Category: Biblical Cosmology

Circuit Rider

My father’s mother’s father was a Methodist circuit riding pastor in north Georgia named Charles Ledford. These hardy servants of God rode horseback to circulate among the churches under their care. He and his wife, my great grandmother, Lillie, died quite young, probably due to the intense rigors of life back then in the post-civil-war South. The few photos I have of them with their daughters indicate that they lived in poverty. As a result, my grandmother, Leone, spent time in an orphanage before being adopted by the Lightfoot family. Later, of course, she married my grandfather, Pete Beck, Sr.

Circuit riders existed because there were not enough pastors for each church to have its own local preacher. Since the church buildings could not move, the circuit riders followed a defined circuit so that each church knew when he would arrive. That way the members would plan to be present when he was.

The Bible tells us that the earth is stationary and the sun rides a circuit above it.

The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. 2 Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices as a strong man to run his course. 6 Its rising is from one end of the heavens, And its circuit to the other end of them; And there is nothing hidden from its heat. Psalm 19:1–6 (NASB95)

I have been reading and studying the Bible since the Spring of 1971 and continue to discover new “nuggets” of truth in its pages. It is a book that never grows old or dull. Its depths can never be completely plumbed. Its inspired words provide life and truth to those who revere it and rely on the Holy Spirit to teach us from it.

The passage in Psalm 19 begins by informing us that the creation tells us about God and his glory.

A proper understanding of the creation provides a proper understanding of God. A skewed understanding of creation gives us a warped view of God that can produce a false understanding of who we are.

The devil loves to contradict God’s words. He did so in the Garden of Eden when he told Eve, “You will not surely die!” He does it now. Sadly, the majority of modern Christians have bought into his contradiction of scripture regarding the nature of the heavens and the earth. Modern cosmology, which originated with Copernicus, teaches us that the sun does not make a circuit above the earth, but that the earth revolves around the sun. This is no small thing. It leads us to the following conclusions.

  • The Bible is not always true.
  • The earth is not central to God’s creation.
  • We are under the grip of the sun’s “gravity,” which means we serve it instead of its serving us.
  • Eventually, heliocentrism leads to other lies – the Big Bang theory, evolution, and atheism.

This profound contradiction of God’s Word regarding the sun is defended vigorously by well-meaning believers who insist that they believe every word in the Bible, except, of course, those which contradict the heliocentric theory. Those they conveniently ignore or twist, ascribing their supposed error to the ignorance of the biblical authors, at which God winked, thus allowing untruths to fill the pages of scripture. No wonder so many have wandered away from biblical truth.

Once we say that some of God’s Word is false, all of it comes into question.

Heliocentrism teaches us that the earth is held in the iron grip of the sun’s immense “gravitational pull,” making the sun the center of things in our “solar system,” which is an infinitely small part of an ever-expanding incomprehensibly huge universe. This means that we humans dare not think of ourselves as special or central to God’s plan.

The Bible, however, teaches us that God created the earth as the center of things, a perfect enclosed habitation for mankind, above which he placed the “lights,” which serve us, much as the circuit riders served the churches under their oversight and care.

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. Genesis 1:14–18 (NKJV)

So which is it? Does the sun serve us, as God says, as it completes its daily circuit above, or do we serve the sun by forever revolving around it as it hurtles at ridiculous speeds going who knows where? It depends on whether we believe the Bible or Copernicus, doesn’t it? Since I worship God, not Helios or any man, I say the Bible is correct. How about you?

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Here Comes the Sun

Imagine, if you can, seeing light on the earth, but there are no sun, no moon, and no stars. It would have to look something like photos taken on the moon during the Apollo missions. (Hint, hint…) A lighted world without heavenly lights was the situation on earth before the fourth day of creation. God created light on the first day of creation, but as yet there were no lights in the sky until the fourth day. From where did this light come? We can surmise that God himself was the light.

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 came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:1–5 (NASB95)

Those who do not believe that the Bible is the inspired and true Word of God still cannot comprehend this light and refuse to acknowledge God’s ability to shine into the darkness. (2 Corinthians 4:6) Those who believe in a materialistic universe governed by known mechanics cannot conceive of a light without a physical source; so, they believe the Genesis creation account is just another religious myth. (Everyone has to believe something!) But those of us who believe that God’s Word is literally true, accept a lighted world without any physical light source without understanding how it worked. We would rather appear foolish in the eyes of men than be guilty of calling God a liar.

