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The Color Yellow
Yellow in the Bible
What does the color yellow mean in the Bible? How
is it related to the fulfillment of prophecy?
Yellow, one of
the primary colors found in rainbows, is commonly used throughout the world.
Traffic lights
and signs use this color to symbolize caution when traveling.
In most
cultures, it also represents sunshine, happiness, and warmth.
In religions
such as Hinduism and ancient Egyptian, yellow is often associated with their
deities.
Although not
often found in national flags, yellow is prominently used both in the flag of
Vatican City (the world's smallest state) and the Holy See (which,
although not a country, is the jurisdiction ruled by the pope).
In the 1890s,
pencil makers in the United States began coloring their writing implements
yellow due to its association with Chinese royalty (China had the best graphite
at the time).
Today, American
pencils retain this color out of tradition.
What few people
know is that not only is yellow the most visible color of the spectrum, its
high reflectance of light allows it to act as a secondary light source.
It is the first
wavelength of light processed by the human eye (which belies its use in certain
signage and on some emergency rescue vehicles).
Our peripheral
vision (the ability to see side or fringe areas when we look straight ahead) is
2 1/2 times higher for it than for red.
Yellow also
holds the distinction of being the only color that mixes badly with black
(producing a rather sick looking yellowish-green).
Biblical meaning of the
color yellow
In the KJV
Bible, at least two Hebrew words translate to our English word 'yellow' (Strong's Concordance #H3422, #H6669).
Its use in the
Bible lends itself to symbolically representing gold or something of great
value (Psalm 68:13), or something
leprous or having leprosy (Leviticus 13:30, 32, 36).
Marketing with color
The color yellow
may be taking over the marketing world. Some recent research reveals that black
type against a background colored with it is the best combination for printed
material.
Tests also show
this print combination is the best concerning readability and in the ability of
our minds to retain information (memory).
End Time destruction
Revelation 9
discusses the first two of three 'woes' that will come upon mankind during the
end time Great Tribulation.
The first woe,
found in verses 1 to 11, entails humanity tormented for five months (verse 5).
The second woe,
found in verses 13 to 21, is the unleashing of a huge army that will ultimately
kill a third of all humans. This army wears breastplates or armor that look like
fire (red or scarlet), jacinth (blue), and brimstone (verse 17).
The literal
meaning of the Greek word translated 'brimstone' (Strong's
#G2306) is 'sulfur' or 'sulfurous,' which is here used to
represent the color yellow.
Brimstone is
also used in other parts of the Bible, most notably as one of the two
substances (the other being fire) that rained down from heaven to destroy Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Lot's wife saw,
before turning into a pillar of salt, a downpour of destruction from God
colored both red and yellow.
A special gift for a King
Frankincense is
one of several gifts brought by the Parthian Magi when they came to worship
Jesus Christ sometime after his birth.
Frankincense,
which is off yellow in color, is a dry, rather odorous resin that although
grown in Palestine was also imported from Arabia (Jeremiah
6:20, Isaiah 60:6).
The New Jerusalem
The Bible says
the New Jerusalem created by God will have twelve foundations, with each one
shining a different kind of light based on a particular precious stone (Revelation 21:19).
The seventh
foundation (seven is the number of perfection) has Chrysolite within it.
The Greek word translated "chrysolite" means a gem that looks like
the color gold or yellow.
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