There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

Consider earthquakes for a moment. When Moses was upon Mount Sinai, the mountain trembled as a result of God’s presence (Ps. 68:8). However, when Elijah stood upon Mount Horeb, the mountain shook with an earthquake, but we read: “ . . . but the L ORD was not in the earthquake” (1 Kings 19:11). On one mountain God is shaking the rocks, and on another mountain the hill is shaking and the Lord has nothing to do with it. Then, hundreds of years later, Paul and Silas were singing praises to the Lord, and God sent an earthquake that rocked a prison, causing the metal bars to burst open and all the prisoners to go free. No one was injured or killed in this quake (Acts 16:25–26). When Christ was riding a boat on the Sea of Galilee, a storm called a “tempest” struck, covering the boat with water (Matt. 8:24). The Greek word for “tempest” is seismos and is actually a word for an underwater earthquake. These particular waves were not being caused just by wind, but they were actually the result of a fissure under the lake splitting and causing a mini-tsunami! The King James Version of the Bible says the tempest was “ in the sea ” and not “ on the sea .” Jesus stood and rebuked the storm (v. 26), so if this storm was from God, then Christ was rebuking His heavenly Father when He rebuked the storm! This was a natural storm, and nothing spiritual was linked with it. Based upon the whole of the Scriptures and examples too numerous to name, tsunami-type destruction, earthquakes, and even floods can come from one of three sources. 1. God is the Creator of earth, wind, water, and fire, and