Whirling, Swirling Winds

These are all words and definitions of the same event or occurrence. There is not much that can be said about the after math of a tornado, it is a very devastating event for many people. We know it is such a common thing to say but when you go through that and you are still here to tell about it, you are blessed beyond words. Sometime there does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to what is destroyed and what is not. Tornados seem destroy a city or neighborhood block and one building or house will be left standing. It is completely uncomprehend-able as to why!

 Living in the South, we see our share of tornados. We truly believe that if those who are serving Jesus and pray for protection for their families and property God will send angels to stand in front of that destroying whirling wind and send it in another direction.

Whether it has called a dust devil, whirlwind, tornado, or a waterspout they all pretty much have the same out come. We as humans can never fully understand why some are injured or killed and others are not. We are unable to answer that question for you only God knows the answer to that question.

The one thing we can say is if you are, a child of God’s you can have the assurance to know if this terrible wind were to take your life here on earth your life would continue in Heaven for eternity. When our lives are in the hands of God we should not fear the things we cannot control. In addition, we cannot control the weather. We must take precautions, prepare, and do what we can to be safe. And listen to the weather reports they are there for a reason, to save lives. And remember Jesus is also there to save lives, but when He saves, lives its forever.

Job 1:18-19 (NKJV)

18. While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
19. and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Job 37:9 (NKJV)

9. From the chamber of the south comes the whirlwind,
And cold from the scattering winds of the north.

Proverbs 1:27 (NKJV)

27. When your terror comes like a storm,

And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.

Proverbs 10:25 (NKJV)
25. When the whirlwind passes by, the wicked is no more,
But the righteous has an everlasting foundation.

Isaiah 17:13 (NKJV)

13. The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 40:24 (NKJV)

24. Scarcely shall they be planted,
Scarcely shall they be sown,
Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth,
When He will also blow on them,
And they will wither,
And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.

Jeremiah 25:32 (NKJV)

32. Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, disaster shall go forth
From nation to nation,
And a great whirlwind shall be raised up
From the farthest parts of the earth.

Nahum 1:3 (NKJV)

3. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
And will not at all acquit the wicked.
The Lord has His way
In the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Zechariah 7:14 (NKJV)

14. “But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

Hebrews 12:18 (NASB)

18. For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

Dust Devil - Small whirlwind containing sand or dust.

Whirlwind – A destructive force.
Tornado – Violent destructive whirling wind.
Water Spout – A cloud of spray picked up by the whirling winds from the surface of an ocean or lake.