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Thank you for
watching Heavens Declare.
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I'm Jim Burr. We're continuing
here talking about the
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attributes of God. I discovered
21 attributes of God in the
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heavens that the Bible talks
about and you've probably seen
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our clips that we have, short
clips, at the end of the hour
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at 3ABN. We often have a minute-
and-a-half to talk about the
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attributes of God so today we've
got a full hour actually to talk
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about the attributes of God. Our
first picture actually is of the
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Horsehead nebula. It is in Orion
Now we're going to be getting
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into Orion coming up pretty soon
here. But the Horsehead is one
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beautiful sight. And we've
got many, many pictures of the
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Horsehead. If you look at Orion
it's a constellation you see.
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It's like a man. You see his
shoulders. He's got three stars
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across his belt. He's got two
feet stars. The Horsehead nebula
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is a gaseous cloud of dust
which is located right below the
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lowest belt star. It's actually
on the left as you see Orion.
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We have a picture coming up here
This is actually infrared. Most
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of the pictures we have of Orion
will show the Kodak moment where
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you see the really dark...
There's a lot of dark dust in
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this particular cloud, but
what a glorious sight that is.
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The snout, right where you
put a bridle across that horse.
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You know, we could put 100 of
our suns across there with all
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the planets. You could actually
put 100 of those there. The
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whole height of the horsehead
is about 30 trillion miles.
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It would take five years
for light to cover across that.
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So our scripture that
would to along with that says in
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Jeremiah 51:15 it says he hath
made the earth by his power.
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He hath established the world
by his wisdom. He hath stretched
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out the heavens by his
understanding. So we see three
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attributes of God, his power,
his wisdom, his understanding.
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In this series we've been
talking about the power, the
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power in the atom; unbelievable
power in the atom. You know, in
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a penny alone the binding power
that holds those atoms so tight
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together, if you could totally
release that, would be equal to
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2.2 million gallons of gasoline,
the chemical energy of 2.2.
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In a paper clip, if you could
totally fuse the atoms together
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to release the energy in a paper
clip, it would be equal to 18
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thousand tons of TNT. Now that's
in the fusion process. In the
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nuclear reactors where we split
the atom, actually the fusion
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process is 17 times more
powerful than the splitting
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process. One of the attributes
is his wisdom. We've see man's
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attempt to create a sun in
the Tokamak and in the Hadron
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collider and in Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
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where they tried to create
a sun on earth. We have 2000
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scientists with all their
education, their learning. They
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are chemists, mathematicians,
physicists all working together
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to create a sun on earth and all
they can do with their wisdom
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and 20 billion dollars, all
they've been able to achieve is
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actually to heat a capsule the
size of the head of a match and
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to the temperature of the
core of the sun. That's man's
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accomplishment there. But we see
by wisdom he hath stretched out
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the heavens, by his
understanding, OK, back up.
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He hath made the earth by his
power, he hath established the
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world by his wisdom and hath
stretched out the heavens by his
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understanding. I'm sure those
scientists working at Tokamak in
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France or the Hadron collider
or the Lawrence Livermore
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National Laboratory
would consider themselves well
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educated with a lot of wisdom
and understanding and yet they
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haven't been able to actually
achieve very much. I think we
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have a clip of the sun coming
up, an eruption on the sun that
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is a time-lapse movie of the sun
and it shows you the tremendous
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power, unbelievable power. Those
flares, those eruptions, go up
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at the speed of about 400 miles
every second, 400 miles a second
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That's faster than a speeding
bullet. Look at that eruption.
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These are not nice if they're
headed our way. But they're
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caused basically by sun spots,
very intense sun spots, and
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around these sun spots are
magnetic storms, a black spot.
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When we look through the
telescope... We try to look
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through there pretty regular,
almost every day, and when we
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see sun spots they look
basically, I can describe it,
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like blackheads. You know what
a blackhead looks like, or a fly
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speck on the sun. These
are magnetic storms and usually
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we will have a north and a south
magnetic pole and a plasmal
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fountain between them and
we see them appear on the right
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side of the telescope and
the next day they're here, here,
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and here. We watch them for 14
days till they go around behind
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the sun. But we have this
incredible power in the sun.
