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Hail is a form of precipitation consisting of solid ice that forms inside thunderstorm updrafts.
Sent by God during the plagues on Egypt: Exodus 9:18-34, 10:5,12,15
Treasures of the Hail: JOB 38:22
Hail stones and coal of fire: Psalm 18:12-13
God used Hail to punish; Psalm 78:47-48, 105:32, 148:8
Isaiah also warns of this: Isaiah 28:2,17, 32:19
Haggai warns Israel: Haggai 2:17
John also warms that during the Tribulation: Revelation 8:7, 11:19
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God says there will always be Summer and Winter:
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Psalm 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Kings had Summer homes:
Judges 3:20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
Judges 3:24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
Summer was the time of fruit:
2 Samuel 16:1-2 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
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Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
This was before Noah’s flood. NO Rain, Snow, or Hail (which came afterward).
Season means a time of year: Exodus 13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
It also had to do with taste: Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Old Testament Season references: Leviticus 23:4,26:4, Numbers 9:2-3,7, 9:13, 28:2, Deuteronomy 11:14, 16:6, 28:12,
Joshua 24:7, 2 Kings 4:16-17, 1 Chronicles 21:29, 2 Chronicles 15:3, Job 5:26, 30:17, 38:32, Psalm 1:3, 16:7, 22:2, 104:19,27, 145:15, Proverbs `15:23, Ecclesiastes 3:1, 10:17, Isaiah 50:4, Jeremiah 5:24, 33:20, Ezekiel 34:26, Daniel 2:21, 7:12, Hosea 2:9
Reading these teaches us many things. God is the Creator and Controller of all the seasons!
In the New Testament again Season is a time: Matthew 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons
And with seasoning of food: Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
There are 17 more references to season(s) from Matthew through Acts: Matthew 24:45, Mark 12:2, Luke 1:20, 4:13, 12:42, 13:1, 14:34, 20:10, 23:8, John 5:4,35, Acts 1:7, 13:11, 14:17, 19:22, 20:18, 24:25
Apostle Paul also uses the word to describe Time and Taste: 2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Paul uses it in 5 other places: Galatians 6:9, I Thessalonians 5:1, 2 Timothy 4:2, Philemon 1:5, Hebrews 11:25
Peter writes: 1 Peter 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
And John uses it as time in Revelation 6:11, 20:3
SEASONS: Created and Controlled By GOD
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God used the wind to calm the waters.
Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
God used the wind during Josephs time in Egypt: Genesis 41:6,23,27
God used the wind during Moses’ time in Egypt: Exodus 10:13,19, 14:21, 15:10
God used the wind during Moses’ time in the desert: Numbers 11:31
God used the wind when Jonah tried to run: Jonah 1:4
David writes of his experience: 2 Samuel 22 (see vs 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind).
And with Elijah: 1 Kings 18:45, 19:11
And with Elisha: 2 Kings 3:17, 7:2
Job 1:19, 6:26, 7:7, 8:2, 15:2,
The Psalms has many references showing the power of God:
Psalm 1:4, 18:10,42, 35:5, 48:7, 55:8, 78:26,39, 83:13, 103:16, 104:3, 107:25, 135:7, 147:18, 148:8
Also in Proverbs 11:29, 25:14,23, 27:16, 30:4
Solomon shares this power of God:
Ecclesiastes 1:6, 5:16, 11:4, Song of Solomon 4:16
Isaiah tells of the power of the Wind (God):
Isaiah 7:2, 11:15, 17:13, 26:18, 27:8, 32:2, 41:16,29, 54:12, 57:13, 64:6
Jeremiah shares how God uses wind to deal with His People:
Jeremiah 2:24, 4:11,12, 5:13, 10:13, 13:24, 14:6, 18:17, 22:22, 49:32,36, 51:1,16,
Ezekiel continues the same:
Ezekiel 5:2,10,12, 12:14, 13:11,13, 17:10,21, 19:12, 27:26, 37:9,
Daniel speaks of wind and winds of heaven:
Daniel 2:35, 7:2, 8:8, 11:4
And continues through the Minor Prophets:
Hosea 4;19, 8:7, 12:1, 13:15, Amos 4:13, Jonah 1:4, 4:8, Habakkuk 1:9, Zechariah 2:6, 5:9
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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
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.
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Genesis 6-11 Tells of Noah’s Flood:
Genesis 6:17, 7:6-7,10,17. 9:11,15,28, 10:1,32 11:10
When Joshua says “other side of the flood” he’s speaking about after they left Egypt: Joshua 24:2-3,14-15
Job reminds of the results of a flood:
Job 14:11, 22:16, 28:4
The Lord is God:
Psalm 29:10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
Speaking of the Red Sea:
Psalm 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
Psalm 74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Moses recalls the Flood:
Psalm 90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Judgement from God:
Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Describing a mob of people:
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
God’s judgement upon Egypt:
Jeremiah 46:7-8 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
God’s judgement upon the Philistines:
Jeremiah 47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
Events during the last days:
Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
People, not water: Daniel 11:22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
Again, last days and not water:
Amos 8:8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Amos 9:5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Nahum 1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
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Prior to the 16th century there were only 2 seasons: Summer and Winter
God says there will always be Summer and Winter:
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Psalm 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
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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
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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 24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
David writes of his sin:
Psalm 32:4 For 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 2:6 Neither 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 50:38 A 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.
It appears God used the drought to punish sin.
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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 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 8:2 The 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 38:30 The 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 2:11 For, 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
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