Sky News (excerpts):  Hailstones the size of golf balls have killed three people and injured 25 others in China.

The giant pieces of ice pelted several rural areas in east China's Jiangxi province overnight and on Wednesday morning, resulting in the deaths of three people, the Xinhua news agency reported.  The hailstones were said to be as large as 3.5 cm in diameter and weighed 18 gm on average.  The storms forced the evacuation of more than 700 people, destroyed about 2,700 hectares of crops and damaged more than 900 houses.  About 170,000 residents of Jiangxi have been affected by the freak weather.  In southwestern Guizhou province, hailstorms hit 47 villages in Taijiang county overnight, leaving 25 residents injured, including two who were severely hurt, a regional government spokesman said.  Power supplies have been damaged, causing power cuts in the country.  Streetlamps and telecommunication networks have also been disrupted.  Local authorities have dispatched teams to oversee relief operations in the areas affected. 

Commentary:  Did you know that the Word of God says that there will be great hailstorms in the last days?  "Thus saith the Lord God, I will even rend it with a stormy wind in My fury, and there will be an overflowing shower in My anger and great hailstones in My fury to consume it" Ezekiel 13:13.  Also, when Pharaoh, king of Egypt, refused to allow the children of Israel to leave Egypt's bondage, God told Moses, "Send now and gather your cattle and all that you have in the field, for hail shall come down upon every man and beast found in the field and they shall die" Exodus 9:19.  God warned the children of Israel to escape from the imminent hail, but the Godless Egyptians were not warned before the hail fell and many were killed of the plague of the large hail, because they refused to stop persecuting and enslaving God's people. 

It is interesting to note that many people have been arrested and put in prison in China for worshiping God in their homes.  The Bible also says, "The thing that has been, is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun" Ecclesiastes 1:9.  Many things that happened in the past to those who refused to serve God, and who oppressed those who do serve God, will also happen to the wicked in these last days, according to Bible prophecy.