May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, “THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED.” Romans 3:4 (NASB95)

Since it was not until the fourth day that God created the sun, moon, and stars and placed them in the firmament, the Big Bang theory and its corollary, the heliocentric system, is a lie. This places all who profess to believe the Bible in a crisis of faith. Will I believe the Bible is an accurate account of creation, or will I twist its clear meaning into something that bows the knee to modern cosmological theory?

Will I claim that the Bible is true, but Genesis is not true science? Will I say that it contains the truth without being true? What kind of satanic mischief is that? Will I call God a liar in order to appear to be wise to the world? I formerly did that out of ignorance, but no more. I now boldly declare that God’s Words in the Genesis account of creation are actually true. How about you?

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The Day the Sun Stood Still

Is there one verse in the Bible that completely disproves heliocentrism? Actually, there are many, but the one that Martin Luther chose was in Joshua.

Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon in the valley of Aijalon.” 13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies. Is it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. Joshua 10:12–13 (NASB95)

Martin Luther was a principal in what is called the Protestant Reformation, in which one of the rallying cries was “sola scriptura,” meaning that the Bible is the highest standard for truth. In the midst of this cataclysmic upheaval that rearranged nations and delivered people from the bondage of Roman Catholicism, the devil instituted a “counter reformation” spearheaded by the Jesuit order. In addition to using torture against those whom they regarded as heretics, Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the order, began to offset people’s trust in the Word of God with a new emphasis on “science” and “knowledge.” (If you want to learn more about this devilish strategy, I recommend that you watch the Heliosorcery documentary.) It was about this time that some amazing new ideas burst onto the scene, Copernican heliocentrism being one of the most important. This novel theory began to grab the imagination of people who had no biblical foundation or who did not esteem the scriptures as God’s bastion of truth.

Martin Luther was a contemporary of Copernicus, and met the astronomer’s refutation of the Bible very simply by referencing the above quoted passage from Joshua, and writing the following statement.

Oh, that Christians regarded the Bible with such reverence today! Instead, the majority have bowed the knee to what is called science, preferring to look good in the world’s eyes rather than God’s.

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Whose Fool Am I?

Evidently being considered or called a fool is one of life’s greatest fears. Society exerts pressure on all of us to fall in line with accepted beliefs and norms. People who refuse to comply are ostracized in some fashion, either by criticism, shunning, or outright persecution.

Bible-believing Christians hold some beliefs that the world considers to be downright crazy. We believe in an invisible, all-powerful Creator and Sustainer of the universe to whom we are accountable. We believe this God created the earth and heavens in six days, flooded the entire earth during Noah’s day, parted the Red Sea for Moses, and stopped the sun and moon to assist Joshua in battle. We believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, did astounding miracles, rose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, and will one day return in glory to judge the living and the dead. All this is found in the Bible, which most Christians believe is inspired by God and infallibly true.

The “scientific” age began during what is called the Enlightenment. One goal of so-called science has been to set us free from the confines of the Bible. Copernicus, to whom history gives credit for the heliocentric theory, wrote the following to illustrate my point.

Martin Luther, as did John Calvin, considered Copernicus to be a fool.

Over the years since the introduction of the heliocentric theory, the development of the theory of evolution, and advent of the Big Bang theory, so-called science has attacked the Scripture with barrage after barrage. In an effort to retain the appearance of wisdom in the face of such attacks, some Christians have developed “ingenious” ways to interpret the Bible to twist it into some imagined harmony with what is called science. For example, rather than accept the biblical account of creation in six days, some expositors of scripture have elongated that short time frame in all sorts of ways to attempt to conform it to the eons of time required by the false theory of evolution.

Some of us would rather change what the Bible says than risk looking foolish in the eyes of the world, but looking foolish in God’s eyes is far more serious.

The Bible says that those who do not believe in God are fools. (Psalm 14:1)  Jesus rebuked his own disciples for their foolishness in not believing the Bible. (Luke 24:25) We need to realize that much of what is called scientific “fact” is in fact a mere theory, often propped up by other theories that have become regarded as facts over time.

