| | A Brief Interlude This is part 3 in a multiple part series. Click here to read: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) As I've been wrestling with and documenting the things I've been writing about here, I've frequently been led on to divergent paths and tangential topics in scripture. It never fails to happen as I sit here reading, researching and writing in fact. In this case, I hope you'll forgive me if I delay my promise, made in the pervious entry in this series, to expose a huge, firmly established and nearly universal deception that has been perpetrated on the whole world. That is coming, God willing, I assure you. This blog entry started out to do just that, in fact, but the tangent I found myself exploring led to what is being presented here instead. I hope you find it as illuminating as I did and come back for the next entry in the series. Peace  Preface There’s no denying man’s fascination with the heavens. It’s been with us since the first time a man looked up into the night sky. Isn’t that interesting, that man should be so very interested in something that has had, for the most part, no observable relevance to his struggle for survival on his own planet? Yet that fascination is real, and although no man has ever directly observed a cosmological phenomenon to be impactful in the goings on around him, many have believed that earthly events are in some way connected to cosmological ones. No proof, just a built-in belief. Superstition and many a religion have sprung from this "instinct"! It’s as if we’re programmed to be fascinated by it all, and uniquely so among living things on earth. Ever seen a dog, or a cat, or any other animal looking up into the stars and being fascinated by it all? I haven’t. But it’s natural for us humans to do, and we've been doing it since the beginning. It’s part of the human psyche, by design. Scientists Find 200 Sextillion More Stars in the Sky
Published December 01, 2010| Associated Press 
ESA/Hubble
The night sky may be a lot starrier than we thought. A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated. For those of you counting at home, the new estimate is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's 300 sextillion... It's one of two studies being published online Wednesday in the journal Nature that focus on red dwarf stars, the most common stars in the universe. The study that offers the new estimate on stars is led by a Yale University astronomer. He calculates that there are far more red dwarfs than previously thought, and that inflates the total star count… A second study led by a Harvard University scientist focuses on a distant "super Earth" planet and sees clues to the content of its atmosphere -- the first of this kind of data for this size planet. It orbits a red dwarf… While scientists have been able to figure out the atmosphere of gas giants the size of Jupiter or bigger, this is a first for the type of planet called a super Earth -- something with a mass 2 to 10 times Earth's. It is more comparable to Neptune and circles a star about 42 light years from Earth. A light year is nearly 6 trillion miles… Read the full story here OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer): Pre-installed Programming Our fascination with the heavens is built in, friends. We are designed to be fascinated by it all! The Creator, YHWH Elohim, designed us in such a way that we naturally look to the heavens with wonder and awe; we naturally seek to have knowledge and understanding of the workings of the cosmos. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the worldH5769 in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. (Ecc 3:11-12) The world? I don't think so! H5769 - עלם - עולם - ‛ôlâm‛ôlâm;o-lawm', o-lawm' From H5956; properly concealed, that is, the vanishing point; generally time out of mind (past or future), that is, (practically) eternity; frequentative adverbially (especially with prepositional prefix) always: - always (-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, [n-]) ever (-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare H5331, H5703. He has set eternity in our hearts... the vanishing point. Why? So we'd keep looking up, and ultimately, so we'd be able to know what time it is! The cosmos is a clock, and not only a clock, but an alarm clock. The sun and moon do more than mark off the passing months and years. They play a significant role in keeping God's people around the world synchronized with HIS schedule and ready to participate in HIS appointments! The reason most of us aren't getting it is because we've forgotten how to tell time! My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hos 4:6) Remember that from my last entry? Note that knowledge was available, but rejected. How about this one? And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signals of My fixed appointments, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. (Gen 1:14-15) The translation is not a direct quote from the KJV or any other translation or version of the Bible that I know of; I think it conveys the intended meaning of the verse much more accurately. More Than Just Eye Candy When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psa 8:3-4) As you consider that my friends, rest assured that the word translated as "visit(est)" literally means just what it says. YHWH visits men, and He does so according to a set schedule of appointments, pre-determined from before the beginning of creation! Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: (Isa 46:8-10) He is sovereign in all things. There is nothing but that which happens by His will, and on His schedule! Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father... Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: (Gal 4:1-6, Eph 1:8-11) Wow! How's that for tying it all together? His will, His schedule, His son, the heavens, the earth, and all that is in them! Even that's not the whole picture though. In order for any of it to matter much to us, we have to know how it directly effects us. God willing, we'll get to that in the next entry. Yeshua's peace be with and in Father's house, brothers and sisters. Peace be with all reading. This is part 3 in a multiple part series. 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