2. “WHEN I CONSIDER YOUR HEAVENS”
I. God’s Biblical Purpose in Creating the
Stars
II.When the Classroom Tries to
Challenge God
III.“The Heavens Declare the Glory of
God”
4. GOD’S PURPOSE IN CREATING THE STARS
• Gen. 1:14
• 14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be
for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let
them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give
light on the earth”; and it was so.
• Job 38:32-33
• Can you bring out Mazzaroth in its season?
Or can you guide the Great Bear with its cubs?
33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
Can you set their dominion over the earth?
5. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
March 9:00PM
3/11/2016
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6. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
March 9:00PM
3/11/2016
7. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
June 9:00PM
6/11/2016
8. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Sep 9:00PM
9/11/2016
9. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Today 9:00PM
9/11/2016
10. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Monday 9:00PM
9/12/2016
11. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Tuesday 9:00PM
9/13/2016
12. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Wednesday 9:00PM
9/14/2016
13. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Thursday 9:00PM
9/15/2016
14. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Friday 9:00PM
9/16/2016
15. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Saturday 9:00PM
9/17/2016
16. “OR CAN YOU GUIDE THE GREAT BEAR
WITH ITS CUBS?” (JOB 38:32)
Sunday 9:00PM
9/18/2016
17. HE SITS ABOVE THE CIRCLE OF THE EARTH
• We know that the earth is not flat! Most people have known
this for a very long time.
• Diogenes Laertius claims that Pythagoras began teaching
this in the 6th Century
• Isaiah 40:22
• It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its
inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the
heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to
dwell in.
• Written in the 7th Century
18. CAN YOU BIND PLEIADES CAN YOU LOOSEN ORION?
• Job 38:31 - “Can you bind the cluster of the
Pleiades, Or loose the belt of Orion?”
• Amos 5:8 - “He made the Pleiades and
Orion; He turns the shadow of death into
morning And makes the day dark as night;”
(Source)
19.
20. THE EARTH HANGS ON NOTHING
• Job 26:7,14 “He stretches out the north over empty
space; He hangs the earth on nothing… Indeed these
are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a
whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power
who can understand?”
22. DEFENDING JOSHUA – THE SUN STOOD STILL
Joshua 10:12-14
12 Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up
the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
Israel:
“Sun, stand still over Gibeon;
And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
13 So the sun stood still,
And the moon stopped,
Till the people had revenge
Upon their enemies.
Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst
of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.14 And
there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD heeded
the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
25. DEFENDING JOSHUA
Joshua 10:12-14
12 Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the
Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel:
“Sun, stand still over Gibeon;
And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
[And then God spoke to Joshua and corrected him, saying, “No Joshua for
you to have more daylight I have to stop the earth from spinning. That is
how I set up the solar system. However, the moon does move around the
earth, and the sun has its own revolution in the galaxy….”]
13 So the sun stood still [in perspective],
And the moon stopped,
Till the people had revenge
Upon their enemies.
26. DEFENDING JOSHUA
• God being an understanding God, understood that Joshua
asked for more sunlight
• So God gave him more sunlight
• Joshua was a warrior, not an astronomer. Joshua, in the heat
of battle did not care about if the sun moved around the earth
or if the earth moved around the sun.
• From Joshua’s perspective, the sun did stand in one place in
the sky
• This is a miracle, it is impossible
• That is what makes it a miracle
27. THE STARLIGHT QUESTION?
• A light year is a distance not time
• It is the distance of how far light can travel in one year
• This is around 6 trillion miles
- 25 Light Years -
VEGA
28. THE STARLIGHT QUESTION?
• But what if a visible Star is 55 million light years away?
• Did that light travel 55 million years if God only created the universe
6,000 years ago?
• Mature creation — God created the light in route to the Earth.
• CDK — The speed of light is not constant but has been slowing down
since creation.
• Anisotropic Synchrony Conventions — The one-way speed of light is
impossible to measure, so light could have traveled to Earth at infinitely
fast speeds.
• Gravitational Time Dilation — The speed of light has not changed in this
model, but the rate of passage of time itself has changed for various
reasons.
29. THE STARLIGHT QUESTION?
• Does a creationist need a perfect answer to the
starlight question?
• Does an atheist need a perfect answer for the
Horizon Problem?
Source
31. • Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; And
the firmament shows His handiwork.
• Psalm 97:6 The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples see His glory.
32.
33.
34.
35. GOD SHOWS HUMANITY HIS INFINITE KNOWLEDGE
AND POWER THROUGH THE STARS
• 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 estimated stars of visible
galaxies from earth (Source)
• Psalm. 147:3-5
3 He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.
4 He counts the number of the stars;
He calls them all by name.
5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power;
His understanding is infinite.
37. JESUS IS THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR
• Rev. 22:16 – “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify
to you these things in the churches. I am the Root
and the Offspring of David, the Bright
and Morning Star.”
• 1 Pet. 1:19-21 – “19 And so we have the prophetic
word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a
light that shines in a dark place, until the day
dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.”
38. PSALM 8
O LORD, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
…
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
Editor's Notes
Acts 27:20 20 Now when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest beat on us, all hope that we would be saved was finally given up.
Washington Irving – author of sleepy hollow
Pleiades travels about 25 m per second, yet moves as a unit.
1680’s Isaac Newton mathematically discovered gravity
1615 Galileo got into trouble with Pope Paul 5th
The bible is not a list of facts. Somethings are symbolic (Jesus is the bright and morning star). Sometimes we get stories from man’s perspective. Something in the bible are not true, and they are supposed to be not true. (Satan’s lie to Eve)
1991, 1941
The Horizon problem has been a problem since the 1960’s. The different parts of the universe do not look the same but they do. Gravitation Time Dilation would be a good answer for both of them.
Saying I don’t know to one question does not negate all the evidence we have already discussed.
The only question we need to answer is was Jesus raised from the dead?
The Pillars of Creation
16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
