Genesis
1:14-19
Seeing God in the Stars
v. 3-5
show there was light before the sun, moon, and stars.
(National Atheist founder in Palm Beach seminar said he became an atheist early
in life because of this passage.)
He
should had read the rest of the story.
God
made these extraterrestrial bodies for us.
He is
in the supplying business, need meeting business, not willing that any should
perish business, not having us ignorant..
1.
Sun divides night and day and gives seasons according to the tilt of its axis.
(Ozone is eaten by radiation, not hairspray)
2.
Days – 24 hour rotation
3.
Years – 365 ¼ rotations to circle the earth
4.
Signs – Satan has used the stars for divination.
Bible
strictly forbids such activity – horoscopes, future reading, Saul’s life was cut
short by God because of divination.
Same Hebrew word translated for
sign is mark, token, standard, proof, miracle, ensign, warning,
God used many signs in the Bible:
Gen. 9:12 token – rainbow
Gen. 17:11 sign –
circumcision. Ex. 31:13 sign –
Sabbath
Baptism, Lord’s Supper,
Aarons rod that budded was a token,
stones on the bank of the Jordan was
a sign, Cain had a mark placed on
him, it goes on and on.
Here God said He gave us lights:
Sun is the father, moon is the church,
Whenever you look at the stars you can see God.
I.
Omniscience – All knowing
(Psalm 147:4)
He telleth the number of the
stars; he calleth them all by
their names.
(Psalm 139:2) Thou knowest my
downsitting and my uprising, thou understandeth my though afar off.
II.
Omnipotent – All powerful
(Josh 10:12-14) sun was stopped
(2 Kings 20:9-11) sun went backward
Able to accomplish all His will – Abraham
Zachariah’s prayer (we are the
problem)