PREPARE TO BE AMAZED: Why Does The Bible Call The Moon A ‘Witness’?

(VIEWING 5:42) — There is a passage in the Bible — Psalm 89:35-37 — that refers to the Moon as a “witness.” Now that must strike most readers as a curious analogy because the Moon is just a big chunk of lifeless rock. Analogy is a wonderful tool!

So what’s up with that Scripture both attributing life to the lifeless Moon and attributing certain human characteristics to it as well? After all, to be a witness, one must be a conscious being with powers of perception and understanding. But the moon fails on all those counts.

Apologetics Press’s Dr. David Miller takes us through a concise explanation for exactly what the Psalmist was trying to capture in using that otherwise odd analogy of the witness:

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