Biblical Cosmology

THE Firmament Earth As Designed by God

Many have questions about the true nature of our beautiful earth. Many wonder about the age of the earth, if dinosaurs were mentioned in the Bible, what the real shape of the earth is and so forth. Recently many have asked if giants really existed, is the earth really flat, level and immovable, does heaven exist, and so forth. There is never a wrong question to ask and God does have an answer for everything. When we seek we always find. We learn every day and knowledge truly never ends. So lets just look around us and see what we find using our God given intuition, common sense, wisdom and divine guidance. We have to be ready for the fact that many times the answers we were given as children and lead to believe are not always the exact truth. Let’s instead follow where God Himself guides us through and put away for now what mankind teaches in place of.

Did Yeshua (Jesus) teach about the shape of the earth?

Yeshua taught exactly as the word says, so he would have taught the creation scriptures as written in Genesis. Back then no theory about a flying spinning ball earth even existed. This theory only began about 500 years ago, so in Yeshua’s day they were not talking about a spinning flying ball earth. Instead they would have taught just as God said, that the earth is stationary, immovable, and that God sits above the circle of the earth, not a ball. Even the biblical story about the Tower of Babel in Genesis proves the earth is not a spinning flying ball. Yeshua would know exactly what the earth looks like and he would have taught this according to what the word already tells us. He would not be adding something new in that the word didn’t already say. Im sure he received many questions about Gods Creation, because the entire Bible points to how God created all things, especially for the home in which we all live. The entire earth is very precious to God and in the beginning he called it all GOOD. So he was well pleased with all he designed. God doesn’t say he destroys his creation(s), instead he tells us he “makes all things new”. The flood did not destroy the earth, instead the earth was fully cleansed by water, and the second will be by fire. The sea will be no more, well the *sea (Revelation 21:1) is in reference to the wicked, the many. The earth will be fully cleasned of all wickedness (Matthew 13:49) and evil. God says that the righteous shall inherit the earth and that they shall live “forever” upon it (Psalm 37:29, 104:5; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Isaiah 45:18.)

*Matthew 24:13, 14, 10:22; Mark 13:13; Daniel 7:2, 3, 17, 23.

The Firmament

God created the Earth for Human Life 

EARTH: Ground, Dirt, Soil, Dust. The actual ground we walk on

The word “Earth” comes from old English and Germanic. It is derived from “eor(th)e” and “ertha,” which mean “ground”. 

Not a Ball: God sits above the ‘circle’ of the earth watching from above, looking down on the ‘face’ of the earth. A ball has no face. 

Water is contained, and always finds its level. The world wide Flood proves that also. Water can’t find its level in a spinning ball and Gravity simply means Weight. 

God doesn't need to watch a spinning ball flying through space.

God said He is above us watching over us, as like through a looking glass, and we look as the size of grasshoppers, therefore God is not that far away from us. 

There is no need for anything to orbit around the Sun, which was created on the 4th day. The sun and moon are for LIGHT only. Because we as humans need a 24 hour time clock to survive, day/night. 

GRAVITY: from Latin gravitas 'weight'. Heaviness, mass.

NASA’s answer instead gives us what this world system teaches: Gravity is the “force” by which a plane-t or other body draws objects toward its center. The force of gravity keeps all of the planets in orbit around the sun. They are all about their sun worship. Nasa says: Why do you land on the ground when you jump up instead of floating off into space? Why do things fall down when you throw them or drop them? The answer is gravity: an invisible force that pulls objects toward each other. Earth's gravity is what keeps you on the ground and what makes things fall. I personally am no part of this nonsense, they clearly worship their so called invisible gravity instead of Gods clear design. Gravity is simply weight, that is all it is. You don’t float, because your weight (mass) is heavier than the air, and you do not have wings to fly up like birds do.

SKY: only above us. Hebrew: heavens, firmament.

STARS: we see stars as light reflections in water, which uses electricity frequency. Each star differs in its own glory and God names each himself

(Psalm 147:4; Mark 13:25; Revelation 8:12, 12:1; Job 9:7, 22:12; Psalm 148:3)

HOLY SCRIPTURES:

Genesis 1:6-8 (CJB) = God said, “Let there be a 👉DOME in the middle of the water; let it divide the water from the water.” God made the dome and divided the water under the dome from the water above the dome; that is how it was, and God called the dome Sky. So there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:16 = God made the 👉two great lights the greater light (the sun) to rule the day, and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night; He made the stars also [that is, all the amazing wonders in the heavens]. 

Daniel 12: 1-3 (CJB) = But those who can discern will shine like the brightness of heaven's 👉dome, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.

Isaiah 40:22 = He who sits above the 👉circle of the earth (not a ball) for whom its inhabitants appear like grasshoppers 👉stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreads them out like a 👉tent to live in.

