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WATER IN SPACE

"And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.” (Genesis 1:7).

The first chapter of Genesis records that God created the waters not only on the earth, but also in the heavens of outer space. For centuries, scientists claimed that this was a serious mistake. Yet just recently, scientists had to admit that Moses was right. Massive amounts of water do indeed exist in space, just as the Bible proclaimed. Of course, the extreme temperatures of space have caused this water to float around as permanent ice.

This frozen ice has been discovered in the ice caps of Mars, in the rings of Saturn, as well as in the Oort Cloud at the edge of our solar system. The Oort Cloud is estimated to hold a trillion large comets composed of both rock and ice. So you see, the Bible is not a science book, but it certainly does not make any mistakes when referring to science! Also Job was correct. The earth does indeed hang and even travel through the emptiness…

[Moses and Job were correct because God revealed the truth to them, as all the Bible as originally revelaed by God is "The Truth"]

Taken from: http://www.maxpages.com/biblegems/More_Science_and_the_Bible

"The Bible declares that God separated the waters below from the waters that were above (in the heavens): 'And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so' (Gen. 1:6,7). This biblical statement declares that God created a large amount of water which He placed in the heavens or outer space. Does any evidence exist to prove the accuracy of this statement from the Bible? The existence of water in space seemed improbable, to say the least, to scientists until quite recently. However, further astronomical discoveries have proven conclusively that massive amounts of water do exist in space, just as the Bible claimed. Naturally, because of extreme temperatures, the waters in space are frozen into permanent ice. Recently our satellites discovered large quantities of ice in the ice caps of Mars as well as in the rings of Saturn. In addition, we now know that the huge comets that travel through our solar system are composed of massive amounts of ice.

"A massive block of ice from space collided with the earth at the beginning of this century at a point in northern Russia: 'In the morning of 30 June 1908, a fantastic explosion occurred in central Siberia...Witnesses described an enormous meteoric bolide visible in the sky for a few seconds. Other witnesses from a distance of 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the point of impact were knocked over...Seismic shocks were registered over the whole world...this event was due to the collision with the earth of a block of ice weighing 30,000 tons which...released energy equivalent to that of a thermonuclear bomb of 12 megatons.' (J. Audouzze, The Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy, [Cambridge University Press, 1985], p. 219). Researchers found that this Siberian explosion was caused by a small fragment of the comet Encke that broke away during its passage through our solar system. The latest scientific research has revealed that massive amounts of ice also exist at the outer edge of our solar system. The Ort Cloud at the edge of our solar system is a vast region of space that is estimated to hold as many as a trillion large comets composed of ice and rock. Each large comet is calculated to contain as much as one trillion tons of ice. The vast amount of water in our oceans is less than a fraction of the quantities of water that exist in the 'firmament above' in the heavens as reported in the Book of Genesis. A passage in Job also refers to the ice and frost in the heavens: 'Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?' (Job 38:28-31)."

The Signature of God, Grant Jeffrey.

Taken from: http://www.philologos.org/bpr/files/Sky_Signs/ss021.htm

NASA'S POLAR SPACECRAFT CONFIRMS...

Small Comets are Pelting Earth

A series of spectacular images produced by state-of-the-art cameras on NASA's Polar spacecraft have confirmed that Earth is being pelted by thousands of small comets each day. These never-before-seen images establish the physical reality of the house-sized "snowballs" that weigh tens of tons, break up as they approach Earth, and deposit large clouds of water vapor in the upper atmosphere.

These Earthbound comets, however, represent no threat to either people on the ground or in orbit as these objects disintegrate far above the Earth's atmosphere. "In fact," says Louis A. Frank, the University of Iowa space physicist who first proposed the existence of these small comets more than a decade ago, "this relatively gentle cosmic rain and its possible simple organic compounds may well have nurtured the development of life on our planet."

"The Polar results definitively demonstrate that there are objects entering Earth's upper atmosphere that contain a lot of water," says University of Michigan professor Thomas Donahue, one of the world's leading authorities on atmospheric science.

"Images like this show that we have a large population of objects in Earth's vicinity that have not been detected before," notes Frank.

Taken from: http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/www/may28-1.html

THE GREAT DEEP

Genesis 1:2,6-8 ... And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be a firmament (expansion) in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament (expansion) and divided the waters which were under the firmament (expansion) from the waters which were above the firmament (expansion): and it was so. And God called the firmament (expansion) Heaven.

God made an expanse of space in the midst of the great deep of waters. In this space which he called heaven God placed the sun, moon, stars and the earth. Beyond the expanse of space the Word of God declares there to be water: The Great Deep.

THE FLOOD OF NOAH'S TIME

Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

In the days of Noah, certain powerful angel spirit beings (devil spirits) attempted to destroy the earth and stop the promised Christ from coming by breaking up the great deep beyond space and making windows in the heavens to bring water to flood the earth.

Genesis 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

God closed the "windows of heaven" and stopped the fountains of the deep. The spirits that had caused the problem were outside of the expanse of heaven in the great deep when God stopped up the holes. The Word of God declares that they are in chains under darkness and that they are kept there until the day of judgement.

