Category: Biblical Cosmology

Man’s Quest to Escape the Limitations of God’s Word

Since the Garden of Eden, humans have been on a quest to throw off God’s rule and escape the limitations of his Word.

Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” 4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Psalm 2:1–4 (NKJV)

Jesus said that the world system hates him and his Word.

People of the world, those who are not part of God’s redeemed family, hate God and truth. The world is defined as the system dominating those who have not professed allegiance to Jesus, the only legitimate heir to God’s throne. The world is dominated by Satan, the prince of the power of the air.

And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Revelation 12:9 (NASB95)

Those in the world system prefer lies over truth, Satan over God, and darkness over light.

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. John 3:19–20 (NASB95)

Jesus addressed the religious leaders of Israel, who thought they were spiritually minded, but were actually part of the world system.

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. 44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 “But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. John 8:43–45 (NASB95)

I derive the following principles from our Lord’s words in order to arrive at the stated conclusion.

  1. Those in the world system instinctively hate the truth and spurn God’s Word.
  2. Those in the world system cannot even understand truth when they hear it.
  3. Those in the world system are drawn toward satanic lies.

Therefore: whatever those in the  world system highly esteem is at least suspect of being anti-God and derived from a satanic lie.

In support of this conclusion, Jesus said:

...“You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God. Luke 16:15 (NASB95)

Some of you already know that some months ago I became convinced that the heliocentric model, which includes a spherical earth, is a lie that contradicts the Word of God. I have written about this in detail in previous articles in my series on Biblical Cosmology. In this article, I will not attempt to present again what I already covered elsewhere. Instead, I would like for us to consider the following statement.

Since the world system highly esteems the heliocentric model, which opposes the Bible’s teaching in Genesis Chapter One and elsewhere, we who love God’s Word should regard it with suspicion.

I just read an interesting book entitled Isaac Newton, The Last Sorcerer by Michael White. The title intrigued me because I already knew that Newton was a secret alchemist in the vein of Hermes Trismegistus, an Egyptian sun worshiper. (I covered this in detail in a previous article on the occult origins of the heliocentric model.) White is very much pro-Newton and a believer in the magnitude and importance of his discoveries. I learned some interesting things about Newton in the book that he tried to keep secret during his lifetime. One was his devotion to alchemy, which at that time was connected to the occult. Like other alchemists, he pursued what was called the “philosopher’s stone,” which supposedly could be used to transmute any inferior metal into gold. His work in physics included the pursuit of a unifying theory that could bring sense to the whole.

Another thing I learned was that Newton was an Arian and denied the divinity of Christ; although, like his alchemy, he kept that secret, since it would have likely disqualified him from holding the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge.  He also believed that the ancients understood far more about the truth of the “universe” than those of his day. He thought that God chose and helped him to rediscover long hidden secrets. Not surprisingly, he was far more interested in the pagan mathematician Pythagorus’ ideas than in the Bible’s teachings. He did not consult the ancient wisdom of the Hebrews for insight. Which is not surprising in light of the thesis of this article.

Man wants to escape the confines of God’s Word and figure out things on his own.

White pointed out that at the time Newton published his most famous work, The Principia…

…very few people realized the revolutionary nature of the book, in much the same way that neither Darwin’s The Origin of the Species nor Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity were fully understood when they first appeared. (p.223)

He went on to write:

By taking physics beyond the arena of ecclesiastical and philosophical debate, Newton unintentionally created a new intellectual realm. It did not gain the name “science” for another century and a half. (p.224)

Each of these highly acclaimed men led the world to put faith in conclusions that contradict the Bible, and each contributed to the rise of science as a new religion that must be believed over any “outdated” and “ignorant” religious claims.

Einstein developed his theories to nullify the empirical findings of the Michelson-Morley experiment which proved that the earth is at rest. Einstein claimed that we “know” that the earth is in motion; therefore, the Michelson-Morley experiment had to be explained away using theoretical math. Mark Twain remarked once that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. I believe we can add theoretical math to the statement.

Nicolai Tesla, probably the most brilliant empirical scientist of his day, said that Einstein’s theories were hogwash, as did many other German scientists.

Most conservative Christians I know readily understand that Darwin’s theory of evolution is a satanic lie designed to reduce humanity to an accident of nature and to eliminate the need for the Creator. Far fewer, however, are prepared to question Einstein’s theories, which purportedly proved that it is impossible for us to measure the earth’s motion, or lack thereof, since every object’s motion is relative to everything else.

Einstein’s theories came at a most convenient time for heliocentrists. At that time there was still quite a debate regarding the design of the earth, but Einstein effectively quashed all argument, at least from the point of view of experimental physics, by “proving” that it was pointless to experiment further. Most people do not realize that children were taught that the earth is flat in public school in the early 20th century.

Now that several generations of school children have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the heliocentric model from the cradle onward, it is difficult for them to overcome what they have been sold. Scarily, the same thing is now being done in our schools regarding LGBTQ+ and transgenderism. Human beings tend to believe what trusted adults tell them; so, we had better tell them the truth, or we will answer to God.

Most of my readers will probably agree that Darwin led us into anti-biblical error; so, why should we not suspect that Einstein and Newton fall into the same category?

Darwin led people away from faith in a Creator. Einstein convinced people to back off from trying to prove the earth is motionless, and Newton gave the occult pagan belief in heliocentrism a “scientific” explanation of how things work via his theory of universal gravitation.

Newton and most of his contemporaries believed that if one can use math to describe and predict observable phenomena, and the observation aligns with the prediction, then the theory behind the math must be true. Einstein reversed this by using math to disprove observable phenomena, but that is an entirely different level of deception.

The unseen problem with such thinking is that if the observable phenomena has been misinterpreted at the beginning of the process, then the math only confirms the error.

The Bible teaches that God created the sun, moon, and stars and placed them in the firmament. (Genesis 1:14-18) There is no mention of any so-called planets. In fact, that word comes from an adjective modifying stars – planetes in Greek, which means “wandering.” What we call planets are actually stars that appear to have wandered from their assigned stationary place in the firmament. (Jude 1:6, 13-14)

Copernicus and others theorized that the Bible’s description of the heavens was faulty and did not adequately explain the apparent retrograde motion of the “planets,” which was problematic because philosophers preferred circles and “simple” explanations. To correct what the Bible says, he proposed that the sun is the center, not the earth. In so doing, he apparently solved the retrograde motion “problem” of the “planets,” but what if their retrograde paths are their actual motion, as might happen in a firmament with the dynamics of a toroidal field? There have been many times that “science” has ventured down “dead end” paths because of faulty presuppositions and conclusions. Everything after Copernicus, including Newton’s theories, was built on top of the heliocentric model. But if the foundation is faulty, the entire building will be “out of plumb” with the truth. We still do not understand everything about the world God created; so, shouldn’t we be careful about disposing of what the Bible teaches, just because it does not line up with currently accepted theoretical “science”?

The world rejoices when “science” apparently disproves the Bible because humanity is still on a quest to escape the limitations imposed on us by God’s Word.

We want to figure out things without depending on what God says, which is exactly what Adam and Eve did.

Those in the world system tend to dismiss, belittle, or otherwise intimidate anyone who dares to contest their anti-god and anti-biblical assertions. They tell us that we are ignorant and holding back progress. Whether we believe the earth is a stationary plane enclosed in a solid firmament or if we fully embrace the heliocentric model and an ever-expanding universe, we should make sure that what we put our faith in agrees with the Bible. We should be steadfast and immovable in our allegiance to God and his Word, no matter what the push back or how foolish we may appear to others.

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels. Luke 9:26 (NKJV)
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Time to Tear Down the “High Place” of Heliocentrism

I believe we are in a time of reformation. God is exposing ways in which we followers of Christ have made accommodations to paganism so that we can repent.

High Places

When the Israelites conquered the land God promised to give them, he commanded them to destroy all forms of pagan worship to protect the people from their deceptive allure.

Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places; Numbers 33:51–52 (NASB95)

High places were usually elevated locations where various forms of pagan worship took place. Elevation made people feel closer to God, whose throne is above the firmament. That is why he is often called the Most High. Prior to the construction of the temple of Solomon, God allowed himself to be worshiped at such high places. It was a traditional way to worship with which the people were quite familiar and comfortable.This was genuine worship of the true God, but was not meant to last beyond the building of the temple.

The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days. 1 Kings 3:2 (NASB95)

After the construction of the temple, it alone was designated as the God’s authorized place of worship and sacrifice.

But you shall seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. 6 “There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. 7 “There also you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 8 “You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; Deuteronomy 12:5–8 (NASB95)

It is important for us to understand that there are four aspects to God’s will – the right thing, the right way, the right people, and the right time.

The right thing was to worship God. The right way was at his authorized location. The right people were the priests and Levites, and the right time, with respect to the temple, was after it was built. We can do the right thing the wrong way, which makes it wrong. God has a right way to do things. Refusing to follow his prescribed way is sinful.

Worshiping God is a good thing, but to disobey him by doing so at high places instead of the temple was a sin.

Solomon dedicated the temple in grand fashion, but it did not take long for him to veer off course. David’s son unwisely and disobediently married foreign (non-Israelite and pagan) wives, who turned his heart away from an exclusive devotion to Yahweh. He consequently built unauthorized high places used to worship other gods.

The high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled. 2 Kings 23:13 (NASB95)

It is difficult for us to understand how someone so wise could do such a thing, but such is the allure and deception of sin. Even though very few of us feel a pull toward bowing down before a statue or other idol, we should not assume that we are immune to idolatry.

Today we have other forms of idolatry that are quite pervasive and highly esteemed by God’s people.

God is jealous for our exclusive devotion (James 4:5) and warned Israel that he would punish them unless they removed the high places.

For they provoked Him with their high places And aroused His jealousy with their graven images. 59 When God heard, He was filled with wrath And greatly abhorred Israel; Psalm 78:58–59 (NASB95)

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you. Leviticus 26:30 (NASB95)

Over the years, evil kings of Israel and Judah were noted for their worship of false gods and devotion to the high places. Even many of the so-called “good” kings of Judah, who loved God, failed to get rid of the high places. For example, Jehoshaphat, a godly man in many ways, was such a ruler.

