The old rhyme goes “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Why did he sail, when people called him a crackpot for his idea of reaching Asia by sailing west? Curiously, Columbus embarked on his famous voyage guided by the Bible.
He believe his voyage across the Atlantic fulfilled a prophecy from Isaiah (46:11) about God summoning one “from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country.” Columbus was wrong in one respect: He never reached Asia, even though he was convinced he had.
After his third voyage to the New World, Columbus wrote A Book of Prophecies. In it he explained he explained how his voyages had fulfilled many prophecies in the Bible. He was convinced that “neither logic nor mathematics aided me. Rather, the prophecy of Isaiah was completely fulfilled.”
