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Welcome to Heavens Declare,
I'm Jim Burr and today we're
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going to be talking about Orion.
But before we do that I want to
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show you some of the telescopes
that I designed. We were doing
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this seminar back east, I'm from
Colorado, and some friends from
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40 years ago were there at the
seminar and this friend, this
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gentleman said to me afterwards,
he kind of took me to task, he
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took me to the woodshed. He says
you know you come and do this
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weekend seminar and he said you
didn't show hardly anything of
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the telescopes that you've
designed. He said there might be
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some young person here that
would be inspired by seeing some
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of those things. Because I often
joke about being a high school
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drop out, I had this serious
case of dyslexia, and when I say
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well I'm a high school dropout,
well actually my body graduated
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but my mind dropped out a
long time before. I invented a
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a binocular telescope. A
binocular telescope has never
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been done before. We have
binoculars of course and we have
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telescopes but a binocular
telescope is a very seriously
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difficult thing to do. These
things are so powerful that you
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cannot build two telescope
that can aim at the same stars.
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They're going to be like weird;
you'd never come together.
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What I did, I took six motors
to do this and so what I did was
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I put a bearing on each side of
one of the telescopes and then I
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put a bearing on top and bottom
so one telescope would go left
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and right and one would go up
and down. Basically the motors
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we give the customer a motor
and he knows like we build these
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things and we look down the road
and here's a power line pole but
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you've got a pole in each
eye. You run one motor, OK, but
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that's lined up but the cross
bars are off. So the customer
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gets a switch. He knows the
stars are going this way (side
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to side) with this switch and up
and down with this switch, these
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two bearings, so you aim the two
telescopes. You just bring them
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together, you know. So that
was the way to get the job done.
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The next thing was interoccular
spacing. Eyes are different so
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it takes two motors to get the
eyes lined up and then it took
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two motors to focus each eye. So
we have the first image coming
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up here of the six-inch
binocular telescope and you can
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see the lady looking down into
it. You see who it works there.
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There's two eye pieces, you look
down into the instrument and
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light comes in over your
shoulder. So you can actually
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look straight up in the sky by
looking down. It's very
comfortable; much more
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comfortable than trying to hold
something and look up in the sky
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The six-inch one on the
left shows you the handle bars.
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It has a computer on it for
finding things and handle bars
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to scan around the sky.
When both eyes work, it is
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like unbelievable the difference
We have the next image of our
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show room and in that you'll see
some larger ones there. Those
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big, large white telescopes,
those are 14-inch I think.
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We make up to 16-inch binocular
telescopes. Then you see a very
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large black scope. That's a
30-inch scope and we sold two of
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those to NASA for the Mars
science lab which later became
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the Mars Curiosity. The idea
was that they wanted to get data
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back from Mars on a laser beam.
Now they used radio RF. You know
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you can't aim RF very well.
Radio you can't aim it very well
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The footprint tends to be a
hundred million, two hundred
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million miles when it hits earth
So right now data from Mars
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using 35 meter dishes they
get one megabyte per second and
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that's what it was at about 2002
at least but things may have
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changed. They're getting
one megabyte a second. They said
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with laser it would go to 100
megabytes a second but lasers
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are optics; we need telescopes.
So I was at their laser lab in
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Pasadena. They modulate a beam
of laser. The idea was a beam of
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laser's on the orbiter going
around Mars. They could actually
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aim it. The footprint, I was
talking about the RF would be a
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hundred million miles or so. The
footprint's pretty spread out.
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You can't aim it. A laser you
can aim. The footprint would be
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about 50 miles and data would
go from one megabyte a second to
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a hundred megabytes a second.
So they bought the first scope.
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I was told that they spent
two years looking for the right
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telescope. They bought
that large one in 2002 and they
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bought another one in 2004 and
they were going to need 16 of
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these and I thought well there's
my retirement; it's a pretty big
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instrument. Well NASA got their
budget cut and that was the end
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of it. The Mars science lab was
delayed; it's been delayed and
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delayed and delayed. It finally
was launched. They changed the
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name on it. It now became the
Mars Curiosity when it finally
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launched. So they're still using
RF, they're not using laser
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because of their budget
cut. Well they did test these
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telescopes and on the Messenger
space craft... We have the
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Messenger space craft going
to Mercury and it has a laser on
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there that is going to image, in
fact, it's already done that now
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it's not functioning anymore.
