Practical Christian Mysticism

Scientists have finally discovered the four winds talked about in Scripture. I mentioned this briefly in my Twitter feed last week, but didn’t have time to write a post about it.  Throughout many passages in Scripture, which I will list at the end of this article, it refers to the “four winds” of the earth.  Since scientists have, so far, acknowledged only 2 major sources of wind (called “air cells”) on the globe, many theologians have interpreted the “four winds” as the four cardinal directions.  However, I have long thought and recording in my own journals that I believed the “four winds” to represent four major sources of wind.  Part of the reason I believed this is because of the passage in Revelations 7:1 that says:

“After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.”

Anywho, an article on Scientific American (which you can read here) talks about how climatologists have acknowledged four primary air cells on the globe.  I don’t know how many people will care or not, but I always love it when ancient texts show that they really did know what was going on after all.

Again, here is the link to the article/podcast on Scientific American:
http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=F1FC37CB-DA7A-372B-39AC22E13013F1A4&sc=rss

Here are the Scripture passages where the four winds are mentioned:
Jeremiah 49:36, Ezekiel 37:9, Daniel 7:2, 8:8, 11:4, Zechariah 2:6, Matthew 24:31, Mark 13:27, Revelation 7:1

And here is an interesting list of other scientific discoveries foreshadowed in Scripture (take it with a grain of salt):
http://www.creationists.org/foreknowledge.html