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Look at Jeremiah 33. This is a first. And Iām going to probably give you about 30 verses, and for the more eager, you can write āem down. The rest, you may just want to listen. But I want to talk about first the first broad area of science, astronomy. Thatās a popular one. People love astronomy, and stars, and space, and everything else. Letās talk about under astronomy how many stars there are, okay? And let me give you a little background.
Up until the time of Copernicus and Galileo and Kepler, the whole scientific community agreed that there were somewhere around 1,000 stars. Thatās how many they could see, you know? They counted āem and they figured out the planets from the stars, and they figured out there were about 1,000 up until the 17th century. Thatās in all the science books. They’re about a 1,000 stars.
What did God say in Jeremiah 33:22? āAs the host of heaven cannot be numberedā¦ā Thatās something God staked His nameā¦He says you will never be able to count how many stars I made, because I am infinitely powerful and I created all of them from nothing, and He says I hold them together and I know every one of their names. Jeremiah 33:22, āAs the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so Iāll multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites that minister unto me.ā Thatās a little promise about the endurance of the Jews which weāll talk about in prophecy and history. But God has always said that. In fact, listen to this.
Scientists are more unsure each year how many there really are. As the reach of our instruments extends further into heaven, what were thought to be stars are becoming galaxies. And what were thought to be galaxies are now found out to be clusters of galaxies. And weāre talking about where they thought was one star in the 17th century they found out to be 100,000,000 stars in the 19th century. And in the 20th century, theyāre finding it out to be 1,100,000,000 starred galaxies in clusters. God says youāre not going to ever be able to number them. Their numbers are beyond estimation or even calculation.
But write this one down, Genesis 1:16. God made every one of them. God made āem. You canāt count āem. You donāt even know quite what they all are. They just keep investigating. But it says in Genesis 1:16, āAnd God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day (thatās the sun), the lesser light to rule the night.ā And listen to this, this is just an aside, He made the sun, He made the moon and He made the stars, too. And there are countless stars. And on that fourth day of creation, He just made āem. You know, how did He make them? He spoke and they came into being. Now next week, Iām not going to go into it this week, but next week Iām going to tell you why I really believe that the Bible is literally true and that everything that comes into being in six, literal 24 hour days. If you donāt believe that, and I always feel very secure in that, because thatās what it says, anything else you have to change the Bible. Any other view, if you believe in age days or age eras or age eons, you have to flip around what the Bible says. And since Moses believed thatās how it was and since Jesus said what Moses said was true, I feel very confident that God made them. Genesis 1:16.