Participants: Jim Burr
Series Code: HDS
Program Code: HDS000010A
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00:25 Thank you for watching Heavens Declare. 00:27 I'm Jim Burr. We're continuing here talking about the 00:31 attributes of God. I discovered 21 attributes of God in the 00:36 heavens that the Bible talks about and you've probably seen 00:40 our clips that we have, short clips, at the end of the hour 00:43 at 3ABN. We often have a minute- and-a-half to talk about the 00:47 attributes of God so today we've got a full hour actually to talk 00:51 about the attributes of God. Our first picture actually is of the 00:55 Horsehead nebula. It is in Orion Now we're going to be getting 01:00 into Orion coming up pretty soon here. But the Horsehead is one 01:05 beautiful sight. And we've got many, many pictures of the 01:08 Horsehead. If you look at Orion it's a constellation you see. 01:11 It's like a man. You see his shoulders. He's got three stars 01:16 across his belt. He's got two feet stars. The Horsehead nebula 01:20 is a gaseous cloud of dust which is located right below the 01:25 lowest belt star. It's actually on the left as you see Orion. 01:30 We have a picture coming up here This is actually infrared. Most 01:34 of the pictures we have of Orion will show the Kodak moment where 01:40 you see the really dark... There's a lot of dark dust in 01:43 this particular cloud, but what a glorious sight that is. 01:47 The snout, right where you put a bridle across that horse. 01:51 You know, we could put 100 of our suns across there with all 01:55 the planets. You could actually put 100 of those there. The 02:00 whole height of the horsehead is about 30 trillion miles. 02:03 It would take five years for light to cover across that. 02:07 So our scripture that would to along with that says in 02:10 Jeremiah 51:15 it says he hath made the earth by his power. 02:15 He hath established the world by his wisdom. He hath stretched 02:20 out the heavens by his understanding. So we see three 02:22 attributes of God, his power, his wisdom, his understanding. 02:26 In this series we've been talking about the power, the 02:29 power in the atom; unbelievable power in the atom. You know, in 02:34 a penny alone the binding power that holds those atoms so tight 02:39 together, if you could totally release that, would be equal to 02:44 2.2 million gallons of gasoline, the chemical energy of 2.2. 02:49 In a paper clip, if you could totally fuse the atoms together 02:53 to release the energy in a paper clip, it would be equal to 18 02:59 thousand tons of TNT. Now that's in the fusion process. In the 03:04 nuclear reactors where we split the atom, actually the fusion 03:10 process is 17 times more powerful than the splitting 03:12 process. One of the attributes is his wisdom. We've see man's 03:18 attempt to create a sun in the Tokamak and in the Hadron 03:24 collider and in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 03:27 where they tried to create a sun on earth. We have 2000 03:30 scientists with all their education, their learning. They 03:34 are chemists, mathematicians, physicists all working together 03:37 to create a sun on earth and all they can do with their wisdom 03:41 and 20 billion dollars, all they've been able to achieve is 03:45 actually to heat a capsule the size of the head of a match and 03:49 to the temperature of the core of the sun. That's man's 03:51 accomplishment there. But we see by wisdom he hath stretched out 03:56 the heavens, by his understanding, OK, back up. 03:59 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the 04:04 world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his 04:08 understanding. I'm sure those scientists working at Tokamak in 04:13 France or the Hadron collider or the Lawrence Livermore 04:19 National Laboratory would consider themselves well 04:22 educated with a lot of wisdom and understanding and yet they 04:28 haven't been able to actually achieve very much. I think we 04:34 have a clip of the sun coming up, an eruption on the sun that 04:40 is a time-lapse movie of the sun and it shows you the tremendous 04:45 power, unbelievable power. Those flares, those eruptions, go up 04:50 at the speed of about 400 miles every second, 400 miles a second 04:54 That's faster than a speeding bullet. Look at that eruption. 04:59 These are not nice if they're headed our way. But they're 05:04 caused basically by sun spots, very intense sun spots, and 05:08 around these sun spots are magnetic storms, a black spot. 05:12 When we look through the telescope... We try to look 05:16 through there pretty regular, almost every day, and when we 05:19 see sun spots they look basically, I can describe it, 05:22 like blackheads. You know what a blackhead looks like, or a fly 05:26 speck on the sun. These are magnetic storms and usually 05:30 we will have a north and a south magnetic pole and a plasmal 05:33 fountain between them and we see them appear on the right 05:36 side of the telescope and the next day they're here, here, 05:39 and here. We watch them for 14 days till they go around behind 05:42 the sun. But we have this incredible power in the sun. 05:47 He stretched out the heavens by his understanding. I was reading 05:54 an interesting statement that says the unrenewed heart would 06:00 be a discordant note in the melody of heaven. Heaven would 06:05 be a place of torture to the person who does not have a 06:10 renewed heart in Christ. This is in Steps to Christ, chapter 18. 