Psalm 8:1 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;
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
God re-institutes Time
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Time
Matthew 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, you all say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O you all hypocrites, you all can discern the face of the sky; but can you all not discern the signs of the times?
Jesus asked the question: do you all understand time and especially the time that you are in? He says that we should understand seasons of time by the weather, but can we discern the times in which we live?
The earth is 25,000 miles in circumference. The sun is 1,300,000 times bigger than the earth. The earth is tilted on its axis at 23.5 degrees, which causes the seasons. The earth rotates on its tilted axis at a rate of 1,000 miles per hour. The earth makes one complete rotation on its axis every 23 hours and 56 minutes. The 4 minutes shy of 24 hours added up every 4 years account for an additional day – February 29th of a leap year.
The daily rotation is the origin of time. Therefore, since God created the earth, our solar system, and 40-sextillion other solar systems and placed them all on a time system, He is beyond time and cannot be measured by time. He created time when there was no time system. God is from eternity to everlasting.
Psalm 90:1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
The Earth
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Job 38: 4 Where was you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?
The Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance 92.96 million miles in a counterclockwise direction as viewed from above the Northern Hemisphere. One complete orbit takes 365.256 days, which is the time of a year.
Earth revolves around the Sun. It orbits the Sun every 365 and one-quarter days. It spins on an axis that is tilted 23 and a half degrees to the plane of its orbit. This axial tilt remains steady throughout the year. Depending on the time of year, some parts of the Earth are tilted more toward the direct rays of the Sun than others. Bright parts get warmer; darker parts cool off. This warming and cooling causes the various seasons. The Earth orbits around the Sun at a speed of about 67,000 miles per hour, while spinning 1,000 miles per hour upon its axis.
The land mask of the earth was divided
Genesis 10: 25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
At this time, God split the original earth into the continents we know today along with the islands.
Genesis 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
This is at the time when the earth was one body of land.
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
They did not try to build a tower up to heaven, but rather they built a seven-story tower to honor the signs of heaven and placed what we know as the Zodiac signs on top of the building.
This angered God because man was honoring the created as opposed to the creator.
Also, their purpose of being one person in one place was contrary to the very first command God gave to man.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
God comes down to inspect what man is doing
Genesis 11:5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
After this, at the time of Peleg’s birth, God scattered the earth into the seven continents that currently exist. First, he scattered man upon the earth, then he scattered the earth, which furthered the people ensuring they would never come together again.
The heavens
Psalm 102:25 Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Revelation 21:15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. 17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. 18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
The measure equals 1,500 miles square. By comparison, the United States is 3.5 million miles square. New York city is 302 miles square. Heaven is 5 times the size of New York City.
Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. 5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
The Planets
Isaiah 40: 21 Have you all not known? have you all not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you all not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in: 23 …25 To whom then will you all liken me, or shall I be equal? said the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails.
Isaiah 45:11 Thus said the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you all me. 12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isaiah 48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Thus, by His word, God can command the order of the heavens to be changed to fit his purpose and perform His will.
Joshua 10:12 Then spoke Joshua 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 you still upon Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and have not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.
All Creation
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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