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God Hath Spoken
The Storm Circuits
Now note verse 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." Solomon here describes the storm circuits. In recent years, the theory of storm circuits was attributed to Redfield, but it was Solomon writing some 900 years before the birth of Christ who said, "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."
The Water Cycle
See verse 7. Solomon writes, "All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." Here the water cycle is described over 900 years before Christ. The rivers run into the sea, but where do the waters come from? the rain. Solomon says the waters that flow down the river into the sea return from whence they came. This is called "evaporation." The sun evaporates the water, thus forming clouds, and when it rains the waters come down and flow into the rivers, which in turn flow into the sea: yet the sea is not full. Where did Solomon learn such wisdom? He learned it by the revelation of God.
Gravity
In Isaiah chapter 40, look at verse 12. "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?" The universe has been expressed as "a living arithmetic in its development, a realized geometry in its repose." Gravity is itself a numerical law.
Seedtime and Harvest, and The Ocean's Tides
In the passage before us, note that the earth itself, and all other heavenly bodies are balanced as to size, distance and direction, so that the whole is stable and secure. We can tell when seedtime and harvest arrive each year, and the tides themselves are predictable.
The Sphere of The Earth
Consider Isaiah 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." There are two things to note here. First, the prophet speaks of the roundness of the earth. Two thousand years after the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet, Christopher Columbus had trouble convincing the king and queen of Spain that the earth was not flat. Isaiah wrote of the "roundness" of the earth 700 years before Christ was born. He could not have known this unless it was divinely revealed to him.
The Atmosphere
Second, consider that Isaiah here describes the atmosphere. He says of God that He "...stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in," and how could the writer better describe the atmosphere?
The Number of The Stars
Look at Jeremiah chapter 33, verse 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." According to the testimony of Jeremiah, the host of heaven cannot be numbered. On a clear night, we can number about 1160 stars. This passage was written about 600 years before the birth of Christ, or about 2260 years before the invention of the telescope. Today we know very well that the "host of heaven cannot be numbered."
As does medicine, so also does the knowledge of astronomy that we find in God's Word provide a convincing argument that the Scriptures are of divine origin. This is also true of fulfilled prophecy.