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 God Has Encircled His Throne with the Rainbow Representing His Mercy and Justice ㅡ 

  “ And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.  And 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 4:2, 3)  

As the bow in the cloud is formed by the union of the sunlight and the shower, so the rainbow encircling the throne represents the combined power of mercy and justice. 

  It is not justice alone that is to be maintained; for this would eclipse the glory of the rainbow of promise above the throne; men could see only the penalty of the law. 

  Were there no justice, no penalty, there would be no stability to the government of God.

  It is the mingling of judgment and mercy that makes salvation complete. 

 It is the blending of the two that leads us, as we view the world’s Redeemer, and the law of Jehovah, to exclaim, “Thy gentleness hath made me great” 

  (The Review and Herald, December 13, 1892)