Revelation 10:1

And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

His face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, mark the ‘mighty angel’ to be the Lord Jesus Christ, for such were the appearances of His face and feet in the first vision given to John. He wrote, “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” (Revelation 1:13-16) While the Lord was now described to be ‘clothed with a cloud’, he was previously described to be clothed with ‘a garment down to the foot’. The garment is symbolic of righteousness. The Lord is clothed with righteousness.

The ‘rainbow’, on the other hand, is symbolic of His glory. The prophet Ezekiel saw a similar vision of the Lord and described the brightness of the rainbow to be the appearance of the ‘likeness of the glory of the Lord’: “And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD ….” (Ezekiel 1:26-28)