He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places. 1 Kings 22:43 (NASB95)

Why would otherwise devoted servants of God accommodate evil in this way? Were they ignorant? Did they view this transgression as a minor thing? Were they intimidated by the people who were greatly devoted to such unauthorized worship? We can only guess.

The Bible notes three kings who more fully obeyed God by eliminating the high places: Asa, Hezekiah, and Josiah. These men had the courage to oppose the opposition of high-place-loving citizens in order to please God.

God is looking for wholehearted devotion from his people. Our Lord does not want us to accommodate anything that tends to corrupt that devotion.

Instead of looking for some sort of physical idol, today we should think in terms of allowing our hearts to become enamored with the ways of the world, which are hostile to the ways of God.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? James 4:4–5 (NKJV)

Anything that the world loves should be immediately suspect in our eyes. The people of the world are devoted to that which is hostile to God because they are of the “flesh,” the old Adamic nature.

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:7–8 (NASB95)

All of us who have been born again still have a connection to the flesh, as long as we live in these mortal bodies.

It is easy for us to be swayed into loving what the world loves, unless we have our guard up, understand the truth, and resist the pull. This is a very real danger.

Paul wrote…

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3 (NASB95)

So what does this have to do with cosmology?

The High Place of Heliocentrism

For the first 5500 years since creation, most people believed the Bible’s version of cosmology. Christians up until the time of Copernicus had a geocentric view of the heavens and earth as described in Genesis Chapter One. Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton led a revolution that changed the way people look at the cosmos and all of life. They revolted against relying on God’s Word as the guide into greater understanding of our world. They believed that the pursuit of truth and “science” had to free itself from religion and, in particular, the Bible. From that time until the present, secular scientists generally scoff at anyone who uses the Bible to guide them in any sort of scientific inquiry.

The world rejoiced at this deliverance from being bound to God and his Word. The devil inspired Adam and Eve in the beginning to cast off the restraint of obedience to God’s words and launch out on a journey of self-discovery. Ever since then, this has been the default mode of humanity.

The world loves going its own way in contradiction to God and the Scripture. The sad thing is that, generally speaking, especially when it comes to cosmology, the church has gone along for the ride, seduced by the siren song that we can figure out things on our own, thank you. We don’t need the Bible to guide us.

Many, probably most at this point, well-intentioned Christians have gone along with the world and accepted the heliocentric lie. In fact, many are absolutely devoted to it to the extent that they will attack and belittle anyone who dares challenge it. This is confusing because generally they are devoted to Christ and have a love for God’s Word. Nevertheless, many unwisely give God credit for creating a false version of the cosmos.

Heliocentrism is an unauthorized and untrue version of God’s creation. To say that God made the cosmos after this fashion is unbiblical, untrue, and God-dishonoring.

We should never say that God did something that he did not do. As I see it, this is akin to worshiping God in an unauthorized high place. Both were outside the bounds of Scripture and dishonored God.

In a previous article, I showed that heliocentrism is rooted in the occult and is a form of sun worship.

I realize that this is a “hard pill to swallow” for those indoctrinated in modern astrophysics. We have been taught that the Big Bang expanding universe which contains our solar system is irrefutable science, but, sadly, it does not agree with what the Bible teaches.

This places us in a crisis of obedience. Will we accept what modern science teaches or what the Bible declares?

Adam and Eve failed their test in the garden when they believed the serpent’s lies above God’s truth. We dare not make the same mistake!

Rather than believing the biblical account of creation and the cosmos that is found in Genesis and elsewhere in the Scriptures, many Christians today have adopted the widely accepted Copernican-Newtonian view of the universe, which posits that the sun is central in our “Sol”-ar system. It is believed to be quite immense (400 times larger than the earth) and amazingly distant (93 million miles away). Most of us have simply accepted this version of reality without giving it much thought. If the sun were really that far away, would it even be visible to the naked eye? (Here is a link to evidence that it would not be.) NASA and modern astrophysicists are banking on our mindlessly accepting their theories.

This pagan philosophy holds that mighty “Sol” or “Helios” (another name for Satan) controls the earth, keeping it locked in an obedient orbit by means of a mysterious unproven force called universal gravitation. This theory has its roots in ancient hermeticism practiced in Egypt.

Modern astrophysicists declare that the earth is insignificant with respect to the sun and most of the other so-called “planets,” to say nothing of the immensity of the “universe.” Not surprisingly, we are taught that to think we on earth are something special is the height of ignorance and arrogance.

Nothing could be farther from what is presented in Genesis Chapter One, which states that God first created the earth, making it absolutely central.

On the fourth day he created the sun, moon, and stars, placing them in the immense crystalline structure called the firmament. Nothing is said about other so-called planets. God only made the earth, sun, moon, and the stars. You can read more about this in another article I wrote about the Genesis testimony. 

This means that the sun, for example, serves the earth, rather than the other way around. It also means that the sun runs a “circuit” around the earth (Psalm 19:6), rather than the earth revolving around the sun. Consequently, the sun is much smaller and much closer than we have been led to believe.

We must either believe the Bible and reject modern astrophysics or accept modern astrophysics and consign Genesis to the realm of scientifically meaningless “poetry.” However, once we start down the road of deciding which words of God are true and which can be safely disregarded, we are in dangerous territory.

There is nothing in the Genesis account that allows us to classify it as poetry, except our determination to cling to heliocentrism.

In my opinion, this is loving a pagan philosophy more that the Bible.

When Christians put their trust in the dictates and pronouncements of modern astrophysicists instead of in God’s Word, it is a form of idolatry.

Here is a simple syllogism.

  • If God’s Word is true and Jesus is the truth personified (John 14:6),
  • Then, any time we value and honor a lie over the truth (the Bible and Jesus), we commit idolatry.
  • Therefore, if we believe the lie of heliocentrism instead of God’s Word, it is idolatry.

If this line of reasoning is correct, and I believe it is, then many Christians are inadvertent idolators.

One of the high places destroyed by Josiah was devoted to the sun god.

He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven. 2 Kings 23:5 (NASB95)

He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 2 Kings 23:11 (NASB95)

When Copernicus published his book that theorized that the sun was the focal point of supposed planetary orbits, he paid homage to the sun god.

When the United States supposedly sent astronauts to the moon, they named the entire mission after Apollo, the sun god. His horses and chariot were part of the mission logo. This is no accident. NASA’s origins were steeped in the occult, and nearly every mission or undertaking is named with pagan allusions. But that is another topic.

I realize that most of us Christians who ascribe to heliocentrism are not conscious idolators. In fact, we are repulsed by such an idea. Nevertheless, heliocentrists inadvertently honor Satan with their pagan beliefs. To claim that God created a heliocentric solar system is misguided at best. No artist would want credit for creating something that is totally contrary to his values and intent.

The Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1) Even Christian heliocentrists are able to glorify God when they consider the heavens, but they are doing so despite the godlessness connected with Big Bang cosmology. As I wrote elsewhere, the Big Bang – Heliocentric Worldview is essentially atheistic by design. Jesus said we can know a bad tree by the fruit it produces. It is no accident that most leading proponents of modern astrophysics are atheists.

The Genesis version of cosmology requires us to recognize the handiwork of God. There is no way that we live within the protection of the firmament unless God created it that way. It could never have happened via the chaos of an explosion. Just as surely as the turtle pictured on the left did not get on top of the fence post by himself, neither did the firmament create itself. It is extremely difficult to be an atheist when God’s true version of creation is recognized, and that is exactly why it is so important for the church to abandon pagan heliocentrism and embrace the truth. Biblical cosmology can help people turn to God. We need to be different from the world system. We need to stand for God’s truth. The world may laugh at us for holding to our conviction that the Bible is true, but perhaps they will respect us for being steadfast to what the Bible teaches.

I think the world laughs at us when we try to blend modern astrophysics with the Bible. They know it is a contradiction and an accommodation.

My prayer is that God will lift the veil of deception. May the Lord remove the “scales” from our eyes so that we can finally see the truth about his glorious creation and tear down the high place of heliocentrism. The good news is that the Bible is 100% trustworthy and true regarding everything it says, even cosmology. How gloriously comforting it is to know that God is looking down on us from his throne above the firmament. He is very near indeed. One day that firmament will be rolled back like a scroll, revealing Christ in all his glory. The entire earth, this terrestrial plane, shall see him all at once! Come, Lord Jesus!

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Our Cosmology Affects Our Worldview

Our cosmology significantly affects our worldview.

Many do not realize that believing in a different version of the heavens and earth from what is presented in the Bible will skew our interpretation of creation and our way of looking at the various aspects of life connected to our worldview.

Our worldview determines how we view our origins, value, purpose, and destiny.

The biblical cosmology found in Genesis Chapter One and elsewhere in the Scripture reveals the truth about each of these things. The satanically inspired Big Bang theory of the “universe” inspires us to believe lies about God, creation, ourselves, our origins, purpose, value, and destiny.

The Big Bang – Heliocentric World View (BB-HWV) is evolutionary at its core.

It states that the universe created itself from a pinpoint through an inexplicable explosion through which incomprehensible energy and matter were released, expanding outward from the blast site, producing everything in the heavens and the earth, including life and humans. God is not in the picture, unless, as believers, we see him orchestrating these events and being the source of the energy and matter, for which atheists cannot account. This account of creation is diametrically opposed to what the Bible tells us.