06:17 The unrenewed heart would be a discordant note in the melody of 06:22 heaven. How be it, the Most High dwelleth not in temples made 06:27 with hands saith the prophet. Heaven is my throne, as earth is 06:33 my footstool. What house will you build me saith the Lord, or 06:39 what is the place of my rest? Hath not my hand made all these? 06:43 We see all the beauties of the of the Hubble space telescope, 06:48 the pictures of heaven, and they're just breathtaking to see 06:53 the results of the Hubble space telescope. We are now looking at 06:58 a cluster of stars, a mega star cluster. I believe there are 07:03 about 10 million, they say 10 million stars in here. Those are 07:08 10 million suns. You know, like our sun is just a star. It's 07:11 just an average star, nothing special. There are many stars 07:15 are bigger, many stars that are smaller and so our sun is just 07:20 kind of an average one of the stars in our galaxy. The next 07:27 graphic we have shows the... actually we're looking at, again 07:33 an area in our Milky Way galaxy, a most beautiful gaseous nebula. 07:38 Actually nebula is basically a Latin word for cloud. We've got 07:43 another graphic some up. This would show you your genetic code 07:47 These are a's, c's, t's and g's. This is the instruction for 07:52 making you. It is in your DNA. It is the letter codes that tell 07:56 every cell in your body what they're going to be and we have 08:00 seven million people on earth. Every one of them has a 08:03 different code, a different message. This folks would blow 08:07 you away if you researched this. Because these letter codes tell 08:12 every cell what to do and they're overlapping. You could 08:17 four different messages in a line of code. There's code ones 08:21 there's start messages and stop messages. So when it reads, 08:27 when your RNA reads your code, it is told where to start and 08:32 where to stop and it says OK you guys 20 million cells, you're 08:36 going to be a heart and you guys are going to be a liver, you 08:40 guys are going to be a brain, and the color of your eyes and 08:43 all of this type of thing. That is your recipe. That is a code 08:49 that tells you cells who you are. There are 7 billion people 08:55 on earth and everyone a different finger print. 08:56 Think of that. It's been said that the DNA is the language of 09:01 God, the language of God. Twenty three chromosomes from mom, 23 09:06 from dad. Every cell in your body has to copy those. Every 09:11 time a cell dies, before it dies it has to make a copy. Depending 09:17 on the font size if you were sitting at the keyboard, it 09:19 would be a whole life time. You need two million or more pages 09:23 depending on the font size, if you were going to type the code 09:28 that is in every cell in your body. It would take you a full 09:33 lifetime to copy the information in one cell. Yet your cells can 09:38 copy that in a day or less. It's just totally amazing. So it's 09:43 been said that DNA is the language of God. In the copy 09:47 process it makes mistakes. In fact, your lifestyle is going to 09:52 affect the mistakes. Smoking and drinking are the worst. In the 09:56 copying process, if you had a hangover, you'd have a hard 09:59 time typing that out wouldn't you. Well the same thing happens 10:02 in your cells' copying your genetic code. They will make 10:07 mistakes. Every time they copy it, 100 billion cells in your 10:11 body, every time they copy that they're going to make at least 10:17 100 thousand errors, mutations, 100 thousand mistakes to a 10:21 million depending on the condition of your body, how good 10:24 condition you're in, you see, how well you take care of your 10:28 body. But the good news is that there is a spell checker. There 10:33 are 50 genes that are there to spell check, to correct, just 10:38 like when you're typing on your keyboard and you type in a wrong 10:43 letter and it fixes it at the speed of light, boom, it fixes 10:46 that. Sometimes it calls in the reserves. It says you've got a 10:51 problem here. It will give you four or five choices of words 10:55 or words like spell check. We've got a problem. I don't know what 10:58 the answer is. You'll have to tell me. When the spell 11:02 checker, the proof reader, looks at your code and says we've got 11:06 a problem. It calls in 50 genes to correct that. And when those 11:09 genes get done correcting your error code where you may have 11:13 100 thousand, did I say, 100 thousand to a million, you're 11:17 going to get one in a billion errors. We're going downhill, 11:21 yes, we're mutating, we're going downhill. But the good news is 11:25 we've got a spell check there and the good news is it's the 11:29 language of God, your DNA is the language of God, and God wrote 11:33 a picture of you never before seen in the history of the 11:37 universe. Every one of you is so special. There's not another 11:41 person like you on planet earth and that comes from your genetic 11:46 code. A message from God. God wrote a picture of you never 11:51 before seen in the history of the universe with 7 billion 11:57 people. The universe continues to baffle the mind of science. 