Whether they realize it or not (and likely, in our secular age, they do not), gay activists and the gay community are using God’s symbol of judgment and salvation as a celebration of their sinful behavior. The rainbow reminds us that God judged sin with a global Flood, but that He promises never to judge again with a global Flood-the final judgment will be by fire. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” ( Genesis 9:12–16) It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow 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 the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. But the rainbow has been a symbol of the judgment and mercy of the Creator for much, much longer than that-around 4,300 years longer! You see, after the global Flood of Noah’s day, God made a promise to Noah, his family, their descendants, and the animals. So the rainbow colors have been a symbol of the gay community since the 1970s. The pink was later dropped due to the unavailability of the fabric, and the indigo was left out to achieve an even number.
Baker took these bright colors and made them into a striped flag of pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple.
People identified their homosexuality by wearing bright colors such as yellow, green, or purple. 1 However, the use of bright colors to represent the gay community goes back a bit farther. The rainbow colors were first used as a symbol of the gay community in the 1970s when San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed an eight-stripe flag. I’ve had people on social media claim that “the rainbow doesn’t belong to anyone.” Despite their insistence, they’re sure it’s not a symbol of God’s judgment and mercy and instead claim it symbolizes a spectrum of gender identities. We’re trying to help Christians and unbelievers recognize the true meaning of the rainbow as it’s given to us in the Bible ( Genesis 9). As Christians, we need to take the rainbow back and teach our young people its true meaning. But the rainbow was a symbol of God’s promises before the LGBTQ movement-and will continue to be after that movement has ended. Because of this, many Christians shy away from using the rainbow colors. Sadly, people ignore what God intended the rainbow to represent and proudly wave rainbow-colored flags in defiance of God’s command and design for marriage. God created this beautiful, colorful phenomenon and designated it as a sign of His covenant with Noah and his descendants forever. freedom, love, pride, a new era, and, specifically, the LGBTQ movement. . . .īut the rainbow itself wasn’t designed to be a symbol of freedom, love, pride, or the LGBTQ movement. In recent times the rainbow (albeit with some different colors) has come to represent. Now what do I mean by that? Well, in a blog post announcing the rainbow lights at the Ark, I wrote, It’s all part of “taking the rainbow back.”
We will be working over the coming months to ensure this change is permanent. Well, we’ve decided to enhance the rainbow lights and make them a permanent feature during evenings at the Ark, located south of Cincinnati. During the Christmas season, we lit up the full-size Ark at our themed attraction, Ark Encounter, in rainbow lights for a beautiful display.