Scientific Bible Facts

Scientific Bible Facts


By Rev. Jack Barr

The Earth is round.

Isa 40:22

[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

The center of the earth is molten (melted)

Job 28:5

[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

The Earth floats in space.

Job 26:7Job 26:7

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.

The Earth will leave it's orbit around the sun. 15th century BC

Job 9:6

Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

Isa 13.13

Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isa 24:20

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Water vapor rises from the Earth.

Jer 10:13

When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

Clouds are made of water.

Jer 10.13

When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

Job 26:8

He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. (Job 26:8)

The water cycle, vapor, clouds, rain. (Not found until the 1600s by Halley, the astronomer)

Job 36:27-28

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.

The wind goes in patterns. 10th century BC (Not known until the 1700s by Benjamin Franklin)

Ecc 1:6

The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

Ocean currents. 10th century BC. Not discovered until Matthew Maury the oceanographer in the 1800's.

Psa. 8:8

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatsoever] passeth through the paths of the seas.

2 Samuel 22:16

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Mountains on the bottom of the sea. 8th century BC, (2800 years ago.)

Jonah 2:6

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

Each star is different. (2000 years ago)

1 Cor. 15:41

[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory.

The number of stars exceeds what man can count. 7th century BC (2700 years ago)

Jer. 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

Hebrew 11:12

Therefore sprang there even on one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, so shall thy seed be.

Springs and Fountains in the Sea

Proverbs 8:28

When he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noahs life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 8:2

The Fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Time zones

Luke 17:34-36

I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; (Night) the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding togather; (morning) the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; (afternoon) the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Automobiles ?

Nahum 2:4

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

Airplanes ?

Isaiah 31:5

As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?


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