Who Controls the Weather According to Scripture

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1. Psalms “who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. -- Psalms 147:8”
2. Smith's Bible Dictionary “Smith's Bible Dictionary: Sun — In the history of "greater light," of the creation the sun is described as "greater light," in contradistinction to the moon, the "lesser light," in conjunction with which it was to serve "for signs and for seasons, and for days, and for years," while its special office was "to rule the day." (Genesis 1:14-16) The "signs" referred to were probably such extraordinary phenomena as eclipses, which were regarded as conveying premonitions of coming events. (Jeremiah 10:2; Matthew 24:29) with Luke 21:25 The joint influence assigned to the sun and moon in deciding the ”
3. Torrey's Topical Textbook “Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rain — Occasioned by the condensing of the clouds -- Job 36:27,28; Ps 77:17; Ec 11:3. God Made a decree for. -- Job 28:26. Prepares. -- Ps 147:8. Gives. -- Job 5:10. Causes, to come down. -- Joe 2:23. Exhibits goodness in giving. -- Ac 14:17. Exhibits greatness in giving. -- Job 36:26,27. Sends upon the evil and good. -- Mt 5:45. Should be praised for. -- Ps 147:7,8. Should be feared on account of. -- Jer 5:24. Impotence of idols exhibited in not being able to give -- Jer 14:22. Not sent upon the earth immediately after creation -- Ge 2:5. Rarely falls in Egypt -- De”
4. Torrey's Topical Textbook “Torrey's Topical Textbook: Clouds — Formed from the sea -- 1Ki 18:44; Am 9:6. Are garment of the sea -- Job 38:9. God Established. -- Pr 8:28. Balanced in the air. -- Job 37:16. Disposed in order. -- Job 37:15. Brings over the earth. -- Ge 9:14. Binds up. -- Job 26:8. Spreads out. -- Job 26:9. Scatters. -- Job 37:11. Power and wisdom of God exhibited in forming -- Ps 135:6,7; 147:5,8; Jer 10:13; 51:16. Power and wisdom of God exhibited in condensing -- Job 36:27,28; 37:10,11; Pr 3:20. Made for the glory of God -- Ps 148:4. Called the Clouds of heaven. -- Da 7:13; Mt 24:30. Windows of heaven. -”
5. Smith's Bible Dictionary “Smith's Bible Dictionary: Winds — That the Hebrews recognized the existence of four prevailing winds as issuing, broadly speaking, from the four cardinal points, north, south, east and west, may be inferred from their custom of using the expression "four winds" as equivalent to the "four quarters" of the hemisphere. (Ezekiel 37:9; Daniel 8:8; Zechariah 2:6; Matthew 24:31) The north wind, or, as it was usually called "the north," was naturally the coldest of the four, Ecclus. 43:20 and its presence is hence invoked as favorable to vegetation in (Song of Solomon 4:16) It is described in (Proverb”
6. Torrey's Topical Textbook “Torrey's Topical Textbook: Wind, The — Variable nature of -- Ec 1:6. God Created. -- Am 4:13. Restrains. -- Job 28:25; Ps 107:29. Brings forth, out of his treasuries. -- Ps 135:7; Jer 10:13. Raises. -- Ps 107:25; Jon 4:8. Changes. -- Ps 78:26. Assuages. -- Mt 8:26; 14:32. Gathers, in his hand. -- Pr 30:4. Accomplishes the purposes of God -- Ps 148:8. Theory of, above man's comprehension -- Joh 3:8. Mentioned in scripture North. -- Pr 25:23; Song 4:16. South. -- Job 37:17; Lu 12:55. East. -- Job 27:21; Eze 17:10; Ho 13:15. West. -- Ex 10:19. Euroclydon. -- Ac 27:14. The simoom or pestilential w”
7. Smith's Bible Dictionary “Smith's Bible Dictionary: Moon — The moon held an important place in the kingdom of nature, as known to the Hebrews. Conjointly with the sun, it was appointed "for signs and for seasons, and for days and years;" though in this respect it exercised a more important influence, if by the "seasons" we understand the great religious festivals of the Jews, as is particularly stated in (Psalms 104:19) and more at length in Ecclus 43:6,7. The worship of the moon prevailed extensively among the nations of the East, and under a variety of aspects. It was one of the only two deities which commanded the r”
8. Psalms (Protestant academic) “Tyndale House on Psalms 147:8: 147:8 God holds sovereign power over the weather (77:17-18; 78:26; 104:4; 148:5-6).”
