11-29-14. Job 38:31-35. God Is An Amazing Creator and Engineer Who Reaches Out To Us
Job 38:31-35. God Is An Amazing Creator and Engineer Who Reaches Out To Us. Kevin E. Jesmer. 11-29-14.
God is fantastic Creator and Engineer. He has proven this in the universe. Look at Job 38: 31-35, “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? 32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? 33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? 34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? 35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?” (NIV)
In the King James Version of the Bible, Job 38:1-3 reads, “31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? 32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?”
Let’s think about the influence of these Pleiades. I like the phrase, “The sweet influences of the Pleiades.” (KJV) The mention of these stars in Job, the oldest book in the world, speaks of the influence of thee stars as a matter everyday knowledge. They call them sweet. It is like engineers describing the smooth workings of complex machinery. Young people, when they are impressed by something that appears complex often say, “Sweet”. A referral to the Pleiades is an appeal to the common knowledge at the time. Ancient Greeks called these stars the “seven stars”. Their appearance in the night sky indicated favorable times for voyages at sea. Mariners set out for their long voyages. The Chaldean name means “pivot” as astronomers discovered that the largest of these stars formed a pivot around which the solar system revolves. Our sun is 3,000 billion miles away from the Pleiades. It has been concluded that the arm of this pivot, is flinging our universe, including the earth, at a speed of 150 million miles a year in an orbit so large that one revolution of the arm takes thousands of years to make. Yet it is all accomplished with such precise regularity, smoother than a Swiss clock. Sweet! “Orion” is the constellation commonly known as the “Giant”. The space in the sword of the Giant is estimated to be two trillion, two hundred billion times larger than the sun. Sweet! “Mazzaroth” mean the twelve signs of the zodiac. All of this is accomplished and maintained by the God of the Bible, who is an amazing engineer. He is the one who orchestrates such “sweet” greatness…..
In all of this, God is telling Job and his friends, that he has all the forces of nature, including the whole universe, at his command. The consolations are all under God’s control. Only God can unleash or restrain them the forces of nature at will. No one completely understands such common occurrences as rain or snow, and no one can command them. Only God who created them has that power. God’s point was that if Job (nor any person) could not explained such common events in nature, how could he possibly explain or question God? Our Creator’s nature is beyond our grasp. Yet, this immense and glorious God chose to come into our world and make his presence known.
Jesus is this great God. John 1:1-3 reads, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.” The Book of Hebrews tells of Jesus. Hebrews 1:1-3 reads, “In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” (NIV) Jesus is God and yet he humbled himself to break forth into this world to be our Savior. He died on the cross to bring us forgiveness and grace, the purification of sins. He sat down in the majesty in heaven and he will bring us there to be with him. From the Majesty in heaven we can spend all of eternity, observing the wonders of the Universe and of Christ, the engineer of the universe. I can’t wait.
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