Chapter 1

The rainbow is a symbol of God’s promise to the people of the earth. The rainbow circles the throne of God.

The true meaning of the rainbow is revealed in Genesis 9:12–15:

“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. 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” (NKJV).

First, the covenant of the rainbow is between God and man and the animals that were with Noah on the Ark: a promise that there would never be such an event again that would destroy all flesh on the land. As there have been many local floods since that time, this is obviously a promise that there would never be another global flood to destroy all flesh.

The wheels associated with the “four living creatures” (Ezekiel 1:4), are later described (Ezekiel 10:5, 20) as cherubim, angelic beings appointed as guardians of the holiness of God.

Each wheel was actually two in one, with one apparently set inside the other at right angles which enabled the “living creatures” to move in any direction instantly without having to turn, like a flash of lightning. 

The vision of Ezekiel presented God as being on a chariot-like throne.