The Word is Mercy

Trish McCoy • October 6, 2025

So many sights to see in Heaven, but the most beautiful is the rainbow above the throne!

 

I’ve just been reading Oliver B. Greene’s book, Heaven, and been drawn into—all of it really—but especially a chapter entitled, “The Most Beautiful Sight in Heaven.” The chapter begins with a passage from Revelation 4:

 

After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:

and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said,

Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone:

and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. Rev. 4:1-3

 

So many thoughts here!

A door was opened in heaven. We know Jesus is THE DOOR (John 10:9). “If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” This was said to the Laodicean church—representative of the lukewarm church in the last days just before the Rapture—and the promise is to “any (any one) man.” It’s personal. Jesus is the door to Heaven. One only needs to open it.

 

Come up hither. John heard a voice as a trumpet coming out of the door! We know from First Thessalonians:

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. With the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first” (v. 16). This references what we know as the Rapture, when we as Christians are “caught up...to meet the Lord in the air!” (v. 17).

 

And, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. The throne of God is a symbol of justice and judgment. His throne is “for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom” (Hebrews 1:8). If we as sinners should receive justice when we stand before Him, we would be consumed. BUT DON’T MISS THIS...

 

There was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. The rainbow changes the picture and the outcome. The rainbow is mentioned only four times in Scripture—and every time it’s a symbol of mercy (Genesis 9, Ezekiel 1, Revelation 10).

 

This is important because “we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ” (not the Great White Throne Judgment). The Lord Jesus sits on the throne to judge in righteousness and holiness, but the rainbow of mercy hovers over the Judgment Seat! What a beautiful picture for the Bride of Christ.


There is a rainbow. What mercy!

 

 

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