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What Color is God? - The Use of Color in Bible
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The Blue Stone The Heavens

The law of color combination of pigments states the following:
There are three primary colors from which all other colors can be made.

The primary colors are red, blue and yellow.

Purple is a combination of red and blue.

Green is a combination of yellow and blue.

Orange is a combination of yellow and red.

White is a combination of all colors - red, blue and yellow.

Black is the absence of any color.

So we will look at how God uses color in the sanctuary and we
will also look at the science of color in nature to demonstrate the attributes
of God. Here is a summary.

Summary of the colors and their meanings

Color

Meaning

Comment

Red

Sacrifice, mercy, life

Christ is the Lamb of God

Orange

Comforter, teacher, companion

Combines the work of Love in relation to the merits of the sacrifice
as a healer and restorer.

Yellow

Character, fruit

The work of the Holy Spirit is to bear the fruits of God in us - of
these the greatest is to love. Our character is described as "gold tried
in the fire"

Green

King, kingdom of God

Combines the work of Law in relation to love.

Blue

Law

The Father sits on the sapphire throne from which the stones for the
law were taken

Purple

Priest, defender, lawyer

Combines the work of sacrifice in relation to the breaking of the law

White

Righteousness

Love. Perfection of all characters and principles before God.
Knowledge of God.

Black

Sin, evil

The absence of the light of God. Separation from God.

The primary colors appear to represent the core
attributes or character of God.
The secondary colors appear to
represent the roles of God as He seeks to reconcile one character to
another within us.
The colors black and white, represent the status of man
as we reject or accept the colors of God.

Just as He uses numbers
prophetically and symbolically, God uses colors symbolically in the sanctuary,
its services and in the prophecies.

By looking at the colors and
combinations and their symbols a pattern emerges. Just as God exists as a
trinity, there exists a basic set of three colors that combines to form all
colors and the perfect color - white. By examining the roles assigned to the
members of the Trinity and the use of color in the bible, one can speculate
about the meanings of the secondary colors and how the combination of primary
colors interact to demonstrate a truth.

The Bible teaches that it is
valid to look at nature to learn about God. And it also teaches that everyone
has some internal knowledge of God that is convincing and they also have "a
measure of faith" (Romans 12: 3).
Because that which
is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For
since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and
divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been
made, so that they are without excuse. Romans 1: 19-20

And
according to Psalms 19: 1. The heavens are telling the
Glory of God and their expanse shows the work of His handiwork. Day to day they
speak and night to night reveals knowledge.

Substitute

Red
For the life of the flesh is in the blood. (Leviticus
17: 11)
Red is the sacrifice. It means life. The blood of Christ which
cleanses us and covers us from the penalty of sin. The sanctuary had a covering
of red. This symbolizes the protection the blood of Christ offers us. This
covering is like the mercy seat over us.
This dimension points out a
characteristic of heaven. We are connected. If one suffers all suffer. We bear
each other's burdens. We give, no matter the cost. Receiving is just a bonus.
What we are about is the welfare of others. We are a sacrificial people.

Yellow
I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you
may become rich. (Revelation 3: 18)
Yellow or gold signifies
character. Our character is the 'gold tried in fire'. It is achieved through
receiving the Holy Spirit as He writes the law in our hearts. It is what makes
all we do 'spiritual'. It is the motives and intentions behind all our actions.
It is rooted in the law and acted out in love. We are good people.

Pentecost

Orange
I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you
may become rich. Revelation 3: 18
The only orange color or symbolism
we can see are the flames of the Holy spirit. Gold tends to be part of this
color scheme. God wants our characters to come out 'like Gold tried in the
fire'. Orange combines red and yellow. As Witness and Comforter on earth, the
Holy Spirit has the task of making us perfect. Because of the sacrifice of
Christ, he can now change our character and reconcile us to God. He sustains or
comforts the saints as we wait for our deliverance.

