The video cleverly exploits basic atmospheric physics to bait viewers into a religious narrative under the guise of a "prophetic sign." It is a calculated attempt to lend scientific credibility to spiritual speculation through sensationalist framing.
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Check this out, guys. A rare, rare rainbow within the clouds is showing up all over the world. It's absolutely insane. Super crazy. Is this a sign of end times, guys? This is a legitimate picture, legitimate video. It's not fake, it's not AI. This is posted by The Weather Channel. So, we're going to be diving into this and reacting to some of this stuff because it is crazy. And then we're going to go to a Bible verse talking about this all.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> So, that video shows an ultra-rare phenomenon in iridescent clouds rainbow, which appears with when sunlight intersects with lingering rain in the air. Wow. Someone says, "Nah, that's Rainbow Road from Mario Kart."
>> [sighs] [music] >> This colorful natural phenomenon was captured in Malaysia peaking from behind the clouds on two occasions this April.
>> [music] >> Rainbow streaks were seen painting the cloud lining on April 6th and then again on April 8th with that [music] instance featuring what looked like a rainbow dome.
These are called iridescent clouds and another optical display was captured in China on March 29th [music] projecting a wide array of colors and shapes.
For these [music] holographic shows to come to life, a couple of key ingredients need to be in place. The sun must be low on the horizon and thin [music] high altitude clouds must be present. The ice crystals or water droplets in the cloud will then scatter sunlight like a prism revealing its hidden component colors as they [music] project vibrantly outwards.
That's crazy. So, here is a guy explaining how this works, okay?
Rainbow colors on the cloud are called iridescence.
Iridescent?
It might look a little bit like a rainbow on a cloud, but the way the colors are created for rainbows and for iridescence are completely different.
Rainbows are created by a process called refraction, but iridescence is caused by diffraction.
When light diffracts, it gets bent around very small objects. The light bends or diffracts slightly on the [music] outside of things like water droplets and ice particles in a cloud.
Diffraction scatters light waves into a ring-like pattern of colors around the droplets.
When you have a whole lot of light scattering around the outside of a cloud filled with tiny water droplets, that [music] light spreads out into the iridescent colors.
The scattering means that the colors don't usually appear in neat bands like a rainbow.
Sometimes the bands of color will be wave-like, >> [music] >> but usually the pattern is uneven and the colors are randomly spread out.
Also, because the light waves are diffracting, you'll get to see amazing [music] colors like hot pinks and teals.
The iridescence is sometimes compared to colors on a soap bubble, a peacock's feather, or a Christmas beetle.
Usually the colors won't be as bright as that, though. They'll be a little bit fainter or pastel.
Diffraction happens when the droplets are tiny, like really, really tiny, less than a micron wide. But, how small is a micron? Take a human hair, that's about 100 microns wide, and a water droplet is just 1 micron wide. And as well as being very small, all the droplets in the cloud need to be round about the same size. That's more likely to happen when a cloud is brand new, because the droplets all start out about the same size. They haven't had enough time to grow or bump into each other and coalesce. Iridescent So that's crazy. So what do you guys think about this? I'm going to go to a Bible verse.
Luke 21:25 says, "And there will be strange signs in the signs in the sun and sun, moon, and stars.
And here on Earth, the nations will be in turmoil perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides." There's just so many things that probably will be coming up that we need to be aware of. Many individuals have recorded a rare miraculous sign taking place in the heavens. All right, and this is not So this guy just saw this video on the 1st of May from Indonesia. This is crazy.
Woah.
That's beautiful. Okay, so the Weather Channel has done gone and ruined my not ruined my but ruined my Monday morning because they posted this video which I would not have believed was real if um it wasn't the Weather Channel that posted it. I would swear it was AI, but look at that rainbow in the clouds. And if that wasn't enough because everything makes me cry, look at the comment section. Got me all messed up. This is Rainbow Bridge. That's what I thought.
And then everybody starts posting their pictures of their mommies and their daddies and their best friends. And somebody posted Look, my kiddos must be having prom up there. I wonder what Tris might think.
Bang.
And then Psalm 19:1 says, "The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship." Right there I think is just amazing evidence for God being the creator of the universe. And there's constant amazing signs all the time in the sky and the sea and wildlife to help us see how amazing God is. So, thank you guys so much for watching. I encourage you to hit the like button and subscribe. I'd love to know your guys' thoughts on this, whatever that may be.
Anyway, love and appreciate you all.
Have an amazing day and God bless.
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