The Heavens Declare The Glory Of God - George Matzko

The Heavens Declare the Glory of God Dr. George Matzko Transcendence and Awe Genesis 1:14-19 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And 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. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. The Pale Blue Dot Universal Testimony The Egyptian Sun God, Ra The Electromagnetic Spectrum Psalm 74:16 – The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun Once upon a time, in a wide expanse of space, gravity drew dust and gas together to create the sun. Most of the material was hydrogen and helium, but some of it was made up of leftover remnants from the violent deaths of stars. Waves of energy traveling through space pressed clouds of such particles closer together, and gravity caused them to collapse in on themselves. As the material drew together, gravity caused it to spin. The spin caused the cloud to flatten into a disk like a pancake. In the center, the material clumped together to form a protostar that would eventually become the sun. The young protostar was a ball of hydrogen and helium not yet powered by fusion. Over the course of about fifty million years, the temperature and pressure of the material inside increased, jumpstarting the fusion of hydrogen that drives the sun today. 1. Star formation has never been observed. 2. Gas and dust clouds don’t collapse on their own. 3. Where did the first star come from? 4. The Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum would be violated. 5. The sun is not spinning fast enough. 6. Faint Sun Paradox Psalm 19:4c - 6 4 In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. Order and Design Where did the moon come from? Fission Theory Capture Theory Condensation Theory Collision Theory Why did God create the moon? Genesis 1:14-15 And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night … Deuteronomy 33:14 and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon Can the moon affect human behavior? Psalm 121:6 - The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. Matthew 4:24 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic (lit. moonstruck), and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. Why did God create the moon? Psalms 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: Why did God create the moon? To glorify himself! Psalms 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained… Psalms 148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Function and Beauty Combined! Song of Solomon 6:10 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? 1 Corinthians 15:41 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. The Heavens Declare the Glory of God Transcendence and Awe Universal Testimony Order and Design Fair is the sunshine, fairer still the moonlight, and all the twinkling starry host; Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer than all the angels heaven can boast.