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Space and the Firmament
Scripture talking about space and the Firmament - Yes, the Scriptures describe what's above us in many accounts.
What are the stars, planets (wandering stars), where's the Creator at? Is there a Firmament or is space a ever expanding vacuum full of wonders and dangers? Enoch says those on the earth shall err concerning them saying "Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods. And evil shall be multiplied upon them". Sadly this seems to be the case, as man has named the wandering stars after the names of false gods.
According to the scriptures, the Firmament (7554. raqa) is an extended surface, expanse - the visible arch of the sky - which was stamped / beat out, spread out by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal).
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| Genesis 1:6-8 | And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. |
| Genesis 1:14 | Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; |
| Genesis 1:20 | And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” |
| Genesis 7:11 | In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. |
| Genesis 8:2 | The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained |
| Exodus 24:10 | and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. |
| Deuteronomy 4:19 | And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. |
| Job 22:14 | Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’ |
| Ezekiel 1:22-26 | Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of an expanse, shining like awe-inspiring crystal, spread out above their heads. And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another. And each creature had two wings covering its body. And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the sound of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army. When they stood still, they let down their wings. And there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads. When they stood still, they let down their wings. And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance. |
| Amos 9:2 | Though they dig into Sheol, From there shall My hand take them; And though they ascend to heaven, From there will I bring them down. |
| Jeremiah 31:37 | This is what the Lord says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” declares the Lord. |
| Job 26:7 | He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. |
| Job 26:11 | The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke. |
| Job 37:18 | can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze? |
| Psalm 19:1 | The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. |
| Psalms 19:4-6 | Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat. |
| Psalm 102:25 | Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. |
| Psalm 104:2 | Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain. |
| Psalm 148:4 | Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!
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| Proverbs 3:19 | The Lord by wisdom founded the earth, By understanding He established the heavens. |
| Proverbs 8:27-29 | When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, |
| Isaiah 3:18 | In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon |
| Isaiah 40:22 | It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; |
| Isaiah 42:5 | Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: |
| Isaiah 44:24 | Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself, |
| Isaiah 45:12 | I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host. |
| Isaiah 55:9 | “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts. |
| Jude 1:13 | Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. |
| Daniel 12:3 | Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. |
| Amos 9:6 | Who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name. |
| Job 26:7 | He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. |
| 1 Samuel 2:8 | He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world. |
| Ezekiel 1:22-28 | 22) And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. 23) And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. 24) And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. 25) And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. 26) And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. 27) And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. 28) As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. |
| Revelation 4:6 | And before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: |
| Joel 3:15 | The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. |
| Joel 2:10 | The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: |
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| The Acts of Paul 3:19-21 | 19) They therefore are not children of righteousness but children of wrath who reject the wisdom of God, saying that the heaven and the earth and all that are in them are not the work of God. 20) THEY THEREFORE ARE CHILDREN OF WRATH, for cursed are they, following the teaching of the serpent, 21) whom do ye drive out from you and flee from their doctrine. (See NASA) |
| 1 The Epistle of Clement 27:7 | seeing that The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth His handiwork. Day uttereth word unto day, and night proclaimeth knowledge unto night; and there are neither words nor speeches, whose voices are not heard. |
| Testament of Solomon 113 | And when they were gone I ordered Ornias to be brought forward, and said to him: "Tell me how you know this!" and he answered: "We demons ascend into the firmament of heaven, and fly about among the stars. And we hear the sentences which go forth upon the souls of men, and forthwith we come, and whether by force of influence, or by fire, or by sword, or by some accident, we veil our act of destruction; and if a man does not die by some untimely disaster or by violence, then we demons transform ourselves in such a way as to appear to men and be worshipped in our human nature." |
| 1 Enoch 6:9 | And I saw the corner−stone of the earth, I saw the four winds which bear the firmament of the heaven. |
| 1 Enoch 6:13 | I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above and I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones. |
| 1 Enoch 6:18 | And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. |
| 1 Enoch 2:1 | Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how they do not change their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heaven, how they all rise and set in order each in its season, and transgress not against their appointed order. |
| 1 Enoch 6:3 | And I saw the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. |
| 1 Enoch 7:4 | Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. |
| 1 Enoch 7:30 | Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me and said unto me: "This course of fire which thou hast seen is the fire in the west which persecutes all the luminaries of heaven." |
| 4 Enoch 1:9 | And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven, and all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries, Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones. |
| 4 Enoch 2:1 | The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their guide showed me. |
| 4 Enoch 2:3 | And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the heaven. |
