Science & Scripture

Revelation

passages

7

fields

4

New Testament · passages in Revelation compared with current science.

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• The Earth has four corners and ends.

  Isaiah 11:12 · Revelation 7:1

  What it means: Earth is a sphere (slightly flattened at the poles).

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• Every parasite and pathogen was deliberately created for the enjoyment of a benevolent designer.

  Revelation 4:11

  What it means: The malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) has killed more humans than any other organism in history — an estimated half of all humans who have ever lived.

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• Dropping a small metal container from the sky onto the Earth can cause simultaneous thunder, lightning, and earthquakes.

  Revelation 8:5

  What it means: A censer is a small metal container weighing a few kilograms at most.

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• One-third of the sun, the moon, and the stars can be 'struck' so that they go dark, reducing daylight and starlight by a third.

  Revelation 8:12

  What it means: The sun is a sphere of hydrogen plasma 1.4 million km in diameter — you can't 'strike' a ball of gas with a surface temperature of 5,500°C.

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• Opening an invisible container in the sky can trigger lightning, thunder, earthquakes, and hailstorms simultaneously.

  Revelation 11:19

  What it means: These four phenomena have four completely unrelated physical causes.

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• Hailstones weighing approximately 34 kilograms each can fall from the sky during a supernaturally triggered storm.

  Revelation 16:17-21

  What it means: The largest verified hailstone on record fell in Vivian, South Dakota in 2010 — it was 20 cm in diameter and weighed about 0.88 kg (just under 2 lbs).

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• Earth's oceans will one day completely vanish, leaving a planet with no sea at all.

  Revelation 21:1

  What it means: Earth's oceans contain about 1.335 billion cubic kilometers of water and cover 71% of the planet's surface.

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