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The phrase "the windows of heaven" is used only three time is the bible, two of these are associated with the Genesis Flood.
| Genesis 7:11,12.
11. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 8: 2. The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; Malachi 3:10. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. |
In the first two instances phrase "the windows of heaven" is associated with the rain of the Flood, in the third with God's blessing.
Scoffers often use this reference to "the windows of heaven" to claim that the Bible is teaching an ancient view that rain came from holes in the sky, but the phrase is never used of to refer to ordinary rain, in all three references it is a reference to a special direct action of God, not normal rain.This supported by a similar phrase in 2 Kings 7.
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