Nigeria has become West Africa’s biggest producer of petroleum. Some 2 million barrels (320,000 m3) a day are extracted in the Niger Delta. It is estimated that 38 billion barrels of crude oil still reside under the delta as of early 2012.
The Bible states about the rivers of oil before the discovery of Niger Delta it was revealed in the words of God .
In Micha 6:7 “Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
The Niger Delta is a very densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil. The area was the British Oil Rivers Protectorate from 1885 until 1893, when it was expanded and became the Niger Coast Protectorate.
Before Uncle Sam, the Symbol of the United States was the Goddess Columbia.
“With the moon beneath her feet :United States on moon landing on July 20 1969
The Bible states about the moon landing
In Revelation 12:1 ” Then I witnessed in heaven an event of great significance. I saw a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC.
· On July 20, 1969, two American astronauts landed on the moon and became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.
Surveyed two groups of stars which are mentioned several times in the Bible: Orion (the Hunter) and the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters).
Several Old Testament books use these two star groups, along with the Bear (Ursa Major, of which the Big Dipper is a part), to seize attention and megaphone truth to mankind (Job 9:8-10; 38:31-32; Amos 5:8).
Orion and the Pleiades in the Bible
The book of Job is probably the oldest book in the Bible. It relates the troubles of a man named Job who lived after the Flood, probably around the time of Abraham.
Job had been proclaiming his innocence of wrongdoing, insisting that his suffering was not fair, and calling for an answer from God. Instead of giving Job an explanation, God asked him a series of unanswerable questions to demonstrate His superior wisdom in ruling the world, including His sovereign decision to permit Job’s suffering. Here are several of the questions that God asked Job related to constellations:
“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
Or loose the cords of Orion?
Can you lead forth a constellation in its season,
And guide the Bear with her satellites?” — (Job 38:31-32 NASB)
Astronomers today know that the Pleiades is a gravitationally-bound star cluster. All the stars of the Pleiades are moving in the same direction across the sky at the same speed. In contrast, Orion’s stars are not gravitationally-bound; they are gradually moving away from each other.
Was this bound/unbound nature of the Pleiades and Orion known in Job’s day? It’s very unlikely! The Creator alone would be able to hint to Job that the Pleiades are bound together, but Orion’s stars are “loosed” (not bound). This “inside information” testifies to the divine origin of the Bible.
God’s alone can either bind or release stars, for He is their Creator, the One that made them and placed them in the heavens (Genesis 1:16-18) where they remain to this day.
The 8th-century BC prophet Amos also mentioned the Pleiades and Orion. The nation of Israel was sliding into pagan idolatry, and Amos sought to call Israel back to worship the true God by reminding the people of Yahweh’s great deeds.
Amos urged Israel to seek the One who performed certain stupendous acts:
Seek Him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth. The LORD is his name.– (Amos 5:8 KJV)
Amos called for Israel to return to
– the One who made the stars, in particular the One who made the Pleiades and Orion,
– the One who turns night to day and day to night, and
– the One who once judged rebellion with a Flood, pouring the oceans over the face of the earth.
These are awe-inspiring deeds! No mere man can come close to doing them. According to Amos, these are reasons to serve the real Creator God instead of impotent idols.
Amos’ exhortation is still needed today when so many believe the stars, earth, and living things originated from nothing by chance. How absurd!
The Prophet Amos calls mankind to seek the Creator and Judge, the One who made it all and the One who once judged Earth with a Flood.
Note: The words “Seek Him” in Amos 5:8 of the King James version are not in the original Hebrew. But “Seek Him” is in the context in verses 4 and 6, and should be implicitly understood for verse 8. Many other versions in addition to the King James include “Seek Him” in verse 8 in order to render in English the proper sense of the Hebrew passage.
The grandeur of Orion, the sparkling beauty of the Pleiades, the innumerable stars of the universe all point to a Maker, to One who made heaven and earth (Isaiah 37:16).
The majesty of the stars alone should compel men to seek the Creator and Savior before it is too late and judgment comes. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Hebrews 10:31 NASB)
Questions to Ponder
👉 Why would Orion and the Pleiades be mentioned together three different times in Scripture? (Job 9:8-10; 38:31-32; Amos 5:8)
👉 When you are suffering or sorrowful, how will you apply the questions God asked Job about the stars (Job 38:31-32)?
