Astronomy:
We take for granted that the earth is suspended in space, hanging from nothing. Ancient Egyptians believed and taught that the earth was supported by 5 marble pillars.
Greeks believed earth rested on the shoulders of the god Atlas.
Hindus believed the earth is supported by four elephants standing on the back of a turtle. The Hindu deity Vishnu was reincarnated as the turtle Kachhapa that carried the weight of the world on its back which was on top of a coiled serpent in the midst of a cosmic sea. It all turned out to be false.
But Job said in the oldest of Biblical writings (1473 BCE): (Job 26:7)
“He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
That was a radical thought until just a few hundred years ago. How did Job know that perhaps 4000 years ago? Because all scripture is given by inspiration!
Nobody believed the earth was round until 1492. “Columbus, you’re gonna sail off the end of the eart, but 700 years before Christ, Isaiah said that “God sits upon the circle of the earth.” Circle in Hebrews means globe or sphere. (Isa. 40:22)
Number of Stars
150 B.C., Astronomer named Hipparchus laid down his pencil and smiled, “it’s done”! He believed he had counted all the stars in the sky it is 1,022! That was the number used in Universities for 250 years. Then Ptolemy came along and laughed, 1,022, that’s ridiculous, there’s 1,026! He found 4 more! And that was science for 1,300 years. Then Galileo came along with his invention, the first crude telescope, he looked thru it for the first time, and gasped. We know now that there are billions and billions of stars in each of the galaxies, which are innumerable!
What did the Bible say long before any of them were even born?
(Jer. 33:22) “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered”
“I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.”
God said to Abraham, your seed will be innumerable, (then used an illustration) like the stars of heaven. “I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore” (Gen. 22:17).