Heavens Declare, The

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00:24 Welcome to Heavens Declare. My name is Jim Burr and we're
00:28 continuing on with the Heavens Declare the glory of God. Boy
00:32 they sure do. And the Hubble telescope really helps us.
00:37 Today we're going to talk about the Cassini spacecraft.
00:43 The Cassini, dedicated to observing Saturn, that
00:47 beautiful planet, Saturn, with rings that go up 170,000 miles.
00:52 You know, if you put the earth on one side it would like almost
00:56 reach to the moon. Those beautiful rings which are
01:00 170,000 miles wide but very, very thin. We'll get a chance to
01:04 show you how thin they are. Boy it's the most spectacular site
01:09 that thrills amateurs when they get their first look at the
01:13 rings of Saturn through a telescope. It's amazing just to
01:18 hear people oooh and ah the first time they see the rings of
01:23 Saturn. Well so we have a spacecraft to investigate Saturn
01:27 it's called the Cassini space craft and it's like a school bus
01:33 It weighs 12 tons, a big, heavy spacecraft. We do not have a big
01:38 enough rocket on earth to get the Cassini school bus off a
01:43 billion miles to Saturn. It has to go a billion miles to get
01:47 there. But we get it off the ground, it has to leave earth
01:51 to escape the velocity of the earth, about 25,000 miles.
01:54 So they get it up, they get it out of earth, and they aim it
01:58 towards Venus. Now the Cassini spacecraft is falling towards
02:02 Venus, picking up gravity. Venus picks it up faster and faster
02:06 and faster. The first time it leaves earth about approximately
02:10 25,000 miles an hour. It goes around Venus at 70,000 miles an
02:14 hour. It's falling towards Venus you know, picking up speed. But
02:18 it misses Venus and it hits 70,000 miles an hour. Now it
02:26 didn't crash into Venus. You know for something to crash
02:31 into like earth it's a pretty critical angle. They tend to
02:36 glance off, bounce off. In other words, an asteroid coming past
02:42 earth is greatly affected by the gravity of earth. We get several
02:47 a year of these asteroids that come very close to us, but it
02:51 isn't very often that we actually get a big one. In fact,
02:55 just in 2016 somebody was already killed in India with an
02:59 asteroid that hit. So when you think of the mathematics that's
03:04 involved in setting a space craft, getting it out of earth's
03:08 orbit, going to Venue, missing Venus, but picking up 77,000
03:13 miles an hour. And then, because we don't have a big enough
03:17 rocket to get this school bus, 12 tons, to Saturn, a billion
03:21 miles away, they aim it back at earth. So now it's coming back
03:25 at earth. Again the mathematics involved would blow me away.
03:29 And it whips around earth and picks up speed again. Then they
03:34 shoot it back to Venus. So twice it's going around Venus.
03:38 And after that trip around Venus then they shoot it out in space
03:41 and it uses the gravity assist of Jupiter. Now Jupiter is a
03:46 half a billion miles away. And so it picks up speed as it goes
03:51 around Jupiter. It still takes us seven years to get to Saturn.
03:56 Now if you're doing the math you're wondering what's going
03:58 on, this doesn't sound correct. Actually I need to explain
04:01 something, because as we hit the first trip around Venus we hit
04:06 77,000 miles an hour, but it could not keep that speed.
04:08 Like if you were riding your bicycle down a hill and you hit
04:12 77,000 miles an hour at the bottom of the hill, the gravity
04:16 as you're leaving is going to slow you down again. But what it
04:20 does, it picks up speed with respect to the sun.
04:22 An illustration would be a guy with a discus. You know, a
04:27 discus thrower spins around but his body is also moving isn't
04:31 it? So he has a centrifugal motion, but his body has two
04:35 motions there. So the same is true firing the Cassini space
04:40 craft to Saturn. It gains speed with respect to the sun
04:45 although it didn't keep the 77,000. It lost most of that.
04:49 But it did pick up speed because of the centrifugal motion and
04:56 the rotation of the planet. So we get to Saturn in seven years.