He provides the
daily link we need to heaven. Because of this role in daily leading us to God,
He can switch to being a witness for or against us in the future - because
everyone will be given the chance to accept or reject His call. So he is also a
judge at this time. Judging between good and evil, searching our hearts, cutting
away the evil, repairing the damage of sin, placing us in the fiery furnace
until we emerge perfect.

Our court systems pretend to rehabilitate us.
God actually does it through the Holy Spirit. Instead of immediate punishment,
God has a plan of rehabilitation. We have a comforting Judge who now dispenses
mercy instead of justice. We are a persevering and patient people.

The Blue Throne

Blue
And they saw the God of Israel and under His feet there
appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. Exodus
24: 10

Now above the expanse that was above their
heads there was something resembling a throne, like lapis lazuli (sapphire) in
appearance; on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the
appearance of a man. Ezekiel 1: 26

Speak
to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels
on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they
shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue. 39 "It shall be a tassel
for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do
them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you
played the harlot, 40 so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be
holy to your God. 41 "I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land
of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD your God. Numbers 15: 38-41

Blue is the law. The ten Commandments were carved from a blue stone which
was a part of the throne of God. The Israelites wore a blue tassel to remind
them of the Law (Numbers 15: 38-41). The priest's garment had gold, red, blue
and purple. The whore of revelation was adorned in everything except blue - she
violates the law, yet she wants riches, priesthood and sacrifice. She just did
not like the rules. But we are a people of the law.

The Priest

Purple
Covering

Purple
The Altar.Then they shall take away the ashes from the
altar, and spread a purple cloth over it. Numbers 4: 13
Purple has
become the symbol of royalty, but it clearly was a symbol that was related to
the priesthood and sacrifice when God used it. This color was in all the
priest's garments and the coverings of the sanctuary and the doorways.
Significantly, the altar of sacrifice was covered in purple when the sanctuary
was moved. (Numbers 4: 13). This prophecy was fulfilled when he was dressed in
purple at the trial.

The Priest. And the
soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a
purple robe on Him; John 19: 2; Mark 15: 17
The priest is the lawyer
for the government and law of God. He studies this law and teaches it to the
people and administers justice. Therefore, Christ becomes our priest and
defender before God. The color purple is in the doors to the sanctuary because
the sanctuary is the place where we go to get justice from God.

Since
purple was expensive to produce, it became associated with wealth. The emperors
of Rome eventually used this color for royalty. So at the time of His trial, the
soldiers intended to mock Jesus as the king of the Jews. When they did this,
they inadvertently dressed Him up as the altar of sacrifice.
Purple is a
combination of red and blue. The priest fulfilled the demands of the law by
becoming the sacrifice. He atoned for the broken law (blue) with His red blood.
Therefore, when the law and sacrifice combined it formed purple. No wonder the
place of sacrifice was covered in purple. We are also destined to be priests of
God. We die daily to sin.

Green

The Feast of Tabernacles

Green is the symbol
of royalty and eternal life. It is a combination of blue and yellow. A good king
has laws and he does his duties in love. And his people keep the law because
they are of good character. The blue combines with the gold to produce one
harmonious society.
We see the green color in at least four places in the
Bible, three having to do with happy times spent with the king.

The Throne of God.
And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius
in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in
appearance. Revelation 4: 3
Both jasper and emerald are green
stones. Sardius is red. Jasper can also be red or blue.

God is
described as sitting on a throne with an emerald (green) rainbow over him. The
rainbow was always a covenant symbol. It is the King who makes the covenant to
combine the law with love, in our hearts. The covenant says that he will be
our God and king and we will be His people. To do that he will write the law
in our hearts. He combines the blue and the yellow.

Jesus the King. When Christ came to
Jerusalem on that last Sunday before his crucifixion, he was greeted as the
king with green palm branches.

The Feast of Tabernacles. the feast that
celebrates living with God.
Now on the first day
you shall take for yourselves, the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches
and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice
before the Lord your God seven days. Leviticus 23: 40
The feast of
tabernacles is adorned with green branches. It is the time when we lived with
the king. Green is clearly the symbol of royalty and being in the presence of
the king. We are from an ancient royal family. We will continue to reign and
rule in the new earth.

