Jarhead4Jesus
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Looks like we're just gonna have to disagree on some things.Sorry but I can't imagine trying to take a route through the Rev to figure out creation and/or 2 P 3. Regardless of the 1000 year allusion, which is prob just an effective phrase for his point, not a 'diagram' statement.
Grammatically, what is truly significant is that 'ekpalai' (from ancient time) and 'sunestosa' (to form, in the pottery sense) are most likely set in contrast. The universe is out there, but the earth's system (inc. its star) are more recent. I notice a couple logical things about this:
1, that our local sun does not appear until the 4th day, just after we learn that vegetation has been embedded in the land. This has the same necessary logic as the 2 tables of 3 days: the earth goes from unformed to formed and from unfilled to filled in each of the 3 day sets (1 and 4, 2 and 5, 3 and 6). This can also suggest how light was 'there' before our local sun.
2, that our local system may be a special creation that was not here before Gen 1, while the distant universe was. There could have been a big bang as far as the distant universe is concerned. But not our local system. Physical support for this is the number of indicators of recentness (for ex., the salinity of the oceans), the 'hot' radiation readings of Jupiter taken in the 70s by Viking, the life span of Saturn's ice and Pluto's ice mountains.
Genesis 1:16 ...he made the stars also.
Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made...
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as a leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Revelation 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
It seems that God gave the stars and the rest of the universe purpose, but He didn't give it much room in His book.