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I will fear no evil for You are with me
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Genesis 1:
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament/expanse in the midst of the waters/mayim, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven/sha-mayim. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Expanse is from the root to stretch, beat out....
The expanse/firmament in the midst of the waters is the stretched out heavens -firmament/expanse. Paradise is in the third layer/story of the stretched out firmament/expanse/heavens.
1. The root word in both Greek and Hebrew does not determine meaning since the meaning is derived contextually.
2. An extended surface is not a stretched surface but merely an area that has been extended. God separated the waters; God did not stretched the waters.
3. The heavens spoken in the second day of creation is not the third heaven but the atmosphere. This IS what God created on the second day. The third heaven, God's abode, already existed.
Amo 9:6
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven...
The half of the earth's created waters are still above the stretched out /expanse/firmament/heavens/sha-mayim.
Here is ALL of verse 6:
The One who builds His [b]upper chambers in the heavens
And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth,
He who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth,
The Lord is His name.
1. Nothing in this verse about waters above the expanse.
2. The waters referred to here is rain which is absorbed from the sea. There is no water above the expanse.
3. The Hebrew word mah-al-aw' means literally a step, as in stairs. The Hebrew word shamayim means literally heaven, as in the area of the atmosphere where rain is gathered.
4.The creative activity of God is found in the verbs builds (habbôneh) and sets (yĕsādāh). A palace in the heavens whose foundation is on the earth speaks of a transcendent sovereignty over both earth and heaven. Both heaven and earth are his domain where he has sovereign authority. This is why escape from him is futile. The verses attributes to the Lord the control of rainfall. He has authority to call for the waters of the sea and the power to pour those waters out over the face of the land.
Gen 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.
Yep. Except that you are misinterpreting this verse. God formed an expanse to create a boundary, giving structure to the upper and lower waters. The expanse is the atmosphere that distinguishes the surface waters of the earth (i.e., the waters below) from the atmospheric waters or clouds (i.e., the waters above).
Psa 148:4
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
148 [a]Praise [b]the Lord!
Praise the Lord from the heavens;
Praise Him in the heights!
2 Praise Him, all His angels;
Praise Him, all His hosts!
3 Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all stars of light!
4 Praise Him, [c]highest heavens,
And the waters that are above the heavens!
5 Let them praise the name of the Lord,
For He commanded and they were created.
6 He has also established them forever and ever;
He has made a decree which will not pass away.
This is a Psalm of praise. The whole of creation should praise the Lord. The highest of heavens here refers to the whole of the universe and the waters in verse 4 is most likely rained filled clouds. This is poetic language.
Heaven is "plural", so the mayim-שָׁמַיִם/waters, is plural, with the plural ending, as the heaven/sha- mayim-שָׁמַיִם is, "heavens". It is translated singular or plural, on the whim of the translator, but it is plural.
I don't doubt that is plural but is referring to the observable heavens not God's abode.
God is specific that the atmosphere is the "face/paniym -פָּנִים" of the heavens.
Not particularly. The word atmosphere does not appear in scripture and is derived contextually from the word for heaven(s).
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open/face/paniym h6440 firmament of heaven.
This verse is talking about the creation of birds and land-bound creatures. Both live in the open space between the land and the "heavens." Again, the meanings of the various instances of "heaven" are contextually derived.
God specifically states that He set the sun and moon in the expanse/firmament/stretched out heavens on day 4. He also set the stars/wandering stars in this instance, which are the planets, in the firmament of the heavens on day 4.
He did not set the sun and moon nor the stars called planets in the open/face/ atmosphere on day 4, where the birds fly that is silly to state it is so!
Genesis 1:
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament/expanse of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Contextually this instance of heavens refers to what we call space, where the planets are located. again, colloquially we still refer to space as the heavens. The word is inherently anthropomorphic.
Adam was taken from the earth below and set in the stretched out heavens, where Eden is.
No, Adam was taken from the land were he was formed out of dust and taken to Eden which is NOT in the heavens.
The earth is the center of God's creation, and the heavens were stretched out from the earth on day 2 between the cut in two waters of this created globe.
No such teaching in scripture.
In God's stretched out firmament, in the third story/layer, is Mount Eden, and Paradise is in Mount Eden.
No such teaching in scripture.
That is the "Breadth of earth" that God asks Job if he can measure -for no, no man can.
That is the "breadth of earth" which the wicked, deceived by the let loose evil satans, try to ascend to, in the end of the millennium, where the City of God is, in the book of Revelation.
No such teaching in scripture.
That is the realm of earth's outstretched breadth that Nimrod & Co attempted to ascend to, to take over Paradise and sit above the angels, and which is why we speak many divided tongues confounded from our one mother [edenic] tongue, which is Hebrew.
No such teaching in scripture.
The word rapture is "To take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away"
God raptured a rib from the male/ish Adam and built a female/ishyah Adam. He took the rib from Adam and built a wife for him. HE removed the rib from one place, adn took it to another, and the male Ish then was "married" by having an ishyah.
God did not "rapture" a rib from Adam. You are attempting to fit a word to a meaning that is not inherent of the word. Here is what rapture means:
rapture
■ noun
1 a feeling of intense pleasure or joy.
2 (raptures) the expression of intense pleasure or enthusiasm.
3 (the Rapture) North American (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the second coming of Christ.
Soanes, C., & Stevenson, A. (2004). Concise Oxford English dictionary (11th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1rapture \ˈrap-chər\ noun
[Latin raptus] 1594
1 : an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion
2 a : a state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
b : a mystical experience in which the spirit is exalted to a knowledge of divine things
3 often capitalized : the final assumption of Christians into heaven during the end-time according to Christian theology synonym see ECSTASY rapturous \ˈrap-chə-rəs, ˈrap-shrəs\ adjective rapturously adverb rapturousness noun
Merriam-Webster, I. (2003). Merriam-Websters collegiate dictionary. (Eleventh ed.). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Dear Hentenza, the river that flowed out of Eden above, in the third heaven, and watered Paradise, in the third heaven above [Paul tells you that is where Paradise is] is an atmospheric river.
Atmospheric rivers carry more water than the Amazon, and they water the earth.
That river that came out of Eden above in the third heaven became four heads of four rivers on earth below. The Gishon; the Blue Nile; Euphrates, and the Tigress.
No such teaching in scripture.
The geo-centric creation is God's way of planting the heavens by human being sons of God for His glory to indwell, and His heavens serve the earth below, from which they were stretched out between the divided waters of, on day 2 of creation week.
God's creation is/was not geocentric but heliocentric. The universe is as God created it at the beginning, so the earth rotated around the sun back then just as it does now.
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