Matthew 16: 2-4; Mark 8:12; Luke 11:29, 12: 54-56.
When it is evening you say, "It will be fair weather, for the sky is red"; and in the morning, "It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening". Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
This passage was spoken by Jesus 1.1/2 to two years into His earthly ministry. This passage seems to continue where the last passage left off. What Jesus was telling the people is this, because most of you make your living off the land, you have been able to predict the weather. And yet you have no clue about religious things and your Spiritual Health. God raised prophets to warn the people that they were sinning and of the consequences of their sin. The people being human, killed the bearers of bad news and continued to live as they had in the past. They did not listen to the signs and correct their situation. They ignored the Spiritual Warning. They probably ignored the physical weather warnings at first, and paid the price inflicted by nature. It is like what I said in the last blog, they watch the sun rise and the seasons change, but never ponder who allows these things to happen according to these rules? God created the heavens and the earth and all that they hold. God is the Master designer, and everything is going by His design. Yet we as humans keep trying to fool ourselves into thinking that God does not exist.
I have run out of space again and will tie this in with the prophet Jonah on next post.
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