Dreaming About Rainbows: The Bible Gives It No Meaning — but God Defines the Rainbow

Christian Pure Team

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Samenvatting

  • Scripture records no dream of a rainbow, but the rainbow is one of the few images God defines himself.
  • “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13).
  • The sign faces God rather than us: “Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant” (Genesis 9:16).
  • The Hebrew word is simply bow — the weapon. A bow hung arc-upward in the clouds is a weapon laid aside.
  • It returns at the far end of Scripture: “A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne” (Revelation 4:3). The promise made on a muddy hillside is set around the seat of God.

Scripture records no dream of a rainbow, and gives no meaning to one. But of all the images to wake with, dear friends, this is the one the Bible has already explained — and it explained it to Noah, standing on wet ground beside a ruined world. Does the Bible interpret dreams about rainbows? It does not. Scripture records many dreams and interprets only a handful, each meaning given directly by God through a named servant, for one person, on…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Genesis 9:13-16; Revelation 4:3). The Hebrew qesheth, used of the rainbow in Genesis 9, is the ordinary word for an archer’s bow.

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