Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
God's first act of creation was to create a mass of [sea] water into the hollow of His hand.
Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
I say sea water, because all the natural elements in the periodic table are found in sea water.
Amen. Each person is given a different understanding by the Holy Spirit. Thanks for sharing your's.
*** I'm not sure which heaven is meant in that verse (since there are three of them) ...
2 Corinthians 12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, ( whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth; ) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
... but it is either Heaven proper, or outer space.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void;
He called it "Earth," and it was at first "formless and void," since it was nothing but sea water sloshing around in the palm of His hand, and it was void of life.
I prefer to think of heaven as one of the first elements which God created for Jesus to shape into physical matter. I see the Multiverse as Eternity, where God lives, where one city is 1500 miles square including in height. Eternity is where Adam's firmament/heaven was placed in the midst of water on the
2nd Day. Gen 1:8
This is BEFORE our Cosmos was made on the
3rd Day according to Genesis 2:4 since Jesus (Lord God) made at least two temporary heavens/worlds on that Day. The 1st was Adam's and it was about 7 miles in diameter. It's Earth was only 22.5 feet in elevation on it's highest mountains. Gen 7:20 It had only 4 Rivers and they all came from one source. Gen 2:10 Adam's firmament was placed in the Water of the Multiverse, showing that it was totally self-sufficient. Gen 1:7 It was totally destroyed in the flood. 2Pet3:6
Also made on the
3rd Day was our Cosmos. Jesus took some of the air, dust, and water and "
inflated it" thus, the Big Bang of our Cosmos which happened 13.7 Billion years ago in man's time. It was late on the
3rd Day since it was less than a Billion years before the first stars lit up. Astronomers have recently discovered that the Big Bang was long before the first stars lit up
3rd Day Gen 2:4 and the First Stars lit up on the
4th Day. Gen 1:16
From:
ESA Science & Technology: First stars formed even later than previously thought Observations of very distant galaxies hosting supermassive black holes indicate that the Universe had been completely reionised by the time it was about
900 million years old.
Reionised is a fancy word for lit up. Scripture and Astronomers AGREE. No man who lived 3k years ago knew that because it's testable proof of God Who did.
*** God then creates gravity at some point not documented in His autobiography (the Bible), and the earth becomes a ball of sea water in the hollow of His hand.
I like to call that ball of sea water
Terra Aqua.
Then God shears off a layer of
Terra Aqua and balloons it out into space.
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7 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.
... and that is when Second Heaven (the atmosphere) is created.
So to put this all together, God makes three heavens (also referred to as "firmaments"), then populates them with their respective artifacts:
1st Heaven = 0-62 miles up = atmosphere = populated with terrestrial life, etc.
2nd Heaven = 63 miles-edge of universe = populated with stars, planets, moons, etc.
3rd Heaven = Heaven proper = populated with seat of Christ, Crystal Sea, the Tabernacle, etc.
Sorry, but I cannot agree since the first firmament is solid, beat out like metal and contains Adam's entire Earth. The firmament of our world is the Cosmic microwave Background which some call the echo of the Big Bang. Beyond our Cosmos, which is in the midst of dust of the ground of the Multiverse, is where God lives in a perfect physical Heaven filled with perfect physical people who live forever in Eternity, which has no beginning and no end. It's also called the
7th Day and Christians will rest (Heb-cease) from all our works there and we will celebrate with Jesus for His Creation of the perfect 3rd Heaven is now complete and death has been destroyed.
1Co 15:26 God Bless you
