Participants: Jim Burr
Series Code: HDS
Program Code: HDS000019A
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00:25 Thanks for watching. Welcome to Heavens Declare. I'm Jim Burr. 00:29 We're back on the air. This time talking about our awesome God. 00:34 Our God is an awesome God. He reigns from heaven above. 00:40 We're going to share more of the heavens from that perspective. 00:44 I'd like to share a scripture with you... 01:15 And I like Isaiah 40:25 and 26. To whom will you liken me or who 01:24 shall I be equal says the Lord. When we see the heavens... 01:30 You know people often say, earth is so small. We show the 01:35 large sun, we show the earth. We could put a million earths in 01:38 the sun and people often come up afterwards and say the earth is 01:42 so small. Why would God be interested in us? As we talked 01:46 before on our program here. God is on trial here in this little 01:51 world because the universe is watching to see the results of 01:55 the rebellion of Satan to see how bad it is. God's on trial 02:03 here. To whom shall I be equal, saith the Holy One. Man is 02:09 certainly like dust isn't he? The nations are like small dust 02:13 on the scale, it tells us in the Bible. Lift up your eyes on high 02:18 and behold who hath created these things. Yes the heavens 02:22 declare the glory of God. You know Moses said to God, let me 02:27 see your glory. He said, I'll make my goodness pass before you 02:31 So the Bible asks us to lift up our eyes and behold who hath 02:36 created these that bringeth out their hosts by number. You know 02:40 every day the sun comes out and the stars disappear don't they. 02:45 But then when the sun goes down the heavenly hosts appear in the 02:49 sky. And he calleth them all by names. We see the stars. We're 02:54 going to see a bunch today, thousands and millions and 02:58 billions and trillions. How would you like to name the 03:02 stars? That would be quite a job wouldn't it, to come up with 03:05 a name. How would you like to create seven billion people, 03:09 seven billion faces. You look at the people on earth, seven 03:13 billion people and they're all different, aren't they? They're 03:17 all different, they're all special. So he calleth them all 03:22 by their names. By the greatness of his might for he is strong in 03:27 power. Not one faileth. Then Psalm 147 it is repeated again 03:33 where it says he calls them all by their names. We have the 03:37 first graphic coming up. It actually shows you the farthest 03:42 galaxy that we've ever seen. They tell us that that is about 03:47 13 billion light years away That little arrow is pointing to that 03:51 little red dot which they say is about the farthest we've ever 03:55 seen and they think about 13 billion light years away. As I 03:59 see that I think of what the Bible has to say. We look at 04:03 Isaiah 55 verse 9. It says as the heavens are higher than the 04:08 earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts 04:12 than your thoughts. We cannot compare with the Infinite God 04:18 can we? And yet, we're created in his image. When I see that I 04:24 also think of what it says in Psalm 103 starting with verse 10 04:29 actually. And it says that he has not dealt with us after our 04:36 sin. We're thankful for that that God doesn't deal with us, 04:41 I'm reading from King James, after our sin, nor rewarded us 04:46 according to our iniquities for as high as the heavens are above 04:52 the earth that's how great his mercy is. Can you comprehend 13 04:57 billion light years. We cannot comprehend that can we? I'd like 05:03 to show you a demonstration now and what we have here is I have 05:08 a ball which is going to represent Jupiter. My hand will 05:12 represent the sun. And we've got gravity where all the planets 05:16 are held by gravity, tied to the sun. When the sun moves they 05:20 move. When Jupiter actually spins around the sun it actually 05:25 moves the sun off center. You wouldn't believe how far it 05:30 moves off center. Now you see my hand wobbling. Actually 05:34 Jupiter causes the sun to move a half a million miles off 05:39 center when Jupiter goes around the sun. When Jupiter and Saturn 05:44 are ganging up on the sun, if they're both on the same side 05:47 of the sun, I mean, it's going to move almost a million miles 05:51 off center. When Jupiter and Saturn are on opposite sides it 05:55 comes right back, practically back to center. So we're going 05:59 to have an illustration that will show you how far our sun 06:03 moves as Jupiter and Saturn are rotating. There it is. You see 06:08 how our sun is actually wobbling in space up to almost a million 06:12 miles off center. So now we have a roll coming up where the 06:17 Hubble