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Job 26:13
13 By his spirit [ruwach] he hath garnished [shiphrah]
the heavens [shamayim]; his hand [yad] hath formed [chuwl] the
crooked [bariyach] serpent [nachash]. KJV-Interlinear
13 'By His breath the heavens are
cleared; His hand has pierced the
fleeing serpent. NASB
The word for spirit sometimes refers to ones breath,
to the spirit of ones essence, to the power of ones own will. Sometimes it refers to the Holy Spirit, but
that deity is not in view here. Not by
Himself anyway.
Job is referring to Gods creative function in the
creation of the heavens of the universe.
He created the sun and the moon and the stars beyond. God did not randomly throw these objects into
space, but arranged them as one would decorate a large room.
The serpent is the dragon. Typically this is a reference to the
constellation Draco, which circles the North Pole. Today the North Star is
Polaris, but back in 2700 B.C., Thuban was the North Polar star. Thuban was in the head of the dragon
constellation.
There a lot of mythical stories surrounding the
constellations, including the oldest of those myths, which was that battles
occurred on the earth between man and dragons, and when the dragons were
defeated, the gods threw the dragons up into the night sky, sometimes breaking
them into two pieces, one piece residing in the sky and the other piece
remaining on the earth.
Though the origins of the constellation names is not
known, this book of Job along with other ancient writings points to the ancient
Mesopotamians as the source. This would
imply that Noah and his three sons, who lived both before and after the flood,
told stories of the great creature people (breeding between women and angels)
from Gen. 6, and these stories developed into the stories and mythology that we
are familiar with today.
The constellations become a means of recording the
stories of the battles between good and evil, between God and Satan, between
man and demon.
Psa. 33:6
6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And
by the breath of His mouth all their host. NASB
God not only created the universe, but He arranged the
stars, decorated the heavens, not by some random or natural explosive event,
but by means of His will through design and arrangement.
Not only were the stories of ancient events handed
down through verbal communication, recorded in the written scriptures, but they
are also recorded in the names and mythological stories (as we know them), from
the stars themselves.
Back in those ancient times, people knew of God and
the stories of creation. People knew the
fundamental proverbs and principles of truth.
As we have seen, their applications sometimes differed but their
knowledge and acceptance of life and history did not.
Today, we face a very different view of doctrine. Today we have a growing trend of anti-truth,
anti-God, anti-Christian attitudes.
Not only are the stories of old being systematically
rejected as nonsense, but principles of fundamental social order are being
rejected as well.
Through attempts to render illegal all prayer in the
schools, to separate all links between faith and government, to gain acceptance
between for all sorts of alternate lifestyles, and to separate people from
their responsibilities at home and abroad, thus the trends of the world to
disengage itself totally from God is all too evident.
To disengage from God is to disengage from truth. And once truth is gone, then lies are all
that remain.
Way back then, people had virtually no technology, no
science, no knowledge as we have today, but they did have common sense and
could see life reasonably clearly.
People knew their place and they knew Gods place.
Today we have so much information saturating the
airways, and yet the attitude of the day is to ridicule the stories from
scripture, and to disregard the teachings of old, as outdated and non-relevant
to life.
Today people think that they know more, and are better
off than those who lived in the past.
But today, beliefs are formed from theories, conjecture, imagination,
consensus and so forth, rather than on objective facts. Even the methodologies in todays sciences, of
the past, make many assumptions in order to make themselves legitimate.
Mans attitude will vacillate for and against God, and
in time, it will generally fade away from truth, but Gods truth will never
change and man can never totally eliminate it from history. For man can no more change truth than he can
change the positions of the stars.
Now is the time to post a prayer.
End Of Lesson
Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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