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We
have been going through weather circumstances in the recent months that
we are sure we have never seen before, many weather records have been
broken and they are not limited to small areas but world wide. Unprecedented
is the scale of tornados that have scraped the works of men’s hands
from the earth. Floods and droughts have diminished the food supply. Some
people say they see this as perhaps a punishment or an eye opener from
YHWH. Others say what a foolish a simplistic view this is and that it is
just ‘mother nature’ responding to the effect caused by man kind
with our world, our universe. Natural responses to ‘global warming’,
destruction of our forests, methane, carbon dioxide, other fluorocarbons
, our cars, our workplaces, our homes are all to blame. We surely are
not living in this frightening circumstance due to disobedience. That is
such an archaic idea. Divrei
Yamim Bet 2 (Chr) 7:11-14 11
When Shlomoh (Solomon) had finished the 12
YHWH appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your
prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a temple for sacrifices. 13
"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or
command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves
and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I
hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Devariym
(Deu) 11:16-17 16
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you
turn aside, and serve false gods, and worship them; 17
And then YHWH's wrath will be kindled against you, and He shall
shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and that the land does
not yield her fruit; lest you perish quickly from off the good land
which YHWH gives you. Melakhiym
Alef (IKi) 8:35 35
When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against You; if they pray toward this place and confess Your
name and turn from their sin, when You afflict them: Melakhiym
Alef (IKi) 17:7 7
And it happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because
there had been no rain in the land. Divrei
Yamim Bet (2Chr) 6:26 26
When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against you; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess
your name, and turn from their sin, when You afflict them; YesheYahu
(Isa) 5:6 6
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but
there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it. YeremeYahu
(Jer) 14:2-4 2
" Yahudah (Judah) mourns, her cities languish; they wail for
the land and a cry goes up from Yerushalayim ( 3
The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns
but find no water. They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and
despairing, they cover their heads. 4
The ground is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the
farmers are dismayed and cover their heads. ZecharYah
(Zech) 14:17-19 17
And it shall be, that whosoever will not come up of all the
families of the earth to Yerushalayim ( 18
And if the family of Mitzrayim (Egypt) do not go up, it shall
follow that they will have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith
YHWH will smite the heathen that do not come up to keep Sukkoth (the
feast of tabernacles). 19
This shall be the punishment of Mitzrayim ( Devariym
(Deu) 8:14-15 14
Then your heart be lifted up, and thou forget YHWH your Mighty
One, who brought you forth out of the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt), from
the house of bondage; 15
Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein
there were fiery serpents, scorpions and drought. When where there was
no water; Who brought forth water out of the flint rock; (Hint: YHWH
gave water to His people) YesheYahu
(Isa) 58:10-12 10
And if you will furnish out of your inner being to care for the
hungry, and satisfy the afflicted person; then shall light rise in
obscurity and you darkness be as the noonday: Light
shining in light is sometimes very difficult to see but walk out on your
porch when it is almost totally dark, light a tiny light and it can
dispel much darkness. 11
And YHWH shall guide you continually, and satisfy your inner
being in drought, He will make have fat on your bones: then
you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters
never fail. 12
And you shall build up the old, desolate waste places: you shall
raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called,
“The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in”. YermeYahu
(Jer) 50:34-38 34
Their Redeemer is strong; YHWH of hosts is His name: He shall
thoroughly plead their cause, that He may give rest to the land, and
disquiet the inhabitants of 35
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says YHWH, and upon the
inhabitants of 36
A sword is upon the liars; and they shall still be foolish: a
sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. 37
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon
all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall
become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be
robbed. 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. A
sword is upon A
sword upon the horses, the chariots, the mingled people and we see that
these mighty men will become as women and shall be robbed. All
of these foregoing sound dreadful but verse 38 puts the cap on Babylons
destruction: A drought, a dried well, creek, river or spring…all dried
up. Thirst is a damning punishment. Man cannot survive without water.
Why did YHWH exact this punishment? They were a land of ‘graven
images’ and since they were giving their love and homage to idols, not
YHWH, so they acted like mad men. Chaggai
(Hag) 1:9-11 9
You looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you
brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? says YHWH of hosts. Because of
My house that is waste, and you run every man to his own house. 10
Therefore the heavens over you held back the dew and the earth
has withheld her fruit. 11
And I called for a drought upon the land, upon the mountains,
upon the corn, upon the new wine, upon the oil, upon that which the
ground brings forth, upon men, upon cattle and upon all the labor of the
hands. No
rain, no water, nothing to quench your thirst although your tongue
clings to the roof of your mouth. No rain, no water, no food. So
tell me is good fresh, clean, life sustaining water a gift from YHWH our
Creator? If you answer yes, then does it follow that when we are in
rebellion, that precious gift may be rescinded unless and until we
repent and move back to obedience?
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