4. Biblical Foreknowledge

Foreknowledge is one of the key demonstrations of the Bible’s authenticity as the Word of God. The Gospel of John tells us that “in the Beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.” Later, John reveals that this Word is none other than Jesus Christ who he declares to be our Creator. Throughout the Bible, men such as Nehemiah, Jeremiah, and Job among others recorded their testimony of their encounters with the Word who John later reveals to be none other than Jesus Christ. Biblical Foreknowledge is when in the Bible, these men have an encounter with God in which He reveals to them mysteries that a person in that day and age could not have possibly known and mankind will probably not discover for thousands of years later. One such example in the last article involved fresh water springs on the ocean floor which God revealed to Job. There was no possible way for someone in Job’s way to know this, but since the Bible is the Creator’s words, Job was getting the information straight from the Architect thousands of years prior to its discovery.

The Hydrologic Cycle

The hydrologic cycle is the way we in the post-Flood world receive rain. The process as a whole works like this: rain falls, the water flows across the land into a river which flows into the sea, the sun’s rays causes the water to evaporate up into the air, the water vapor cools off, forms clouds, and then it rains again. All of this may be elementary level science, but it wasn’t until the 18^th century that a scientist named John Dalton, who was a believer, was able to understand and explain the entire cycle. During all of this time, the Word has been calling out with the following:

“All streams flow into the sea yet the sea in never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.” King Solomon, Ecclesiates 1:7

“ . . . He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.” Jeremiah 10:13

“He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth . . .” Psalm 135:7

“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.” Elihu, the Book of Job 36: 27-28

Some of these verses show the entire cycle, some of them only showing the invisible process of evaporation at work. And, all of these verses were written down thousands of years prior to the development of the scientific concepts which instruct us on these processes today.

The Pleiades and Orion Star Constellations

“Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?” Job 38:31

In 1846, Joham Madler observed that the stars that comprise the Pleiades Constellation were a cluster that is traveling in a South Westerly direction together at the same rate. He then declared that the stars that make up this constellation are gravitationally bound as the verse states. From 1930 to 1950, Dr. Robert Trumpler made 25,000 observations from Lick Observatory, and he confirmed that with no doubt, the Pleiades constellation is a system of stars that are bound together. The Hipparcos Satellite from the European Space Agency detailed that this cluster is 500 light years away from the earth, and the cluster also has a 12 light year diameter made up of over 600 young, hot blue stars. Keep in mind that a light year is a unit of distance that is used to when dealing with tremendous distances in outer space. It is the distance traveled if someone went at the speed of light for one year. So, one light year is the equivalent of 5,880,000,000,000 miles. However, they also concluded that for the time being, the cluster is gravitationally bound, but that 250 million years, it would break away from its gravitational bondage.

As for Orion, the constellation as a whole is not gravitationally bound. Some of the stars which make up the constellation are more than 1,000 light years apart from each other. However, as they are not bound, they do experience a form of gravitational equilibrium which allows the top and bottom portions to loosely expand and contract away from the belt of Orion. So, some of the stars within Orion are in fact bound to each other, while others are loosely bound allowing for some expansion and contraction.

Pi

Pi (3.14159265358979 . . .) is one of the most unique, never-ending numbers in physics, geometry, and engineering which is essential in all calculations involving circles and spheres. The ancient Egyptians calculated Pi to 3.16; the Babylonians figured it to be 3.125, while most modern engineers of today use the number 22/7 or 3.142857.

“He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim . . . it took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.” 1 Kings 7:23

As Solomon was building the Temple, he had a circular wash basin called the Sea where temple priests would have to see their reflection and then wash their hands while stating, “I wash my body, I wash my mind, I wash my spirit.” Many critics of the Bible often use this verse in an attempt to discredit the Bible. From Geometry we know that the circumference of a circle is equal to Pi multiplied by the diameter. Upon first examination of the verse, you see that the diameter of the wash basin is 10 cubits and the circumference is 30 cubits, when the circumference should be over 31 cubits in length. (a cubit is the length from you elbow to the tip of your middle finger). This would make one to believe that the Bible is using 3 instead of 3.14 . . . as Pi, but actually, God’s Word has a hidden correction factor that few scribes of that day and translators of today understand. When scribes are recording numbers, whenever they come across something they do not understand yet believe there is a significant unknown meaning (“remez” in Hebrew) to something, they make a note of in the margin known as a quere. One should also note that every letter in the Hebrew language has a certain number value assigned to it. In this verse, two words appear for the measuring cord: “qav” and “qaveh.” The Hebrew letters which make up “qav” carry the number values of 6+100 which is 106. “Qaveh” which is written in the margin carries the value of 5+6+100 which is 111. When you take the 111 divided by 106, you come up with a correction factor which can be multiplied by the 30 cubit length listed in the verse to get 31.41509, a number within 15 thousandths of an inch from mathematical perfection.

Infant Blood Clotting

“And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you . . . ” Genesis 17:12

In the days of Abraham, it was impossible for them to measure the clotting agents in the blood stream and plot them on a graph to discern which day is best for a newborn baby boy to be circumcised. But, Abraham had a genuine relationship with the One who put it all together. God commanded Abraham that all of his newborn boys should be circumcised on the eighth day. When looking at a graph of clotting agents in an infant’s blood stream, the level starts from zero, raises above normal necessary amount on the sixth day, peaks on the eighth day, and then returns down to a normal level on the tenth day.

The Ark

The Ark was not a tugboat, and it was not a yacht. It was a large, rectangular barge engineered by our Creator to take a huge beating. Its dimensions of 30:5:3 have been declared to be the engineering perfection for a seaworthy vessel with a huge payload and for speed to not be a factor.

In 1844, Isambard K. Brunnel built the very large SS Great Britain based off of the Ark’s dimensions. In World War II, many shipbuilders resorted to these dimensions to build large seaworthy ships known as “ugly ducklings” that are capable of carrying a large payload.

In Conclusion

God has been making Himself and His mysteries known for thousands of years, the question is, “are we listening and paying attention?” Scientific discoveries which are less than one hundred years old are very plainly mentioned in a language that a shepherd could understand. All of this demonstrates Biblical Foreknowledge and authenticates the Bible as mankind’s source of knowledge to the Creator. Remember what the Apostle John stated upfront in the Gospel he wrote, “in the Beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.” So, if you want to know what Jesus is saying, or how God interacts with people and things, getting into the Word is the truest way to get to know Christ, our Creator. So, read your Bible and get to know your Creator.

Next, we will first examine the trustworthiness of radioactive dating. After that, we will begin to ask “What is the evidence?” as we examine the many different personalities and “evidence” that make up what we know today as Macro-Evolution.