05:01 In that process we saved 75 tons of rocket fuel. It would have
05:06 taken 75 tons of rocket fuel to get this 12-ton spacecraft to
05:12 Saturn directly with using gravity assist. So gravity
05:14 assist really worked
05:16 even though it takes more time, it's a slower process because we
05:20 have to go to Venus, go to earth go to Venue, go out to Jupiter
05:24 and then go to Saturn in seven years. Now the amazing thing...
05:27 I want to show you a picture of Saturn. They've got that queued
05:31 up back there. It is really amazing to see where they flew
05:35 that space craft through the rings, the F and the G ring.
05:41 The outer rings are the F and the G rings. It's a 2500-mile
05:45 window where that arrow is. A 2500-mile window; they hit
05:49 that right in the middle accurately from a billion miles
05:53 away. Now that's an amazing fete of mathematics to go a
05:58 billion miles and hit a window of 2500 miles. But they did it.
06:03 And when they arrived there at the F and the G ring then they
06:09 flipped the Cassini around. They fired the rockets then as it
06:14 went through that window and in the process of firing the
06:18 rockets now it slowed the space craft down so you know what
06:22 happened? It picked up the orbit of Saturn. The very first time
06:27 around Saturn they had the Huygens lander jettisoned off of
06:32 the Cassini and it had parachutes and had lights on it
06:36 and they landed on Titan, the moon Titan. They came down with
06:41 parachutes and because of the dense atmosphere there they
06:44 they turned on lights so they could photograph the surface of
06:49 Titan. Cassini continued on around to orbit around Saturn.
06:52 The reason they're looking there they think there's a lot of
06:56 methane gas on Titan and they think that life could have
07:00 arisen on earth with methane, ammonia and hydrogen. We've got
07:06 200 of these spacecraft in our solar system and most of them
07:12 are looking for life. How did it come about, how did evolution
07:18 happen? You read that most of these people believe in
07:21 evolution. That's their whole goal is to try to find some
07:25 evidence. Will they find evidence out there? Well they're
07:29 looking on Mars. You remember in, I think, it was 1986 they
07:35 found polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on Mars and oh I
07:41 think maybe this is going to be evidence there was life on Mars
07:45 Well that's pretty much been debunked, the theory that they
07:49 found something. What is interesting, Mars is downwind.
07:53 We have Mercury, Venus, Earth and then we have Mars. Mars is
07:57 downwind from our earth and we have the solar wind, charged
08:02 particles from the sun, the solar wind is traveling and it's
08:05 possible there are something like 200 micro-organisms that
08:09 are in our upper atmosphere that could actually ride on the solar
08:13 wind and contaminate Mars. So there's a possibility that we've
08:16 done some contamination there and of course the spacecraft
08:19 they send they try to purify them so that there's no
08:23 contamination when they go. But this whole space program is
08:27 geared around trying to find life like on earth. Now I'd like
08:30 to go back to that picture of Saturn because there's something
08:34 really amazing where that arrow is. You'll see a little tiny
08:37 speck. Hopefully you've got a big enough screen. You can see
08:42 a little tiny speck there and that is earth from one billion
08:46 miles away. You see the arrow? Can you see the little speck
08:50 right in front of that? That is earth folks. That's earth from
08:54 a billion miles away. Now this picture was taken when the sun
08:57 was in the middle right behind Saturn. So Cassini is going
09:00 around; the sun is right behind it and we see the glowing. You
09:04 see the sun rays there in the bottom of the picture. So we
09:07 have the sun in the center, we have Mercury going around the
09:10 sun, Venus going around the sun, and earth going around the sun,
09:14 and they caught earth in that little window from a billion
09:18 miles away and you're on it. Were you smiling when they took
09:22 your picture? OK. That is earth from one billion miles away.
09:29 As I see that picture so many scriptures come to mind. God
09:35 showed Ellen White in vision many things. She had traveled
09:40 to Australia on a ship. In those days, of course, they
09:45 wouldn't have had planes that would fly across. If you can
09:49 imagine being on a ship for three weeks. Can you imagine
09:53 sunrise, sunset, three weeks you're out there. All you see is
09:56 ocean for three weeks. Would you think the earth was small. You'd
10:00 think it was pretty big. In fact when I fly back from Australia
10:06 you look at those wings out there on those jets for 14 hours
10:10 just thundering away. You look down. All you see is ocean.
