Msg#1604 Wednesday Day Four
What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
Wednesday, the fourth day of creation finds the first of God’s lights placed in the firmament. They were created to divide the day from the night, for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. The two great lights which God set in the firmament mark out our twelve months and the 365 day year. Most people know the quarters of the moon; they mark out our weeks. Few discern the five visible planets (Greek for “wandering stars”) that stand out from the thousands of stationary stars. Five planets visually trace out a highway in the sky. Two, Mercury and Venus, are closer to the sun and three are outside of Earth’s orbit, thus often visible in the midnight sky. The thousands of stationary stars are grouped into eighty-eight constellations which mark out four seasons in our hemispheres. Thirty-five-hundred years ago Job speaks of Arcturus (Job 9:9), the third brightest star in our sky. It is found in the Boötes Constellation seen in the northern sky next to the big dipper. More people may be familiar with the Orion Constellation that Job mentions. It is on the celestial equator and only visible in Job’s sky in the month of January. The most visible hot blue cluster of stars called Pleiades is also mentioned by Job. It would be visible at tree top level only in Job’s month of October. Today more people watch TV’s tonight show than understand the wandering stars on their highway through the constellations. More people read the occult’s horoscope than know the constellations visible in their seasons. The heavens declare the glory of God, but mankind sets in baneful ignorance. The firmament sheweth his handiwork, not ones vain personality in a Zodiac. Tonight I’ll shut off the TV and get out a telescope.
An Essay for week #4 Jan 24, 16
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