The Rainbow Facing Jerusalem — The Morning of March 9, 2026

On the morning of March 9, 2026, just before dawn, I walked outside and a sheet of rain was falling.

Right away, the latter rain came to mind — every prophecy about the former rain and the latter rain, every promise that AO would send the rain in its season. And then I rounded the corner and turned my attention toward Jerusalem with my shofar, and this is what greeted me:

A rainbow. Sitting there. Facing Jerusalem. Just like that.

Exactly seven days from Joel 2:31's blood moon.

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The Latter Rain

The sheet of rain that fell that morning was not ordinary rain. It was the latter rain — the rain AO promised would come at the end:

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know AO: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. — Hosea 6:3

The former rain was David's first kingdom — the greatest kingdom the world has ever seen. The latter rain is his second kingdom — the one that begins with resurrection. Both rains watering the same earth. Both kingdoms belonging to the same King.

And the timing could not be more precise. In addition to Joel 2:31, this was the spring equinox — the exact moment when winter dies and spring begins. The moment the almond tree blossoms. The moment the dead rod comes to life.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day. — Proverbs 4:18

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The Rainbow and the Firmament

The rainbow that morning was stunning. But what appeared above it was even more remarkable.

A double rainbow. And double rainbows prove that there is a dome over your head. Because if you look carefully, the second rainbow is not a second rainbow at all — it is a reflection. The colors are reversed. The inner rainbow displays the colors in their natural order. The outer one displays them inverted — because it is the reflection of the first rainbow off the firmament.

Creation leaves you no excuse.

And God said, "I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth." — Genesis 9:13

A covenant sign. On the morning of the resurrection. Facing Jerusalem.

And then, right after the rainbow, one loud clap of thunder from the north. One lightning strike and a massive thunder — loud enough to wake my wife from sleep. From the north — the direction of Babylon, which is about to be left desolate and without inhabitant:

And the word of AO came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north." Then AO said unto me, "Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land." — Jeremiah 1:13–14

And I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says AO, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. — Jeremiah 25:12

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The Signs That Week

The rainbow was not the only sign. The entire week leading up to March 9 was marked by wonders in the sky.

On three separate occasions that week, lights appeared streaking across the East Coast of America — blamed, as always, on SpaceX launches. But we have seen this before. On September 10, 2024, a light appeared in the sky that was visible from the East Coast as far west as Cleveland, Ohio — something that is physically impossible for a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. That was the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 33:26, the return of the prophet Elijah.

And now, the week before the resurrection, three more lights. Three warnings. Could these have been the three angels' warning — taken by the enemy and placed in the New Testament, stolen from books they removed from the canon?

It is hard to ignore that three lights appeared going across the Eastern Seaboard of America in the week prior to the resurrection of the Messiah.

And of course, the blood moon. On the night of March 2 — exactly seven days before — the moon turned to blood. Joel 2:31. The seven-day notice, just as AO gave Noah seven days' warning before the flood (Genesis 7:4).

The blood moon was the warning. The rainbow was the confirmation.

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The Almond Tree Has Blossomed

We wrote at length about the almond tree and the spring equinox — how the almond is the first tree to blossom in spring, how its Hebrew name shaqed means "the watchful one," how Moses' rod that budded was the sign of resurrection. A dead rod — cut from a tree, with no root, no water, no soil — came to life. It budded. It blossomed. It bore almonds.

And when did it blossom? On the spring equinox. At the turn of the season. When winter ends and life returns.

Now read the Song of David:

10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land.

13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. — Song of David 2:10–13

The beloved is called to rise up when the winter is past. When the flowers appear. When the birds sing. The Hebrew word used for both "rise up" and "arise" is qum — Strong's H6965. The same word used for bodily resurrection throughout the prophets:

Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust. — Isaiah 26:19

The same word used when AO promises to raise David:

But they shall serve AO their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them. — Jeremiah 30:9

The almond tree blossomed on the spring equinox. The Song of David commanded the beloved to rise when the winter passed. And on March 9, 2026 — the spring equinox — the rod budded.

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He Shall Rise Up at the Voice of the Bird

One verse in Ecclesiastes ties the entire pattern together:

And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low. — Ecclesiastes 12:4

He shall rise up — qum — at the voice of the bird.