But they were going to image
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Mercury with the laser on the
Messenger space craft. So I got
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a call from NASA in June of 2005
and they said you know we have a
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free laser in space. We're going
to turn the Messenger around and
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aim it back to earth and we want
to see how data is working, how
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well this is working. But what
blew me away was this was in the
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daytime. I mean we've got the
sun, Mercury's going around the
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sun and they were headed towards
the sun and they said we're
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going to test it at 11 o'clock
in the morning and it's quite
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close to the sun; it's five
degrees from Cirrus which is
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like right in the sky. They
just kind of blew me away. I'm
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thinking you're going to point
this telescope close to the sun
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in the middle of the day and
expect to get images from this
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little laser. It's not a
powerful laser. I mean we have
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lasers that would cut through
steel, thick, thick steel, but
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to image Mercury you don't need
that kind of a laser and you're
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going to get this in the daytime
competing with the sun. Well yes
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they did and they pulsed it
actually for a few microseconds.
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It was off and then back on
again and I got a call from them
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saying that it was working.
So I was happy to sell NASA at
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least two of those telescopes.
Anyway the biggest telescope
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I've ever built is actually on a
four-wheel trailer and that's a
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40-inch telescope on a four-
wheel trailer and you want to
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see the heavens with something
like that? For 10 years I had
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this in my garage and later we
sold it and the man who bought
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it says I can't believe that
you're selling your personal
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telescope. And I said will
actually the ultimate telescope
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was not a 40-inch telescope
but like a 20-inch binocular
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telescope that would actually
outperform a 40-inch telescope.
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But the 40-inch on a four-wheel
trailer, four wheels, OK, so it
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would come out of my garage, I
had to put motors on the tongue,
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crank it up and the tongue sat
on a driver motor, so I would
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just throw a switch and it would
come out of the garage about one
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mile an hour, just slowly move
out of the garage. When I was
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done I'd throw the switch and it
would just go in and out of the
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garage. That was quite an
exciting instrument to have.
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Well to get into our program,
what are you going to do in
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heaven? The Bible says
we're going to serve Him. Some
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interesting thoughts I want
to share with you. Isaac Asimov
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sci-fi writer made a statement.
He said, I do not believe in an
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after life therefore I do
not worry about the tortures of
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hell or the boredom of heaven.
I thought, heaven is going to be
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boring. I don't think so folks.
I'll share an image with you.
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The Hubble actually took a
picture in the north and got 20
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thousand galaxies. In fact, the
first picture was taken in about
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1995 I think it was. And the
Hubble looked in the north, OK,
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through a tiny little speck,
like you looking through a
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straw. The Hubble looked through
a tiny little speck of the sky,
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they said like a grain of
sand at arm's length and it got
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20,000 galaxies. Now if we look
at the south, we're looking at
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the center of our Milky Way
galaxy and we just get all this
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maze of stars so you can't
really see through, but looking
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in the north we're looking out
of our galaxy and the Bible even
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talks about that. The Bible says
God hangs the north over the
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empty space. So when the Hubble
looked up near the Big Dipper
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in that part of the sky and
originally the first photograph
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was 10 days. They wanted to
see way, way, way out in space.
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So for 10 days light accumulated
on the chip and they got 3000
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galaxies. OK, then they went
up on the next Hubble repair
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mission where they put better
cameras and computers and so
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forth on and it was so much
improved where they got 3000
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galaxies in a 10-day time
exposure, they got 6000 galaxies
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in 8.4 hours, 8.4. The next
image they ran 84 hours and in
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84 hours they got this image
I was talking about where they
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have 20,000 galaxies through
that little speck in the sky,
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20,000. Each one of those
fuzzy things on the screen is
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another galaxy. Now there a few
stars there. The stars have like
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spikes on them; that's a
factor that's introduced by the
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telescope. But the rest of
these are fuzzy little galaxies.
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So what are you going to do when
you get to heaven. OK, like Paul
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you might get there and say Lord
what are we having to do. You
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know what... The Bible says
we're going to serve him. We're
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going to be servants of our God.
And Revelation repeats that;
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we're servants, we're servants,
we're servants. This is kind of
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fun to think about, what God
could do. We've got a cameraman
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over here, Bill. You know what
the Lord could say to you, Bill?
