Hugh Ross

I saw that at age 17.

That was my first clue that this book, the Bible, was different from all the other holy books, that it got all the science right.

And that's what motivated me to say, I got to read through the rest of the book.

It took me 18 months to get to Revelation 22.

But when I got there, I realized,

Every time the Bible speaks about something scientific, it gets the science right, and often it does so thousands of years ahead of scientists making the actual discoveries.

Well, I think what really impressed me as a young astrophysics student was the Bible actually predicting for the fundamental features of

and what we call a Big Bang creation model.

And not until the 20th century did any astronomer have a clue that the universe had those characteristics.

And it's not just me reading this into the Bible with my 21st century hindsight.

Jewish theologians writing 800, 900, 1,000 years ago saw the Bible making these statements about the universe, and they declared the universe must have these features.

The 20th century, we discovered that indeed the universe has a beginning, a space-time beginning, with laws of physics that don't change, where the universe expands from a cosmic creation event and gets progressively colder.

All that was in the Old Testament.

I don't know.

Uh, but I've seen some really spectacular comments on my lifetime.

I remember seeing one in my graduate school days.

It was as big as the moon in the sky, and the tail went back 40 degrees.

So yeah, if it survives, maybe we'll get a really spectacular sight.

Yeah, Jesus told his disciples that he would return the moment that his followers take the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ to all the people groups of the world and make significant number of disciples amongst all those people groups.

So I'm not waiting for the Lord to return.