Big Bang – Heliocentric World View
  • Origins – The chaos of an explosion produced order and complexity, which violates the law of entropy. There is nothing beyond material matter, which denies the spiritual side of things. Everything can be explained materialistically and “scientifically.” There is no room for God or the miraculous.
  • Value – Humans, being an accident of evolution, have no inherent value. What worth we might be given by others is measured by our productiveness and what we might contribute to the evolutionary process. If we negatively affect evolution or our “fragile ecosystem,” we become something to be eliminated. Human life can be snuffed out without concern. This thinking is behind abortion, euthanasia, genocide, etc.
  • Purpose – Humans exist only to experience a very brief physical life and continue the species through reproduction. This is the basis of the philosophy of existentialism: there is no reality beyond what we personally experience. This leads us to conclude that there is no such thing as “absolute truth.” Such phrases as “my truth” or “your truth” derive from this false belief. Consequently, the experience of being in power and having pleasure are life’s greatest purposes. This worldview produced such dismal outcomes as Nazism and Stalinism.
  • Destiny – There is nothing after physical life; therefore, we have no eternal purpose and no destiny beyond the grave. Therefore, we should strive to  experience every pleasure now, while we have the opportunity. There is no worry about facing the consequences of our actions when we stand in judgment before the Creator.

Denying that God is the Creator and refusing to glorify him is one of the worst sins possible. When a people do this, it causes the entire society to descend into the chaos of lawlessness and rebellion.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, Romans 1:28 (NASB95)
Biblical Worldview

Biblical cosmology recognizes that everything around us, the heavens and earth and all forms of life, were created in six days by God. Order sprang from God’s creative genius.

  • Origins – God is the Creator. Everything begins with him. We see the complexity of our being and glorify God. (Psalm 139:14) God is a spirit. The spiritual world existed before the material creation.
  • Value – Everything has value because it was made by God. Being the Creator, he alone has the right to assign value. For humans, being created in God’s image gives us incredible intrinsic value. After mankind’s fall from grace, Jesus shed his precious blood for us, telling us what our value is in God’s sight. We have no right to wantonly destroy what God made.
  • Purpose – God made everything with a divine purpose. We humans were made to know, love, enjoy, and serve God for eternity. Knowing God is the greatest thing in life.
  • Destiny – God’s wants to share his life and rule with people. That is why he made us and why he sent his son to die for our sins and rise again. When we put our trust and allegiance in Christ, our destiny is to co-rule with him forever while we revel in his glorious and loving presence.

The evolutionary BB-HWV dispenses with God and reduces humanity to a cosmic accident. Those who fully embrace it often become atheists, thus destroying their opportunity to share in God’s life and rule forever.

Those who embrace a biblical cosmology, recognize God’s handiwork in his creation and are led to seek and find him through Christ. They will more easily be able to glorify God as the Creator.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)

 

Many Christians have adopted aspects of the Big Bang theory without realizing that it contradicts the clear teaching of Genesis and other passages of Scripture.

Our accommodation of a non-biblical explanation of the the cosmos hinders our ability to properly understand what God means for us to derive from viewing the heavens.

I have noticed that believers who ascribe to the modern astrophysics view of the “universe” conceive of heaven as being merely a “spiritual place somewhere out there,” rather than the physical location above the firmament which the Bible describes.

As they stood with wings lowered, a voice spoke from beyond the crystal surface above them. 26 Above this surface was something that looked like a throne made of blue lapis lazuli. And on this throne high above was a figure whose appearance resembled a man. Ezekiel 1:25–26 (NLT)

I wrote another article about this, if you are interested in learning more.

Modern astrophysics also introduces a slew of extra-biblical ideas to confuse the mind and induce unwarranted fear – aliens, asteroids, solar flares, climate change, etc., as we supposedly hurtle through “outer space” at incredible speeds that nevertheless cannot be perceived in any way. This leaves us feeling small and insignificant, having to comfort ourselves with the belief that despite the vastness of the cosmos and our relative insignificance, God still cares about us and is present with us.

Biblical cosmology teaches that the earth is the center of God’s creation, protected by the firmament, and carefully watched over by the “Most High.”

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22 (NKJV)
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Satanic Scientism

I call the pagan evolutionary heliocentric view of the “universe” satanic scientism. I believe it derives from Satan and wears the clothing of acceptability because it is supposedly based on proven science, rather than religious speculation. For those brainwashed into its core beliefs since childhood, biblical cosmology seems absurd.

Sir Isaac Newton effectively created a new worldview, called scientific. From his time forward, there has been a separation of religion and science, much the same as another Enlightenment division between church and state.

The devil was hard at work in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries laying the groundwork for casting aside the Bible and Christianity in both the scientific and political realms.

Copernicus got the ball rolling in the 16th century. The Copernican Principle, as it has come to be called, holds that mankind and the earth are small and insignificant, just the opposite of the Bible’s teaching. He was followed by Johannes Kepler, who “stole” his mentor’s (Tycho Brahe’s) research and changed his findings to say that the heliocentric view is correct and the planets have elliptical orbits. Galileo supposedly invented the telescope and verified Copernicus’ and Kepler’s findings. Newton came up with the math and name for the force that made all these theoretical motions possible – gravity. Newton was not a Christian. He denied the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and the infallibility of the Bible. He also did extensive work in alchemy, regarded a occult practice. It is said that he was also a Master Freemason.

Below is an excellent video on this topic that I highly recommend.

When the heliocentric view first appeared, there was much opposition, especially from Protestant church leaders, such as Luther and Calvin,but over time these opponents died out and the younger generation fell for the lie. Nevertheless, much controversy continued into the early 20th century.

In 1871, George Airy conducted an experiment to show whether the earth is moving or the stars. It proved that the earth is not moving and is called Airy’s Failure because he did not support the already accepted theory that the earth is in motion orbiting the sun.

In 1887, Michelson and Morley set up a very accurately measured experiment to detect any motion of the earth. It showed that the earth is at rest. This experiment was redone many times with the same result. Below is a very short explanation. I am not sure why the apparent antisemitism is displayed, for which I apologize.

In 1913, Georges Sagnac conducted an experiment that proved that the ether exists and abolished Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Einstein sought to uphold heliocentrism by devising the theory of special relativity, doing away with the ether and declaring that all motion is relative; therefore, we cannot measure whether the earth is moving or not… but we know it is. Talk about “begging the question” (principia petitii) – attempting the use a premise as the conclusiona!

Rather than being enclosed in a solid firmament, we have been taught to believe that the sky above us is a relatively thin and fragile atmosphere held in place by a force called gravity against the unfathomable power of the vacuum of “outer space.”

Maintaining a pressurized atmosphere without a container is a physical impossibility and violates the law of entropy, but that does not seem to bother people who have been brainwashed to believe in the globe model of the earth.

When challenged as to the reality of the globe, most people appeal to the multitude of NASA’s supposed actual photographs of the spherical earth suspended in the void of space, not realizing that NASA was started by satanists for the purpose of galvanizing the deception of the spherical earth and outer space. Go to 5:42 to begin section on NASA’s history.

Robert Simmon, NASA’s “Mr. Blue Marble,” created the iconic computer generated image that was automatically installed on many iPhones. Every year new versions come out, each one showing the continents having differing sizes from the previous year. There is also clear evidence of using Photoshop.

Those who claim that they have been to “outer space” and observed first-hand the suspended spherical earth, often use the word “fragile” to describe it. I believe this is by design to conjure fear for our continued existence, which is all part of Satan’s grand scheme of deception. Those who do Satan’s bidding do not want us to know that we are safely enclosed in the firmament and watched over by our Creator.

He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; the one who stretches out the heavens like a veil and spreads them out like a tent to live in, Isaiah 40:22 (LEB)

Genesis Chapter One’s claim that God created  the firmament confronts us with an unavoidable crises of faith. Will we believe what the Bible says or not?

Did God really say that the firmament is a very real structure above the earth in which the sun, moon, and stars are located? If we choose not to believe what God says, we make the Bible out to be an archaic per-scientific fable.

Satan deceives the nations by means of sorcery. Speaking of Mystery Babylon, the Bible says:

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The happy voices of brides and grooms will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the greatest in the world, and you deceived the nations with your sorceries. Revelation 18:23 (NLT)

It is important to understand that deception is empowered by satanic witchcraft, which is why it has such power to blind people to God’s truth. We ask God to release his children from the fog of satanic deception. If you wish to learn more about the occult origins of heliocentrism, I recommend the following video. I will discuss these occult origins further elsewhere.

Now that I understand and believe that Genesis Chapter One should be taken literally and that the firmament is an actual physical structure, the Bible has come alive with new insights into the nature of the world in which we live, God’s throne, heaven, and the Second Coming of Christ – the Apocalypse. I have written about this in another article.

Passages that left me “scratching my head” in the past, now make sense. Sometimes God’s truth lies right under our noses, but we just cannot see it because we have been preconditioned by devilish lies to reject truth. Every lie of the enemy is designed to alienate us from God, steal blessings from us, and transform us into fools who are easily led astray and to the slaughter. I believe the devil laughs at us every time we choose his lies above God’s Word.

The more deceived we are, the stranger the truth seems.

Jesus told the Jewish leaders who were blinded to the truth of his identity by their false expectations regarding the Messiah:

Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. John 8:43–45 (NKJV)

When we embrace satanic deception, the truth seems like a lie.

The pagan Copernican heliocentric system is a lie designed to make us think that Helios (Satan) controls us (through “gravity”), instead of our being under the loving care and protection of our Creator. Because heliocentrism and the globe earth has been drummed into our heads from childhood, it seems plausible and real, but, once God opens our eyes to the truth, we will see the contradictions and absurdities of that position and wonder how we ever fell for it.

The devil specializes in presenting us with false versions of reality. He does so to condition our minds to reject God’s revealed truth, blinding us spiritually and locking us up in prisons of deception.

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. 2 Corinthians 4:4 (NLT)

Not only does the devil blind unbelievers to the gospel, he also does his best to keep Christians from seeing and believing other glorious truths in the Bible.

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:4–5 (NKJV)

Believing a lie is a kind of idolatry that influences us to put more confidence in what the devil says than we do in the Word of the One called the Truth. (John 14:6) Spiritual darkness has enveloped much of the world. Because of our enthusiastic acceptance of what is called science, we have a huge problem of spiritual blindness and deafness.

Science has become a secular religion some call scientism, whose high priests, the experts, are regarded as the source of truth.

We dare not risk being called a “science denier,” a epithet almost as devastating as being labeled a racist, hater, or homophobe.