| 4 Enoch 2:63-64 | 63) And owing to them men go wrong therein, for those luminaries truly render service on the world−stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heaven, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty−four stations. 64) For the signs and the times and the years and the days the angel Uriel showed to me, whom the Lord of glory hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the heaven, in the heaven and in the world that they should rule on the face of the heaven and be seen on the earth and be leaders for the day and the night and all the ministering creatures which make their revolution in all the chariots of the heaven. |
| 4 Enoch 2:86 | And the west quarter is named the diminished because there all the luminaries of the heaven wane and go down. |
| 4 Enoch 2:93-108 | 93) And the names of the sun are the following: the first Orjares, and the second Tomas. 94) And the moon has four names: the first name is Asonja, the second Ebla, the third Benase, and the fourth Erae. 95) These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike. 96) In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted. 97) And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern portals on the face of the heaven. 98) And when the moon rises one−fourteenth part appears in the heaven: the light becomes full in her on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. 99) And fifteen parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day her light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by fourteenth parts. 100) And in her waning decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light disappears wholly on the fifteenth. 101) And in certain months the month has twenty−nine days and once twenty−eight. 102) And Uriel showed me another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it is transferred to her by the sun. 103) During all the period during which the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun during fourteen daysher light is accomplished in the heaven, and when she is illumined throughout, her light is accomplished full in the heaven. 104) And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun. 105) On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end and her circumference is empty, void of light. 106) And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months of twenty−nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and seventy−seven days. 107) And in the time of her going out she appears for three months thirty days each, and for three months she appears twenty−nine each. 108) At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is nothing else in her save her light. |
| 4 Enoch 3:1 | And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: "Behold, I have
shown thee everything Enoch and I have revealed everything to thee that thou shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures. |
| 4 Enoch 3:5-9 | 5) And the moon shall alter her order and not appear at her time. 6) And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on the extremity of the great chariot in the west and shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light. 7) And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order and these shall alter their orbits and tasks and not appear at the seasons prescribed to them. 8) And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners and the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them. And they shall be altered from all their ways. Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods. 9) And evil shall be multiplied upon them, and punishment shall come upon them so as to destroy all. |
| 1 Esdras 4:34 | ...The earth is great. The sky is high. The sun is swift in its course, for it circles around the sky, and returns on its course again in one day. |
| 2 Esdras 4:7 | He said to me, “If I had asked you, ‘How many dwellings are there in the heart of the sea? Or how many springs are there at the fountain head of the deep? Or how many streams are above the firmament? Or which are the exits †of hell? Or which are the entrances of paradise?’ 8 perhaps you would say to me, ‘I never went down into the deep, or as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.’ |
| 2 Esdras 6:4 | before the heights of the air were lifted up, before the measures of the firmament were named, before the footstool of Zion was established, |
| 2 Esdras 6:22 | and when the seal will be set on the age that is to pass away, then I will show these signs: the books will be opened before the firmament, and all will see together. |
| 2 Esdras 6:41 | “On the second day, again you made the spirit of the firmament and commanded it to divide and to separate the waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath. |
| Jubilees 2:4 | And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst of the waters, and the waters were divided on that day -half of them went up above and half of them went down below the firmament (that was) in the midst over the face of the whole earth. And this was the only work YAHWEH created on the second day. |
| Jubilees 2:8-9 | 8) And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness. 9) And YAHWEH appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for Shabbats and for months and for feasts and for years and for Shabbats of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years |
| Jubilees 19:25 | And these shall serve To lay the foundations of the heaven, And to strengthen the earth, And to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament. |
| Jubilees 19:27 | 'Yacob, my beloved son, whom my soul loves, may YAHWEH bless you from above the firmament, and may He give you all the blessings wherewith He blessed Adam, and Enoch, and Noah, and Shem; and all the things of which He told me, and all the things which He promised to give me, may he cause to cleave to you and to your seed forever, according to the days of heaven above the earth. |
| 2 Baruch 21:4 | “O hear me, you who created the earth; the one who fixed the firmament by the word, and fastened the height of the heavens by the spirit; the one who in the beginning of the world called what did not yet exist, and they obey you. |
| 3 Baruch 2:1-2 | 1) And he took me and led me where the firmament has been set fast, and where there was a river 2) which no one can cross, nor any strange breeze of all those which God created. And he took me and led me to the first heaven, and showed me a door of great size... |
| 3 Baruch 2:4-5 | 4) ...And I Baruch asked the angel, Make known to me, I pray thee, what is the thickness of the heaven in which we journeyed, or what is its extent, 5) or what is the plain, in order that I may also tell the sons of men? And the angel whose name is Phanuel said to me: This door which thou seest is the door of heaven, and as great as is the distance from earth to heaven, so great also is its thickness; and again as great as is the distance (from North to South, so great) is the length of the plain which thou didst see. |
| Book of Giants 18:2 | And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds which support the earth and the firmament of the heaven. |
| Book of Giants 18:5 | I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths of the angels. I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of heaven above. |
| Book of Giants 18:12-15 | 12) And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water on it, and no birds, 13) But it was a desert and a horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, 14) And an angel questioned me regarding them. The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth. 15) This has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come out at their proper times. |
