{"id":1266,"date":"2014-01-08T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimerwin.wordpress.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2018-06-14T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:59:02","slug":"the-weather-is-hell-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jimerwin\/2014\/01\/08\/the-weather-is-hell-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weather Is Hell Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Weather Is Hell Today<\/h1>\n<p>The Weather Is Hell Today is a simple thought reflection from Revelation 21:23 with a comic about the relationship between Jesus, and His relationship to the weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because <strong><em>God\u2019s glory illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d (<a class=\"zem_slink decorated-link\" title=\"Book of Revelation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Revelation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Revelation<\/a> 21:23, HCSB)<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p>Everyone has been complaining about the weather lately. A <a title=\"Polar Vortex Explained\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/06\/us\/polar-vortex-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">polar vortex<\/a> has come through the United States setting record lows all over the country. I looked up all of the<a title=\"God's Sovereignty Over the Weather\" href=\"http:\/\/bible.knowing-jesus.com\/topics\/Weather,-God~s-Sovereignty-Over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\"> verses about the weather in the Bible<\/a> and it is clear that God is sovereign over Earth\u2019s weather patterns. Ultimately, <a class=\"zem_slink decorated-link\" title=\"Chosen people\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chosen_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">God\u2019s people<\/a> will live forever in the warmth and light of Jesus. He will be their source of warmth, light, and strength.\u00a0In\u00a0Heaven, there will be no weather forecasts (and false predictions) because the weather will be perfect there.\u00a0Jesus will be the source of perfect weather patterns in Heaven.\u00a0However,\u00a0on Earth, we live with the unpredictability of weather patterns. In the meantime, sometimes the weather will seem hellish in comparison. That is the point of the cartoon. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitstrips.com\/r\/7L8PW\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/747\/2016\/01\/7l8pw.png\" alt=\"The Weather Is Hell Today\" width=\"716\" height=\"380\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comic above was created using the technology from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bitstrips\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bitstrips<\/a>, which is now part of Snapchat. You can still use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitmoji.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bitmoji<\/a> to create comics though.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weather Is Hell Today The Weather Is Hell Today is a simple thought reflection from Revelation 21:23 with a comic about the relationship between Jesus, and His relationship to the weather. \u201cThe city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because God\u2019s glory illuminates it, and its lamp is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,99],"tags":[531,1007,1541,2164,2219],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-revelation","tag-comics-2","tag-hell","tag-polar-vortex","tag-weather-patterns","tag-zerotohero"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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