My pastor has stated many times that if he were a scientist, he’d be a student of the 38^th and 39^th chapter of the Book of Job. In these chapters, God asks Job a series of questions.

“There are advanced scientific revelations in Job that the scientists at NASA haven’t even thought about the problem that the verses answer,” says Richard Jordan of Shorewood Bible Church, Rolling Meadows, Ill. (www.graceimpact.org), in a study I have on tape. “And this is the oldest book in the Bible. Don’t ever worry about the Bible not being scientifically correct. The Bible’s so far ahead of science that you can’t even see science in the rear view mirror for the dust. I mean, it’s just waay back there. . .The book of Job indicates that the key to solving world hunger is found in snow. You say, ‘What you talking about?!’ Well, I don’t know. I got no idea, but if I was a research scientist wanting to win a Nobel Prize I’d work on some of that stuff.”

In Job 38, we see Job’s been kind of smart-talking God, so “then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”

“Boy, isn’t that a good question!” says Jordan. “Just ‘blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.’ Talk, talk, talk with no knowledge. God says, ‘Okay, you’ve been running off at the mouth long enough. Stand up, I want to talk to you. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who hath laid the measures thereof or stretched the line upon it?’ ”

In chapter 38 alone, God asks Job 35 questions about creation.

“Kids call it ‘Show & Tell’ and this is the biggest quiz show that's ever been put forth on a non-commercial basis,” says Jordan. God says, ‘Job, you're supposed to be the man.’ He's saying, ‘I want you to act like I created Adam to act. I want you to think like I created a man to think. Gird up your loins. Let's get on with it, Job!’ ”

Over and over in the Bible when you read about men girding up their loins, it’s a reference to preparing for battle. In Job 38, God discusses the battle with Satan that man, from the beginning, was created to be a part of.

Jordan explains, “God says to Job, ‘Shut up, quit talking out of your head all this human viewpoint—all this snarly-snot of yours and all the stupid stuff your friends have been telling you—and think like a man’s supposed to think. Think some sound doctrine. To help you do it, let me ask you some questions.’ ”