III: Exodus and Wilderness

Hail and Fire

truth's force shattering religion built on appearance

Root
Exod 9:18-26 · barad (H1259)
Old Testament chain
  1. Exod 9:23-24
  2. Josh 10:11
  3. Ps 18:12-13
  4. Isa 28:17
  5. Ezek 13:11-13
  6. Ezek 38:22
  7. Rev 8:7
New Testament
Rev 8:7; Rev 16:21; Matt 23:27-28; Matt 25:15; Acts 2:19

The seventh plague brings "hail, and fire mingled with the hail" on Egypt (Exod 9:24) and falls again on the Amorites (Josh 10:11). The Prophets make hail the instrument of truth: "the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies" (Isa 28:17), and great hailstones bring down the wall daubed with untempered mortar (Ezek 13:11). The first trumpet's hail and fire mingled with blood (Rev 8:7) opens a spiritual war through the assembly age: hail is truth arriving with force, shattering religious systems built on appearance rather than obedience; fire is testing; blood is the cost of resisting truth. The talent-weight hail (Rev 16:21) is judgment measured and intentional. Futurism wrongly makes the trumpets future weather disasters.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 27, 29, 115, 118–120, 265