The Covenants in the Rainbow

What is a covenant and how are they covered in Scripture?
The most well known covenant is the 'marriage covenant' where two people become one - echad just as Adam and Eve were echad in the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:24). This takes us to the very first covenant that Elohim- God made, the Adamic Covenant. God's desire was to have Adam and Eve in intimate communion 'marriage covenant' with Him, but when they disobeyed Him He shed blood to cover their nakedness with the skin of animals (Gen 3:21). After wickedness came on all mankind, Noah was the only faithful servant of Yehovah, who walked with God and through whom He established His covenant (Gen 6:18). The sign of this everlasting covenant between God and all flesh is a rainbow (Gen 9:16).

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What is the significance of a rainbow? 
A rainbow is a sign of blessing. It requires water and sunlight shining through the water droplets. This results in the white light from the sun being split into its component colours. Light is made up of three primary colours, red, yellow and blue and three secondary colours of orange, green and purple as shown on left.

Each of these colours can be related to the six Old Testament covenants as follows:

1. RED: Adamah from which adam is derived means redness of colour and the Adamic covenant was the first time blood was shed, hence we can relate it to the colour red. It required Adam and Eve to be servants/stewards of God being fully obedient to Him, hence a Blood/Servant Covenant. 
2. ORANGE is made up from red and yellow and can represent the Noahic Covenant covered in Genesis 9:1-17 In verse 17 God said to Noah, “This (rainbow) is the sign of the (everlasting) covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.” So even before all the covenant promises were revealed God was giving a sign in the heavens of the covenants still to be progressively revealed!
3. YELLOW: God sent Yeshua (theophany) with two angels to offer Abraham an unconditional promise of eternal friendship sealed by a meal (Gen18:1-15) to seal the covenant cut in Genesis 15. Salt was to be used for this meal-offering according to Leviticus 2:13 Ancient Hebrew custom was for men to carry a small pouch of salt with them. When coming into covenant relationship they were to mix their salt together for the meal and redistribute the salt into their pouches. Only if they could get back their original salt grains could the covenant be broken. This Abrahamic covenant can be referred to as a Salt/Friendship Covenant and yellow, the colour of unprocessed salt is its colour in the rainbow.
4. GREEN: God confirmed this Salt/Friendship covenant with Jacob with who He struggled calling him Israel (Gen 35:9-15). So green a mixture of yellow and blue can be associated with Jacob the deceiver who became faithful to the God of Abraham and his name was changed to Israel.
5. BLUE: God also appeared to Moses in the burning bush where he was told to remove his sandals as he was on holy ground. Moses was given the Torah on Mt Sinai as the marriage contract or ketubah and the promise of inheriting the Promised Land. Hence this covenant can be called the Sandal or Inheritance Covenant. Blue is the colour of this covenant as the sky/heaven is blue and it represents holiness/divinity.
6. PURPLE: King David walked in the promise and inheritance that was given to Moses, possessing the Promised Land and through whom the Messiah would come. The combination of blue and red gives purple the colour of kingship where the blue shows divinity and red for Adam/man and when combined represents Yeshua in His divinity and humanity and as Priest and King. 


7. WHITE: When these colours are all combined together as reflected light we get white light that represents the Marriage or Renewed Covenant given in Jeremiah 31:31 In which all the above covenants are a part. Yeshua is the fulfilment of all the covenants as we come into deeper relationship with Him starting with servant-hood, friendship and then into inheritance as sons and daughters and finally into a marriage relationship. This is the deepest relationship know to mankind which is what God intended in the Garden of Eden.

 In Summary
From this it is clear that there are not separate and independent covenants in the Hebrew Scriptures but progressive revelations of the final one fulfilled by Yeshua HaMashiach by His death and resurrection.

This so called Renewed Covenant has not yet come into its fullness as it requires the Houses of Israel and Judah to know their MessiahYeshua and have His Torah written on both Jew and Gentile believer's hearts! (Jer 31:31-33) 

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