After the flood
The glow of the rainbow being a symbol of
the covenant of God testifies for us a forgiving spirit ready for a new day and
a new tomorrow. With this, he gives the sign that he would no longer destroy
the world with flood.
Every time a rainbow appears, we are
reminded of him being a forgiving God and a God who loves the upright. With God
on our side, there is always hope and salvation. Being born of water and have
the Spirit, a Christian is ready for a relationship with God and he respects
the Lord’s being one with the fullness of the Godhead in him.
The rainbow reminds us that, once in
the history of the world, it was washed or cleansed with flood as the first
symbol of baptism. When we are born of water or being baptized, we are forgiven
of our sins even the sin we inherited from Adam and Eve. It is the Christians’
recourse to be new with God and be cleansed.
With the word of God that feed our
soul, our eyes are opened to the truth that as much as we need baptism, we also
need to be filled with the Holy Ghost. The eight individuals saved from flood
by Noah’s ark, are those whose eyes were opened through the inspiration of God.
Being saved to them was also a symbol of the presence of the God’s Spirit.
Centuries after the flood in Noah’s
time, we are again here facing the same problem in the time before the flood.
People whose love has waxed cold commit all sorts of abominations:
prostitution, incest, adultery, sodomy, crime, bestiality and even suicide. As
in Noah’s time, there are drinking and feasting, getting married and giving up
marriage until the flood came.
Though God has promised that he
would no longer end the world with flood, we are faced with the danger of a
devouring fire. We should be aware that many of the powerful nations are
equipped with nuclear weapons. Remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima, we would no
longer permit a destruction such as the people in those places had endured. But
we are facing a future with a danger similar to this.
The Lord said, ‘Behold, I am against
them that prophesy false dreams and do tell them, and cause my people to err by
their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them:
therefore they shall not profit this people at all (Jeremiah 23:32).’ Even them
who are entrusted in their seats to serve the people and the nation lie giving
us false hope.
Do we not fear the impending danger,
of subverting the law and weakening the nation? And with globalization, what
will happen to the poor and the distressed especially the poor nations? They
are the one that will suffer most. The rich will become richer and the poor
will even be poorer. Even the wide continents are not spared.
Do we not fear that a single
monetary and a one-world government can control us? This would be a misery to
the poor. Pray that we shall be saved from the Lord’s fury.
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