zoomed in on the Omega star cluster. Now this is a 06:22 cluster of stars, we call them a globular cluster in our Milky 06:26 Way galaxy. About, they think, 10 million stars in the Omega 06:29 cluster. And the Hubble zoomed in, zoomed in, zoomed in and 06:33 you'll see you new tax dollars at work there. They have a $125 06:38 million camera put on the Hubble and in a moment you're going to 06:42 see it switch to color and when it switches to color you'll see 06:46 the new camera and all the colors of the stars. These are 06:50 blazing suns. We have 10 million blazing suns. You know our sun 06:54 is just kind of an average star, nothing really special about our 06:57 sun. It's just kind of an average star of a 100 billion, 07:01 200 billion in the Milky Way galaxy. Look at the beauty and 07:04 the color of those stars. Is that not incredible. Now here 07:08 they go. This is how their motion will be over the next 10 07:12 thousand years as they're moving through space. Each one of those 07:16 is doing like 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 miles an hour. They're 07:21 so far away you can't appreciate actually the speed but we see 07:26 our God is an awesome God and that's the title of this segment 07:31 What an awesome God we have to control all of this. What is 07:36 man, you know, what is man that he is mindful of us as we see 07:41 the beauties of the universe and stars without number. The Bible 07:46 says wonders without number. Coming up you're going to be 07:50 able to see how our sun is moving. Like all those stars are 07:55 moving, our sun is moving at a rate of about 45,000 miles every 07:59 hour. Here you see it go pulling the planets with it. There they 08:04 are, all the planets going around. That one at the top 08:08 would be Pluto, which, of course, they say is not a planet 08:11 anymore. The one the farthest out on the left actually. 08:15 Pluto is doing 10,600 miles an hour; it takes Pluto 247 years 08:23 to go around the sun. In other words our Earth goes around 08:31 247 times by the time Pluto gets around once. God's got this all 08:36 under control. There's a motion that can't be illustrated here 08:44 on this clip because as I was telling you Jupiter moves our 08:49 Sun a half a million miles. Jupiter and Saturn together make 08:54 it move almost a million miles, probably around 900,000 miles 08:59 off center. All the planets are connected by gravity to the sun. 09:04 So if we could add one more motion to that it would be 09:08 incredible because everything is tied to gravity, all the 09:11 planets are tied to gravity, so as the sun moves so do 09:15 we. Now Jupiter goes around every 10 years. So on a 09:18 blackboard if you could, depending on where you are 09:21 in space, OK. So here's the star but if you're looking at our sun 09:26 from space and Jupiter's going around like this you would see 09:30 our sun going up and down. If Jupiter's going across in front 09:35 of the Sun it would be pulling the Sun towards and 09:38 away from us and you 09:41 wouldn't sense that motion. We could detect that with the 09:43 Doppler shift actually moving that to and away from us, it can 09:48 actually sense that. But think about this. If you're looking at 09:52 our Sun from space at a distance and Jupiter and the planets are 09:55 going around this way, depending on where you are in space, 10:00 you're going to see a sine wave as over a 10-year period it 10:04 takes Jupiter 10 years to move the sun up a quarter of a 10:07 million miles and then back to center and then down a quarter 10:10 of a million miles, every 10 years. But then Saturn is a 10:15 29-year. So now let's say they are both rising on the same side 10:20 you go up a quarter of a million miles but Saturn's going to pull 10:24 the sine wave up a half a million miles. But that's going 10:30 be a 30-year. So on a blackboard you draw Jupiter and then you 10:33 draw this big one for Saturn. But then we've got Mercury. 10:37 Mercury goes around every 88 days so now on this sine wave, 10:41 this motion, if you're with me, you'll see the sun being moved 10:45 another couple hundred miles by Mercury; every 88 days you have 10:49 another sine wave superimposed on that sine wave and then 10:54 you've got Venus every 257 days which moves it at about 500 10:58 miles. Then you've got Earth that moves it 300 miles off 11:03 center. So you've got all these planets. I've read that they 11:07 think our Sun has probably 35 different motions. God's got it 11:13 all under control. You know, you saw the motion of our sun in 11:18 those circles. There's no mathematician on Earth that can 11:21 give you a formula for the center of three when you have 11:25 three bodies of different masses it can't be done. Look