Psalm 29:10 “The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.”

Psalm 107:25, 29 “For HE commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof…. HE maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.“

Proverbs 30:4 “Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?”

Jeremiah 14:22 “Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.”

Mark 4:39, 41 (Matthew 8:26-27; Luke 8:23-25)”And HE arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm….and [they] said …even the wind and the sea obey him.”

Luke 21:25-28 “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

1Sa 12:18 “So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.”

God’s Uses Weather as Judgment

Genesis 7:11-12 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.”

Deuteronomy 11:17 “Or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.”

Isa 28:17 “Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.”

Isaiah 30:30 “And the LORD will cause His voice of authority to be heard, And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, And in the flame of a consuming fire In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.”

Ezekiel 38:22 “With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.”

Job 1:16 “While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire (lightening / thunderbolt)of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”

Job 26:7  He (GOD) stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:8  He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job 26:9  He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
Job 26:10  He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Job 26:11  The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

Job 28:23  God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Job 28:24  For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Job 28:25  To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job 28:26  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Job 28:27  Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Job 28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Job 36:26-33 “Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. For he (GOD) maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt. The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.”

Job 37:1  At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
Job 37:2  Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Job 37:3  He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Job 37:4  After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
Job 37:5  God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
Job 37:6  For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
Job 37:7  He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
Job 37:8  Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Job 37:9  Out of the south cometh the whirlwind (HURRICANE): and cold out of the north.
Job 37:10  By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
Job 37:11  Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
Job 37:12  And it is turned round about by his counsels(GUIDANCE/ADVICE): that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
Job 37:13  He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
Job 37:14  Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
Job 37:15  Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Job 37:16  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
Job 37:17  How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
Job 37:18  Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Job 37:19  Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
Job 37:20  Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
Job 37:21  And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
Job 37:22  Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
Job 37:23  Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
Job 37:24  Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

Job 38:22-30 “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.”

Psa 135:6  Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
Psa 135:7  He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.

Psa 147:7  Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Psa 147:8  Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Psa 147:9  He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

Proverbs 3:19-20 “The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.”

Psalm 148:7-8 “Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: 8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:”

Psalm 78:26 “He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.”

Jonah 4:8 “And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.”

James 5:17-18 “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

1 Kings 8:35-36 “When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.”

God surely uses weather catastrophes — even resulting in deaths and/or the destruction of people, property & animals with a purpose: to unsettle the apathetic and unrepentant, to punish and judge, to alter our course of action, or to instill the fear of God.

Psalm 78:44 “And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.”

Psalm 144:6 “Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.”

Psalm 148:8 “Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word.”

Jeremiah 14:12 “When they fast, I will not hear their cry …I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.”

2 Peter 2:5 “And [God] spared not the old world… bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.”

WE KNOW THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. (Proverbs 9:10)

Fear is a common reaction to a powerful display of God’s authority in creation.

Exodus 20:18 “And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings… and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.”

1 Samuel 12:18 “… and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.”

Ezra 10:9 ” … all the people sat in the street … trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.”

Psalm 55:8 “I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.”

Psalm 97:4 “His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.”

Matthew 14:30 “But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried…”

Matthew 27:54 “Now when the centurion, and they that were with him… saw the earthquake… they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.”

However, God provides for and protects his own in the midst of storms and troubles, unless it his purpose to test us (Job 1:10, 12, 19).

Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams:

Genesis 41:30-31 , etc. “And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.”

Genesis 41:36 “And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.”

Genesis 45:11 “And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.”

Deut. 8:15-16 ” 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. 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end“

1 Kings 17:1-16 “And Elijah … said unto Ahab… there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook … I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there… the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath… dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. So he arose and… the widow woman was there…. And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse… And Elijah said unto her, Fear not… The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain … and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.”

Job 5:20, 22 “In famine he shall redeem thee from death … At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.”

Isaiah 25:4 “For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.”

Isaiah 58:11 “And the Lord shall … satisfy thy soul in drought …”

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?”

Ezekiel 36:29-30 “I will also save you … and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.”

Romans 8:35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”

AND TO CONCLUDE, WE KNOW THAT THE “END TIMES” WILL BRING GREAT SIGNS WITH AN INCREASE IN EARTHQUAKES, ETC.

Mark 13:8 (Mat 24:7) “…and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.”

Luke 21:11 “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”

Rev 16:18, 21 “And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great….And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.”

Rev 6:12-13 “…when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth…”

Rev 7:1 “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.”

Rev 8:5 “And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”

Rev 8:7 “The first angel sounded, and there followed hail … and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.”

Rev 11:13 “And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.”