and keeping my commandments and you carry them out, I will give you showers of rain at their proper time.” (Leviticus 26:3, 4)
As everyone knows, “meteorologists often face ridicule” because they “foretell planetary alignments years in advance, yet still fail to put together accurate weather forecasts.” (howstuffworks) Have we ever wondered why it is so difficult to predict the weather? It is obvious that these so-called scientists fail because they “trust in human wisdom and accomplishments.” – Our Kingdom Ministry, May 1987, page 3.
Like the Pharisees they “interpret the appearance of the sky” to predict whether it will rain or not, but they ignore the fact that “only Jehovah God can foretell future events.” (Matthew 16:3; The Watchtower, August 1, 1956, page 460) The prophet Isaiah was way ahead of modern meteorologists, for he realized even 2500 years ago that “showers don’t fall by themselves. Only you control the rain … the LORD our God.” – Jeremiah 14:22, CEV.
Jeremiah knew that Jehovah has “storehouses … where he keeps the rain” and that it is his responsibility to “send rain … at just the right times.” (Deuteronomy 28:12, CEV) Jesus Christ confirmed this when he explained that God “makes it rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Matthew 5:45) The apostle Paul too testified that it is “God [who] sends rain from heaven.” – Acts 14:17, CEV.
What about other weather phenomena? Snow and hail are not emerging from chemical processes in the atmosphere like many scientists claim, rather God fetches them from “the storehouses of the snow” and “the storehouses of the hail” which he built long ago. (Job 38:22) Wind is also caused by Jehovah. (Numbers 11:31; Jonah 1:4) No wonder that humans fail to predict the weather!
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