The Firmament & Clueless Pastors
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[00:00:00] Lord, we thank you for your Holy Spirit.
[00:00:03] Lord, we thank you for the Spirit of truth.
[00:00:06] And Lord, we just ask you to bless today,
[00:00:09] Lord, your people that are here,
[00:00:10] those who are watching and listening,
[00:00:12] Lord, I ask you to touch people,
[00:00:14] Lord, all over this country
[00:00:17] and in different countries across the world.
[00:00:18] We thank you for each and everyone.
[00:00:21] We ask you to touch them, speak to their heart.
[00:00:24] Lord, even the skeptic this morning,
[00:00:25] even the unbeliever, even the Christian
[00:00:28] who doesn't really believe the Bible,
[00:00:30] Lord, we ask you to touch every heart,
[00:00:33] change hearts, change lives and move each and everyone
[00:00:36] into faith, true faith in your word.
[00:00:40] We thank you for the truth
[00:00:41] and we pray it all in Jesus name.
[00:00:44] Well, all right, well, we're gonna get started this morning.
[00:00:46] Of course, we've been doing a series
[00:00:50] on biblical creation and why that's important,
[00:00:53] calling it the sevenfold doctrine of creation
[00:00:57] from a prophecy in the book of Enoch.
[00:00:59] And also, I believe from the scriptures
[00:01:01] and Daniel and Psalm 33, we covered that a few weeks ago.
[00:01:06] But this week we've entitled this,
[00:01:09] the firmament and clueless pastors.
[00:01:13] Now, I did this not to pick on pastors.
[00:01:17] There's some pastors out there that are good.
[00:01:20] They just haven't really studied this information.
[00:01:23] They don't have a revelation on it.
[00:01:25] They don't see the importance of it.
[00:01:27] And they've been so brainwashed by so many years
[00:01:30] of public education and government propaganda
[00:01:36] that they've tried to interpret the Bible
[00:01:39] through modern science and modern cosmology.
[00:01:46] But there's a difference.
[00:01:47] There are many pastors out there
[00:01:49] who have heard the truth about this
[00:01:54] and yet still reject it or act ignorant
[00:01:58] or try to come up with other explanations.
[00:02:01] One of the most sad explanations
[00:02:03] that you're gonna hear in a minute
[00:02:05] is that basically the writers of the Bible,
[00:02:09] particularly the book of Genesis,
[00:02:11] which would be Moses, who was on the mountain with God,
[00:02:16] he didn't know what he was writing.
[00:02:18] He was just writing from his perspective.
[00:02:21] And so the Bible is wrong
[00:02:23] when it comes to the description of creation,
[00:02:27] the heavens and the earth
[00:02:28] and the sun and the moon and the stars.
[00:02:30] And it's a really sad state of affairs
[00:02:33] if that is what you believe
[00:02:35] because I'm gonna tell you right now,
[00:02:37] you don't believe the Bible.
[00:02:39] Now we're gonna cover some scriptures
[00:02:40] before we get into this.
[00:02:42] Let's read this passage here, very important.
[00:02:46] We try to just beat this into my ministry school students,
[00:02:51] this particular passage here
[00:02:53] because it really is the basis of everything.
[00:02:57] And to me, I just don't get it.
[00:02:58] I thought when I got saved,
[00:03:00] when I really was repented of my sin
[00:03:02] and knew Jesus came into my heart
[00:03:05] and I started reading the Bible,
[00:03:07] I just thought believing the Bible
[00:03:09] is the inspired infallible word of God
[00:03:11] was part of the package.
[00:03:13] And so I read scriptures, passages like this,
[00:03:17] and I believe them.
[00:03:18] And over now, 32 plus years of study in the Bible
[00:03:22] and studying history and studying archeology
[00:03:25] and studying Hebrew and Greek language and everything else,
[00:03:29] I've come to more believe
[00:03:31] that the Bible from Genesis to Malachi,
[00:03:34] the Old Testament, Matthew to Revelation,
[00:03:36] the New Testament,
[00:03:37] I believe they are the inspired,
[00:03:40] God-breathed, infallible words of God,
[00:03:43] the truth that they are correct, inerrant.
[00:03:46] There's not error in the Bible.
[00:03:48] If you find an apparent contradiction,
[00:03:51] then it's something you don't understand
[00:03:53] either in the language or the context
[00:03:55] or of the whole thing.
[00:03:56] And every time you reconcile those things,
[00:03:59] guess what?
[00:04:00] No contradiction.
[00:04:01] But this is 2 Timothy 3.
[00:04:04] I didn't put the first few verses,
[00:04:05] but this is in context of Paul saying
[00:04:08] that in the last days, perilous time shall come.
[00:04:11] Now this is very important context.
[00:04:13] In the last days,
[00:04:14] which I believe we're living in the last of the last days,
[00:04:18] Bible prophecy, the ones that have come to pass
[00:04:20] and the ones that are in the process of coming to pass,
[00:04:23] clearly bear that out
[00:04:24] that we are in the time period
[00:04:27] of the second coming of Jesus and the great tribulation
[00:04:29] and the antichrist and all of that stuff.
[00:04:32] But he said here
[00:04:33] that in the last days, perilous times will come
[00:04:36] and then we're gonna start reading at verse 12.
[00:04:37] And he said,
[00:04:38] yay, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
[00:04:41] shall suffer persecution.
[00:04:44] But evil meant,
[00:04:46] and you need to remember this verse.
[00:04:47] I know I highlighted one verse,
[00:04:48] but this verse is important.
[00:04:50] But evil men and seducers
[00:04:53] shall wax worse and worse,
[00:04:55] deceiving and being deceived.
[00:04:58] Boy, let that one sink in for a moment.
[00:05:01] He said evil men and seducers
[00:05:04] shall wax worse and worse,
[00:05:07] deceiving others,
[00:05:08] but being deceived themselves.
[00:05:11] All right?
[00:05:12] And he goes on to say to Timothy, the young pastor,
[00:05:16] but continue thou in the things which thou has learned
[00:05:20] and has been assured of knowing
[00:05:22] of whom thou has learned them
[00:05:23] and that from a child,
[00:05:25] thou has known the holy scriptures
[00:05:27] which are able to make thee wise into salvation
[00:05:30] through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
[00:05:33] So the primary scriptures
[00:05:35] that Timothy would have known as a child,
[00:05:38] that his mother and grandmother would have taught him
[00:05:40] would have been the Old Testament.
[00:05:42] There may have been a few of Paul's early letters
[00:05:45] written already that Timothy may have read
[00:05:48] before he met Paul.
[00:05:50] But clearly,
[00:05:53] Paul saying evil men and seducers
[00:05:56] are gonna wax worse and worse,
[00:05:58] but the way that you keep from being deceived by them
[00:06:01] is that you must continue in the scriptures,
[00:06:06] continue in what you have learned
[00:06:09] from the holy scriptures.
[00:06:12] And then he adds this.
[00:06:15] He says, verse 16,
[00:06:18] all scripture is given by inspiration of God
[00:06:22] and is profitable for doctrine.
[00:06:24] Now, let me stop right there real quick.
[00:06:27] First of all, when it says all scripture
[00:06:29] is given by inspiration of God,
[00:06:31] means that it is God breathed,
[00:06:33] that God breathed upon a man
[00:06:35] and moved him what to write down.
[00:06:39] We have another verse we'll look at,
[00:06:42] but the Holy Spirit, God's power,
[00:06:45] God's anointing, God's spirit moved upon these men
[00:06:49] that he, these different men,
[00:06:50] he had write the Bible like Moses,
[00:06:52] like Daniel, like Jeremiah, like Joshua,
[00:06:56] on down the list, Ezra, Nehemiah.
[00:07:00] I mean, we could go on down.
[00:07:01] James, John, right?
[00:07:04] Peter, the apostle Paul.
[00:07:09] God breathed upon them.
[00:07:10] The Holy Spirit moved upon them
[00:07:11] and had them to write down exactly
[00:07:16] what he wanted them to write down,
[00:07:18] he says, because it's all profitable for doctrine.
[00:07:22] What is doctrine?
[00:07:23] Teaching, instruction.
[00:07:25] In fact, the word doctrine means systematic study
[00:07:29] of a truth through the whole scripture, all right?
[00:07:33] So he says all scripture is given by God,
[00:07:37] by inspiration of God,
[00:07:38] and is profitable for doctrine.
[00:07:40] Now, we have to ask ourself a question a minute.
[00:07:43] Would there be any scripture in the Bible
[00:07:46] then that would not be profitable,
[00:07:49] that would not be truthful,
[00:07:51] that would not be correct?
[00:07:55] You see, this is where the problem is.
[00:07:58] And this is why I'm gonna say that.
[00:07:59] I had some pastor in Australia,
[00:08:00] he's upset with me,
[00:08:02] because he's like, you're making it,
[00:08:03] you're making it us and them.
[00:08:06] Yeah, because he said,
[00:08:08] you're saying there are Christians that believe the Bible
[00:08:10] and there's Christians who don't.
[00:08:12] Exactly, exactly.
[00:08:17] And a Christian who doesn't believe the Bible
[00:08:19] is like a fish who doesn't believe in water.
[00:08:23] You understand?
[00:08:24] That's how important it is.
[00:08:27] Let's keep reading this verse.
[00:08:28] All scripture is given by inspiration of God
[00:08:31] and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
[00:08:35] for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
[00:08:40] for reproof.
[00:08:41] Meaning, if you believe something's wrong,
[00:08:43] I can take scripture and say, you're wrong.
[00:08:47] I can take scripture and say, you're in error.
[00:08:49] You're deceived.
[00:08:51] You need to quit believing the lies of men
[00:08:53] or the doctrines of men and believe God's word,
[00:08:56] believe what God said,
[00:08:57] believe the inspired, infallible word of God, the Bible, okay?
[00:09:02] And today, mainly, I'm talking to Christians.
[00:09:05] I wanna talk to Christians
[00:09:06] because most Christians do not believe God's account
[00:09:08] of creation.
[00:09:10] They don't believe it because they've chosen to believe
[00:09:13] evil men who are deceived and deceiving people.
[00:09:18] Now, I wanna show you one of them.
[00:09:21] My old buddy, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
[00:09:27] People who make this case that that was the beginning
[00:09:30] and that there had to be something
[00:09:32] that provoked the beginning,
[00:09:34] do you give them an A,
[00:09:35] at least for trying to reconcile faith and reason?
[00:09:39] I don't think they're reconcilable.
[00:09:42] What do you mean?
[00:09:43] Well, let me say that differently.
[00:09:45] All efforts that have been invested
[00:09:49] by brilliant people of the past
[00:09:52] have failed at that exercise.
[00:09:54] They just failed.
[00:09:56] And so I don't, the track record is so poor
[00:09:59] that going forward, I have essentially zero confidence,
[00:10:03] near zero confidence that there will be fruitful things
[00:10:07] to emerge from the effort to reconcile it.
[00:10:11] So for example, if you knew nothing about science
[00:10:16] and you read, say, the Bible, the Old Testament,
[00:10:19] which in Genesis is an account of nature,
[00:10:22] that's what that is.
[00:10:23] And I said to you, give me your description
[00:10:26] of the natural world based only on this.
[00:10:30] You would say the world was created in six days
[00:10:32] and that stars are just little points of light,
[00:10:35] much lesser than the sun.
[00:10:36] And in fact, they can fall out of the sky, right?
[00:10:38] Because that's what happens during the revelation.
[00:10:44] You're one of the signs that the second coming
[00:10:46] is that the stars will fall out of the sky
[00:10:48] and land on earth.
[00:10:50] So to even write that means you don't know
[00:10:54] what those things are.
[00:10:55] You have no concept of what the actual universe is.
[00:11:00] So everybody who tried to make proclamations
[00:11:03] about the physical universe based on Bible passages
[00:11:07] got the wrong answer.
[00:11:08] So what happened was when science discovers things
[00:11:12] and you wanna stay religious,
[00:11:13] or you wanna continue to believe
[00:11:15] that the Bible is unerring, what you would do is
[00:11:19] you would say, well, let me go back to the Bible
[00:11:20] and reinterpret it.
[00:11:21] Then you'd say things like,
[00:11:22] oh, they didn't really mean that literally,
[00:11:24] they meant that figuratively.
[00:11:25] So this whole sort of reinterpretation
[00:11:28] of how figurative the poetic passages of the Bible are
[00:11:33] came after science showed
[00:11:37] that this is not how things unfolded.
[00:11:40] And so the educated religious people
[00:11:42] are perfectly fine with that.
[00:11:44] It's the fundamentalists who want to say
[00:11:47] that the Bible is the literally, literal truth of God
[00:11:52] that, and want to see the Bible as a science textbook
[00:11:56] who are knocking on the science doors of the schools,
[00:12:00] trying to put that content in the science room.
[00:12:03] Enlightened religious people are not behaving that way.
[00:12:05] They're saying, yeah, science is cool,
[00:12:07] we're good with that.
[00:12:07] And use the Bible to get your spiritual enlightenment
[00:12:11] and your emotional fulfillment.
[00:12:13] I have known serious religious people,
[00:12:15] not fundamentalists, who were scared
[00:12:19] when Carl Sagan opened his series with the words.
[00:12:24] The cosmos is all it is, or ever will be.
[00:12:30] That scared them, because they interpret that to mean,
[00:12:35] then if this is it, there's nothing else,
[00:12:37] no God and no life after.
[00:12:41] For religious people, many people say,
[00:12:43] well, God is within you.
[00:12:44] There are ways that people have shaped this
[00:12:46] rather than God is an old gray bearded man in the clouds.
[00:12:51] So if God is within you, what I'm sure Carl would say,
[00:12:55] in you in your mind, in your mind,
[00:12:57] and we can measure the neurosynaptic firings
[00:13:00] when you have a religious experience,
[00:13:02] we can tell you where that's happening,
[00:13:03] when it's happening, what you're feeling like at the time.
[00:13:06] So your mind, of course, is still within the cosmos.
[00:13:08] But do you have any sympathy for people
[00:13:11] who seem to only feel safe in the vastness
[00:13:15] of the universe you describe in your show,
[00:13:17] if they can infer a personal God
[00:13:20] who makes it more hospitable to them, who cares for them?
[00:13:22] In this, what we tell ourselves is a free country,
[00:13:26] which means you should have freedom of thought.
[00:13:29] I don't care what you think, I just don't.
[00:13:34] Think whatever you want, go ahead.
[00:13:38] Think that there's one God, two gods,
[00:13:40] 10 gods, or no gods.
[00:13:43] That is what it means to live in a free country.
[00:13:47] The problem arises is if you have a religious philosophy
[00:13:55] that is not based in objective realities,
[00:13:57] that you then wanna put in the science classroom.
[00:14:00] Then I'm gonna stand there and say,
[00:14:02] no, I'm not gonna allow you in the science classroom.
[00:14:05] I'm not telling you what to think,
[00:14:06] I'm just telling you in the science class,
[00:14:08] you're not doing science, this is not science,
[00:14:11] keep it out.
