Down Under

The Earth, which is our base from which we look into space, is constantly moving. Understanding this movement is one of the most useful and important things in Astronomy.

The earth orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit and the moon orbits the earth with the same kind of orbit. Looking down from the north pole, the earth spins in a counterclockwise direction. This accounts for the fact that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.

At a glance, we may see that the sun and moon are the moving planet and feels that the earth is steady in its position. This is the exact perception of Joshua when he asked the Lord for the sun and moon to stood still.

Josh 10:12 Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

Josh 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

God is going down to our level. In the manner to which we would understand. Just imagine if God would explain the solar system to Joshua at that time, that it is not the sun and moon that should stood still but the earth in it's counterclockwise rotation.

Is 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Is 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Truly, wherever we are in this globe, when we look at the heaven, it is always located up above the earth, though in God's perception it is not so because knowing now the solar system, the heaven up above is sometimes down under.