Ezekiel 34:4 “The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but ...
Continue ReadingJeremiah 46:11 “Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.” The ancient Greeks called it the “queen of all herbs.” The earliest mention of this common sh...
Continue ReadingGenesis 9:3 “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” Many uses have been found for the intestines of pigs. Some astonishing test grafts now suggest that a portion of the pig’s intest...
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:31 “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” As a child, Isao Kubo’s grandmother always told him to drink green tea after he ate something sweet. Later,...
Continue ReadingGenesis 2:16-17 “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die....
Continue ReadingGenesis 1:27 “So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” The lead article and front cover picture of the July 23, 2001, issue of Time magazine promised its readers that a recent discove...
Continue ReadingMatthew 15:19 “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” Scripture warns us that how we occupy our minds affects our behavior. Unfortunately, modern voices have said something e...
Continue ReadingPsalm 89:12a, 14 “The north and the south thou hast created them. Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.” The potato beetle is one of the most noxious pests that can attack a farmer’s crop....
Continue ReadingNumbers 15:37-38 “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribban...
Continue ReadingActs 14:17 “Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.” We are all familiar with the fact that plants can sense light. They depe...
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