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He stretched out the heavens by
his understanding. I was reading
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an interesting statement that
says the unrenewed heart would
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be a discordant note in the
melody of heaven. Heaven would
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be a place of torture to
the person who does not have a
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renewed heart in Christ. This is
in Steps to Christ, chapter 18.
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The unrenewed heart would be a
discordant note in the melody of
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heaven. How be it, the Most High
dwelleth not in temples made
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with hands saith the prophet.
Heaven is my throne, as earth is
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my footstool. What house will
you build me saith the Lord, or
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what is the place of my rest?
Hath not my hand made all these?
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We see all the beauties of the
of the Hubble space telescope,
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the pictures of heaven, and
they're just breathtaking to see
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the results of the Hubble space
telescope. We are now looking at
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a cluster of stars, a mega star
cluster. I believe there are
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about 10 million, they say 10
million stars in here. Those are
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10 million suns. You know, like
our sun is just a star. It's
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just an average star, nothing
special. There are many stars
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are bigger, many stars that are
smaller and so our sun is just
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kind of an average one of the
stars in our galaxy. The next
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graphic we have shows the...
actually we're looking at, again
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an area in our Milky Way galaxy,
a most beautiful gaseous nebula.
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Actually nebula is basically a
Latin word for cloud. We've got
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another graphic some up. This
would show you your genetic code
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These are a's, c's, t's and
g's. This is the instruction for
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making you. It is in your DNA.
It is the letter codes that tell
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every cell in your body what
they're going to be and we have
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seven million people on
earth. Every one of them has a
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different code, a different
message. This folks would blow
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you away if you researched this.
Because these letter codes tell
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every cell what to do and
they're overlapping. You could
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four different messages in a
line of code. There's code ones
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there's start messages and
stop messages. So when it reads,
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when your RNA reads your code,
it is told where to start and
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where to stop and it says OK you
guys 20 million cells, you're
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going to be a heart and you guys
are going to be a liver, you
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guys are going to be a brain,
and the color of your eyes and
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all of this type of thing. That
is your recipe. That is a code
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that tells you cells who you
are. There are 7 billion people
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on earth and everyone
a different finger print.
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Think of that. It's been said
that the DNA is the language of
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God, the language of God. Twenty
three chromosomes from mom, 23
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from dad. Every cell in your
body has to copy those. Every
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time a cell dies, before it dies
it has to make a copy. Depending
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on the font size if you
were sitting at the keyboard, it
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would be a whole life time. You
need two million or more pages
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depending on the font size, if
you were going to type the code
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that is in every cell in your
body. It would take you a full
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lifetime to copy the information
in one cell. Yet your cells can
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copy that in a day or less. It's
just totally amazing. So it's
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been said that DNA is the
language of God. In the copy
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process it makes mistakes. In
fact, your lifestyle is going to
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affect the mistakes. Smoking and
drinking are the worst. In the
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copying process, if you had
a hangover, you'd have a hard
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time typing that out wouldn't
you. Well the same thing happens
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in your cells' copying your
genetic code. They will make
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mistakes. Every time they copy
it, 100 billion cells in your
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body, every time they copy that
they're going to make at least
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100 thousand errors, mutations,
100 thousand mistakes to a
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million depending on the
condition of your body, how good
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condition you're in, you see,
how well you take care of your
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body. But the good news is that
there is a spell checker. There
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are 50 genes that are there
to spell check, to correct, just
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like when you're typing on your
keyboard and you type in a wrong
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letter and it fixes it at the
speed of light, boom, it fixes
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that. Sometimes it calls in the
reserves. It says you've got a
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problem here. It will give you
four or five choices of words
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or words like spell check. We've
got a problem. I don't know what
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the answer is. You'll
have to tell me. When the spell
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checker, the proof reader, looks
at your code and says we've got
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a problem. It calls in 50 genes
to correct that. And when those
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genes get done correcting your
error code where you may have
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100 thousand, did I say, 100
thousand to a million, you're
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going to get one in a billion
errors. We're going downhill,
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yes, we're mutating, we're going
downhill. But the good news is
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we've got a spell check there
and the good news is it's the
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language of God, your DNA is the
language of God, and God wrote
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a picture of you never before
seen in the history of the
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universe. Every one of you is
so special. There's not another
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person like you on planet earth
and that comes from your genetic
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code. A message from God.