Sadly, many of us who call ourselves Christians seem to love the “scientific” view of the universe more than we love God’s Word.

True scientists are the ones who perform empirical experiments and discover actual truth. Nicolai Tesla was a preeminent example of a true scientist. Another group of so-called scientists, such as astrophysicists, astronomers, evolutionary geologists, and paleontologists, merely observe what they study from afar and devise elaborate, fantastical, unprovable theories to try to explain our origins on the basis of godless evolution. Nevertheless, their pronouncements come to be considered confirmed facts over time.

What such “scientists” produce is more science fiction than true science.

They devise incredible (literally: unbelievable) fictions that requires vast eons of time for the universe and living beings to self-create and self-improve through random chance, violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics called Entropy.

They have fashioned a worldview, in which the Creator is superfluous, to deceive the naive . They seek to influence people away from believing in God, calling such a belief foolish and un-scientific.

They claim that people who believe in divine creation know nothing at all and hinder the forward progress of the species.

The science fiction creators arrogantly assert that their theories are facts and God’s Word is worthless.

Below is an example of this uttered by Neil deGrasse Tyson, a chief public spokesperson for modern astrophysics.

I cannot decide if he is ignorant of the definition of the word “theory” or if he assumes his listeners are. A theory cannot be a fact; otherwise, it would no longer be a theory. Anything that cannot be empirically proven must remain a theory and should never be promoted as a fact. I find it extremely revealing that Tyson connects faith in evolution with faith in gravity, and Richard Dawkins connects faith in heliocentrism with faith in evolution.

Satan’s lies interconnect and depend on one another. Evolution is the thread that holds it all together.

Contrary to current popular opinion and scientific “consensus,” evolution, universal gravitation, heliocentrism, and the globe are all mere theories that have not been and cannot be empirically proven. Every attempt to do so has failed.

Once we discard the computer generated images of a globe earth suspended in outer space which are pawned off on us by NASA and other space agencies , we are left with only empirical evidence, which all stands opposed to the science fiction of modern astrophysics.

Outer space does not exist: only what the Bible calls outer darkness.

If you wish to investigate this claim in greater depth, I have collected quite a few resources to assist you. Here is the link.

With regard to the cosmos, Satan’s scheme is to undermine our confidence in the truthfulness of the Word of God relating to the Creator and the design and nature of the heavens and earth in order to blind people to the glory of God and set them up to believe that God does not even exist, which opens us to a vast array of other lies. (Psalm 19:1, Romans 1:20)

The Big Bang – Heliocentric Theory misrepresents God’s creation and testifies that there is no God. Not surprisingly, its primary exponents are mostly atheists who mock those who believe that the Bible is literally true.

It is time for us who believe that God’s Word is completely trustworthy with regard to science and every other topic to make a stand.

 

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Introduction to the Firmament

Before becoming convinced that Genesis Chapter One is a literally accurate account of creation and the cosmos, I did not know quite what to think about what the Bible calls the firmament. I didn’t have to consider it much at all since most modern translations render the Hebrew word raqia rather innocuously as sky or expanse.

The KJV and NKJV translate “raqia” properly as the firmament, a word that communicates something of its true nature – an immense and firm vaulted dome-like structure made of something like crystal or very strong glass.

Those who claim that they have been to “outer space” and observed first-hand the suspended spherical earth, often use the word “fragile” to describe it. I believe this is by design to conjure fear for our continued existence, which is all part of Satan’s grand scheme of deception. Those who do Satan’s bidding do not want us to know that we are safely enclosed in the firmament and watched over by our Creator.

He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; the one who stretches out the heavens like a veil and spreads them out like a tent to live in, Isaiah 40:22 (LEB)

The mention of God’s creating the firmament in Genesis Chapter One confronts us with an unavoidable choice. Will we believe what the Bible says or what atheistic astrophysicists and lying NASA tell us?

Did God really say that the firmament is a very real structure above the earth in which the sun, moon, and stars are located? Will we choose to believe God or that there is no such structure, thus relegating the Bible to being an archaic fable that cannot be relied upon when it comes to science?

Unfortunately, at this point, many of us have unwittingly put more faith in a satanic lie than in God’s Word.

Now, let’s return to our study of the firmament. Translators’ bias is a very real thing and happens when those who translate the Scripture deliberately or inadvertently impose their views and understanding upon the Word of God. The less literal the translation, the more likely we are to encounter this.

All of us bring our ingrained ways of viewing our world and reality to our study of the Bible. This is difficult to overcome, but students of the Bible are charged with allowing the Bible to say what it means (exegesis), instead of what we would like for it to say (eisigesis).

The Hebrew word for firmament is raqia, which literally means something hard like beaten out metal. In Genesis 1:8, God called the firmament (raqia) heaven (shamayim). God used the firmament to separate the waters (mayim) below from those located above it.

Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. Genesis 1:7 (NKJV)

So above the firmament there was and currently is (Psalm 148:4) water. The shamayim (heavens) contain mayim (waters). The waters above did not disappear after the flood, as some expositors claim. Psalm 148:1 dispenses with this error.

Therefore, the firmament must be hard and strong enough to support the enormous weight of untold amounts of water which are above it, some of which apparently were released upon the earth in judgment during the great flood. (Genesis 7:11-12)

There is no reason to suppose that those waters were not replaced. In fact, there appears to be a giant system of water above and below the earth, which ancient Hebrews believed looked something like the attached image. Sadly, the translators of my beloved New Living Translation, in their attempt to explain difficult concepts in modern language and terms, took the liberty to translate mayim as “water vapor.” Often they do a good job of translating idea for idea, especially when it comes to helping us understand theological terms such as justification, but in this case they did us a great disservice. Mayim means waters or a flood, not vapor. (This is why I advise people to read dynamic equivalency translations such as the NLT alongside a version that gives a literal rendering, such as the NKJV, NASB, or ESV.) 

Almost all translators choose words for raqia (firmament) that are more palatable to our modern “scientific” heliocentric worldview pounded into us by our education system and media. Check it out for yourselves. The NASB, ESV, and NET, my usual “go to” versions for a literal rendering of the Bible, all use the word “expanse,” which communicates absolutely nothing of the hard and strong nature of the firmament, but provides the heliocentrist with complete liberty to superimpose that view, complete with unlimited expanses of “outer space,” upon the Scripture. The KJV and NKJV are faithful to the Hebrew and use the word “firmament” to communicate its solidity and strength.

Can you, with Him, spread out the skies, Strong as a molten mirror? Job 37:18 (NASB95)

So which do we choose? Do we believe the Genesis account of creation is scientifically accurate and go with the more literal rendering of raqia, or do we accommodate the Scripture to our scientific bias by watering down what the Bible says? Unfortunately, many Bible believers have done the latter based on NASA’s testimony. Imagine taking the word of an agency that is known to lie over God who cannot lie.

As for me, when I stand before God one day, I would rather he tell me that I took him too literally than have him question why I altered his words.

Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God. Matthew 22:29 (NLT)

Isaiah provides us with a snapshot of God’s position above the firmament, looking down upon the “circle” of the earth.

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22 (NKJV)

Those who insist that the earth is a globe sometimes refer to the above verse as a “proof text.” The word translated “circle” means drawn as a circle, as one would form using a compass. The word “ball” is used in Isaiah 22:18; so, the prophet knew the difference between a circle and a ball. The image to the right could be thought us as a circle with edges as would be formed by pressing a circular seal into wax, which was a word picture uses in Job 38:14, when God himself is talking about his creation.

 

 

 

It is changed like clay under a seal... Job 38:14a (LEB)

Going back to the verse from Isaiah above, the heavens (which was the name given to the firmament) are stretched out like a curtain and spread out like a tent. The most likely kind of tent would be a circular dome-like tent, similar to a yurt.

Amos 9:6 in the NASB provides us with wonderful picture of the firmament.

The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth, The LORD is His name. Amos 9:6 (NASB95)

God placed his throne and “upper chambers” above the firmament. I will look at this in another article.

The Hebrew word for “vaulted dome” is aguddah, which is used in Jeremiah 37:16 to describe the vaulted dungeon cell in which the prophet was held. For some reason, the NASB translators are the only ones that chose to use aguddah in the verse from Amos to describe the firmament as a vaulted dome above the earth. I believe this is another clear example of translators’ bias. On the positive side, the other versions make the connection that the upper “strata” (NKJV) is attached to the earth. Putting it together, we understand the vaulted dome of the firmament is attached firmly to the earth.

Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty, 2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. 3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind, 4 Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire. 5 You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever, Psalm 104:1–5 (NKJV)

Those who hold that the earth is a stationary plane believe the firmament extends beyond the ring of ice that contains the oceans, falsely depicted as the continent of Antarctica on the globe. Interestingly, a page from the Encyclopedia Americana (1958 edition) references the existence of the firmament in that area of the earth. Click here to see a video on YouTube.

The firmament is an extremely vast structure that extends over an currently unknown area of the flat earth up to an unknown altitude.

As the heavens for height and the earth for depth, So the heart of kings is unsearchable. Proverbs 25:3 (NKJV)

Some think it may be about 73 miles high, based on interesting video evidence.  Two videos below show a rocket launch that suddenly stops at 73 miles up. The other shows lightning sprites at about the same altitude illuminating what appears to be the firmament above them. I cannot personally vouch for the authenticity of either video, but they are easily found on YouTube and are generally recognized as genuine. Regardless, these are not “proofs,” only evidence. The “proof” is God’s Word.

The first video just above shows the sun and moon at the same time above the flat earth. It is obvious that the rocket has a fish eye lens because the earth appears convex and concave depending on the attitude of the camera. The Bible says that God placed the sun, moon, and stars in the firmament on Day Four of creation.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Genesis 1:14–19 (NKJV)

This passage completely exposes the error of heliocentrism, which derives from the Big Bang evolutionary theory of the formation of the “ever expanding” universe. The earth and seas with the vaulted dome of the firmament was firmly in place before the lights were placed in the firmament. There are several important points that need to be made. First the sun runs a circuit over the stationary plane of the earth. (Psalm 19:6) Both the sun and moon are lights. The moon is not a reflector, which is proved by examining its light compared to the sun’s.