The People of God. Revelation 7: 1,3
commands the angel not to hurt the trees. And Revelation 9: 4 suggests that
all green things belong to God.
They were told not
to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only
the men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads.

We are destined to have eternal life in the presence of God,
and reflect the glory of God to the entire universe.

The Pure Woman

White
Come now let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your
sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like
crimson, they will be like wool. Isaiah 1: 18
It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and
clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Revelation
19: 8
White is the perfect balance of all three - in love. Love causes us to
sacrifice, to obey, to have good characters. So love is the greatest. God is
also love because when the three (red, blue, yellow) become one it produces
white (love). God is not just any one of these colors. These distinctions merely
define the different things God is doing to reconcile us to himself.

It
is the covenant that joins the law and the love.
It is grace that combines a
sacrifice with love to give us pardon.
It is love that causes mercy to be
patient while our characters develop.

We are a perfect people.

Black

The Shadow of Death

But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out in the outer
darkness; in that place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 8: 12
To shine upon those who sit in
darkness and the shadow of death. Luke 1: 79
Notice that black is not
the mixture of any color. It is the total absence of all colors.
It is now
easy to understand why the image of darkness and black represents evil. It is
the absence of law, love and good motives. There is no connection to God.

If black were a combination of colors then we would have to argue that
if it represents sin, then sin would be an unbalanced combination of the
attributes of God. But this is not the case. In sin, people live in hatred and
lawlessness and selfishness. They do not have a single drop of the colors of
God.
If you examine any crime or any evil, at the root of them is the
presence of all of these character flaws. And it all starts with a
twisted love of self only. The philosophy of the 'me' generation is evil. The
principles of evolution contained in the notion of the 'survival of the fittest'
is an unnatural law.

Christ became sin for us when He was on the cross
in the darkness and God turned away from Him. He continued to be sin while He
was dead in the grave.

He made Him who knew no
sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in
Him. 2 Corinthians 5: 21

The sting of sin
is death, and the power of sin is the law. 1 Corinthians 15: 56

We do not walk in darkness any longer. We are a people of the light.

The Definition of Sin

The Unpardonable Sin

Why are some sins unpardonable? In the plan of
salvation Jesus has bought the ticket to heaven and He has made it
available at no cost to us. All we have to do is accept the ticket
and get on the air plane.

The Holy Spirit is like the
airplane and the pilot. He will guide us to Heaven. But if we refuse
to get on board we cannot get to our destination. That is why it is
a sin against the Holy Spirit. We refuse His leadership.
Our
sins are unpardonable because we refuse to leave them behind.

Our sins are unpardonable because we refuse to take the only
transportation that will lead us away from them.

It is not
God's actions that make our sins unpardonable. It is ours.

But
your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins
have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. Isaiah 59:
2
The definition of sin becomes clearer as you look at it through the colors.
Sin is separation from God. At a minimum it starts with and causes separation
from God. If we look at various extremes of righteousness, we realize that
separation from any member of the Trinity leads to sin. In the worst case, it
leads to total darkness because we have separated ourselves from all members of
the Trinity.

Sin is Missing the Mark.

Sin is being deficient in one or more areas of each of the members of the
trinity. So we cannot reach the state of perfection where we perfectly blend all
the attributes of God.
For all have sinned and come
short of the Glory of God. Romans 3: 23

Lawless. Sin is breaking the law and
rejecting the Father.
Everyone who practices sin
also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3: 4
In
the extreme, the lawless live by their own code of law. The righteous who are
lawless, choose the laws they want to obey or choose how they want to obey it.
They see no problem in changing or substituting the law of God.

Unbelief. The sin of unbelief is the
rejection of Christ. (John 16: 9)
For whatever is
not from faith is sin. Romans 14: 23
These people see no purpose for
the death of Christ and many do not believe in or care about the truth of the
resurrection.

Stubbornness. This is resisting the Holy
Spirit.
For rebellion is as the sin of divination
and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. 1 Samuel 15:
23
Stubbornness is like idolatry because you have chosen to make yourself
and your opinions god.

