... cried, seven thunders uttered
their voices... (My, the complete)... when the seven thunders had uttered their
voices, I... (John)... was about to write:... (Write what? What they said.)...
and I heard a voice from heaven... (God)... saying unto me, Seal up those
things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. (Don't write them.
See?)And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea... lifted up his hands to
heaven, And sware by him that lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens,
and the things... in there they are, and the earth, and the things that are
there--in there..., and the sea and the things which are therein, that there
should be time no longer:
Is this
sign of the end sir 62-1230E P:123 Now, listen. This Angel come
down from heaven. See, the other seven angels of the seven churches was earthly
messengers, but this Angel... All the message is finished. The seventh angel
winds up the whole thing. And this Angel comes, not to the earth; He isn't a
man from the earth as the messengers to the church ages; that's finished. But
this Angel brings the next announcement. And a angel means a messenger. And He
comes down from heaven clothed in that Pillar of Light, cloud, with a rainbow
over His head. And a rainbow is a covenant. It was Christ, with one foot on
land and one on the sea, and swore that time will be no more.
Stature of a perfect man 62-1014M P:170 About
three or four years ago they called me down here at the hospital in
Show us the father 62-0722 P:42 Then
I happened to look. And where the sun come out, and the evergreens had froze,
that cold wind, there was a rainbow across the canyon. I said, "There He
is in the rainbow. Amen. There He is. There's the covenant. He will never
destroy it again with water. He promised it." And a rainbow also is,
Revelations 1, where over the Son of God; and over the church, the seven golden
candlesticks, was a rainbow. He was to look upon as jasper and sardine stone,
the First and the Last, He that was, which is and shall come. O my, my, my.
Everywhere you look, you can see God if you'll just open up your eyes. Look
around. He's everywhere.
Behold a greater than all is here 62-0715
P:13 You know, taste doesn't count in this. We
might differ in organization, denomination. But God is a God of variety. God
likes variety. He's not a Sears and Roebuck Harmony House. God is a variety.
He's got big mountains, little mountains, white flowers, pink flowers, yellow
flowers. He's a God of variety. He has little men, big men. He has a black
head, redhead, blonds, and all different kinds. He has deserts. He has--He has
lakes. He has seas. See? He's a God of variety. And that's the same way it is
here today. We're all God's servants. And after all, brethren, is it all... A
rainbow represents a covenant. That's right. We're in God's covenant. That's
right. Together as brothers we stand. The Lord bless you, my fine brothers. And
may your churches grow and prosper. And may God ever bless you richly and
royally is my--is my sincere prayer. If I can ever be a help to you in any way,
the night don't get too dark, nor the rain don't fall too hard. Just call me.
I'll do everything that I can to help.
Smyrnaean church age 60-1206 P:27 Now,
if you'll notice, the candlestick didn't set quite like that. They started down
in this way and come up. Well, the highest one away from where he was standing
was this one up here. And Christianity gradually smothered out as it went from
where He was standing in the shape of the cross, as we'd seen Him in the 4th
chapter, in the shape of the cross like this. And this was His right hand; that
was His left hand. Now, right here, He had His hand on this church and on that
church. He was both Alpha and Omega, and of course, all was in between it too,
all the other letters. But He specifically said Alpha and Omega. Had a rainbow
over His head, which was His covenant.
Revelation chapter one 60-1204M P:115 And
what did they do to Joseph? They pretended he was dead, and they throwed him
into a ditch. Took a bloody coat of seven colors that his father...There's only
seven colors in the rainbow. And the rainbow, we know what the... We get to it
a little later, I think, tonight. The rainbow over Him here, Jesus, where He's
to look upon as jasper and
Discernment of spirit 60-0308 P:22 And
did you notice Jesus when He came, He was loved of the Father. And the father
gave Joseph a coat of many colors (the rainbow, a covenant). And the Father God
gave his Son Jesus the covenant, and then the Jewish brother hated Him without
a cause. He had no reason to hate Him; He was spiritual, and He was God's Word
made manifest. He come to do the will of the Father; He come to fulfill the
Scripture. He came to bring them peace, but they misunderstood Him, and hated
Him without a cause. They didn't stop to try to see what He was trying to
achieve. They just judged him because that he didn't agree with them. They
made... "He makes Himself so-and-so. He makes Hisself God." He was
God. God was in Him. The Bible said God was in Christ, manifesting Himself to
the world. He was the God of glory manifesting the glory of God.