[00:14:12] That's where I, that's when I stand up.
[00:14:15] Otherwise, go ahead, I'm not telling you how to think.
[00:14:20] Here's another one of them.
[00:14:21] The first one was, of course, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
[00:14:24] This is Lawrence Krauss.
[00:14:26] He's a professor of astronomy, theoretical physicists,
[00:14:30] something of that nature at the Arizona State University.
[00:14:33] Of course, he had so many sexual harassment suits,
[00:14:36] they finally had to get rid of him.
[00:14:38] He's quite the pervert and assaulter of women,
[00:14:41] but he, this is what he said.
[00:14:44] Here's another one, let's look at what he said.
[00:14:46] But the amazing thing is that every atom in your body
[00:14:50] came from a star that exploded.
[00:14:52] And the atoms in your left hand probably came
[00:14:53] from a different star than your right hand.
[00:14:55] It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics.
[00:14:59] You are all stardust.
[00:15:00] You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded
[00:15:02] because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron,
[00:15:05] all the things that matter for evolution
[00:15:08] weren't created at the beginning of time.
[00:15:10] They created the nuclear furnaces of stars,
[00:15:12] and the only way they can get into your body
[00:15:14] is if the stars were kind enough to explode.
[00:15:16] So forget Jesus, the stars died
[00:15:18] so that you could be here today, okay?
[00:15:20] I imagine that Jesus is gonna have something to say
[00:15:24] about that to Mr. Krauss when he gets here.
[00:15:26] Let's look at another passage here real quick.
[00:15:28] This is 2 Peter 1, 19 through 21.
[00:15:32] And again, I'm speaking to the choir today,
[00:15:35] a little bit, the Christians.
[00:15:37] But 2 Peter 1, 19 through 21 says,
[00:15:41] we have also a more sure word of prophecy,
[00:15:45] where until you do well that you take heed
[00:15:47] as unto a light that shineth in a dark place
[00:15:50] until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.
[00:15:54] Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scriptures
[00:15:57] of any private interpretation,
[00:15:59] for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man,
[00:16:03] but holy men of God spake as they were moved
[00:16:06] by the Holy Ghost.
[00:16:08] Now, this is what this says, all right?
[00:16:12] And John, this is the prayer of Jesus.
[00:16:16] Let's look at what the apostle John said,
[00:16:19] that Jesus prayed.
[00:16:20] And I'm not gonna read the entire prayer.
[00:16:22] We're just gonna read verses 15 through 20.
[00:16:24] Jesus prayed here, say, I prayed not
[00:16:27] that thou shouldest take them out of the world,
[00:16:30] but that thou shouldest keep them from evil.
[00:16:32] They are not of the world,
[00:16:33] even as I am not of the world.
[00:16:34] Sanctify them through thy truth,
[00:16:38] thy word is truth.
[00:16:41] Now, here's Jesus praying to the Father,
[00:16:44] and he's saying very clearly here, sanctify them
[00:16:48] or make them holy, make them strong,
[00:16:51] make them righteous through your word.
[00:16:55] What word's he talking about?
[00:16:57] The Bible, the words that God moved men of God
[00:17:02] to write down, he says, sanctify them through thy word,
[00:17:07] thy word is truth.
[00:17:10] So several things we see here.
[00:17:13] We see that the word of God is declared
[00:17:16] to be inspired by him.
[00:17:19] It's declared to be all of it.
[00:17:21] All scripture is inspired by him,
[00:17:23] and all scripture is profitable for doctrine,
[00:17:27] for reproof, for correction,
[00:17:29] for instruction in righteousness.
[00:17:31] And here we see it again, Jesus praying this,
[00:17:35] sanctify them, make them holy, make them righteous,
[00:17:38] make them strong, through thy word,
[00:17:42] thy word is truth.
[00:17:44] So if what we have here,
[00:17:46] the testimony of the scriptures saying
[00:17:49] the scriptures are the truth,
[00:17:51] not a suggestion, not what somebody thought,
[00:17:56] not by the will of man,
[00:17:59] but by God himself.
[00:18:02] Now, this is what I am going to make clear today.
[00:18:06] Neil is right that modern science,
[00:18:10] much of it is not and cannot be reconciled
[00:18:15] with what God says about it.
[00:18:17] Notice that Lawrence Krauss there said
[00:18:20] that everything was created when stars exploded.
[00:18:24] Well, where did the stars come from, right?
[00:18:26] And then of course, there's the big,
[00:18:28] their whole big bang there,
[00:18:30] there that basically somehow nothing exploded
[00:18:32] into all the matter that is in their alleged universe.
[00:18:37] It's ridiculous.
[00:18:38] It is a religion,
[00:18:40] because no one was there to witness that.
[00:18:42] So it is a belief.
[00:18:44] It is simply a belief.
[00:18:47] So what we're talking about is
[00:18:49] much of science has become a religion.
[00:18:53] It is simply a religion,
[00:18:56] because they have a desire
[00:18:57] to not want to deal with the God of the Bible,
[00:19:00] because he demands morality.
[00:19:04] And a pervert like Krauss doesn't want morality.
[00:19:07] And of course, he lives his life by what he believes,
[00:19:10] that there are really no,
[00:19:11] there's no moral accountability
[00:19:13] to any God that he has to answer to.
[00:19:16] So he can assault, you know,
[00:19:18] little co-eds all he wants, I guess.
[00:19:21] But let's keep going here.
[00:19:23] Now, let's see, this is Jesus again, Matthew four.
[00:19:27] And this is when Jesus was led into the wilderness
[00:19:30] to be tempted by the devil.
[00:19:31] We're just gonna read this.
[00:19:32] Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness
[00:19:35] to be tempted of the devil.
[00:19:37] And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights,
[00:19:39] he was afterward hungry.
[00:19:40] And when the tempter came,
[00:19:41] he said, if thou be the son of God,
[00:19:43] command that these stones be made bread.
[00:19:45] But he answered and said, it is written,
[00:19:47] man shall not live by bread alone,
[00:19:49] but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
[00:19:52] Now here, he's quoting from Deuteronomy.
[00:19:56] Now Jesus is speaking.
[00:19:57] So obviously here, let me just pass this on
[00:20:00] to some of these theologian friends of mine.
[00:20:02] Jesus believed that the writings of Moses
[00:20:08] were the inspired and followable word of God.
[00:20:12] The writings of Moses,
[00:20:13] the first five books of the Bible, right?
[00:20:16] Which would include the book of Genesis.
[00:20:19] All right, let's keep going here.
[00:20:23] Several decades ago, we found a problem.
[00:20:27] So great that it was brushed under the carpet
[00:20:30] for many a decade.
[00:20:31] And this is the fact that galaxies spin too fast.
[00:20:34] We believe in the work of Isaac Newton,
[00:20:37] at least on planetary scales.
[00:20:39] But when you apply Newton's laws of motion
[00:20:41] to the galaxy, the galaxy spins too fast.
[00:20:43] In fact, 10 times too fast.
[00:20:46] By rights, the galaxy should fly apart.
[00:20:49] Therefore, scientists said that we have to have dark matter,
[00:20:55] a halo of matter that surrounds the galaxy
[00:20:58] and holds the galaxy together.
[00:21:01] Between one and 3% of the universe
[00:21:03] is all the stuff we can see.
[00:21:04] And somewhere between 99 and 97% of the universe
[00:21:08] is stuff we can't see.
[00:21:11] This dark matter that dominates our galaxy,
[00:21:13] we think, we're virtually certain now,
[00:21:15] is made of some new type of elementary particle
[00:21:17] different than the stuff that makes you and I out.
[00:21:19] And what have they discovered?
[00:21:21] Absolutely nothing, zilch.
[00:21:24] What is a little bit perturbing
[00:21:25] is that after 50 years,
[00:21:26] we still haven't found what the dark matter is.
[00:21:28] But on the other hand,
[00:21:29] that doesn't mean they're not there.
[00:21:30] It just means they're harder to find than we thought.
[00:21:35] We look out in the universe,
[00:21:36] and 85% of all the gravity that's out there
[00:21:40] has some mysterious unknown source.
[00:21:42] We add up all the stars, the galaxies, the planets,
[00:21:45] the comets, the black holes, the dark clouds,
[00:21:48] everything out there that we can see, touch,
[00:21:50] smell, or taste.
[00:21:52] And it doesn't add up to give us the gravity
[00:21:55] that we see operating in this universe.
[00:21:57] So really, we should be calling it the dark force,
[00:22:01] because we don't know if it's made of matter.
[00:22:03] It could be a profound misnomer,
[00:22:05] sending people off in thought directions
[00:22:07] that might not really be the right path.
[00:22:10] So dark matter is just simply what we call
[00:22:12] this thing about which we know nothing,
[00:22:15] responsible for 85% of the gravity of the cosmos.
[00:22:18] We've known about dark matter since the 1930s.
[00:22:23] Back then, it was called missing mass.
[00:22:25] That's what it was called,
[00:22:26] because yeah, there's gotta be some mass.
[00:22:28] Where is it?
[00:22:29] We can't find it.
[00:22:29] It's gotta be here somewhere,
[00:22:30] because we got the gravity.
[00:22:32] If you have the gravity, you gotta have the mass.
[00:22:34] Mass and gravity go together.
[00:22:36] It's really dark gravity.
[00:22:38] Actually, we shouldn't call it anything.
[00:22:40] We should call it Fred.
[00:22:42] Something that has no meaning,
[00:22:44] because we don't know what it is to call it,
[00:22:46] but it is the longest standing unsolved problem
[00:22:51] in modern astrophysics.
[00:22:53] Dark matter, dark energy.
[00:22:54] Everything we know about the universe,
[00:22:57] what we're made of, galaxies, stars, planets,
[00:23:00] that's all right here.
[00:23:04] So according to this chart, we are 96% stupid.
[00:23:09] So the problem with cosmology
[00:23:10] is that we keep inventing theories, ad hoc theories,
[00:23:15] to try to explain the data,
[00:23:17] such as inflation, dark matter, dark energy, and so on,
[00:23:22] just to keep patching the theory up.
[00:23:25] There is a crisis in cosmology.
[00:23:28] Usually in science, if we're off by a factor of two
[00:23:31] or a factor of 10, we call that horrible.
[00:23:34] We say something's wrong with the theory.
[00:23:36] We're off by a factor of 10.
[00:23:38] However, in cosmology, we're off by a factor of 10
[00:23:41] to the 120.
[00:23:44] That is one with 120 zeros after it.
[00:23:49] This is the largest mismatch
[00:23:51] between theory and experiment in the history of science.
[00:23:56] This right here is mind-blowing
[00:24:01] when you really consider what they're saying.
[00:24:05] These are astrophysicists.
[00:24:06] These are award-winning astronomers and cosmologists,
[00:24:11] Krauss and Tyson and Michio Kaku here.
[00:24:15] And they say in the area of cosmology,
[00:24:18] we are off by a factor of 10 with 120 zeros beside it.
[00:24:27] And then they tell us that they only understand
[00:24:30] about 4% of what's going on in the whole universe.
[00:24:34] So they say, according to Quoting Neal,
[00:24:37] they're 96% stupid, right?
[00:24:40] I'm just gonna put it to you today.
[00:24:42] I think they're 99.9999% stupid.
[00:24:46] But how can, you think about these statements
[00:24:50] that they made a minute ago,
[00:24:51] like Krauss and Tyson did about stars exploding
[00:24:54] and that you came from Stardust
[00:24:56] or the Bible doesn't know what it's talking about.
[00:25:00] They don't know what those things are yet.
[00:25:01] They're gonna sit here and tell us
[00:25:03] that they're 96% stupid, that they don't know what,
[00:25:07] they don't even know what dark matter is,
[00:25:09] that their system of gravity and mass
[00:25:11] and Newton's universal laws of gravitation don't work.
[00:25:17] I mean, do you understand?
[00:25:18] That's what they just said.
[00:25:19] This stuff doesn't add up, doesn't work.
[00:25:21] Our system that we came up with over the last 500 years
[00:25:26] doesn't work.
[00:25:28] It doesn't make sense.
[00:25:30] It doesn't equal what we see.
[00:25:33] Now granted, let me just tell you this.
[00:25:34] What they're seeing is they are seeing stars
[00:25:38] and clusters of stars and clouds
[00:25:41] and things like that that are out there.
[00:25:43] But I'm gonna get into that probably more
[00:25:46] when I get into the sun, moon and stars part of this
[00:25:49] and talk about what they're actually seeing
[00:25:52] because they're the ones blowing it all out of proportion.
[00:25:57] Those things, they are seeing stars and clusters of stars
[00:26:00] and even nebula, which are cloudy areas.
[00:26:04] And the Bible speaks of these things.
[00:26:06] It speaks of the dark clouds.
[00:26:07] It speaks of star clusters, Orion and the Pleiades
[00:26:11] and all these different ones.
[00:26:13] It speaks of these things, but the point is,
[00:26:15] it's just they're the ones magnifying it
[00:26:19] to this massive, vast universe.
[00:26:22] You know, if you think about Genesis 1,
[00:26:23] just real quick, something about the sun and the moon.
[00:26:25] God said he made the sun, moon and stars.
[00:26:28] He said he made two great lights, the sun and the moon.
[00:26:32] And he made the stars also, right?
[00:26:34] We're gonna read that in a minute.
[00:26:35] Well, then these guys come along and tell us,
[00:26:37] oh, there's stars out there that are just,
[00:26:39] they're like our sun, but they're huge, they're massive.
[00:26:43] They're way bigger than our sun.
[00:26:45] Wait a minute.
[00:26:46] God said he made two great lights, sun and moon.
[00:26:49] Yet they come up and say,
[00:26:50] no, some of the stars are suns
[00:26:52] and they're bigger than our sun.
[00:26:54] They just make up stuff and they make up stuff
[00:26:58] because of what these little twinkles of light
[00:27:01] they see out there and they make this stuff up.
[00:27:03] And I'm gonna show you that.
[00:27:04] I'm gonna show you where all this stuff originated from.
[00:27:07] And in the next few weeks, we'll be getting into that.
[00:27:11] But I just wanted you to hear that.
[00:27:12] But the missing mass thing is interesting.
[00:27:14] And the thing that they talk about,
[00:27:16] it's like there's gotta be a halo of matter
[00:27:18] and holding the stars and the sun and the moon.
[00:27:22] Well, guess what?
[00:27:23] It's called the firmament, folks.
[00:27:25] And it is mass, it is solid.
[00:27:27] And they don't understand that that's what they're seeing.
[00:27:30] And that's what they're having to see through.
[00:27:33] And they're trying to figure it out with these telescopes.
[00:27:37] But let's get to, I'm gonna get to them in the weeks ahead
[00:27:41] with the sun moving stars.
[00:27:43] We're gonna really break down some stuff going on.
[00:27:48] We're gonna break down Einstein and Hubble
[00:27:50] and all of that fun stuff, dark energy, dark matter.
