Month: April 2022

REPOST

Thinking here about the way the ancient Hebrews saw the Universe. This graphic from the University of Oregon’s Cosmology class can be found in various other versions. What do you think about the age of the universe and scripture? NOTE: I believe the scientists, and it doesn’t bother me if the Earth (uppercase earth) is 4.5 billion years old and the universe 14 billion.

I put a legend at the bottom of the pic here:

1. Heaven of Heavens/Waters above the heavens Gen 1:7
   And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
2. Storehouses of snow Job 38:22
3. Storehouses for hail Job 38:22
   Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
4. Chambers of the winds Ps. 135:7
   He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
5. Firmament Gen 1:7
   And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
6. Windows and Doors of Heavens (Sluice gates) Gen 7:11
   In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7. Foundations of Heaven/Pillars of the sky Job 26:10-11
   He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
   The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
8. Foundations of the earth / Pillars of the earth Ps 75:3
   The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
9. Fountains of the deep Gen 7:11
   In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
10. Navel of the earth Eze. 38:12
    To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
11. Waters under the earth Gen 7:11; 8:2
    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
    The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Sheol
Numbers 16:30 But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

12. Storehouses and Fountains of the earth / Rivers of the nether world Gen 7:11; 8:2
    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
    The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;