Joseph
meeting his brethren 56-1230 P:50 Notice,
there He was, the Covenant. Christ was to look upon at Jasper and
Joseph meeting his brethren 56-1230 P:49 When
God gave Noah the rainbow sign, the seven colors, it was a promise or a covet
one. God had made a covenant that He would destroy the world no more with
water. And God's covenant was also carried over through Jacob into Joseph.
Abraham was election, and Isaac was justification, and Israel was grace, and
Joseph was perfection. That was the only one that had the colors. We see Jesus
setting upon the throne with the colors, rainbow around Him. In Revelations 1
it was God's covenant with the people. Christ... Here it is. Oh, how I want you
to see it. Christ is God's Covenant with His people, not denominations, but
Christ is God's Covenant. As Joseph was hated, so is Christ hated today. They
don't want to say they hate Christ. But their works prove what they do. They're
against every move of Him. Speak of His action, His works, His marvelous
doings, why, sure we have Satan at the camp too, a battling away. Certainly. And
they'll point to the words of Satan. But I don't care what Satan does to--to
try to confuse; God's Word stands perfect and His promise is perfect. I'll
never want to take sides with that group.
Inter veil 56-0121 P:78 So
about that time, I watched what he was looking at. There'd a big old eagle
forced down, one of the big old brown eagles we have there in the west. And
he'd been forced down under this, the winds had blowed him in there. And that's
what the squirrel was barking at. He jumped up on there. And I'd just been
weeping. I looked over and seen that rainbow, and I said, "O God, listen
at my heart pound when I hear that wolf holler yonder. There's something about
it I love." I said, "Looky there at the rainbow. God, it's Your
covenant. Right. You'll never destroy the world with water, but it'll be fire
next time." Oh, I could see Jesus standing in that Revelations 1, where He
was look upon Him as jasper and sardius stone: Alpha, Omega, the Beginning and
the Ending; Reuben, and the younger and the older. And all the rainbow around
Him, the covenant of His Blood that He would protect and keep that which God
had committed to Him... I could see Him there, and my heart pounding. They
thought they had the Salvation Army up there. I set my gun down, the side of the
tree, I run around and around the tree, screaming top of my voice to give vent
to my feeling, oh, just as loud as I could scream. I didn't care who heard me.
Wasn't nobody to hear me anyhow. I--I was just praising God. If they'd seen me
up there, I guess, they'd have thought I had been out of the insane
institution. I didn't care what they thought, who thought it. How my soul was
bubbling for the glory of God.
So we see that this
one in revelations chapter 10 that descends with a Loud Voice is God Himself.
Revelations 10:1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed
with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, (and who does the rainbow belong
to? It's called in the old testament God's bow, and it represents God's
promises to man. God's Covenant confirmed. So This one who comes down with a
white wig has come to confirm his Covenant with man. How beautiful) and his
face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: Psalms 104:1
Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed
with honor and majesty. 2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment:
who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:Notice his Feet are as pillars of
fire. Then how appropriate that God would have a picture taken where his feet
were above the head of William Branham prophet to the age. And therefore His
feet are above us, and he has laid all things under the feet of Jesus. And we
are all things in Christ. Amen!
Now, if you all
recall, God has set upon us in this hour His divine covenants. And we saw in
our study of the rainbow covenant that trueness is represented by the blue
color. But it takes the light upon the rain to bring into manifestation the
rainbow. And we know the rainbow represents the Covenants of God brought into
manifestation by the light of His Glorious presence. And when the light strikes
the rain the rainbow comes into view, and when the Light strikes the doctrine
of Christ, then all the divine promises of God concerning His Son come into
view as well. In Deuteronomy God tells us that His doctrine shall fall as the
rain, so God likeness His Doctrine to the rain. Now, you can not have a rainbow
without having light strike the rain. So light upon the doctrine will bring
into manifestation all the divine promises of God to us in this hour. God's
covenant comes into manifestation because of the light upon the doctrine, and
it is presented to those who are walking in the light and the rain or the
doctrine.
In REVELATIONS 10: 1 -3 & 7 " And I saw
another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a Cloud: and a rainbow
was upon His head, and His face was as it were the sun, and His feet as Pillars
of Fire: And He had in His hand a little book open: and He set His right foot
upon the sea and His left foot on the earth. And He cried with a loud voice, as
when a lion roareth: and when He had cried, seven thunders uttered their
voices. ... but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall
begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to
His servants the prophets." The first things I wish to point
out here is that the mystery of God will be finished when this scene unfolds.
