The lightning signifies His Glorious Appearing

The lightning signifies His Glorious Appearing

Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced,
with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
Ps 18:12 NIV

Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,
your lightning lit up the world;
the earth trembled and quaked.
Ps 77:18 NIV

His lightning lights up the world;
the earth sees and trembles.
Ps 97:4 NIV

His body was like chrysolite, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
Dan 10:6 NIV

Then the Lord will appear over them;
his arrow will flash like lightning.
The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet;
he will march in the storms of the south,
Zech 9:14 NIV

For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matt 24:27 NIV

There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
Matt 28:2-3NIV

As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning.
Luke 9:29 NIV

For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.

Luke 17:24 NIV