The stars are luminaries in the firmament, not distant suns.

The firmament contains everything that NASA and modern astrophysics tell us is located in what they call “outer space.” The Bible only refers to outer darkness, the place where the disobedient will go after the judgment. Outer space is a fiction. Everything that NASA claims is in outer space as viewed through such instruments as the Hubble telescope are CGI images created from “data.” The planets, galaxies, etc. do not exist as NASA claims.

Belief in the literal firmament is a huge key to understanding the world in which we live.

When we dismiss the biblical firmament, it opens us to false cosmologies that introduce foreign ideas that contradict God’s Word. I encourage you to think long and hard about the firmament. I have only scratched the surface. In fact, humanity does not know a great deal about this magnificent and mysterious structure. But God wants to reveal more to us, I am firmly convinced, because it reveals his handiwork. (Psalm 19:1)

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The Genesis Testimony

Christians are people of the Book who value its testimony above all else, at least in theory. This article takes a look at what the Bible says about the creation and design of the earth and the heavens. I will compare the biblical testimony to the claims of modern astrophysics.

It should not surprise us that the devil has not changed his tactics. He tempted Adam and Eve in the garden to disbelieve and disobey God’s clear command. We too must decide if we value and believe God’s testimony more than any other voice.

If we accept that God’s Word is true, then we will believe his account of creation. If we believe the tale of the astrophysicists, we must either throw out the biblical account or drastically alter it so that it no longer says what it originally meant.

Satan knows that, if we doubt what Genesis Chapter One says, we have no basis for believing any of the Bible.

If Chapter One only communicates spiritual realities that have no basis in actual historical fact, how can we suppose that other historical truths, such as the resurrection of Christ, are real?

As one might expect, the Bible begins with a description of how God created the sea, the earth, and the heavens. The Bible gives us no reason to treat it otherwise than as historically factual. Commentators only feel the need to treat it poetically as a result of trying to accommodate it to the Big Bang – Heliocentric Theory (BB-HT).

Just as most conservative Christians reject evolution in favor of the literal creation account, no matter how foolish that seems to the world, we also must be willing to reject BB-HT cosmology in favor of the Genesis account.

In the chart below, I have contrasted the biblical account with the Big Bang – Heliocentric Theory.

The Biblical Account The Big Bang – Heliocentric Theory

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 (NKJV) — This verse is a summary of all that follows. God is the center of everything. This compares to a parallel account in John’s Gospel.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 1:1–4 (NKJV)

In the beginning of the BB-HT, the universe created itself out of nothing thanks to the amazing godlike attractive/repulsive properties of gravity. It is impossible to harmonize this account with the Genesis narrative. One cannot simply say that the Big Bang took place when God spoke the cosmos into existence out of nothing. (Hebrews 11:3) The Bible says he first created the seas, not an explosion. Nothing in the Big Bang account agrees with Scripture, especially not the timeline. In fact, the notion of the entire universe originating from a single point is found in the Jewish Kabbalah, an occult theory and was later posited by a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest.

DAY 1 – The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2 (NKJV) —  God first created the waters, called “the deep.” The dry land or “earth” was not formed yet. The Holy Spirit’s activity is central. To assert that the first thing created was “the deep” places the biblical account in direct conflict with the so-called “scientific” explanation.

 According to the BB-HT, the formation of the universe began with the chaos of an explosion, out of which stars eventually formed after billions of years and later the “planets” and other bodies spun off from them. This means the sun came into existence before it “created” the earth. Therefore, the earth owes its existence to the sun, around which it orbits, held in place by a force called gravity. The sun is central in heliocentrism, which is a variation of sun worship, something Pythagoras and Hermes Trismegistus practiced, and which Copernicus acknowledged. Sadly, this so-called science is really an occult religion. More on that later.

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:3–5 (NKJV) —  After creating the seas, on the same day he created light and instituted the pattern of day followed by night. God had not yet created the sun, moon, or stars; so, there was no obvious physical source of this light. It must have emanated from God himself, which agrees with John’s Gospel.

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:4–5 (NKJV)

Moses was not a stupid man. He knew that the sun produced daylight; so, when he wrote this account of creation, he understood that it did not make sense from a mechanistic point of view. This is a case when God does not explain everything. He asks us to take him at his word without having complete understanding. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

The “scientific” view requires that there be a natural source for light, which would come from some form of combustion or nuclear fusion, such as from a star or sun. This would necessitate the sun’s already being in existence, which cannot be found in the Bible account. The heliocentric view also requires the earth to rotate on an axis to account for day and night. Since there was no sun, moon, or stars at this point in the Genesis account, the “scientific” view demands that we reject the Bible as a trustworthy source of information about creation. This is one reason why so many leading exponents of the Big Bang theory are atheists.

The true account of the heavens and earth testifies to God’s glory. The false account argues that there is no god.

The scientific point of view requires that we have a mechanistic explanation for everything. God is not allowed to be part of the equation.

DAY 2 – Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day. Genesis 1:6–8 (NKJV) —

Here is another place where the Genesis account radically departs from the BB-HT. When people have been indoctrinated from birth in the heliocentric-globe theory, the idea of there being a domed vault (Amos 9:6 NASB) called the firmament encasing the earth seems bizarre.

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them on the surface of the earth—Yahweh is his name. Amos 9:6 (LEB)

Raqia, the Hebrew word for firmament, means something solid, such as molten bronze that has been beaten out. It had to be strong enough to support the weight of the waters above. God took an entire day to construct this amazing structure, which was to house what we call the “heavenly bodies” – the sun, moon, and stars. This structure had to be placed on a strong foundation. I will write more about the firmament in my next article.

The structure of the firmament indicates that the earth is a stationary plane, not a round ball or globe in motion.

God chose not to give us many details about the nature of the firmament, except in various other verses which I will cover later. It is enough to say that it is a gigantic structure testifying to the glory and majesty of God. (Psalm 19:1)

The BB-HT requires us to translate raqia as “heavens,” “sky,” or “expanse” because it cannot allow for a solid structure that encloses the earth. The  BB-HT holds that the earth is “fragile,” having no protection against the perils of “outer space,” such as asteroids, sun eruptions, comets, or even alien beings. Instead, the earth is said to be hurtling through the void / vacuum of “outer space” at incredible speeds going who knows where. The BB-HT is specially designed to deny the existence of God and the truth of the Bible. I believe it is being used to set us up for the ultimate deception, perhaps a simulated alien invasion, to allow antichrist forces to gain complete control over the earth as a desperate means to defend ourselves.

The existence of the firmament means that “outer space” is imaginary construct. Travel beyond the firmament is impossible. No one has been to the moon.

DAY 3 – Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day. Genesis 1:9–13 (NKJV)

On day three we have the first appearance of dry land, called the earth. We learn from Psalm 24:2 that the earth was founded upon the waters, just as Genesis describes it. We also discover from Psalm 75:3 and numerous other places that God placed the earth on pillars so that its foundation is secure and it will not be moved. (Psalm 96:10) Psalm 19:1 and Romans 1:20 tell us that the creation declares the the glory of God and reveals much about his character and power. The earth has a solid foundation, just as we do in Christ.

The BB-HT, which applies evolutionary theory to the cosmos, cannot have life beginning with plants on dry land. Rather, the evolutionary development of life is said to have begun in the “primordial soup” of the sea.

In addition, the BB-HT says that the earth is tilting, wobbling, and moving at breakneck speed through an evolving ever-expanding universe. The earth is supposed to be rotating at 1040 mph at the equator, traveling at 66,600 mph in its orbit around the sun. The entire “solar system” is supposed to be moving through our galaxy at about half a million mph, and the galaxy is said to be careening outward from the point of the Big Bang explosion at over one million mph. This all directly contradicts the Bible, which says the earth does not move.

He established the earth on her foundations, so that it will not be moved forever and ever. Psalm 104:5 (LEB)

DAY 4 – Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Genesis 1:14–19 (NKJV) 

The Genesis account finally gives us physical sources for light on day four. The sun, moon, and stars are all called lights or luminaries. They are all placed in the structure called the firmament, requiring them to be smaller and much closer than modern astrophysics claims. There are no “planets” (spherical solid objects) but only “wandering” (Greek: planetes) lights or stars that move differently from the circular motion of the other stars. If one looks at these wandering stars with a telescope or high-zoom camera, they look quite similar to other stars and not like NASA’s computer generated images.

Their motion is over the earth, as revealed in Psalm 19:5, and fixed as shown in Jeremiah 31:35 and other places. The moon is also described as a light, rather than a reflector. If we think about how the light of the moon extends in complete brightness to its very edges, it should be plain to us that it is not a spherical reflector.

As I already mentioned, the BB-HT of origins states that the sun and other stars were the first things that coalesced after the primal explosion, which directly contradicts the Bible. This theory also says that the moon is a spherical solid reflector of sunlight rather than being a light in its own right. The stars are said to be suns, which contradicts scripture, too. Instead of being in God’s “fixed” order, everything in the universe is supposed to be moving away from the theoretical original blast center. The “wandering stars” (Jude 13) were reclassified as solid spherical objects, much like earth is said to be. Each of these so called planets are caught in the inexorable power of the sun’s supposed gravity. The sun rules its “solar system” as a king would his court. Each “planet” except for the earth is named after a pagan god. This is all based on sun worship, which holds that the sun god, Helios or Sol, rules over all.

Heliocentrism places the earth in the same category as the wandering planets named after false gods, thereby putting us in a place of serving Helios, just like the other servants of Satan.

These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Jude 12–13 (NKJV)

 DAY 5 – Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Genesis 1:20–23 (NKJV)

Instead of life being self-generated through evolution from the sea, God created sea creatures and birds after he made the plants on dry land.

 The evolutionary BB-HT proposes that life self-generated from the sea, which directly contradicts the biblical account.

