Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away

God’s Creation, Planet Earth & the Universe

By Teresa Carr

Keys: Genesis 1:1; Hebrews 1:2, 10; Job 9:9; 26:7-14

On October 21^st of this year was the 50^th anniversary of the Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia. It wasn’t published in the local newspaper nonetheless this is an event not to be passed up. Mountaineers take pride in this awesome educational giant. Many discoveries have been made that many books can be written. One would look up into the sky and wonder what mysteries lay beyond the earth’s atmosphere and the clouds. Our imaginations can’t begin to grasp what the Lord God has in store for all of us. If you ever looked through a good astronomy book at some of those awesome pictures or gazed through a powerful telescope of nebulas, stars, and galaxies would stir your inner being as to wonder that there is some kind of powerful Designer who could do all that. Plus, there’s a question comes to mind as to how are all those just hanging there, when it seems like there nothing there at all? The answer comes out of Job 26:7 where the LORD stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

New discoveries have been made of exoplanets and hydrogen gas clouds. The issue of the January 10, 2008 Charleston Gazette printed the story of the most recent observation is five new clouds of hydrogen gas showing gravitational interaction between the nearby spiral galaxy M81 and its satellite M82 discovered by researchers using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. In the technological age we live in has come light years beyond what early man could see with his naked eye. In ancient times, early man only could see just a small part of the universe that was made up of stars and other heavenly bodies. Ancient man had developed many stories about what he knew about the universe. Some believed the universe balanced on the back of a huge tortoise. Most believed the earth was the center of the universe. They believed the sun, the moon and the stars revolved about the earth. Some even believed that the earth was flat and if one went far enough north, south, east or west he would fall off the edge. It was until the 1400’s and 1500’s man discovered the general shape of the earth by exploring voyages. The work of astronomers such as Pythagoras, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton taught man that earth wasn’t the center of the universe. Man learned that there was several other planets that revolved around the sun. He learned that the sun was a star of average size and brilliance among a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way. The astronomers today know the fundamental units of the universe are the stars. The stars cluster together into systems called galaxies. Our earth is in the galaxy called the Milky Way. Now astronomers know there are many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way. All these galaxies together form part of what is called superuniverse. Its dimensions are hard to grasp being that its thousands of millions of light years. The 200-inch Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory can see up to six billion light years in space. Einstein said our universe is getting bigger all the time. Nobody knows just how vast our universe is. As late as the 1960s, some scientists do not believe in the idea of an expanding universe. Until recently that has become a reality.

Secular scientists have forgotten to look at a realm from the very beginning of time. Before history was ever written. Before there was light even the stars. We begin in the Bible in the first chapter of Genesis. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. He just simply stretch out the north over the empty place and hung the earth upon nothing (Job 26:7). This wasn’t discovered until 1650! How did Job know about this about God and no one else did? He didn’t even have a telescope. When we get to verse 14-16, He created the lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night for signs, seasons, days, and years. The lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth. He made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day; and the lesser light to rule the night; He made the stars also. If only those scientists studied the Bible almost all their mysteries of the universe would be solved. God’s plan one day when this world is over He will assign man to the heavens. Want proof? Let’s go to Psalm 8:3-4 where King David praised God that he would establish man among the stars! Psalm 147:4 says He tells the number of the stars, and He calls them all by name! Christian scientists seek the one who made the seven stars and Orion for answers of the universe (Amos 5:8). Einstein was right! The universe is expanding (Deut. 10:14; Psalms 68:33; 115:16). For one the heaven, and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s your God, and the earth also. They were his from of old. He had given the earth to the children of men. If ancient man had not rejected the evidence of the living God they themselves would know that the universe is filled with planets and the multitude of heaven (2 Kings 23:5). He appointed His Son, Jesus to create the worlds and the worlds were framed by the Word of God (Hebrews 1:2; 11:3). When the Hubble spacecraft was built and sent out into space it recorded some 50 billion galaxies and there are possibly more! There are 10 billion people in the world that’s not counting the people from all the ages that ever lived. There are not enough people to fill the universe. God loves people so much that He said this written in Isaiah 51:16, And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. So what are we waiting for? We need people for Christ. Let’s get busy. In the words of Captain Kirk, we can go where no man has gone before. Beam me up, Scotty!

REF:

Jeffrey, Grant R. Creation: Remarkable Evidence of God’s Design. Frontier Research.

Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books.

Hawking, Stephen. Evolution is Dead.

Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Green Bank, West Virginia. Open to the public. Visit the museum and visitor’s center. They have good food and conduct free tours. For more information contact the website.

Charleston Gazette. January 10, 2008 issue.

Holley, Jr., Claude, Pastor. Science vs. the Holy Bible. Bible Study. Cornerstone Gospel Tabernacle, Charleston, WV January 25, 2006.

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