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The number of stars -- The ancients believed that only a very
few stars were in the heavens. In A.D. 150, Ptolemy said that there
were not more than 3,000 stars. This was considered a high estimate!
After the Middle Ages and the invention of the telescope, men
discovered that the stars are innumerable -- more than can be
counted. But all the time, Genesis 13:16,
Genesis 15:5,
Jeremiah 33:22,
and other Bible verses declared that the stars of the sky are like the
sands of the seashore -- "innumerable." How could these ancient
writers know that the stars are innumerable? They
didn't. Only God did. It's strong evidence that He told them what to
write.
The empty space in the north -- By turning out telescopes
to the south, east, and west, you can behold countless millions of
stars invisible to the naked eye. But when you turn your telescope
to the north, there is a great empty space -- no shining stars, no
moving planets. Astronomers can't account for this. Yet Job declared
in Job 26:7, "He stretches out the north over empty space..." |
