Discussion Questions
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Read Acts 27:14. To which type of wind is Luke referring, and how does it play a role in this story?
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The Apostle Paul refers to the wind as Euroclydon. The root word in the Greek “Εὐροκλύδων” (Euroclydon) is eurus and it means that the storm was broad and wide. Euroclydon, a tempestuous wind occurring on the Mediterranean (Acts 27:14). It blows from all points and its danger results from the violence and uncertainty of its course. The storm was so fierce that it destroyed the ship, but the Lord protected each person’s life. It also demonstrates that God gives His servants revelation knowledge, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship.
23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. Acts 27:21-25 -
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Luke is talking about a frontal wind, perhaps a medicane (small hurricane on the Mediterrenean Sea), which ends the season of commercial shipping during the winter months. The wind caused the ship carrying Paul, Luke, the Roman soldiers, merchants and other prisoners to be shipwrecked on their journey to Rome.
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This was likely a winter frontal wind, an especially strong wind that became a Medicane, another word for a hurricane that occurs on the Mediterranean Sea. This story occurred as the winter season was beginning, and although Paul had advised them to wait until spring to transport the grain, they didn’t listen. Paul was able to use the situation to proclaim his faith by telling them that the God he served would save them, although the ship would be destroyed.
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It was a frontal wind and shuts things down on the Mediterranean, so the shipwreck is not a surprise.
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How are the summer and winter seasons most like and unlike the weather where you live?
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We have only two seasons where I live – the dry season from December to May, and rainy season from June to November. The dry season can be very hot with temperatures reaching a high of 33 degrees Celsius. The rainy season brings a lot of rain, thunderstorms and tropical waves that cause a lot of flooding in some areas.
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Summer weather drastically fluctuates day to day between high and low humidity. Winter –snow,snow,snow.
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We get much warmer in the summer and much cooler in the winter. I my area we also have rain all summer and snow most of the winter.
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Summer months, high pressure, sunny, high humidity but little rain. Winter months, low pressure, cloudy, rain some snow, more rain.
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I live in Kentucky in the Ohio River Valley so I am able to enjoy all four seasons but usually the winter is not full of a lot of snow but can be quite cold and summers are usually very hot and can have high humidity so I tend to like spring and fall best because the temperatures are most comfortable during those two seasons but spring can have lots of rain.
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Read Job 15:2. To which type of wind is Job referring, and how does it play a role in what he is saying?
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Khamsin Wind
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Job is talking about the Khamsin Wind which nobody likes this wind as it is mighty and carries a lot of dust and creates a haze which is very irritating to anyone.
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Job is referring to the Khamsin Winds which are mighty and carry dust. He is referring to the suffering one would endure if his stomach were filled with dust carried by such a wind.
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He is talking about the khamsin winds. They were violent and could raise the temperature by 50 degrees in moments. He was telling his friends that what they were saying was as useless as the east wind.
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Job asked, Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge and fill himself with the east wind?
The khamsin winds, known as the east wind, typically occur in the transition season between summer and winter and winter and summer.
This southeast desert wind brings wind speeds up to 60 mph lifting temperatures by 25 degrees in a matter of minutes. That reduces the relative humidity to 2 percent, filling the air with a dust and fine haze that makes everybody miserable.
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What is the relationship of the rainfall cycle to the cycle of grain agriculture in ancient Israel?
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The rainfall only happens during a certain part of the year and that determines when to plant and when to harvest grain.
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Grain needs water to be planted and to grow and because it rains in the winter it allows for the grain crop to grow and then to dry out for harvesting in the summer
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There is rainfall in the winter months that allow grain to be planted and grow. In the summer months, the crops are harvested.
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The beginning of the grain agriculture is in the winter during the rainy season. The grain fields are plowed and planted.
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Early rain starts in October so November and December are time to sow barley first, then wheat. When the end of Winter around March, barley was harvested first, then about fifty days the harvest of wheat is completed. So Passover is in March and Shavuot is in May (Pentecost). Early rain, late rain; and early grain (barley), late grain (wheat) kind of rhythm together.