Gold and or yellow cloth is sometimes used in place of white to celebrate the holiest days of the year (i.e., Easter and Christmas).įire is primarily yellow (and orange) in color, and gold is the most precious metal. Therefore, yellow represents joy, the presence of God, and God’s anointing, whereas gold represents God’s holiness, divine nature, and majesty.

Fire represents the presence of God (Deuteronomy 4:24 Hebrews 12:29) and God’s refining process. Yellow and gold are also the color of fire. It is, of course, one of the primary colors. 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. 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). What few people know is that not only is yellow the most visible color of the 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.

Gold and yellow are often associated with or used interchangeably in God’s Word. Yellow is, in my opinion, one of the most significant colors as it is believed to symbolize faith and the Glory of God, anointing, and Joy. The Bible is rich in symbolic meaning, and color is no exception.

(For an overview of colors in the Bible, see this post).

(If you’ve missed the previous posts on the meaning of colors in the Bible, you can find them here: The color Red, the color green, the color white, the color black, and the color blue). Continuing our series on colors in the Bible, today, we will examine yellow in the Bible.

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