Cursed

“Have you entered the place where the snow is stored?
Or have you seen the storehouses of hail (Job 38:22 HCSB).”

Have you witnessed the destruction of a hail storm? Maybe you’ve had hail damage to a car or RV…

Severe thunderstorms frequently contain hail from pea-to-baseball size. I’ve never seen the latter (and hope I never do). My husband Norm learned first hand how quickly hail can ruin crops.

He grew a beautiful vegetable garden in south Texas; in minutes, it was destroyed by hail.

Mom told her own Texas hail story. Hail shattered the window located directly behind her bed. Minutes earlier, she had slept in that very bed. Mom knew that she could have easily been severely injured by flying glass that was strewn atop her mattress.

Hail shows up in Scripture. The LORD instructed Moses to use hail as a curse upon Egypt.

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.’ So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail. Lightning struck the earth, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast. The hail beat down every plant of the field and shattered every tree in the field (Exodus 9:22-25 HCSB).”