A stubborn person chooses to disobey after the
Holy Spirit has convinced them of the truth. Or they neglect to investigate
truth, choosing to live as they always have in the past. The Holy Spirit only
works with the obedient.
... And so is the Holy
Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him. Acts 5: 32

And He when He comes, will convict the world
concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do
not believe in Me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and
you no longer see me; and concerning judgment because the ruler of this world
has been judged. John 16: 8-11
Again we have the three colors. The
work of the Holy Spirit is to convince us of these three important areas.

Red ( Sin). Rejecting faith in Christ.

Yellow ( Righteous). The Holy Spirit could only come when Christ
leaves. We no longer have Christ in the flesh as the model of righteousness,
so the Holy Spirit now does this work.
But I tell
you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go
away the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
John 16: 7

Blue (Judgment). The law will be used for judgment. Satan and his
rule of lawlessness are now under judgment.

The Unpardonable
Sin.
Therefore I say to you, any sin and
blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not
be forgiven. Matthew 12: 31
The unpardonable sin is the rejection of
the work of the Holy Spirit through continual disobedience. It is His job to
lead each person from sin to righteousness. In this process He keeps revealing
sin. That is why Romans says that the Holy Spirt is given to those who obey
Him. Those who reject His counsel do not want to be convinced of sin.
Therefore, those sins remain with them. They are unpardonable because we
refuse to let them go and God has no other option to free us.

Sin is the Absence of One or More Attributes
of God
This is a better definition. It is also called "falling short
of the glory of God". (Romans 3: 23)
If you reject one of these attributes,
you are rejecting the God who is introducing it to us. Eventually, the rejection
of one aspect of righteousness will lead to the rejection or modification of the
others, since the concepts are tightly linked.
You cannot be completely
lawful if you reject the Holy Spirit. Sooner or later you will change or reject
some part of the law of God and you will come to accept the belief that change
is impossible.

Color

Black

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

Purple

Sinner

Evil doers

Once saved,
always saved

No more Law

Spiritualism

No Jesus needed

Legalist

Ignores Holy Spirit

Error

Unbelief

Stubborn

Lawless

Stubborn

Lawless

Lawless

Lawless

Unbelief

Unbelief

Unbelief

Stubborn

Stubborn

Universal Errors.

Evil Doers Reject God

Morality and Ethics Codes

Reject the Spirit

Christian legalists

God, the Father

Legalist

Once saved, always saved

Jesus

Perfect
Glory of God

Holy Spirit

Spiritualism

Charismatics

Reject Jesus

Reject the
Law

Black: Pure Evil. Those in total darkness
who have separated themselves from all members of the Trinity. They see no
need for righteousness. At best, some will have some moral code that will
respect the rights of others as long as it does not interfere with their best
interests. Situation ethics is their rule of life. Their personal pleasure and
profit is their goal.

Blue: Legalist. A legalist attempts to
reconcile to the father only. The sign of this reconciliation is their
perfection. They minimize or do not understand the work of Christ and the Holy
Spirit. They achieve righteousness by works.
Many religions have this
dimension only. A code of law and a personal attempt to obey these laws.
Letting the Holy Spirit do His work is a foreign concept. They cannot
understand it and do not fully cooperate with it because there is no
equivalent in the human experience.

Yellow: Spiritualism. These emphasize the
work of the Holy Spirit or a Spirit. The modern counterfeit movement of Satan
is the New Age and occult systems. They rely heavily on the superior
intelligence and power of the spirits, ascended masters and other intelligent
life out there, somewhere.
One occult version of Christianity is the
Charismatic movement. They confirm their righteousness through signs or
controlling the power of God. The sign of this reconciliation is their ability
to control the gifts of God, especially the gift of tongues.
Another is
the practice of praying to intermediaries instead of directly to God. Through
the use of charms, emblems and other tokens people appeal to the saint in
charge of their specific need. This replaces God and faith and is
indistinguishable from the practice of praying to ascended masters.

