Rainbows with Meanings

Adam and Eve had two children, Cain and Abel. Cain was very appreciated by God and Abel grew jealous and killed him. (There’s a book by Jeffrey Archer titled “Kane and Abel” and it is about a rivalry between two men. My point is, it’s awesome, read it.)

God tells Cain, “If you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master,” before Cain kills his brother, obviously not having understood that particular lesson.

He is punished by having to restlessly wonder the earth and having the crops not yield to him. But he would not be killed, because whoever would end up killing Cain, would suffer vengeance.

Then the text goes on to point out basically how Cain got a wife and reproduced, and the chain went on and on. The same went for Seth, Adam and Eve’s other soon which they saw as a replacement of Abel.

After men had reproduced a lot and began to increase in number, the Lord saw how “the great man’s wickedness had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.”

So he decided to do the only thing that would make all the evilness go away.

He decided to wipe them all away, the men, the animals, etc.

Except one.

Noah was a righteous man, descendent of Seth, and “he walked with God.” The Lord told him about his plan, and made him make an arc out of wood, taking only his wife, his sons, his sons’ wives, and a female and male of every living creature with him, to reproduce later on when a flood had killed the rest of existence.

I turns out, maybe being good, and having important people like will end up saving you. I’m just saying.

In the six-hundredth day of Noah’s life, the flood came pouring in, him safe in the deep confines of the arc, protected.

When he sets food on ground, the Lord promise He will never again wipe out Earth, and makes a covenant with Noah. He tells him to reproduce and thrive, and the every cloudy day when there’s a rainbow, He will remember the covenant between Him and Noah, and all the other creatures.

I will never look at a rainbow the same way.