Divine Reflections in Natural Phenomena by Eva Peck - HTML preview

{1} Genesis 5:2224; 6:9; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Job 29:4; Acts 13:22; James 2:23

{2} Genesis 1:2627; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 6:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:2

{3} Psalm 46:8; 66:5; Isaiah 66:18; Matthew 28:6; John 1:46; 4:29; 11:34

{4} Job 12:710; Psalm 104:530; 148:112; Nehemiah 9:6; Revelation 14:7; Psalm 10:4; 14:1

{5} Psalm 104:24; Proverbs 3:1920; Jeremiah 51:15; Galatians 5:2325

{6} Matthew 5:45; Luke 6:35

{7} Psalm 19:16; Proverbs 6:68

{8} Genesis 1:26; 3:124

{9} Romans 7:1823; Galatians 5:1921

{10} Leviticus 26:345; Deuteronomy 28:168; Proverbs 22:89; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Galatians 6:79; Exodus 34:67

{11}  Job 12:46; 21:726; 38:142:3

{12}  Ecclesiastes 1:211; 11:5; 12:1314

{13} Psalm 37:140; 73:328; 94:323; Malachi 3:1518; Habakkuk 1:1317; 2:120

{14} Deuteronomy 29:29; Job 5:9; 9:1012; 37:5; 42:3; Psalm 145:3; Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 2:614; 13:912

{15} Acts 3:21; Romans 8:1924; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:14; Isaiah 11:610

{16} Genesis 1:2627; 2:7; 9:6; 11:6

{17} Genesis 1:2831; 2:89

{18} Genesis 2:9, 1617; 3:18

{19} Jeremiah 17:9; Ezekiel 36:2627; Romans 2:5; 8:57; Ephesians 4:1819; Galatians 5:1921

{20} 2 Corinthians 3:3; 5:17; 2 Timothy 2:22; 1 Peter 1:22; Galatians 5:2223; 6:15

{21} 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:2; John 8:44; 10:10; 1 Peter 5:8; 1 John 3:810; Revelation 12:49; 20:2, 10

{22} Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:17

{23} Romans 8:1825; 1 Corinthians 13:812; 15:5154

{24} Isaiah 14:1217; Ezekiel 28:1217; John 8:44; 1 Peter 5:8; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Revelation 12:9

{25} 2 Corinthians 5:1920; Ephesians 4:2225

{26} Ephesians 2:18; 6:1218; Galatians 6:79; Romans 1:282:10; 8:28; Hebrews 12:411; John 9:23; James 1:24

{27} 2 Corinthians 4:34; Ephesians 6:12; Job 1:612; 2:16; 1 Corinthians  2:1114; Genesis 1:28; 2:1617; 3:719; Romans 8:1823; Acts 3:21

{28} Isaiah 46:911; John 12:31; Colossians 2:15; Romans 8:3639

{29} Isaiah 11:69; 35:16; Revelation 21:15; Romans 11:3334; Job 5:9; Ecclesiastes 8:1617; 1 Corinthians 13:812; 1 John 3:2

{30} The source of this story is ABC TV / Foreign Correspondent, Papua New Guinea’s Babies, aired March 4, 2008; http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/

{31} Ecclesiastes 9:56, 10; Psalm 6:5; 115:1718; 146:34; Isaiah 38:1819

{32} See Gerald L. Schroeder, God According to God, Ch. 4, Harper Collins Publishing, New York, 2009.

{33} Genesis 1:2629

{34} See Revelation 11:18

{35} Psalm 139:716; Acts 17:2429; Matthew 6:2534; 10:2931; Luke 12:67, 2431

{36} John 11:1114; Romans 8:1011; 1 Corinthians 15:5157; 1 Thessalonians 4:1317

{37} Ezekiel 18:4, 20; Romans 6:23; Revelation 14:911; 20:1015; Matthew 10:28; Psalm 37:910; Malachi 4:13

{38} Matthew 26:2628; 1 Corinthians 11:2326; Matthew 4:4; John 6:35, 41; Hebrews 5:126:2

{39} John 4:1014; 6:4758; 7:3739; 1 Peter 2:13

{40} John 14:1520; Philippians 2:58; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Colossians 3:910; Galatians 5:2224; 2 Peter 1:411; 3:18; Acts 2:2241; 16:2934

