Climate Change and God using weather to get our attention

I have an interest in exploring the instances where God uses weather-related events to get our attention or execute judgement. There is much discussion about global warming so I wanted to evaluate how God may use weather or "natural disasters" such as earthquakes to get our attention. The drought in Elijah's day is one case in point. How might I go about that?

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Bill Anderson

I would do a brain dump of possible terms like rain, flood, drought (as you mentioned), hail, storm, etc. and then do a search for those terms.

Kenneth Neighoff

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1283733#Comment_1283733

I would find one example in the Bible, and then use the Louw-Nida domain number to track down other examples.

Rick Mansfield (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1283748#Comment_1283748

I would find one example in the Bible, and then use the Louw-Nida domain number to track down other examples.

I was just about to suggest Louw & Nida, "Physical Events and States."

Kenneth L Tyler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1283750#Comment_1283750

Thank you Rick,

I'll explore that and see where it leads,

Kenneth L Tyler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1283748#Comment_1283748

That's a good idea Kenneth,

I'll look at that approach,

Kenneth L Tyler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1283733#Comment_1283733

Thank you Bill,

That seemes to be a good starting place,

Alan saunders

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1283769#Comment_1283769

Check Louw Nida - there is probably a range of numbers for weather related events - that will cover the Greek and give you search words for the Hebrew.

Looking at the words in NIDDTE or similar may also indicate corresponding Hebrew terms to search

Kenneth L Tyler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1283790#Comment_1283790

Okay I'll try that as well Alan,

Thank you,

Kyle G. Anderson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1283842#Comment_1283842

Internally we've been considering doing a dataset for this question. Looks like a popular idea: https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-data-sets/posts/weather-in-the-bible

Ralph Mauch

Do a study on the Minor Prophets, there is a lot there.

I'm constantly referring to a resource by Boice https://www.logos.com/product/8194/minor-prophets-vol-1-hosea-jonah