THE FOUR CARDINAL WINDS Let us study the impact and features of the four cardinal winds, in a figure as a personification. EAST-WIND: The first time my name appeared in the scriptures was in the dream of Pharoah, when he recounted how I blasted the seven ears of corn and turned them into devouring ears of corn so that they will eat up the other ears of corn: Indeed, the first time plants practically ate up other plants (not for food), even the plants that were their siblings and fatter than them, was because of my blasting. I blasted the seven ears of corn and made them thin and wicked, so that they may blast the seven fatted ones and remain as they were: I did all that because I wanted to effect famine upon the land of Egypt and the world (Genesis 41:6, 23, 27). Apart from me destroying the plants (Food supply) of the Ancient Egypt in the days of Joseph, I was also used again to destroy the plants (Food supply) of Egypt in the days of Moses. In the days of Moses, I did not use the seven thin and wicked ears of corn to devour the Egyptians’ plants as I did before in the days of Joseph, instead I use the Locust to do the damages: I brought the Locusts that devoured the plants in Egypt (Exodus 10:13-15). WEST-WIND: I was used to undo what East-wind did, by removing all the locusts which it brought over Egypt: I removed all the locusts which East-wind brought over Egypt and took them to the Red sea, and not one locust was found in the entire land of Egypt (Exodus 10:19). EAST-WIND: Speaking about the Red Sea, I was used to divide the Red sea and parted them for ransomed to pass through (Exodus 14:21): but I did not do that for the Egyptian hosts to benefit from it. I indeed was useful in breaking ships and hosts in the sea (Psalms 48:7, Ezekiel 27:26), and just as I was useful in damaging plants and the fruits of plantings which the Lord would struck (Remember I am East-wind, and so I come with the heat of the sun from the east and I cause heating effects on crops and their fruits): 1. When I come from the wilderness under the will of God, I dry up the spring and fountain; I spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels – This I do to those plants the Lord despises, whether they were fruitful or not (Hosea 13:15). 2. I sometimes set crops on fire when I come with the heat of the sun, and cause wild fire (Ezekiel 19:12). 3. It doesn’t matter whether the plant was planted on a good soil with waters by the side, when I touch it, it will dry up (Ezekiel 17:8-10): As it is written, “…When the East-wind touches it, shall it not wither?” (Ezekiel 17:10) 4. I heated the head of Jonah with the heat of the sun, after God took away his plant-shelter by worms (Jonah 4:7-8). SOUTH-WIND: I was connected with the East-wind to bring about the quails in the wilderness (Psalms 78:26-27): I brought those quails from the sea and camped them round about the camp of people of Israel, but at a radius of about a day’s foot journey from the camp (Numbers 11:31-32). I have something in common with the East-wind because as the East wind is heated with the sun, so do I also bring heat when I come (Luke 12:55). There are times I blow softly for the sailors (Acts 27:13): As it is written, “God quiets the earth by the South-Wind” (Job 37:17). However, there are also times I come violently: Whenever I come violently, I usually come as a whirlwind (Job 37:9): As it is written, “As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.” (Isaiah 21:1) NORTH-WIND: Both I and the South-wind have things in common, apart from the fact that we face each other in the opposite direction: 1. Both I and the South-wind were called to spread the aroma of the fragrance of the garden of the Lord (Song of Solomon 4:16); 2. Both of us share and produce whirlwinds (Ecclesiastes 1:6). As whirlwind comes from the south (Isaiah 21:1), so does whirlwind come from the North also (Ezekiel 1:4); remember God is at the sides of the North, and Lucifer wanted to ascend to the sides of the North in his pride. 3. When a king from the North and a King from the South shall context in war, whirlwind is involved (Daniel 11:40). However, I do not just share similarities with the South-wind; I also have my uniqueness: I bring cold when the South-wind brings heat (Job 37:9), and I also drive out rain (Proverbs 25:23).
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 05:58:13 +0000
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