Storm appears 17 times in Scripture, 15 times in OT and twice in NT.
Job comments on Storm twice: Job 21:18, 27:21 Psalms has 5 references to Storm: Psalm 55:8, 83:15, 107:25,29, 148:8 Isaiah has 4 verses: Isaiah 4:6, 25:4, 28:2, 29:6 Ezekiel has 3 Verses: Ezekiel 13:11,13, 38:9 And once in Nahum 1:3
The Lord Jesus demonstrates His power over nature:
Mark 4:37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. Luke 8:23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
Prior to the 16th century there were only 2 seasons: Summer and Winter God says there will always be Summer and Winter: Genesis 8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Psalm 74:17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Appears 147 times in Scripture, 124 times in OT and 23 times in NT
Clouds are visible accumulations of tiny water droplets or ice crystals in the Earth’s atmosphere. Clouds differ greatly in size, shape, and color. They can appear thin and wispy, or bulky and lumpy. The first appearance of Cloud in found in Genesis 9:13-16 following Noah’s flood, God placed a cloud and a (rain) Bow in the sky promising never to Flood the earth again. In Exodus 13-14 God uses a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, as they flee Egypt, heading for Freedom and the promised land. Exodus 16:10 … As they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. God used the (thick) Cloud many times as the traveled in the wilderness: Exodus 19:9,16, 24:15-16,18, 33:99-10, 34:5, 40:34-38 … the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. The Cloud appeared in the Tabernacle so God could peak with them Leviticus 16:2,13 Numbers 9:15-22 (16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night). Reminding them that God was always there with them. Numbers 10-16, Deuteronomy 1:33, 4:11, 5:22, 31:15
A prolonged dearth or shortage. A long period of abnormally low rainfall, especially one that adversely affects growing or living conditions.
Jacob recounts his service to Laban: Genesis 31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Forget not the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 8:15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; Job writes of the woes of mankind: Job 24:19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. David writes of his sin: Psalm 32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. The Lord is in control: Isaiah 58:11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. The Lord God is in control of Israel: Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? Jeremiah 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. Jeremiah 50:38A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. God reminds Isael: Hosea 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. God sent a drought: Haggai 1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Rain Appears 87 times in Scripture 77 times in OT and 10 times in NT
From Creation until Noah there was no rain: Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. Noah’s flood is recorded in Genesis 6-8 Rain is 1st mentioned in Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. Genesis 7:12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 8:2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; Question? Where did all the water go: IF there was a worldwide flood? Answer: JOB 38:30The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.They are frozen in the Ice caps. The next mention of Rain is in Exodus during the Plagues: Exodus 9:18,23,33-34 And referring to Manna: Exodus 16:4 God promises rain for the crops in the promise land: Leviticus 26:4. Deuteronomy 11:11,14, And if they disobey no rain: Deuteronomy 11:17 Rain when obedient, No rain when disobedient: Deuteronomy 28:12,24, 32:2 Samuel writes, rain is from God: 1 Samuel 12:17,18, 2 Samuel 1:21, 23:4, 1 Kings 8:35-36 Elijah withholds the rain: 1 Kings 17:1,7,14, Elijah calls forth the rain: 1 Kings 18:1,41,44-45 The Lord withholds the wind and the rain: 2 Kings 3:17 Rain withheld, rain given: 2 Chronicles 6:26-27, 7:13 Ezra speaks of the great rain: Ezra 10: 9-10 Job writes about the rain: JOB 5:10, 20:23, 28:26, 29:23, 36:27, 37:6, 38:26,28 Psalms remind that Rain is from God, as a blessing and a punishment: Psalm 11:6, 68:9, 72:6, 84:6, 105:32, 135:7, 147:8 There 5 references in Proverbs 16:15, 25:14,23, 26:1, 28:3 There are two comments in Ecclesiastes 11:3, 12:2 Song of Solomon 2:11For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; Rain, a blessing and a punishment: Isaiah 4:6, 5:6, 30:23, 44:4, 55:10 Jeremiah 3:3, 5:24, 10:13, 14:4,22, 51:16 Ezekiel 1:28, 38:22 And on into Hosea 6:3, 10:12, Joel 2:23, Amos 4:7, Zechariah 10:1, 14:17
Appears in Scripture 19 times 16 times in OT and 3 times in NT
During the Plagues upon Egypt: Exodus 9:23,29, Sometimes used to describe God speaking or loud noise: Job 26:14, 39:19, 39:25, 40:9 Psalm 77:18, 81:7, 104:7, Revelation 6:1, 14:2 Sometimes used to describe Judgement: 1 Samuel 2:10, 7:10, 12:17-18, With the Thunder many times came Lightning, Rain, Hail, Fire: Job 28:26, 38:25,Isaiah 29:6 Interesting that the Lord Jesus called James and John (Sons of Zebedee) The sons of Thunder: Mark 3:17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: Perhaps, BECAUSE of Luke 9:54And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
Appears 25 times in Scripture 22 times OT 3 times NT
Sleet, A mixture of rain and snow or hail, is not in Scripture. Snow, Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes. Leprous as snow. A sin to Moses. Exodus 4:6… his hand was leprous as snow. Numbers 12:10…behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: … 2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman … a leper as white as snow. Describing season:2 Samuel 23:20 And Benaiah … slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:1 Chronicles 11:22 Job refers to snow 5 times: Job 6:16, 9:30, 24:19, 37:6, 38:22
Psalm 51:7, 68:14, 147:16, 148:8 Proverbs 25:13, 26:1, 31:21 Isaiah 1:18, 55:10, Jeremiah 18:14, Lamentations 4:7 Daniel’s vision of the Lord: Daniel 7:9I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. Visions of the Lord Jesus: Matthew 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: Mark 9:3And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. Revelation 1:14His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, “how heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it’s the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” He continued, “And that’s the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won’t be able to carry on. As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we’re refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you’re carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can. Relax; pick them up later after you’ve rested. Life is short. Enjoy it!”