God wrote a picture of you never
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before seen in the history
of the universe with 7 billion
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people. The universe continues
to baffle the mind of science.
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God has established the world by
his wisdom, the scripture says.
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As we move along we have another
graphic coming up of our earth
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there. What holds the earth
in place? Well gravity and the
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Bible says God hangs the earth
on nothing. You would expect it
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to be supported with something.
Then we have a picture of a
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shedding star. This is a class
of stars that are a million
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times brighter than our sun.
By the word of the Lord were the
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heavens made. Psalm 33:6. It's
a snap shot of a shedding star.
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This star is shedding gas
and it's just one more beautiful
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picture from the Hubble space
telescope. The next picture we
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have is the Cone nebula. This
is just a beautiful sight. It's
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quite a large column of gas.
It's located in the sky, just if
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you find Orion, it's just over
to the east of Orion, in the sky
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A beautiful sight to see. Our
next cloud is called the Helix
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nebula. This happens to be the
closest nebula to earth. This is
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about 450 light years about. It
takes light about 450 years to
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get here from the Helix. But
just one more beautiful sight in
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our galaxy. We have a star
cluster coming up here. This is
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just beautiful. It's an open
cluster and a lot of hydrogen
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gas around it. Then we have a
galaxy coming up, the Sombrero
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galaxy. The Sombrero galaxy we
believe is probably the biggest
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galaxy. They say that there
may be 800 billion stars in the
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Sombrero galaxy. This is in the
constellation, this is actually
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in the east in the spring of the
year and it's a beautiful sight.
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Amateur telescopes can look
at this. It has a designation of
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SEA104 but it's called
the Sombrero galaxy and a
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beautiful sight to see. The next
one we have is the Whirlpool
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galaxy. The Whirlpool is
right off the handle of the Big
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Dipper and the Whirlpool looks
like it has another galaxy that
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is sort of tagging along with
gravity. You see galaxies are
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like kids on a teeter totter;
they kind of want to be balanced
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and you'll see how the arms
on the right have stretched way
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out and on the left you see that
arm, you'd expect to be wound
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more tightly. But because they
are rotating and maybe trying
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to balance the mass that we see
in the two there. I was reading
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another statement here that was
quite interesting. It says: It
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was a marvel to all the universe
that Christ should humble
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himself to save fallen man. That
he who had passed from star to
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star, from world to
world, superintending all by his
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providence, supplying the needs
of every order of being in his
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vast creation. Yes, he
considered heaven a place not
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to be desired while you and I
were lost. It goes on: It was a
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marvel that he should consent
to leave his glory and take upon
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himself human nature. It
was a mystery which the sinless
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intelligences of other worlds
desired to understand. Yes, many
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Christians don't think there's
life out there, there's any
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other inhabited planets. We're
going to address that in one of
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these programs. But let me just
give you a couple of scriptures.
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I think that there is life out
in space. The Bible says we're
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a spectacle to the angels.
If you look at Hebrews 1 verse 3
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it says he made the universe
of worlds. It's repeated as
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something similar in Hebrews 11.
If you look at Nehemiah 9:6: He
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made the heavens with all their
hosts. Well that could be the
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stars, right? But the rest of
that verse says he created the
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heavens with all their hosts and
the hosts of heaven worship him.
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We're going to look at Mark 13:
at the very end of time Jesus
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sends his angels to gather his
elect from the uttermost part of
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earth to the uttermost part
of heaven. Matthew 24 has a very
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similar statement; at the very
end of time he sends his angels
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to gather like from the four
winds of earth to the uttermost
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part. So we see God's elect, we
see his angels, we see the birth
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of Christ, we see a whole
heavenly host and we can look at
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Job 1 verse 6, there was a
day when the sons of God came to
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present themselves before the
Lord. This is an event in space.
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This is an event outside of
earth and the sons of God came
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to present themselves before
the Lord. The Lord looks around,
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we've got a big meeting
apparently and he goes wait a
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minute, who are you? Tell the
people who you are. And he says
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where you're from. Well I'm
Satan, I'm from the earth, going
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to and fro in the earth. So this
event was outside. And the sons
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of God-who are those sons of
God? That's repeated again in
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Job 2. Again there was another
day when the sons of God came
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to present themselves. I
think this was kind of a regular
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meeting apparently in space.