God

Attribute

Substitute

Sin

Father

Commandments and laws of God

Morality and ethics

Contempt for the law

Jesus Christ

Mercy

Survial of the fittest

Infidelity

Holy Spirit

Character of God

Personal feelings

Spiritualism

Eventually, when we reject God we will substitute our own
human theories for what we reject. Eventually, we will even make
substitutions for what we initially accept about God because disobedience
always completes the separation from God.

Christian Extremes.
Christianity includes the concepts of
righteousness by faith and the assistance of the Holy Spirit in leading the
sinner back to God. We are not left alone to worry about our sins. Our past has
been forgiven. We have assistance for the future. We are freed from the past and
from the power of sins. Most Christian errors involve the rejection or ignorance
of one of these powers of God.

Red: Once saved, always saved. They
emphasize only the freedom obtained by the work of Christ and reject the law
and the work of the Holy Spirit. In the extreme, these people believe that
there is no sin that will keep them out of heaven after they have accepted
Christ. So they continue to sin or believe that victory over sin is impossible
or irrelevant.

Orange: Reject the Law. Most people fall
into this category or the next. They love Jesus and the Holy Spirit (the red
and the yellow). But they hate the law. These claim that all the law was
nailed to the cross. However, many accept most of the law except those with
which they do not agree. This is usually the Saturday Sabbath. Young people
tend to openly have a problem with the seventh commandment.
Their position
is illogical. If the law has been nailed to the cross and there is no need to
keep it, then they cannot turn around and argue for the wisdom of nine of the
ten.

Purple: Resist the Holy Spirit. These
people have no problem with the law or the atoning sacrifice of Christ. And
they believe in the concept of the Holy Spirit. The problem with this group is
that they rely on themselves to do the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy
Spirit is a mystery to them. Relying on the Spirit seems to require submission
of their will and common sense. Therefore, they carry on the work of the
church through theories derived from education and science. They assess their
perfection by looking at the law. After a while most realize that perfection
is elusive. Therefore, they live with guilt or the realization that it is
impossible to overcome some sins. They do not realize that it is impossible
because they will not allow the Holy Spirit to work in them. It is His job to
put enmity between us and our sins. Our own will power, wishing and fasting
can not do this. Eventually, they give in to popular sins under the assumption
that if Christ was sinless then He had special help which is inaccessible to
them.

Green: Reject Jesus. It seems impossible,
but there are Christians who reject Christ! This appears to be a new
phenomenon that is called the "Moral Influence Theory". According to this
thinking, there was no purpose for the death of Jesus. They see no reason for
His blood and why He had to die. These facts are irrelevant. Their concerns
are developing a moral and ethics code that has evolved with the times and
diminishes the idea of a separate God.

In the days of the disciple a
similar apostasy appears to have happened. Some people did not believe in the
resurrection. Now there appears to be a movement that rejects the atonement of
Christ. He now becomes one of many enlightened teachers who were a source of
moral influence like Buddha, Muhammed, Krishna and all the other religious
figures in history. It is probably due to the fact that they are trying to
reconcile all religions and the blood of Christ is a stumbling block.
Consequently, they eventually see no problem with changing the law or relying
on their own inner spirit or the powerful supernatural spirits that are
attempting to control the human race.

White: Perfect. There is no separation from
God. This person has perfectly blended the work of the Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. They are aware of their proper role in the Plan of Salvation. We
actively take steps to learn about God. Then we decide to follow God. Then we
submit to the Spirit.
Somehow, we emerge changed. We see issues in a
different way. We hate the things God hates and we love the things He loves.
We recognize that there is no light in things that we thought were harmless.
Suddenly religion is not boring. Suddenly there is a deep longing for God.

Sets of Three
There are
many divisions based on this idea of three and they can all be traced back to
the same type of function being performed by the members of the trinity.