9. Psalms (Protestant academic) “Tyndale House on Psalms 135:7: 135:7 The psalmist tells of God’s sovereignty over the weather (Pss 29; 77:17-18; 78:26; 104:4; 147:8-9; 148:5-6).”
10. Job (Nonconformist/Puritan) “Matthew Henry on Job 37:6: The changes and extremities of the weather, wet or dry, hot or cold, are the subject of a great deal of our common talk and observation; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu does here, with an awful regard to God the director of them, who shows his power and serves the purposes of his providence by them! We must take notice of the glory of God, not only in the thunder and lightning, but in the more common revolutions of the weather, which are not so terrible and which make less noise. As, I. In the snow and rain, Job 37:6. Thunder and lightn”
11. Job (Nonconformist/Puritan) “Matthew Henry on Job 38:25: Hitherto God had put such questions to Job as were proper to convince him of his ignorance and short-sightedness. Now he comes, in the same manner, to show his impotency and weakness. As it is but little that he knows, and therefore he ought not to arraign the divine counsels, so it is but little that he can do, and therefore he ought not to oppose the proceedings of Providence. Let him consider what great things God does, and try whether he can do the like, or whether he thinks himself an equal match for him. I. God has thunder, and lightning, and rain, and frost, ”
12. Job (Presbyterian) “Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Job 38:33: ordinances--which regulate the alternations of seasons, &c. (Gen 8:22). dominion--controlling influence of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, &c., on the earth (on the tides, weather) (Gen 1:16; Psa 136:7-9).”
13. CCEL (Reformed (Old Princeton)) “Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, Vol. 2, section 140: show how it is accomplished by moral suasion, and how it depends for its success on the coöperation of the subject of the work. This is not the Scriptural account. Our Lord said to the leper, I will; be thou clean; as he said to the winds, Be still. There is another view of the subject. As the Bible recognizes and teaches this analogy between the material and spiritual worlds, so it constantly assumes a like analogy between the relation which God sustains to the one and the relation which He sustains to the other. He has given to his cre”
14. Psalms (Protestant academic) “Tyndale House on Psalms 104:4: 104:4 Wind and lightning are seen as divine messengers. The Lord uses weather phenomena as he desires (77:17-18; 78:26; 135:7; 148:5-6). • The psalmist interacts with day three of creation (Gen 1:9-13). The Lord is master of water and earth.”
15. Schaff ANF/NPNF (Patristic) “ANF Vol 8: Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts, Epistles, Apocrypha, Decretals — CHAP. XLV.--MOTIONS OF THE SUN AND MOON.: Says Aquila: "I shall do so without delay. Two visible signs are shown in heaven--one of the sun, the other of the moon; and these are followed by five other stars, each describing its own separate orbit. These, therefore, God has placed in the heaven, by which the temperature of the air may be regulated according to the seasons, and the order of vicissitudes and alternations may be kept. But by means of the very same signs, if at any time plague and corruption is sent upon the ea”
16. Schaff ANF/NPNF (Patristic) “ANF Vol 2: Hermas, Tatian, Theophilus, Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria — CHAP. VI.--GOD IS KNOWN BY HIS WORKS.: Consider, O man, His works,--the timely rotation of the seasons, and the changes of temperature; the regular march of the stars; the well-ordered course of days and nights, and months, and years; the various beauty of seeds, and plants, and fruits; and the divers species[5] of quadrupeds, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, both of the rivers and of the sea; or consider the instinct implanted in these animals to beget and rear offspring, not for their own profit, but for the use ”