Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.
History Channel’s “The Bible” and Science
History Channel’s new series “The Bible”
currently airing Sunday nights is a blockbuster hit for the network. While
several of the stories were adapted for the sake of telling the story, viewers
may not have been aware of the accuracy in the rendering of the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah. The scene showed
large fireballs hurtling in from above, preceded by eerie sky scenes with
lightning and rumbles of thundering. For
a detailed scientific explanation of this cosmic bombardment see my blog: “Was Sodom and
Gomorrah Wiped Out by a Comet?” (See http://blogs.christianpost.com/comets-of-god/was-sodom-and-gomorrah-wiped-out-by-a-comet-9091/#more )
Another
scene in “The Bible” portrays the seventh plague of the Exodus when a “grievous
hail” fell. Exodus 9:25 says this hail
smote “both man and beast (cattle)...and brake every tree in the field.”
Unfortunately, the hail shown falling in the series was about the size of small
golf balls, which are not big enough to kill man and beast and break
trees. But hail the size of basketballs
would. No one has ever imagined hail of this size, whereas the Bible makes
reference to such great hail in Exodus 9:25, Joshua 10:5-24, and Revelation
16:21. Most recently NASA’s Deep Impact
spacecraft while tracking Comet Hartley 2 took photos of hailstones the size of
basketballs, weighing upwards of 100 pounds. NASA scientists said that “We’ve
never seen anything like this before” and that “This is a genuinely a new
phenomenon.” This is not a new phenomenon to those who
study the Bible. NASA’s discovery
clearly supports the Bible’s references to great hail weighing about 100
pounds. (See http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/18nov_cometsnowstorm/ and “Data
from Comet Hartley Continues to Support the Bible” http://christiannewswire.com/news/4010715546.html )
The meteorite that struck Russia a couple of weeks ago
provided a live demonstration in miniature of the catastrophic cosmic events
described in the Bible. For example, was
the Flood the result of a towering tsunami caused by a comet? Note that scientists
have recently discovered that around the time of the Flood that a comet hit the
Indian Ocean and left an 18-mile in diameter impact crater in the seafloor.
This crater is called the Burckle Impact Crater and it now appears to be the
proverbial “smoking gun” for the Flood. (See http://blogs.christianpost.com/comets-of-god/noahs-flood-was-really-a-tsunami-caused-by-a-comet-a-retranslation-of-genesis-711-8825/#more
) To learn more about the catastrophes described in the Bible caused or to be
caused by cometary activity see my book entitled– “THE COMETS OF GOD - New Scientific
Evidence for God: Recent archeological, geological and astronomical discoveries
that shine new light on the Bible and its prophecies” Jeffrey Goodman, Ph.D.(www.thecometsofgod.com
).