10:14 Earth doesn't look very small. But in that picture you saw,
10:19 this little, tiny speck. Even though it wouldn't have been
10:23 apparent to her... or we didn't know how our earth would look
10:26 from a billion miles away or how big the universe was or how big
10:30 the stars were. We didn't know how big our sun was in those
10:33 days compared to the earth. She says: Behold Him who numbers the
10:40 stars and created the worlds of which this earth is but a
10:44 small speck. She said in the 1800s that this earth is but a
10:49 small speck... and would scarcely be missed more than a
10:53 tiny leaf in the forest. I was raised in Minnesota. You know,
10:57 we have all these trees in Minnesota and in the fall they
11:00 drop their leaves and when you walk through the forest there's
11:05 six inches of leaves that you crunch down every step you take.
11:09 Would you miss one of those leaves? And she says this earth
11:15 would scarcely be missed more than a tiny leaf from the forest
11:20 I think she saw the big picture didn't she? So we've been
11:27 talking about the attributes of God and another statement from
11:31 Desire of Ages. She says that...
11:48 So she saw these other planets. Keppler has taken us another
11:52 hundred and some years to discover 3000 planets. And by
11:56 the way, we have a very hard time discovering planets.
12:00 We have only actually seen one or two planets. We actually
12:03 discover planets because they go in front of the star and we see
12:09 the star dim. So repeatedly we see them dim. Boy I don't think
12:14 we brought those pictures along. But I have a picture of one of
12:19 the planets that has been actually imaged. We really can't
12:23 image planets. We see gravitational affects, we see
12:27 light dimming. The planet is going in front of the star
12:30 pulling the star towards us. We can measure the Doppler shift of
12:35 a star moving. Like I said, Jupiter moves our sun 500,000
12:39 miles and through that Doppler shift we can sense that a star
12:43 is moving towards us and away from us. Planets going around
12:48 this way around the star, we'll see the star oscillate sort of
12:52 in a sine wave, but mostly we find planets by their dimming
12:57 affect as they go in front of the star. She had that vision.
13:01 She said in this little world under the curse of sin, this is
13:05 the one dark spot in the glorious creation and it will be
13:09 honored above all others in the universe. And we've been
13:14 showing you pictures of this incredible universe. It goes on
13:18 here from second testimonies. In this speck of a world the
13:23 whole heavenly universe manifests the greatest interest
13:28 for Christ has paid an infinite price for the souls of its
13:34 inhabitants. So there's a lot in that picture. One of the
13:40 attributes of God is his justice Another statement... She says:
13:53 He has been exerting a restraining power over His
14:04 attributes. One of his attributes is his justice...
14:15 So he might just wipe this out and be done with sin but what
14:21 would happen, what would the angels say? You see we've talked
14:25 in a previous program about the court room scene where in this
14:29 earth God is on trial here. We see how terrible the devil is,
14:32 all the things he has caused. We see all the goodness of God
14:35 because the universe has to make a decision, the angels, the
14:41 people. Are you going to decide for God or against God? There's
14:46 another statement along this same line. Well: The Omnipotent
14:50 one has been exerting a restraining power over his
14:54 attributes but he will certainly arise to punish the wicked ones
14:58 who so boldly defy the just claims of the Decalogue. Then
15:04 another one from Desire of Ages:
15:15 Is there hatred for God? I'll tell you that is for sure. The
15:18 hatred that we see in this world today for Christianity is just
15:23 ballooning, exploding and is just so amazing. But we're also
15:27 told in Exodus 34:7 that he keeps loving kindness for
15:32 thousands, he forgives iniquity, transgression and sin, yet he
15:40 will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Exodus 34:7.
