21:1-3), “God will dwell with … and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.” Therefore, the universe will no longer be enclosed in water to separate men from God and so there will be “no more sea” above the universe, (Rev. in verse 1: The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament. Psalm 19:1 (KJV) states, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handywork. The firmament is defined in Merriam-Webster as the vault or arch of the sky heaven. Anti-Christian sceptics often denounce the Bible as teaching a faulty cosmology. In the new heaven and the new earth (Rev. The word 'firmament' is seen again in the Book of Psalms. Consequently, when God saved us, he sent “fishers of men,” (Matt. Nowhere does the Bible refer to little holes in a metal dome through which the drops fall.
HEAVEN BIBLE FIRMAMENT WINDOWS
So, the wrath of God is like the waves of the ocean beating on a man (Ps. Biblical firmament It does speak figuratively of the windows of heaven opening for the Flood ( Gen. This celestial location is the atmosphere that surrounds the earth, the place where clouds exist and birds, along with jets, fly in every day. And God called the firmament heavens (Genesis 1:7 - 8). Indeed, before we were saved, we were separated from God in heaven by that great body of water above the firmament. 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. In the earth, sinners without Jesus Christ are under the wrath of God (Jn.
Easton's Bible Dictionary explains that this word is from the latin firmamentum in the Vulgate translation of the Bible, translating the ancient Hebrew word raqiya' which means 'expansion. The third heaven is above the waters where Paul “was caught up into paradise,” (2 Cor. The firmament is defined in Merriam-Webster as the vault or arch of the sky heaven. The second heaven is from the clouds to the waters above the firmament, (Gen. The first heaven is from the earth to the clouds the birds fly in this “open firmament of heaven,” (Gen. 136:6).Īs a result of this firmament, there are three heavens.
5:8 speaks of “the waters beneath the earth,” (see Ps. 148:4, we see that there are “waters that be above the heavens.” And since these waters completely enclose the universe, they are also “below” the earth. They are beyond outer space and enclose the entire universe. The waters above the firmament are also called the sea (Job 41:31). The waters below the firmament are the seas of the earth, (Gen. It’s what we call “outer space.” It contains the sun, moon and stars found in Gen.
That the Hebrews entertained similar ideas appears from numerous biblical. The firmament is simply a space or an expanse. Thus the Egyptians conceived the heavens to be an arched iron ceiling from. 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.
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