Genesis 1:14-19 Day 4 (Part II) : God “made The Stars also”
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; & let them be for signs, & for seasons, & for days, & years: (15) & let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: & it was so (16) & God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, & the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also (17) & God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, (18) & to rule over the day & over the night, & to divide the light from the darkness: & God saw that it was good. (19) & the evening & the morning were the 4th day.”
For thousands of years mankind got their time by observing the Heavens. The Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. did it for America.
This Study Focuses on: “he made the Stars also” (Ps. 8:3). Stars are passed over as minor so we won’t get involved in ‘astrology’ & be damned (Deut. 18:9-14; 2King 21:6; I Chron. 10:13; Isa. 47:13-14).
Do You See the Glory of God When Looking at Heaven?
Psalm 19:1 says: “The heavens declare the glory of God”
Illus: “A Marine’s Last Prayer,” Navy Times, Jan.21. 1991 written by Robert L. “Bull” Lawton, Sgt., USMC, Saudi Arabia. “Look, God, I’ve never spoken to you before. You see, God, they told me that you didn’t exist, & like a fool I believed them. Last night, out here in this sandbox, I saw you & I figured right then they have lied to me. Had I taken time to see things that you’ve made I would know they weren’t calling a spade a spade. P.S. It seems strange. Since I’ve met you, I’m not afraid to die”
Or do you see Falsehoods of man when Looking at Heaven?
“The world wasn’t created over a period of days a few thousand years ago; it has evolved over millions of years. It’s not a matter of speculation; it’s demonstrable fact.” (Charles Templeton, Farewell to God, p. 7). [note: It’s only demonstrable fact in the fake news!]
Do you see The Glory of God or vain imaginations of man?
Star formation is a headache for secular materialists. The ‘Big Bang’ theory requires Population III stars of just hydrogen & helium gas. They have found none! But an even bigger problem is the fact all Evolutionary Theories of stars & galaxies go against the 2nd Law of thermodynamics. It’s Also known as the Law of Entropy. Evolutionists believe everything went against known laws! They put their ‘faith’ in their materialistic theories, not hard Science. As Arthur Eddington said:
“If your theory is found to be against the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation” (A Brief History of Eternity, by Roy Peacock, pg. 75)
THE BIG BANG VIOLATES THE “LAWS OF SCIENCE”
“[The big bang] represents the instantaneous suspension of physical laws, the sudden abrupt flash of lawlessness that allowed something to come out of nothing. It represents a true miracle…”
(Paul Davies, physicist & evolutionist, in his book – The Edge of Infinity)
The Big Bang theory is supported by Politics, Power & Money according to a large group of scientists who wrote an article in New Scientist, May 22, 2004, “Bucking the Big Bang.” At www.cosmologystatement.org
It’s a ‘Soft Science’ relying on fudge factors & hypothetical entities that have never been observed to exist by good ‘Hard Science.’
“Big bang cosmology… reflects faith as much as objective truth. There are good reasons to think the big bang model is seriously flawed.”
[Geoffrey Burbidge, “Why Only One Big Bang?” Scientific American (Feb. 1992). p. 120 [also see: H.C. Arp, G. Burbidge, F. Hoyle, J.V. Marlikar, & N.C. Wickramasinghe, “The Extragalactic Universe: An Alternative View,” Nature, vol. 346 (August 30, 1990), pp.807-812].
STAR FORMATION HAS NEVER BEEN OBSERVED (Matt. 15:14)
“There is general belief that stars are forming by gravitational collapse; in spite of vigorous efforts no one has yet found any observational indication of conformation. Thus the ‘generally accepted’ theory of stellar formation may be one of a hundred unsupported dogmas which constitute a large part of present-day astrophysics.” [Hannes Alfven (Nobel prize winner), Gustaf Arrhenius, “Evolution of the Solar System”, NASA, 1976, p. 480.
PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF STARS
“Stars are so far away they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light. We cannot see their size or shape. So how can we tell different types of stars apart? For the vast majority of stars, there is only one characteristic feature that we can observe – the color of their light.”
[Stephen W. Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988), p. 37].
“It is a bit disturbing that all these estimates of the ages & compositions of the stars rest on elaborate calculations of what is going on inside them, but all that we observe is the light emitted from their surfaces.” [Steven Weinberg, “Origins,” Science, vol. 230 (Oct. 4, 1985), p. 16].
FAKE NEWS OUT OF THE “STAR NURSERY!”
“Stars are still forming today. About 1500 light years away lies the Orion Nebula: enough gas & dust to make millions of stars…It even contains proto-stars that are still condensing” [Martin Rees, Before the Beginning, 1998, p. 19]. Orion Nebula is suppose to be birthing stars. There is a major Problem: Gas does what Gas does – Expands! Images taken by the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope in Jan. 2002 of the Horsehead Nebula in Orion verified that the structures are expanding! So it is definitely not forming stars! Estimates are there are 70 sextillion stars: 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Even if the Universe is 15 billion yrs. old, 6 million stars must form each minute!
DON’T BE FOOLED BY COSMOLOGIST MAGICIANS!
