Good morning
everyone! For those of us in the northern hemisphere, aren’t these autumn
colors are just fabulous! And I am sure it is the same with all the spring flowers
and green shoots coming up in the southern hemisphere. God sure knew what he
was doing when he created the seasons!
And God not
only created and told us of the seasons in his written word (Genesis 1:14), He
tells us of many other natural and scientific occurrences as well. Some only in
very recent history have we the people even discovered! Yet God saw fit to have
such science written in the most accurate historical and scientific book-the
bible-though it was recorded thousands of years before modern science has
brought the understanding of such mechanisms.
This blog
has covered quite a few examples in the past, but I keep finding more and more
and wanted to share them with you!
Job 28:25
says “To make weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.”
What an interesting statement! “The fact that air has weight was revealed
through Job, but was proven scientifically only about 300 years ago. The
relative weights of air and water were carefully placed by God in the precise
amounts needed for the most efficient functioning of the world’s hydrologic
cycle [the rain cycle], which in turn sustains life on the earth.”[i]
The very
next verse in Job (28:26), speaks of lighting and thunder; “When he made decree
for the rain, and a way for the lightening of the thunder”. Just within the
last 150 years have we discovered that lightening is a manifestation of electrical
energy. “When it [lightening] suddenly arcs across the sky, it heats up the air
along its path, making a partial vacuum along its way. This vacuum must quickly
be filled by air rushing in, resulting in a loud thunderclap as it comes
together.”[ii] Interesting
that thousands of years ago it was recorded that there was a “way” or path for lightening
and thunder!
Here’s
another one, Job 31:26. “If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon
walking in brightness…” Notice the difference in which the sun and the moon are
depicted here. It is apparent Job understands the difference, stating that the
sun shines (in other words emits its own light), and the moon “walks in
brightness”, in other words reflects light. Job is saying the moon walks in the
suns brightness.
Another one
in Job is Job 36:27-29. Verse 27) “For
he maketh small the drops of water; they pour down rain according to the vapour
thereof; 28) Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. 29)Also
can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his
tabernacle?” Wow! Who would think these three little verses are profound
scientific statements! Listen to what Henry Morris, founder of Institute for
Creation Science writes; “Here is remarkable scientific insight. The drops of
water which eventually pour down as rain are, indeed ‘made small’, first being
molecules in the vapor state, then condensing to tiny liquid water droplets in
the clouds. These finally coalesce into drops large enough to overcome the
updrafts and fall as rain when ‘by watering He wearieth the thick cloud’
(37:11). Just how a cloud spreads out from a small cloudlet to become a
cloud-covered sky is still not fully understood by meteorologists even today.”[iii]
Also just to clarify, the normal word for “noise and tabernacle” in Hebrew are
not used in this verse. The word used for “noise” is instead one used for a
sudden loud crash. This fits perfect with thunder, and the word used for
“tabernacle” is one that refers to a den or lair that is built specifically
from which to launch an attack. Now doesn’t that sound like were lightening
comes from in a cloud (the arch of energy), which would then launch the
thunder?
Many, many
scientific as well as spiritual teachings are found throughout the bible. The science
is often written in olden terminology and we have the tendency to read right
over them. The above are just a few examples of how we can miss so many very
significant scientific references. It does not help when we are taught in
church sermons and Sunday schools that the bible is stories and the people are
characters. For example, “Today we are going to look at a story in the Old
Testament. The main character in this story is Job.” How many times have we
heard the colossal Noachian flood referred to as the “story of Noah”? Or the
book of Job as poetic? 
Do you see
how couching the bible in such terminology devalues its teachings? The next
time you hear someone refer to the great writings of scripture in such a way,
ask the Lord to give you the guidance to humbly and gently correct this subtle
belittling of God’s great works. Words are important…after all, He created the
universe with words in just six ordinary days!
Until next
time!
Willow Dressel
In the night
sky: The annual Orionid meteor shower got under way
in the hours before dawn Saturday morning, and should continue in the
early-morning hours through Tuesday or Wednesday. You still have time to view
this if you forgot from last week to look. You may see up to twenty Orionids
per hour. The origination of the shower is at the top of Orion's Club, (which
doesn't rise high until after well midnight).
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