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God, Judgment and the Weather: The Israel Factor

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Does God punish nations today for their mistreatment of Israel?

I’ve spent many years studying what the Bible has to say about God and the weather. God has always spoken through signs of nature. Throughout history, God has used signs of nature in two primary ways.

First, God has used signs of nature to emphasis the importance of great events. For example, when He put a special light in the heavens when Jesus was born. Another is when God caused an earthquake and three hours of darkness when Jesus was crucified.

God uses signs of nature more frequently in another way. Now more often, God uses signs of nature as remedial judgments to call nations to repentance. Both the Bible and history attest to the fact that God has a pattern for working with nations. The Bible teaches beyond a shadow of a doubt that God is the one that raises up nations, He is the one who sets their boundaries, and He is the one who gives them purpose.

When a nation begins to rebel against God, the first thing He will do is raise up prophetic voices to call the nation to repentance. If the nation refuses to repent, then God sends remedial judgments in many forms until because of a lack of repentance the wound becomes incurable. When the wound becomes incurable, God then moves a nation from judgment to destruction.

A new factor that I believe is producing remedial judgments upon the United States is our mistreatment of Israel which began in the early 90’s. We have failed to realize that since 1991 many of the judgments that we have experienced have been related to our mistreatment of the nation of Israel.

The Bible says two very important things about this. In Genesis 12:3 God declares, “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.” That is part of the Abrahamic Covenant. It’s an eternal covenant God made with Abraham. He’s saying He’s going to bless those who bless the Jews and is going to curse those who curse the Jews. Zechariah 2:8 warns, “For the Lord said, ‘He who touches Israel touches the apple of my eye.'” Those are very serious statements and history attests to the truth of it.

Historic Examples

I could go all the rest of the day giving you historical examples, but I’ll give you three.

The first is Spain. In the 15th century Spain was the greatest power in the world. In 1492, the same year that Columbus discovered America, Queen Isabella ordered that every Jew in Spain convert to Christianity overnight or be expelled. Over 250,000 were expelled overnight. In a matter of years the Spanish Empire was in ashes and has never existed as anything since then.

Secondly, in addition to that, is the Nazi government. Hitler was well on his way to conquering all of Europe when he launched the Holocaust, and within a matter of years his Third Reich was in ashes.

The third example is Britain and the great blockade. The British were blessed, oh, they were blessed in the 19th Century! God showered His blessing upon the British. They sent out missionaries all over the world. They wrote hymns. They translated the Gospel into different languages, and God greatly blessed them. They came into the 20th Century blessed with evangelical leadership, even in the government, which is the reason they issued the Balfour Declaration in November of 1917 saying they were going to make Palestine a homeland for the Jewish people.

But, suddenly, the British turned against the Jews. In 1922 they announced they were going to give two-thirds of Palestine to the Arabs to create the modern day state of Jordan. Then, when the holocaust broke out in the late 30’s, they did something inconceivable. The British blockaded Israel and refused to allow any Jews of Europe to come home to Israel. They turned the ships back and sent the Jews back to the ovens because they would not allow any Jews to come from Europe into Israel. At the end of World War II they sided with the Arabs. Today, the British Empire is simply a memory.

In the next segment of this “God, Judgment and the Weather” series, we’ll look at various political actions the United States took against Israel and how each time a natural disaster simultaneously hit the country.

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Dr. David Reagan

Dr. David Reagan is the Founder and Evangelist Emeritus of Lamb & Lion Ministries. He is a life-long Bible student, teacher, and preacher and he led over 45 pilgrimages to Israel. Dr. Reagan was the host of the radio then television program Christ in Prophecy for nearly 40 years.

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  • You bring up some very good points in your article. After all, Yahweh claims exclusive authority and control over the weather….

    Which, of course, brings up a few highly-important questions. Such as: "Why have so many of America's Churches been destroyed by: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Forest Fires, Floods, etc… since the year 2000?" If, as Yahshua stated, "A house divided against itself cannot stand" – and these churches are claiming to speak for Yahweh – then precisely who is lying? And if these churches, of many diverse denominations, don't belong to Yahweh – then who do they honestly belong to?

    More importantly, if they aren't Yahweh's, then why do we keep rebuilding them?

  • Majority of America's churches are weak, powerless, sin loving and forgotten about their First Love. These destructions are really just a wake up call for them to repent from their worldly ways and to come out of Babylon .

  • Has God used weather in judgment? Without a doubt I believe so. However, every destructive force of nature is not a judgment of God and whether or not anyone can say with authority which one is the judgement of God is questionable. God is not a respecter of persons…for those of us who believe in God. With that being said, America, as with every other nation on this planet that has had their rule, will also suffer ruin. Every powerful nation of people before America believed the same thing–We are too powerful to be brought low. We are the blessed of God. God loves this country and God put us here to rule. Then…times up. Why? Because in the quest for power, there is a desire for more power, which leads to a thirst for blood, in order to display our power.

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