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I want to assign you all
the galaxies you can see through
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this straw. That's going to
be your little corner of the
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universe. I want you to be
responsible for that. I want you
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to go check that out and 20,000
galaxies... But first I would
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like you to go spend time with
just one galaxy. We'll take a
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look at one galaxy. And the Lord
will say, look I want you to
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check out all the stars that you
see on the screen there. You're
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going to have a hundred billion,
200 billion, somewhere between
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one hundred and 200 billion
stars. That's going to be just
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one of those 20,000 galaxies.
I want you to go there, check it
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out. I want you to spend a week
on each star system, investigate
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all the planets around it. Now
that'd be a pretty good trip,
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but you're going to get a lot of
frequent flyer miles because the
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Bible says from one Sabbath to
another shall all flesh come to
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worship before me. So you're
going to have to come back
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every Sabbath to worship before
the Lord and then if you were
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going to cover the stars that
you saw on the screen, just one
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galaxy, it's going to take you
14 billion 737 million years to
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cover 100 billion stars for
six days on each star. Fourteen
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billion 737 million years. So I
don't think you're going to get
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bored in heaven. We have no idea
The Bible says eye hath not seen
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and ear has not heard, it
hasn't even entered into the
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heart of man the things which
God has prepared for them that
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love him. You know, incredible
God, incredible creator,
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incredible universe and
we're told that Satan has worked
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continually to eclipse the
glories of the future world and
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to so attract our minds to
things of this world. He wants
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to eclipse the glories of
the future world. We're so busy,
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we're so involved in the
concerns of daily life and all
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the activities and frustrations.
We're told that in God's
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presence is the fullness of joy,
at his right hand are pleasures
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forever more. The fullness
of joy, do we have the fullness?
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We have those moments where we
have in our life the fullness of
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joy but it isn't every day
because we have to deal with
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flat tires and all of the issues
that we have to deal with in
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life. But at his right hand are
pleasures forever more, at his
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the fullness of joy. So anyhow,
we want to get into Orion as we
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look at that galaxy... When we
look at our galaxy we see stars
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that you could make stick
figures about. Orion would be a
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man where you have two shoulder
stars, he has three belt stars,
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he has legs. We have the Big
Dipper, we have Hercules, which
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is again another man. We've got
Virgo which is a lady. We have
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Bootes which is a man, Bootes
is a representation of Christ.
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Bootes has a staff in one hand
and a sickle in the other and so
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we're going to be talking a
little bit about the story of
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salvation in the stars. It seems
like God has told us the story
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of salvation. But the
constellation we're interested
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in as Seventh-day Adventists,
I get a lot of e-mails, what
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about Orion because you know
Ellen White indicated that the
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New Jerusalem comes through
Orion, it comes through the
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opening in Orion. I can actually
show you three openings in
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Orion. I'm pretty sure I know
which one she was talking about
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because the Hubble wasn't
working when she was living.
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We've found some other openings
there. But we're going to focus
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on the most beautiful pictures
of Orion. The actual points of
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interest: if you look at
the belt, the three belt stars,
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right below the bottom belt
star is the Horsehead nebula and
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we're going to look at that
and as you go down below that we
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call it where the sword would
be on Orion's hip. That would be
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the sword area which we call the
great nebula. It is also known
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as M42 named after Messier,
the Frenchman who was first to
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observe it and name it, lettered
it actually. He was actually
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looking for comets. Messier
was looking for comets and to be
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famous you discover a comet and
he had found over 100 objects
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and he lettered them M1, M2,
M3 all the way up to about 110
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actually. This was M42 and it's
known as the great nebula in
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Orion. Let's look at that
picture now, because Ellen White
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said that there is a place
of indescribable beauty whence
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cometh the voice of God and
that certainly is one glorious
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picture to see. It is this
fantastically beautiful place of
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indescribable beauty whence
cometh the voice of God. That
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would be a current Hubble
picture of Orion. In fact,
people often ask how
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true is the color from the
Hubble? Well the pictures that
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we're showing you are
almost, most of them, very, very
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accurate. I've taken a picture
of Orion like that. Now the
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Hubble's a million times better
than I can because it can zoom
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in so powerfully, but that over
wide view, I've taken pictures
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that look just every bit as
good of Orion and the color is
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accurate. Occasionally
for research they would take
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pictures because they want to
know what gasses are present so
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they might put a hydrogen alpha
filter on the telescope and take
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a picture of an object and say
well we're going to assign this
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color green. And they'll put an
oxygen 2 filter on and say well
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we'll assign this color blue.
