So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts. God uses a natural mechanism — an east wind — to bring a supernatural plague. The locusts ride the east wind from the direction of the desert, the natural direction from which locusts came to the ancient Near East. The miracle is not the presence of the wind but the timing, the direction, the quantity, and the specific geographical boundary that the locusts will observe. Combining natural means with supernatural purpose is characteristic of divine action throughout Scripture — the pillar of cloud and fire uses weather, the crossing of the sea uses wind, the feeding with manna coincides with morning dew. God is Lord over the natural order, not an alternative to it.

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