Who Causes Storms? - Page 6

Falla39 · #51 08-27-2007, 06:01 AM

[QUOTE=Esther;223891]Got into an interesting debate last Friday.

This man believes that hurricanes and tornadoes and such are caused by satan.

His scripture he uses is when Jesus rebuked the storm.

Now to me that was just showing His authority.

I am remembering the flood that God sent for 40 days.

What is your take?[/QUOTE]

Nahum 1:3-5 tells us "The LORD is slow to anger, and great

in power, and will not at all avenge acquit the wicked: the

LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the STORM, and

the clouds are the dust of his feet.

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all

the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower

of Lebanon languisheth.

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth

is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwells

therein.

Kinda get the impression our Creator STILL has control over HIS

Creation!

Blessings,

Falla39

Falla39 · #52 08-28-2007, 05:24 AM

[QUOTE=Falla39;225719]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Esther

Got into an interesting debate last Friday.

This man believes that hurricanes and tornadoes and such are caused by satan.

His scripture he uses is when Jesus rebuked the storm.

Now to me that was just showing His authority.

I am remembering the flood that God sent for 40 days.

What is your take?[/QUOTE]

Nahum 1:3-5 tells us "The LORD is slow to anger, and great

in power, and will not at all avenge acquit the wicked: the

LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the STORM, and

the clouds are the dust of his feet.

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all

the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower

of Lebanon languisheth.

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth

is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwells

therein.

Kinda get the impression our Creator STILL has control over HIS

Creation!

Blessings,

Falla39

Bump

Esther · #53 08-28-2007, 08:24 AM

Good post Sis.Falla

I agree with some of you. I believe God is in control of the weather.

Felicity · #54 08-28-2007, 08:34 AM

From Job 36:

27 “He draws up the drops of water,which distill as rain to the streams;

28 the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.

29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?

30 See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.

31 This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance.

32 He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

33 His thunder announces the coming storm; even the cattle make known its approach.

crakjak · #55 08-28-2007, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

You guys realize that such poetic usage is not always to be taken literally to mean God causes every storm?

Is the earth really built on a pillar?
Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

A giant nose?
Job 4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

God Breathes fire from his nose? HE rides on a cherub?

Psa 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Psa 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Psa 18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Psa 18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

These are anthropomorphisms

They are also the musings of finite men about the infinite God.

Felicity · #56 08-28-2007, 08:38 AM

From Job 37:

5 God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

6 He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’

7 So that all men he has made may know his work, he stops every man from his labor.

8 The animals take cover; they remain in their dens.

9 The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.

10 The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.

11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.

12 At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.

13 He brings the clouds to punish men, or to water his earth and show his love.

14 “Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders.

15 Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?

16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?

17 You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

18 can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?

Felicity · #57 08-28-2007, 08:43 AM

From Job 38:

22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,

23 which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?

24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

26 to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it,

27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?

28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?

29 From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

30 when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 “Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?

32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth?

34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?

37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens

38 when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?

Felicity · #58 08-28-2007, 08:48 AM

Job 28:

24 for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

25 When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters,

26 when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

crakjak · #59 08-28-2007, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Felicity

Job 28:

24 for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

25 When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters,

26 when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

I only embrace fully what God speaks in the book of Job, the words of all the others including Job I take with a grain of Holy Spirit salt. We must filter the word thru the context and who is speaking. Just because the words of men are recorded in scripture it does not make those words accurate.

Felicity · #60 08-28-2007, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crakjak

I only embrace fully what God speaks in the book of Job, the words of all the others including Job I take with a grain of Holy Spirit salt.

LOL! Well, that's fine; but that doesn't mean that what Job's counselors wrote weren't inspired too. A lot of what they say is truth and is backed up by God's word.