Genesis 22:17 (NKJV)
17 blessing I will bless you, and multiply I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore, and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
Jeremiah 33:22 (NKJV)
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”
This verse in Jeremiah refers to the infinite number of stars in the heavens. How would a man five-thousand years ago know that the number of stars is unlimited? We can see, with the naked eye, maybe three-thousand stars on a clear night. Science now estimates 10 to the 25th power and, with the help of modern telescopes, we are finding new stars each day. Man, of Biblical days, may have guessed a large number, but only God would have known for sure the actual numbers and passed that on to us in scripture.
1 Corinthians 15:41 (NKJV)
41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for one star differs from another star in glory.
The verse in 1 Corinthians tells us that each star is different in shape and size. But, again, how would a man two-thousand years ago know this? With the naked eye, all the stars look the same.
Jeremiah 31:35 (NKJV)
35 Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar
Jeremiah is telling us that the position of the Moon and the Sun controls the ocean tides. Only God would have known this 5000 years ago.
Ecclesiastes 1:6 (NKJV)
6 The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually and comes again on its circuit.
Ecclesiastes is one of the oldest of books, and it describes the
circulation of the atmosphere.
Job 36:27-29 (NKJV)
27 For He (A)draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist, 28 (B)Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man. 29 Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy
Psalm 135:7 (NKJV)
He causes the [a]vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries.
Jeremiah 10:13
When He utters His voice, There is a [a]multitude of waters in the heavens: “And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”
Job 36:27-29, Psalms 135:7, and Jer. 10:13 all tell us what we now understand as facts through science that it rains, water evaporates, ascends into the atmosphere, and comes down again as rain in a thunderstorm.
Isaiah 40:22 (NKJV)
22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who (A)stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a (B)tent to dwell in.
In this verse, God is telling us several things. First that the Earth is round. Next,
there is a curtain that encircles the world that protects us. This, of course, was unknown in the Old Testament days. The Earth's atmosphere has four primary layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. These layers protect our planet by absorbing harmful radiation.
Job 26:7 (NKJV)
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
Job is the oldest book in the Bible. So, how would Job know that the Earth hung in an empty space? People in those days had strange theories concerning the Earth. Many thought that it was flat. The Greeks believed that it sat on the back of a giant turtle. Others believed Zeus held the Earth on his shoulders. But, no one thought it hung in emptiness. Nowhere in the Bible does it say the Earth is flat or that the sun revolved around the Earth. The Bible told us years before science did that it was a sphere and hung in space unattached.
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