Attribute

God - the Father

God - the Son

God - the Holy Spirit

Primary Color

Blue

Red

Yellow

Secondary Color

Green

Purple

Orange

3 principles

Law

Mercy

Character

3 Gifts

Covenant

Grace

Spirit

3 Covenant Stages

Makes

Fulfills

Seals

3 Covenant Signs

Rest from sin

Sabbath rest at death

In Sabbath commandment

3 Roles

Father
King

Brother
Priest

Companion
Healer

3 future roles

King

Judge

Witness

3 Ceremonies

Baptism

Bread and Wine

Laying on of hands

3 Baptisms

Water

Blood

Fire

Sanctuary

Most Holy Place

Holy Place

Outer Court - Earth

3 Temples

Heaven

Church on Earth

Our Body

3 Coverings

Mercy Seat

Blood

White robe of righteousness

3 Harvests

Fruit (Tabernacles)

Barley (Wavesheaf)

Wheat (Pentecost)

3 First Fruits

The Saints

The Dead

The Church

3 Domains

Heaven

Bridge between Heaven,
Earth and Sheol

Earth

3 Levels of Sins

Rebellion

Separation from God

Acts or deeds

3 acts of God

Glorification

Justification

Sanctification

3 Responses

Surrender (Repenting)

Faith (believing)

Works (doing)

Transformations

Physical

Mental

Spiritual

Convictions

Judgment

Sin

Righteousness

3 time periods

Future

Past

Present

There are three colors, three baptisms or cleansings - (water,
blood, fire), three sections of the sanctuary, three sacraments which arise from
the three baptisms, three gifts of God to us in reconciling each of his
characters, three temples of God which arise from the three areas of work of the
members of the Trinity. As you look at the items in the table, think of their
primary or secondary colors. Water is blue, fire is orange.
The theme of
this section is that the colors represent the activity of each member of the
trinity. All three participate in all activities necessary for the restoration
of mankind, but they concentrate on different aspects of the problem. Christ is
concerned with reconciling actions from the past. The Holy Spirit is concerned
with the growth of the Christian in the present. The Father is concerned with
the events of the future at the final reconciliation. All three reach into time
to carry out the plans that will lead to our final future victory.

God the Father
The Father
first makes the eternal covenant with man that he will reconcile man to God and
give us rest from sin despite the fact that we had broken the law. He covers or
shields us with His mercy while He reconciles us to himself and the law.
In
the new earth He is the King, and rivers of life giving waters flow from His
throne.
He is regarded as the one who sits in the Most Holy Place, on His
throne, over the law carved from the blue stone. So technically, he is in charge
of the ministry in this part of the sanctuary. I should point out that all
members of the Trinity are probably equal participants. So it is not just the
Father only who appears to technically deal with the eternal affairs as king.

We respond to Him by surrendering ourselves.

God the Son
The Son keeps
God's promise in the covenant by becoming the lamb who would be sacrificed for
our sins. Now, the reconciliation is no longer a promise, it has become reality
because God acted to keep his part of the covenant. At his death, Christ also
had a Sabbath day rest from sin. His blood shields and cleanses us from the
penalty of sin by becoming a substitute. Life flows from His blood to us. He is
the High priest who serves in all areas of the sanctuary and approaches the
Father in the Most Holy Place for us.
We respond to Christ by faith,
believing that he has reconciled us to God by his death.

God the Holy Spirit
The Holy
Spirit works in the outer Court on earth. He helps us to keep our part of the
covenant. His job is to work on the human heart, reconciling us to God by
changing our hearts - writing the broken law in our hearts. He changes us into
new creatures who will keep the law because they have become a part of us. In
this change, he baptizes us with fire - removing imperfections and turning out
pure Gold. He works on the individual temple. We respond to Him by obedience. He
now acts as witness, teacher and judge. He woos. He searches the heart.

At the end, the members of the Trinity will hand over all their roles to
the Son as a reward. He will become the Judge, He will become the King and He is
already the Priest.

In Perspective: What is God Doing for
Me?
God is working for your salvation at three different levels.
The Son justified us by his death - one time on the cross. He set us right with
God and bridged the gap between heaven and earth. We only have to believe it. He
reaches us at the mental level with His physical act of sacrifice.

