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Genesis 9:12-15
We are reading about the covenant between Elohim and earth, between God and Noah and every living creature. The rainbow, His bow, had never been seen prior to this time. But, now that sunlight has been able to reach the surface of the earth, light can be refracted through droplets of water and produce the rainbow.
Earlier we had read that God had not caused it to rain yet, but the earth was watered by mist and springs that welled up. Then when he called Noah, he said he would send rain for forty days and forty nights. This presumes that rain would be a new thing, not just an extended normal rain event. There was no normal rain. It had never rained at any time before.
If this is the first rainbow, it is also logical to conclude that sunlight had never refracted through droplets of water. That would lead to a rather interesting assumption that sunlight had been blocked out by a thick canopy of cloud cover prior to the flood.
I have looked at many scenarios by scientists that theorize everything from an icy dome shell at the edge of space to a thick canopy of clouds that blocked sunlight and kept the earth at a temperate, even, jungle like, world-wide climate. I am not going to expand on that much, but it is interesting how many anomalies can be cleared up when the words of the Tanakh are taken as fact.
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