DAY 6 – Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Genesis 1:24–31 (NKJV)

The conclusion of creation took place on day six when God created all land-based animals and man. Humans are made in God’s likeness and have been given dominion over the earth. Our first command was to be fruitful and multiply. At this point in time, God completed his creation and rested on the seventh day.

According to the evolutionary BB-HT, it took billions of years for life to self-generate and evolve into human beings through a string of favorable mutations. Not only does this theory violate the second law of thermodynamics called entropy, it also contradicts the Bible.

The BB-HT teaches us that the earth and mankind are nothing special, being accidents of evolution. We have no God-given authority over the earth. In fact, we are considered to be a sort of dangerous virus that needs to have our numbers reduced.

The result of the BB-HT is that we see ourselves as purposeless, meaningless accidents instead of being the focal point of God’s creation.

In addition the BB-HT says that the universe is still self-creating through expansion and evolution, thus contradicting the Bible’s claim that God completed his work in six days and then rested.

One of the fundamental principles of Bible interpretation is that the scripture must be allowed to say what the author meant it to say.

Bible scholars agree that the Hebrews interpreted the Genesis account quite literally. The following diagram is found in Logos Bible Software and accurately describes the Hebrew concept of the heavens and earth.

This view is described by Google as being archaic and disproved by science. This is the result of the Copernican heliocentric view gaining the ascendancy over the past 500 years. Before that, virtually every culture held the same “archaic” understanding of the design of the earth and heavens. Whereas, once it was considered heretical to believe the conspiratorial Copernican view, now it is considered to be conspiratorial, stupid, and ignorant to believe the biblical testimony regarding the cosmos.

The lasting testimony of the Copernican-Newtonian revolution was the separating of “science” from religion. No longer is the Word of God highly regarded by those claiming to be scientists. Paul warned Timothy that this day would come.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Turn away from pointless empty talk and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge, 21 which some, by professing it, have deviated concerning the faith. Grace be with you all. 1 Timothy 6:20–21 (LEB)

In summary, the Bible presents us with a very different account of origins from modern science.

As Christians, we are confronted with the choice between believing God’s testimony regarding creation or what so-called science theorizes.

I believe we are being tested today in the same way that Satan tempted Adam and Eve. Did God really say? Did he mean what he said?

Satan made Adam and Eve feel foolish and ignorant for taking God at his word. This is how those who believe the Genesis account are made to feel today, even by other Christians quite often. It appears that many of us who profess the name of Christ love our pagan heliocentricism more than God’s Word. I pray that soon changes!

God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Numbers 23:19 (NKJV)
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Presuppositions

Presuppositions are things we believe without needing or being able to provide concrete proof. For example, we believe in God without being able to prove empirically his existence to anyone else. We may have what we consider to be good reasons for believing in him, but we cannot adequately prove he exists to someone else using what might be called the scientific method. Ultimately, when it comes to God, our knowledge of him depends upon revelation and faith. Once we believe, we see plenty of confirmations of his existence. Likewise, those who believe that God does not exist maintain that position without proof. Faith in God and atheism are both presuppositions that greatly influence our thinking and worldview.

As I attempt to provide a basis for establishing a proper biblical cosmology, I have certain presuppositions or premises. If our premises are correct, they will help us arrive at proper conclusions. If our premises are incorrect, they will lead us into further error.

  1. The first is that I believe that God exists.
  2. The second is that God gave us the Bible, which according to its own testimony is absolutely true. We can rely upon every word. (Proverbs 30:5)
  3. The third premise is that we should take the words of the Bible literally unless it is clear from the context that we should not. This point becomes extremely important when we look at such passages as the first chapter of Genesis. We should not twist the scriptures to make them mean something different from the original intent; although, prophetic scriptures can have multiple meanings. (2 Peter 3:16)
  4. The fourth presupposition is that the Bible is true when it speaks regarding science. It is not merely a book that communicates spiritual and moral truths. All its words are inspired by God; therefore, when it speaks regarding science, we accept it. We cannot assume that God “dumbed down” his Word to accommodate what is called the “pre-scientific” era. (2 Timothy 3:16)

Putting these four presuppositions together, we can simply say that God says what he means and means what he says. He never lies or “dumbs down” what he says, assuming that we are too dense to understand. (Numbers 23:19)

Many times God does not tell us everything we want to know, but what he does tell us is the truth. This means that when we are given a choice between believing the theories and assertions of pagan and atheistic astrophysicists or the Bible, we will choose the Bible as our most reliable source to explain the nature of the cosmos and the design of the earth. (Romans 3:4)

The Bible teaches us that we have an adversary called Satan who is a liar by nature. Jesus said that no truth dwells in him. (John 8:44) The Bible also tells us that he deceives the whole world. (Revelation 12:9) The world lies in his power (1 John 5:19), except for those who belong to Christ (1 John 5:5).

There is a worldwide satanic plan to deceive the masses regarding the design of the earth and heavens in order to hide the existence of the Creator and convince people that the Bible is unreliable. (Psalm 2:1-4)

I believe that God is revealing the truth about these things in order to awaken the people of the world to his existence and convince us that the Bible is absolutely true in order to lead us to place our faith and allegiance in our Lord Jesus the Messiah. It is my hope that this series of articles will assist you to come to a better understanding of the shape and design of the earth and heavens as revealed in the Bible.

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Introduction to Biblical Cosmology

A series like this needs an introduction. Why did I put together these articles on developing a biblical cosmology? I am glad you asked. A funny thing happened to me on my discipleship journey. Someone I respect told me that the earth is flat. Naturally, like you, I scoffed at such an idea, replying, ” I cannot go there.” Sometime later I watched two clear thinking individuals on a Rumble channel discussing flat earth. They said they were almost convinced, but not quite. That stirred my curiosity enough to start researching pro-flat-earth videos as an interested skeptic.

Most people have a caricature in mind when introduced to the flat earth. It is one carefully concocted by those guarding the globe earth fantasy. We have all seen pictures like this. A flat earth floating in outer space having no edges with water overflowing it. If this is what comes to your mind, it is because you have been programmed since childhood to think this way. Every classroom has its mandatory globe. Since 1955, the movie and entertainment industry has incessantly promoted the idea that the earth is a globe. Propagandists know that if a lie is told often enough, in the minds of the hearer, it becomes the truth. This is what went on in Nazi Germany and what is going on around the world. We have been brainwashed.

Perhaps “flat earth” is not the ideal choice of words. That is why I call this series “Biblical Cosmology.” The earth and heavens presented in the Bible are very different from the version pounded into our heads by NASA from our infancy. Another, perhaps preferred, descriptor for where we live is a “stationary plane enclosed in a solid firmament,” but I get ahead of myself. I ask you to keep an open mind, if this is all new to you. We cannot overcome a lifetime of indoctrination in just a few minutes.

When the Bible says that Satan is a liar (John 8:44)  who deceives the whole world (Revelation 12:9), it is not using poetic language. It is the absolute truth.

The globe theory of the earth and Big Bang theory of the universe, which first gained traction around 500 years ago, thanks to Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, has displaced the Bible’s account in Genesis. Today most people accept the modern astrophysicists’ version and try to accommodate Scripture to fit it somehow. This cannot honestly be done. My goal and hope is that we can all transition from what he have been told since childhood to a firm conviction that we will accept what the Bible says, no matter what.

The Bible’s Authority

The Bible is our authority in every area of life, including science. It is not a book written from man’s perspective, but from God’s. We cannot honestly claim that God said what he did in Genesis and elsewhere because people back then were not ready for the truth, since they were what some call “pre-scientific.” God gives us the truth, whether we think it is true or not. He cannot lie. He says what he means and means what he says.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16–17 (NKJV)

Every single word of God in the Bible is true. We are to live by every word that proceeds from God. If we take upon ourselves to claim that some words are not scientifically accurate, we make ourselves judges of God’s Word. What other verses will we dispose of?

It’s a slippery slope when we start down the path of rejecting some of the Bible because it offends us or makes us look ignorant in the eyes of the world.

Perhaps we are not bold enough to reject God’s Word, but instead we try to alter its meaning. Instead of allowing it to say what it clearly says (exegesis), we bend and twist it to say what we have predetermined that it will say (eisegesis). Peter warned that people would do this.

And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved. This is what our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him—16 speaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters to mean something quite different, just as they do with other parts of Scripture. And this will result in their destruction. 2 Peter 3:15–16 (NLT)

An example of this is when commentators try to make “evening and morning, the first day” into an indefinably long period of time. A similar twist is when interpreters translate the Hebrew word for firmament (raqia) into “sky” or “expanse” without the least reference to its solidity. More on this later.

The Bible tells us that we are not to provide a “private interpretation” to God’s Word.

But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. 2 Peter 1:20–21 (NASB95)

This means we must approach scripture with a reverence, realizing that we simply cannot lay on top of it our own preference or some scientific worldview to show us how to interpret its words. We must diligently seek to understand what God meant it to say. For this we need the Holy Spirit and an honest heart.

As disciples, we will accept what the Bible says, no matter what!

Hermeneutics

If we have been viewing Genesis and other passages of the Bible through the lens of the heliocentric view of the cosmos, we will have to make a rather huge adjustment. The authors of the Bible believed no such thing. The Hebrew conception of the earth and heavens, as believed by Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel, etc., the ones who authored its words, looked like the image on the right according to Hebrew Bible scholars.

One of the most important principles for Bible interpretation (hermeneutics) is that the Scriptures must at least mean what the authors intended. When Moses wrote Genesis, the model of the earth enclosed in the firmament is what he meant to communicate to us regarding the nature and construction of earth and heaven. Another important hermeneutical principle is that we must take the Bible literally, except when the context makes it clear we should not. We are not permitted to relegate to symbolism what the author intended us to take literally.

Do not be overwhelmed by all that I am presenting to you up front. We will go back over these things later. Maybe by that time the shock will have worn off and you will be able to think objectively about what I am saying. Just be open to what the Bible says. That is all I ask.

