Thunder!

And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.

Revelation 14:2

When a bolt of lightning heats the air hotter than the surface of the sun a thunder clap reverberates through the atmosphere. It is awesome and can be startling, even frightening. Everyone within the ten miles of the lightning can sometimes hear the thunder. Thunder is really good news in a storm because if you can hear the thunder then the lightning did not kill you!

Why is there thunder in heaven? Why would the voice of God be compared to thunder in some parts of the Bible? Thunder is the sound that is made when extreme power is unleashed. Imagine the power that is released when Almighty God says or does anything.

Static electricity is a tiny bit of lightning. When the tip of your finger gets close enough to another person who has the opposite electric charge in their body you can see the spark and sometimes even hear a crack when they receive the shock.

So if you see lightning and hear thunder in your life you can know for certain that the Power of God is being released around you. If you are living your life with an “opposite electric charge” from God, then you should be afraid, very afraid. God’s lightning will come down and burn away everything that is against Him. There is only one place to hide from the lightning of God and that is in the arms of Jesus Christ. If you embrace Jesus in every way and in every moment of your day you are safe. If you decide to venture out into the storms of life without Jesus you will run straight in to the judgment of God.