15:47 So God is both just and merciful. Heaven would be a
15:50 place of torture. In America, we're a Christian nation,
15:53 everybody going to heaven, right? If everybody went to
15:56 heaven it wouldn't be heaven folks. Those that love the world
16:03 those that love the violation of God's law, heaven would be a
16:09 torture. Those who love the world, those Christians who
16:13 can't get through a weekend without a Hollywood blockbuster
16:17 movie, folks, I'm afraid you would not enjoy the holiness of
16:20 heaven. The holiness of heaven where the angels cover their
16:24 faces when they speak God's name How can you watch a movie that
16:28 has cursing and swearing in it when the angels who never
16:32 sinned, the angels cover their face when they speak God's name,
16:36 how could a Christian watch this Hollywood stuff. And the blood
16:40 shed and the murder. I'm afraid that there are Christians who
16:43 who can't get through the week end without a blockbuster movie,
16:47 they will not enjoy heaven. It would be a torture to them.
16:49 So continuing on with our little planet earth, there in Saturn's
16:57 rings, the Bible talks about the 90 and nine. If a man holds a
17:03 hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, will he not leave
17:07 the 90 and nine on the hill and go and look for the one that
17:12 wandered off. Matthew 18:12. Yes this earth is the one lost sheep
17:19 and we're told Jesus left the 99 worlds for this world, for
17:25 this one. This world is one lost sheep. Jesus considered heaven a
17:32 place not to be desired while you and I were lost. Well when I
17:38 see that little speck of earth there, I'm reminded of many
17:44 things. This little tiny earth from a billion miles away and I
17:49 remember that Satan tempted Jesus and he said you know if
17:53 you will bow down and worship me I will give you all this power.
17:58 It's mine to give. Jesus said all power is given me in heaven
18:01 and earth. When you look at that little tiny speck... Maybe
18:05 we can go back to that picture once again and let you see earth
18:08 from a billion miles away. When Satan said I'll give you all the
18:11 power, all the glory of the earth, it's mine to give, I
18:14 don't think Jesus was impressed. Another thought that comes to my
18:17 mind when I see that is Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel 4-he is
18:25 walking on the palace, he's got his thumbs in his suspenders I
18:28 suppose he has suspenders and he's like isn't this a great
18:32 Babylon I have built by my mighty power for the glory of my
18:36 majesty. I'd like to take Nebuchadnezzar in the
18:41 Cassini spacecraft and give him a pair of binoculars and then
18:45 Nebuchadnezzar would go, where, where is this great Babylon I
18:48 have built? You see it's a matter of perspective, isn't it?
18:53 I'm sure you've all heard it said that 15 minutes of fame.
18:58 Your life is complete if you can have 15 minutes of fame.
19:03 You can get on television for 15 minutes or something, your life
19:06 is complete. On this little speck, this little speck of an
19:11 earth that you saw your life would be complete. You want
19:15 fame. In Luke 15 you want joy in heaven, here's what it says
19:21 in Luke 15 verse 10: I say unto you there is joy in the presence
19:26 of God over one sinner that repenteth. So if you want to
19:32 have fame... We all have to repent don't we on a daily basis
19:38 Repentance. Joy in heaven in the presence of the angels of God
19:43 over one sinner that repents. And if we look at Luke 15 verse
19:50 seven it says I tell you that in the same way there will be
19:55 more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over
20:02 the 90 and nine righteous who do not need to repent. OK. And
20:07 that's the story of the 90 and nine. There were 90 and nine
20:13 that were safe and there was one that was lost. In Psalm 8 verse
20:18 three it says when I consider the heavens, the works of thy
20:23 hands, what is man that Thou art mindful of him? In Heavenly
20:28 Places there's another statement
20:41 What a God we see. I just get blown away the more I learn,
20:47 whether I'm looking at the genetic code that tells your
20:53 how to make you, the recipe for you. That just blows me away to
20:58 think that there is spell checking in every letter code
21:02 in your body, six billion letters that make you.