This was a space meeting in
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heaven somewhere. And Satan
says yes I'm from the earth.
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Now there is a sense, if you
think about the sons of God, we
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can become sons of God, now are
we the sons of God, the Bible
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says. We can become the sons
of God but there is a sense in
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which Adam was a son of God that
you and I are not the sons of
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God. If you go to the genealogy
of Christ you go back which is
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the son of Enoch, which is the
son of Seth, which is the son
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of, you know, which is the son
of Adam, what's the scripture
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say? Which was the son of God.
So there's the sense in which
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Adam was the son of God
different than you and I because
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he was the one that came
from the hand of the creator. So
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there was a day when the sons of
God... If we have life out there
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if Jesus created the universe
of worlds... Isaiah 45:18 says:
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When he made the earth, he
did not create it in vain, he
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created the earth to be
inhabited. Well the Keppler
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telescope has discovered
already about 3000 planets. Are
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those planets created in
vain or were they created to be
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inhabited? You see when you
start putting the scripture all
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together you see a picture that
God has, I believe, a universe
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filled with life. Now we need to
be clear. This is the only place
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there's sin. There's no other
sin any place in the universe.
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And sin is never going to happen
again, because the Bible tells
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us iniquity shall not rise
a second time. It's only once,
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it's here. God's on trial on
this planet. God is on trial.
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We're going to do a program
on the great controversy where
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this planet the universe
is watching. We're a spectacle
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to the angels. God is on
trial here because Satan was the
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accuser of the brethren and God
wants the universe to see who's
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right and see who's wrong.
We see the results of misery and
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death and disease on this planet
It's the result of Satan; he
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causes all the hell he can cause
on this planet because God gets
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blamed. People say where is God
with starving children. Where's
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God... You know my friend was a
good Christian; he got hit by a
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train. You know, where was
God, where was God? Why does God
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permit this? The hardest
question that theologians have
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to answer, the very hardest
question is, why do bad things
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happen to good people? That is
the hardest question. But when
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we start looking at this whole
picture of sin and Satan and God
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and the war in heaven then all
of a sudden, you know something
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folks, it jumps out clear as can
be that God is on trial on this
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planet. You see, we had
rebellion in heaven. Satan, the
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accuser of the brethren,
rebelled and took a third of the
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angels with him. Well if you
think of a court room scene, if
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we go to a court room, OK, we
need a jury and the jury has to
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be neutral. You need to decide
who's right, who's wrong. Satan
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says I will be like the Most
High. I will exalt myself above
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the stars. I, I, I, I will
be like the Most High. And God
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says not you're not. I'm going
to bring you down. The war was
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apparently a war of words,
rhetoric and what can God do?
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In a court room, OK, God is the
defendant, right, Satan is the
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accuser of the brethren. If
God says look you are a trouble
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maker, you're no good, you're
out of here, you're gone, you're
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zapped. You see a third of the
angels went with Satan and two-
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thirds stayed with God. What do
the angels think in a court room
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if the defendant kills the
plaintiff? Who's guilty? God's
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hands were tied. There was
nobody in the universe, there
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was no jury. There was nobody in
the universe that could decide,
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was God right or wrong, who was
at fault here. So you know what
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God said, we're going to have to
put the court room on the earth.
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Let's let the earth be the court
room. Let's see how bad the
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devil is. I'll show you how good
I am. And God gives us all these
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good things. Satan causes all
the misery, all the suffering,
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all the starving children, all
the violence. I mean, we can't
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even understand why people
would strap bombs to themself
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and blow themselves away. But
that's all the devil. We've got
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to put the blame where it is.
So God shows us his goodness, he
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makes all the beautiful things
on the planet. Moses says, let
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me see your glory and God
said I'll make my goodness pass
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before you. So God has created
all the beautiful things we see
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in heaven and on earth, the
mountains and the trees and the
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flowers, the plants and the
animals and the children and the
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families and all these things.
Then God has given us 20,000
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herbs and spices. He said
satisfy your mouth with good
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things in Romans. God wouldn't
have had to give you cinnamon
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or oregano or you know all the
spices that he gave. How many
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foods has he given us. How much
evidence has he given us that
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he's there. You see, if God
solved every problem, if God
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every cancer, healed every
problem, fed every starving
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child. We're in a court room.