“Don’t let the cosmologists try to kid you on this one…in the beginning, they will say, there was nothing…then there was a quantum fluctuation… Before you know it, they have pulled a hundred billion galaxies out of their quantum hats.” [Dr. David Darling, “On creating something from nothing,” New Scientist, Bol. 151, No. 2047, 14 Sept. 1996, p. 49]. Witness the “vain imagination of men” (Rom. 1:21-22)!
We do observe Super Nova & Planetary Nebula (Evidence for Star Deaths). Astronomers have observed a star “die” & explode into a super nova about every 30 yrs. But they can only find around 300 super novas (Only 9,000 yrs. worth!) There should be hundreds of millions of them! Are the stars wrong or Evolutionary Cosmology wrong?
GALAXIES ARE AS BIG A MYSTERY AS STARS!
“There shouldn’t be galaxies out there at all, and even if there are galaxies… The problem of explaining the existence of galaxies has proved to be one of the thorniest in cosmology.” [ James Trefil, Ph.D. Physics, The Dark Side of the Universe, 1988, p. 3, 55. Also see: G. Gamov, The Creation of the Universe, 1955, p. 20]
Stars defy ‘natural explanation’ because they have a ‘Supernatural’ Origin (Gen. 1:14-19; Ps. 33:6; 148:5; Neh. 9:6). “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? Saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, & behold who hath created these things that bringeth out their host by number; He calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might,
For that he is strong in power; not one faileth” (Isa. 40:25-26)
The Supernatural Nature of the Heavens reveals their Creator to be the Same God who supernaturally Inspired His Holy Word. Divine Inspiration is revealed in the Bible’s stunningly accurate scientific foreknowledge as it relates to mankind’s study of the Heavens.
1. Earth is a sphere floating in space (Isa. 40:22; Job 26:10; Ps.103:12)
2. The Sun is moving through the Heavens (Ps. 19:5-6). Scientist say it’s moving at 600,000 miles/hour. 3. The Earth Rotates (Job 38:12-14)
4. Light travels in “a way” (a path) (Job 38:19). Science discovered light is a form of radiant energy travelling 186,000 miles/sec. or 660 million miles/hr. 5. Light can be “parted” (Job 38:24). Isaac Newton discovered this using transparent prisms. 6. The 1st Law of Thermodynamics is revealed in Gen. 2:1-2 when it states ‘creation’ was finished. Thus today neither matter or energy can be created or destroyed. 7. God is “preserving” Creation: (Neh. 9:6; Heb. 1:3; Isa. 40:26; Eccl. 3:14; 2 Pet. 3:7). 8. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is revealed in Heb. 1:11; Isa. 51:6; & Ps. 102:26 saying “the Earth like a garment is wearing out.” Everything is running down, wearing out, growing old. 9. Before 1950 most scientists believed in the “steady state” or eternal Universe. Now we know it had a beginning! 10. Stars are innumerable (Jer. 33:22; Gen. 15:5; 22:17; Heb. 11:12) and their orbits precise (Jer. 31:35-36). Before Galileo (1600 AD) people counted less than 3000 stars. 11. Heaven is immeasurable (Jer. 31:37; Job 11:7-8; 22:12; Isa. 55:9). 12. Each Star is unique (I Cor. 15:41). A star has so many variables in its makeup the probability of 2 identical stars is zero. Just like every snow flake, grain of sand, and human beings! An infinite God loves infinite variety!
How did the ‘writers’ of Scripture reveal scientific Truths long before any man Knew them? Because God was the One Author who “inspired” them (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:20-21; I Cor. 2:12-13). Oh, how humble scientists need to be! (I Cor. 1:19-21).
IMPORTANT SPIRITUAL LESSONS FROM THE HEAVENS:
1. Why is Earth so small compared to the Heaven? Even if Earth were a million times bigger it would be insignificantly small from the vantage point of Heaven. This teaches us that all worldly things: worldly honor, pleasure & riches are insignificant compared to heavenly glory. (Rom. 8:18; Matt. 5:11-12; 2Cor. 4:17-18; Heb. 11:25-26). 2. The Heaven’s Reveal the Glory of God for Good Reason! The Bigger God gets the smaller we get & the better life gets (I Cor. 4:7; 15:10; I Tim. 1:15; Titus 3:3-6). 3. Beholding God’s glory produces a healthy “fear of God,” which leads us to flee sin & obey Him (Job. 42:5-6; 28:28; Prov. 8:13). And to think such an awesome Creator loved me enough to die for my sins. 4. The Heavens Reveal an Incredibly Awesome God!
They reveal God’s Omnipotence (Ps. 62:11-12; Col. 1:15-7; Heb. 1:3)
They reveal God’s Infinitude: Immeasurable distances; countless numbers (Isa. 44:6; 48:12; Eph. 4:9-10). They reveal God’s Omniscience: He knows & names each star: Ps. 147:4; John 16:30; 21:17.
KEY LESSONS FROM OUR STUDY OF HEAVEN & EARTH
1. The whole Universe is an indescribably enormous miracle! 2. There is no natural explanation for the origin of Universe, space, time, stars, galaxies, atoms, or electrons. 3. There is no scientific explanation for the incredible fine tuning of the Heavens & Earth that makes life possible. A very important question to ask ourselves: “Why would I ever let the soft science & wild theories of fallible men hinder me from trusting my infallible Creator & His infallible Word?”