Put a nitrogen 3 filter on and
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so they take usually about four
pictures with different filters
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and then they combine those and
it shows them... each image will
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show them what gasses are
present in these stars. So there
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are a few pictures, the rosette
is one, the color is totally
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artificial. Another picture that
I know is artificial would be
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the Cat's Eye nebula through the
Hubble that shows very red but
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it's actually not. Of course,
we have other telescopes, the
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infrared, ultra violet, Chandra,
the Spencer telescope and
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sometimes they'll actually
combine pictures from three
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different telescopes and
really get the flavor of all the
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different images there. So
anyhow we're looking at the
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great nebula in Orion. What's
interesting, the very first
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picture taken of Orion was in
1880 and we got that coming up.
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This image of Orion in 1880,
the first kind of a very crude
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picture. You saw that previous
one that glorious picture.
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Here's 1880 and by 1883 cameras
had improved, film had improved
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or telescopes had improved. I'm
not sure which it was. But here
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you see quite a change in
three years. I can imagine this
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picture was on the news stand.
Because, wow, our telescopes,
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look what they've done now. This
is the latest news of the day
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in 1883. I can imagine people in
the city on the street talking
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Did you see the paper today?
This would be something people
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would be talking about.
How would Ellen White respond
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because God had given her
visions of heaven and we saw a
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beautiful picture of Orion but
maybe He even gave her something
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better than what the Hubble has
seen there. What would she say?
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She says, oh for language, Oh
I wish I had language to express
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the glories of the bright
world to come. You can imagine.
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People talk about that little
image and she having seen the
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the beautiful one. She says I
long to be there and be with the
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lovely Jesus who gave his life
for me and be changed into his
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glorious image. I begged of my
attending angel to let me remain
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in that place. I could not bear
the thought of coming back to
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this dark world again. I think
of that 1883 picture. She may
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have written about that, could
very well be. In a little book
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called My Life Today she is
talking about heaven and she
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there...
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And that's from My Life Today.
Well as we think about Orion, we
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think about the New Jerusalem,
the City of light. The New
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Jerusalem doesn't need any
light there, according to the
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Bible. God is the light of
it. What happens if we point our
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telescope towards the New
Jerusalem? Would God have to
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cover that with a cloud.
You know in Exodus 19 verse 9 it
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says and the Lord said unto
Moses, Lo, I come to thee in a
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thick cloud. In Revelation 22,
the city does not need sun or
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moon to shine in it for the
glory of the Lord gives it light
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and the Lamb is the light. In
Deuteronomy 5 it says the Lord
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said to Moses, I'm going to come
to you in a dense cloud. Mount
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Sinai was covered with smoke,
the smoke billowed up from it
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like smoke from a furnace. And
going on, these words the Lord
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spake unto all your assembly in
the mount of the cloud of fire
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and a cloud and the thick
darkness. So what would happen
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if we pointed our telescope
there? Would God have to cover
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that up. Well I have discovered
something I think will amaze you
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and it has to do with the
Horsehead nebula. In fact, the
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next image we have you see
the Horsehead nebula. This is a
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thick cloud. The Horsehead
is humongous. Across the bridle
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area where you put the bridle
on that snout, you could put our
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sun, all the planets, a hundred
times our solar system with all
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the planets would fit right
across that area. The neck of
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that horsehead would be about
30 trillion miles. It takes
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about five years to cross that
area. That is an extension of...
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the lower part of this picture
is just one big thick cloud and
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you see how few stars there are
between us and that thick cloud.