{41} Psalm 104:2730; Isaiah 42:5

{42} Genesis 2:7; Job 33:4; Ecclesiastes 12:7;  Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59; 1 Corinthians 2:1114

{43} Deuteronomy 30:1920; 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:6; Job 12:10; Matthew 10:28; John 11:2526; 1 Corinthians 15:1257

{44} Genesis 2:1617; 3:124; 5:5

{45} 1 Corinthians 1:18, 2224; 2:614; Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:1314

{46} Genesis 3:19; Romans 5:12; 6:23; Hebrews 9:27

{47} Ephesians 1:414; 1 Timothy 2:4

{48} John 1:1113; 6:44; Romans 6:511; 1 Corinthians 1:2124; 2:614; Ephesians 2:49; James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:35, 23

{49} Romans 8:911; Corinthians 15:2226, 5157; 1 Thessalonians 4:1517; Revelation 21:35

{50} Romans 2:510; Galatians 5:1925; 6:810; Ephesians 2:3; Philippians 3:2021; 2 Timothy 3:12; 1 Peter 4:15

{51} Acts 17:28; Romans 8:58; Ephesians 2:49; 4:1724

{52} Matthew 4:111; Romans 7:158:2; Galatians 5:1618; Ephesians 6:1213; 1 John 2:1516

{53} Matthew 10:3740; 16:2425; Galatians 5:2224; Colossians 3:514; James 4:47; 1 Peter 5:810

{54} 2 Peter 1:24; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 4:16; 10:35; Galatians 2:20

{55} 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 John 3:23

{56} 1 Thessalonians 3:24; 2 Thessalonians 1:37; James 1:24; 1 Peter 1:67; 4:1218

{57} Malachi 4:2; Revelation 1:1316; John 8:12; 9:5; 11:2526; 2 Corinthians 1:34; Matthew 5:45; 17:12

{58} Leviticus 26:34, 1920

{59} Matthew 7:2427; Genesis 6:13, 1720; 8:2122; 9:917

{60} Exodus 9:1833; Psalm 78:48; Haggai 2:1419; Revelation 8:7; 11:17; 16:21; Joel 2:13

{61} Job 1:12,19; 38:2230; Psalm 18:1213; 78:4748; 148:78; Ephesians 2:2

{62} Matthew 24:2131; Daniel 12:13; Matthew 19:28; Isaiah 2:25; 9:67; 11:69; 12:16; 25:69; Revelation 21:15

{63} Genesis 1:128

{64} See, for example, Gerald L. Schroeder, The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom, Free Press, New York, 2009.

{65} Genesis 2:7; Job 27:24; 33:4; 34:1415; John 20:22; Romans 8:1011

{66} Deuteronomy 33:29; 2 Samuel 22:3, 31; Psalm 5:12; 28:7; Ephesians 6:1116; 1 Peter 1:5

{67} Malachi 4:2; Matthew 5:16; John 8:12, 3132; 9:5; 11:910; Romans 13:12; 2 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:5

{68} John 3:8; 7:3738; Ezekiel 34:2627; 39:29; Joel 2:2324, 2832; Zechariah 10:1

{69} 1 Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 5:2527; Titus 3:57

{70} Jeremiah 2:13; John 7:3839; Revelation 22:1, 17; 12:9; 2 Corinthians 4:34; Isaiah 11:9

{71} Matthew 13:38

{72} Exodus 19:1625; 20:121; Deuteronomy 11:2632; 27:1114; 1 Kings 18:1640; Matthew 17:17; 24:3; Luke 22:39; Zechariah 14:14

{73} John 9:23; 2 Timothy 3:12; Hebrews 2:18; 4:15; 13:56; Romans 8:28

{74} Isaiah 2:24; 11:69; 65:1725; Revelation 21:17; 22:15

{75} John 4:1014; 7:3839

{76} Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:3233; Romans 15:1519; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Titus 3:46; Hebrews 9:1114

{77} Psalm 139:716. Interestingly, scientists have detected forms of universal, yet incomprehensible, energy without which the physical world would cease to exist. So called “dark energy”, which accounts for 73% of the total mass–energy of the universe, is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all space and tends to accelerate the expansion of the universe.

