I am not sure I believe God causes every little storm. It seems the laws of nature can handle that. I understand God does effect the weather when ever He pleases but I am not sure it is always. Was it Isaiah who prayed it would not rain and it did not for 3 years? There certainly is biblical support for God controlling the weather, but i think it is an exception instead of the norm.
When you say mid trib is man made are you speaking of the rapture theory of this? I am pre my self.
I suggest in your studies you examine the biblical teaching on God's providence in which Scripture teaches that God, the Son, 'upholds the universe by the word of his power' (Heb 1:3 ESV).
Let's check out a few verses over whether the laws of nature take over or whether God is in control of the elements of weather.
Take a read of Old Testament writers. They were open in attributing the forces of nature to God himself. Let's look at a few examples:
Leviticus 26:19-20 (ESV): 'and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit'.
Deuteronomy 11:13-15 (ESV), '“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 15 And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full'.
2 Chron 7:13(ESV), 'When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people'.
Psalm 42:7 (ESV), 'Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me'.
Psalm 147:15-18 (ESV), 'He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. 16 He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. 17 He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold? 18 He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow'.
Psalm 148:8 (ESV), 'fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!'
Nahum 1:3 (ESV), 'The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet'.
Matt 5:45 (ESV), 'For he [God the Father] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust'.
Luke 8:25 (ESV), 'He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”'
Heb 1:3 (ESV): 'He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high'.
There is a contemporary example of God's providential control of the weather:
DUNKIRK. In June 1940, 400,000 British and French soldiers were trapped on the north coast of France at Dunkirk. The Nazi forces were only ten miles away and could have cornered Allied troops. However, at this time thick fog and clouds settled over the beaches. The English Channel also became unusually calm, and many small boats from England were able to ferry soldiers across to safety. The protective weather pattern lasted nine days while the men were evacuated. The Allied army was thus preserved to fight another day. Winston Churchill called the evacuation of Dunkirk a “miracle of deliverance (
Does God control the weather? Does he send deadly storms?)
See the article, '
Who controls the weather?'
There is sufficient biblical evidence to demonstrate that God controls the weather and we haven't even looked at Job's situation.
Oz
another question they still sin so is it God making them sin or their free will?
