Considering what the colors around us are declaring about God can help us to become more aware of his goodness filling the earth. We need to become aware of God’s glory which fills the earth and which all of creation proclaims.
One of the most important things to understand in I Will Awaken The Dawnis that the earth is presently full of God’s glory, but it will be filled with the knowledge of his glory.
Again, this isn’t something I treat dogmatically. Of course, colors can mean different things to different people. So I don’t think it’s a stretch to think of different colors representing different aspects of God’s nature. We know that different colors have different psychological effects. It’s quite an interesting topic to read about. So we could read Ephesians 3:10 as saying “His intent was that now, through the church, God’s many-colored wisdom should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms.” Wow! Through the Church God’s wisdom in its infinite variety is to be displayed – the many-tinted wisdom of God – in different modes of power, different characters, methods of training, providences, forms of organization, etc. Ποίκιλον is used in the Septuagint of Joseph’s coat, Gen_37:3. It is applied to pictures, flowers, garments. The adjective occurs only here, and means variegated. (See the notes on verse 10 here)Ī very striking phrase. This passage becomes really interesting when we check out what Vincent’s Word Studies says about the word “manifold” as used here. Could it be that there is some correlation between these seven aspects of God’s nature, and the seven colors of the rainbow? Revelation says that there’s a rainbow around God’s throne.Įphesians 3:10 talks about the manifold, or multi-faceted wisdom of God. We take each of God’s redemptive names as promises. We also know that a rainbow is symbolic of God’s promise. Just as God is one, but his nature is multi-faceted, light is one but we can see different facets of it in a rainbow. (For example, Revelation 3:1, 4:5, and 5:6) Scripture also says that God is light (1 John 1:5). I read in Revelation about the “seven spirits” or as is sometimes translated, “sevenfold Spirit” of the Lord. Learning about God’s seven redemptive names led me into an interesting train of thought. Jehovah-Tsidkenu-The Lord Our Righteousness
God’s “seven redemptive names” describe seven redemptive aspects of his character. I first read about God’s “Seven Redemptive Names” in F.F. God’s Seven Spirits And Many-Colored Wisdom I took a bunch of his flags to Russia and did a seminar on using colors and banners to proclaim God’s glory.
But after writing about white banners last week, I thought it might make an interesting blog post to talk about God’s names and the colors of the rainbow. I wanted to keep it to the most essential and necessary truths in that book. I talked about non-verbal proclamation in I Will Awaken The Dawn. I mentioned this, but I didn’t get into how the colors might correlate with different aspects of God’s nature. Although this shouldn’t be taken dogmatically, it may be encouraging and useful to you as you practice non-verbal proclamation. I’m going to compare God’s “seven redemptive names” with the colors of the rainbow. I don’t like when people teach subjective things as as if they were doctrine, without solid scriptural support. What I’m about to share, I’m not sharing as doctrine. Last week we talked about God’s name “The Lord Is My Banner.” We discussed using banners to proclaim God’s dominion and his name, “The Lord Our Peace.”