Share your thoughts on these questions in the comments below. It could encourage or help another reader.
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God. (Psalm 19:1 KJV)
In beggining God’s created the universe from nothing?
In Hebrew 11:3 “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
He created heavens ( Universe ) and earth:
In Genesis 1:1-2 ” In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation about how the universe began. At its simplest, it says the universe as we know it started with a small singularity, then inflated over the next 13.8 billion years to the cosmos that we know today.
Because current instruments don’t allow astronomers to peer back at the universe’s birth, much of what we understand about the Big Bang Theory comes from mathematical formulas and models. Astronomers can, however, see the “echo” of the expansion through a phenomenon known as the cosmic microwave background.
This was the moment of first light in the universe, between 240,000 and 300,000 years after the Big Bang, known as the Era of Recombination. The first time that photons could rest for a second, attached as electrons to atoms. It was at this point that the universe.
went from being totally opaque, to transparent.
The Bible states in the beggining :
In Genesis 1:3 “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
And this is the earliest possible light that astronomers can see. Go ahead, say it with me: the cosmic microwave background radiation. Because the universe has been expanding over the 13.8 billion years from then until now, the those earliest photons were stretched out, or red-shifted, from ultraviolet and visible light into the microwave end of the spectrum.
If you could see the universe with microwave eyes, you’d see that first blast of radiation in all directions. The universe celebrating its existence.After that first blast of light, everything was dark, there were no stars or galaxies, just enormous amounts of these primordial elements. At the beginning of these dark ages, the temperature of the entire universe was about 4000 kelvin. Compare that with the 2.7 kelvin we see today. By the end of the dark ages, 150 million years later, the temperature was a more reasonable 60 kelvin.
For the next 850 million years or so, these elements came together into monster stars of pure hydrogen and helium. Without heavier elements, they were free to form stars with dozens or even hundreds of times the mass of our own sun. These are the Population III stars, or the first stars, and we don’t have telescopes powerful enough to see them yet. Astronomers indirectly estimate that those first stars formed about 560 million years after the Big Bang.
Then, those first stars exploded as supernovae, more massive stars formed and they detonated as well. It’s seriously difficult to imagine what that time must have looked like, with stars going off like fireworks. But we know it was so common and so violent that it lit up the whole universe in an era called reionization. Most of the universe was hot plasma.
In Jeremiah 32:17 “O Sovereign LORD! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!
👉 God created Matter?
In John 1:3 “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”
👉 “All things” is made up of Matter :
plural: Matters:
In Galatians 5:6 “…All that matters…”
👉 What is matter?
Objects that take up space and have mass are called matter. Everything around you is made up of matter. Is anything, such as a solid, liquid or gas, that has weight (mass ) and occupies space.
👉 He created visible things from invisible things :
In Colossians 1:16 “Because in Him were created all things in the heavens and upon the earth, the visible and the INVISIBLE , whether thrones or lordships or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and unto Him.
The universe had a start – what caused it?
Did God start the universe – Photo shows an explosion of light to illustrate the start of the universe referred to as the Big Bang.Scientists are convinced that our universe began with one enormous explosion of energy and light, which we now call the Big Bang. This was the singular start to everything that exists: the beginning of the universe, the start of space, and even the initial start of time itself.
Astrophysicist Robert Jastrow, a self-described agnostic, stated, “The seed of everything that has happened in the Universe was planted in that first instant; every star, every planet and every living creature in the Universe came into being as a result of events that were set in motion in the moment of the cosmic explosion…The Universe flashed into being, and we cannot find out what caused that to happen.”
Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in Physics, said at the moment of this explosion, “the universe was about a hundred thousands million degrees Centigrade…and the universe was filled with light.”
The universe has not always existed. It had a start…what caused that? Scientists have no explanation for the sudden explosion of light and matter.
The experiment was conducted to compare and evaluate the hatchability and survival rate of a sand incubator and natural hen incubation technique and to estimate the profitability of the two different incubation techniques.
In Bible states in Job 39:13-15
“The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, though they cannot compare with the wings and feathers of the stork. She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand, unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them.”
