Below is a quick guide for you and your family to use if you choose to do so. It reveals interesting scientific facts found in the Bible, yet revealing the power and truth of the Word of God.
1. Read Psalm 19:7-10
2. Walk through and read this document below:
Genesis 1:1-2- Science expresses the universe in five terms: time, space, matter, power, and motion. These two verses in Genesis revealed such truths to the Hebrews in the year 1450. “In the beginning [time] God created [power] the heaven [space] and the earth [matter]…And the Spirit of God moved [motion] upon the face of the waters.” The first thing God tells man is that He is in control of all aspects of the universe.
Hebrews 11:3 – Only in recent years has science discovered that everything we see is composed of invisible atoms. “The things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”
Psalm 104:2- Scientists now understand that the universe is expanding or stretching out. Nine times in Scripture we are told that God stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
Job 26:7- Around 1500 B.C. it was believed that the earth was sitting upon a large animal or a giant. However, the Bible has said all along that the earth was floating free in space. “He hangs the earth on nothing.”
Isaiah 40:22- We did not need Christopher Columbus to tell us the earth is round, we had the prophet Isaiah! At a time when science believed that the earth was flat, it was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world. “It is He that sits upon the circle of the earth.”
Job 38:12-14- For ages, scientists have believed in a geocentric view of the universe. The differences between night and day were believed to be caused by the sun revolving around the earth. Today, we know that the earth’s rotation on its axis is responsible for the sun’s rising and setting. Over 4,000 years ago, it was written about. “Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the day spring [dawn] to know his place?... It [the earth] is turned as clay to the seal.” The picture here is of a clay vessel being turned or rotated upon the potter’s wheel- an accurate analogy of the earth’s rotation.
Luke 17:34-36- Another clear indication of a revolving earth, with day and night occurring at the same time.
Psalm 19:5-6- The psalmist says of the Sun that “Its going forth is from the end of the heaven, and its circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from its heat.” For hundreds of year scientists scoffed at the verses thinking that the Sun was stationary in the universe. It was discovered in recent years that the sun is in fact moving through space at 600,000 miles per hour. Its circuit is so big that it would take approximately 200 million years to complete one orbit.
Isaiah 51:6; Psalm 102:25-26; Hebrews 1:11- These verses indicate that the earth is wearing out. This is what the second law of thermodynamics (Law of Increasing Entropy) states: in all physical processes, every ordered system over time tends to become more disordered. Everything is running down and wearing out as energy is becoming less available for use.
Job 38:35- God told Job in 1500 B.C., “Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?” The Bible here is making what appears to be a scientifically ludicrous statement that light can be sent, and then manifest itself in speech. But did you know that radio waves travel at the speed of light? This is why you have instant wireless communication with someone on the other side of the earth. This wasn’t discovered until 1864 when “British scientist James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing (Modern Century Illustrated Encyclopedia.)
Job 38:7- Astrologists have discovered that stars emit radii waves, which are received on earth as a high pitch. God mentioned this in Job 38:7, “When the morning stars sang together.”
Genesis 1:14- How could Moses have known 3,500 years ago that the “lights” of the sun and moon were the actual determining factors of the seasons, days, and years, unless God inspired his words?
Ecclesiastes 1:7; 11:3; Amos 9:6; Job 28:26- The Mississippi River dumps 6 million gallons of water per second into the Gulf of Mexico. Where does all of that water go? And that’s just one of thousands of rivers. The answer lies in the hydrologic cycle, so well brought out in the Bible. Centuries later, scientists began to discern the decrees for the rain. Rainfall is part of a process called the “water cycle.” The sun evaporates water from the ocean. The water vapor then rises and becomes clouds. This water in the clouds falls back to the earth as rain, collects in streams and rivers, and then makes its way back to the ocean. This idea of a complete water cycle was not discovered until the seventeenth century.
Psalm 8:8- Man discovered the existence of ocean currents in the late 1850s, but the Bible declared the science of oceanography 2,800 years ago. Matthew Maury (1806-1873), who is known as the father of oceanography, noticed the expression “paths of the sea” in Psalm 8:8. He said, If God said there are paths in the sea; I am going to find them. He discovered the warm and cold continental currents.
Jonah 2:6- It has been discovered that there are mountains on the bottom of the ocean floor. Jonah already discovered that!
Leviticus 17:11- Until 120 years, people who became ill were actually bled to death. It was believed that you could bleed out the blood that caused you to become sick, and as a result most of them often died. 3,000 years ago, this verse proves Medical Science, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood.”
Leviticus 15:13- In 1845 a young doctor in Vienna named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that the reason 30 percent of all women were dying after giving birth is because doctors were not washing their hands properly. They would simply dip them into the same bowl over and over due to the unawareness of microscopic diseases. After they took the advice of this verse of using running water, the death rate immediately dropped to 2 percent! (Encyclopedia Britannica)
3. Ask one another what they are currently reading and learning from the Word of God.
4. Pray for one another and ask the Lord to open doors to show and share the love of Christ with those around you.