The
Holy Spirit sanctifies us daily. His task is to make us perfect by removing the
love of sin and the acts of sin from our lives and replacing it with the love of
God. He transforms the most important part of mankind - the spiritual by
pleading with us on the mental level through our conscience. He can do this
because we now know about Christ. He uses this mental knowledge of the sacrifice
of God to plead to us on a spiritual level.
So faith
comes by hearing. And hearing by the word concerning Christ. Romans 10:
17

The Father will make the transformation complete by glorifying us. He
will change our bodies to the perfect beings He wants us to be. He transforms
the last component of mankind - the physical with His spiritual powers.

The Colors in Time and
Prophecy

Passover

Wavesheaf

Pentecost

Trumpets

Day of Atonement

Tabernacles

1-3

4-5

6

7

8-11

10

11

12-13

14-15

16-19

14

20

20

21

22

Seven churches

Throne

Seals

Seven Trumpets

Beast

Warning

Plagues

Rescued

Heaven

Lamb

Church

Accepted

Seals

Sealing

Judgment

Remnant

Charges

Persecuted

Warning

** The Day of the Lord **

Lamb of God is the Light

God sits on the waters

Thunders (The Mystery Finished)

Children of God named

Temple Opened

Pentecost

Delay

Pentecost

Babylon falls

Marriage

Exodus

Law given

Judgment in the wilderness

Census

Law repeated

Jericho falls

Jerusalem

Seed planted

Harvest

Summer Drought

144000

Rain

Fruit Harvest

Lamb

Shepherd

Priest

King

Judge

Lawyer

Prosecutor

Witness

Messenger

Reaper

Bridegroom

Ezekiel

Throne

The Law

Judgment in the temple

Marked

Warning

Millennium

Heaven

Daniel

The Beast

Little Horn

Sanctuary Cleansed

King of the North

Time of Trouble

Heaven

Isaiah

-

Babylon

Warning

War

Desolation

Heaven

Jeremiah

-

Babylon

Warning

War

Desolation

Heaven

Joel

-

Rain

War

Harvest

Heaven

Zephaniah

-

Remnant

Desolation

Zion

Habakuk

-

Babylon

Warning

Wrath of God

Salvation

Zechariah

The Scroll

4 Horse men

Ephah

Measuring Line

Build God's House

War

Judgment

Heaven

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

Purple

Black

White

Christ

Holy Spirit

Fruit grows

People of God

Judgment

High Priest

Wicked

Righteous

Crucified

People respond

Church is ready

Plagues

Bridegroom

Final Separation

God
performs the plan of salvation in the order or the colors, and it begins with
the sacrifice of Christ for sin and ends with the separation of the righteous
and the wicked. All these works of God are occurring in parallel. But the
diagram shows the final event or period that completes the physical fulfillment
of each color with events that are visible and open and no longer hidden from
the human race.

Red. Christ was crucified for the sins of the world.

Orange. The Holy Spirit comes to write the law in our hearts.

Yellow. The fruit of the Holy Spirit grows in the righteous.

Green. The fruit ripens. The people of God are ready and God comes
for them.

Blue. During the millennium the judgment by the righteous begins
and it ends with the white throne judgment.

Purple. Christ has always lived to make intercession for us
(Hebrews 7: 25). But now the wicked see that they cannot defend themselves
with their works in the judgment. Any accusations against the righteous are
answered by Christ, but He abandons the wicked.

Black. The wicked goats are separated and go to hell fire and
darkness where they are destroyed forever.

White. The righteous sheep are separated and live forever in the
eternal light of God.

The Colors of the New Earth

The Sardius Man

The Throne with the Emerald Rainbow

As I researched
this information, I was confronted with the overwhelming sensation that green
was acting like a primary color. Then I remembered that there is another color
combination scheme. This is based on the combination of light. In this, the
primary colors are red, blue and green. Yellow is no longer a primary color.

These primary colors are the throne of God.
And
He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and
there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.
Revelation 4: 3

Sardius is a red stone, emerald is green and
jasper can be red, blue or green.

