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From: The Christian Shepherd: 2001

By: Walter Potter

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“He that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald” (Rev. 4:3³And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. (Revelation 4:3)).

That One sits upon the throne in the rainbow. He is the faithful judge remembering His covenant of mercy. It is like an “emerald” (green), for it is ever fresh before Him. The bow in the cloud tells us that God has smelled a sweet savor (Gen. 8:18-21¹⁸And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: ¹⁹Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. ²⁰And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. (Genesis 8:18‑21)). Abel’s sacrifice is personal acceptance, while Noah’s is blessing for creation—the double aspect and bearing of the sacrifice of Christ.

W. Potter

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