HEAVY RAIN

Job 5:8-10
“But as for me, I would seek God, And I would place my cause before God; Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number. He gives rain on the earth, And sends water on the fields.”

If you said to someone: "My God does great and unsearchable things; He does wonders without number," and they responded, "Really? Like what?" would you say, "Rain"?

But Job is not joking here. "God does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number." He gives rain on the earth."

This is not meaningless symbolism.

Is rain such a great and unsearchable wonder of God?
Picture yourself as a farmer in the Prairies, far from any lake or stream. A few wells keep the family and animals supplied with water. But if the crops are to grow and water has to come on the fields from another source.

From where? Well, the sky. Water will come out of the clear blue sky?

Well, not exactly. Water will have to be carried in the sky in clouds from the Ocean, over several hundred miles and then be poured out from the sky onto the fields.

Carried? How much does it weigh? Excuse my old school system of measurements.
Well, if one inch of rain falls on one square mile of farmland during the night that would be 27,878,400 cubic feet of water, which is 206,300,160 gallons, which is 1,650,501,280 pounds of water.

That's heavy. Heavy Rain. So how does it get up in the sky and stay up there if it's so heavy? Well, it gets up there by evaporation.

What's it mean? It means that the water sort of stops being water for a while so it can go up and not down. I see. Then how does it get down? Well, condensation happens. What's that? The water starts becoming water again by gathering around little dust particles between .00001 and .0001 centimeters wide. That's small.

What about the salt? Salt? Yes, the ocean is salt water. That would kill the crops. Well, the salt has to be taken out. Oh. So the sky picks up over a billion pounds of water from the sea and takes out the salt and then carries it for a few hundred miles and then dumps it on the farm?

Well it doesn't dump it. If it dumped a billion pounds of water on the farm, the wheat would be crushed. So the sky dribbles the billion pounds water down in little drops. And they have to be big enough to fall for one mile or so without evaporating, and small enough to keep from crushing the wheat stalks.

ONE MORE THING
How do all these microscopic specks of water that weigh a billion pounds get heavy enough to fall? Well, it's called coalescence.

The specks of water start bumping into each other and join up and get bigger. And when they are big enough, they rain.

To Coalesce means: to merge or cause things to merge into a single body or group. UNITY

Just like that? Well, not exactly, because they would just bounce off each other instead of joining up, if there were no electric field present. THE POWER MUST BE PRESENT

I think, instead, I will just take Job's word for it, this is a great and unsearchable thing that God has done.

Here is Gods Plan to water the earth and cause fruit to grow and harvest to come.

Truth is parallel in the natural world / supernatural world

Evaporation > Carried in the cloud > Coalesce > Condensation

Purifying >Hiddeness > Unity >Poured out