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that there would be time no longer, it has been supposed that this angel was coming down to wreck the universe, to suspend, or to abolish, the law of gravitation, and throw creation into a ten thousand times worse chaos than it had ever known before; but this angel has a rainbow upon his head. Now what does the rainbow signify in the Bible? Does it signify destruction? No; it signifies protection; it is the token of a covenant. Thus, when Noah and his family came forth out of the ark after the flood, it is said that "God spake unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be