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That takes light about 1,500
years to get here, about 1500
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years away. In the lower part
you see light coming out from
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behind. Now we're going to
take a wider view and now the
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horsehead just practically
disappears in this screen and
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you see all the light coming out
from behind that area. That area
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is humongous and there is a lot
of light coming out from behind
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that and I actually have a
little image of the size of that
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Now in this image you see light,
these arrows here, you see light
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coming out from behind this
cloud. Do you suppose that could
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be the light of the New
Jerusalem? This blue circle we
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have shows you how big it is. A
flash of lightning to go across
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that area at 186,000 miles
an hour, a flash of lightening
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would take 300 years to cross
this. So this is huge, this is
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humongous in that area and it
looks like a thick cloud that's
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covering up and light is coming
from behind it. That could
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possibly be... That's right
above the great nebula in Orion
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and it's a fantastic sight. Now
we have another image coming up
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just to the left of the.
I'm sorry. This is actually the
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center part of the great nebula
M42. This is probably the area
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Ellen White was talking about.
It's called the Fish's Mouth.
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It's about 19 trillion miles
from side to side. That dark
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area is about 50 trillion miles
up and down, 19 trillion side to
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side. As the Hubble looked
around that area it found some
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amazing little images
here which they call protoplys,
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protoplanetary stars. The one
over on the left looks like it
00:23:45.75\00:23:49.66
could have a moon going around
it. The one on the right, that
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large one, they think is the
size of our whole solar system.
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If we go back up to where
the Horsehead nebula is you see
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another opening. This is called
the Flame nebula, just right
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next to the Horsehead nebula.
Then if we go down below the
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great nebula in Orion, you see
another object. It doesn't have
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a name. It looks like the
shuttle actually coming out of a
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cloud. So it's an interstellar
dust area there right below the
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great nebula in Orion. We
believe that the New Jerusalem
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will come through the area of
Orion and this has always been a
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big interest to Seventh-day
Adventists. It's the biggest,
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the most spectacular. First of
all the constellation has more
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bright stars than any other
constellation. Some astronomer
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had written why so many super
giant atomic torches could be in
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this part of the sky, we
don't know. The great nebula is
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actually the brightest. You can
actually see this with a hand
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held binocular. If you look
at Orion, you see the shoulders,
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you see the three belt stars,
you go down below the bottom
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belt star which we call the
sword, this man on his hip has
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a sword and you can begin
to see these clouds of gas.
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Come to Colorado where we
have some really dark skies.
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If you're living in a city,
you're not going to see very
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much there, but the darker
the sky the more you're going to
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see. But it is a beautiful place
as Ellen White said, A place of
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indescribable beauty whence
cometh the voice of God. We long
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for that day. We live in this
world where it seems like every
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day things get worse. Our planet
just seems like it's an upheaval
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and I think it can't get worse
and every morning when you turn
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on the news, it seems like it's
getting worse. Yes, folks, Jesus
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is coming soon. We see the signs
we know the signs. The end of
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time it says before he
comes there will be famines and
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pestilence and earthquakes in
divers places. Nation shall rise
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against nation, kingdom against
kingdom. We have seen like
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earthquakes like we've never
seen before. We had a whole
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series of them, the one that
devastated Haiti and then we had
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one that followed in Chili and
then we had New Zealand which
00:26:18.61\00:26:23.71
was a big earthquake and
actually shifted the island
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moved the island and actually
shifted the pole of the earth
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off. Then we had the big one
that took out... you know, the
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tsunami in Japan. So the Bible
talks about last day events.
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Folks, I think we're there.
I think Jesus is coming soon.
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So I would appeal to you, dear
friend, not to get caught up in
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the world, not to get caught
up with the things of the world.
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The Bible says we have overcome
the world. I have said it before
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in this series, we're going to
say it again. We've overcome the
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world. Folks what are the things
of the world? I really have
00:26:55.71\00:26:59.75
concerns for Christians that
can't get through the weekend
00:26:59.78\00:27:03.72
without a movie from Hollywood.
How can a person have that stuff
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in your home. The angels,
the holiness of God, the angels
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cover their faces when
they speak his name. How can we
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listen to cursing on our
television sets. Folks I think
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if you're so caught up in the
world heaven may not be a joy
00:27:20.64\00:27:25.51
to you, it may be a torture to
you. So my appeal is to get to
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know the Lord. When Jesus comes
he says come ye blessed of my
00:27:29.58\00:27:33.55
Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the
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foundation of the world. We
want to be among that group when
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he says I know you. So get to
know Jesus. Put away the world.
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I want to thank you again for
watching Heavens Declare. We'll
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see you again the
next week in the series.
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