{78}  Psalm 8:39; 144:34; Hebrews 2:611

{79} Genesis 1:12; Job 12:10; 33:4; Psalm 104:1030; Nehemiah 9:6

{80} Romans 8:911; John 11:1114, 3844; Acts 9:3641; 1 Corinthians 15:2023, 5154

{81} Genesis 2:1617, 3:18, 2224; Ephesians 2:113; John 3:38; 17:13; Romans 6:23; 8:12; 12:2; Titus 3:57

{82} John 6:44, 65; Acts 4:12; Romans 8:811

{83} Matthew 1:1820; John 14:12; Acts 2:14;  3:19; 16:610; 20:28; 1 Corinthians 12:718; Ephesians 4:37

{84} Psalm 33:11; Ezekiel 12:25; John 17:22; 1 Corinthians 2:714; Galatians 5:2223; Ephesians 5:2527; Titus 3:47

{85} Matthew 13:1323; 2 Corinthians 9:10

{86} John 14:1618, 28; 16:7, 13; Romans 8:1217; 2627; Ephesians 2:10

{87} Matthew 5:14; Galatians 5:2223; Ephesians 5:810; 2 Peter 1:58; 2 Timothy 1:67; 3:15

{88} Galatians 4:67;  John 14:26; 15:26; Hebrews 3:714; 1 Timothy 4:12; 2 Timothy 3:1617; 1 Peter 1:1012

{89} Psalm 65:910; Ezekiel 34:2527; John 4:1014

{90} For a number of the ideas in this section, I am indebted to the website http://www.helium.com.

{91} 18581943; English politician and expert on London history

{92} Ecclesiastes 12:7; John 13:3; 16:28; Hebrews 2:615

{93} Psalm 3:5; 41:3; 55:22; Hebrews 3:13; 10:25; Philemon 1:7

{94} Acts 17:28

{95} Ecclesiastes 12:7

{96} Psalm 1:3; John 7:3739; Galatians 5:2223

{97} Numbers 24:6; Deuteronomy 8:7; Psalm 23:12; Jeremiah 31:9

{98} Mark 1:5; Acts 16:13

{99} Genesis 2:10; Revelation 22:12

{100} John 4:14; 7:3739

{101} Acts 7:2738; Exodus 2:1115; 3:110; Deuteronomy 1:3033; 2:7; 32:1018

{102}1 Samuel 23:1419; 26:14; 1 Kings 19:18

{103} Matthew 3:112; Mark 1:38

{104} Matthew 4:14; Mark 6:31; Luke 9:10

{105} Deuteronomy 8:25, 1516; Psalm 78:1316, 20, 2329, 5255

{106} Genesis 2:1617, 3:2224; John 1:15; 913; 3:1619; 1 Corinthians 15:4549

{107} Isaiah 35:12, 67; 49:810; 51:13; Ezekiel 36:3238

{108} Ephesians 2:18; John 4:1014, 7:3739

{109} Isaiah 32:1520; Galatians 5:2223; Romans 8:611; 1 Corinthians 15:5154

{110} Isaiah 11:9; 43:1921; Zechariah 14:89; Revelation 7:17, 21:17

{111} John 4:1014; 7:3739; 14:26, 15:26; Acts 10:45; Romans 8:611; 1 Corinthians 15:3538; 4245; 2 Timothy 1:7

{112} John 3:8; Acts 2:14, 1618; Romans 8:1516, 2627; 1 Thessalonians 4:18

{113} Genesis 1:12; Psalm 104:530; 139:713

{114} Exodus 31:3; Numbers 11:17; Deuteronomy 34:9; Judges 6:34; 11:29; 1 Samuel 10:910; 16:13; Joel 2:2829; Hebrews 1:1; 9:26; 1 Peter 1:20

{115} Acts 1:8; 2:121, 3839; Joel 2:2832; John 14:16, 26; 15:26; Isaiah 11:12

{116} Acts 10:4248; 11:418

{117} Romans 8:1517; Philippians 3:2021; Matthew 24:2122; Revelation 7:917

{118} Genesis 2:89; 3:2224; Isaiah 11:9; 32:1418; 35:12; 41:1820; Acts 3:21; Revelation 21:16; 22:15

{119} John 10:10