Hailstones

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Revelation 16:21 says, “ And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.”

     Weather conditions can sometimes be quite alarming.  We were driving back from Tennessee on a stormy Saturday a number of years ago when a storm started.  We could see the  storm approaching as we headed North on Interstate 81.  It  started raining, wind blowing and all of a sudden hail stones began to fall about the size of marbles.  I got off of the interstate as soon as possible and parked under the overpass seeking shelter until the storm passed.  All areas of the car were hit and dented except the right side.  In just a few minutes the car suffered over 3,000 hits.

     Hailstones have been getting bigger each year.    Stones the size of golf balls and then up to grapefruit have fallen in various places in our country and Canada.  The above passage of scripture describes a hailstone the size of a “talent.”  That’s going to be about one hundred pounds minimum and could be more.  A hailstone that big is going to cause severe damage.  As you can see, man will not repent but rather will be blaspheming God because of the size and damage of the hailstones.  The weight called a “talent” is used some 49 times in singular and plural form.  It is used mostly to describe the amount of gold, silver and bronze that was used in the construction of buildings such as the Temple of King Solomon and the implements of worship.  The signs of the times are progressing day by day as we see judgment coming upon the world.  The sins that cause severe judgment in Biblical history are being repeated in this very era in which we live.   We should stand amazed at how God uses common things to warn people of His power and judgment.  In Egypt, God used gnats and flies as a warning as well as frogs and locusts.  The hailstone is but one of the many judgments that will take place in the final days upon this earth.  Our confidence is in the final outcome that we read about in the last chapters of the Book of Revelation and where John says, “Even so Come Lord Jesus.”  There is a new chorus that has the words, “Our God is a mighty God.”  His power is beyond description and as you look up at the stars and realize that He spoke them into existence as well as the gnats and honeybees, you see the evidence of His work all around us, both large and small.  Praise God today for His power and His plan for all eternity.