up 11:29 Wikipedia Three Body Problem. Since Isaac Newton nobody has 11:33 been able to give you formula for the center of rotation of 11:36 three bodies that are different sizes; three body problem. Now 11:40 I'm told by a professor from the University of Oklahoma we work 11:44 on it, the more we work the closer we get, but nobody has 11:47 ever been able to write an exact formula. He says we can simulate 11:51 it on a computer but nobody can write an exact formula for the 11:54 center of rotation of three bodies that are different masses 11:59 I sat in his lecture and I began to get choked up because I've 12:03 been showing audiences this motion. You know we have a 100 12:07 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy and they're all moving 12:10 and God's got it under control and we can't give you a formula 12:16 for three. Yes, our God is an awesome God. So we were reading 12:22 that scripture from Isaiah 40 verse 25 and 26. It says: To 12:28 whom will you liken me? God asks the question who are you going 12:31 to compare me with? And who shall be my equal says the Holy 12:35 One. There is no equal to God. And he asks us, Lift up your 12:39 eyes on high. There's the first command to buy a telescope, 12:43 folks. The Bible says life up your eyes on high. God asks us 12:49 to look. Lift up your eyes on high and see who created these 12:54 things. He's the one who brings them out. He brings the host out 13:00 by number. Yes, we saw the Omega cluster, 10 million stars, in 13:06 our galaxy depending on which book you read, maybe a 100 13:09 billion, 200 billion, some books might even say 300 billion stars 13:13 We can't really count the stars. It's pretty much a guess. When 13:17 they measure the stars as we talked in our previous program, 13:20 I think they do very well on measuring distances, but you can 13:26 get the series and see the evidence of that. So who brings 13:34 out their host by number. He calls them all by their names. 13:38 Yes he knows the sparrow that falls, he knows the hairs in 13:43 your head. By the greatness of his might and the strength of 13:47 his power not one is missing. Yes, even we talked about this 13:53 exploding star, these super novas. In their best estimate 13:57 that these biggest stars burn up their fuel, like Betelgeuse, 14:02 a billion miles in diameter. Betelgeuse in Orion, that 14:05 shoulder star in Orion, may have already exploded into a super 14:09 nova. It will take us between 600 and 700 years to find out 14:13 because it takes that long for that light to get here, so it 14:16 may have already exploded. But it's a billion miles in diameter 14:20 It's a very good candidate for a super nova eruption because it 14:24 is so big and our theory is that these stars as they burn up 14:28 their fuel, like a balloon they get to a point where they can't 14:32 support the shell, so to speak, and then outward goes this gas. 14:36 We see an exploding star. There's always a center star. 14:40 In other words, these stars cast off an outer shell which becomes 14:44 the super nova, but there's always a star in the center, a 14:47 small star, some sort of a dense star. A super nova explosion has 14:53 a star remaining in the center, always some sort of a small star 14:57 remaining and the Bible says that not one is missing. So even 15:01 though we see stars explode, we still see a remnant there and 15:05 you can see in many of these pictures like the Helix nebula 15:10 you can see the solar wind is still going out and causing 15:14 streamers. The Omega looks like a bunch of comets actually 15:20 created by the solar wind. Going on in Isaiah 40:28, 29: Have 15:25 you not known, have you not heard? The everlasting God, the 15:30 Lord, the creator of the ends of the Earth, neither faints nor 15:36 is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. We're certainly 15:41 seeing that in this series aren't we? The wisdom of man; 15:46 they think they know how these stars form. In this book Atoms 15:51 to Einstein says this whole universe started with a big bang 15:54 and the big bang at the very core of the big bang the little 15:58 tiny, tiny thing as small as a millionth of a millionth the 16:02 size of the smallest atom and it may have been a million, million 16:07 million degrees and that's how everything got here. That's the 16:13 best they have and they try with mental gymnastics to get a 16:18 universe without a God and they do that by saying... In this 16:24 one book, Atoms to Einstein, Dr. Picante says that you know we 16:30 have all this energy in the universe. The Sun is fusing 620 16:36 metric tons of hydrogen every second. So we have this 16:40 tremendous energy in the universe, 100 billion stars in 16:43 our galaxy