He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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… awesome things that he does and that he shows us because he has certainly left us great examples. Job chapter 26, Job 26 verse 7 says, he stretches out the north over empty space. He hangs the earth on nothing. I like that. He binds up the water in his thick clouds, yet the clouds are not broken under it. That just simply means how can God take heavy, heavy water, make it float, and the clouds go by, and they don't break. The bottom doesn't fall out. Because God's, listen, when God, he snaps his fingers like this. When condensation takes place, I'm putting it in this context. He snaps his fingers at the moment he wants to, and the dew point, the temperature, all this science comes together in a moment, and the cloud, the cloud just, it's still floating and then it releases. And yet if it releases, why does the cloud keep going? And then the cloud will sometimes stop raining underneath it. Are you, are you? …
… even over the departed spirits covered by the waters in the place of shield and abaddon now look at where he moves he stretches out the north over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing is this amazing this is an ancient piece of literature but it's pure truth he He hasn't been contaminated by the evolutionary thinking of the scholars of the 20th century or 21st century. He just believes by faith that when God put it together, he stretched it out over empty space and he hangs the earth on nothing. Right? That's no problem with God. He made stuff out of nothing. He made nothing. I mean, it's all his. He put it all together. but reshith bara elohim is the way they say it in the Hebrew as you began in the beginning God made the heavens and the earth I mean the theories today that we're told about creation takes more faith to believe them than the fiat word of God God simply states it let it be and it becomes and he hangs it on nothing this is beautiful Job is beginning to teach Bildad whether Bildad's listening or not who knows but the beautiful thing is that Job has a relationship with God that Bildad never heard of and in that relationship he relies on God for whatever he needs sometime ago a teacher sent me a very interesting piece written by a 21st century teacher to the school administration to describe the dilemma of being a teacher …
2. But innumerable are the things which they know not. Touching the Almighty himself, they cannot search him out to perfection. “Lo, these are but a part of his ways; but the thunder of his power who can understand?” [Job 26:14] They cannot understand, I will not say, how “there are Three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one;” [1 John 5:7] or how the eternal Son of God “took upon himself the form of a servant;” [Phil. 2:7] — but not any one attribute, not any one circumstance of the divine nature. [2 Pet. 1:4] Neither is it for them to know the times and seasons [Acts 1:7] when God will work his great works upon the earth; no, not even those which he hath in part revealed by his servants and Prophets since the world began. [see Amos 3:7] Much less do they know when God, having “accomplished the number of his elect, will hasten his kingdom;” when “the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.” [2 Pet. 3:10] 3. They know not the reasons even of many of his present dispensations with the sons of men; but are constrained to rest here, — Though “clouds and darkness are round about him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his seat.” [Ps. 97:2] Yea, often with regard to his dealings with themselves, doth their Lord say unto them, “What I do, thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” [John 13:7] And how little do they know of what is ever before them, of even the visible works of his hands! — How “he spreadeth the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing?” [Job 26:7] how he unites all the parts of this vast machine by a secret chain which cannot be broken? So great is the ignorance, so very little the knowledge, of even the best of men! …
But can you comprehend how? Can you give me a satisfactory account of its nature, or the cause of its properties? Think only of one, its elasticity: Can you account for this? It may be owing to electric fire attached to each particle of it; it may not; and neither you nor I can tell. But if we will not breathe it till we can comprehend it, our life is very near its period. 10. You believe there is such a thing as earth. Here you fix your foot upon it: You are supported by it. But do you comprehend what it is that supports the earth? “O, an elephant, says a Malabarian philosopher “and a bull supports him.” But what supports the bull? The Indian and the Briton are equally at a loss for an answer. We know it is God that “spreadeth the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. This is the fact. But how? Who can account for this? Perhaps angelic but not human creatures. …