This one protocol subject might by itself be worthy of its own multi-volume book series.  So many things can be said about rain. So many poems, songs, soliloquies, movies, dramas, plays, musicals, and even amusement park rides have been made around this one subject, rain.

While preparing to write this chapter, many ideas swirled in my head.  The one thing that perplexed me the most was one question:

What is it about rain that makes it a protocol of The Kingdom?

It is written that God sends the rain on both the just and the unjust.  In researching the subject, I asked people for their first impressions, their first thoughts, when they heard the word, rain.  I had expected maybe a few answers with a single word or simple phrase. The replies that came back were opposite of that.  They included both positive and negative deep felt ideas to the word and its concepts.  This tug of war in thoughts and perceptions reveal a lot about the essence of rain.  This very essence is what is so intriguing about rain.  Rain is neutral.  Rain is not just water, that would mean that a pond, lake or ocean could be labeled as rain.  Clouds are also NOT rain.  As they are merely water in a vapor form.  

What is the one thing makes H2O rain?  Gravity.  It is the combination of water falling down from above that makes rain, rain.  In these parameters is where we find why rain is a protocol of the kingdom. 

You see, rain is neutral. It is an inevitability.  This inevitability is what makes it a kingdom protocol.  Rain falls on all the land where the conditions are met.  And when it does fall, rain does one thing. It reveals. It reveals what was sown.  It uncovers what was hidden.  It reveals the strength of design.  It reveals the execution of a test, testing the very foundation of what is seen.  It reveals the strength and wisdom of the design. 

Even in the desert, where all see nothing but barren land that has nothing, when the rains come, life springs up.  Suddenly, overnight, the whole landscape changes.  Suddenly grasses spring up, flowers, and all kinds of life comes out.  You see, the rain just revealed, unleashed, allowed to manifest, the seeds sown that were hidden.  Suddenly what was not seen, but hidden in the ground, is revealed.   That is why it is written that it will rain on the just and the unjust.  You see the fruit of nothing sewn, is nothing.  It is also written that whatever a man sows he shall reap.  Rain is the revealer of the stewardship of the seed given.  No seed placed on the ground results in just muddy ground at best and at worst would cause runoff and wash away the good soil, enough cycles of this and eventually it will make the location barren.

Even the unjust know to sow seed.  Look at the massive corporations around the world.  What do they do with roughly 10 percent of their gains?  That’s right, they plant it/donate/give it away to “charitable” causes.  They might not have the insight into The kingdom, yet even they recognize the protocol, the principle, that the rain, the test, will come.  Yet many throughout the world, call themselves children of God and do not acknowledge or rather refuse to acknowledge that the test will come.

Some of the replies that came in gave their impression of “rain”, saying rain was not good.  A recent devastating flood was all over the main street media, they said that just looking at so many people’s houses being washed away in flood, revealed how rain was “judgment”.  Some referenced pictures of houses being washed away from the massive floods that rain indeed was bad.  A different perspective questions this assertion and it raises an inquiry, was it judgment? Or was it merely the test of the foundation and of the wisdom that chose the location where the house was built?

I was about to buy a gorgeous new house in a new subdivision a few years back.  I happened to be visiting a friend of mine that was a retired civil engineer.  Actually he had managed the flood system in a massive region.  His simple advice stopped all my inquiries in purchasing the house.  What did he say?  “It’s called a flood plain for a reason.”  He went on to tell me that the levees were built where they were for a reason.  Building a house in front of these levies, to get a nice “view” of the river was not a very wise choice to do.   Yet no flood had occurred in the past 90 years was my reply, all he could do is chuckle and say, we have 100 and 1000 year flood maps for a reason. He went on to tell me, he would not buy or build there.  I didn’t.

A year later, guess what occurred up the river hundreds of miles away from that neighborhood?  You guess right.  RAIN.  MASSIVE downpours occurred, nothing local, but the neighborhood was built downstream of the RAIN.  As the river rose and spilled over its banks, the levees behind the neighborhood held but those new houses in front of the levees were now underwater all the way to their rooftops.  Was it sad to see so many lose all their belongings, memories, and houses?  Yes.  Does it negate the fact that the rains did not devastate others that chose wisely? No.  The rain just revealed the consequences of the “wisdom” to build in a floodplain.  This “wisdom” was justified because the conventional wisdom of the crowd said it was okay to do so.

The kingdom protocol of rain has a primary function.  It reveals.  It reveals what was sown.  It reveals that the seed was consumed.  It reveals the lazy servant.  It reveals those following the wisdom of the world.  It allows the manifestation of the harvest of what was sown.   The neutrality of rain reveals many things.  It reveals most importantly those that walk in faith and sow in faith.  Paul writes it down best “NOW FAITH is required to please God, for those that come to Him, MUST believe that He IS, and HE is the rewarder of those that diligently seek HIM”

A farmer sews with the expectation of a harvest.  Yet he allows the seed to be buried and die.  The foolish servant buried the seed, in a sealed bag in a box, and did not expect any harvest or increase so that if the master asked him to return what was given, he would have just exactly what the master gave.  That is why Rain reveals.

It reveals the wise servants that trusts the master, fears him, and wants to please Him.  This wise servant will do so by presenting His master with an increase of what was given due to their wise stewardship of the seed that the master gave.  The wise servants understood that rain would come and test what and whom they trusted.  Some eat their seed, while others eat all the increase and grow fat, both of these decisions result in one thing, a harvest of nothing to present to the Master when He returns.

It is written that the end days will be like the days of Noah.  And what came when time expired?  You got it, RAIN.  Rain revealed those that headed the word of repentance.  It tested all the world structures and buildings, and revealed the truth.  What many in this season, this endtime season of earth, yet fail to realize is that the rain will come again.  They have built their lives, their houses, on a foundation that will be tested and it will fail the test of rain.