The results of this study indicated that fertility, hatchability and dead in shell there were no significant difference (p>0.05) among the treatments. Embryonic mortality, normal DOC, abnormal DOC and chick weight showed significant differences (p<0.05) among the treatments. Higher embryonic mortality (17%) in broody hen than (9.2%) in sand incubator was observed. On the first batch, the net return per 100 eggs in sand incubation was 177.83 ETB ($9.3) which is higher net return/profit from that of the broody hen incubation -441.05 ETB or $-23.0, which were not profitable for the first batch at 70.80% hatchability. On the 1st year run the net return was estimated and can incurred by sand incubator which make it sustainable in profitability for the smallholder farmers by making high income for the next seven years of production period. Finally in order to improve the performance of the hatchery traits before the technology adopt to the farmers intensive adoptive research should be conduct and also training of smallholder poultry producers in the hatchery management of sand incubator is very crucial.
Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed.
The Bible states :
In Amos 3:15 “I will demolish the winter house and the summer house; the houses inlaid with ivory will be destroyed, and the great houses will come to an end. This is the LORD’s declaration.
New York is understood by many students of prophecy to be a type (or the actual fulfillment of) economic ‘Babylon,’ as spoken of in the book of Revelation. (Read Revelation 17 for the parallels.) This document proposes that the tragic collapse of the two towers was a warning sign to the world, and that this tragedy was in accordance with the similitude of the ‘two witnesses’ of the book of Revelation. In the bible, God says that everything should be confirmed by at least two or three witnesses. The two towers are thus two witnesses as to what God has determined to do on the earth.
In Amos 6:11 “For behold, the LORD is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.”
Almost as soon as the World Trade Center’s twin towers fell on September 11, 2001, thousands of firefighters, police officers, construction workers, search-and-rescue dogs and volunteers headed to Ground Zero to look for survivors. Because they didn’t know how many people were trapped alive in the wreckage, firefighters and other rescue workers had to search carefully through the unstable piles of rubble for air pockets, called “voids,” where they might find people who had been unable to escape from the collapsing buildings. To be safe, they didn’t use any heavy equipment at first. Some dug with their bare hands, while others formed bucket brigades to move small amounts of debris as efficiently as possible.
Unfortunately, there were not many survivors to find: Two firemen were pulled from their truck in a cavity beneath some wreckage, and a few people were pinned at the edges of the pile. By September 12, workers had rescued all of the people who were trapped at the site. After that, the Ground Zero workers had a new and more heartbreaking mission: to sift carefully through the debris in search of human remains. The fallen buildings were unstable, and engineers worried that the weight of trucks and cranes would cause the wreckage to shift and collapse again, so the workers had to keep using the bucket brigades. Meanwhile, huge fires continued to burn at the center of the pile. Jagged, sharp pieces of iron and steel were everywhere. The work was so dangerous that many firefighters and police officers wrote their names and phone numbers on their forearms in case they fell into the hole or were crushed.
“The traders of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.— ( Revelation 18:15-19 )
For months, acrid clouds of smoke from the site could be smelled several miles away in Brooklyn and upper Manhattan. The fires, fuelled by documents and office furniture, had been so strong they needed a near-constant jet of water sprayed on them.
Moderate consumption of wine or beer may help rid the body of a type of bacteria long suspected of causing peptic ulcers, according to a team of researchers in the United Kingdom.
Helicobacter pylori, which can burrow holes in the stomach wall, may be responsible for most peptic ulcers. However, H. pylori does not cause ulcers in everyone whom it infects; scientists think certain substances may either activate it or combat it.
The Bibles states :That Apostle Paul adviced his fellow servant Timothy to drink a little wine for the sake of his stomach research study show that wine can cure peptic ulcer that cause stomach pain.
1 Timothy 5:23 ” Don’t drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often.
“It is widely believed that the infection is acquired in childhood and that it is usually lifelong, unless specific therapy [such as antibiotics] is used to eradicate it,” said co-author Liam Murray, an epidemiologist at Queen’s University in Belfast. “However, it may be spontaneously eradicated in some instances.”
The team’s study, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, involved more than 10,000 patients, from 20 to 59 years old, at seven health centers in or near Bristol, England. Between 1996 and 1998, the volunteers underwent tests for H. pylori and filled out questionnaires on their childhood living conditions, their current lifestyle and their drinking habits. (The study defined a glass of wine, a shot of spirits, or a half-pint of beer as one unit.)
