The Life of Elijah by Arthur W. Pink

Author:Arthur W. Pink
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Theology
ISBN: 9781612033167
Publisher: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
Published: 2011-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20-The Sound of Abundance of Rain

Not a little is said in the Scriptures about rain, yet is such teaching quite unknown today even to the vast majority of people in Christendom. In this atheistic and materialistic age God is not only not accorded his proper place in the hearts and lives of the people, but He is banished from their thoughts and virtually excluded from the world which He has made. His ordering of the seasons, His control of the elements, His regulating of the weather, is now believed by none save an insignificant remnant who are regarded as fools and fanatics. There is need then for the servants of Jehovah to set forth the relation which the living God sustains to His creation and His superintendence of and government over all the affairs of earth, to point out first that the Most High foreordained in eternity past all which comes to pass here below, and then to declare that He is now executing His predetermination and working "all things after the counsel of His own will."

That God’s foreordination reaches to material things as well as spiritual, that it embraces the elements of earth as well as the souls of men, is clearly revealed in Holy Writ. "He made a decree (the same Hebrew word as in Ps. 2:7) for the rain" (Job 28:26)—predestinating when, where and how little or how much it should rain: just as "he gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment," (Prov. 8:29), and He hath "placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail" (Jer. 5:22). The precise number, duration and quantity of the showers have been eternally and unalterably fixed by the Divine will, and the exact bounds of each ocean and river expressly determined by the fiat of the Ruler of heaven and earth. In accordance with His foreordination we read the God "prepareth rain for the earth" (Ps. 147:8). "I will cause it to rain" (Gen. 7:4), says the King of the firmament, nor can any of His creatures say Him nay. "I will give you rain in due season" (Lev. 26:4), is His gracious promise, yet how little is its fulfillment recognized or appreciated. On the other hand, He declares "I have withholden the rain from you . . . I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered" (Amos 4:7 and cf. Deut. 11:17); and again, "I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain" (Isa. 5:6), and all the scientists in the world are powerless to reverse it. And therefore does He require of us, "Ask ye of the Lord rain" (Zech. 10:1), that our dependence upon Him may be acknowledged.

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