- 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?