12:02 God has established the world by his wisdom, the scripture says. 12:08 As we move along we have another graphic coming up of our earth 12:15 there. What holds the earth in place? Well gravity and the 12:18 Bible says God hangs the earth on nothing. You would expect it 12:23 to be supported with something. Then we have a picture of a 12:28 shedding star. This is a class of stars that are a million 12:33 times brighter than our sun. By the word of the Lord were the 12:38 heavens made. Psalm 33:6. It's a snap shot of a shedding star. 12:41 This star is shedding gas and it's just one more beautiful 12:45 picture from the Hubble space telescope. The next picture we 12:50 have is the Cone nebula. This is just a beautiful sight. It's 12:54 quite a large column of gas. It's located in the sky, just if 12:58 you find Orion, it's just over to the east of Orion, in the sky 13:05 A beautiful sight to see. Our next cloud is called the Helix 13:09 nebula. This happens to be the closest nebula to earth. This is 13:13 about 450 light years about. It takes light about 450 years to 13:19 get here from the Helix. But just one more beautiful sight in 13:25 our galaxy. We have a star cluster coming up here. This is 13:29 just beautiful. It's an open cluster and a lot of hydrogen 13:33 gas around it. Then we have a galaxy coming up, the Sombrero 13:37 galaxy. The Sombrero galaxy we believe is probably the biggest 13:41 galaxy. They say that there may be 800 billion stars in the 13:46 Sombrero galaxy. This is in the constellation, this is actually 13:50 in the east in the spring of the year and it's a beautiful sight. 13:53 Amateur telescopes can look at this. It has a designation of 14:00 SEA104 but it's called the Sombrero galaxy and a 14:03 beautiful sight to see. The next one we have is the Whirlpool 14:08 galaxy. The Whirlpool is right off the handle of the Big 14:11 Dipper and the Whirlpool looks like it has another galaxy that 14:15 is sort of tagging along with gravity. You see galaxies are 14:18 like kids on a teeter totter; they kind of want to be balanced 14:22 and you'll see how the arms on the right have stretched way 14:26 out and on the left you see that arm, you'd expect to be wound 14:30 more tightly. But because they are rotating and maybe trying 14:35 to balance the mass that we see in the two there. I was reading 14:38 another statement here that was quite interesting. It says: It 14:42 was a marvel to all the universe that Christ should humble 14:46 himself to save fallen man. That he who had passed from star to 14:51 star, from world to world, superintending all by his 14:55 providence, supplying the needs of every order of being in his 15:00 vast creation. Yes, he considered heaven a place not 15:06 to be desired while you and I were lost. It goes on: It was a 15:12 marvel that he should consent to leave his glory and take upon 15:18 himself human nature. It was a mystery which the sinless 15:22 intelligences of other worlds desired to understand. Yes, many 15:25 Christians don't think there's life out there, there's any 15:29 other inhabited planets. We're going to address that in one of 15:32 these programs. But let me just give you a couple of scriptures. 15:36 I think that there is life out in space. The Bible says we're 15:40 a spectacle to the angels. If you look at Hebrews 1 verse 3 15:44 it says he made the universe of worlds. It's repeated as 15:48 something similar in Hebrews 11. If you look at Nehemiah 9:6: He 15:52 made the heavens with all their hosts. Well that could be the 15:56 stars, right? But the rest of that verse says he created the 15:59 heavens with all their hosts and the hosts of heaven worship him. 16:05 We're going to look at Mark 13: at the very end of time Jesus 16:09 sends his angels to gather his elect from the uttermost part of 16:14 earth to the uttermost part of heaven. Matthew 24 has a very 16:17 similar statement; at the very end of time he sends his angels 16:20 to gather like from the four winds of earth to the uttermost 16:25 part. So we see God's elect, we see his angels, we see the birth 16:31 of Christ, we see a whole heavenly host and we can look at 16:34 Job 1 verse 6, there was a day when the sons of God came to 16:38 present themselves before the Lord. This is an event in space. 16:42 This is an event outside of earth and the sons of God came 16:45 to present themselves before the Lord. The Lord looks around, 16:48 we've got a big meeting apparently and he goes wait a 16:52 minute, who are you? Tell the people who you are. And he says 16:56 where you're from. Well I'm Satan, I'm from the earth, going 17:01 to and fro in the earth. So this event was outside. And the sons 17:05 of God-who are those sons of God? That's repeated again in 17:09 Job 2. Again there was another day when the sons of God came 17:12 to present themselves. I think this was kind of a regular 17:16 meeting apparently in space. This was a space meeting in 17:22 heaven somewhere. And Satan says yes I'm from the earth. 