[00:27:55] We're gonna break it down.
[00:27:56] But let's listen to this.
[00:27:58] This fellow, I mentioned this a couple of times.
[00:28:00] And that's the reason I entitled today's message
[00:28:03] The Firmament and Clueless Pastors.
[00:28:05] You're gonna hear here, this is gonna be quite disturbing
[00:28:09] because this guy just kind of randomly calls pastors
[00:28:13] in different parts of the country
[00:28:15] and asks them a simple question, what is the firmament?
[00:28:19] And the answers that he got,
[00:28:20] and I won't even have time to play them all.
[00:28:23] There's so many.
[00:28:24] But the answers he got blows my mind.
[00:28:28] He got everything from the firmament was the earth
[00:28:31] to the firmament is outer space,
[00:28:34] to the firmament is just something
[00:28:37] that they conjured up in their heads
[00:28:39] because they didn't know any better.
[00:28:42] I mean, that's some of it.
[00:28:43] But let's listen to this.
[00:28:44] Let's listen to this right here.
[00:29:08] Good afternoon with Fulberry Church.
[00:29:10] Hi, can I speak to the pastor, please?
[00:29:13] May I ask his calling?
[00:29:14] Yeah, this is Nathaniel.
[00:29:19] Nathaniel?
[00:29:20] Yes, ma'am, I'm actually calling out of state.
[00:29:23] I've just got a question.
[00:29:24] In regards to the book of Genesis,
[00:29:26] I'm a follower of Christ
[00:29:27] and I have been reading Genesis
[00:29:30] and I figured a pastor would be the most qualified
[00:29:33] to help me out.
[00:29:34] I've just got one question about a particular verse.
[00:29:37] I definitely don't want to waste anyone's time.
[00:29:41] Okay, all right.
[00:29:42] Hold on just a minute, please.
[00:29:43] Thank you.
[00:29:51] Hello.
[00:29:52] Hey, sir.
[00:29:53] Hello.
[00:29:54] Hey, my name is Nathaniel.
[00:29:55] How you doing?
[00:29:57] I'm doing well.
[00:29:58] Hope you are.
[00:29:58] I'm doing great, sir.
[00:29:59] I'm doing great.
[00:30:00] I was telling the receptionist,
[00:30:01] I definitely don't want to take up too much of your time.
[00:30:04] I've just got a particular question
[00:30:06] about the biblical definition of a word
[00:30:09] that I'm seeing in the book of Genesis.
[00:30:11] So if you've got just a moment,
[00:30:13] I read the King James version
[00:30:15] and while reading Genesis chapter one, verse six,
[00:30:19] it states that God placed a firmament
[00:30:22] in the midst of the waters.
[00:30:23] Now I'm just curious on the biblical definition
[00:30:28] of that term.
[00:30:29] And I felt that a pastor would be the most qualified
[00:30:32] to help me out.
[00:30:35] Okay, read it again.
[00:30:37] So Genesis chapter one, verse six,
[00:30:40] it says that God put a firmament
[00:30:43] in the midst of the waters
[00:30:44] to divide the waters from the waters.
[00:30:49] Right.
[00:30:51] The word firmament literally just means
[00:30:54] the dome shape of the sky.
[00:30:59] Okay.
[00:31:01] So it's a division between the heavens and the earth.
[00:31:06] Yeah, water's in the waters.
[00:31:09] Water's in the water.
[00:31:10] So when it says that there's water above the firmament,
[00:31:15] what does that mean exactly?
[00:31:18] Because I know there's water in the sky,
[00:31:22] but I don't think there's water above the sky.
[00:31:27] And I'm just really curious as to what that means.
[00:31:33] Well, it's a good question.
[00:31:36] One I've never really thought about a whole lot.
[00:31:39] Why are you asking?
[00:31:40] What is the purpose of your inquiry?
[00:31:43] Well, I'm actually just really interested
[00:31:45] in capturing the visualization of that depiction
[00:31:50] because I am aware that Genesis is the story of creation.
[00:31:54] And I'm just trying to wrap my head around,
[00:31:56] like I said, that visualization
[00:32:00] of that portion of scripture.
[00:32:04] I'm a follower of Christ.
[00:32:05] I've been reading the Bible for about three years now.
[00:32:13] But man, well, I appreciate all your time, Pastor.
[00:32:20] Well, I wish I could be more help.
[00:32:22] Let me say you're Genesis chapter one, verse six.
[00:32:28] Right, that's what you said.
[00:32:29] Yes, sir.
[00:32:41] Okay.
[00:32:44] Yeah, that's a good question
[00:32:45] as far as exactly what it means
[00:32:47] dividing the waters from the waters.
[00:32:51] It goes on to say that he called the firmament heaven
[00:32:55] in verse eight.
[00:32:58] Right.
[00:32:58] It's really a stumbling block that I've encountered
[00:33:01] within the past couple of days.
[00:33:07] Like I said, man, I really appreciate it.
[00:33:10] The literal definition of firmament
[00:33:12] is the dome shape of the sky.
[00:33:14] The word that's translated firmament
[00:33:17] literally means like the dome shape of the sky.
[00:33:19] You go out at night and you look up
[00:33:21] and you can see the dome shape of the sky.
[00:33:25] That's the literal definition of that word
[00:33:28] in the Hebrew.
[00:33:30] But as far as exactly what he meant
[00:33:32] by the division of the waters and the waters,
[00:33:34] I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure.
[00:33:39] Okay, Pastor.
[00:33:40] Well, man, like I said, I appreciate you taking my call
[00:33:43] and spending the time to at least try to help.
[00:33:46] So that means a lot to me.
[00:33:49] Well, you're welcome.
[00:33:51] All right, brother, you have a great day.
[00:33:53] You too.
[00:33:54] Bye-bye.
[00:34:13] Hello.
[00:34:15] Can I speak to Pastor Booth?
[00:34:17] Yes, this is the Pastor.
[00:34:19] Hey, how's it going?
[00:34:21] Hey, I'm good.
[00:34:22] Who's this?
[00:34:23] This is Nathaniel.
[00:34:24] We haven't spoken before, everyone.
[00:34:28] No, I don't think, which church are you calling for?
[00:34:31] Because my phone number's on my old church too, I think.
[00:34:34] Still.
[00:34:37] I was actually just calling to speak to a pastor.
[00:34:39] It's remarkable that a pastor answered the phone.
[00:34:43] Oh, well, yeah, no, no, no.
[00:34:45] I got time.
[00:34:46] What can I do for you?
[00:34:47] I don't think we've ever talked before.
[00:34:49] Okay, great, great.
[00:34:50] Well, I definitely don't want to take up
[00:34:52] too much of your time.
[00:34:53] I've just got a question.
[00:34:54] Yeah.
[00:34:56] So, you know, I'm a follower of Christ
[00:34:58] and, you know, I've been reading Genesis a lot lately
[00:35:02] and there's a word that's kind of sticking out to me,
[00:35:06] Pastor, and that is the firmament.
[00:35:08] Now, do you happen to know the biblical definition
[00:35:11] of the firmament because it's kind of giving me
[00:35:13] a stumbling block?
[00:35:14] Yeah, no, that's an entry
[00:35:17] because that's one of those older words
[00:35:18] we don't really use anymore.
[00:35:20] It basically just means earth, you know,
[00:35:23] the ground we walk upon.
[00:35:25] Firmament just is a, I'm sorry,
[00:35:27] I don't have a definition in front of me,
[00:35:29] so that's why I'm stumbling.
[00:35:31] But my understanding of it is it just means
[00:35:34] earth itself was known as the firmament.
[00:35:37] So, you know, nature all around us.
[00:35:39] Does that make sense?
[00:35:42] Yes, it does.
[00:35:44] It definitely does.
[00:35:45] Especially considering it says that, you know,
[00:35:48] there's water above and below the firmament.
[00:35:51] So if the firmament is the earth,
[00:35:53] that definitely makes sense.
[00:35:56] Yeah, and you'll, and a few of the older hymns
[00:35:58] and some of our hymns, you'll see that word occasionally.
[00:36:02] That's what that means.
[00:36:03] But I'm just curious, how'd you find my phone number?
[00:36:06] Because I don't know you, do I?
[00:36:08] No, actually, I literally googled it.
[00:36:11] Well, I'm glad to be of help.
[00:36:14] And if, do you have any other questions I can help with?
[00:36:18] Yeah, man.
[00:36:19] So, yes, piggybacking off of the firmament being the earth,
[00:36:25] how would you explain the two great lights
[00:36:28] being in the firmament?
[00:36:30] Because it does state that the sun and the moon
[00:36:33] are in the firmament.
[00:36:35] Now that's interesting, because it's been a,
[00:36:39] do you know what verse that is in front of you?
[00:36:42] Yeah, it's actually right in the first couple of verses
[00:36:45] in chapter one, starting at verse six,
[00:36:49] and then down it starts at verse 14,
[00:36:54] when it states that there's lights in the firmament.
[00:36:57] Here, let me look, because I actually had a,
[00:37:00] so are you using the King James version?
[00:37:04] Yes, sir, that's the one that I subscribe to.
[00:37:06] Okay, good, that's fine.
[00:37:08] I have a different translation.
[00:37:10] So mine actually, and I guess this is just
[00:37:12] a modern interpretation of the firmament.
[00:37:14] So you take what this is, or take it for what it is,
[00:37:17] but mine says dome, that we're under the dome
[00:37:22] from the waters that were above.
[00:37:25] That's a, huh, let there be lights in the dome
[00:37:28] of the sky to separate the day from the night,
[00:37:31] and let them be for signs and seasons for days and years.
[00:37:35] Huh, lights, and that's an interesting one.
[00:37:38] Now I wonder, and this is just me thinking,
[00:37:40] I've never actually had anyone ask me this part before.
[00:37:44] Do you think, or, well, I gotta imagine,
[00:37:48] they didn't, you know, the writers didn't really
[00:37:50] understand space, right, at that time?
[00:37:53] You know what I'm saying?
[00:37:54] So maybe they took it as the lights were up in the sky
[00:37:57] when really they're outside the earth.
[00:37:58] Does that make any sense at all?
[00:38:01] Definitely, if they're saying that the sun and the moon
[00:38:05] are in the sky, so yours says dome.
[00:38:11] Yeah, and I don't really know why it says,
[00:38:15] I guess dome is in a sense the shape,
[00:38:18] well, half the earth at least, you know?
[00:38:22] Yeah, that still doesn't narrow it down
[00:38:24] as to why the sun and the moon would be.
[00:38:27] No, no, no, no, no, not at all.
[00:38:29] Here, let me, because I have a steady Bible
[00:38:31] in front of me, I can, yeah, I mean, if you've got a second,
[00:38:33] I'll check to see if it speaks to that.
[00:38:38] All right, so I'm just gonna read it for what it says.
[00:38:42] And this is for verses six to eight,
[00:38:44] the little commentary says,
[00:38:45] a pre-scientific understanding of the universe
[00:38:48] pictured a dome canopy,
[00:38:49] so that's where the dome comes from, I guess,
[00:38:52] or a multilayered sky supported by mountains and so on.
[00:38:57] The sun, moon, and stars were thought to cross this dome
[00:39:00] in regular patterns, and the waters were,
[00:39:03] the water was held in chambers above the dome
[00:39:06] from which it occasionally fell in rainfall.
[00:39:11] That's interesting.
[00:39:12] I guess it's talking about,
[00:39:13] before we really understood what the earth looked like,
[00:39:17] the fact that it was a huge ball, right?
[00:39:20] I think it's saying the ancient biblical writers,
[00:39:23] they described it to the best of their possible ability.
[00:39:26] So the dome, their understanding of it was,
[00:39:30] it was just kind of a dome that lights flashed through.
[00:39:33] Does that make sense?
[00:39:35] To an extent, so the writers, excuse me,
[00:39:39] so the writers, they were basically writing
[00:39:42] on their own interpretations rather than God's.
[00:39:46] Well, I wouldn't say that, I would say,
[00:39:49] okay, were you ever studied the book of Revelation?
[00:39:54] You know, I've never really studied
[00:39:58] the book of Revelation.
[00:40:00] Well, and this may not make a whole lot of sense,
[00:40:03] but there's a lot of weird sounding stuff
[00:40:07] in that book, right?
[00:40:09] And the way I've had it explained to me before,
[00:40:12] I'm a Methodist, but one of my mentors
[00:40:14] was a Southern Baptist pastor,
[00:40:16] and the way he explained it to me
[00:40:18] was that a lot of the stuff in the book of Revelation
[00:40:21] doesn't make sense to us
[00:40:23] because it's how the biblical writers were describing things.
[00:40:26] So like a lot of what John saw
[00:40:28] when he wrote the book of Revelation,
[00:40:30] he didn't know how to explain
[00:40:32] because it was, he was looking into the future in a sense.
[00:40:35] God was taking him to the future.
[00:40:37] And the book of Revelation, John wrote down the best,
[00:40:41] or wrote down descriptions to the best of his ability.
[00:40:44] So there's references, I think,
[00:40:46] to dragons spitting out fire, right,
[00:40:48] in the book of Revelation.
[00:40:50] Well, some people believe
[00:40:52] that John tried to interpret what he saw,
[00:40:54] meaning like a tank shooting out fire,
[00:40:56] you know, at the end times.
[00:40:58] And you took that from what you will.
[00:41:00] But what I'm trying to say is that the biblical writers,
[00:41:03] they were obviously inspired by God,
[00:41:05] and these are his words to them.
[00:41:07] So it's all in terms of when this was written.
[00:41:11] Do you get a little bit of what I'm saying, at least?
[00:41:15] Slightly, yeah.
[00:41:17] You know, I guess what I take from what you've said thus far
[00:41:20] is be weary of how you interpret the writers,
[00:41:26] particularly creation, Genesis, because they didn't know.
[00:41:31] So they were just,
[00:41:33] I don't want to say wrong, but incorrect,
[00:41:39] which is interesting,
[00:41:40] because obviously we know that there's no dome over the years.
[00:41:43] Right.
[00:41:44] And it's not even, and I get what you're saying,
[00:41:46] it's not even necessary that they were incorrect,
[00:41:49] but that's, well, in a sentence, they're incorrect,
[00:41:52] but that's what they knew is truth at that time.
[00:41:55] And that's not, you know,
[00:41:56] that doesn't take away from the fundamental truth
[00:41:59] of God's word or anything.
[00:42:00] It's just at that time, you know,
[00:42:02] how could they know what the world looks like?
[00:42:04] Because you look up in the sky,
[00:42:06] it looks like, you know, from first glance,
[00:42:09] if we didn't know what it was, it looks like a dome, right?
[00:42:12] So, and it's not that they can't be trusted,
[00:42:15] it's more we just have to understand when they were writing.
[00:42:20] So once we understand their depictions, I guess,
[00:42:23] of the earth and the depiction of the firmament,
[00:42:26] how does that then, I guess,
[00:42:31] transform or change the way we read and interpret it?