Genesis 1:14 = And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,

Joel 2:31 = The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

Genesis 3:19 = Humans are made from the Earth grounds, for dust you are, to dust you will return. 

Psalm 147:4 = He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

God names the stars Himself, therefore the names this world uses on its own, are NOT the names that God uses. 

Psalm 8:3-4 = When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place.

SUN, MOON, LIGHTS:

Genesis 1:16 = And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.

1 Corinthians 15:41 = There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

Matthew 24:29 = Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Biblical Earth Shape Debate Between The Firmament and the Globe:

History Of The Dinosaurs: 

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Dinosaur History with Trey Smith (watch video)

Dinosaurs = word created in 1842. 

The word Dinosaur actually comes from the Greek word: Deinos. Which means "fearfully great". The Dinosaur "fearfully great lizard", is an idea that began in 1842 by a British paleontologist Sir Richard Owen. He invented the word "dinosaur".  “Dinosaur" was created by combining the Greek words deinos, which means “terrible," and sauros, which means “lizard."

Science states that dinosaurs were on the earth over 65 million years ago. However there are over 10,000 species of ancient birds – living dinosaurs – on earth still today.

Dinosaurs are placed in the reptile group, which includes turtles, crocodiles, birds, lizards, and snakes. Many kinds of sharks they placed in the so called Dinosaur era and even crabs. So are Bees and Beatles which Science says are 250 million years old. Scientists say Sharks are over 450 million years old. I find it funny at scientific dating over the centuries because I found it actually never adds up. Even if many believe that an animal evolves into exactly how it may look, in the end it is always the same exact type of animal. It never changes into any other form of animal. A monkey is always a monkey, a shark is always a shark, and so on. Also if anyone believes that they turn into an animal, well turning into an animal from a human, is actually making all knowledge and the human brain move backwards. Humans are far more advanced than animals. Our knowledge is suppose to move forward. God actually tells in scripture to love whom you were born to be, always love yourself and grow stronger. 

Job 40:15-24 speaks describing a "behemoth." 15 “Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox...his force is in the navel of his belly...He moveth his tail like a cedar...his bones are like bars of iron... Job 41:1-2,7,12-32: the "Leviathan": 19 ...Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. 20 Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. 21 His breathkindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. 22 Strength dwells in his neck, and sorrow dances before him. 23 The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him and cannot be moved. 24 His heart is as hard as stone, even as hard as the lower millstone. 25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of his crashings they are beside themselves....".

Psalm 91:13: "You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra; the young lion and the dragon serpent you will trample underfoot." Leviathan is also found in several verses which describe a water-dwelling scaly dinosaur like creature (Job 41:1; Psalm 74:14, 104:26; Isaiah 35:7). Hebrew indicates it flew because the Hebrew word translated ‘flying’ is עוּף (`uwph), which means ‘to cover with wings’. Most logically this animal was a flying reptile of some sort, one of the pterosaurs, and possibly with the ability to breath out hot gases like Leviathan. 

Now if we look at the book of 1Enoch which is not included in the everyday Bibles it tells the rest of the story of the Leviathan: 1Enoch (60:7–9) describes Leviathan as a female monster dwelling in the watery abyss. The Behemoth is a male monster living in the desert of Dunaydin ("east of Eden").

“When the army of Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.) went through India, they went to see a dragon living in a cave, which the Indians worshiped as a god, bringing it sacrificial food. This is only one of many historical accounts of dragons from places in the world other than China. One of the Holy Fathers of the Church, St. John Damascene (A.D. 674–750), wrote of dragons as actual creatures that still existed in his time in small numbers.”

Now let’s look at how old the earth actually is. The scriptures tell us that God created everything at maturity level from the beginning. 

Evolution and modern science has questioned the Biblical account of Creation for years, and now compelling new scientific research by ICR challenges modern science and their dating techniques. The book "Thousands Not Billions" summarizes eight years of research by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and a team of scientists, whose goal was to explore the age of the earth using science and biblical information combined. 

Most believe that the radiometric dating methods prove that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. The way science dates is by measuring the layers in rock mass. Determining the relative age of a rock layer is based on the assumption that you know the ages of the rocks surrounding it. Certain types of rocks, especially those that form from magma (igneous), contain radioactive isotopes of different elements. It is possible to measure the ratio of the different radioactive parent isotopes and their daughter isotopes in a rock, but the ratios are not dates or ages. “Can we trust the dates given in the textbooks if the techniques are not objective?” - When the assumptions were evaluated and shown faulty, the results supported the Genesis biblical account of a global Flood and young earth. Learn more: Science RATE research

Radiometric Dating: Using ratios of isotopes produced in radioactive decay to calculate an age of the specimen based on assumed rates of decay and other assumptions.

