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== Space and the Firmament ==
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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 ([https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7554.htm 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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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+104%3A2&version=KJV Psalm 104:2] || Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, '''Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain'''.
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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+104%3A5&version=KJV Psalm 104:5] || '''He set the earth on its foundations''', so that it should never be moved. ▼
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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+148%3A4&version=KJV Psalm 148:4] || Praise him, '''you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens'''!
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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+4%3A6&version=KJV 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:
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| [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joel%202:10&version=KJV 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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| [[:File:The_Complete_Book_of_Enoch,_Standard_English_Version_-_Jay_Winter.pdf|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.
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| [[:File:The_Complete_Book_of_Enoch,_Standard_English_Version_-_Jay_Winter.pdf|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 l'''eaders of the stars''' of the heaven
and '''all those who turn them''', their '''tasks and times and departures'''.
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| [[:File:The_Complete_Book_of_Enoch,_Standard_English_Version_-_Jay_Winter.pdf|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.
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| [[:File:The_Complete_Book_of_Enoch%2C_Standard_English_Version_-_Jay_Winter.pdf|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.
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| [[:File:The_Complete_Book_of_Enoch%2C_Standard_English_Version_-_Jay_Winter.pdf|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'''."
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