This week's Theme: The Powerful Word
Day 1: Mysterious Something
Recently, a lot of attention has been focused on “Skyquakes” as news media in many countries discuss strange, atmospheric noises being reported around the world. The mystery has only deepened as descriptions and recordings of crashes and booms, hums and trumpet-sounds continue to be verified.
A sampling of recent headlines include:
Mystery ‘skyquakes’ are ripping through the world. And nobody knows why – BBC Science Focus, September 28, 2024
Mysterious "Skyquake" Noises Heard Around The World, And Nobody Knows What They Are – IFL Science, October 3, 2024
Mysterious 'skyquakes' being heard worldwide baffle scientists – Daily Mail Science Reporter, October 3, 2024. Same article also published under the headline: Terrifying 'skyquakes' are being heard around the world including the US - and scientists don't know what they are
Scientists have given a number of potential explanations for the phenomena, although they agree that some theories like “sonic booms from military aircraft… can’t explain historical reports of ‘skyquakes’” (BBC Science Focus, September 28, 2024). (The oldest reports of ‘skyquakes’ go back to the early 1800s.) The consensus, however, is that scientists have yet to uncover the cause and origin of the bizarre noises (Daily Mail, Oct 3, 2024).
Regardless of whether the strange noises signal climate-related turmoil, atmospheric disturbances, seismic shifting, apocalyptic developments, or all of the above, the sense of disquiet, exposure, and uncertainty are heightened by the fact that the "experts," too, are out of their depth.
But with all due respect to them, that is not entirely surprising. In the final analysis, Science, though useful in many regards, is limited. That is, Science, as it is generally understood to be. The study of Science would be a more accurate designation. For the subtly ingrained premise that comprehensive, fully trustworthy, and absolute methodologies and paradigms exist in the human realm is a faulty assumption. The best human minds are limited by humanity.
Science, in its truest sense, works in concert with the laws, plans and purposes of God, and can never supersede them. Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Mary Anning, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gregor Mendel, and George Washington Carver are among the thousands of brilliant scientific minds who knew that Science can never be opposed to God, for Science is of God — all knowledge, wisdom and understanding are His.
They understood that Science begins with God — the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding (Proverbs 9:10). They understood that the human study of Science can never plumb the full mystery of the laws of the heavens (Job 38:33), or of the Son of God who holds the universe in place, sustaining all things by His powerful word (Hebrews 1:3). They understood the importance of applying the Word that still speaks to all scientific study.
A.W. Tozer, in his book The Pursuit of God, writes, The Word of God is quick and powerful. In the beginning He spoke to nothing, and it became something. Chaos heard it and became order, darkness heard it and became light. "And God said—and it was so..."
When God spoke out of heaven to our Lord, self-centered men who heard it explained it by natural causes: they said, "It thundered." This habit of explaining the Voice by appeals to natural law is at the very root of modern science.
In the living breathing cosmos there is a mysterious Something, too wonderful, too awful for any mind to understand. The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things..."
Yet the time is coming, when all will kneel to worship Christ (Isaiah 45:23, Philippians 2:10). And the entire basis for human wisdom will disappear, for where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part... but when completeness comes what is in part disappears (1 Corinthians 13:8-10).
In the meantime, as I listen to the various recordings, I certainly understand the reactions that range from 'unnerved' to 'terrified'. But I will not even begin to speculate about what the mysterious sky noises could be. Any of the possibilities listed above are way beyond my scope.
I do know, though, that my times are in the hands of the God 'who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty' (Revelation 1:8). So although I have a healthy respect for many areas of human Science, it is in the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ that I ultimately place my full faith and trust (Revelation 1:2). And when the heavens speak, I will dare respond, "Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening" (1 Samuel 3: 9,10).
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