Carbon-14 dating is another common technique, but it can only be used on carbon-containing things that were once alive; organic material. It cannot be used directly to date rocks. Carbon-14 also has a half life at up to 57,000 years. 

"The cause for the long term variation of the C-14 level is not known. The variation is certainly partially the result of a change in the cosmic ray production rate of radiocarbon. The cosmic-ray flux, and hence the production rate of C-14, is a function not only of the solar activity but also of the magnetic dipole moment of the Earth." "Though complex, this history of the earth’s magnetic field agrees with Barnes’ basic hypothesis, that the field has always freely decayed.... The field has always been losing energy despite its variations, so it cannot be more than 10,000 years old." 

Many do not realize that fossils themselves are usually not directly dated. Instead, layers that contain datable igneous rocks above or below a fossil-bearing layer are used to estimate the age of the fossil. 

The Genesis Flood / 2457 BC: 

Genesis 6:15: "...The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits..." Many scientists believe the Flood did not take place over the entire earth. However evidence that the Flood did take place all over the earth is actually found globally. The Flood would also have buried large amounts of carbon from living organisms (plant and animal) to form today’s fossil fuels (coal, oil, etc.). The amount of fossil fuels indicates there must have been a vastly larger quantity of vegetation in existence prior to the Flood than exists today. This means that the biosphere just prior to the Flood might have had 500 times more carbon in living organisms than today. This would further dilute the amount of 14C and cause the 14C/12C ratio to be much smaller than today. Pre-Flood material would be dated at perhaps ten times the true age. 

Genesis 6:17; "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die."

Eating from Gods Tree of Life made the whole earth and everything within it corrupted and not in the perfect balance it was suppose to be in from the beginning, which was originally a perfect paradise earth. 

In the beginning both humans and animals were suppose to be in perfect harmony together on earth. A man could sit with a tiger and not be hurt. Revelation tells us all these things will be fixed once again in our near future. Adam and Eve originally were given everything they needed, but they allowed greed to enter their hearts and so they par took with Satan and all of them together disobeyed God. They thought they could outsmart God. We are not smarter than God, nor will we ever be, nor should we want to be. We are earthly humans only. This is why too, we can not breathe ourselves in any space type atmosphere, we are earth bound. Unless God lets us breathe in space that is the only way we would be able to on our own.

We did not come from Apes either, we were first created as perfect human beings. Apes never turn into humans and humans never evolve into Apes. Animals never evolve into another type of animal, they remain the same species always. There is no scripture that supports that we were ever created stupid either having to learn how to do everything on our own. God had provided what was needed from the very beginning. But as sinners the humans turned away from God and wanted their own way, much like many still do today. 

In the beginning Heaven and Earth were joined together. I know this is hard for us to imagine now. The Scriptures describe "3 heavens", one of which we call now Space. In Revelation it tells us Jesus will come back to Earth to end the wicked things of Satan. Which Jesus now has the power to accomplish due to dyeing on the cross on earth as a ransom sacrifice for all things evil. We’re told the Tree of Life is presently in Paradise; the intermediate Heaven (Revelation 2:7). The New Jerusalem itself, in the present Heaven, will be brought down, Tree of Life and all, and placed on the future New Earth (Revelation 21:2). Just as the tree was apparently relocated from Eden on earth, to the present Heaven, it will be relocated again to the New Earth. God will make all things new on earth once again, just like it was at the very beginning of all creation. 

The Third Heaven is the highest heaven. Where no man has seen by telescope; nor will they ever see it using science. This heaven is the dwelling-place of God, to which Paul was taken, and whose wonders he was permitted to behold-this region where God dwells.

Most Christians will say after they die they go right to heaven with God, however this isn't what is described directly in the ancient Hebrew scriptures. God says he will be "making the earth new again". (Isaiah 65:17) All evil will perish and be ended, all sickness and death will be no more; that every tear will be wiped from the eyes. Animals and humans will be friends and only good things are to come. 

The description of the Tree of Life in Revelation 22 mirrors precisely what’s prophesied in the Old Testament: “Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing” (Ezekiel 47:12). The new Earth will be covered with plentiful food to eat. No one will be without food ever. 

Psalm 146:3: "Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation." We can make assumptions for the entire earth ourselves alone without scripture too, but in the end we are never all knowing but guessing at all things that have occurred. Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." When I personally started researching all the scriptures in depth, I was spiritually guided to all the answers I was seeking. Ephesians 2:8: "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God."

