It is looking like the Starwatch is going to be cancelled due to clouds, so here is a great space picture to make you feel better. This is the Pleiades Star Cluster, located about 400 light-years from Earth.
You can see it without a telescope or binoculars if you look carefully. To find the Pleiades, follow the line of Orion's Belt to his right until you hit a brighter red star. This star is Aldebaran. Keep going in about the same direction a little further and look around carefully. The Pleiades look like a faint bundle of about seven stars. Once you find them the first time, they are easy to find time and again.
The Pleiades are mentioned three times in the Bible, twice in Job. Check these verses out:
Job 9: 8-10 speaks of God, "who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea; who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south; who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number..."
Job 38:31 ask, "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?" Amazingly, scientists now know that the stars of the Pleiades are in fact bound by chains of gravity, while the stars of Orion are not, just as this verse states.
Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a God and the Bible is His true Word.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Weekend Worship- Pleiades Star Cluster
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5 comments:
thats cool but you only showed 2 verses where is the third
it sounds intresting
Amos 5:8
"He who made the Pleiades and Orion,and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name;"
Hi Mr. Light. Have you ever read the book The Case For A Creator? It's a good book on scientific evidence that points toward God. should i bring it in tomorrow?
Jonas,
I have not read that book, but I read another book by the same author called "the Case For Christ" which was excellent. Feel free to bring your book in to class. We can spend a few moments talking about it.
You write very well.
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