Those who drank more than seven glasses of wine or three to six units of beer per week had a 17 percent lower chance of an H. pylori infection than nondrinkers. Participants who drank three to six glasses of wine or one to two units of beer per week showed an 11 percent lower risk. However, drinking more than 14 units of beer per week or consuming spirits in any amount were linked to an increased risk.
The researchers theorized that beer and wine’s antibacterial effects may be due to components such as polyphenols, which are abundant in both beverages.
Wine is good for the heart :
In Psalms 104: 15 ” Wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.
Red wine, in moderation, has long been thought of as heart healthy. The alcohol and certain substances in red wine called antioxidants may help prevent coronary artery disease, the condition that leads to heart attacks. Any links between red wine and fewer heart attacks aren’t completely understood.
Wine is good for Disinfectant:
In the Bible Luke 10:34 “tells the story of the Good Samaritan :He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
As more recent research has revealed, wine may have actually been useful as a disinfectant – that is, if it was strong enough, which most wines today are not. … Typhoid bacillus, for example, was killed off after only 30 seconds when exposed to wine with a 50 percent alcohol level.
Wine can used for pain releaver:
In Proverbs 31:6 “Alcohol is for people who are dying, for those who are in misery.
Alcohol is a pretty effective pain reliever, a new study spotted by The Independent finds—in some cases, better than some painkillers. New research in the Journal of Pain examined 18 different studies on pain and alcohol use with a total of more than 400 participants.
Researchers from the University of Greenwich in London found that for every drink consumed, participants reported a small reduced sensitivity to pain. But that effect added up: After three drinks for men and two drinks for women, the painkilling impact increased to “moderate-large.”
Drinking raised people’s pain thresholds a little, making them rate pain as less intense. For moderate pain levels, the researchers found that “analgesic [pain-relieving] effects of alcohol on pain intensity are comparable to opioids.”
In a comment to The Sun, lead researcher Trevor Thompson drew parallels between alcohol and traditional painkilling drugs. “It can be compared to opioid drugs such as codeine, and the effect is more powerful than paracetamol,” he said.
It’s not clear what effect alcohol has on the body that causes this pain relief. The researchers hypothesize that based on studies in mice, it may be that it blocks the transmission of pain signals in the spinal cord. But they also suggest alcohol’s anxiety-relieving properties may play a role.
Booze is cheap compared to prescription drugs, so it’s not really a good thing that it’s such an effective painkiller. To get the pain-relieving effects, you’d have to drink more than the 10–20 grams of ethanol that many international health organizations [PDF] recommend as your daily maximum. (A single 12-ounce beer has around 14 grams.)
Because alcohol makes people in pain feel good, there’s an incentive to keep using it. Eventually, you’ll need to drink more to get the same amount of pain relief, and you could become dependent on it. Being in chronic pain is bad for your health, but so is alcohol abuse, so in some cases, people might just be trading one problem for another.
The finding comes from a large study of health professionals at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Bread is made is made from wheat ?
Bread are made from wheat, or a combination of wheat and other grains.
In Psalms 104 :15 “and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine andbread to strengthen man’s heart.
Many whole grains are good sources of dietary fiber, which we all need. Most refined grains contain little or no fiber. Dietary fiber can help you improve blood cholesterol levels and lower your risk of heart disease, stroke, obesity and even type 2 diabetes.
Studies have suggested a 20% to 30% decrease in the risk of heart disease when people eat three or more servings of whole-grain foods daily, writes lead researcher Majken K. Jensen, PhD, an epidemiologist with Harvard’s School of Public Health.
Jensen and her colleagues analyzed 14 years’ worth of diet and health records from more than 27,000 men aged 40 to 75.
Cold breakfast cereal was the main source of whole grains. Men got 33% of their whole grains via cold breakfast cereals; 18% came from brown rice, 17% from dark bread, and 15% from cooked oats.
In the study, men with the highest daily intake of whole grain (about 40 grams) cut heart disease risk by almost 20% compared with men who on average ate about 3 grams per day.
