Bible Versus Quran Versus Sciences, (30) the Clouds
fire was in the cloud by night,
Numbers 9:15
[The Cloud Above the Tabernacle] On the day the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.
Numbers 9:16
That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.
Deuteronomy 5:22
These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
Psalm 105:39
He spread out a cloud as a covering, and a fire to give light at night.
Isaiah 30:27
See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.
Isaiah 30:30
The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
the cloud filled the temple of the LORD.
1 Kings 8:10
When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 5:13
Then the temple of the LORD was filled with a cloud,
Ezekiel 10:3
Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
Ezekiel 10:4
Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple. The cloud filled the temple, and the court was full of the radiance of the glory of the LORD.
The clouds rise from the ends of the earth.
Jeremiah 51:16
When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
The following prophecy is about the second coming of the Lord Jesus.
This prophecy never happened.
Mark 14:62
“I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Luke 9:34
While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.
Luke 12:54
[Interpreting the Times] He said to the crowd: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does.
Revelation 14:14
[The Harvest of the Earth] I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one “like a son of man” with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.
The Clouds in Quran
Many Scientific tips in one verse:
Surah 2:164
Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the Night and the Day; in the sailing of the ships through the Ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which Allah sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts (creatures )of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds and the clouds which they trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth, (here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise.
In this verse, many Scientific tips are mentioned as signs for the wise people e.g.:
Allah created the heavens and the earth
Allah made alternation of the Night and the Day
Allah causes the sailing of the ships through the Ocean
Allah sends the rain down from the sky.
Allah gives the life to the dead earth.
Allah generates the creatures and scatters them through the earth
Allah makes changes of the winds
The clouds between sky and the earth are obey Allah’s will.
There is no verse in the entire Bible that gives all of these meanings at a time.
There are scientific and theological correlation between clouds, rain, and the dead land and the revival of dead people.
Surah 7:57
It is He Who sendeth the Winds like heralds of glad tidings, going before His Mercy: when they have carried the heavy-laden clouds, We drive them to a land that is dead, make rain to descend thereon, and produce every kind of harvest therewith ;