[00:42:40] And it really, you know, when it comes down to it,
[00:42:43] it really shouldn't change it.
[00:42:45] It's just, you know, making things a little clearer
[00:42:47] in terms of, because fundamentally the fact
[00:42:51] that it's not a dome, you know,
[00:42:53] that doesn't change the message
[00:42:55] of what creation was all about,
[00:42:57] or in the end doesn't change the message
[00:42:59] of what the Bible is for us.
[00:43:02] I could give you many more.
[00:43:03] I know that was a little long,
[00:43:04] but I wanted you to hear two pastors,
[00:43:08] different parts of the country.
[00:43:11] The last fellow says he was a Methodist,
[00:43:13] but trained by, mentored by a Southern Baptist pastor.
[00:43:18] And I know the other one was a Baptist church,
[00:43:22] but you hear, got complete either,
[00:43:26] I have no clue what this is, the firmament,
[00:43:30] or the writers weren't really inspired by God.
[00:43:34] They didn't have, it wasn't revelation from God
[00:43:37] about creation.
[00:43:39] It was just them giving their own interpretation
[00:43:42] with what little knowledge that they had.
[00:43:45] And he gets the guy, the pastor to say,
[00:43:51] well, the Bible must be incorrect
[00:43:53] because now we know the earth's a ball
[00:43:55] and there's outer space and all this stuff.
[00:43:57] So the Bible's incorrect.
[00:43:58] Now, this right here is an absolute disgrace
[00:44:03] to anyone that calls themselves a Bible-believing Christian.
[00:44:08] Because first of all,
[00:44:09] comparing the symbolic prophetic language in Revelation
[00:44:15] that actually has very specific things it's referring to,
[00:44:19] to creation is, first of all, a terrible error
[00:44:24] because number one, we have to ask,
[00:44:29] well, if the firmament is some kind of symbol,
[00:44:32] if it's some kind of symbolic language or poetic language
[00:44:38] or figurative language that we don't understand
[00:44:41] in the context of Genesis one,
[00:44:43] well then is the, verse one, it says,
[00:44:46] in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
[00:44:48] Well, is the earth figurative?
[00:44:50] Is the earth figurative?
[00:44:53] How about the sun and the moon?
[00:44:54] Are they just figurative poetic language?
[00:44:56] Are they not literal things?
[00:44:58] So what I'm getting at is if the earth is literal
[00:45:01] in Genesis one and the heaven is literal
[00:45:05] and we see that the creation of the sun, moon and stars
[00:45:09] and the grass and the trees and the animals
[00:45:12] and then man, you know, then Adam and Eve,
[00:45:16] if those things are literal,
[00:45:18] why would the firmament be figurative
[00:45:21] or why would it be wrong?
[00:45:24] Why would the firmament itself be wrong?
[00:45:26] The reason is is because they have chosen to believe
[00:45:30] the liars and the deceivers
[00:45:33] and the deception that Satan has pulled off
[00:45:35] with his accomplices in this world
[00:45:38] is pretty sophisticated and pretty,
[00:45:41] he's put on a good show.
[00:45:43] I mean, it's the Wizard of Oz.
[00:45:44] He's fooled everybody, right?
[00:45:46] But recently, in recent years,
[00:45:48] Toto has pulled back the curtain, right?
[00:45:51] And that's what's happening.
[00:45:55] The Nikon P900 is starting to pull back
[00:45:57] the curtain even further.
[00:45:59] Let's go to Genesis and let's see
[00:46:02] if we can define the word firmament biblically,
[00:46:05] but let's read it.
[00:46:06] And so this is what I'm talking about.
[00:46:08] The way we interpret scripture is first of all context.
[00:46:13] We look at the context and just like I said,
[00:46:16] the context of this entire chapter are literal things.
[00:46:19] In fact, if you go down to, you know,
[00:46:21] when it talks about on the sixth day
[00:46:23] and God creating Adam and Eve,
[00:46:26] creating mankind there,
[00:46:28] Jesus referred to this in Matthew five
[00:46:32] when he was talking about divorce and remarriage.
[00:46:33] He said, in the beginning, it was not so.
[00:46:36] God created a male and female.
[00:46:38] And so Jesus referred to this as a literal event,
[00:46:43] as real, Jesus, right?
[00:46:46] In Matthew five referred to Genesis one is real.
[00:46:49] I remember one of my pastors back in the day,
[00:46:51] Dr. Larry Lee, this is a sad commentary
[00:46:54] and I've shared this before,
[00:46:55] but I have to because it comes up with Genesis one.
[00:46:59] He said he was in one of the leading
[00:47:02] Baptist seminaries in the country,
[00:47:04] Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
[00:47:07] I mean, it's like the Mecca for the Baptist, right?
[00:47:10] It is their flagship school.
[00:47:15] And he said, he was in, I guess he was in graduate,
[00:47:21] you know, PhD classes, probably either,
[00:47:25] somewhere in the seventies, mid to, you know, mid seventies.
[00:47:32] And he said that in one of his classes,
[00:47:34] the professor said this,
[00:47:35] the first 11 chapters of Genesis is a true myth.
[00:47:39] He said the theological implications are true,
[00:47:42] but there probably wasn't ever a man named Adam.
[00:47:44] There probably wasn't ever a man named Noah.
[00:47:47] And Larry Lee said, he raised his hand.
[00:47:50] He said, well, Jesus thought they were real
[00:47:52] and Paul said they were real.
[00:47:53] And the professor said,
[00:47:54] they just didn't have the information that we have today.
[00:47:59] Now that right there is demonic.
[00:48:02] That right there is demonic deception.
[00:48:05] That right there is a rejection of the Bible.
[00:48:09] And that guy, you know, that professor,
[00:48:12] he could have been a Jesuit infant,
[00:48:14] or just a deceived individual.
[00:48:17] But let's read this.
[00:48:19] Let's just read Genesis a little bit here.
[00:48:21] All right.
[00:48:22] Says here, Genesis one, in the beginning,
[00:48:25] God created the heaven and the earth
[00:48:27] and the earth was without form and void
[00:48:29] and darkness was upon the face of the deep
[00:48:32] and the spirit of God moved upon the waters.
[00:48:34] Now did that happen or did it not happen, Christian?
[00:48:37] Did it happen that way or did it not happen that way?
[00:48:39] Is this just a poem?
[00:48:42] Is this just figurative language?
[00:48:45] Is this just a man's idea of how it happened?
[00:48:47] Or was Moses on the mountain with God
[00:48:49] and God told him how it happened?
[00:48:52] Folks, you need to, if you're a Christian,
[00:48:53] you better snap out of this,
[00:48:55] believe in the world over God.
[00:48:57] All right, let's keep reading.
[00:48:59] God said, let there be light and there was light.
[00:49:01] Well, I guess because there's light now,
[00:49:03] we can believe that's literal.
[00:49:05] All right, God saw the light that it was good
[00:49:08] and divided the light from the darkness
[00:49:10] and God called the light day
[00:49:11] and the darkness he called night
[00:49:12] and the evening and the morning were the first day.
[00:49:14] Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
[00:49:16] We have light, but we don't have any sun, moon or stars.
[00:49:20] Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
[00:49:22] Isn't that, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[00:49:23] Didn't Lawrence Krauss tell us
[00:49:25] everything came from the stars first?
[00:49:28] We, you know, it's ridiculous.
[00:49:30] Here we go though.
[00:49:32] So we've got a literal creation
[00:49:34] in Genesis one coming down,
[00:49:36] literal heaven and earth, literal water, literal light.
[00:49:42] And then we have this pesky little thing here
[00:49:44] in verse six.
[00:49:45] It's pesky little problem.
[00:49:48] And God said, let there be a firmament
[00:49:50] in the midst of the waters
[00:49:52] and let it divide the waters from the waters.
[00:49:54] And God made the firmament
[00:49:56] and divided the waters which were under the firmament
[00:49:58] from the waters which were above the firmament
[00:50:01] and it was so.
[00:50:03] And God called the firmament heaven
[00:50:05] and the evening and the morning were the second day.
[00:50:08] Now, remember the Bible over and over uses the term heavens,
[00:50:12] plural heavens and the earth.
[00:50:16] In fact, the word shama'im means it's plural.
[00:50:20] It's a plural Hebrew word meaning basically shama' the sky
[00:50:24] and maim the water, sky water, all right?
[00:50:28] So basically God created the heavens and the earth
[00:50:31] by dividing this water
[00:50:35] and by dividing these waters
[00:50:37] with this thing called the firmament,
[00:50:38] he created something above, waters above.
[00:50:42] And then he created an atmosphere,
[00:50:45] the open aspect of heaven, one heaven.
[00:50:48] Our atmosphere is the first heaven.
[00:50:52] As you're gonna see, the firmament is also called heaven.
[00:50:55] So it's the second heaven.
[00:50:57] And then above that, the waters, the dark waters
[00:51:00] that says that God rides upon, sits upon,
[00:51:03] the Bible says, those waters and then you have
[00:51:08] would be the third heaven where God's throne is.
[00:51:11] So, I remember when I first started preaching this,
[00:51:15] I said, you know, if there's waters above our atmosphere,
[00:51:21] there's an ocean of water above our atmosphere,
[00:51:25] then has anything ever left our atmosphere?
[00:51:33] No, not Apollo anything, not Mercury anything,
[00:51:37] not Gemini anything, not Sputnik anything,
[00:51:42] not Cosmonaut anything.
[00:51:44] And right now, somebody sent me, a paint tank
[00:51:47] sent me a video of a Russian cosmonaut
[00:51:49] saying that they did not go to space.
[00:51:52] I'm having the Lieutenant Colonel's Fluid and Russian
[00:51:55] check that for me before I talk about it and confirm it.
[00:51:59] But there's a lot of people out there that can speak Russian
[00:52:02] so I don't think they'd be trying to fake it.
[00:52:04] But we'll find out for sure here shortly.
[00:52:06] But they didn't, there's no space out there.
[00:52:10] There's our atmosphere, all right?
[00:52:13] There's a level and I'm gonna talk about it,
[00:52:15] about the ether, about a denser area of gas,
[00:52:20] fluid like gas that we're gonna talk about
[00:52:22] that gets up there pretty high.
[00:52:24] But going outside, going 240,000 miles away
[00:52:29] to the moon, the alleged moon
[00:52:31] that's that far outside of our atmosphere,
[00:52:34] or going to Mars with a rover or sending out,
[00:52:40] you know, all this stuff, no, they don't do any of that.
[00:52:43] And of course, I can prove that
[00:52:44] by their own declassified documents.
[00:52:47] But let's keep looking at this thing, the firmament.
[00:52:52] I've heard everybody say this now,
[00:52:54] this is one of the things that gets on my nerves the worst
[00:52:57] is when somebody says, well, this is outer space, okay?
[00:53:02] Well, okay, if it's outer space
[00:53:04] where they say the stars and the sun and the moon are,
[00:53:09] where's the water above that?
[00:53:12] I mean, Dr. Danny Faulkner of Answers in Genesis
[00:53:16] tries to say there must be water outside of our universe.
[00:53:20] I mean, that's where he goes with it.
[00:53:22] Because they try to define this word as an expanse,
[00:53:27] just an empty expanse, but that's not what it is.
[00:53:29] So we're gonna look at it.
[00:53:31] Let's look at the next few verses here before we move on.
[00:53:35] So God said, let the waters under the heaven
[00:53:38] be gathered together into one place
[00:53:39] and let the dry land appear, and it was so.
[00:53:41] So the dry land appeared, God called the dry land earth
[00:53:45] and the gathering together the waters,
[00:53:47] and God saw that it was good,
[00:53:50] and God said, let the earth bring forth grass
[00:53:52] and herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit
[00:53:56] after his kind whose seed is in itself upon the earth
[00:53:59] and it was so, and the earth brought forth grass
[00:54:02] and herb yielding seed after his kind,
[00:54:04] and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself
[00:54:06] after his kind, and God saw that it was good.
[00:54:09] Now again, are these literal things?
[00:54:11] Dry land, grass, trees, fruit trees with seeds in them.
[00:54:16] Pretty specific.
[00:54:17] I don't think it's poetic or figurative.
[00:54:20] And then he says here, that was the evening morning
[00:54:22] where the third day, and God said, let there be lights
[00:54:25] in the firmament of the heaven
[00:54:27] to divide the day from the night
[00:54:29] and let them be for signs and for seasons
[00:54:32] and for days and for years,
[00:54:34] and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
[00:54:38] to give light upon the earth and it was so.
[00:54:41] So let there be lights in the firmament.
[00:54:44] Let's keep reading here.
[00:54:45] God made two great lights
[00:54:47] and the greater light to rule the day
[00:54:49] and the lesser light to rule the night
[00:54:51] and he made the stars also.
[00:54:52] So he made two great lights, not a bunch of massive suns
[00:54:55] spread out over an ever expanding universe.
[00:54:58] That's not what he's teaching here.
[00:55:00] And God set them, and this is important,
[00:55:03] God set them, we're gonna talk about this more
[00:55:05] in the days ahead, but just remember this,
[00:55:08] God set them, he established them,
[00:55:10] he placed them in the firmament of heaven,
[00:55:17] of the heaven to give light upon the earth
[00:55:19] and to rule over the day and over the night
[00:55:21] and to divide the light from the darkness
[00:55:22] and God saw that it was good
[00:55:24] and the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
[00:55:26] Then he adds something here and he says this,
[00:55:30] and God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly
[00:55:32] the moving creature that hath light
[00:55:34] and the fowl that fly above the earth
[00:55:37] in the open firmament of heaven.
[00:55:40] So he talks about the firmament that divides
[00:55:42] the waters above from the waters below,
[00:55:45] but the open firmament was created by that dividing wall.
[00:55:49] So he's saying this is open.
[00:55:51] So it's very important to understand that.
[00:55:56] So he's calling our atmosphere a heaven,
[00:55:58] he's calling the firmament itself
[00:56:00] that created that atmosphere by dividing the waters
[00:56:02] and the waters a heaven.
[00:56:04] And then there's what Paul said
[00:56:05] when he went to the throne of God,
[00:56:08] he calls it the third heaven.
[00:56:09] That's what the Bible teaches.
[00:56:11] Now let's keep going.
[00:56:14] Now this is Dr. Michael Heiser,
[00:56:16] this is a short clip from him.
[00:56:18] Dr. Heiser with Logos Bible Software,
[00:56:21] he's a PhD, Hebrew, he's a professor, he teaches.
[00:56:25] Here's what's sad.
[00:56:27] He actually teaches what the Bible teaches about
[00:56:31] biblical cosmology, biblical creation.
[00:56:34] He actually teaches it correctly,
[00:56:35] but he doesn't believe it.
[00:56:37] He believes that they were just using terms
[00:56:41] that they knew, that these truths,
[00:56:43] that these words about the firmament,
[00:56:45] about the earth and how God describes it in Genesis 1,
[00:56:49] he believes that to all just be
[00:56:53] the how Moses saw it with his own eyes,
[00:56:56] not a revelation of God's truth about it.
