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Map showing the line along which Israel will sink down like the Aravah.

Map showing the line along which Israel will sink down like the Aravah.

Scientific evidence supports many prophecies the Bible makes concerning geological changes which are yet to come. I discovered this while researching my book The Earth Will Reel from its Place (available for $14.99 through amazon.com and other major booksellers). One of the most interesting articles I uncovered was in support of a prophecy made by Zechariah.

This 6th-century BC prophet tells us that the land of Israel will sink down like the Aravah from Geba to Rimmon (Zechariah 14:10). Traced on a map, this is just North of Jerusalem to the far south of the territory allotted to Simeon.

Two and a half millennia after Zechariah lived, gravity anomaly mapping came into use by geologists. Imagine my thrill as a Bible-believer to discover that a 20th-century geologist, using this relatively-recent technique, perhaps not even aware of Zechariah’s prophecy, had mapped a fault several miles deep which traces out the line Zechariah predicted will sink down.*

This to me was one more confirmation that the God of the Bible is real and able to impart knowledge to his spokesmen long before that knowledge becomes accepted fact. When this prophesy is fulfilled—as it will be—remember to give God glory.

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* Garfunkle, Zvi. “Tectonic Setting of Magmatism in Israel.” Israel Journal of Earth Science 38 (1989): 51-74.

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