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Job 38:22-24
22 Hast thou entered [bow'] into the treasures ['owtsar] of the snow [sheleg]? or hast thou seen [ra'ah] the treasures ['owtsar] of the hail [barad],
23 Which I have reserved [chasak] against the time [`eth] of trouble [tsar], against the day [yowm] of battle [qarab] and war [milchamah]?
24 By what ['ay] way [derek] is the light ['owr] parted [chalaq], which scattereth [puwts] the east wind [qadiym] upon the earth ['erets]? KJV-Interlinear
22 'Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, 23 Which I have reserved for the time of distress, For the day of war and battle? 24 'Where is the way that the light is divided, Or the east wind scattered on the earth? NASB
As if you have not yet figured the weather out yet, here is but another in a list of examples by which God uses the weather, the sunlight, the various things in life, to control the progress and processes of history.
If you have any sort of education under your belt, or if you have ever watched the History Channel, then you have seen all of the many examples of bad weather, as well as many other circumstances, that have turned history on its ear.
The Norsemen discovered the upper North American coast, but the extreme cold, possibly brought on by volcanic activity in the 500's A.D. sent them back to Europe. That little ice age, caused masses of peoples to migrate throughout Europe.
Arid weather pushed peoples out of the Mesopotamian region to the four points of the compass.
A search for a short route to the Far East caused the later discovery of the New World.
Abundant furs caused a massive migration to the New World.
The discovery of gold caused massive migrations to the many regions where gold was discovered.
Wars were often times decided because of bad weather. World War II Germany fighting Russia would be a good example of extreme winter weather that halted a certain German victory.
Throughout time, weather, resources, social ills, diseases, and more, have served to direct the course of human history.
And here is Gods very own explanation of how something as simple as snow or hail, are in reality, used by Himself, to serve His historical will.
Probably the most common and known example of this concept, are the ten plagues which brought about the release of the Israelites from their slavery to Egypt and Pharaoh.
And as we have mentioned before, all of this global warming issue that is making its way around the news media, and seems to be selling almost everyone now, is really a hoax as far as to its cause.
However, that said, there is one truth to the global warming story. It is caused by humanity but not for the reasons stated in the news. Spiritual deficiency is the cause, not the use of fossil fuels. One volcano eruption can produce more atmospheric pollution than all of the human activity in all of history combined.
And even though we all know that, who will accept it?
And we get back to the question of these verses. Where does the snow start? Where does the hail start? And by that is meant, how are the volumes of snowfall and the locations of hail, determined?
And we add one more question to those above. Were does light get its start, but more important, how is light perpetuated?
We all know how a bicycle runs. We push the pedals with our feet and that turns a chain, which turns on gears which turns the wheels and so forth. We all know how the internal combustion engine works. The fuel is inserted into the valve, and ignited by a spark, which pushes the pistons, which turn the rods, which turn the flywheel, which turns the gears in the transmission, and so forth back to the wheels.
But light, how does it move. A flash or explosion causes the light. A battery causes the glowing of light, but what propels the light along at such a great speed. Light moves at well over 186,000 miles a second. We can't make a car go that fast, or even a rocket. So how can a little battery send light out of a flashlight at such a great speed?
We can come up with many scientific explanations as to how snow and hail form, and we can even come up with explanations regarding light, but how was the earth shrouded in darkness in Genesis 1, and then suddenly bathed in light. Was the sun out, and then God lit it with a huge match? Was there a cloud of dust floating through space, blocking the sunlight?
How is it that the oil reserves, the gold deposits, the location of the continents even their number (7), the timing of weather patterns throughout history, came to be when and where they are?
We recently studied the Tribulation in our study of Revelation. It is at that future time in history, that the most extreme weather will occur. Why then? Why not before?
Why will all of the earths severe weather suddenly come to a halt at the Second Advent, and perfect weather will continue for a thousand years from that moment on?
In the universities around the world, history professors continue to search for the answer to the interpretation of history. And that interpretation has been right before us all for as long as man has existed on this planet.
Jesus Christ is the only interpretation of history. As goes mans attitude toward Christ, so goes history.
A positive attitude produces blessing and prosperity. A negative attitude produces distress and disaster.
The existence of snow and hail are not controlled by natural phenomena alone, but by the will of God, and they are used at His pleasure for determining the direction of history.
Today, China is getting hammered by earthquakes. The other day it was Burma that was hammered by a massive storm. We experience storms and disasters every year, somewhere in each of our respective countries.
One would think that people would get wise to all of this repetition, but then people do not accept that it is God who is behind all of this activity. People ignore God, as a general rule, anyway. And so the repetition continues.
And finally the wind. We cannot see it, so we cannot determine its source or its destination. No one can follow any component of air throughout the world, and yet air is the most common denominator for all of our lives.
We can only begin to predict weather as we see it developing. Through radar and satellites we can see and measure the high and low pressure areas and cloud patterns, but only after they begin forming. Prior to their formation, we are clueless. Otherwise we could accurately predict the weather for weeks, months, or years into the future. But a few days is the best we can do and even that is a tough call.
Hummm, how then can we predict global changes decades in advance, when we cannot even predict the current weather accurately? Do you know what will occur in this next hurricane season?
All of life is a classroom. We can either learn from it, or fail.
