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How GreatThou Art
“The heavens declarethe glory of God; andthe firmament shows
His handiwork.”
Psalm 19:1
Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning Godcreated the heavens
and the earth!”
Genesis 1:3
“Then God said, ‘Letthere be light;” and
there was light.”
Most Distant Galaxies - Hubble Deep Field
Psalm 33:6
“By the word of theLord the heavens weremade, and all the hostof them by the breath
of His mouth.”
Genesis 1:16“Then God made two
great lights: the greaterlight to rule the day, andthe lesser light to rulethe night. He made the
stars also.”
The Milky Way
Ancient cultures regarded theMilky Way as:
‘A splash of spilt cream.’
The Romans called it: Via Lactea
“The Road made of Milk”
The Milky Way
The Milky Way
“To whom will youliken Me, and make Me
equal and compareMe, that we should be
alike?”
Isaiah 46:5
Job 22:12“Is not God in the
height of heaven? Andsee the highest stars,how lofty they are!”
Psalm 147:4“He counts the
number of the stars;He calls them all by
name.”
How ManyStars are inthe Universe
70,000 Million, Million, Million
70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
70 Sextillion
The Solar System
“And take heed, lest you lift youreyes to heaven, and when you see
the sun, the moon, and the stars, allthe host of heaven, you feel driven toworship them and serve them, whichthe Lord your God has given to all thepeoples under the whole heaven as a
heritage.”
Deuteronomy 4:19
Sun“It would take seven million years of the
gross national product of the UnitedStates to pay for your local power
company to run the sun for one second -and it's just one of billions of stars in our
galaxy, which is just one of billions ofgalaxies in the known universe that God
has made!”
God is that big and powerful!!!
Canis Majoris
Mercury
Venus
Moon
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
“He alone spreads outthe heavens, and
treads on the wavesof the sea; He madethe Bear, Orion, and
the Pleiades…”
Job 9:8-9
Great Bear - Big Dipper - Ursa Major
Orion
Orion’sNebulae
Horse headNebulae
Cat’s Eye
Pleiades
Andromeda
Whirlpool Galaxy
Sombrero Galaxy
“Indeed My hand has laidthe foundation of the
earth, and My right handhas stretched out the
heavens; when I call tothem, they stand up
together.”
Isaiah 48:13
“Ah, Lord God! Behold,You have made the
heavens and the earthby Your great power and
outstretched arm.There is nothing too
hard for You.”
Jeremiah 32:17
Why arethey upthere?
Let’s bringit closerto home
“Have you not known? Have you notheard? Has it not been told you from
the beginning? Have you notunderstood from the foundations of
the earth? It is He who sits above thecircle of the earth, and its
inhabitants are like grasshoppers,Who stretches out the heavens like acurtain, and spreads them out like a
tent to dwell in.”
Isaiah 40:21-22
Earth
“When I consider Yourheavens, the work of Yourfingers, the moon and the
stars, which You haveordained, what is man thatYou are mindful of him, and
the son of man that You visithim?”
Psalm 8:3-4
The PaleBlue Dot
“Look again at that dot. That’shere. That’s home. That’s us. Onit everyone you love, everyone youknow, everyone you ever heard of,every human being who ever was,lived out their lives…on a mote ofdust suspended in a sunbeam!”
Carl Sagan
The Pale Blue Dot
The greatestwonder of
all time
The Greatest Wonder of All
“For as high as the heavensare above the earth, so greatis His love for those who fear
Him; As far as the east is fromthe west, so far has He
removed our transgressionsfrom us.”
Psalm 103:11
Whirlpool Galaxy – X Factor
“Long before you decidedwhat you were going to do
with God, God decided whatHe was going to do with you –that was to not give you what
your sins deserved, but togive His Son what your sins
deserved, and to give you thegift of Himself and an
invitation to live forever!”
Jesus is comingsoon…
Are you ready?
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