It's that time of year. The weather is very volatile and it can be -30 or colder one week and +5 the next. With that volatility comes rain and snow. Last night it was warm and I noticed a little rain on the living room window.

Seeing the rain got me pondering the hydrological cycle (water evaporates into the atmosphere and falls again as rain or snow and the cycle is repeated). The cycle was first "discovered" by two scientists named Perrault and Marriotte in the 1700's. Yet it was described in the Bible thousands of years before that.

He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.
Job 36:27-28 NIV

All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 NIV

The Bible isn't a science textbook, but it contains a lot of scientific wisdom that was written long before it was discovered by science. Let me share a few examples.

In 1543 Copernicus discovered that the earth hangs in empty space. The Bible tells us that in Job.

He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
Job 26:7 NIV

Most people thought the earth was flat until Copernicus came along. He recognized it as being a sphere. The prophet Isaiah knew that.

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:22 NIV

There are global wind currents. Science was able to map them out in the 1950's and 1960's. Solomon knew that about 1000 BC

The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
Ecclesiastes 1:6 NIV

There are many more examples. The book that many think is nothing but a collection of myths has proven time and time again to be completely reliable.

Until next time, whenever it rains, or snows, or the wind blows, rejoice. Our Lord is the Creator and He declared the truth to us long before mankind ever "discovered" it.

Hallelu Yah (Praise God)

Be blessed

Kevin