Blue - The floor and the throne were blue according to Ezekiel and
Moses. (Ezekiel 1: 26 and Exodus 24: 10) The foundation of the kingdom is the
law.

Red - Sardius was the other color of the person sitting on the
throne. He is pure mercy in living color.
Ezekiel had a more detailed
description of the glory of God.
Now above the
expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne,
like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high
up, was a figure with the appearance of a man. Then I noticed from the
appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked
like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and
downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him. As
the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day so was the
appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory of the Lord. Ezekiel 1: 26-28

Green - Emerald is the rainbow above the throne and the Man sitting
on the throne was like Jasper. This represents the glory of the kingdom.
(Revelation 21: 11). Ultimately, it is the righteous who will be the evidence
of the glory of God. That is why we are green. For the rest of eternity, we
will be living examples of the mercy and power of God to create, to forgive
and to transform darkness into light.

If the primary colors are the throne of God, then the
secondary colors are the things that come from the throne of God that represent
the role of God in the new earth. All these symbols speak about life. God is the
source of a wonderful eternal life.

Then he
showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne
of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river
was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every
month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22: 1-2

There will be no more darkness in the new earth.

Magenta

Cyan

Red

Blue

White

Yellow

Green

The colors of the new earth.

Purple

Green

Red

Blue

White

Orange

Yellow

The colors of the old earth.

In the new earth the
primary colors appear to represent the attributes and foundation of the
government of God. These are law, mercy or loving kindness and eternal life as
children of God.
The secondary colors are harder to determine. But we can
guess at what they are by looking at the primary colors that create them. They
appear to be related to the benefits we receive from this government of God.

Cyan - This is symbolized by the river of life, clear as crystal.

Cyan is a combination of blue and green. Law and eternal life. Truly the
wages of sin is death, but life comes to people who have been separated from
sin. At the core of this is righteousness or being law abiding.

Yellow - The streets of gold. Yellow is a combination of red and
green. Loving kindness and eternal life of the nations. This seems to
represent the people and their characters which will be as common as gold on
the street.

Magenta - The fruits from the tree of life. A combination of red
and blue. Loving kindness and righteousness. This color combination appears to
come solely from God. Every month God will distribute the fruit from the tree
of life to the people. Perhaps He will dispense wisdom. This might represent
the education and healing of the nations.

God will give us more wisdom on this topic in Salvation
Science 102.

A Kingdom of Eternal
Light.
And there will no longer be any
night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the
sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and
ever. Revelation 22: 5

And the city had no
need of the sun, or of the moon to shine on it; for the glory of God has
illumined it, and the Lamb is the light. Revelation 21: 23
The new
kingdom is based on light and there will be no darkness or night or death. So
this must be the color scheme that will be natural to us. Why does green replace
yellow?
At that point, we will already have perfect characters. Behavior is
no longer an issue. On earth, this work of the Holy Spirit was a very important
life time task. It was of primary importance. In the new earth, this will be as
natural to us as breathing. Even the streets are made of gold. This is how
common gold will be. This is how common righteousness will be.

The
kingdom of God was not natural to us on earth. God could only show us glimpses
of it in the feast of tabernacles. The color green was not in the sanctuary.
During the time it operated on earth, the kingdom of God has only been a
marvellous promise, not a reality.

Now, in the new earth, green takes
its rightful place as one of the primary colors because God Himself comes to
physically live with us. The emerald and blue throne of God will be moved to the
earth. It is all about living in the kingdom of God.

True Colors

In the end, God demonstrates the true colors of the wicked by
showing their primary colors.

»
Lawless. The last generation is unwilling to even obey a
commandment that simply asks them to rest.

» Rebellious. They obey Satan, but not
God.

» Murderers. The
wicked will attack a peaceful, unarmed city which has its gates open
in a gesture of invitation.

The Duty of Man.
He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord
require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your
God? Micah 6: 8

This sums up the requirement to accept the
primary colors:

Blue - Do justly.

Red - Love mercy.

Yellow - Walk humbly with God.

So, what color is God? He is the perfect combination of all
colors.

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: September 16, 2004. January 2006
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