17:26 Now there is a sense, if you think about the sons of God, we 17:29 can become sons of God, now are we the sons of God, the Bible 17:33 says. We can become the sons of God but there is a sense in 17:37 which Adam was a son of God that you and I are not the sons of 17:40 God. If you go to the genealogy of Christ you go back which is 17:43 the son of Enoch, which is the son of Seth, which is the son 17:46 of, you know, which is the son of Adam, what's the scripture 17:49 say? Which was the son of God. So there's the sense in which 17:53 Adam was the son of God different than you and I because 17:56 he was the one that came from the hand of the creator. So 17:59 there was a day when the sons of God... If we have life out there 18:05 if Jesus created the universe of worlds... Isaiah 45:18 says: 18:10 When he made the earth, he did not create it in vain, he 18:14 created the earth to be inhabited. Well the Keppler 18:18 telescope has discovered already about 3000 planets. Are 18:22 those planets created in vain or were they created to be 18:26 inhabited? You see when you start putting the scripture all 18:29 together you see a picture that God has, I believe, a universe 18:33 filled with life. Now we need to be clear. This is the only place 18:37 there's sin. There's no other sin any place in the universe. 18:42 And sin is never going to happen again, because the Bible tells 18:47 us iniquity shall not rise a second time. It's only once, 18:51 it's here. God's on trial on this planet. God is on trial. 18:56 We're going to do a program on the great controversy where 18:59 this planet the universe is watching. We're a spectacle 19:03 to the angels. God is on trial here because Satan was the 19:07 accuser of the brethren and God wants the universe to see who's 19:12 right and see who's wrong. We see the results of misery and 19:17 death and disease on this planet It's the result of Satan; he 19:21 causes all the hell he can cause on this planet because God gets 19:25 blamed. People say where is God with starving children. Where's 19:28 God... You know my friend was a good Christian; he got hit by a 19:32 train. You know, where was God, where was God? Why does God 19:35 permit this? The hardest question that theologians have 19:40 to answer, the very hardest question is, why do bad things 19:44 happen to good people? That is the hardest question. But when 19:48 we start looking at this whole picture of sin and Satan and God 19:52 and the war in heaven then all of a sudden, you know something 19:57 folks, it jumps out clear as can be that God is on trial on this 20:01 planet. You see, we had rebellion in heaven. Satan, the 20:05 accuser of the brethren, rebelled and took a third of the 20:09 angels with him. Well if you think of a court room scene, if 20:14 we go to a court room, OK, we need a jury and the jury has to 20:19 be neutral. You need to decide who's right, who's wrong. Satan 20:22 says I will be like the Most High. I will exalt myself above 20:27 the stars. I, I, I, I will be like the Most High. And God 20:30 says not you're not. I'm going to bring you down. The war was 20:34 apparently a war of words, rhetoric and what can God do? 20:40 In a court room, OK, God is the defendant, right, Satan is the 20:44 accuser of the brethren. If God says look you are a trouble 20:49 maker, you're no good, you're out of here, you're gone, you're 20:53 zapped. You see a third of the angels went with Satan and two- 20:57 thirds stayed with God. What do the angels think in a court room 21:02 if the defendant kills the plaintiff? Who's guilty? God's 21:05 hands were tied. There was nobody in the universe, there 21:09 was no jury. There was nobody in the universe that could decide, 21:12 was God right or wrong, who was at fault here. So you know what 21:16 God said, we're going to have to put the court room on the earth. 21:21 Let's let the earth be the court room. Let's see how bad the 21:26 devil is. I'll show you how good I am. And God gives us all these 21:30 good things. Satan causes all the misery, all the suffering, 21:34 all the starving children, all the violence. I mean, we can't 21:39 even understand why people would strap bombs to themself 21:42 and blow themselves away. But that's all the devil. We've got 21:46 to put the blame where it is. So God shows us his goodness, he 21:49 makes all the beautiful things on the planet. Moses says, let 21:54 me see your glory and God said I'll make my goodness pass 21:58 before you. So God has created all the beautiful things we see 22:01 in heaven and on earth, the mountains and the trees and the 22:05 flowers, the plants and the animals and the children and the 22:09 families and all these things. Then God has given us 20,000 22:13 herbs and spices. He said satisfy your mouth with good 22:16 things in Romans. God wouldn't have had to give you cinnamon 22:22 or oregano or you know all the spices that he gave. How many 22:26 foods has he given us. How much evidence has he given us that 22:31 he's there. You see, if God solved every problem, if God 22:37 every cancer, healed every problem, fed every starving 22:41 child. We're in a court room. Are you with me? We're in a 22:45 court room. We see how bad the devil is, we see how good God is 22:48 trying to show us his goodness. The devil's nature is terrible, 22:52 terrible, terrible. And God says that we're a spectacle to the 22:56 angels. The universe is watching If God had destroyed the devil, 23:02 the angels would not have seen how bad things were. God says 23:07 I'm sorry folks. This earth is the court room. This earth is 23:11 going to let the universe, let the people decide who's right 23:17 and who's wrong. Is God right? Now in a court room if the 23:22 defendant tampers with the evidence, we've got a mistrial. 