I hope after you read this posting it will hit you like thunder and lightning in your soul. I have faith that it will. No man knows the hour or day when the rapture of the body of Christ will occur. But on a daily basis we see the Word of God being prophetically manifested and coming to pass at it was written. I have lived in NYC all my life and I have been watching the signs of the end. This year our summer has been met with alot of evening and overnight thunderstorms. I dont know if you have noticed the thunderous thunder and the magnificent flashes of lightning that accompany these terrential downpours that can sometimes produce large hail, tornadoes, dangerous winds, etc....
But it truly intrigued me when I heard the thunder and saw the lightning of recent days. It sparks something in my soul when I hear and see these creations of God. So I decided to find out if thunder and lightning was of any significance to God. I mean I am like David a man who is searching after Gods own heart. So with that being said I found in the Word of God................
EXODUS 19:19 MOSES SPOKE AND GOD ANSWERED HIM IN THUNDER.
1 SAMUEL 2:10 ... HE WILL THUNDER IN HEAVEN.
JOB 37:2-5 HEARKEN TO THE THUNDER OF HIS VOICE, AND THE RUMBLING THAT COMES FROM HIS MOUTH. UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN HE LETS IT GO,AND HIS LIGHTNING TO THE CORNERS OF THE EARTH. AFTER THE LIGHTNING HIS VOICE ROARS:HE THUNDERS WITH HIS MAJESTIC VOICE, AND HE DOES NOT RESTRAIN THE LIGHTNINGS WHEN HIS VOICE IS HEARD. GOD THUNDERS WONDROUSLY WITH HIS VOICE; HE DOES GREAT THINGS WHICH WE CANNOT COMPREHEND.
JOB 40:9 ... CAN YOU THUNDER WITH A VOICE LIKE HIS?
REVELATION 14:2 ... I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, LIKE THE SOUND OF LOUD THUNDER.
2 SAMUEL 22:14 THE LORD THUNDERED FROM HEAVEN, AND THE MOST HIGH UTTERED HIS VOICE.
PSALM 18:3 THE LORD ALSO THUNDERED IN THE HEAVENS, AND THE MOST HIGH UTTERED HIS VOICE.
JOHN 12.28 FATHER, GLORIFY YOUR NAME. THEN A VOICE CAME FROM HEAVEN SAYING, 'I HAVE GLORIFIED IT. AND I WILL GLORIFY IT AGAIN.' THE CROWD STANDING BY HEARD IT AND SAID THAT IT HAD THUNDERED. OTHERS SAID, 'AN ANGEL HAS SPOKEN TO HIM'. JESUS ANSWERED 'THIS VOICE HAS COME FOR YOUR SAKE, NOT FOR MINE'.
PSALMS 29:3-4 ... THE GOD OF GLORY THUNDERS... THE VOICE OF THE LORD IS POWERFUL, THE VOICE OF THE LORD IS FULL OF MAJESTY.
PSALMS 29;7-8 THE VOICE OF THE LORD FLASHES FORTH FLAMES OF FIRE. THE VOICE OF THE LORD SHAKES THE WILDERNESS.
Exodus 9:24Hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
Exodus 19:16On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.
Exodus 20:18When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance
2 Samuel 22:13Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning blazed forth.
2 Samuel 22:15He shot arrows and scattered the enemies , bolts of lightning and routed them.
Job 36:30See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.
Job 36:32He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
Job 37:3He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
Job 37:15Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
Job 38:24What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the
east winds are scattered over the earth?
Job 38:35Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?
Psalm 18:12Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
Psalm 18:14He shot his arrows and scattered the enemies , great bolts of lightning and routed them.
Psalm 29:7The voice of the Lord strikes with flashes of lightning.
Psalm 77:18Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
Psalm 78:48He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
Psalm 97:4His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles.
Psalm 105:32He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;
Psalm 135:7He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
Psalm 144:6Send forth lightning and scatter {the enemies}; shoot your arrows and rout them.
Psalm 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding,
Jeremiah 10:13When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
Jeremiah 51:16When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
Ezekiel 1:4I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north-an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,
Ezekiel 1:13The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
Ezekiel 1:14The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.
Ezekiel 21:10sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! " 'Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my son Judah ? The sword despises every such stick.
Ezekiel 21:15So that hearts may melt and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter at all their gates. Oh! It is made to flash like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter.
Ezekiel 21:28"And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the Ammonites and their insults: " 'A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning!
Daniel 10:6His body was like chrysolite, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
Hosea 6:5Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth; my judgments flashed like lightning upon you.
Nahum 2:4The chariots storm through the streets, rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches; they dart about like lightning.
Habakkuk 3:11Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.
Zechariah 9:14Then the Lord will appear over them; his arrow will flash like lightning. The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet; he will march in the storms of the south,
Matthew 24:27For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Matthew 28:3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
Luke 9:29As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning.
Luke 10:18He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Luke 17:24For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.
Luke 24:4While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.
Revelation 4:5From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
Revelation 8:5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
Revelation 11:19Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.
Revelation 16:18Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.
Do you want a small taste of what it will be like standing before the God of the Universe on judgement day? Go outside and stand in a severe thunderstorm - and think about where you stand with Him.
Behold Jesus is coming are you ready?
The next time you hear thunder and see lightning remember these scriptures.