Adam and Eve believed a lie because the devil made them feel foolish for believing God. 

Science, falsely so-called, is doing the same thing today. Many Christians are made to feel foolish for believing that the Genesis account regarding the nature of the heavens and earth is literally true. Many others choose to side with “science,” inventing all sorts of devious ways to twist the scriptures to accommodate error. It is a sad commentary on the state of the church.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”— 21 which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you. 1 Timothy 6:20–21 (NASB95)

Eventually we all have to make a decision. Whose fool am I? God’s or the world’s?

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

Stars should cause wonderment, just like the rest of creation. All of it was designed by God to reveal his glory and power to us. King David wrote the following song of praise long ago.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. 2 Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Psalm 19:1–4 (NKJV)

The apostle Paul echoed these words in his letter to the church in Rome.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. Romans 1:20 (NASB95)

Shhh! Don’t tell anyone, or they will think you are crazy, but Paul was right. There is a conspiracy to hide God’s glory from everyone who lives on the earth. Knowing that a true knowledge of creation will lead people to God, powerful people have conspired to obscure that knowledge in order to bring God’s wrath on humanity.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. Romans 1:18–19 (NASB95)

Governments, scientists, educators, and even religious powers decided long ago that they would embrace an anti-biblical explanation of creation in order to hide God’s glory. This is rooted in a web of deceit derived from the false doctrine called evolution. What began as an explanation of how living things came to be has “evolved” and spread into almost every “scientific” discipline. Now we have evolutionary sociology, astrophysics (otherwise known as the Big Bang), politics (the Constitution is a living, evolving thing), philosophy (existentialism), and morality. Once God is hidden from our sight by a false interpretation or explanation of creation, anything goes.

People don’t wonder what stars are anymore. Now we “know” they are gigantic balls of gas at incalculable distances from us. But are they? Not if we believe the Bible and actual photographs.

The Bible says that stars are not so far away at all and are not suns, but “lights” in the dome of the firmament.

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 1:16–19 (NKJV)

Anyone who believes the above words understands that they destroy any definition of stars proposed by modern astronomers. These amazing creations only came into existence after God had already created the earth and light itself. Actual photographs of stars and planets (“wandering stars”) look like lights shining through water, which is exactly what God says exists above and below the solid dome of the firmament.

The inverse square law of light is a physics law that states that light diminishes in intensity as a square of the distance we are from the source. If stars were as far away as modern astrophysicists say, we could not see them unless they were indescribably huge and bright.

However, Jesus said that the stars will fall to the earth.

But in those days, after that tribulation, THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, 25 AND THE STARS WILL BE FALLING from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. 26 “Then they will see THE SON OF MAN COMING IN CLOUDS with great power and glory. Mark 13:24–26 (NASB95)

Either NASA is wrong or the Bible is. Such huge things could not fall to the earth. You choose for yourself, but I am siding with Jesus. He created it all.

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It’s Greek to Me

Sometimes I tell a joke that goes like this.

Me: I can say at least one phrase in every known language, except for Greek.

Other Person: Okay, say something in Swahili?

Me: It’s Greek to me.

When my kids were small, sometimes we would play cops and robbers. They pretended to shoot me, but no matter how close they were, I would move my eyes as if following their bullet right around me. They could never hit me. That may be humorous in such situations, but when we do the same thing as adults when confronted by unwelcome truth, it is not funny at all.

In my previous article, I introduced the idea of a “black swan,” which represents contradictory evidence to a stated truth. But what if a person with whom I am talking says every time that the black swan is not really black. It’s just covered with oil. No matter how many black swans I may present, each time I am rebutted with the same argument. They are all covered with oil. Even if I closely examine the black swan to show that it has no oil on it, my friend may say, “Well, it was covered with oil, which dyed its feathers black. There are no black swans.” One would soon realize that there is no point discussing the matter any further.

This has been my experience when I share flat earth evidence. No matter how convincing my proof, it is always dismissed as being “doctored” video or, in the case of seeing farther than the globe model would allow, refraction or lensing. The refraction argument has been used ad infinitum to try to explain away everything from seeing the Chicago skyline from 65 miles away to selenelion eclipses.

Refraction is a real thing, but it does not explain away flat earth evidence, as so often claimed. Below is an excellent video on the subject by Ben at Taboo Conspiracy.