[00:57:00] So let's listen here to Dr. Heiser.
[00:57:04] Israelite cosmology has three tiers.
[00:57:08] This is the Ten Commandments passage.
[00:57:10] You shall not make for yourself a carved image
[00:57:12] or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above
[00:57:15] or that is in the earth beneath
[00:57:17] or that is in the water under the earth.
[00:57:21] Three levels.
[00:57:24] New Testament is the same, Philippians 2.8 verse 10.
[00:57:27] So that the name of Jesus, every knee should bow
[00:57:30] in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
[00:57:34] What, like the worms?
[00:57:35] No, we're gonna see what they were thinking here.
[00:57:40] Revelation five, heaven, earth, under the earth.
[00:57:43] It's a three-tiered cosmology.
[00:57:46] This is what it would look like.
[00:57:49] I didn't make this graphic, which is why it looks cool.
[00:57:54] Somebody gave this to me because they hated,
[00:57:56] honestly, at Western, they hated the one I used
[00:57:59] and so they gave me this.
[00:58:02] This is a three-tiered cosmology.
[00:58:05] There's God.
[00:58:06] We're gonna see it in the verses.
[00:58:07] I'll show you that God lives above the vault of heaven,
[00:58:11] the firmament, and in the firmament you have windows
[00:58:15] and doors, and you have the earth.
[00:58:19] We're gonna see verses that talk about the ends
[00:58:22] of the round, flat earth here.
[00:58:24] Underneath is Sheol.
[00:58:26] Sheol can be both the grave
[00:58:29] and it can also be the underworld, okay?
[00:58:31] It's not quite hell, but it's sort of like hell.
[00:58:36] We can talk a little bit about it.
[00:58:38] And then underneath that, we have the great deep.
[00:58:41] These are all scriptural terms that are on this map.
[00:58:44] This is what an Israelite,
[00:58:46] an Egyptian would have had different terms,
[00:58:48] but the same three-tiered level,
[00:58:50] same with the Mesopotamians.
[00:58:52] Now they have, theologically,
[00:58:53] they have dramatically different views
[00:58:55] of what's going on here.
[00:58:57] Not just who made it, but what's going on.
[00:58:58] Views of afterlife, the value of humanity.
[00:59:01] I mean, it's dramatically different.
[00:59:03] And I've made the comment before,
[00:59:05] Genesis is about theological messaging,
[00:59:09] and there are some dramatic differences
[00:59:12] in what Israel is saying, the Bible is saying,
[00:59:15] and anything else.
[00:59:17] I just wanted you to see
[00:59:18] that this is what Dr. Heizer teaches.
[00:59:22] Just typed it in.
[00:59:23] And actually, I typed this firmament in there
[00:59:26] to get a picture for today.
[00:59:30] And this popped up immediately right here.
[00:59:32] I've typed in firmament.
[00:59:33] It said, in biblical cosmology,
[00:59:35] the firmament is a vast, solid dome created by God
[00:59:39] on the second day to divide the primal sea,
[00:59:43] called Tihon, into upper and lower portions
[00:59:47] so that the dry land could appear.
[00:59:49] Now, how is it that everything,
[00:59:52] everybody gets this right,
[00:59:53] but they just don't wanna accept it, right?
[00:59:55] Let's read these verses again.
[00:59:57] I brought these up the other day.
[00:59:58] This is Proverbs 8, 26 through 29, Amplified Bible.
[01:00:02] When he established the heavens,
[01:00:04] eye wisdom was there.
[01:00:05] When he drew a circle upon the face of the deep,
[01:00:08] that's when he gathered the waters.
[01:00:09] He created the boundary
[01:00:11] to gather the waters into one place, right?
[01:00:14] That's what we read in Genesis a minute ago.
[01:00:16] So that was when he drew the circle upon the deep.
[01:00:19] When he made firm, the skies above.
[01:00:22] When he made firm.
[01:00:24] Is there anything firm about air?
[01:00:27] Anything firm about air, people?
[01:00:30] Now, air's not very firm, right?
[01:00:33] And we're gonna find out firm, firmament.
[01:00:35] It's why they use such words.
[01:00:38] But when he made firm the skies above,
[01:00:40] when the fountains and springs of the deep,
[01:00:43] became fixed and strong,
[01:00:44] when he set for the sea its boundary,
[01:00:46] so that the waters would not tread its grass,
[01:00:48] the boundary set by his command,
[01:00:50] when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
[01:00:54] which go down, foundations go down under,
[01:00:57] they go down deep.
[01:00:58] You don't usually see any of the foundation
[01:01:00] of a house or a building, because they're under.
[01:01:03] But let's keep going.
[01:01:04] So there's your ends of the earth,
[01:01:08] but we'll get to that too in the days ahead.
[01:01:10] Just to show you, this was the same thing from Genesis.
[01:01:13] The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
[01:01:16] What did Proverbs say?
[01:01:17] He drew a circle on the face of the deep, right?
[01:01:20] And he said, let there be a firmament.
[01:01:22] And so that's when he made the sky,
[01:01:24] a firm, solid sky to divide the waters from the waters.
[01:01:27] And then he gathered together the sea in one place,
[01:01:30] said, let there be dry land.
[01:01:33] All right, there you have it.
[01:01:36] Now let's keep going.
[01:01:39] Boom.
[01:01:40] All right, we've already read that.
[01:01:43] Let's keep going.
[01:01:45] Now, the theory that many pastors have believed
[01:01:49] in one of the calls that Nathaniel did,
[01:01:51] I don't know who Nathaniel is,
[01:01:53] but I love his telephone calls.
[01:01:56] One of them brought up the canopy theory,
[01:01:59] and that's what I heard when I was a young preacher
[01:02:03] in my 20s from Dr. Karl Baugh
[01:02:05] and Creation Museum, I think he had.
[01:02:09] But their idea was that the waters above,
[01:02:12] that the firmament was basically
[01:02:14] a vapor water canopy over the earth,
[01:02:17] and that Noah's flood that God condensed
[01:02:21] that vapor canopy and made all that water
[01:02:23] come down upon the earth, and that's what caused
[01:02:26] or helped cause the flood of Noah,
[01:02:28] but that it doesn't exist anymore.
[01:02:31] All right, so basically, they made the firmament water,
[01:02:35] and then after the flood, they made it disappear.
[01:02:39] But when I started studying this
[01:02:41] and delving into this, we see here that,
[01:02:46] this is from Genesis 7.11,
[01:02:48] that the windows of heaven were opened
[01:02:50] to let this water in, and the windows of heaven
[01:02:53] were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
[01:02:55] So it talks about the windows of heaven
[01:02:57] were bringing in water, and there was rain from heaven.
[01:03:01] It's two different things.
[01:03:03] Rain comes from clouds, but there was water
[01:03:05] from above the firmament, the water's from above.
[01:03:08] That's why the doors and windows were opened.
[01:03:10] Now, the canopy theory people, like Dr. Karl Baugh,
[01:03:15] they would say that that's why we had the flood.
[01:03:19] Well, you got a little problem biblically speaking,
[01:03:22] because the Holy Spirit inspired King David
[01:03:26] to write 1,500 years later after the flood,
[01:03:30] King David wrote in around 1,000 B.C.,
[01:03:34] Psalm 148, praise him, ye heavens of heavens,
[01:03:38] and ye waters that be above the heaven.
[01:03:42] So it's really clear here that David,
[01:03:46] by Holy Spirit revelation, understood
[01:03:49] there was waters above the heavens still.
[01:03:53] So the canopy theory goes out the window
[01:03:56] with this passage, and of course,
[01:03:59] David in Psalm 18, it's also, this is a verse,
[01:04:02] it's also in Samuel, says he, speaking of God,
[01:04:06] made darkness his secret place.
[01:04:08] His pavilion round about him were dark waters.
[01:04:14] I didn't write that, and thick clouds of the skies.
[01:04:19] All right, so the Bible talks about
[01:04:23] these waters being above, all right?
[01:04:28] Now, again, this is what Dr. Heiser was showing,
[01:04:31] but this is what the Bible teaches.
[01:04:35] You go ahead and accept it.
[01:04:37] You can throw the Bible out and say,
[01:04:38] I don't believe it, I believe NASA worshipers,
[01:04:41] and the Church of NASA, and the Church of the Eastern,
[01:04:46] I mean, the European Space Agency,
[01:04:49] you can worship at their altar,
[01:04:51] but this is what your Bible teaches,
[01:04:53] whether you like it or not.
[01:04:54] It does not teach the earth is a ball, a sphere.
[01:04:59] It doesn't teach that there's outer space,
[01:05:02] as you've been taught to believe.
[01:05:05] It doesn't teach any of that.
[01:05:07] It doesn't teach that the sun and the moon are far away,
[01:05:11] they are close and smaller,
[01:05:12] the stars are closer and smaller,
[01:05:14] and we're gonna, like I said, we're gonna get to all that.
[01:05:17] But the firmament is there, it is a solid structure.
[01:05:21] Now, let's look at this.
[01:05:22] The word for firmament and the Hebrew.
[01:05:26] So, if we're gonna define a word,
[01:05:27] one of the first things we do,
[01:05:30] we look at its context, we've looked at Genesis 1.
[01:05:33] Of course, that's not the only place firmament is used.
[01:05:35] We'll see that in a minute.
[01:05:37] But, rakia is the word firmament,
[01:05:40] the root word is raka, okay?
[01:05:43] Basically, rakia is the noun,
[01:05:46] raka is the verb,
[01:05:49] kinda like where we have command and commandment.
[01:05:51] Commandment is a noun, command is the verb, right?
[01:05:55] I command you, that would be a verb.
[01:05:57] But notice it's the same, pretty much the same letters.
[01:06:00] Reshkufayin is raka,
[01:06:03] and then rakia is reshkufayin, all right?
[01:06:08] So, basically just one letter difference,
[01:06:10] but pretty much most Hebrew words anyway have the same,
[01:06:14] have all have like a three-letter root word,
[01:06:18] almost all of them.
[01:06:19] What's interesting is the word resh here,
[01:06:21] just to give you what the letters mean,
[01:06:22] the pictorial, paleo-Hebrew letters mean,
[01:06:25] that means the highest, resh means the highest,
[01:06:29] kuf means the dome,
[01:06:32] and ayin means to behold with the eye,
[01:06:38] basically behold the high dome is what that breaks down there.
[01:06:44] And then rakia would be the high dome
[01:06:48] by the hand of God behold,
[01:06:50] so that's the only difference in the actual letters
[01:06:52] and what they mean, but that's the root word.
[01:06:55] Now here, I'm going to say this as clearly as I can,
[01:06:59] I've said it in our last two conferences,
[01:07:01] Skyfall 2018, Skyfall 2019, I've repeated it
[01:07:06] because people just can't seem to get it
[01:07:09] and we have creation ministries
[01:07:11] and people like Dr. Danny Faulkner who keep saying,
[01:07:14] all firmament means is an expanse,
[01:07:17] it means an expanse, an empty expanse.
[01:07:19] I have heard this and I heard this
[01:07:20] and in the bad translations of the Bible
[01:07:23] taken from the Alexandrian texts,
[01:07:25] like the New American Standard,
[01:07:27] the Revised Standard, the NIV,
[01:07:30] and a lot of them, they will use the term expanse.
[01:07:33] I'm gonna tell you right now that is incorrect translation
[01:07:37] of the word rakia and raka as to what they mean,
[01:07:41] it is not an expanse, it means something solid
[01:07:46] that has been expanded by force,
[01:07:50] by pounding or beating it out.
[01:07:53] Let's look at this, rakia, now this,
[01:07:55] this will tell you, see the New American Standard
[01:07:57] renders this thing says correctly as expanse,
[01:08:01] it's incorrect, then it contradicts itself
[01:08:03] and says literally an expansion of plates,
[01:08:07] broad plates beaten out.
[01:08:10] So this word rakia or raka literally interpret
[01:08:13] means to beat out something that's solid
[01:08:17] and in fact, it's used that way
[01:08:20] in every verse that it's used in, all right?
[01:08:24] It's used in beating something,
[01:08:26] I had Mr. Faulkner, me and him go back and forth sometimes
[01:08:30] out there in the world,
[01:08:33] but I had him point out, well, not every verse,
[01:08:36] one of them is him beating the earth,
[01:08:40] still beating out something solid, right?
[01:08:43] It's almost like, come on, dude, is that all you got?
[01:08:46] You know, get rid of your little teddy bear
[01:08:53] and your little Freemason pins and stop playing games.
[01:08:58] The word raka, the verb raka acquires the sense
[01:09:02] of beating out precious metals
[01:09:05] and of spreading that, spreading that results
[01:09:09] to spread over, overlay.
[01:09:11] So again, rakia literally means
[01:09:14] the expansion of plates, broad plates.
[01:09:18] So rakia would mean something, if it's a noun,
[01:09:22] it means something that has been beaten out and expanded, right?
[01:09:28] Raka is the verb to beat out precious metals.
[01:09:33] So this is what the word means, it does not mean expanse.
[01:09:36] Now you have the Browns driver, Briggs,
[01:09:40] they start out saying extended surface,
[01:09:43] solid expanse as if beaten out.
[01:09:46] Again, they tell you that it's an expanse
[01:09:50] because it's something solid that's been expanded.
[01:09:53] It's been beaten out, but it tells you something solid.
[01:09:58] If you go down to the second thing there,
[01:10:01] it says the vault of heaven or firmament regarded
[01:10:05] by the Hebrews as solid and supporting the waters above.
[01:10:09] And you have a little picture here
[01:10:10] of somebody taking a sheet of metal, something solid,
[01:10:14] beating it or thinning it out to expand it
[01:10:16] and to curve it into a dome shape.
[01:10:19] All right, this is what you have here.
[01:10:22] All right, Job 37, 18.
[01:10:25] Now this is where we're gonna start.
[01:10:26] He says, Hast thou with him,
[01:10:29] just remember these phrases, spread out the sky,
[01:10:33] which is strong and as a molten looking glass.
[01:10:37] Now, remember he said he made the skies firm.
[01:10:40] It's a firmament, it's solid,
[01:10:42] it has windows and doors to let in water.
[01:10:45] It supports water, water's heavy, eight pounds a gallon.
[01:10:50] All right, water's very heavy.
[01:10:52] But he says here, Hast thou with him,
[01:10:53] spread out the sky, which is strong
[01:10:57] as a molten looking glass.
[01:11:00] All right, now some people say,
[01:11:01] well, that's just Job's friend talking.
[01:11:03] He didn't know what he's talking about.
[01:11:04] Well, but see, here's the thing.
[01:11:06] They say the same thing about Moses.
[01:11:07] He didn't know what he's talking about.
[01:11:11] I believe that they knew what they were talking about,
[01:11:13] but let's look at this right here.
[01:11:14] Spread out is, guess what?
