The firmament pictures5/2/2024 The dead will rise from the dead, and for those in Christ/Messiah, they will precede those alive in Christ at the time of the first resurrection and rapture, and meet together on the way up to meet the Lord in the air. ![]() We have a choice to make as to whose voice we will hear just as we do with respect to His covenant faithfulness to the seed of Israel. ( Jer 31:37) It is His world! Yet we let mankind form our “opinions or theories”, as if it is knowledge and truth, even though the LORD has it written that they cannot know. Yet God has revealed things to us about things above, and of things below, neither of which can be discovered by the searches of mankind. ( Ezek 31:14-18 Eph 4:7-10 Phlp 2:9-11 Lk 16:19-31) Why do these things upset us? If we ask someone why they do not believe in Jesus, oftentimes it is because they have been told not to by the “authorities” (like I was growing up as a Jew) or because they have never examined to see if He is the Messiah and Son of God, or not (like I didn’t, because I was not supposed to, or was intellectually lazy, and because it would put me in an uncomfortable situation in “my world”). I meet believers who are disturbed to think that there is a firmament, or that Sheol/Hades is located in the lower parts of the Earth, despite the many Biblical passages which say so. There are different narratives, but not all are of equal validity. As believers, we need to renew our minds with the truth of God, so that we will not be conformed to the thinking of the world (that we were saved out from), and so that we will less likely be deceived by the lies and errors of the devil, even through the elect (believers), which only makes the alternative narrative an even mightier stronghold. ![]() Where He has made some changes and differences in the New Covenant from the Old, the Scriptures tell us so. The Scriptures are written for us living at the end of the age, and God knows the end from the beginning, and He does not change. What was truth earlier is also truth later. The Holy Spirit leads believers into all truth (not just knowing that Jesus is the Messiah and Son of God), and helps us to accept the very Word of God that He inspired the writers to record for us. Who casts truth to the ground by leaning on our own understanding that leads us to claim that the Bible is not true in all matters? If I decide that it is not true on this matter, and you decide that it is not true on a different matter…then where is truth, and who decides? The Word of our Father in Heaven is the truth, and Yeshua/Jesus came to confirm that, and to demonstrate that He is the Truth: He is the Word of God. The fear of YHVH is the beginning of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. We are given minds to seek knowledge and understanding of the world that God created and made. Nor can anyone rightly judge God! ( Job 22:12-14 38) Faith believes in God and faith believes God. ![]() ( Ps 19:7) YHVH made it very clear to Job that there were no human eyewitnesses for His creation week of six days, and therefore Job – nor any other person – could know the answers to God’s questions that pertained to His creative works. Both the Old and the New Testaments make mention, either directly or by implication, that there is a divider between the universe as we know and see it, and between the Heavens above where God’s Throne and Temple are.Īre we going to ridicule this because of strange drawings and other renderings by persons living before the possibility of space exploration, even with simple telescopes? Are we going to dismiss this because we will seem to be unscientific, or unintelligent, or against the minds of the best and the brightest? The Scriptures are the Word of God, all God-breathed through its multiplicity of writers writing over a period of approximately 1600 years. Nonetheless, there really is a firmament, not only an expanse of space. (But, then, maybe they have.) Also, the LORD speaks through the prophet Jeremiah that no one is going to be able to measure the heavens, because if they do, then He will give up Israel (and everyone else goes, too, in that case – Jer 31:35-37 33:14-26) Īpparently it had not, even though they found a “wall”. ![]() I sent out a science article earlier this year, and asked if a NASA spacecraft had discovered the firmament.
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