THE ROMANS NAMED THEIR PLANETS (STARS) AFTER THEIR PAGAN GODS: 

The names of the weekdays used by most countries on the Gregorian Calendar are based on names of pagan gods which were associated with the seven anciently recognized planets. The day on the Gregorian Calendar begins at midnight. None of the sacred calendars which are based on the week begin the day at midnight. Two of those calendars are the Enoch and Perpetual Hebrew. Those two, and well as their uniform versions, all use the same 7-day week and they all begin the day at 6 pm sundial time. God Almighty avoids the use the pagan names of the days of the week. When He revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith the day of the week on which to worship, He did not refer to a day called "Sunday" (pagan sun worship), instead He referred to it as the "Lord's Day" (Revelation 1:10).

Weeks of seven days have been used since ancient Chaldean times and were associated with the seven visible PAGAN planets: Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn (listed in order of their belief of the distance from the earth). The order of the names of the days of the week was chosen by having each planet take turns ruling in order over each of the 24 hours every day, continuously cycling through the day and even the entire week. The days were named for the planet which ruled over the first hour of that day. In English that is seen in the names of Sunday (Sun) and Monday (Moon).

All of the gospels refer (in Greek) to the day of the Crucifixion as the "preparation" (Matt. 27:62; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:42) which is the Greek word for "Friday". Many modern translations of the Bible simply translate the word as "Friday", which makes the meaning clear. Modern proponents of a Wednesday or Thursday crucifixion suggest that perhaps that word referred to preparation for Passover which could occur on other days. Most likely the Crucifixion day being a Friday indicated that the women could not anoint the body with spices on Friday evening because that began the Sabbath, so they came early Sunday morning instead (Luke 23:54-24:1).

The Julian Calendar was named for Julius Caesar who implemented it for the Roman Empire on 1 Jan 45 BC (Julian). It was their step forward to fix the length of the year to be 365.25 days with a year of 365 days and an extra day in February every four years. At that time there was no official use of the 7-day week at all in the Roman Empire. It was kept, however, for religious purposes by the Jews and Christians.

The Romans associated gods with the planets, following the Greek tradition, but before Constantine not sure if those gods and planets were associated with certain days. All of this changed however when Constantine the Great was converted to Christianity. In AD 313 Constantine established religious toleration and criminalized the persecution of Christians in the Edict of Milan. He had succeeded Diocletian under whose reign had been the most severe persecution of Christians, so that was a total reversal of policy for the empire.

Then Constantine wanted to unite his pagan empire together with Christians. He knew that some pagans worshipped the sun on the first day of the Greek week and that some Christians in Rome reverenced that same first day of the week to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, so on 7 Mar 321, he issued an edict which integrated the 7-day week into the Julian Calendar and mandated the entire empire to keep the weekly day of the sun holy by closing businesses on that day, hopefully uniting both Pagans and Christians. One researcher states that Constantine named the weekdays, making a change to the Christian and Jewish tradition of simply numbering the days from "first" to "seventh" (Luke 24:1). Probably following the Greek usage, he reportedly changed the name of the first day from "feria prima" (first holiday) to "Dies Dominica" (the Lord's Day). The name of the seventh day of the week was changed to "Sabbatum" (Sabbath) to honor the Jews. The proposed names had been previously applied by the Church in Rome only to the days of the holy week before Easter, but Constantine mandated that these liturgical names be given to every day of every week.

These 5 planets (stars) were identified with the gods of the Babylonian pantheon as follows:

• Jupiter with Marduk

• Venus with the goddess Ishtar,

• Saturn with Ninurta (Ninib)

• Mercury with Nabu (Nebo)

• Mars with Nergal

In Ancient Egypt, the sun and planets (stars) were associated with deities as well:

• The Sun with Ra

• Mercury with Seth

• Venus with Khepri

• Mars with Horus the Red

• Jupiter with Horus who illuminates the Two Lands

• Saturn with Horus, Bull of the Sky

Reference Notes:

*The 👉SEA is no more, that does not mean that sea water is no more; the sea is in reference ‘symbolically’ to the many who are the wicked. God also makes many references to the waters being divided. We also have 2 types of water: fresh water and salt water. Keep in mind that the people will be divided in the end like in Noahs day. Yeshua (Jesus) also says he is coming to bring 'division' not peace (Luke 12:51). We also know that the wicked will be divided, separated from the righteous ones who are Gods people and inherit the earth.

When the Bible talks about ‘literal’ SEA life in the ‘creation’ story he says it was good. He does not destroy this ever, he has so many creations in the sea and oceans; in both the fresh water and in the salt water. 

Now lets look at the word SEA and how its used ‘symbolically’: 

Isaiah 57:20 = But the wicked are like the tossing 👉sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.

Daniel described four “beasts” that came up 👉 “out of the sea” and revealed these to be “symbolic” of political kings or kingdoms. (Daniel 7:2, 3, 17, 23) 

Daniel also saw in vision the time when there would be “a new heaven and a new earth” and when 👉“the sea,” that is, the turbulent masses of people alienated from God, would be no more. — Revelation 21:1