Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

How great the condescension of God, and His compassion for
His wayward creatures!
This does not imply that God would ever forget, but He speaks
to us in terms that we can understand. When the children would ask
the meaning of the arch that spans the heavens, their parents were to
repeat the story of the Flood and tell them that the Most High had
placed it in the clouds as a promise that the waters would never
again overflow the earth. It would testify of divine love for
humanity and strengthen their confidence in God.
In heaven a likeness of the rainbow encircles the throne and
arches over the head of Christ (Ezekiel 1:28; Revelation 4:2, 3).
When humanity's great wickedness invites divine judgments, the
Savior, interceding with the Father, points to the bow in the clouds,
to the rainbow around the throne, as a token of mercy toward the
repentant sinner.
"'As I have sworn that the waters of Noah would no longer
cover the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be angry with you,
nor rebuke you. ... My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall
My covenant of peace be removed,' says the Lord, who has mercy
on you" (Isaiah 54:9, 10).
As Noah looked at the powerful beasts of prey as they came out
of the ark, the Lord sent an angel with the assuring message: "The
fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth,
on every bird of the air, on all that move upon the earth, and on all
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