23:26 If God fed every child, if God solved every problem, healed 23:31 every cancer, he's tampering with the evidence and we have a 23:36 mistrial. You see God can't solve every problem. Now he does 23:40 I believe he answers our prayers I've seen him answer our prayers 23:44 God does answer our prayers but God cannot fix every problem 23:48 because that's tampering with the evidence. If God fixed every 23:51 problem on earth what are the angels going to say, the other 23:54 planets out there going to say? They're looking at the earth and 23:57 and they go like what's the deal? God says the devil's bad. 24:02 I don't see it. You know God fixes all the problems. That's 24:06 tampering with the evidence, you have a mistrial. So this 24:10 question is the hardest question I hear people call in on the 24:13 radio, Christian talk shows. Starving children, where is God? 24:17 You know my friend was good Christian and he got killed when 24:21 he was 20 years old or whatever, hit by a train or run over... 24:25 And the answer is always the same. All things work together 24:29 for good. You've got to trust the Lord. He's sovereign. I mean 24:33 I've read their books and I've listened to their programs and 24:37 it's always the same. But you see this great controversy, this 24:41 court room, if you look at this from the perspective of the 24:45 universe where there was war in heaven and there was no jury 24:49 that was neutral, there was nobody neutral. Everybody had 24:52 taken sides. God said well I can't destroy the devil because 24:55 all of a sudden I'm going to be in trouble. People are going to 24:59 blame me. So let's set up a court room on earth. Let's see, 25:02 respecting the angels, let's see the results of sin and rebellion 25:07 and to me I think that answers a lot of questions. People have 25:12 told me that that does make a lot of sense, it answers a lot 25:16 of questions why bad things happen to good people. Well I've 25:20 gotten off my track today. We've got a couple minutes left. We've 25:25 got a few more pictures queued up over there so I think we'll 25:29 go to the next picture and we're looking at the Eagle nebula. If 25:33 you can back up and take a really wide view you'd see what 25:36 looks like an eagle's wings and the head and tail. The very 25:39 heart of the eagle are these columns of gas and they are 25:43 really beautiful columns of gas. Takes about five years to cover 25:48 that area there on the left. These are called the pillars of 25:54 creation and these are out- gassing, off-gassing like a 25:56 piece of dry ice. If I had a piece of dry ice here you'd see 25:59 the vapor coming off and after the end of a program or two it 26:02 would be getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Well these 26:05 clouds are kind of doing the same thing. But there was a 26:08 scripture that I put with that. Again the attributes of God. It 26:13 said let them praise the name of the Lord for his name is very 26:21 great and his glory towers over the earth and over heaven. The 26:28 heavens tell us of the creativity of God. Isaiah 40 26:31 verse 25 and 26. The next one we have is a picture of the 26:35 Antennae galaxy. It's two galaxies that have been named 26:39 the Antennae galaxy and you see the tail coming out there of the 26:45 two galaxies. They are gravitationally bound together. 26:48 In the next slide, the Hubble zooms in and zooms in and we've 26:51 got the most beautiful picture of the Antennae galaxies as the 26:54 Hubble zooms into the core. Just look at the beauty there of the 26:58 center part of that galaxy. Yes folks, you know, I think we're 27:02 going to get to... Would you like to travel through space and 27:05 see the beauties that we're seeing with the Hubble telescope 27:08 The Bible tells us eye has not seen, ear has not heard, it 27:12 hasn't even entered into the heart of man the things which 27:16 God has prepared for them that love him. So I think Jesus 27:20 probably can't wait to take you there. Revelation 14 says the 27:25 redeemed from the earth are going to follow the Lamb 27:27 wherever he goes. I think we're going to get to travel with 27:29 Christ through space and see the beautiful things he has created, 27:33 and the Bible tells us and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 27:37 We'll see you next time on Heavens Declare. 27:39 Thank you for watching. |
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