“He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark” (Job 36:32).
When the average person who holds no particular allegiance or faith to the idea of a God who exists in Heaven, they may comically imagine in their heads some sort of grandfatherly figure with a white bushy beard lurking in Heaven shooting out thunderbolts upon the earth. In part, traditional Hollywood movies, paintings and story telling may have something to do with this comical/traditional image of God. In reality, lightning is indeed associated with God. As the world nears the end of the Age and toward divine judgment as per what we read in the Bible’s prophetic end times text, we can expect to see God send forth some selective judgments and warnings to the world that Christ’s coming again for the born again body of Christ in the rapture event followed by the judgment of the Tribulation period is drawing near. Such was the case, I believe, in this unfortunate White House lightning strike.
In what may be a bad omen of things shortly to come, four people (two men and two women) were struck by a lightning bolt near the White House in Lafayette Park … on Barack Obama’s birthday. Initially, two were killed and two were seriously injured in this unfortunate event.