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Prior to the flood the bow (wrath of God) was
turned toward mankind and the only way to
kindle this wrath was through sacrifice
and offerings or destruction
After the floor the bow (wrath of God)
was turned toward heaven. Therefore,
his atoning sacrifice had to come from
above. His great love and mercy caused
him to send His only begotten son so
mankind, as vile and corrupt as we are
could find forgiveness.
God put a rainbow in the sky to remind us
His wrath is not pointed at us but at Himself.
It's up to us to accept Him and be forgiven so
that we can enter into His presence someday.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the
second month, the seventeenth day of the
month, the same day were all the fountains of
the great deep broken up, and the windows
of heaven were opened. And the rain was
upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem,
and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah,
and Noah’s wife, and the three wives
of his sons with them, into the ark; They,
and every beast after his kind, and all the
cattle after their kind, and every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind, and every fowl after his kind,
every bird of every sort. And they went in
unto Noah into the ark, two and two of
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
And they that went in, went in male and
female of all flesh, as God had commanded
him: and the LORD shut him in. And the
flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bare up the ark, and
it was lift up above the earth.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for
a token of a covenant between 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 between me and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no
more become a flood to destroy all flesh.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.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world
through him might be saved. He that
believeth on him is not condemned: but
he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:16-18
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