Job 38:19

MORE WONDERS OF THE NATURAL WORLD

"Where is the way to the dwelling of light?

And as for darkness, where is the place thereof?.

That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof,

And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof

Doubtless thou knowest for thou wast then born,

And the number of thy days is great!

Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow,

Or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,

Against the day of battle and war?

By what way is the light parted,

Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?"

"Hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail" (Job 38:22)? One may say, Well, that was no doubt a mystery to Job, but we know all about such things! Do we? "And great hail, every stone about the weight of a talent, cometh down out of heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for it was exceeding great" (Revelation 16:21). "The minimal weight of the New Testament talent Isaiah 45 pounds; and many scholars place it at 90 pounds."[8] This prophecy reveals that particular hail as one of the phenomena attending the Second Advent of Christ and the onset of the Final Judgment; and thus we see that there are indeed some things in the treasuries of the hail of which men must remain in ignorance until "that day"!