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We see God created a rainbow for the first time and He said that it was the token of His covenant, meaning that each time we looked at it we could remember that promise and that covenant. Also, within that teaching is something that perhaps we could have overlooked and that is – “The bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature.” We see that God looks upon that bow. Each time a rainbow appears in the world God looks upon it and looks down to the earth and remembers that great offering of thanksgiving of Noah and his family. He remembers His promise that He would no longer destroy the earth with a flood again, and if He is not going to destroy it, He will then bless it; and thereby we see where we receive our blessings. They came direct from God as He remembers that great covenant because of the thanksgiving of Noah and his family and the sacrifice they made to God.

It does not end there. We have been granted also a divine covenant, and that divine covenant was brought into the world by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It is an even greater covenant because it pertains to our future life, our spiritual life, and that covenant of course is the New Testament, the promises contained therein for all of those who will at all times offer thanksgiving unto God, all those who at all times will offer thanksgiving through Jesus Christ and partake of the blessings He left in His covenant of eternal life, which is divided into various promises throughout His labour on this earth; the promises that pertained to the Sacraments that He left, the promises that He will return again. All of these are dispensed through the Grace of Christ and at the time that it was shown that this covenant would be made, the Prophet Ezekiel chapter 1, saw how it would be administered in the world again.

He saw it as four wheels: the four ministries that would be placed within the world that would work together, and they would be on the earth, but their loops would go up into the heaven, and above them sat on the throne as it were a man. It showed that Christ would be the dispenser of Grace, and the prophet then saw something that was the glory of God shining down to the earth in the form of a rainbow. Once again that rainbow was promised where God would look upon it and look down to the earth because we in spiritual eyes cannot see it up into the heavens. We know that the access is there, but it requires faith, but God looks down and it is His intention to maintain those blessings so that the divine covenant given by Christ will be able to be fulfilled.

We have been taught that we should bring thanksgiving for the re-establishment of the Apostle Ministry in the world. Why is it so important that this should be done? Why is it so important that we remember the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on that latter-day rain? It is most important because the four wheels have to be in place. The Scripture teaches us this. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians about this. It is not only today that we give thanksgiving for the re-establishment of the Apostle Ministry. We give thanks for the re-establishment for the voice of prophecy which had died within the world, for the prophets foretell of things that must then be discerned by the Apostle Ministry. We give thanks also for the re-establishment of the Evangelist ministry. We know that the Priest and teacher ministry continued, but as the English Apostles wrote, salvation cannot be given, and the Church cannot survive unless the fullness of what God set in place through Christ is operating within the Church.

They also reminded the people and the churches at that time that the Church is made up of every soul that is baptised in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The blessings of those ministries are for the whole Church. Everyone who is baptised in the Trinity God needs those ministries to be able to receive the dispensation of Grace through the Sacraments, and that is why we must give thanksgiving, and more importantly, we must pray that those ministries will be preserved so that the Church can be fed by the Grace of Christ which is the only way we can obtain salvation.

This promise came after Noah and his family offered a special thanksgiving offering, for protection by God during this total flooding of the Earth. Genesis 8:20 “And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord: and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”

Ephesians 4:11-12, “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.”

Let us reflect on 2 Corinthians 4:15, “For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.”