If you didn’t know anything at all about the Bible and just dipped into it in odd places, you might get the impression that it’s a book about meteorology. There is quite a lot there about clouds. When the law was given to the people of Israel, for instance, we’re told that “The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days; on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the cloud. Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.”1
Much later in Israel’s history, God’s call of Ezekiel to be a prophet among the exiles in Babylon begins with a description of a dramatic thunderstorm. “As I looked,” Ezekiel said, “a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud with brightness around it and fire flashing forth continually, and in the middle of the fire, something like gleaming amber.”2
And when Daniel was given a vision of the future he “saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient One, and was presented before him. To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.”3
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