In other words, until this scene happens God and Godhead will continue to be a
mystery. But, when this happens, then the mystery is done away. Secondly, this
scene begins with a descent of this Mighty angel who brother Branham called the
angel of the Covenant, none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. From The Breach pg. 74 he says,
" And when
the seals are broken, ( Rev 5) and the mystery is revealed, down comes the
Angel, the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon land and upon sea with a
rainbow over His Head. Now, remember, this Seventh Angel is on earth at the
time of this coming."
Show us the Father 54-0811 P:10 And
there in that moment, rejoicing, I raised up my hands, and I said, "Great
Jehovah God, how marvelous You are, the Great Creator of heavens and earth. I
see You in Revelations 1, Jesus setting there with a rainbow over His head. He's
to look upon jasper and sardine stone; that's Benjamin and Reuben's stone,
First and the Last, He that was, which is, and shall come, Root and Offspring
of David, the Morning Star, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley;
standing with His covenant with the Church can't fail. The seven colors in the
rainbow, the
Seven church ages 54-0512 P:85 Now,
watch, when Jesus was standing with His hands out... Here's a little thing I
don't want to leave out, to you. Hear it. Watch Him. He's standing in the
midst, that's the middle, of the Seven Golden Candlesticks. Now, if I was
standing here, and the candlesticks arched around, here on my one hand is where
I got it out, and here is another one, in the sign of the cross, 'cause it's
through the cross that brought the Church. Here He is standing; and a rainbow
over His head, as a covenant. "I've made My covenant with the Church,
through Abraham through his Seed, all that's called."
Now, the rainbow
represents the attributes of God Life coming forth in an expression of Colors
out from the Great Living Fountain of Life, God in and before the beginning. The
colors represent specific portions of God’s Covenent with man, and point out
which attributes of God are represented in each specific colors. The we see the
colors in the Rainbow Covenant of God with man, show the contract language each
color represented. We can see how each color is actually a complete statement
from God, as if each ribbon of color expressed a certain portion of the great
Contract between God and man. Then we can look into those colors as they are
represented in the Breastplate stones and see the same covenant of God with man.
We can examine the stones and show their meaning, and how each represents a
tribe of
EPHESIANS 5:13
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever
doth make manifest is light. 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest,
and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. So we can see that it takes light to manifest
anything. Then if God is going to reveal His Great plan for his Seed, it takes
light to manifest that plan. But we've got to have light to manifest. JOHN 3:21
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made
manifest, that they are wrought in God.
II TIMOTHY 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour
Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality
to light through the gospel:
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS 61-0101 170 In I John 1:5 and 7, he said, "God is Light." John
had an experience; he had seen Him and he knowed that He was Light, Light,
eternal Light; not cosmic light, not lamp light, electric light, sunlight, but
eternal Light. Oh, how I love Him. "God is Light." And
what else is need to manifest the Rainbow Covenant, which is the Token of God?
It takes Rain. The Light must strike the rain, and when it does it brings forth
the seven parts of the covenant. And what is the Rain? It is the doctrine of
God.
There is the whole
plan of redemption and the roles of the Son of God in an expression of the
Father, and those are also the roles we shall enter into as we further progress
in the great Covenant between God, our Father and ourselves. Thus Fulfilling Rev. 5:10,
"And hast
made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth."
I PETER 2:9
But ye [are] a
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that
ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness
into his marvellous light: Now, we know that the rainbow is the
Covenant of God. It is the great contract between God and his Seed. And we also
know there are two things necessary to bring forth this great Covenant into
manifestation. There first of all must be Light, for Paul said in Ephesians
Now I hope you can see
the different parts of the contract between God and His Seed has been carefully
laid out in the pattern of colors in the Rainbow which was the Token of His
Covenant which is His contract or promise to His Seed. The Contract begins with
red refers to Love of God which has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost. It moves into orange which is a blending of the red with the next
primary Color yellow and represents character which comes by Love putting to
trial and child training. Next we have yellow (Gold) which stands for Deity and
trial, and then we have green, which is a blending of yellow and blue and represents
Life. Next we come to the last Primary color blue which symbolizes Trueness,
and the colors are coming back full circle, blue which is the last primary
color begins to blend with red the first primary color, (The Alpha and Omega
coming together produces Indigo which is Royalty, and then as the blend comes
closer to the beginning red, it turns to violet or purple which is priesthood.
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But when John saw Him in this amber color, the amber color, He surrounded and
covered around like a halo. A halo... A halo of amber color surrounded His
Being. See? One color, one God over all, through all, and in all, but there is
Seven Church Ages.Then as we continue to look upon the colors of the rainbow we
see the color Green which represents Life. Given Life, the evergreen, always
showing life.
