The sun, moon and stars are referred to many times in Scripture.
They are said to be for lights, to divide the day from the night,
and for signs, seasons, days and years.
And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky
to separate the day from the night and let them serve as signs
to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in
the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.' …God
made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and
the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."
(Genesis 1:14-16).
Our calendar is derived from the movements of the sun, moon
and stars. There is never any firm suggestion in the Bible that
it is possible to know the future from the movements and positions
of the stars, although God in His answer to (or for) Job (Job
38:31-33) asks:
"Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the
cords of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their
seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the
laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the
earth?"
These verses seem to indicate that conditions on earth other
than the seasons, may be influenced by the members of the solar
system and beyond, but if so that this something quite beyond
our understanding or control, and there is no way in which we
can change or be personally influenced by the relationships
between the heavenly bodies. |
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