[01:11:18] It's the word, raka, the verb, meaning what?
[01:11:23] To beat, stamp, beat out, spread out,
[01:11:25] stretch, to stamp, beat out.
[01:11:27] And then he tells you right here in the Strong's definition,
[01:11:30] to pound the earth by analogy,
[01:11:32] to expand by hammering,
[01:11:34] to overlay with thin sheets of metal,
[01:11:38] to make broad, to spread abroad,
[01:11:40] to spread forth, to spread over,
[01:11:43] to spread out, to spread into plates.
[01:11:48] This is the picture.
[01:11:49] Now again, if we can't let words be defined
[01:11:53] as they really are, then we have a problem.
[01:11:56] We will never know the truth.
[01:12:00] Let's keep going.
[01:12:02] This right here, he goes on.
[01:12:04] This is the Gensenius Hebrew Calvary dictionary
[01:12:07] to this, he spread out by beating,
[01:12:09] to spread out like God did the earth,
[01:12:12] to tread down, to spread out by beating as a thin plate.
[01:12:15] Hence, to overlay with a thin plate,
[01:12:17] to spread out with a hammer, to spread out.
[01:12:21] So over and over again, to spread out,
[01:12:23] to expand something that's solid.
[01:12:26] That's the definition of rockia and rocka.
[01:12:30] Now, you get this verse is very interesting here.
[01:12:33] Let's read this, Isaiah 25, six through nine.
[01:12:37] Now this is an end time prophecy
[01:12:40] and it's in the context of end time prophecy
[01:12:42] because you're gonna see it says
[01:12:43] when God's gonna wipe away all tears.
[01:12:45] This is the same verse used in the book of Revelation
[01:12:48] at the very end when it says God wipes away
[01:12:50] all tears from our eyes.
[01:12:51] So Isaiah 26, nine, and in this mountain,
[01:12:55] shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people
[01:12:58] a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the leaves
[01:13:01] and a fat things full of morrow
[01:13:03] and of wines and leaves well refined.
[01:13:05] And of course, this is, I believe this is referring
[01:13:07] to the marriage supper and its second coming.
[01:13:09] Why?
[01:13:10] Because he says right here, verse seven,
[01:13:11] now pay attention, he says he will destroy
[01:13:14] in this mountain the face of the covering,
[01:13:18] the covering cast over all people
[01:13:22] and the veil that is spread over all nations.
[01:13:27] But I see that.
[01:13:28] And then he says, and he will swallow up death and victory
[01:13:31] and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces
[01:13:34] and the rebuke of his people,
[01:13:36] shall he take away from off all the earth
[01:13:39] for the Lord hath spoken it.
[01:13:41] Now, this is clearly end times.
[01:13:43] He's saying here though, pay attention right there.
[01:13:46] He's gonna remove or destroy the covering
[01:13:50] that's cast over all people
[01:13:52] and the veil that is spread over all the nations.
[01:13:55] So let's look up these words real quick.
[01:13:58] So the word veil here, it says a pouring, a libation,
[01:14:03] molten metal, a cast image.
[01:14:07] You see that?
[01:14:07] Molten metal.
[01:14:09] Wait a minute, didn't we read something
[01:14:10] about molten glass?
[01:14:13] Molten, you know, there's, what is it?
[01:14:16] Crystals like is made out of,
[01:14:18] there's metal and there's glass, lead glass.
[01:14:23] I know you've heard of that, lead crystal.
[01:14:25] And so he's talking about molten
[01:14:27] and even here it says the word, it's masaka
[01:14:30] and it's a pouring over, a fusion of metal,
[01:14:33] especially a cast image poured out, molten image.
[01:14:37] So he's saying, again, the picture we get of this veil
[01:14:41] that's over all the nations is what?
[01:14:45] Molten metal, right?
[01:14:50] Solid.
[01:14:52] The term spread out here is interesting
[01:14:56] because it just means to interweave,
[01:14:59] to overspread through the idea of fusion.
[01:15:03] What is fusion?
[01:15:06] Something you do with what?
[01:15:08] Metals, right?
[01:15:11] To cover or protect a covering.
[01:15:16] So you see, let's go back to our verse.
[01:15:18] He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering
[01:15:21] cast over all the people
[01:15:22] and the veil that is spread over all nations.
[01:15:25] This is referring to the firmament
[01:15:27] that's over all the earth, all the people, all the nations.
[01:15:32] And here in Revelation 6, at the sixth seal,
[01:15:35] at the second coming of Jesus, here's what it said.
[01:15:38] And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal
[01:15:40] and lo, there was a great earthquake
[01:15:42] and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair
[01:15:44] and the moon became his blood
[01:15:46] and the stars of heaven fell into the earth.
[01:15:48] Yes, they're gonna fall, Neil.
[01:15:51] Why are they gonna fall?
[01:15:52] I believe the stars are set inside the solid firmament.
[01:15:56] We're gonna talk about that.
[01:15:58] But when the firmament begins to be broken up,
[01:16:02] rolled back, destroyed, like he said,
[01:16:06] God's gonna open it up, destroyed,
[01:16:08] let it fall to the earth.
[01:16:10] In fact, it's going to be the firmament
[01:16:12] that actually destroys all the cities of the nations.
[01:16:15] That's those hailstones that are gonna come down
[01:16:18] and destroy everything.
[01:16:20] Because he says here,
[01:16:21] and the stars of heaven fell into the earth,
[01:16:22] even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs
[01:16:25] when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
[01:16:27] Well, figs are, last time I checked,
[01:16:30] they're attached to fig trees, okay?
[01:16:34] And the heaven departed as a scroll
[01:16:36] when it is rolled together
[01:16:38] and every mountain and island were moved out of their places
[01:16:40] and the kings of the earth and the great men
[01:16:44] and the rich men and the chief captains
[01:16:45] and the mighty men and every bond man,
[01:16:47] every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks
[01:16:50] and said to the mountains and rocks,
[01:16:51] fallen has hide us from the face of him
[01:16:53] that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb,
[01:16:56] for the great day of his wrath has come.
[01:16:58] Well, what's happening?
[01:16:59] God's removing the veil that's over all the nations.
[01:17:02] It's gonna crumble and fall.
[01:17:04] And when it does, and if you look at the word depart here,
[01:17:08] the word depart means he's gonna separate it.
[01:17:10] He's gonna sever it.
[01:17:11] He's gonna part it asunder.
[01:17:13] He's gonna rend it.
[01:17:14] That means to rip it open.
[01:17:17] God himself is gonna rip open the firmament
[01:17:20] and it is gonna begin to crumble and fall
[01:17:23] upon the cities of the nations.
[01:17:25] And then when that veil is removed
[01:17:27] from over all the nations and all the peoples,
[01:17:29] when they see him, they're gonna see the throne of God.
[01:17:32] They're gonna see the Lord Jesus sitting on the throne.
[01:17:39] And people say, if his throne's sitting on the firmament now,
[01:17:42] how's it gonna sit?
[01:17:43] Where's it gonna sit when he destroys it?
[01:17:45] Hey, he can just make it hover.
[01:17:47] I don't know how he's gonna do it or why he's gonna do it.
[01:17:49] I just know this is what it says.
[01:17:51] He's gonna destroy the veil.
[01:17:53] He's gonna destroy this molten metal cast firmament,
[01:17:58] this solid firmament.
[01:17:59] And folks, how do you do that?
[01:18:01] How do you roll back a scroll
[01:18:03] if it's just some kind of an atmosphere?
[01:18:05] Where's he coming from?
[01:18:06] Where is he gonna be sitting that people are gonna see?
[01:18:09] Is his throne just outside our atmosphere
[01:18:11] and satellites have failed to pick it up?
[01:18:17] Nothing in your Bible from Genesis to Revelation
[01:18:21] teaches the nonsense that you are taught
[01:18:23] in government public schools and by space programs
[01:18:28] operated by Freemasons and Nazis, occultist.
[01:18:35] Satanic people have brought you this whole belief system
[01:18:40] about space and galaxies far, far away.
[01:18:47] There's nothing far, far away.
[01:18:48] Folks, God's not even far away.
[01:18:50] And he said it in the book of Acts.
[01:18:52] He is not far from any one of us.
[01:18:56] He says he sits there and beholds us like grasshoppers.
[01:19:01] He watches us from his seat on the firmament.
[01:19:07] Y'all don't mind me preaching a little bit here.
[01:19:10] Now, Danny Faulkner and people like him,
[01:19:13] dishonest creationists, dishonest Christians,
[01:19:15] basically liars, because that's what dishonest means
[01:19:19] and liars go to hell, so you better stop lying.
[01:19:22] Say there's no history, that this is not what they taught.
[01:19:26] He actually, answers in Genesis actually goes to the place
[01:19:31] and creation ministries will go to the place to say
[01:19:34] that this is not what the ancient Hebrews believe.
[01:19:37] This blows my mind.
[01:19:38] They are so dishonest because they've got to cling
[01:19:42] to their books and to their videos
[01:19:46] and to their seminars and conventions
[01:19:51] and their credentials instead of going by what the book says.
[01:19:56] What the Bible says.
[01:19:58] But here I pointed this out many times.
[01:20:00] Josephus, first century Jewish historian,
[01:20:02] the most respected first century
[01:20:07] and early second century Jewish historian.
[01:20:10] The one who testified about Jesus is well known
[01:20:14] that he was probably more than likely a Pharisee
[01:20:18] but definitely friends with the Pharisee.
[01:20:20] So he had a good understanding of both the political
[01:20:25] and the religious scene at that time.
[01:20:30] And this is history.
[01:20:32] Josephus has, there's more in Josephus
[01:20:35] than we could go back into the wars of Caesar
[01:20:38] or any of those other recorded history.
[01:20:42] But anyway, Josephus says here,
[01:20:46] and this is in book one, chapter one.
[01:20:48] This is actually my copy of this book.
[01:20:50] I have the actual book and I've had it for over 30 years.
[01:20:54] I bought it right after I came back to the Lord.
[01:20:57] In book one, chapter one entitled
[01:20:59] The Constitution of the World and the Disposition
[01:21:01] of the Elements, Josephus wrote.
[01:21:04] And this, on the second day,
[01:21:06] he got placed heaven over the whole world.
[01:21:10] Didn't we just read that in Isaiah?
[01:21:13] Heaven, one heaven was one of the heavens.
[01:21:15] The firmament's called heaven.
[01:21:17] He placed one of those heavens over the whole world
[01:21:22] and separated it from other parts.
[01:21:24] And he determined that it should stand by itself.
[01:21:29] On what?
[01:21:30] Foundations of the earth.
[01:21:32] It's our roof.
[01:21:33] Come on, folks, right?
[01:21:36] He also placed a crystalline firmament round it
[01:21:42] and put it together in a manner agreeable to the earth
[01:21:46] and fitted it for giving moisture and rain
[01:21:48] and for affording the advantage of dues.
[01:21:50] And on the fourth day, he got adorned to heaven
[01:21:53] with the sun and the moon and the other stars
[01:21:57] and appointed them their courses.
[01:21:59] I just want to start with that, their courses.
[01:22:02] The sun, moon, stars, they move.
[01:22:05] So here is real clear just from Josephus,
[01:22:08] this was the understanding of the ancient Israelites.
[01:22:13] This was the understanding at the time of Jesus.
[01:22:17] You understand how important this historical,
[01:22:21] this record of history from Josephus is.
[01:22:24] He tells you, this is what we Jews believe.
[01:22:28] Why did they believe that?
[01:22:30] It's in the Bible.
[01:22:32] It's in Genesis.
[01:22:33] It's in Isaiah, right?
[01:22:38] So Danny Faulkner saying, there's no history of this.
[01:22:41] It's just dishonest.
[01:22:42] It's a lie.
[01:22:47] Gets me fired up.
[01:22:50] On top of that, Mr. Faulkner should know
[01:22:54] in the Septuagint version.
[01:22:57] My students know when was the Septuagint version written,
[01:23:01] put together, 250 to 248 BC, exactly.
[01:23:08] All right, so that is, think about that.
[01:23:10] The Septuagint version was just basically
[01:23:14] King told me of Egypt, Philadelphia's,
[01:23:17] King told me the second Philadelphia's of Egypt,
[01:23:19] ordered about 70 Jewish scholars to put together for him
[01:23:24] to take the Hebrew scriptures, the Hebrew Old Testament,
[01:23:28] and to translate it into Greek,
[01:23:30] to put it into the library of Alexandria.
[01:23:33] And so when those Jewish scholars,
[01:23:37] those Hebrew Israelite scholars,
[01:23:42] translated the word firmament,
[01:23:45] rachia, raka, Hebrew, into Greek,
[01:23:52] in 250 BC, they chose the word stereoma.
[01:24:00] There's Greek lexicon define stereoma as, quote,
[01:24:04] that which has been made firm.
[01:24:08] The firmament, the arch of the sky,
[01:24:12] which in early times was thought to be solid,
[01:24:16] a fortified place in early,
[01:24:20] well, why was it thought that in early times?
[01:24:22] Because folks hadn't had to believe the lies
[01:24:24] and the CGI and the movies of NASA, all right?
[01:24:31] The Strong's Concordance Greek dictionary
[01:24:33] states that the root words of stereoma are,
[01:24:36] stare-oo, or stare-oo, or however you say it.
[01:24:42] And it means to solidify.
[01:24:45] And stereos, which means stiff, solid, stable,
[01:24:49] steadfast, strong, sure.
[01:24:51] Does any of that sound like a thin vapor?
[01:24:55] And since when, if our atmosphere is this thin vapor
[01:24:58] of air, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,
[01:25:04] how do you put that kind of atmosphere
[01:25:07] up against an empty vacuum of space?
[01:25:11] What is it, 10 to the negative 17 torr?
[01:25:17] I mean, it doesn't even make any sense.
[01:25:22] A gas, something that has gas and has pressure
[01:25:28] has to have a container.
[01:25:30] That's just basic.
[01:25:33] What's that?
[01:25:34] And water.
[01:25:35] Yeah, and water, exactly.
[01:25:38] So all of this is evidence.
[01:25:39] Now, let's go back to the scriptures.
[01:25:41] I know I gotta hurry.
[01:25:42] I told y'all I was gonna take a bit to get through this.
[01:25:45] But Ezekiel, if we go to the script,
[01:25:48] what have we done?
[01:25:48] We've gone to Genesis, right?
[01:25:50] We've been in Genesis.
[01:25:51] We've gone to Isaiah, right?
[01:25:55] We've defined the word in multiple lexicons.
[01:25:58] We've looked at historical references, all right?
[01:26:02] From what the ancient Hebrews believed.
[01:26:05] Here we have another passage talking about the firmament
[01:26:09] and tells you the same thing you heard from Josephus
[01:26:12] and some of these others that it is solid.
[01:26:14] So let's read this.
[01:26:15] This is Ezekiel chapter one.
[01:26:17] He's talking about the living creatures that he saw.
