The Storehouses
There are a number of references in the Old Testament of God’s storehouses, a place where all the provisions for His creation are found. In Deuteronomy 28:12, it identifies “ His good storehouse, the heavens ” as the place where He keeps rain for the land as well as the blessings of “all the work of your hand”. It’s also the place He will make those who obey Him the head and not the tail (verse 13). When I think of a storehouse, I think about the end of the movie, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and the massive government warehouse where the Ark was finally stored. It is the place where God fulfills the disciples’ prayer to “ give us day by day our daily bread ” (Luke 11:3). Some of these storehouses contain snow and hail “ which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of war or battle ” (Job 38:22-23). In Psalm 33:6-8, the psalmist writes, “ By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea to...