WIND/WHIRLWIND

Definition

A thing that moves or removes something else.

Scripture

• The Bible refers to the unbelieving as those that are passing and how the whirlwind will take them away.

Isaiah 40:24 (KJV) Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Psalms 58:9 (KJV) Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Proverbs 10:25 (KJV) As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

• Wind is said to carry things away, in various contexts.

Isaiah 57:13 (KJV) When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

Jude 1:12 (NKJV) …They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds…

2 Peter 2:17 (KJV) These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest [lit. whirlwind]…

Ephesians 4:14 (NKJV) that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine…

Daniel 2:35 (NKJV) Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found…

Isaiah 64:6 (NKJV) But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

Hosea 13:3 (KJV) Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

• Elijah is said to be “taken up” by a whirlwind, to heaven. 

2 Kings 2:1 (KJV) And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heavenby a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

Verse 10) And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. 11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

• Ezekiel “scatters” his hair in the wind as a symbol of the nation of Israel being scattered. 

Ezekiel 5:2 (KJV)  …thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

Verse 10) …and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

• Wind is said to lift and move the waves of the sea.

Psalms 107:25 (KJV) For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

Exodus 14:21 (KJV) And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

James 1:6 (KJV) But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

• Song of Solomon is a discussion between Solomon (representing Jesus) and his temple (representing us). Solomon’s physical temple had pillars on either side of the front door, with brass fountains on them, portraying the fountain produced from within us. Here, Solomon speaks to his temple, adjuring “the wind” to bring out the fountain from inside of her. So the wind is being used for something (currently unsure what) that moves the fountain sealed within us, to manifest forth from us (similar to the waves of the sea mentioned previously)

Song of Solomon 4:12-16 (KJV) A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Verse 16) Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.