| The Outcome of the Rains in the Bible: | | | | James 5:18 |
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| 1) The Lord Commands: | | | | Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, |
| | | | and the earth produced its crops. |
| 2) I will command the clouds not to rain | | | | |
| | | | The Fear and Terror |
| 3) I will send a plague among my people | | | | |
| | | | 1 Samuel 12:18 |
| 4) I also withheld rain from you | | | | |
| | | | Then Samuel called upon the LORD, and that |
| 5) I will rain down bread from heaven | | | | same day the LORD sent thunder and rain. So |
| | | | all the people stood in fear of the Lord and |
| I will command the clouds not to rain | | | | of Samuel. |
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| Isaiah 5:6 | | | | They built a fire and welcomed us all because |
| | | | it was raining |
| I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned | | | | |
| nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will | | | | Acts 28:2 |
| grow there. I will command the clouds not to | | | | |
| rain on it." | | | | The islanders showed us unusual kindness. |
| | | | They built a fire and welcomed us all because |
| Send a plague among my people | | | | it was raining and cold. |
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| 2 Chronicles 7:13 | | | | Be patient |
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| "When I shut up the heavens so that there is | | | | James 5:7 |
| no rain, or command locusts to devour the | | | | |
| land or send a plague among my people, | | | | [Patience in Suffering] Be patient, then, |
| | | | brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how |
| I also withheld rain from you | | | | the farmer waits for the land to yield its |
| | | | valuable crop and how patient he is for the |
| Amos 4:7 | | | | autumn and spring rains. |
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| "I also withheld rain from you when the | | | | These men have power to shut up the sky so |
| harvest was still three months away. I sent | | | | that it will not rain during the time |
| rain on one town, but withheld it from | | | | |
| another. One field had rain; another had none | | | | Revelation 11:6 |
| and dried up. | | | | |
| | | | These men have power to shut up the sky so |
| I will rain down bread from heaven | | | | that it will not rain during the time they |
| | | | are prophesying; and they have power to turn |
| Exodus 16:4 | | | | the waters into blood and to strike the earth |
| | | | with every kind of plague as often as they |
| Then the LORD said to Moses, "I will rain | | | | want. |
| down bread from heaven for you. | | | | |
| | | | Tender plants |
| The Lord says: you have the brazen look of a | | | | |
| prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame. | | | | Deuteronomy 32:2 |
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| Jeremiah 3:3 | | | | Let my teaching fall like rain and my words |
| | | | descend like dew, like showers on new grass, |
| Therefore the showers have been withheld, and | | | | like abundant rain on tender plants. |
| no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the | | | | |
| brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to | | | | Rained meat |
| blush with shame. | | | | |
| | | | Psalm 78:27 |
| Say to the land, 'You are a land that has had | | | | |
| no rain | | | | He rained meat down on them like dust, flying |
| | | | birds like sand on the seashore. |
| Ezekiel 22:24 | | | | |
| | | | Honor is not fitting for a fool |
| "Son of man, say to the land, 'You are a land | | | | |
| that has had no rain or showers in the day of | | | | Proverbs 26:1 |
| wrath.' | | | | |
| | | | Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor |
| The Rain and Fire, Burn, destruction and the | | | | is not fitting for a fool. |
| Lord's anger | | | | |
| | | | Driving rain that leaves no crops |
| I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones | | | | |
| and burning sulfur on many nations! Why many | | | | Proverbs 28:3 |
| nations? | | | | |
| | | | A ruler who oppresses the poor is like a |
| Ezekiel 38:21-22 | | | | driving rain that leaves no crops. |
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| 21- I will summon a sword against Gog on all | | | | North wind brings rain |
| my mountains, declares the Sovereign LORD. | | | | |
| Every man's sword will be against his | | | | Proverbs 25:23 |
| brother. | | | | |
| | | | As a north wind brings rain, so a sly tongue |
| 22- I will execute judgment upon him with | | | | brings angry looks. |
| plague and bloodshed; I will pour down | | | | |
| torrents of rain, hailstones and burning | | | | The Outcome of the Rains in the Quran: |
| sulfur on him and on his troops and on the | | | | |
| many nations with him. | | | | The Rain is a great blessing. |
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| Deuteronomy 11:17 | | | | Surah 50:9 |
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| Then the Lord's anger will burn against you, | | | | And we send down from the sky rain charted |
| and he will shut the heavens so that it will | | | | with blessing, and we produce therewith |
| not rain and the ground will yield no | | | | gardens and grain for harvests; |
| produce, and you will soon perish from the | | | | |
| good land the LORD is giving you. | | | | The Rain has certain measure. |