21:07 And these letters are, they say, four dimensional. You could take
21:11 a string of letters or a couple rows of letters and there are
21:16 instructions there of where the messenger RNA that copies the
21:20 code, where it's supposed to start and where it's supposed
21:25 to stop, and it can have two messages in one line or in one
21:29 segment and one of the messages can say you're going to make the
21:33 eyeballs, you're going to make the teeth, you're going to make
21:36 the ears, you're going to make the brain. It's as if you read a
21:40 code and it said in the beginning God created
21:42 heaven and earth. But we're found there's more languages,
21:47 there are two languages in the DNA code and reading in a
21:51 different language it said Jack and Jill went up the hill to
21:55 fetch a pail of water. It is so unbelievable that the complexity
21:59 of this code that can tell every cell in your body what to make
22:03 and every cell has to read that. Can you read that. I can't read
22:07 it? I can't read it. Nobody can read it. We've spent three
22:10 billion dollars to read the genetic code of the human
22:14 genome, three billion dollars. And thousands of scientists and
22:18 hundreds of labs were on a crash course to see who could be the
22:22 first to complete it. The more they study, the more they learn,
22:26 and now they're talking about epigenetics. You see we're going
22:30 downhill. Every child born has a hundred mutations in their
22:35 body, in this copying process, 100 mutations, not found in
22:38 either parent. Dr. John Sanford was an evolutionist, didn't
22:42 believe in God, but he started looking at that and started
22:45 putting the gene pool back together and he discovered
22:48 when he gets back to Adam he had a perfect gene pool. He became a
22:51 Christian putting the gene pool back together. Evolution says
22:54 we're mutating upward, we're getting better and better all
22:58 the time, we're mutating, mistakes that add information
23:01 and through
23:02 natural selection we're improving. Dr. John Sanford
23:07 putting that back together said No, you know what, we didn't
23:11 come from a monkey. You see the gene pool diverses over time.
23:14 If you ever were a person with a shotgun you know that the bee
23:17 bees come out of a shotgun in a circle like this but the farther
23:20 they go the more they disperse. The same thing is true with the
23:24 gene pool. When we go back in history, you see they can follow
23:27 it back right to the flood and they say there was a bottle neck
23:30 at the time of the flood because we look at the dispersion of the
23:35 gene pool and the evolution says oh yeah they had one too. They
23:39 had a bottle neck. When they came out of Africa boy almost
23:41 everybody died off, just a few people were left and there was a
23:45 bottle neck in the gene pool there coming out of Africa. But
23:49 we can go right back to Eve actually, follow the gene pool
23:55 back to Eve. So it's an incredible, incredible plan that
24:01 the Lord has to reproduce man. It's been said the genetic code
24:06 is the language of God. Yes, God wrote a message of you never
24:11 before seen in the history of the universe through that
24:14 genetic code. Every one of you has different finger prints. How
24:18 could that be? All that information to make your
24:21 finger prints and every one of them are different. What a God
24:25 we worship. I'll tell you, you need to study into that and get
24:29 our early programs. You may want to order this series. It's going
24:33 to be probably about 20, about six months' worth of shows,
24:36 probably about 24 or 26 programs You may just want to get them
24:40 from 3ABN and share them with your friends because we went
24:43 into a lot of that back some of the earlier programs. But there
24:50 is a statement... Would you be interested in a statement if I
24:55 told you how you could never perish, how you could for sure
25:01 be saved? There is a statement that I thought was just
25:06 fantastic and it is from Desire of Ages and it says...
25:47 I have a friend back in Virginia Beach, Virginia, he's a customer
25:51 of ours, a Christian who bought actually our big binocular
25:54 telescopes and we're talking big bucks, like the biggest one was
25:59 $14,000 that he bought. He started with a six-inch one.
26:01 Then he got a 10-inch one, then he got a 14-inch one. He said,
26:05 Ah, I see the heavens with both eyes like I've never seen them
26:09 before. But he said the Lord has given me a witnessing tool. When
26:12 I'm witnessing to people I often ask them, has your video been
26:16 to the editing room? And of course they say, what do you
26:20 mean, video? And he says well you know the Lord is making a
26:23 video of everything in your life everything you ever did,
26:26 everything you ever said, every thought you ever had and he's
26:29 going to play that back. The Bible says we all shall stand
26:32 before the judgment seat of Christ. You're going to have to
26:35 stand and watch that video. Do you want to see that video? Or
26:39 do you want it edited? He says, if you accept Jesus he will edit
26:44 that video so you don't have to watch the bad parts. Now that's
26:49 encouraging and he said you know that God gave him that way of
26:55 witnessing so that he could witness to others.
26:56 Well thank you for watching.
26:58 We want to encourage you again to tune us in on Heavens Declare
27:02 Thank you


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