When we dismiss clear evidence that refutes a previously believed position, it shows that we are brainwashed.

Part of the reason we have such difficulty accepting that the earth is not a globe is because we cannot believe that institutions and people we trust could be actively deceiving us, especially on such a grand scale. We think that surely the truth would have been “outed” by now. Let me assure you that deception on a grand scale exists everywhere, but the whistleblowers are either eliminated, isolated, ridiculed, or dismissed.

Most people are more comfortable believing a lie that confronting one.

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Have you ever seen a black swan?

If someone makes a claim that all swans are white, finding a black one would disprove the statement. I well remember my “black swan” moment. It came in a flash, a moment of realization that all my life the “establishment” had been lying to me!

From childhood I believed what was was taught and reinforced almost daily – that the earth is a rotating sphere that revolves around the sun and hurtles through space at incomprehensible and complex speeds under the control of the pull of “gravity” from multiple sources. We are rotating at around 1000 mph at the equator, traveling at 66,600 mph around the sun, moving at around half a million mph along with our solar system through the galaxy, and flying at an even faster speed through the larger universe due to residual expansion from the “Big Bang.” I likewise accepted that gravity, which is weak enough to allow me to move about freely on the earth, is also strong enough to hold trillions of gallons of water to the surface of our sphere, which is rotating so amazingly fast. 

I did not really think too much about the fact that no one is aware of this supposed motion. Nor did I consider that, if this rotational speed is true, airplanes must fly with reference to that rotational speed and calculate it when landing, taking off, and navigating. I also did not consider what is the supposed curvature of the earth. In fact, it had never occurred to me to test it. And this brings me to the black swan moment.

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 if the globe theory of the earth’s shape were actually true.

Earth Curvature Formula

Most people 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 the Earth Curvature Calculator. For simplicity’s sake, the following parabolic formula works well up to a distance of about 2000 miles. After that, there will be some slight discrepancies from the trig formula, but not enough to cause concern.

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 related to shape of our eyes, they appear to disappear from their base up. Aristotle believed this was proof of the earth’s curvature. Bill Nye the Science Guy says the same thing, much to his shame, because he knows better. Thanks to the power of telescopes and zoom cameras, we can bring objects back into view that have disappeared due to perspective, all the way down to the hull in the water for boats. Of course, eventually everything disappears when moved far enough away, due to limitations of vision, air quality issues, and perspective.

There are many different empirical proofs that the earth does not curve, and I have placed several of them on the Resource Page connected to this series. I encourage you to check them out.  Below is a very short video demonstration to whet your curiosity. Below is some information about the author of the video.

Taboo Conspiracy (aka Ben) is happily married and a homeschooling father of four children (one more is on the way). He is currently a lawyer and an entrepreneur setting up a remarkable business in Las Vegas, Nevada where he currently resides. Ben has a bachelors degree, a Juris Doctorate, and a Masters…

In March 2015, Ben began his new life as a flat earther when he, with his Nikon P900, filmed his wife across a bay holding a mirror reflecting the sunlight at 6.3 miles distance (globe model “hidden” height of 12 feet). Defying the globe model, Ben’s wife placed the mirror into the water and Ben filmed the entire event 6.3 miles away. Since then, Ben and his patient wife have conducted many tests to demonstrate the flat and stationary earth and his YouTube channel (now called “Taboo Conspiracy ii”) has thereafter been devoted to sharing these and many more flat earth proofs with everyone.

Although a Bible-loving Christian, Ben’s flat earth conversion was based only on the substantial scientific, observable and repeatable, evidence of the flat earth. Ben only asks that you objectively test the flat earth and weigh the evidence yourself with an open mind – only then will you learn the hard truth – that we were all lied to and only together can humanity throw off this mental and physical tyranny.1

When I saw that it can be demonstrated that the formula for calculating the curve of the earth is wrong, it was my black swan moment. Instead of curving like a sphere, it is flat!

What a moment that was. I did not want to be a “flat earther,” but there it was. My life forever changed that day. My big mistake was assuming that, if I showed people this information, they would immediately arrive at the same conclusion as I. Was I ever wrong!