Are you with me? We're in a
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court room. We see how bad the
devil is, we see how good God is
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trying to show us his goodness.
The devil's nature is terrible,
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terrible, terrible. And God says
that we're a spectacle to the
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angels. The universe is watching
If God had destroyed the devil,
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the angels would not have seen
how bad things were. God says
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I'm sorry folks. This earth
is the court room. This earth is
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going to let the universe, let
the people decide who's right
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and who's wrong. Is God right?
Now in a court room if the
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defendant tampers with the
evidence, we've got a mistrial.
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If God fed every child, if
God solved every problem, healed
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every cancer, he's tampering
with the evidence and we have a
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mistrial. You see God can't
solve every problem. Now he does
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I believe he answers our prayers
I've seen him answer our prayers
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God does answer our prayers
but God cannot fix every problem
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because that's tampering with
the evidence. If God fixed every
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problem on earth what are the
angels going to say, the other
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planets out there going to say?
They're looking at the earth and
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and they go like what's the
deal? God says the devil's bad.
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I don't see it. You know God
fixes all the problems. That's
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tampering with the evidence,
you have a mistrial. So this
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question is the hardest question
I hear people call in on the
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radio, Christian talk shows.
Starving children, where is God?
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You know my friend was good
Christian and he got killed when
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he was 20 years old or whatever,
hit by a train or run over...
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And the answer is always the
same. All things work together
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for good. You've got to trust
the Lord. He's sovereign. I mean
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I've read their books and I've
listened to their programs and
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it's always the same. But you
see this great controversy, this
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court room, if you look at
this from the perspective of the
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universe where there was war
in heaven and there was no jury
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that was neutral, there was
nobody neutral. Everybody had
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taken sides. God said well I
can't destroy the devil because
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all of a sudden I'm going to be
in trouble. People are going to
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blame me. So let's set up a
court room on earth. Let's see,
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respecting the angels, let's see
the results of sin and rebellion
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and to me I think that answers
a lot of questions. People have
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told me that that does make a
lot of sense, it answers a lot
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of questions why bad things
happen to good people. Well I've
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gotten off my track today. We've
got a couple minutes left. We've
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got a few more pictures queued
up over there so I think we'll
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go to the next picture and we're
looking at the Eagle nebula. If
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you can back up and take a
really wide view you'd see what
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looks like an eagle's wings
and the head and tail. The very
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heart of the eagle are these
columns of gas and they are
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really beautiful columns of gas.
Takes about five years to cover
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that area there on the left.
These are called the pillars of
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creation and these are
out- gassing, off-gassing like a
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piece of dry ice. If I had a
piece of dry ice here you'd see
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the vapor coming off and after
the end of a program or two it
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would be getting smaller and
smaller and smaller. Well these
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clouds are kind of doing
the same thing. But there was a
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scripture that I put with that.
Again the attributes of God. It
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said let them praise the name
of the Lord for his name is very
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great and his glory towers over
the earth and over heaven. The
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heavens tell us of the
creativity of God. Isaiah 40
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verse 25 and 26. The next
one we have is a picture of the
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Antennae galaxy. It's two
galaxies that have been named
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the Antennae galaxy and you see
the tail coming out there of the
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two galaxies. They are
gravitationally bound together.
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In the next slide, the Hubble
zooms in and zooms in and we've
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got the most beautiful picture
of the Antennae galaxies as the
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Hubble zooms into the core. Just
look at the beauty there of the
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center part of that galaxy. Yes
folks, you know, I think we're
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going to get to... Would you
like to travel through space and
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see the beauties that we're
seeing with the Hubble telescope
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The Bible tells us eye has
not seen, ear has not heard, it
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hasn't even entered into the
heart of man the things which
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God has prepared for them
that love him. So I think Jesus
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probably can't wait to take you
there. Revelation 14 says the
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redeemed from the earth
are going to follow the Lamb
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wherever he goes. I think we're
going to get to travel with
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Christ through space and see the
beautiful things he has created,
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and the Bible tells us and so
shall we ever be with the Lord.
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We'll see you next
time on Heavens Declare.
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Thank you for watching.
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