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The Discovery was not a coincidence Late 1400s  Christopher Columbus was an inspired man. He knew that he was an instrument in God's hands. His journals explained this over and over. His lack of understanding about the trade winds was filled in by inspiration of when to travel and what routes. We now know that he traveled at the exact correct times of the seasons and headed as if he had a past knowledge of the science of the weather and wind patterns.
Composed the "The Messiah" in 24 days!  While writing the "Hallelujah Chorus", his servant discovered him with tears in his eyes. He exclaimed, "I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself!!" Handel’s use of biblical words in a theatre was revolutionary, and those who opposed Handel went to great extremes to keep his oratorios from being successful. In contrast to the Irish, the English did not initially like the Messiah. This oratorio, after all, had no story. The soloists had too little to do, and the chorus too much. It was different, and the audience wasn’t ready for it. Twenty-five years later, Handel’s Messiah was so popular with the English that they almost rioted. Beethoven once said: "Handel was the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head, and kneel before his tomb." King George III called Handel "the Shakespeare of Music." George Bernard Shaw commented that "Handel is not a mere composer in England: he is an institution. What is more, he is a sacred institution." As Newman Flower observes, "Considering the immensity of the work, and the short time involved in putting it to paper, it will remain, perhaps forever, the greatest feat in the whole history of musical composition." At a Messiah performance in 1759, honoring his seventy-fourth birthday, Handel responded to enthusiastic applause with these words: "Not from me - but from Heaven- comes all." In his last years he worshipped twice every day at St. George’s Church, Hanover Square, near his home.
Abraham was given the land in Canaan by God  Why was the land in Israel chosen for the Israelites by God. Pro. Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College states: "Jesus gave his message to Jews, a civilized people living in a highly complex society created by interaction among Greeks, Romans, and oriental peoples on one of the strategic highways of the world. The message was carried to speculative and argumentative Greeks, to disciplined and civilized or enslaved and impoverished Romans, to partially Romanized and civilized Celts in Gaul and Britain, to "the wild Irish," and to other Barbarians outside the boundaries of the "civilized world." 1814 AD  After the British had put most of the buildings in Washington D.C. in blazes a hurricane combined against them and put out most of the fires and attacked the troups when they were leaving the capital. One of the British soldiers wrote home that the rath of God from the Old Testament was upon their soldiers and cannons. They took more casualties than in any other skirmish with the American Army and Navy. The Persians invading Greece in 480 BC  The Persians sailed 200 ships around the island of Euboea to surprise the Greeks from the rear. A storm built and destroyed all of the 200 ships. Part of this violent storm also destroyed 400 of the Persians ships anchored near Thermapylae at Mount Pelion or Squid's Cape. The Greeks attacked the Persian ships at their weakest point. Even after loosing 20,000 men at Thermopylae and half of the ships off the coast, the Persians still continued to Del Phi and Athens. As a division of Xerxes' army marched to Delphi a rock slide buried all of them. Eventually the Persians are defeated at sea by the Greeks. These remarkable "God" events in the history of the Battle of Thermopylae is surprising. The Greek city/state government concept must have been very important to God to send so many natural catastrophes with such precision to help the Greeks. Remanants of the Roman Empire to 500 AD  Augustine wrote a book entitled The City of God. He considered the two cities on earth, Jerusalem and Babalon the influence of Good and Evil. 1st to 3rd centuries  Inspiration of the Bible is an interesting topic. Is the bible accurate? Did the writers of the Bible get it right?
Did inspiration give the writers the correct words in their writings?
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