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| Deuteronomy 28:24 | | | | Surah 13:17 |
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| The LORD will turn the rain of your country | | | | SHAKIR: he sends down water from the cloud, |
| into dust and powder; it will come down from | | | | then watercourses flow (with water) according |
| the skies until you are destroyed. | | | | to their measure, and the torrent bears along |
| | | | the swelling foam, and from what they melt in |
| Luke 17:29 | | | | the fire for the sake of making ornaments or |
| | | | apparatus arises a scum like it; thus does |
| But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur | | | | Allah compare truth and falsehood; then as |
| rained down from heaven and destroyed them | | | | for the scum, it passes away as a worthless |
| all. | | | | thing; and as for that which profits the |
| | | | people, it tarries in the earth; thus does |
| Isaiah 28:2 | | | | Allah set forth parables |
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| See, the Lord has one who is powerful and | | | | Surah 39:21do you not see that Allah sends |
| strong. Like a hailstorm and a destructive | | | | down water from the cloud, then makes it go |
| wind, like a driving rain and a flooding | | | | along in the earth in springs, then brings |
| downpour, he will throw it forcefully to the | | | | forth therewith herbage of various colors, |
| ground. | | | | then it withers so that you see it becoming |
| | | | yellow, then he makes it a thing crushed and |
| Ezekiel 13:13 | | | | broken into pieces? most surely there is a |
| | | | reminder in this for the men of understanding |
| "'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD | | | | |
| says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent | | | | The Rain is for Drink and Plant formation |
| wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents | | | | |
| of rain will fall with destructive fury. | | | | Surah 16:10 |
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| Rain down his blows upon him | | | | He it is Who sends down water from the cloud |
| | | | for you; it gives drink, and by it (grow) the |
| Job 20:23 | | | | trees upon which you pasture |
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| When he has filled his belly, God will vent | | | | The Rain makes the Earth Green |
| his burning anger against him and rain down | | | | |
| his blows upon him. | | | | Surah 22:63 |
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| It fell with a great crash | | | | Do you not see that Allah sends down water |
| | | | from the cloud so the earth becomes green? |
| Matthew 7:27 | | | | Surely Allah is benignant, aware |
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| The rain came down, the streams rose, and the | | | | The Rain Produces Plants, Fruits, and Trees |
| winds blew and beat against that house, and | | | | etc. |
| it fell with a great crash." | | | | |
| | | | Surah 2:22 |
| Without fruit | | | | |
| | | | Who made the earth a resting place for you |
| Jude 1:12 | | | | and the heaven a canopy and (Who) sends down |
| | | | rain from the cloud then brings forth with it |
| These men are blemishes at your love feasts, | | | | subsistence for you of the fruits; therefore |
| eating with you without the slightest | | | | do not set up rivals to Allah while you know |
| qualm-shepherds who feed only themselves. | | | | |
| They are clouds without rain, blown along by | | | | Surah 6:66 |
| the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and | | | | |
| uprooted-twice dead. | | | | And He it is Who sends down water from the |
| | | | cloud, then we bring forth with it buds of |
| The Effects of the Rains on the Earth: | | | | all (plants), then we bring forth from it |
| | | | green (foliage) from which we produce grain |
| The rain made the trees grow | | | | piled up (in the ear); and of the palm-tree, |
| | | | of the sheaths of it, come forth clusters (of |
| Isaiah 44:14 | | | | dates) within reach, and gardens of grapes |
| | | | and olives and pomegranates, alike and |
| He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress | | | | unlike; behold the fruit of it when it yields |
| or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the | | | | the fruit and the ripening of it; most surely |
| forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made | | | | there are signs in this for a people who |
| it grow. | | | | believe |
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| Regular weeks of harvest | | | | Surah 14:32 |
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| Jeremiah 5:24 | | | | Allah is He Who created the heavens and the |
| | | | earth and sent down water from the clouds, |
| They do not say to themselves, 'Let us fear | | | | then brought forth with it fruits as a |
| the LORD our God, who gives autumn and spring | | | | sustenance for you, and he has made the ships |
| rains in season, who assures us of the | | | | subservient to you, that they might run their |
| regular weeks of harvest.' | | | | course in the sea by his command, and he has |
| | | | made the rivers subservient to you |
| Because there is no rain in the land; the | | | | |
| farmers are dismayed and cover their heads. | | | | Surah 20:53 |
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| Jeremiah 14:4 | | | | He Who has, made for you the earth like a |
| | | | carpet spread out; has enabled you to go |
