Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was published in December 2022.

Hi, everyone, thanks for joining our Bible study about rain. How this topic came about was indirect and divinely inspired.

Up until the last possible moment, this study was to be about Samson and Delilah. Why? Over the last week, my dear husband watched a 1949 movie about the pair. Except for knowing that Samson’s strength was rooted in his hair, I wasn't very familiar with the story. I was busy and did not watch it with him. But, because of my husband's chatter, I took it as a sign that I was supposed to write about why the Samson saga was meaningful. To prepare for the study, I dutifully read the story in Judges and then sat at my computer to write, but something happened. I was totally uninspired, as if the car battery were dead.

I took that as a divine sign that my husband’s movie choices should not influence my Bible topics. But also, at that moment, “rain” just popped in my head, and I felt the vibe. So, thanks be to God, “my assignment editor.” I feel blessed, and off we go.

“Rain” is first mentioned in the second chapter of Genesis:

“Lord God made the earth and the heavens. Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground” (Genesis 2: 4-6).

Note how God tells us that He controls when to send rain. And pre-humankind, the earth just watered itself. Mother Nature could be renamed “Father Nature.”

The first time........

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