The Earth’s Curvature on the Globe Model

I do not think I will ever forget watching a clear demonstration that we can see much, much farther than we are supposed to see over water, if the globe theory of the earth’s shape were actually true. Most “globers” do not know how much the earth’s surface is supposed to curve. There are websites that calculate the required amount of curvature over distance using spherical trigonometry, such as he Earth Curvature Calculator. For simplicity’s sake, the following parabolic formula works up to a distance of about 2000 miles. After that, there will be some slight discrepancies.

Easy Formula: The Earth's Predicted Curvature = 8 inches times the distance in mileage squared.

Here are some sample distances with the calculated required curvature, if the earth were indeed a globe. 8 inches equals .66 feet.

Distance Formula
 Expected Curvature
1 mile 8″X1X1 8 inches
2 miles 8″X2X2 32 inches
3 miles 8″X3X3 72 inches
4 miles 8’X4X4 10.66 feet
5 miles 8″X5X5 16.66 feet
10 miles 8″X10X10 66 feet
20 miles 8″X20X20 264 feet
100 miles 8″X100X100 6600 feet
Perspective vs Curvature

When objects move away from us, because of optical perspective due to shape of our eyes, they appear to disappear from the ground or water up. Aristotle believed this was proof of the earth’s curvature. Bill Nye the Science Guy says the same thing, much to his shame. Thanks to the power of telescopes and zoom cameras, we can bring objects back into view that had disappeared due to perspective, all the way down to the hull in the water for boats. There are so many different proofs that the earth does not curve that I cannot list them all here, but, if you want to do your own research, I have placed many of them on the Resource Page connected to this series. I encourage you to check it out. Better yet, do your own empirical experiments. Below I give you a very short video demonstration, perhaps to whet your curiosity.

Also, as a warning, realize that Satan always has counter arguments to keep people away from the truth, as he did in the Garden when he flatly contradicted God’s Word. The typical counter to our being able to see so far is that it is because of refraction. Refraction, or lensing, does happen, but it cannot account for our ability to see so far. In fact, in the example below, one of the laser shots is made over ice at night when the air temperature is colder than the water (ice) temperature, a condition in which refraction cannot take place.

As you can imagine, when I realized that water does not bend around the surface of the supposed globe, my “mind was blown.” I realized that what I had been told about the globe is a lie!

That put me into a state of cognitive dissonance. I had new evidence that clearly contradicted what I had been taught by parents, teachers, TV, NASA, and renowned scientists. It went against all the supposed evidence provided by NASA of a spherical earth suspended in space. (I walk talk more about NASA’s fakery later.) As you would expect, I had a thousand questions as would anyone who is confronted with evidence that contradicts what he or she had previously believed. This new evidence indicated that the whole world has been deceived! Was I crazy? My wife and I began to investigate further.

Since NASA et. al. were the reason I had scratched my head when reading the Genesis account, we went back to the Bible to see what it really says. As you can imagine, we saw scriptures with a new set of eyes. It is all right there! We just could not see it previously because of our brainwashed condition. We had unwittingly accommodated the scriptures to conform to the heliocentric version of the cosmos or simply decided that it was “beyond our pay grade.”

Why the Lie?

One of the most frequently asked questions from anyone who is first confronted with the claims we are covering here is, “Why would there be such a massive coverup? What could possibly motivate people to lie on such a grand scale?”

I now understand that Satan is deliberately skewing things in order to blind us to the testimony of God’s creation. (Psalm 19:1 and Romans 1:20)

In place of the Bible’s testimony, the devil provides us with a pagan version of the cosmos designed to strip us of any belief in God at all. After months of extensive Bible study, I am more convinced than ever that the earth is indeed a stationary plane enclosed in a firmament, just as the Bible says. God seems closer than ever. All I have to do is look up, just like the Bible says. His throne is above the firmament, not some hard to conceive spiritual non-location. The almost universal testimony of non-believers and atheists who come to believe in the Bible’s version of the cosmos is that they can no longer deny God’s existence. Like a turtle on a fence post, the firmament did not get there by itself!

I assure you that I never had a desire to become a “flat earther.”. No one wants to be regarded as a kook or deceived. Here is a humorous short video that captures what I mean.

Google even feels the need to attach a warning to every YouTube video supporting the flat earth position. It is my opinion that they would not do this if this truth did not threaten their global deception scheme. There are lot of other deceptions about which they do not warn us.

Those of us who see this truth realize that we are engaged in a type of battle reminiscent of David versus Goliath. The government controls the media, NASA, and higher education. NASA has a budget of around $60 million per day to develop their computer generated images of “outer space,” satellites, the International Space Station, and Hubble telescope wonders. All we have on our side is a dedicated cadre of YouTubers, Rumblers, and writers. But, with God’s help, that will be enough.

My prayer is that God will lift the shroud of deception off the people of the earth, that once again people will realize that the Bible is absolutely true when it comes to science as well as spiritual matters. May our eyes be opened to the heavenly testimony.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)
Lies We Will Confront
  • The origin of the cosmos – The Big Bang vs. the Biblical Creation
  • The order of creation – Evolutionary Astrophysics vs. The Six-Days of Creation
  • The dynamics of day and night – The Earth’s Rotation vs. The Sun’s Circuit
  • The origin of plant life – Evolution vs. Creation before the sun
  • The heavenly bodies – Pagan Heliocentric Astrophysics vs. the Sun, moon, and stars in the firmament
  • The rotation of the earth vs. the rotation of the firmament
  • The orbit of the earth vs. the circuit of the sun
  • The dangers of outer space vs. the safety of life under the dome

There is plenty to talk about. I hope you will continue with me.

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Man’s Ongoing Quest to Escape Our Assigned Habitation, the Earth

In this article, I will attempt to describe what I believe is mankind’s ongoing attempt to escape our assigned physical habitation, the earth. In my previous one, I wrote about humanity’s quest to escape the spiritual and intellectual limitations assigned to us by God in his Word, the Bible. The two are closely linked.

The Bible teaches us that Satan wished to go beyond his assigned place and role and usurp God’s throne.

But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. 14 ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ Isaiah 14:13–14 (NASB95)

The essence of sin lies in our refusal to accept God’s authority as the Creator to “make the rules” and assign to us our roles and limitations.

We see this being played out all around us in our culture. People are not happy with their assigned sexuality or gender. Some women despise the perceived limitations of being wives and mothers. Some men do not want to carry the weight of responsibility connected with the roles of husband and father. In both cases, sometimes people feel as if the sacrifice of freedom is too great.

Apparently Satan had a privileged status prior to his rebellion, but he wanted more. Although a created being, he considered himself to be God’s equal and had the audacity to attempt to overthrow God’s rule. The result was his defeat and ouster from heaven.

And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Luke 10:18 (NKJV)

Having failed, Satan did not give up. Apparently, he determined to seduce the humans God created and placed in the garden. He tempted them to join in his rebellion against God. It seems that the lure of god-like self-determination is quite strong. Adam and Eve took the bait hook, line, and sinker.

God created us to be perfectly fulfilled and satisfied dependent beings.

We were not designed or intended to go it alone. Our Lord’s desire has always been to be with us and live his life in and through us. That is the only pathway to peace and joy, but Adam and Eve threw that away for an empty promise from the tempter that they could be like God, knowing good and evil for themselves. Jesus came to restore us to the abundant life God originally intended.

The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. John 10:10 (NLT)

Not only did God intend for Adam and Eve and their descendants to enjoy a happy and fulfilled life of partnership and dependence upon their Creator, he also provided them with the perfect environment.

The earth God created was a paradise with more than enough capacity to provide for a vast number of people. Before they rebelled against God’s rule, the earth worked with them to provide their needs. After their sin and the consequent judgment, the earth worked against them to some degree.

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. 18 “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:17–19 (NASB95)

Now it is more difficult to extract the blessings from the ground, but not impossible. God’s command to be fruitful and multiply still stands. God still wants the earth to be full of people, something the devil works hard to prevent.

Satan, the father of lies, consistently lies to us about God and the earth.

He works hard to get us to believe and accept his version of reality in place of God’s truth. The earth God created is huge with plentiful resources. The Bible says that it is safely enclosed and protected in a solid firmament. This crystalline structure separates us from the third heaven where God’s throne is located.

Our assigned abode is on the earth below the firmament.

God reserved heaven for himself, his angels, and all who put their faith and allegiance in his Son, our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

After Adam’s and Eve’s rebellion and expulsion from the garden, almost from the beginning, their descendants, like Satan, were not content to remain in our assigned place.

The Bible records that residents of Mesopotamia constructed a giant tower whose purpose was to reach into heaven.

They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 (NASB95)

Tradition has it that Nimrod wanted to penetrate the barrier of the firmament in order to kill God with his bow and arrows. Regardless of whether there is any truth in that, God took note of this attempt to escape our assigned domain and frustrated their efforts. By dividing them into many different language groups, God slowed down mankind’s technological development. But the drive to test the limits of our habitation and escape its confines persists.

The quest to breach the firmament was delayed but not stopped.

Now I ask you to permit me space to conjecture a bit, with the full understanding that I am making what I consider to be an educated guess. When our own government blocks access to crucial information and propagates what is false, we are left trying to piece together the resulting puzzle. Thankfully, the Bible gives us much solid information.

The Bible tells us that the solid firmament rises from the earth where it is securely anchored. I wrote more about this in previous articles in this series. A 1958 version of The Encyclopedia Americana reported the presence of a dome. This was prior to the Antarctic Treaty and before censorship regarding that area of the world. We are “fenced in” by this structure. At this point, the general public does not know where the firmament connects to the earth, since that area of the world is now “off limits,” but quite possibly Admiral Richard E. Byrd found it, having made several expeditions to that region before and after WWII (1928-30, 1933-34, 1939-40, 1946-47, and 1955-56). He gave a televised interview in which he made some remarkable claims.

During and after Byrd completed his assignments there, several very interesting things took place.

