The Scriptures inform us, “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence
the rivers come, there they return again” (Ecclesiastes 1:7). This statement alone may not seem profound. But, when considered with other biblical passages, it becomes all the more remarkable. For example, the Mississippi River dumps approximately 518 billion gallons of water every 24 hours into the Gulf of Mexico.
Where does all that water go? And that’s just one of thousands of rivers. The answer lies in the hydrologic cycle, so well brought out in the Bible.
Ecclesiastes 11:3 states that “if the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth.” Look at the Bible’s concise words in Amos 9:6: “He . . . calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth.” The idea of a complete
water cycle was not fully understood
by science until the seventeenth
century. However,
more than two thousand years
prior to the discoveries of Pierre Perrault, Edme Mariotte,
Edmund Halley, and others, the Scriptures clearly
spoke of a water cycle.