And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life: -* Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue. -* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them. -* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. -* If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague. -* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. -* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. -* Never buy a car you can’t push. -* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won’t have a leg to stand on. -* Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. -* Since it’s the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late. -* The second mouse gets the cheese. -* When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane. -* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. -* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person. -* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. -* We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box. -* A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today. -* You Can Stop a Do BUT YOU CAN NEVER UNDO A DID. -* The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
SOMEONE ONCE SAID there are three types of people in the world: Those who make things happen; those who watch what happens; and those who never know what happened.
“A good reputation is the hardest thing to build and the easiest thing to destroy.” “Successful people are the one who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at” “You cannot have success without the failures”
The Shroud of Turin is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man. A man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth. Turin is in northwest Italy. The Shroud of Turin, also called Holy Shroud, Italian Santa Sindone, a length of linen that for centuries was purported to be the burial garment of Jesus Christ. It has been preserved since 1578 in the royal chapel of the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Turin, Italy. It measures 4.3 metres (14 feet 3 inches) long and 1.1 metres (3 feet 7 inches) wide, it seems to portray two faint brownish images, those of the back and front of a gaunt, sunken-eyed, 5-foot 7-inch man—as if a body had been laid lengthwise along one half of the shroud while the other half had been doubled over the head to cover the whole front of the body from face to feet. The images contain markings that allegedly correspond to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, including thorn marks on the head, lacerations (as if from flogging) on the back, bruises on the shoulders, and various stains of what is presumed to be blood.
The Scripture says: John 20:1-7The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
There were TWO, separate cloths, one for the head and one for the body. Not sure what the Shroud of Turin is BUT it is NOT an image of the Lord Jesus Christ.
A final thought: Turin is in Italy, the Lord Jesus was crucified on a hill in Jerusalem, Israel.
It’s Your Choice
How you live your life is YOUR choice. You can live a good life or an evil wicked life or anything in between. Deny what the scripture says insures that you will spend eternity separated from God.
FERMENTATION is a process of chemical change by which a molecule of sugar is split into 2 molecules of ethel alcohol and 2 molecules of carbon dioxide gas. The gas escapes and the alcohol remains. Grape juice will ferment quite naturally left all by itself. Three things must be present for grapes to ferment and become alcohol: Juice, Saccharromyces, and Oxygen (air). The juice comes from the fruit. The saccharromyces form on the outside of the skin ad the fruit ripens. The wine the Bible speaks of is very easy to make. REMEMBER, Wine is a living thing. It is born, grows to maturity, and dies. How long is lives in unpredictable and depends on the ripeness of the fruit at squeezing time at sugar content. Until the wooden barrel was developed (cooperage) in the last days of the Roman Empire, (about 300 AD) Wine was placed in stone or skin containers and had to be drunk soon after squeezed or it would die (become vinegar). The wooden barrel prolonged the life of wine to a little over 3 years by keeping it out of the air, which causes aging. Full maturing of wine was impossible until the 17th century when the (cork and) bottle was developed. It wasn’t until 1860 when Louis Pasteur discovered the hows and whys of fermentation did the wine industry enter into a new era. REASON TO DRINK: Well, I drink for refreshment — try water, milk, juice, soda Well, I drink for my health yeah but don’t use the Bible as an excuse Don’t say you drink Beer because Jesus did …… He didn’t. Don’t say you drink Whiskey because Jesus did …… He didn’t. Don’t say you drink Wine because Jesus did …… He didn’t. WHAT DID JESUS DRINK? — Glad you asked. Matthew 26:29 He drank fruit of the vine, He drank grape juice. What did Jesus Create in John 2? Grape Juice. He refused to drink wine as He hung on the cross John 19:29. What does the Bible really say about Wine? Proverbs 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Proverbs 23:31Look not thou upon the Wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. Every reference in the Holy Bible to someone drinking, beginning with Noah, lead to no good, to ruin, to sin.
