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I. RAIN: LIVING WATER

• Rain literally: Teacher: Messiah: Jesus
  
  • Joel 2:23
    Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you— The former rain, And the latter rain in the first.
    
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  • Matthew 5:45
    that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun (Son) rise (arise: a resurrection) on the evil and on the good, and sends rain (Jesus as the Word of God) on the just and on the unjust.
    
• Geshem גשם translates as rain. It also has the meaning “to realize” and also “sustenance.”
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  • Hosea 5:15
    I will return again to My place Till they acknowledge (realize) their offense. Then they will seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
    
  • Zechariah 12:10
    Mourning for the Pierced One
    “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced (realize Jesus is their Messiah at His return to earth). Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
    

II. THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

• Thunder and Lightning: Symbolic: Return of Jesus
  • The end of each of the seals, trumpets, and bowls.
    
    • Revelation 8:⁵  – At the end of “seals”
      Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake.
      
    • Revelation 11:19 – At the end of “trumpets”
      Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant (Jesus) was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.
      
    • Rev 16:18 At the end of “bowls”
      And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.
      
    • Mat 24:27
      “For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

III. DEW

• Dew: The Rapture and Resurrections when the faithful rise to meet Him in the air when the Sun (Son) rises.
  
  • Deuteronomy 32:2
    Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.
    
  • Job 29:19
    My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lies all night on my branch.
    
  • Job 38:28
    Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
    
  • Isa 26:19
    Your dead shall live; Together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew is like the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.
    
  • Isaiah 18:4
    For so the Lord said to me, “I will take My rest, And I will look from My dwelling place Like clear heat in sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest (resurrections).”
    

• As a figure of speech dew expresses:
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  • A source of abundance (Gen. 27:28),
  • A silent and sudden coming (II Sam. 17:12)
  • Ephemerality (Hos. 13:3)
    • Ephemerality: A short time span, an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.

HEAVY RAIN

• Heavy Rain: Judgment: Great White Throne Judgment
  
  • Ezr 10:9 So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open square of the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of heavy rain.
    
  • Ezr 10:13
    “But there are many people; it is the season for heavy rain, and we are not able to stand outside. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for there are many of us who have transgressed in this matter.
    
  • Job 37:6 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’; Likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength.

V. RAINBOW

• The Messiah’s Oath/Covenant
  Rain means “Messiah” and a “Bow” is symbolic for covenant.
  
  • Genesis 9:13
    I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
    
  • Revelation 6:2
    And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He (The Antichrist) who sat on it had a bow (the seven year peace treaty ie covenant with the Jews); and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
    
  • Genesis 49:²² 
    “Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall. ²³ The archers have bitterly grieved him, Shot at him and hated him. ²⁴ But his bow (covenant with God) remained in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong. By the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

VI. SEA

• A Sea of People, a Multitude
  • Revelation 20:8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
  • Daniel 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.
  • Psalm 65:7 You who still the noise of the seas, The noise of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples.
  • Isaiah 5:30 In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea.
  • Isaiah 17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas, And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

VII. RIVER

• The Movement of Masses of People over Time
  
  • Daniel 12:⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that riverbank. ⁶ And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be?” ⁷ Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.

VIII. FLOOD

• Military Troops, overflowing their boundaries in order to conquer.
  
  • Isaiah 28:2
    Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, Like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, Like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, Who will bring them down to the earth with His hand.
    
  • Jeremiah 47:2
    Thus says the Lord: “Behold, waters rise out of the north, And shall be an overflowing flood; They shall overflow the land and all that is in it, The city and those who dwell within; Then the men shall cry, And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
    
  • Revelation 12:15
    So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth (earthquake) and swallowed up the flood (army) which the dragon (Satan) had spewed out of his mouth.

VIV. HAIL

• Punishment
  
  • Exodus 9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now.
    
  • Joshua 10:11 And it happened, as they fled before Israel and were on the descent of Beth Horon, that the Lord cast down large hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.
    
  • Isaiah 30:30 The Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard, And show the descent of His arm, With the indignation of His anger And the flame of a devouring fire, With scattering, tempest, and hailstones.
    
  • Ezekiel 38:22
    And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
    
  • Revelation 16:21
    And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent (~75 lbs). Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

X. SNOW

• Wisdom and Purity of Heart and Soul, Righteousness (including the rapture)
  
  • Isaiah 1:18
    “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
    
  • Isaiah 55:10
    “For as the rain (Jesus) comes down, and the snow (saints) from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed (prosperity) to the sower And bread (substance) to the eater,
    
  • Matthew 28:3
    His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.
    
  • Revelation 1:14
    His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;

XI: ICE

• Hardened Water (Peoples)
  
  • Job 38:³⁰ The waters harden like stone, And the surface of the deep is frozen (Lit. imprisoned).
  • Job 6:¹⁶ Which are dark because of the ice, And into which the snow (pure) vanishes.