Category: Biblical Cosmology

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What Continent has the Highest Elevation? – Job 38:4-11

Job 38:4-11 LXX | Greek Septuagint[4] Where wast thou when I founded the earth? tell me now, if thou hast knowledge,[5] who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?[6] On what are its rings fastened? and who is he that laid the corner-stone upon it?[7] When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.[8] And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out of its mother’s womb.[9] And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.[10] And I set bounds to it, surrounding it with bars and gates.[11] And I said to it, Hitherto shalt thou come, but thou shalt not go beyond, but thy waves shall be confined within thee.

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Farthest End of Heaven – Mark 13:27

Deuteronomy 30:4If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. Jeremiah 25:33Those slain by the Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamented, gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground. Acts 13:47For so the Lord has commanded us, ‘I have placed You as a light for the Gentiles, That You may bring salvation to the end of the earth.’

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Bowed the Heaven to the Earth – Job 38:37

The older Septuagint translation of Job makes more sense when considering that heaven is the name given to the domed firmament structure affixed to the earth at its ends: Job 38:37 KJV | Hebrew MasoreticWho can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, Job 38:37 LXX | Greek SeptuagintAnd who is He that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven to the earth?

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The Apostate Dragon – Job 26:13

Check out this fun discrepancy between the 9th-century AD Hebrew Masoretic text and the earlier, pre-1st-century AD Greek Septuagint: Job 26:13 KJV | Hebrew MasoreticBy His spirit He hath garnished the heavens; His hand hath formed the crooked serpent. Job 26:13 LXX | Greek SeptuagintAnd the barriers of heaven fear Him, and by a command He has slain the apostate dragon.

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The Earth is a Circle – Proverbs 8:27-29

cir·cle1. a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the center).“draw a circle with a compass” Proverbs 8:27-29[27] When He established the heavens, I was there, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,[28] When He made firm the skies above, when the springs of the deep became fixed,[29] When He set for the sea its boundary so that the water would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth;

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Highest Heavens – Psalms 68:33

Job 22:14 – Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see; And He walks on the vault of heaven. Psalm 148:4 – Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens! Jeremiah 10:12 – It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens. 2 Esdras 16:59 – He spreads out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters has he founded it

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Highest Heavens – Deuteronomy 10:14

2 Chronicles 6:18But will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built. Psalm 68:33To Him who rides upon the highest heavens, which are from ancient times; Behold, He speaks forth with His voice, a mighty voice. Ecclesiasticus 16:18Look at the heavens, indeed the highest heavens; the abyss and the earth will tremble at the Lord’s visitation.

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Son of Man Ascending – John 6:62

John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. John 3:31He who comes from above is above all, he who is of the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

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Passed through the Heavens – Hebrews 4:14

Our Messiah was raised to eternal life with a real corporeal, immortal spirit body:– Luke 24:39-43, John 20:17, 1 Corinth. 15:35-46 The heavens are physical, tangible, vaulted dome structures over the earth:– Genesis 1:6-8, Job 22:14, Amos 9:6 The tabernacle in heaven is a literal, material building complete with furnishings and an active priesthood:– Hebrews 8:1-5, Hebrews 9:11, Revelation 15:5-8

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