and 100 billion galaxies. That's tremendous 16:46 energy. But we also have tremendous negative potential 16:50 gravitational energy. So they balance out so therefore, and 16:53 Stephen Hawking agrees with this the universe can make itself, he 16:58 says or create itself, or create it out of nothing. And you go 17:02 like give me a break, OK. Have you not known, have you not 17:07 heard, the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends 17:12 of the Earth neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is 17:17 unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, to those who have no 17:23 might he increases strength. In the next graphic we have a 17:27 picture of a galaxy coming up and the fact that we were 17:34 talking about how far Jupiter moves our Sun. So all the 17:41 planets are being held by the Sun. But when I look at a galaxy 17:44 like the one coming up now, I'm wondering what is at the center 17:49 of the galaxy that holds it all together. In the background 17:53 there's a galaxy. So we have a 100 billion stars in the galaxy. 17:58 Something's holding them all together. And if the sun wiggles 18:01 and wobbles that much when the planets go around what would 18:06 happen to the center of the galaxy. When you see our Sun, 18:09 and we've got the big Sun and we've got the tiny little earth 18:13 and the planets are moving the sun what would be in the center 18:18 of the galaxy? Well they claim it's a black hole. You remember 18:23 in one of our programs we quoted from a magazine article that 18:28 said people that study black holes are cosmic magicians. They 18:32 need to coax a great deal of meaning out of precious little 18:36 information. In other words, something's got to be pretty 18:40 massive in the center of the galaxy. If you've got nine 18:45 planets moving the sun and it's like really big, a thousand 18:49 Earths would fit in the sun, 1300 Jupiter's would fit in the 18:53 sun and yet Jupiter moves it half a million miles, if you 18:56 think this through logically, what would be in the center of 19:00 a galaxy that could hold 100 billion stars as they are in 19:03 orbit? I don't think black holes are the answer, but I think the 19:09 answer is in Colossians 1 verses 16 and 17 where it says all 19:15 things hold together. Another scripture I love along this line 19:20 Psalm 103 verse 17 says: But the loving-kindness of the Lord is 19:26 from everlasting to everlasting. He is from everlasting to 19:31 everlasting, without beginning or end and those that fear Him 19:36 and His righteousness to the children of men. Romans 11:13 19:40 says: O the depths of riches both of wisdom and knowledge of 19:45 God, how unsearchable are his judgments and unfathomable his 19:51 ways. The heavens blow us away. They blow me away and I've been 19:56 talking about these for 25 years I think we started at 3ABN our 20:02 first series, Christian Concerns 1995 or 1994 and you think it 20:07 get old because I'm out almost every week talking about this. 20:11 But I'm still blown away. I have to have to fall and weep at the 20:16 feet of Jesus. O the depths of riches, both the wisdom and 20:20 knowledge of God. How unsearchable are His 20:24 judgments and unfathomable His ways for who has known the mind 20:30 of the Lord or who became his counselor. Romans 11:13. As we 20:34 move on to some graphics, we've got some beautiful pictures of 20:38 some of the galaxies I intend to share with you and I may be 20:43 getting behind on bringing those up. I think the next one we have 20:50 is actually an edge on galaxy. The galaxies we see as round 20:55 but when we see them sideways they're very long and stretched 21:02 out. That galaxy doesn't have a name. It's NGC4565. One of my 21:06 favorite galaxies in the spring of the year in the constellation 21:10 up by Virgo in the realm of the galaxy, you see a bulge in the 21:14 center where we have stars right in the center of the galaxy. 21:19 We've got another galaxy coming up. To illustrate the size here 21:23 you see an arrow at the top and an arrow at the bottom. If you 21:26 were living at the bottom of this galaxy and you decided to 21:29 take a vacation and travel across the galaxy and you got 21:32 to the other side of the galaxy and decided to make a phone call 21:36 and you dial up your phone to call home and actually radio 21:40 waves from your cell phone are traveling 186,000 miles every 21:44 second, it's going to take you 100,000 years to get the phone 21:49 to ring. At 186,000 miles every second, the speed of light, it's 21:53 still going to take you 100,000 to 200,000 in some bigger 21:57 galaxies to get the phone to ring. If your mama says hello 22:01 it's going to take 200,000 years to hear the hello. How