In addition, 11 grams of bran daily also reduced heart disease risk. The risk reduction was 30% compared with men who added no bran to their diet. While few men in the study ate wheat germ, researchers believe it offers health benefits, writes Jensen.
Why are whole grains the miracle ingredient? Whole grains have three parts: bran, germ, and the starchy endosperm. Refined grains are stripped of bran and germ. This takes away nearly all the fiber and nutrients and leaves behind nearly all the calories.
In Genesis 3:19 “By the sweat of your face you shall eat BREAD…”
“Among wheat’s greatest benefits, according to the research, is fiber from the bran and other grain parts,” he explained. “Diets in industrialized countries are generally deficient in such fiber, which helps to regulate digestion and promote the growth of beneficial gut bacteria.”
A new, exhaustive review of recent scientific studies on cereal grains and health has shown that gluten- or wheat-free diets are not inherently healthier for the general populace and may actually put individuals at risk of dietary deficiencies.Based on a recent, special compilation of 12 reports published in the scientific journal Cereal Foods World during 2014-2017, eating whole grains is actually beneficial for brain health and associated with reduced risk of diverse types of cancer, coronary disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity and overall mortality.
In Matrhew 4:4 “Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
Olive oil may help prevent premature signs of aging on the skin. Olive oil acts as an antioxidant, which is a substance that prevents oxidation. Oxidation is a process that can produce free radicals, which are chemicals that can potentially damage cells and may contribute to cancer development.
In Psalms 104:15 “Wine to make them glad, olive oil to soothe their skin, and bread to give them strength.
Olive oil help with skin lightening? The short answer is yes and no. To understand what olive oil can and can’t do for a skin-lightening routine, we look at the basics of how skin lighteners work and what properties olive oil has.
Skin lightening is meant to lighten skin spots, patches, or overall skin tone. Skin lighteners are also called skin whiteners, skin brighteners, fading creams, and bleaching creams.
👉 Olive oil and skin care:
Olive oil may be beneficial for the skin, both as part of your diet and as part of your skin care routine.
👉 Skin care through diet:
ResearchTrusted Source shows that eating olive oil and other foods with omega-3 fatty acids reduces inflammation (redness and swelling) in the body. This may help prevent or heal skin damage due to inflammation. For example, sun damage or photoaging is caused by inflammation in the skin. It leads to age spots, fine lines, wrinkles, and redness.
Myrrh essential oil,olive oil and Cinnamon help wounds to heal:
In the Bible Luke 10:34 “tells the story of the Good Samaritan :He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
👉Olive oil and eucalyptus oil enhances the healing process of wounds and burns, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Pavia, Italy.
👉Myrrh Essential Oil is known to facilitate the healing of wounds by protecting them from infection and by calming tissue inflammation. Its astringent property helps prevent wounds from hemorrhaging, thus preventing excessive blood loss.
👉 Cinnamon may provide some additional benefit for healing wounds, due to its strong antibacterial properties.
Oil described in Exodus 30:22-25 was created from: Pure myrrh (מר דרור mar deror) 500 shekels (about 6 kg) Sweet cinnamon (קינמון בשם kinnemon besem) 250 shekels (about 3 kg)
What is Vault :
means a arched roof, arched ceiling, dome, arch.
“Vault ” is a ceiling ,or dome
“Dome ” means a a rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure, typically with a circular base.
Ozone layer means a rounded vault forming the roof of earth from sun ultraviolet radiation.
In Job 22:14 “Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’
The vault of heaven is the Ozone layer formed a circular shape of protective gases around the earth ,our earth is a round globe.— ( Isaiah 40:22 ) rounded with the vault of heaven forming a roof of the earth see scientifically accurate .
In biblical cosmology, the firmament is the structure above the atmosphere of Earth, conceived as a vast dome with spherical shape.
In Genesis 1: 8 “And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
This firmament called the dome of the earth also known the uzone layer.
The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth’s stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation. It contains high concentration of ozone (O3) in relation to other parts of the atmosphere, although still small in relation to other gases in the stratosphere.
The ozone layer is one layer of the stratosphere, the second layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. The stratosphere is the mass of protective gases clinging to our planet. The ozone layer is a thin part of the Earth’s atmosphere that absorbs almost all of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet light.
THE SCIENCE OF THE BIBLE 