8416. 'Behold, I am causing it to rain bread from heaven for you' means that heavenly good will flow in. This is clear from the meaning of 'raining' as a blessing, dealt with in 2445, the reason why 'raining' means a blessing being that as rain comes down from heaven or the sky and causes the land to be productive, so Divine Goodness and Truth come down from heaven to a person and cause him to be blessed, from which it is evident that 'raining' in the proximate sense means flowing in (for all good from the Divine flows in); and from the meaning of 'bread' as heavenly good, dealt with below.

2445. That 'raining on' means to be condemned is clear from the meaning of 'rain'. In the Word in the genuine sense 'rain' means a blessing and also consequent salvation, but in the contrary sense it means a curse and also consequent condemnation. Its meaning blessing and consequent salvation is clear from many places, but that it means in the contrary sense a curse and consequent condemnation is evident from the following: In Isaiah,

The tabernacle will be for a shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and shelter from deluge and from rain. Isaiah 4:6.

In Ezekiel,

Say to those who daub it with what is not suitable that it will fall. There will be deluging rain from which you, O hailstones, will fall. There will be deluging rain in My anger, and hailstones in wrath to consume it. Ezekiel 13:11, 13.

In David,

He made their rain into hail, a flaming fire in their land; and He smote their vines and their fig trees. Psalms 105:32-33.

This refers to Egypt, concerning which the following is said in Moses,

Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down over the earth, and Jehovah rained hail over the land of Egypt. Exodus 9:23-24.