The bird calls. The dead one rises. The raven precedes the dove. Elijah precedes David. We explored this at length in The Bird Is the Word of God — how the raven goes first in Genesis 8, how Elijah is associated with the ravens (1 Kings 17:4), and how Isaiah 46:11 gives us the same sequence: first the ravenous bird from the east — the prophet Elijah — then the man who executes AO's counsel from a far country — David, the Messiah.

The prophet Elijah returned on September 10, 2024. The ravenous bird arrived. And on March 9, 2026, at the voice of the bird, the dead one rose — and the voice of the turtledove was heard in our land.

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The Decree — Psalms 2

Psalms 2 is the decree of the resurrection. Read it carefully:

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against AO, and against His anointed, saying,

3 "Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us."

The nations rage against AO and against His Messiah. Let us eat what we want. Let us work on the Sabbath. Let us worship idols. Let us live like the heathen. That is what they are saying when they say let us break their bands asunder.

And how does AO respond?

4 He that sits in the heavens will laugh: AO will have them in derision.

5 Then in His wrath and in His sore displeasure, He will vex them saying,

6 "Yet have I set My king upon My holy hill of Zion."

AO laughs. And then He declares: I have set My king upon My holy hill of Zion.

And now David speaks:

7 I will declare the decree: AO has said to me, "You are My son; this day have I begotten you."

This day have I begotten you. This is not a reference to birth. This is a reference to resurrection. The decree is the Messiah — Deuteronomy 18:15, that prophet. And that prophet comes by being resurrected from the grave. Qum. The same word. The same promise. The same spring morning.

And notice what comes next:

8 "Ask of Me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

9 You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

A rod of iron. Moses' staff. The same staff that turned into a serpent before Pharaoh. The same staff that split the Red Sea. The same staff that struck the rock and brought water in the wilderness. David is going to carry that same staff — the rod of iron — and break the nations that enslaved his people.

That is how we will identify the true Messiah when he reveals himself. He will throw his staff down and it will turn into a snake. And when you see it on social media, do not think it is AI. That is what they want you to think. Just like they wanted you to think Elijah was SpaceX. Just like they will want you to think the fire that rains down is aliens.

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Joy Comes in the Morning

Every prophet saw this morning. Every one of them described it the same way — as a sunrise, a new day, the dawn after the longest night:

For His anger endures but a moment; in His favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. — Psalms 30:5

Weeping endured for a night — the 3,500-year evening vision. But joy came in the morning.

Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of AO shall be your rereward. — Isaiah 58:8

But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. — Malachi 4:2

The Sun of righteousness shall arise. Not descend from heaven. Not return on a cloud. Arise — as a sun rises. As a dead man rises from the grave. David is the Sun of righteousness, the light of Israel. And on the spring equinox — the day the sun reclaims the sky from the darkness — his light broke forth as the morning.

He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. — 2 Samuel 23:3–4

As the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. David described his own return — rising after the rain, the latter rain, the sheet of rain that fell on the morning of March 9, 2026.

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What Happens Now

The great and dreadful day of AO has arrived. David has been resurrected. The seven-year judgment on America — "that nation whom they shall serve" (Genesis 15:14) — has begun. The scoffers will scoff. The mockers will mock. Edom is not holding a press conference to tell you that the word of God is true and that they have lied to you. They never will. Elijah has been back since September 10, 2024 — and outside of his documented return to earth, what evidence do we have? None. And that is exactly how it was designed to be.

But the signs are plain for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

And the Messiah — the rod of the almond tree, the firstborn from the dead, the Sun of righteousness — has risen.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of AO shall be delivered. — Joel 2:32

The new day is here. The almond tree has blossomed. The rod has budded. And the greatest story never told is about to be witnessed with your own eyes.

HalleluAO!

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Tomorrow: What happens after the resurrection? The book of 2 Baruk describes twelve parts that must unfold before the Second Exodus — and part one is the beginning of commotions. March 10, 2026 was day one.

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Read the companion pieces: Joel 2:31 — The Moon Turned to Blood, The Dawn of a New Day: David Is the Sun of Righteousness, The Almond Tree and the Spring Equinox, The Resurrection of King David — The Rod of the Almond Tree, and Deuteronomy 33:26 — The Sign That None Can Deny.