Participants: Jim Burr
Series Code: HDS
Program Code: HDS000011A
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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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