  1. The United Nations was created in 1945.
  2. Walt Disney, who majored in fantasy, and Werner Von Braun partnered to produce a documentary on outer space travel in 1955.
  3. NASA was formed in 1958. Werner Von Braun, a former Nazi, brought to the US under the auspices of Operation Paperclip, was put in charge of our space program, or at least became one of its major spokesmen.
  4. The Antarctic Treaty was signed, cordoning off the area beyond the South 60th parallel, December 1, 1959. The signing nations were each assigned a segment to guard and protect against independent exploration. Interestingly, despite all our international conflicts since then, no one has violated this treaty? Why?
  5. Operation Fishbowl was part of a series of high altitude nuclear explosions conducted by the US and Russia. Operation Starfish exploded a 1.4 megaton bomb in 1962 at a reported altitude of 400 kilometers or 240 miles.

If I am correct in speculating that Byrd and his associates discovered the wall of the firmament, then the formation of NASA and subsequent rocket launches were part of a plan to probe and perhaps penetrate the firmament. Operation Fishbowl likely was designed to test the strength and nature of the firmament. Numerous videos of rocket launches show them apparently skimming through water and sometimes coming apart at very high altitudes. Many of NASA’s launches take an arc that would dump them into the Bermuda Triangle.

If the firmament is what the Bible says, outer space is a fantasy. The firmament cannot be penetrated, and pretty much everything NASA produces is part of a Disney-like magical kingdom.

It is apparent to many that NASA exists to maintain the illusion that we live on a globe while making ongoing efforts to break through the firmament.

Whatever is the actual case, no one will deny that many people are genuinely obsessed with space travel and the idea of leaving the earth and exploring, and maybe even establishing colonies, beyond the earth. Hollywood, which is known to hide the truth in plain sight, has given us many clues regarding the firmament and humanity’s inborn desire to escape our assigned habitation. Here are a few examples.

The Matrix movie describes a world where humans are enslaved by convincing them that the lie, with which they are all brainwashed, is actually reality. Wanting to escape the lie, is very different from trying to deny the truth and pursue the lie. Neo was encouraged to take the “red pill” that would open his eyes to the truth, which he did, embarking him on a dangerous adventure toward freedom.

Sinful rebellious humankind wants to escape the limitations of our God-imposed habitation. The controllers, those in power who are serving Satan, hide the true nature of our world from its inhabitants in order to enslave us under false pretenses. They tell us that the world we live in is more or less doomed and that we need to find somewhere else. All the while they hide how amazing and plentiful is God’s provision.

Almost everything about our world as presented by our government is contrary to the truth.

Consider the following.

  • We are told that we live on a “fragile” planet.  We are in danger from climate change, asteroids, disease, aliens, and over crowding.
  • Resources are limited and running out.
  • Our population needs to be reduced, resources rationed, and energy conserved.

But what does God say?

  • We live on a firmly secured earth enclosed by a solid firmament. Climate change, aliens, and asteroids are not real. Demons, yes, but not aliens.
  • God created the earth with more than enough resources to support a massive population. Otherwise, God would not have commanded us to fill the earth.
  • God said to be fruitful and multiply. Efforts to reduce the population through wars, starvation, abortion, vaccines, etc., like everything else Satan suggests, are in direct violation of God’s commands.

Jesus was not joking when he said the devil came to kill, steal, and destroy.

If we would accept that the earth God created is a perfectly designed habitation and seek to bring it more and more in line with God’s original intention under his rule, we would see our lives prosper in a greater way. Instead, inspired by Satan and our own rebelliousness, we refuse to tell the truth, listen to the truth, or accept our God-imposed limitations. Instead, we try to escape, not realizing that all the while Satan is working his plan to subjugate and enslave the inhabitants of the earth. Thankfully, we know from the Bible that God wins! Eventually he will create a new heaven and earth in which only righteousness exists. Hallelujah!

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Here I Stand

Martin Luther, when on trial before the Catholic Church for teaching biblical truth, famously stated: “My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not retract anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.” Much to my surprise, I find myself in a similar position today regarding the doctrine of the shape of the earth. What once was commonly understood by the church, now has become the subject of intense debate. Many of my dear friends in the faith think that I have departed from the truth because I believe in the literal accuracy of Genesis Chapter One and other scriptures that describe the earth and heavens quite differently from what now is generally accepted as true. I take solace in the fact that my belief agrees with Luther’s, Calvin’s, and the authors of the Bible.

About the time God restored the primacy of God’s Word and the wonderful truth of justification by faith during the Reformation, Satan introduced one of his most mind numbing deceptions – heliocentrism.

Copernicus theorized that the earth revolved around Helios, the sun god, which became the center of the “universe,” instead of the earth’s being the stationary center of God’s creation over which the sun and moon run their “circuits.” (Psalm 19:6)

Here is what Copernicus wrote. Judge for yourself whether it is empirical science or occult religion dressed up in scientific garb, a wolf is sheep’s clothing.

In the middle of all sits Sun enthroned. In this most beautiful temple could we place this luminary in any better position from which he can illuminate the whole at once? He is rightly called the Lamp, the Mind, the Ruler of the Universe: Hermes Trismegistus names him the Visible God, Sophocles’ Electra calls him the All-seeing. So the Sun sits as upon a royal throne ruling his children the planets which circle round him. The Earth has the Moon at her service. As Aristotle says, in his On Animals, the Moon has the closest relationship with the Earth. Meanwhile the Earth conceives by the Sun, and becomes pregnant with an annual rebirth.  —Nicolaus Copernicus , De Revolutionibus, Of the Order of the Heavenly Bodies

Hermes Trismegistus was an Egyptian sun worshiper and originator of the occult practice of hermetics, something to which both Copernicus and Isaac Newton subscribed.

Heliocentrism is a clear example of Satan’s countering God’s truth being restored during the Reformation with an outright lie, the purpose being to turn people away from belief in the Bible and faith in God.

When Copernicus introduced his novel ideas about the universe, the reformers were quick to condemn him. Here are the words of Martin Luther.

The error of Copernicus’ declaration that the earth revolved around the sun was evident to those men who held that the Scripture was the sole foundation of faith and truth.

Luther referred to Joshua’s command to the sun to stand still as an elegantly simple refutation of Copernicus’ error, but, today, many Christians merely shrug off this proof text by saying that God can do anything. He could stop the earth from rotating and the moon from revolving around the earth, without killing everyone by massive tsunamis and the force of the sudden stop from a 1039 mph rotation. Satan truly makes us into fools when we abandon the simple truth of God’s words, even though we imagine that we are incredibly wise.

The heliocentric model of the universe stands in absolute contradiction to God’s Word. It suppresses the truth about the creation and God himself, who is revealed through an accurate apprehension of what he made. (Psalm 19:1-2)

The Bible warns us that the truth will be suppressed in the Last Days (Romans 1:18), leading to wholesale delusion (2 Thessalonians 2:11). We are there.

The heliocentric lie, coupled with the Big Bang expanding universe, fundamentally changed how humanity viewed the cosmos, God, the Bible, and ourselves.

Instead of there being a benevolent Creator who fashioned an earth protected by the firmament from outside threats, Copernicus launched us into the dark and hostile void of “outer space,” without any sort of mooring or protection at all. Heaven became lost in space, a spiritual place instead of being located just atop the firmament. This monumental error gave birth to a whole host of derivative lies.

  • Deism – An impersonal God created the world and left it to its own devices.
  • Atheism – The earth sprang out of nothing through something called the Big Bang.
  • Evolution – Humans evolved from nothing. There is no need for a Creator.
  • Moral Relativism – Since there is no God and we evolved, there can be no absolute truth.
  • Meaninglessness – Life is a meaningless existential pursuit of pleasure and power leading to totalitarianism where power is supreme and people are expendable.
  • A Culture of Sexual Perversion, Abuse, and Suicide since there is no absolute truth or inherent value to life.
  • Living in fear from any number of outside threats – global warming, aliens, and asteroids – which allow the powers that be to enslave us.

When we realize that the earth is a stationary plane covered by the firmament, above which is God’s throne, our eyes are opened to the truth about the God of the Bible and the accuracy of his Word.

I have listened to testimonies of people coming to believe in the Creator and Jesus as a result of finally seeing that the earth is indeed a stationary, non-rotating plane enclosed in the firmament. I have collected some of these on my resource page, near the bottom.

Throughout church history making a stand for God’s truth always produces controversy and sometimes persecution.

Jesus caused division wherever he went because truth divides between those who receive it and those who suppress it. (John 7:43)

Several early Bible translators, such as John Hus and William Tyndale, gave up their lives in order to provide the common man with access to the Scripture in his or her own language. The early reformers faced the very real threat of death for adhering to such basic truths as justification by faith and believer baptism. The doctrine of the baptism and gifts of the Spirit still is being resisted to this day.

Arguments are made by those who do not value the gifts of the Spirit that, since the gifts are not a salvation issue, we should keep quiet about them in order to preserve unity. Some churches do not allow them to operate in order to maintain cohesiveness.

I do not think we should participate in suppressing truth in order to maintain this sort of false unity.

Nor do I believe that we should try to force our views on others.  As long as freedom of conscience and expression are allowed, we should tolerate divergent opinions, unless such a position clearly violates God’s Word. Then the church must erect some sort of barrier to preserve truth.

A primary reason that I left the Roman Catholic Church after being born again was because I could not remain in unity with false doctrine, nor was it proper for me to be a source of disunity within their ranks by teaching doctrine that is contrary to the official church position.

We should always strive to maintain a balance between making a stand for God’s truth and being lovingly patient with those who do not see it yet.

As we press forward into God’s truth, I believe it is wise to keep in mind the following saying.

I realize that the doctrine of the shape of the earth is a “non-essential” doctrine in the sense that one does not need to believe it to get to heaven. However, I believe it is a vastly important doctrine which needs to be taught because it strikes a blow at one of Satan’s biggest lies.

I am making a stand in this area, hoping that many will be restored to faith in the glorious truth about the shape and nature of God’s earth and heavens. It is my desire that, when people see the truth about creation, they will also see the truth about God and put their faith in our Lord Jesus the Messiah, Creator and Sustainer of all things.

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