God Causes Rain
Bible Verses about God’s Sovereignty over Rainfall
General Beliefs Recorded in Scripture
JOB 26:8-9
“He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them. He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.”
JOB 37:6
“For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.”
JOB 37:11-13
“He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.”
PSALMS 104:13
“From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.”
1 KINGS 8:35
“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.”
Here it is clear that Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, believed that God controls the rain.
LEVITICUS 26:3-4
“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.”
LEVITICUS 26:14,19
“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,… and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
DEUTERONOMY 11:13-14
“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, 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.”
DEUTERONOMY 28:15,24
“But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments… The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.”
JEREMIAH 51:16
“When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.”
MATTHEW 5:45
“so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”
ACTS 14:15-17
““Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
Specific Illustrations Of this Truth in God’s Word
GENESIS 6:17
“For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.”
1 SAMUEL 12:18
“So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.”
1 KINGS 18:1,45
“After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, ‘Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.’… And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.”
JOEL 2:23
“Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.”
AMOS 4:7
“I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;”
ZECHARIAH 14:17
“And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain on them.”
