THE MYSTERIES OF THE CLOUD: Rev Babatunde Ezekiel Ajibola

When we mention the word 'Cloud' it is an interesting phenomenon that triggers the immagination of every individual from their different emotional perspective of what the 'Cloud' that we all see in the sky mean to them. To kids the cloud in the sky could always appear mysterious because of the way they manourver across the sky. At sunset the reflection of the sun in the horizon is often a spectacular scenery of beautiful cloudy lamp in the sky that anyone would wish should remain in the sky permanently to illuminate the sky.

Cloud sometimes announced the advent of rain shower which is often accompanied by cool wind that brings serenity into the atmosphere. To the weather man or woman it is an everyday vocabulary. "It will be partly cloudy and we should be expecting some rain shower in the morning." We hear such statement like this every day on our television and radio broadcast.

To the Pilot and Flight Crews in airlines and those that travel constantly by air, going through layers of clouds in the sky is a daily routine that probably make them become used to the phenomenon known as cloud. Looking through the window of the aeroplane could bring any one travelling by air closer to this wonderful phenomenon . What is the mystery of the Cloud? we might ask. In creation as recorded in the bible the word cloud was mentioned by God for the first time in Gen:9:12-17 in a very significant occasion. "And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between you and me and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations.

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud."

After this, the word was mentioned not less than one hundred and sixty seven locations in the bible and all these instances are tied to the mysteries of God in creation. In delivering the Israelites from Egypt, God used the cloud as an instrument of deliverance. "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them, and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them.

And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night." Ex.14:19-20

"And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked towards the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud."Ex.16:10

"And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I came unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever. And moses told the words of the people unto the LORD."Ex.19:9

In another mysterious incident as recorded in Mk.9:7. "And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him."

Also in Rev.10:1 an angel was seen with cloud around Him. "And I saw a mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head and his face was as it were the sun, as his feet as pillars of fire.

Furthermore in revealing the events of the last days it is recorded in Rev.14:14 as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ coming on a white cloud to harvest the world. "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and on his hand a sharp sickle.

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

And he that that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped."

Also in the book of Daniel 7:13-14 Christ referred to as the Son of man came in the cloud and received the authority of the kingdom from God. "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."

There is something mysterious about the Cloud. We know that geaography reveals that rain came about as a result of precitipation that takes place in the cloud at a high altitude of the firmament. There seems to be four agents of nature that collaborate with the cloud to make it manifest its admirable qualities that attracts man's attention in creation. These agents are, light, the wind and water. If the cloud then is to be seen as means of transportation and communication both in the physical and in the spiritual. The water is the source of energy, the wind propells while light illuminates.

If man had not rejected God's source of acquisition of knowledge to enroll in satanic school from where man continuously acqire the knowledge of the good and evil, we probably would have acquired the righteousness of God by which we should have by now know how to convert the numerous advantages that exists in the usage of the clouds as means of transportation, communication and energy without possing threat to the enviroment as we have now. What do you think. We need to stop polluting the earth. The cloud can form the bedrock of new approach to satellite technology.