ANCIENT SCIENCE
Job 26.7
7.”He stretches out Zaphon (North) over the void and hangs the Earth upon nothing.”
It is unknown in what period of time Job actually lived and who he was. Some of the scholars proposed that He was Edomite, and this is seems right, because His friends, according to their names, are from the territory of Edom.
How he possible know that the Earth hangs upon nothing? Where he learned and obtained this knowledge?
About 300 years ago we discovered that Earth actually is not flat, but ancient people already knew, roughly 2000 some year before us that the Earth is round and hangs in space “upon nothing!”
This means that astronomy was very advanced in ancient times and ancient perhaps knew as much as we know today about cosmos and universe in general.
Job 28.1-2.5-6
Words of Job to Bildad.
1.”Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold to be refined.
2.Iron is taken out of the Earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
5.As for the Earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
6.Its stones are the place of sapphires, and its dust contains gold."
Bildad, a friend of Job, mentioned fire underneath of Earth. While the fire in the middle of the Earth often metaphorically described as Hell, Bildad in this instance did not meant that, but mentioned scientific fact which is only recently has been discovered in our millennium.
Ecclesiastes 1.6-7.18
6.The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north, round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
7.All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full, to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow.
There is no doubt that Solomon acquired extraordinary wisdom from GOD, and knows much more about physical world than anyone else on Earth.
In these two verse Solomon described the pattern of wind and the water on Earth, which again have been discovered in our modern time by using sophisticated scientific instruments, but Solomon already know that without any satellite imaging.
But a verse below really revealed true and great wisdom of Solomon that goes way beyond our understanding and imagination.
18.In much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow.
At Solomon’s time people did not suffer from new technologies and science as we suffer today, but it seems that Solomon prophetically foreseen future science and all its impact and results on humankind.
Isaiah 40.22
22.”It is He Who sits above the vault (KSB) ("circle" NRSV, Gideons, KJV, ESV, Russian) of the Earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.”
Isaiah began his work during a time of relative peace and prosperity under Uzziah, 10th king of Judah, and under his son Jotham, 11th king of Judah. During reign of Ahaz, 12th king of Judah, son of Jotham, Assyria became a superpower and deported separated kingdom of Israel into its captivity in 722 B.C.
Isaiah described Earth as a circle, which is again revealed how advance the science was among ancient people during the time of this prophet of GOD.
I just marvel and perplex at the same time at the ancient science and its technological achievements. Just recently I saw a documentary about ancient building construction methods in different parts of the world and I was totally amazed at the precision stone cutting technique by which blocks of stone that weight many tons have been cut.
On some cutting surface of the stones have been very clearly seen a certain marks of the cutting tool that left very distinct pattern of cuts that could be done only with high precision tool.
We teach in schools the theory of evolution, but how we can ignore the ancient artifacts that show us advancement in science and technologies what rival, and in some cases even surpass today’s modern techniques in engineering and construction methods!
Job 26.7
7.”He stretches out Zaphon (North) over the void and hangs the Earth upon nothing.”
It is unknown in what period of time Job actually lived and who he was. Some of the scholars proposed that He was Edomite, and this is seems right, because His friends, according to their names, are from the territory of Edom.
How he possible know that the Earth hangs upon nothing? Where he learned and obtained this knowledge?
About 300 years ago we discovered that Earth actually is not flat, but ancient people already knew, roughly 2000 some year before us that the Earth is round and hangs in space “upon nothing!”
This means that astronomy was very advanced in ancient times and ancient perhaps knew as much as we know today about cosmos and universe in general.
Job 28.1-2.5-6
Words of Job to Bildad.
1.”Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold to be refined.
2.Iron is taken out of the Earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
5.As for the Earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.
6.Its stones are the place of sapphires, and its dust contains gold."
Bildad, a friend of Job, mentioned fire underneath of Earth. While the fire in the middle of the Earth often metaphorically described as Hell, Bildad in this instance did not meant that, but mentioned scientific fact which is only recently has been discovered in our millennium.
Ecclesiastes 1.6-7.18
6.The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north, round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
7.All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full, to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow.
There is no doubt that Solomon acquired extraordinary wisdom from GOD, and knows much more about physical world than anyone else on Earth.
In these two verse Solomon described the pattern of wind and the water on Earth, which again have been discovered in our modern time by using sophisticated scientific instruments, but Solomon already know that without any satellite imaging.
But a verse below really revealed true and great wisdom of Solomon that goes way beyond our understanding and imagination.
18.In much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow.
At Solomon’s time people did not suffer from new technologies and science as we suffer today, but it seems that Solomon prophetically foreseen future science and all its impact and results on humankind.
Isaiah 40.22
22.”It is He Who sits above the vault (KSB) ("circle" NRSV, Gideons, KJV, ESV, Russian) of the Earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.”
Isaiah began his work during a time of relative peace and prosperity under Uzziah, 10th king of Judah, and under his son Jotham, 11th king of Judah. During reign of Ahaz, 12th king of Judah, son of Jotham, Assyria became a superpower and deported separated kingdom of Israel into its captivity in 722 B.C.
Isaiah described Earth as a circle, which is again revealed how advance the science was among ancient people during the time of this prophet of GOD.
I just marvel and perplex at the same time at the ancient science and its technological achievements. Just recently I saw a documentary about ancient building construction methods in different parts of the world and I was totally amazed at the precision stone cutting technique by which blocks of stone that weight many tons have been cut.
On some cutting surface of the stones have been very clearly seen a certain marks of the cutting tool that left very distinct pattern of cuts that could be done only with high precision tool.
We teach in schools the theory of evolution, but how we can ignore the ancient artifacts that show us advancement in science and technologies what rival, and in some cases even surpass today’s modern techniques in engineering and construction methods!