In my next article, I will share about my amazing knowledge of languages. I can speak at least one phrase in every known language, except Greek. Perhaps you would like to test me?

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1 https://flatearthconference.com/speakers/taboo-conspiracy/
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Introduction to Snippets of Truth

At the time of this writing, for about a year I have held a view of the earth and heavens that I believe corresponds to Genesis, rather than to the generally accepted position of modern astrophysics. This means that I am no longer a heliocentrist or believe that the earth is a rotating globe hurtling through space at enormous speeds in compound directions.

Some of my friends and family have come to believe as I, but others think I am “crazy” or deceived. Perhaps I have become an embarrassment to some. I have been mocked and a recipient of angry rebuttals and sly smiles. I mistakenly thought that my years as a Bible teacher would give me some credence, but I discovered that is often not true. It appears that this issue is a “sacred cow” that is best left undisturbed.

I began to wonder if this is a hill to die on or something to be left alone for a while. My relative silence may have been misinterpreted as a surrender to heliocentric “orthodoxy,” especially after what has been labeled “The Final Experiment,” but I have not changed my stance. I still hold firmly to what I believe the Bible teaches and have observed mountains of evidence to support my faith. Perhaps my stand will help others think again about what they believe and come to a knowledge of the truth.

I have come to believe that it is quite impossible to be a heliocentrist and accept the clear teachings about where we live that are found in Genesis and elsewhere in the Bible.

We must choose whether we will make the Biblical position our starting point in our quest for truth. If we begin with the generally accepted heliocentric model, as do most Christians, we will discover that we must reject a literal rendering of Genesis. Most do this in a way that might seem plausible but is nothing more than self-deception. I should know. I unwittingly did it for years. 

We make an end run around the truth by claiming that Genesis is not intended to be accepted as literally true. In other words, God told us a lie because he figured we were too ignorant to comprehend the truth. If this is so, it means that nothing in the Bible can be regarded as absolutely true, which is exactly what the devil wants us to conclude. We cannot have it both ways. The Bible cannot be true, but Genesis be untrue.

Nevertheless, most Christians seem to feel quite comfortable in doing this, while at the same time affirming that they believe that every word of the Bible is infallibly true. The devil must be laughing at our duplicity. How easy we are to fool.

If we decide that the Word of God the sole arbiter of truth, we will end up in an entirely different place.

We will question what is called “science” instead of the Bible. We will believe that the Bible means what it says and says what it means. If the sun was created on the fourth day, we understand that the Big Bang and heliocentrism is a lie. It really is that simple.

The reason that so many Christians have great difficulty accepting the biblical position is because we have been brainwashed since infancy to believe the heliocentric model. It takes great courage to go against what the masses accept as obviously true and settled science. No other stand for truth has cost me as much as this one, which indicates to me how important this truth is.

Many say that it makes no difference whether we believe in heliocentrism and the globe or in the biblical model. The only reason a person would say that is because they believe the biblical model is false. Once a person sees through the lie, it becomes clear how important this truth is.

One has to ask why this deception has been propagated for the last five hundred years. It is because it is a lie upon which hinges so many other deceptions. It hides the Creator who can more perfectly be known by comprehending his actual creation, not some imaginary distortion. It breeds other lies such as our relative insignificance in the vast universe. It makes man and the earth seem almost inconsequential, when the truth is that we are the center of God’s creation and purposes. It has led to many rejecting God’s existence altogether. It also sets the stage for us to believe that we are in constant danger from being obliterated by a random comet or asteroid, or of being invaded by aliens from “deep space.” Those who seek to enslave us want us to be afraid so they can convince us to surrender our freedoms to them.

Once we understand that we are in an enclosed environment overseen by the Most High God, the Creator, these fears disappear. Those who see the Creator in his creation are encouraged to know him, love him, and serve him. 

Adopting a biblical cosmology is perhaps one of the most important things we will ever do, aside from putting our faith and allegiance in Christ.

I encourage you to be willing to lay aside your long held presuppositions about the nature of the earth and heavens and open your heart to receive what the Bible teaches, even if it contradicts what we previously believed – especially if it does. If we ask the Holy Spirit to instruct us, I am sure he will. He promises to guide us into all truth.

Prayer

Holy Spirit, I ask you to guide me into the truth regarding the earth and the heavens. Amen.

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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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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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