Somewhere over the rainbow

Last Lord's Day we heard a sermon from Genesis in one28. Many people have a different view about rainbows, and depending on who you talk too is what one might find on the other side of the rainbow. Most might say a pot of gold. I can't help but think about the "Wizard of Oz" because of the countless times my family would sit down and watch it on the once a year TV program.

What do you think of when you ponder over the rainbow?

Many might not want to peek somewhere over the rainbow. Because behind the rainbow you can't help but see God's righteous wrath against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. The rainbow a sign for God to remember (know that God is all knowing and that He doesn't need a reminder, but that God is telling Noah the importance of the rainbow and why it hangs in the clouds, usually after a storm) not to ever destroy mankind with a flood. Just think of what Noah would have thought everytime a rain drop fell from the sky after the flood that destroyed all of mankind except for him and his family?

The rainbow is also a reminder to us of what God did towards mankind because their wickedness was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually! Without the flood that destroyed the whole earth and all that was outside of the ark you don't have a rainbow. And to think that God's righteousness was displayed in every death because of the flood is even deeper thought about how God does and will deal with sinful man that won't repent of their wicked deeds!
Its even more crazy to think of all the references to the flood that took place during Noah's time. Read these verses for yourself, and if you are able read them from your own Bible:

"But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man." (Matthew 24:36-39)

"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all." (Luke 17:26-27)

"For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly" (2 Peter 2:4-6)

And as much bad news as anyone will find in the rainbow, I think for any sinner, there is hope over the rainbow. That hope is in Christ. He is our ark! God sent His only Son so that many would be saved from the wrath to come. Heaven is God's free gift to give, and He only offers it through His Son, Jesus Christ. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! Any other way will only lead you too hell. If you don't know Christ, my prayer is that you would put your faith and trust in the Son. We don't have forever....come to Christ NOW! When your faith leads to obedience to Jesus and His Word you can know you have found rest for your soul. When your in Christ you have no need to worry about the wrath to come, if your outside of Christ....wrath is at the door step and when your judgment does come tonight or when God would call account from your life you will spend eternity in hell separated from God. Repent for the kingdom is at hand!