| Testament of Abraham 7:1 | And after Abraham had beheld the place of judgement, the cloud carried him down to the firmament beneath. |
| Apocalypse of Abraham 19 | And a voice came to me out of the midst of the fire, saying: “Abraham, Abraham!” I said: “Here am I!” And He said: “Consider the expanses which are under the firmament on which thou art (now) placed, and see how on no single expanse is there any other but He whom thou hast sought, or who hath loved thee.” And while He was yet speaking (and) lo! the expanses opened, and beneath me the heavens. And I saw upon the seventh firmament upon which I stood a fire widely extended, and light, and dew, and a multitude of angels, and a power of invisible glory over the living creatures which I saw; but no other being did I see there. And I looked from the mountain in which I stood [downwards] to the sixth firmament, and saw there a multitude of angels, of (pure) spirit, without bodies, who carried out the commands of the fiery angels who were upon the eighth firmament, as I was standing suspended over them. And behold, upon this firmament there were no other powers of (any) other form, but only angels of (pure) spirit, like the power which I saw on the seventh firmament. And He commanded that the sixth firmament should be taken away. And I saw there, on the fifth firmament, the powers of the stars which carry out the commands laid upon them, and the elements of the earth obeyed them. |
| Apocalypse of Abraham 21 | And He said to me: “Look, now, beneath thy feet at the firmaments and understand the creation foreshadowed in this expanse, the creatures existing on it, and the age prepared according to it.” And I saw beneath [the surfaces of the feet, and I saw beneath] the sixth heaven and what was therein, |
| Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 3:4 | But ye shall not be so, my children, recognizing in the firmament, in the earth, and in the sea, and in all created things, the Lord Who made all things, that ye become not as Sodom, which changed the order of nature. |
| Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 25:1-2 | 1) And after these things shall Abraham and Isaac and Jacob arise unto life, and I and my brethren shall be chiefs of the tribes '"of Israel : Levi first, I the second, Joseph third, Benjamin fourth, Simeon fifth, Issachar sixth, and so all in order. 2) And the Lord blessed Levi, and the Angel of the Presence, me; the powers of glory, Simeon; the heaven, Reuben; the earth, Issachar; the sea, Zebulun; the mountains, Joseph; the tabernacle, Benjamin; the luminaries, Dan; Eden, Naphtali; the sun, Gad; the moon, Asher. |
| The Prayer of Azariah and the Songs of the Three Jews 1:34 | Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and above ail to be praised and glorified for ever |
| 1 Enoch 2:4 | And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. |
| 1 Enoch 4:1 | And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. |
| 1 Enoch 4:21 | And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men. And truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout all the generations of men." |
| 1 Enoch 6:9-10 | 9) And I saw the corner−stone of the earth, I saw the four winds which bear the firmament of the heaven. 10) And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and have their station between heaven and earth: these are the pillars of the heaven. |
| 1 Enoch 6:11-12 | 11) I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting. 12) I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths of the angels. |
| 1 Enoch 6:19-20 | 19) I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them. The angel said: "This place is the end of heaven and earth. This has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. 20) And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times |
| 1 Enoch 7:61 | 61) And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me. |
| 1 Enoch 7:65-67 | 65) And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth, and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the east, the same number of portals, and the same number of outlets. 66) And from thence I went to the south to the ends of the earth, and saw there three open portals of the heaven: and thence there come dew, rain, and wind. And from thence I went to the east to the ends of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of heaven open and small portals above them. 67) Through each of these small portals pass the stars of heaven and run their course to the west on the path which is shown to them |
| 2 Enoch 3:28-29 | 28) And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was hidden told me what is first and last in the heaven in the height, and beneath the earth in the depth, and at the ends of the heaven, and on the foundation of the heaven. 29) And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds are divided, and how they are weighed, and how the portals of the winds are reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power of the lights of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of the stars according to their names and how all the divisions are divided |
| 2 Enoch (The Luminaries) 2:1-5 | 1) The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their guide showed me. 2) And he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world and unto eternity, till the new creation is accomplished which dureth till eternity. 3) And this is the first law of the luminaries: the luminary the sun has its rising in the eastern portals of the heaven, and its setting in the western portals of the heaven. 4) And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of the stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in the west, and all following each other in accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left of these portals. 5) And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire. |
| 2 Enoch (The Luminaries) 2:65 | In like manner twelve doors Uriel showed me open in the circumference of the suns chariot in the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their appointed seasons. |
| 2 Enoch (The Luminaries) 2:67 | As for the twelve portals in the heaven at the ends of the earth, out of which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven in the east and in the west. |
| TESTAMENT OF SOLOMON 114 | I therefore, having heard this, glorified the Lord God, and again I questioned the demon, saying: "Tell me how ye can ascend into heaven, being demons, and amidst the stars and holy angels intermingle." And he answered: "Just as things are fulfilled in heaven, so also on earth they are fulfilled the types of all of them. For there are principalities, authorities, world-rulers, and we demons fly about in the air; and we hear the voices of the heavenly beings, and survey all the powers. And as having no ground (basis) on which to alight and rest, we lose strength and fall off like leaves from trees. And men seeing us imagine that the stars are falling from heaven. But it is not really so, O king; but we fall because of our weakness, and because we have nowhere anything to lay hold of; and so we fall down like lightnings in the depth of night and suddenly. And we set cities in flames and fire the fields. For the stars have firm foundations in the heavens like the sun and the moon." |