Brilliance Of God!
"And He who sat there was like a jasper
and a sardius stone in appearance; and
there was a rainbow around the throne,
in
appearance like an emerald."
Revelation 4: 3
Solomon and Jesus Christ, the world’s two
greatest teachers, used a figure of speech
called the simile: comparison of two unlike
things by use of the words “like” or “as”
(as in Proverbs 26:2; Matthew 13:45).
The apostle John also used the simile with
great effect in Revelation. Because he saw
so many sights in his vision that he
couldn’t
describe, he continually used “like” to paint
a picture his readers could understand:
“The first voice which I heard was like a
trumpet speaking” (Revelation 4:1). When
John saw God in His
glory seated upon His
throne, all he could write was that He was
“like a jasper and a sardius stone.”
And the rainbow circling His throne was
“like an emerald.” The reflected brilliance
of “unapproachable
light” in which God
dwells (1 Timothy 6:16) can only be pictured
by the brilliance of beautiful and precious
stones.
The next time your eye is caught
by the light of a precious stone,
let your heart be caught
by the
glory of God.
"Let us be exhorted to exalt
God alone, and ascribe to
him all the glory."
Jonathan Edwards