The Lord Controls Nature

Gen. 2:4-6 "This is the *history (Lit. generations or genealogy) of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground."
Gen. 7:11-16 "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark - they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in."
BibleNote: It's important to realize the animals, and birds, and insects had it instilled within them by God to go to Noah. He did not go out to get them like we see in movies. Also until the flood of Noah there was no rain on the earth, but a midst went up to water the ground in the night. Can you imagine the terror that must have come on mankind when all the fountains of the deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven opened up to release all that rain?
Job 38:4 "Where were you when I laid the
   foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding."
Job 38:8-12 "Or who shut in the sea with doors,
When it burst forth and issued from the
   womb;
When I made the clouds its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling band;
When I fixed My limit for it,
And set bars and doors;
When I said,
'This far you may come, but no farther,
And here your proud waves must stop!' "
Job 38:34-35 "Can you lift up your voice to the
   clouds,
That an abundance of water may cover
   you?
Can you send out lightnings, that they
   may go,
And say to you, 'Here we are!'?"
Psa. 135:5-7 "For I know that the Lord is great,
And our Lord is above all gods.
Whatever the Lord pleases He does,
In heaven and in earth,
In the seas and in all deep places.
He causes the *vapors (Water vapor) to ascend
   from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain;
He brings the wind out of His
   treasuries."
Isa. 27:6 "Those who come He shall cause to
   take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit."
Matt. 21:18-19 "Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, 'Let no fruit grow on you ever again.' And immediately the fig tree withered away."
See (We Have Authority - In Jesus' Name)
Mark 4:35-39 "On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, 'Let us cross over to the other side.' Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, 'Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?' Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, 'Peace, be still!' And the wind ceased and there was a great calm."
Bible Note: The pillow was the promise to go to the other side. Jesus was at peace knowing they would get there. When you are at peace in the Lord it looks like you don't care.


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