When Jesus Christ was ministering to a man possessed of many devils, the devils " besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. Luke 8:31."

1 Peter 3:19-20 By which [his resurrected body] he [Christ] went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing ...

On the night that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead and had received his spiritual body he went beyond the expanse of space and witnessed to these imprisoned spirits. He let them see that their attempt to destroy the earth and keep the promised Christ from redeeming mankind had failed and that all God had promised had come to pass.

A Body Like His Glorious Body

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Proverbs 25:25

Taken from (there, you can see a figure of the deep and also you will see the generalized "mixing up” that confounds the "spirits in prison” of which we read in 1 Pet. 3:18-21 with the "angels that sinned” from 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6): http://www.redbay.com/ekklesia/thedeep.htm

SOME VERSES USING THE WORD "WATER” (taken from R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook):

One of the elements of the world

Gen_1:2;

GOD ORIGINALLY

Created the firmament to divide

Gen_1:6; Gen_1:7;

Collected into one place

Gen_1:9;

The world and its inhabitants once destroyed by

Gen_7:20-23; 2Pe_3:6;

The world not to be again destroyed by

Gen_9:8-15; 2Pe_3:7;

WAS USED BY JEWS

For legal purification

Exo_29:4; Joh_2:6; Heb_9:10; Heb_9:19;

ILLUSTRATIVE

Of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit

Isa_41:17; Isa_41:18; Isa_44:3; Eze_36:25; Joh_7:38; Joh_7:39;

(Still,) of the ordinances of the gospel

Psa_23:2;

(Deep,) of the words of the wise

Pro_18:4;

(Noise of many,) of the word of Christ

Rev_1:15;

(Covering the sea,) of the general diffusion of the knowledge of God

Isa_11:9; Hab_2:14;

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References:

All the quotations have been taken from the next free Biblical software available on the Internet: e-Sword, The NET Bible and The Sword Project (The Online Bible did not had nothing specific on this topic).

1- Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (found in e-Sword),

2- Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible. Adam Clarke's 1810/1825 commentary and critical notes on the Bible (found in e-Sword and in The Sword Project),

3- John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible (found in e-Sword),

4- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE), James Orr, M.A., D.D. General Editor; John L. Nuelsen, D.D., LL.D. Edgar Y. Mullins, D.D., LL.D. Assistant Editors; Morris O. Evans, D.D., PhD. Managing Editor; Melvin Grove Kyle, D.D., JJ.D. Revising Editor, 1844-1913 ed (found in e-Sword and in The Sword Project),

5- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament (found in e-Sword),

6- The Treasury of David, by C. H. Spurgeon (found in e-Sword),

7- R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook, published by Sword of the Lord Publishers, P.O. Box 1099, Murfreesboro, TN, 37133. No copyright notice appears on the book, and it is a reprint of the original edition which is out of copyright (found in e-Sword and in The Sword Project),

8- The NET Bible.

9- Strong’s Definitions, Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek. Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, by James Strong, 1890 ["Tehowm: an abyss (as a surging mass of water); especially the deep. 'Arubbah: Chimney (with its apertures for smoke)”] (found in every Bible software).

10- Rowland F.S., Molina, M. J., et al, The Ozone Question, 1975, Science, 190(4219):1038-40,42; Molina, M. J., et al, Antarctic Stratospheric Chemistry of Chlorine Nitrate, Hydrogen Chloride, and Ice: Release of Active Chlorine, 1987, Science, 238(4831):1253-1257; Molina, M. J., et al, Physical Chemistry of the H₂SO₄/HNO3₃/H₂O System: Implications for Polar Stratospheric Clouds , 1993, Science, 261(5127):1418-1423, etc.

Other Internal References:

a- Mr. Gregory, Notes and Observations, &c. c. 23. p. 110, &c. (quoted by John Gill),

b- Keerl (quoted by Keli and Delitzsch),

c- L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World, 47 (quoted by The NET Bible),

d- Vid. Steeb. Coelum Sephirot. Heb. c. 7. s. 3. p. 126, 127 (quoted by John Gill)

e- Maunder, Astronomy of the Bible; Astronomy without a Telescope (reference provided by ISBE)

f- Schiaparelli, Astronomy in the Old Testament (reference provided by ISBE)

g- Warren, The Earliest Cosmologies, 1909 (reference provided by ISBE)

h- Skinner (quoted by ISBE)

i- "Earth” in Smith's DB and in EB (reference provided by ISBE)

j- A valuable extended discussion of the word "Firmament” may be seen in Essay V of the older work, Aids to Faith (London, Murray), 220-30 (reference provided by ISBE)

k- Welch, C. W. "The Book of Job and the Enigma of the Ages” (Berean Publishing Trust, 1952, London).

l- Lamsa translation from the Phesitta.

m- Murdock translation from the Phesitta.

n- http://cortright.org/thedeep.htm

o- http://www.philologos.org/bpr/files/Sky_Signs/ss021.htm

p- http://www.maxpages.com/biblegems/More_Science_and_the_Bible

q- http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/www/may28-1.html

r- http://cortright.org/glorybod.htm

s- J. Audouzze, The Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 219

t- Book The Signature of God, by Grant Jeffrey.

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