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So we see Him in the circle bow of green, amber color. This greenish, what does
green represent? Life. Green is the evergreen, always stays green, is life.
What does it mean? That God has promised, as He took a oath back there in
Genesis, that He would put the rainbow in the sky, that He would no more
destroy this world by water. He also takes His oath and swears by Himself, that
all the Seed of Abraham He'll raise up, and this world will stand all of its
shaking judgments. REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS 61-0101 172 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.
Rev. Chapter 4 PT 2 24 Elders 61-0101 181
Noah's rainbow composed primarily of seven colors. Anybody knows the rainbow's
got seven colors. Now, what are the colors? … Now, remember, red, orange,
yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Now, if you notice, seven... Watch.
Seven rainbows... Seven colors; I mean, seven-colored rainbow. That meant seven
bows. Seven bows, seven churches reflecting seven lights, each light wrapped
into the other one. It started off with red, red. After red come orange, which
is a reflection of red. After orange was... After orange come yellow, which is
red and orange mixed together, makes yellow. Then green. Green and blue makes
black. Then come indigo. And then from indigo comes violet, which is part of
blue. Oh, oh, oh. Hallelujah. Don't you see? God, in His seven-colored rainbow,
His covenant that He made, a covenant that through
Notice, Red = Love,
then
Any time you have a
Covenant, there is usually several parts to that Covenant. There is the part
that personalizes the Covenant between the parties represented. Then there is
the Agreement itself, and then there are the assurances of the Covenant and the
penalties if the covenant is broken etc. Well, God's rainbow is a material
manifestation of all that He is and all that this Covenant expresses to you and
me. It is all written out in that rainbow. That is the Book. That is the
expression of the agreement. And He hangs it in the sky for all to see His
Agreement with his Seed, forever.The first of the Lights to shine forth is
given by love (red), Red symbolizes not only Love, but how that Love is
represented, by blood. For God so loved the World that He gave His only
begotten Son, and without the shedding of Blood there is no remission of sin.
So Red is there first color we see in the rainbow and that represents the Lamb
slain before the foundations of the world and the means whereby we are brought
back into fellowship with God.
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Notice the color of the Spirit of God which was above the likeness of these
four Creatures, was amber. Amber is yellowish green. Now, watch: yellowish
green, amber... Oh, He's the same yesterday... He revealed Himself to Ezekiel
in the midst of Ezekiel's vision. This Light that he saw coming above the four
living Creatures was yellowish green. When He come to John, He appeared in the
emerald which is also yellowish green. He comes now to the revelator in
yellowish green. He comes to us in yellowish green, the Light. Walk in the
Light; He is the Light. In revelations 10 he comes as the Angel of the
Covenant, the same Covenant of restored Life as given to Noah. But remember,
that Covenant was given after the Trial, the testing, and the judgment. But
Noah was given Life and escaped all of that judgment. And Yet the Judge of all
the Earth was present. Now, this is important to know when we look at the
colors of the rainbow. Because the colors of that Covenant Rainbow express the
attributes of the Covenant Giver and the rainbow is the expression of that Covenant.
The colors then each express a portion of that Covenant to us.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 57-0821 20-124 one
will go a green light, the other one will go a blue light, and maybe another an
emerald light, and a red light, and different lights go from it like a rainbow
color. They call it fire in the diamond. Now, each one of those lights
represents gifts. But it's only Christ is the Diamond. And He was the One Who
came, and was bruised, and wounded, and chipped that He might reflect Himself
back as a Light to the world. He's that Master Diamond. 20-126 Could you
imagine before there even was a earth, before there was a light, before there
was a star, before there was anything? There's a Great Fountain going forth of
Spirit, and out of this Fountain came the most pure of love; 'cause there was
nothing for it to come from there but love. … As we continued in our study last
week we saw how that God had come down in the days of Noah to confirm His
Covenant with His seed forever. And in the course of setting His Great Covenant
in the sky for all to see, we found that there appeared seven bright colors.
Red,
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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.
Well, God's rainbow is
a material manifestation of all that He is and all that this Covenant expresses
to you and me. It is all written out in that rainbow. That is the Book. That is
the expression of the agreement. And He hangs it in the sky for all to see His
Agreement with his Seed, forever. The first of the Lights to shine forth is
given by love (red), Red symbolizes not only Love, but how that Love is
represented, by blood. For God so loved the World that He gave His only
begotten Son, and without the shedding of Blood there is no remission of sin.
So Red is there first color we see in the rainbow and that represents the Lamb
slain before the foundations of the world and the means whereby we are brought
back into fellowship with God.