by John McGlone
May 1st, 2018
I had a friend recently share with me a passage from the book of Hebrews which contradicted my assertions about cosmology that there are no other ‘planets’ or ‘worlds’ beside the earth. I simply believe they are stars in the firmament. I believe this earth is the centerpiece of creation according to the Scripture. Here is that verse that sent me seeking more truth about cosmology from God’s Word.
Heb 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
In the Strong’s we see the KJV translate worlds or Aion G165 in the following manner:
ever (71x), world (38x), never (with G3364) (with G1519) (with G3588) (6x), evermore (4x), age (2x), eternal (2x), miscellaneous (5x).
αἰών aiṓn, ahee-ohn’; from the same as G104; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future):—age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever, (beginning of the , while the) world (began, without end).
Aion or Eon is tantamount to ages, times or epochs periods or seasons, yet world is secondarily described as well.
My cosmological view of the heavenlies is as follows:
1. God made daylight and nightlight and divided them on the first day before the Sun, Moon, and stars were made on the fourth day. Gen 1:3-5
2. the heavenly firmament which divided the waters from the waters. (hardened enclosed dome) Gen 1:6-8
Points 3-5 are supported by Gen 1:14-18 created on the fourth day of creation after day and night light were created on day one. Doesn’t this fact shock you as a Christian?
3. the Sun & Moon are both within the firmament are great lights.
4. all the stars are named luminaries by the Bible
5. the wandering stars to include the Sun, Moon, and Earth are misnamed as ‘planets’ by the heretical astronomy science falsely called of this age.
6. the counter rotating star trails we see in the heavenlies are possibly described in Ezekiel’s wheel as God sits upon his throne above the circle of the earth.
1 Tim 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Isaiah 40:21-22 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Ezekiel 1:15-22 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. 18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
To answer my friends original objection about more than one world, we see the Apostle Matthew answer of two worlds, plurality.
Mat 12:32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
I am sure we all believe this idea of the world now and the one to come, no matter what our cosmological view. The epoch or era to come the New Jerusalem come down from heaven is a new world. Also, after that reign God will loose Satan from the abyss to rise up one last time before He will completely destroy him and the armies raised up against God. Then the everlasting Kingdom or last and infinite epoch or world would then be established in which Jesus will rule and reign with the saints of God forever and ever, amen.
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