[01:26:20] And he said, when those went, these went,
[01:26:22] when those stood, these stood.
[01:26:24] And when those were lifted up from the earth,
[01:26:26] the wheels were lifted up over against them
[01:26:28] for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
[01:26:31] Of course, this is where they try to talk about aliens,
[01:26:34] but it's not.
[01:26:35] But here's what he says about the firmament.
[01:26:37] He says, and the likeness of the firmament
[01:26:40] upon their heads of the living creatures
[01:26:42] was as the color or the word color was
[01:26:45] means the appearance of the terrible crystal
[01:26:50] stretched forth over their heads above.
[01:26:53] So he says the living creatures were where?
[01:26:55] They were on the earth and they were being lifted up
[01:26:59] from the earth.
[01:26:59] And as they were being lifted up from the earth,
[01:27:01] he saw what was over their heads and he called it what?
[01:27:06] The firmament.
[01:27:07] And he said the firmament, and if you do look,
[01:27:10] in the King James, if you look up the word color,
[01:27:12] it just means it has the appearance of,
[01:27:14] the outward appearance.
[01:27:15] He says of the terrible crystal
[01:27:20] that is stretched forth over their heads above.
[01:27:23] And then he talks about what's under the firmament.
[01:27:25] Now notice this.
[01:27:27] And he said, let's go down to verse 24.
[01:27:29] And when they went, he said,
[01:27:30] I heard the noise of their wings
[01:27:32] like the noise of great waters
[01:27:33] as the voice of the Almighty and the voice of speech
[01:27:37] as the noise of a host.
[01:27:38] And when they stood, they let down their wings.
[01:27:40] And there was a voice from the firmament
[01:27:42] that was over their heads.
[01:27:43] And when they stood, and they had let down their wings.
[01:27:48] And then of course he says he saw the likeness of a man
[01:27:50] and a sapphire throne.
[01:27:52] Now you get the same thing here in the Revelation.
[01:27:54] Let's look at Revelation 4.
[01:27:56] So Revelation 4, John sees the throne and what does he see?
[01:28:02] After this, I looked and behold,
[01:28:03] a door was opened in heaven.
[01:28:05] And the first voice, which I heard,
[01:28:07] as it were the trumpet talking with me.
[01:28:10] So here's the voice of the Almighty,
[01:28:12] just like Ezekiel did, right?
[01:28:15] Saying, come up here, I will show you things
[01:28:17] which must be hereafter.
[01:28:18] And immediately I was in the spirit
[01:28:20] and behold, a throne was set in heaven.
[01:28:23] And one set on the throne and he that set upon it
[01:28:26] was to look upon like Jasper and Sardine stone.
[01:28:29] And there was a rainbow round about the throne
[01:28:31] in the sight like unto an emerald.
[01:28:33] And around about the throne were the four and 20 seats.
[01:28:36] And upon the seats, I saw the four and 20 elders
[01:28:38] sitting clothed with white raiment
[01:28:40] and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
[01:28:43] Now, first of all, remember our Methodist Baptist pastor
[01:28:48] earlier said, there's a lot of weird things, Revelation.
[01:28:50] This is not weird.
[01:28:54] Heaven's a real place with real people
[01:28:56] that have gone on before us.
[01:28:58] There's 24 elders.
[01:28:59] What's weird about them 24 guys sitting there
[01:29:02] around the Lord with crowns on?
[01:29:06] I don't think that's weird.
[01:29:09] And again, he thinks it's weird.
[01:29:13] But anyway, these elders had on white clothing
[01:29:16] and crowns of gold on their heads
[01:29:18] and out of the throne proceeded lightnings
[01:29:19] and thunderings and voices.
[01:29:21] There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne
[01:29:24] which are the seven spirits of God.
[01:29:26] And before the throne was a sea of glass
[01:29:32] like unto crystal.
[01:29:36] Oh, Ezekiel said God was sitting upon the firmament
[01:29:40] which is like molten glass.
[01:29:44] Now Revelation, John goes to heaven
[01:29:46] and sees the throne of God.
[01:29:48] And he sees what?
[01:29:51] Before him, before the throne, he sees what?
[01:29:55] Before the throne, there was a sea of glass
[01:29:59] like unto crystal.
[01:30:02] Pretty clear.
[01:30:05] See, this is why I believe you see this.
[01:30:09] Anybody ever see this?
[01:30:12] And immediately I was in the spirit,
[01:30:14] behold, there was a throne set in heaven
[01:30:15] and one that sat on the throne
[01:30:17] and he that sat there was like in the Jasper
[01:30:19] and Sardine stone.
[01:30:20] And there was a rainbow round about the throne
[01:30:23] in sight like unto an emerald green.
[01:30:27] I do believe that the aurora borealis
[01:30:29] because I believe the throne of God
[01:30:31] is right above Polaris, the North Star,
[01:30:36] the center of the flat circle of earth.
[01:30:40] And that we are seeing, we are literally witnessing
[01:30:44] the glory of God around his throne when we see it.
[01:30:48] But the poo poo heads come along and say,
[01:30:53] no, no, no, it's not.
[01:30:59] What makes more sense to you?
[01:31:04] Not the sun 93 million miles away with gamma radiation.
[01:31:09] Oh, it's nonsense.
[01:31:12] Why, I guess that's why they made the hulk green, right?
[01:31:17] Let's look at this.
[01:31:18] And above the firmament that was over their heads
[01:31:20] was the likeness of a throne
[01:31:21] as the appearance of what?
[01:31:22] Sapphire stone.
[01:31:23] So the throne itself, the molten glass,
[01:31:28] the throne has the appearance of sapphire.
[01:31:33] Sapphire stone.
[01:31:34] Well, what does sapphire looks like?
[01:31:37] Blue.
[01:31:38] Wait a minute.
[01:31:39] What do you mean the sky's blue?
[01:31:41] Oh, okay.
[01:31:45] And in Exodus 24, nine through 10,
[01:31:49] says then went up Moses and Aaron and Nadab and Abihu
[01:31:52] and 70 of the elders of Israel
[01:31:53] and they saw the God of Israel.
[01:31:55] They saw God.
[01:31:56] So they go up and they have this open vision.
[01:32:00] They are allowed to see God into heaven.
[01:32:03] But now only part of him,
[01:32:05] just like Moses only got to see part
[01:32:07] because they couldn't see him fully.
[01:32:09] All right, at that time.
[01:32:12] And it says, and there was under his feet
[01:32:14] as it were a paved work of sapphire stone.
[01:32:19] So be where God's sitting
[01:32:20] and where his feet are under his feet,
[01:32:23] this pavement of sapphire stone.
[01:32:27] Where did Ezekiel say his throne was sitting?
[01:32:30] On the firmament.
[01:32:32] That was like what?
[01:32:33] Crystal glass.
[01:32:36] God said, heaven is my throne
[01:32:39] and earth is my footstool
[01:32:42] because really the second heaven
[01:32:45] or the firmament is connected to the earth.
[01:32:47] It's part of the earth system.
[01:32:50] All right.
[01:32:52] So he says his sapphire stone
[01:32:53] and he says, as it were,
[01:32:54] the body of heaven in his clearness.
[01:32:58] I talk about this in my book
[01:32:59] that the word body means basically
[01:33:01] it was the solid structure
[01:33:02] like your bones are the solid structure
[01:33:04] for your body, okay?
[01:33:07] So he sees this.
[01:33:09] Now here's the color of sapphire stones, right?
[01:33:15] I wanna show you this little thing.
[01:33:16] Somebody sent this to me.
[01:33:17] This is when they detonated during Operation Dominick
[01:33:21] and part of Operation Dominick was Operation Fishbowl,
[01:33:25] which means Fishbowl of the Lord
[01:33:27] when they decided to try to blow a hole in the firmament
[01:33:30] and they realized that it was there
[01:33:33] with a nuclear Thor nuclear missile.
[01:33:35] What somebody said to me was they sent me this video,
[01:33:38] which I've seen of the detonation,
[01:33:40] the high altitude detonation
[01:33:41] and they said, slow it down and look
[01:33:46] and you'll see the blue firmament, the pavement.
[01:33:52] And I was like, huh?
[01:33:55] And I slowed it down and watched it, watch this.
[01:34:34] And they happened to be kind of blue.
[01:34:37] Do you think that's an accident?
[01:34:45] Because if you detonated a nuke that high,
[01:34:48] what's the first, the flash of light?
[01:34:51] What does light do?
[01:34:52] It illuminates what you can't see.
[01:34:57] And look at there, I slowed it way down.
[01:35:09] Now somebody could say, well, those are just clouds.
[01:35:12] Well, why aren't they moving?
[01:35:15] The explosion, you can see the particles
[01:35:17] and it disturbing around it,
[01:35:21] but it's like those center stones.
[01:35:24] And remember he said it looked like pavement.
[01:35:26] And so if you've seen stone pavement
[01:35:28] or concrete block pavement,
[01:35:32] you would get that where you had like in between
[01:35:34] there would be like where there would be mortar
[01:35:37] or different kinds of filling there.
[01:35:41] But anyway, I thought that was very interesting.
[01:35:44] I think we're getting a little glimpse
[01:35:49] of the firmament by them trying to blow a hole in it.
[01:35:54] Thank God that they didn't.
[01:35:56] Idiots, if God would let that happen,
[01:35:58] I guess we'd have had another flood of Noah.
[01:36:02] But it's good that the firmament is strong, right?
[01:36:06] And God said it's a demonstration of his power
[01:36:08] and they realized they couldn't defeat it with a nuke.
[01:36:11] And isn't it interesting, here they're gonna nuke,
[01:36:13] they're gonna send up the high altitude nuclear weapon
[01:36:16] and they call the operation Dominic and fishbowl,
[01:36:19] which means dominant means of the Lord,
[01:36:22] fishbowl of the Lord.
[01:36:26] And a Thor missile, Thor being one of their demon gods
[01:36:29] with a hammer to try to break it.
[01:36:32] Didn't work, Thor failed.
[01:36:34] God's stronger than Thor.
[01:36:38] We don't need Odin, Thor, we have Jesus.
[01:36:41] All right, and there's a little look at pavement.
[01:36:45] I just typed in blue pavement.
[01:36:47] Interesting, remember when I did the dome,
[01:36:50] the throne in Skyfall and I played
[01:36:52] the coming undone by corn.
[01:36:57] They had blue chunks coming down like this,
[01:37:02] the sky falling, yeah.
[01:37:05] All right, here the gensinius Hebrew Calvary lexicon
[01:37:07] defines Rocky as this.
[01:37:09] Oh, look at this, I love this.
[01:37:11] The firmament of heaven spread out like a hemisphere
[01:37:14] above the earth, like a splendid,
[01:37:17] hallucid, translucently clear, transparent,
[01:37:20] crystalline, glassy, allowing the maximum passage
[01:37:24] of light as glass translucent,
[01:37:27] sapphire stone to which the stars were supposed
[01:37:31] to be fixed and over which the Hebrews believed
[01:37:34] there was a heavenly ocean.
[01:37:37] So here's the definition from again another lexicon
[01:37:42] and it talks about it being blue stone
[01:37:45] that's translucent, that allows light to pass through it.
[01:37:50] All right, just interesting stuff here.
[01:37:57] All right, and of course I shared this at Skyfall
[01:38:00] but they've had mysterious pieces of stone
[01:38:02] have been discovered in different parts of the world
[01:38:05] that just happens to be made up of what was it,
[01:38:09] 70 something percent oxygen, let me see here.
[01:38:15] Yeah, an Italian geologist discovered one in one place,
[01:38:19] another lady discovered one in another place
[01:38:21] but anyway, it's very interesting.
[01:38:28] And what's interesting is that the legends behind this,
[01:38:34] the old ancient legends say that the angels
[01:38:41] were expelled to earth and became statues
[01:38:44] but these did not arrive at earth alone
[01:38:46] according to legend, a great portion of the sky
[01:38:49] and stars fell with the angels on earth
[01:38:52] and the eyes of the natives, this explains
[01:38:53] why the region is so rich in minerals and diamonds.
[01:38:56] But we know around the fall of Satan
[01:38:59] but that goes back a little bit.
[01:39:01] But again, you can look all this up.
[01:39:06] I don't wanna spend too much time on that.
[01:39:09] What's interesting and it does say this about it,
[01:39:11] so is this blue sky stone a piece of the firmament?
[01:39:15] I said the Bible reveals the firmament
[01:39:17] is a solid crystalline structure, the terrible crystal.
[01:39:20] Ezekiel says God's sapphire throne is above the firmament.
[01:39:24] Isaiah 40.22 makes it clear that God sits
[01:39:26] upon that strong structure looking down at us.
[01:39:29] When Moses and the elders of Israel
[01:39:31] saw the God of Israel, they saw that
[01:39:32] there was under his feet as it were
[01:39:34] paved work of sapphire, blue stone
[01:39:38] and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
[01:39:40] Now when a piece of this blue sky stone
[01:39:42] was heated to 3,000 degrees Celsius,
[01:39:44] which is 5,432 degrees Fahrenheit,
[01:39:47] its composition did not change.
[01:39:51] Now that's some kind of freaky substance right there.
[01:39:55] Scientists could not figure out why the stone is blue
[01:39:58] and when a small piece was crushed
[01:39:59] and put under a microscope, the pieces had no color.
[01:40:02] The stone is created so that light can pass through it
[01:40:05] and they say that it's not earthly.
[01:40:08] Interestingly, the word terrible written
[01:40:09] by the prophet Ezekiel in the original Hebrew is Yahreh,
[01:40:12] which it means to fear or to inspire,
[01:40:15] to create reverence, godly fear at all.
[01:40:19] I believe the blue sky stone is indeed
[01:40:21] a piece of the firmament.
[01:40:22] It might describe the terrible or awe-inspiring.
[01:40:26] Of course, the Russians talked about studying
[01:40:28] the brightness of the firmament back in the 1940s.
[01:40:33] Actually, this is 1957.
[01:40:37] Moses says they're doing a study
[01:40:39] on the brightness of the firmament
[01:40:42] with an electric halo photometer
[01:40:44] for determining the brightness from the near sun.
[01:40:49] And then it says on the surface
[01:40:50] perpendicular to these rays,
[01:40:52] taking into consideration only the brightness
[01:40:54] of the first order derived from the assumption
[01:40:56] of a flat earth and giving some conclusions.
[01:41:00] And he talks about that five or six points
[01:41:03] on the firmament are located at various distances.
[01:41:06] How do you locate points on a firmament in distances?
[01:41:11] It's not something solid that exists in that stationery.
[01:41:16] We could spend a lot of time on this.
[01:41:17] I'm gonna address some of this when we get into it.
[01:41:20] Anyway, I was gonna put it a little clip,
[01:41:22] I guess I forgot to put it in there
[01:41:24] or it didn't save or something.
[01:41:25] But anyway, in the latest Chicken Little cartoon,
[01:41:30] the, you know, of course, it's a famous story for him saying,
[01:41:32] this guy is falling, this guy is falling, right?