| The ground is cracked because there is no | | | | about therein by roads (and channels); and |
| rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed | | | | has sent down water from the sky." with it |
| and cover their heads. | | | | have we produced diverse pairs of plants each |
| | | | separate from the others. |
| Land that drinks in the rain often falling on | | | | |
| it | | | | Surah 27:60 |
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| Hebrews 6:7 | | | | Nay, He Who created the heavens and the |
| | | | earth, and sent down for you water from the |
| Land that drinks in the rain often falling on | | | | cloud; then we cause to grow thereby |
| it and that produces a crop useful to those | | | | beautiful gardens; it is not possible for you |
| for whom it is farmed receives the blessing | | | | that you should make the trees thereof to |
| of God. | | | | grow. is there a god with Allah? nay! they |
| | | | are people who deviate |
| He gave them the grain of heaven. | | | | |
| | | | Surah 31:10 |
| Psalm 78:24 | | | | |
| | | | He created the heavens without pillars as you |
| He rained down manna for the people to eat, | | | | see them, and put mountains upon the earth |
| he gave them the grain of heaven. | | | | lest it might convulse with you, and he |
| | | | spread in it animals of every kind; and we |
| Let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth | | | | sent down water from the cloud, then caused |
| open wide | | | | to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble |
| | | | kind |
| Isaiah 45:8 | | | | |
| | | | Surah 35:27 |
| "You heavens above rain down righteousness; | | | | |
| let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth | | | | Do you not see that Allah sends down water |
| open wide, let salvation spring up, let | | | | from the cloud, then we bring forth therewith |
| righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have | | | | fruits of various colors; and in the |
| created it. | | | | mountains are streaks, white and red, of |
| | | | various hues and (others) intensely black? |
| Send rain on the land you gave your people | | | | |
| for an inheritance. | | | | The Rain gives life to the Dead Earth; this |
| | | | is for people who would listen and |
| 2 Chronicles 6:27then hear from heaven and | | | | understand. |
| forgive the sin of your servants, your people | | | | |
| Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and | | | | Surah 16:65 |
| send rain on the land you gave your people | | | | |
| for an inheritance. | | | | And Allah has sent down water from the cloud |
| | | | and therewith given life to the earth after |
| He gave them the grain of heaven. | | | | its death; most surely there is a sign in |
| | | | this for a people who would listen |
| Psalm 78:24 | | | | |
| | | | Surah 29:63 |
| He rained down manna for the people to eat; | | | | |
| he gave them the grain of heaven. | | | | And if you ask them who is it that sends down |
| | | | water from the clouds, then gives life to the |
| Let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth | | | | earth with it after its death, they will |
| open wide | | | | certainly say, allah. say: all praise is due |
| | | | to Allah. nay, most of them do not understand |
| Isaiah 45:8 | | | | |
| | | | Surah 30:24 |
| "You heavens above rain down righteousness; | | | | |
| let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth | | | | And one of his signs is that he shows you the |
| open wide, let salvation spring up, let | | | | lightning for fear and for hope, and sends |
| righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have | | | | down water from the clouds then gives life |
| created it. | | | | therewith to the earth after its death; most |
| | | | surely there are signs in this for a people |
| It yields seed for the sower and bread for | | | | who understand. |
| the eater, | | | | |
| | | | Allah is capable to give life to the Dead, |
| Isaiah 55:10 | | | | the same way as the Rain gives life to the |
| | | | Dead Earth! You may notice that the Quran |
| As the rain and the snow come down from | | | | always makes link between the scientific |
| heaven, and do not return to it without | | | | facts and the religious notions. You may also |
| watering the earth and making it bud and | | | | notice that the Quran always reminds us with |
| flourish, so that it yields seed for the | | | | the Revival of the Dead, the Afterlife and |
| sower and bread for the eater, | | | | the Day of Judgment. |
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| Giving you rain from heaven and crops in | | | | These meaning are not found in the Bible. |
| their seasons | | | | |
| | | | Surah 43:11 |
| Acts 14:17 | | | | |
| | | | And he who sends down water from the cloud |
| Yet he has not left himself without | | | | according to a measure, then we raise to life |
| testimony: He has shown kindness by giving | | | | thereby a dead country, even thus shall you |
| you rain from heaven and crops in their | | | | be brought forth; |
| seasons; he provides you with plenty of food | | | | |
| and fills your hearts with joy." | | | | Back to the main issue of my series of |
| | | | articles (1-36); this is my question to you |
| The heavens gave rain, and the earth produced | | | | smart readers: "Is the Quran quoted from the |
| its crops. | | | | Bible "? |
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