big is 22:07 God? We've got another galaxy coming up and that is the tad 22:12 pole galaxy, a beautiful galaxy that appears to be pulling in 22:17 stars from another galaxy. It kind of looks like a tad pole. 22:22 It's got a long tail to that galaxy. The next slide we have 22:27 I believe is Saturn. We talk about the rings that are almost 22:32 170,000 miles across but very, very, very thin. You could 22:37 really appreciate how thin those rings are here. You see the 22:41 shadow the sun causes there on those rings. We have one more 22:46 graphic coming up and this one is an artist's conception. We've 22:50 discovered a couple thousand planets out there. So you see 22:54 in the magazines these artists' conceptions. We've just got a 22:57 beautiful planet with rings. It might have rings, it might have 23:00 water, it might have life. We discover a planet and the artist 23:04 goes to work describing what we have seen. The next graphic I 23:07 want to show you what we actually discover. On the screen 23:12 if you look over on the right side you'll see a large box and 23:17 that shows you the motion of the star for two years from 2004 to 23:22 2006. But right above that is a tiny little box. That's the 23:27 actual image of a planet. You see the problem that we have is 23:31 we look at a star and we're got this incredible brightness to 23:35 deal with and the planets have no light. They only reflect 23:39 light from the star. And they're so small. Our Earth is a million 23:44 times smaller than our sun, you can put a million in the sun. So 23:48 trying to see planets is really, really difficult. In fact, there 23:52 are only a few that we've actually imaged. That is an 23:55 image of the planet. You can see how it's moved over two years. 23:59 Typically we discover planets when they go in front of a star 24:04 and they dim. They can tell something about the planets as 24:08 they pass through the star light They can look at the spectral 24:12 lines and it tells some of the elements that are present there 24:15 but I just think it was kind of fun because we see all these 24:18 pictures, oh we've discovered a planet and it did look like 24:22 this, but actually it helps us to understand how difficult it 24:27 is to actually image something like that. One reference here 24:32 that I thought was good. It says that all the glories of God in 24:36 the heavens and everything lovely in our Earth is to give 24:40 us a correct knowledge of the character of the giver. In thy 24:44 presence is the fullness of joy, at thy right hand are pleasures 24:48 forevermore. We have another graphic coming up of the whirl 24:51 pool galaxy. The whirl pool is located right by the handle of 24:54 the big dipper, very close to the end of the handle of 24:57 the big dipper. 25:00 It's quite interesting because it has a little companion galaxy 25:04 with it and is gravitationally tied together. In fact, you'll 25:09 see the arms of the whirlpool that you would expect to wrap 25:14 tightly around the galaxy, you'll see them actually 25:18 attached to the little galaxy on the left there. In fact, because 25:22 they're rotating, we tend to think that the arms that you see 25:26 stretched out on the right side to kind of balance the stars on 25:31 the left side. But what's interesting is the whirlpool 25:34 galaxy is 37 million light years away and if you go to the center 25:37 of the whirlpool you'll see that there is a cross in the center 25:41 and that's our next image, a cross in the center of the whirl 25:45 pool galaxy. It's called Einstein's cross. Then our last 25:51 graphic in this series is laminen and in your body is... 25:56 the rebar 25:57 of your body, the cell adhesion molecule. There is a molecule in 26:02 your body called laminin and it is in the shape of a cross and 26:06 if we look at Colossians 1:17 By Him all things are held 26:12 together. Lamanin is a protein molecule that holds your body 26:16 together. Yes, Christ on the cross is the one who saved us. 26:21 In this illustration, God apparently has put these cells 26:25 millions of cells in your body. Lamanin, which is basically the 26:30 cell adhesion molecule that holds you together. Well it's 26:35 just exciting to share the heavens. Our time fast slipping 26:39 away. But what an amazing God that we worship. It just blows 26:44 me away. The more I learn about the heavens, the more I learn 26:48 about the genetic code, the DNA and the RNA and all of that, 26:53 it just speaks of an incredible creator. He invites us to get 26:57 to know Him. When Jesus comes He says, come ye blessed of my 27:01 father. We want to be among that group. Thank you for watching 27:05 Heavens Declare. |
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