[01:41:36] And what's interesting is two different times
[01:41:40] a piece of the sky falls and one of them falls
[01:41:44] and it hits him and he, when he wakes up,
[01:41:48] he looks down and he goes, a blue piece of the sky
[01:41:51] in the shape of a stop sign again.
[01:41:55] So in the movie, they're shown where like pieces
[01:41:58] of the blue sky have what fallen to earth
[01:42:02] because these Hollywood occultists have to what
[01:42:04] disclose truth in plain sight, which is what they do.
[01:42:09] Now, let me close with this and I know this has been long,
[01:42:12] but I wanna close with this.
[01:42:13] If you guys can, since we're at the end of the slide,
[01:42:16] go to first 17 and this is for my Christian brothers
[01:42:21] and sisters out there, all right?
[01:42:25] First of all, it's time to stop being chicken
[01:42:31] because this story came to my mind before service
[01:42:34] this morning as we were in praise of worship
[01:42:36] and I was just thinking about, but this is David and Goliath.
[01:42:40] So go to first Samuel 17.1 and we're gonna close with this
[01:42:50] just so you get it.
[01:42:51] Now, everybody knows the story of David and Goliath,
[01:42:53] but they don't pay attention.
[01:42:54] There's one little thing I think most people miss here,
[01:42:58] but notice we're gonna read it.
[01:43:00] Now, the Philistines gathered together,
[01:43:02] their armies to battle and we're gathered together
[01:43:05] at Shoko, which belonged with unto Judah
[01:43:09] and pitched in Shoko and Ezekiel and Ephesdimim
[01:43:13] and Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together
[01:43:16] and pitched by the Valley of Elah
[01:43:17] and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
[01:43:20] So they were fighting.
[01:43:23] The armies of Israel with Saul
[01:43:25] were fighting with the Philistines
[01:43:27] and the Philistines stood on a mountain on one side
[01:43:30] and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side
[01:43:32] and there was a valley between them
[01:43:34] and there went out a champion out of the camp
[01:43:37] of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath
[01:43:39] whose height was six cubits in a span.
[01:43:42] So somewhere between nine and a half, 11 feet tall,
[01:43:45] he had a helmet of brass upon his head
[01:43:46] and he was armed with a coat of mail.
[01:43:48] Weight of the coat was 5,000 shekels of brass,
[01:43:51] blah, blah, blah.
[01:43:52] Let's go on down.
[01:43:54] And I don't care about reading all his weaponry.
[01:43:56] Verse eight, and he stood and cried
[01:43:58] unto the armies of Israel and said unto them,
[01:44:01] why do you come out to set your battle in array?
[01:44:03] Am I not a Philistine and ye servants to Saul?
[01:44:06] Choose you a man for you.
[01:44:08] Let him come down to me.
[01:44:10] And if he be able to fight with me and kill me,
[01:44:14] then will we be your servants?
[01:44:15] But if I prevail against him and kill him,
[01:44:18] then shall you be our servants and serve us.
[01:44:22] And the Philistines said,
[01:44:23] I defy the armies of Israel this day,
[01:44:25] give me a man that we may fight together.
[01:44:28] And when Saul and all Israel heard those words
[01:44:30] of the Philistines, they were dismayed
[01:44:33] or discouraged, terrified, greatly afraid.
[01:44:36] David was the son of the Ephrathite
[01:44:38] and the Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse.
[01:44:41] And he had eight sons.
[01:44:43] And so, of course, David runs to the battle.
[01:44:45] His father sends him there to take food
[01:44:47] and supplies to his brothers.
[01:44:50] And he gets there, and I wanted to go to verse 19.
[01:44:55] Says, now Saul and they and all the men of Israel
[01:44:58] were in the Valley of Eloth,
[01:44:59] fighting with the Philistines.
[01:45:01] So let me just break it down.
[01:45:02] Here's how it went.
[01:45:04] For 40 days, morning and evening, Goliath would come out.
[01:45:11] And when Goliath would come out and make his threat
[01:45:14] and his challenge, Israel would flee in terror and fear.
[01:45:21] But the moment he went back in,
[01:45:22] nobody accepted his challenge.
[01:45:23] The armies went back to fight each other.
[01:45:26] This is puzzling to me, right?
[01:45:29] It's almost like they just ignore him,
[01:45:32] we'll fight it out the same way.
[01:45:34] Just, we don't wanna deal with that, right?
[01:45:38] That was the attitude of the armies of Israel and Saul.
[01:45:42] We don't wanna deal with that, okay?
[01:45:46] But here comes little David, and David's there,
[01:45:48] and he hears one of these challenges when Goliath comes out.
[01:45:52] He goes, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[01:45:54] Who does this uncircumcised Philistine think he is?
[01:45:57] Doesn't he know?
[01:45:59] He's the armies of the living God.
[01:46:01] Well, the moment David says,
[01:46:03] hey, I'll go fight this guy.
[01:46:05] His brothers go, oh, you're in pride,
[01:46:07] you snotty little punk.
[01:46:09] You're just in pride.
[01:46:11] You just came here to see the battle.
[01:46:15] And David goes, what have I done?
[01:46:18] Isn't there a cause?
[01:46:19] You know why they were upset?
[01:46:20] It's because they wouldn't confront the giant.
[01:46:23] They were scared, David wasn't scared.
[01:46:27] This is really what it comes down to for all Christians
[01:46:28] about any truth that's in the Bible.
[01:46:31] Scared, say scared.
[01:46:33] Don't holler pride at people who ain't scared.
[01:46:37] You hear me?
[01:46:39] It's not about pride.
[01:46:41] It's about right and wrong, it's about truth.
[01:46:43] It's about deception, error, and the truth.
[01:46:47] And see, let me just go on and tell you right now.
[01:46:49] I know a bunch of you Christians out there say,
[01:46:51] oh, this doesn't matter.
[01:46:53] The truth of creation versus science.
[01:46:57] We can make it all work together.
[01:46:58] We can all live together.
[01:46:59] No, you can't.
[01:47:00] The giant that's in the room that you wanna ignore
[01:47:05] is Neil deGrasse Tyson and Krauss
[01:47:09] and all these guys who wanna get up and say,
[01:47:12] your Bible is wrong.
[01:47:15] We got it right, because we saw a star twinkle
[01:47:18] and we figured it out.
[01:47:20] Even though that star twinkling,
[01:47:22] we only figured out 4% of it, so we're 96% stupid.
[01:47:26] We're still smarter than your Bible,
[01:47:29] because we know it's a ball.
[01:47:31] Your earth is a ball and there's outer space
[01:47:34] and we got galaxies, gazillions of light years away,
[01:47:38] and they don't know squat.
[01:47:41] I can prove they don't know squat about it.
[01:47:43] They can't measure these distances.
[01:47:49] And Christians, the moment this stuff comes up,
[01:47:52] like those pastors, those sniveling little weasels,
[01:47:58] well, the writers of the Bible, they were incorrect,
[01:48:03] but that doesn't mean that other things
[01:48:06] aren't true in the Bible.
[01:48:10] What a sniveling little weasel you are.
[01:48:16] Now, I understand if you've been ignorant of this
[01:48:18] and blinded this, I was too at one point.
[01:48:21] Though I was never really confronted with
[01:48:24] or presented with the truth
[01:48:26] of what the firmament meant or anything,
[01:48:28] I never heard anybody teach on it.
[01:48:29] I'd never heard anything about it.
[01:48:33] And I remember reading passages like Joshua
[01:48:35] about the sun standing still on the moon,
[01:48:38] and I was like, I would say,
[01:48:41] God, I know your word is true.
[01:48:42] I can't understand how this works.
[01:48:46] I would say that to him.
[01:48:49] So you know what I would do?
[01:48:51] Avoid it.
[01:48:54] Now, if somebody asked me, do you believe
[01:48:55] that Joshua made the sun and the moon stand still?
[01:48:58] That God did that for him, that mirror?
[01:48:59] Yeah, I'd say, yeah, absolutely.
[01:49:03] Do I understand it at that time back then
[01:49:05] when I was in my 20s and 30s?
[01:49:07] I was like, no, I didn't understand it.
[01:49:10] Why?
[01:49:10] The only reason I didn't understand it
[01:49:12] and just accept it as it was written
[01:49:14] was because I had been brainwashed from a child
[01:49:17] to believe in outer space and gazillions of light years
[01:49:22] and galaxies far, far away
[01:49:24] and that we were a spinning sticky water ball
[01:49:27] and that we float, we fly 66,000 miles an hour
[01:49:31] around the sun and all this stuff we're told
[01:49:36] that we can now prove is not true.
[01:49:41] And we can prove now it's not true
[01:49:47] with real scientific experiments.
[01:49:51] I'm gonna talk about the real experiments
[01:49:53] then done to prove the earth does not move.
[01:49:57] Earth doesn't move.
[01:49:59] Oh, what about the Coriolis effect?
[01:50:02] Let me tell you something.
[01:50:03] There's no such thing.
[01:50:05] The Coriolis effect because if it was so,
[01:50:07] a bullet's traveling fast.
[01:50:09] Oh, snipers have to calculate
[01:50:10] for the curvature of the earth.
[01:50:12] No, they don't.
[01:50:13] Let me tell you what they're calculating.
[01:50:14] Every rifle is rifled.
[01:50:18] You know what that means?
[01:50:20] Is a cut through that rifle barrel
[01:50:25] that makes the bullets spin, all right?
[01:50:31] To actually help make it more accurate.
[01:50:32] But anything, any projectile,
[01:50:35] I know this from playing golf and shooting guns
[01:50:39] and playing baseball, any projectile I used to pitch,
[01:50:43] any projectile that you make spin is going to curve.
[01:50:50] If you hit a golf ball and you don't hit it flush straight
[01:50:53] and make it spin perfectly backwards,
[01:50:56] so it will go up and straight.
[01:51:00] If you hit it with any side spin whatsoever,
[01:51:03] it's going to curve this way or that way.
[01:51:07] Bullets come out of barrels with a spin on them
[01:51:11] and you have to calculate for that movement.
[01:51:14] You have to calculate for drop
[01:51:16] as it begins to lose power through the medium of the air,
[01:51:22] if the air's blowing a certain direction.
[01:51:25] So windage, spin, not of the earth, spin of the bullet.
[01:51:33] But think about it, a bullet is flying,
[01:51:35] I think some of my rifles, what is it, three?
[01:51:40] 3,000 feet per second or something like that.
[01:51:44] Different velocities on different rounds.
[01:51:46] But they're still flying fast, faster than aircraft.
[01:51:52] And if the Coriolis effect had to be accounted for
[01:51:55] with a bullet, it would have to be accounted for
[01:51:59] with an airplane, especially in the airplane
[01:52:01] landing on a north-south runway.
[01:52:04] Because if the earth's moving by the timeline,
[01:52:07] bullet gets a mile away, how far is a runway going to move
[01:52:12] by the time a plane is trying to land over a few minutes?
[01:52:16] Flying much, much slower, it's just ridiculous.
[01:52:19] There's so many ridiculous things.
[01:52:23] But the issue is, see, let me tell you
[01:52:26] why there's a revival, why there's an awakening,
[01:52:28] why atheists are getting saved
[01:52:31] in agnostics like nobody's business.
[01:52:33] Because there's some of us Christians
[01:52:36] and some people out here that said
[01:52:39] the heck with, you know, Mr. Goliath,
[01:52:45] I will boldly say that we've been lied to.
[01:52:50] We've been, isn't it something,
[01:52:52] why do people, Christians, have problems saying
[01:52:55] that the governments of the world might have lied to you?
[01:53:01] They lied to you, the Gulf of Tonka,
[01:53:03] they lied about the incident that led us into Vietnam.
[01:53:09] They lied to you about 9-11.
[01:53:13] They lied to you about the Federal Reserve,
[01:53:16] it's not federal, Epstein didn't hang himself.
[01:53:25] They lie about everything, and yet for some reason,
[01:53:28] we think they're gonna tell us the truth
[01:53:32] about where we live, and they don't.
[01:53:36] That's why last week I played the clip
[01:53:38] of them faking the shot in the Apollo 11.
[01:53:39] They're so busted, they're so busted.
[01:53:43] Listen, it's over, it's over.
[01:53:46] The smoking guns of NASA deception,
[01:53:52] they're everywhere, they're lying around everywhere.
[01:53:55] It's obvious, let me just say this,
[01:53:58] I didn't even go through all the verses
[01:54:00] about the firmament, about the glass,
[01:54:03] I mean, Revelation 15, I mean, we could've went there.
[01:54:06] There's so many about God stretching the heavens.
[01:54:09] Actually, it means he bending them down,
[01:54:10] bowing them down like bending them to the ground.
[01:54:16] But if you're gonna believe God created
[01:54:18] the heavens and the earth, the dry land,
[01:54:21] the trees, the grass, and you gotta believe
[01:54:25] he made the firmament, and you gotta believe what it is.
[01:54:30] And you know, we think about the Tower of Babel,
[01:54:31] they were trying to make what?
[01:54:34] They were trying to make them a building
[01:54:38] that would reach the heavens.
[01:54:39] They wanted to overthrow God,
[01:54:41] and they actually believed they could get there.
[01:54:42] And what did God say in Genesis?
[01:54:45] God said that if I leave them alone,
[01:54:47] that they will succeed in reaching the heaven.
[01:54:55] Now think about that for a minute.
[01:54:58] So God stopped them, divided their language.
[01:55:02] It all came crashing down upon them, right?
[01:55:05] Yet, God's gonna let man escape the firmament
[01:55:16] and travel to the moon and to Mars and to the stars.
[01:55:24] No, do you know what, and I can't remember the verse now,
[01:55:26] but it says, the heaven for height
[01:55:30] and the earth for depth is unsearchable,
[01:55:34] meaning God will never let you reach the top,
[01:55:38] and he's never gonna let you reach the bottom.
[01:55:42] Not going to happen.
[01:55:44] The deepest hole ever dug by the Russians, eight miles.
[01:55:49] Proverbs 25, three.
[01:55:52] The height, heaven, and the earth for depth, unsearchable.
[01:56:00] So do you really think God has allowed them
[01:56:05] to send a voyager with their little message to the aliens
[01:56:12] out beyond the Milky Way and galaxy?
[01:56:14] No, there it is.
[01:56:18] The heaven for height and the earth for depth
[01:56:21] and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
[01:56:23] Now let me say that we're gonna get into this
[01:56:27] in the days ahead.
[01:56:29] Do they send up rockets?
[01:56:30] Yes.
[01:56:31] Do they send up satellites?
[01:56:33] Yes.
[01:56:34] The question is where, where do they go?
[01:56:36] How high do they go?
[01:56:38] What holds them in their place
[01:56:41] where they go over the flat earth?
[01:56:44] Like I said, their own documents declassified now,
[01:56:47] make all that clear.
[01:56:48] So anyway, love y'all.
[01:56:52] See you next week.