Author: 1gratefulheart
Learning evolves out of communion but we should be mindful not to mix the two.
He desires to look deep into our souls and as He searches us out and knows us,
And we are too eager to impatiently move, to get up and go on with our lives and are easily tempted to dispel the perfect, calm, place in His presence because we’re too busy and 
so we can do what we need to do to move forward 
We leave our ‘shopping list’ of needs and requirements at His feet, and rush out of His presence, without any semblance of real or meaningful communication and expect home delivery without delay!
Yet it is for us to minister to Him from our inner desire, asking Him to create in us a clean heart, and to renew a right spirit within us. Ps 51:10
Sheep are not happiest when drinking from fast-moving water
because if they fall in, their wool would become so saturated, that they would drown with the extra weight pulling them under.
Where’s Home?
Heaven is our home and we’re in Seventh Heaven?!
Shamayim: heaven, sky יִםשָׁמַ֫
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-mah’-yim)
יִםהַשָּׁמַ֖ haš-šā-ma-yim the heavens.
This is the word used in the expression, the heavens and the earth, or the upper and lower regions. Genesis 1:1
The usual Hebrew word for heavens is shamayim, a plural form meaning heights, elevations (Gen. 1:1; 2:1).
The Hebrew word marom is also used (Ps. 68:18; 93:4; 102:19, etc.) as equivalent to shamayim, high places, heights. Used for heaven in (Psalms 18:16; Isaiah 24:18; Jeremiah 25:30). Properly speaking it means a mountain, as in (Psalms 102:19; Ezekiel 17:23)
Heb. galgal, literally a wheel, is rendered heaven in Ps. 77:18 (R.V., whirlwind). like a spiral galaxy?
Heb. shahak, rendered sky (Deut. 33:26; Job 37:18; Ps. 18:11), plural clouds (Job 35:5; 36:28; Ps. 68:34, marg. heavens), probably means the firmament.
In the last post we looked at the universe and our place in it.
We saw some of the amazing images sent back by Hubble.
The night skies have always fascinated mankind, who has always been searching for a way to get a closer look at those twinkling points of light in the heavens above.
History records many who invented and built telescopes for that very purpose; including a 17th century Christian, German astronomer, Johannes Kepler. (1571-1630). He used mathematics to calculate the path of the planets and discovered three laws of planetary motion, amongst other discoveries.
Johannes had a friend who denied the existence of God and maintained the universe came into existence by itself.
This troubled Johannes, so he construct a model of the solar system. When he showed it to his friend, the friend exclaimed how beautiful it was and wanted to know Who had made it?
Cryptically Kepler replied that no one had, it had made itself! ‘Nonsense’ replied his friend ‘just tell me who made it’. Kepler proceeded to say to his friend that if he believed the model could not have made itself, which was but a simple imitation of the great universe, how could he believe the universe could make itself!
It seems to be a silly statement, in light of what we know today. Johannes Kepler’s model could no more have made itself than a car could manufacture itself.
However according to many scientists, the universe came into existence by accident and so did human life!!!
Rest assured that your life was not an accident and God has a purpose for you.
You’re here because of Him and there is hope and a future. I know the plans I have for you plans for welfare and not for calamity, to give you the future and hope. Jeremiah 29:11
You are created from the high purposes of God.
Heaven is our home and one day we will be there with Him.
How to translate bikeseh hashimayim in Deut.30:4 which most English translations render as the outermost parts of heaven.
Are we talking about space travel here? Or is it just a metaphor?
Remember, nothing is placed in the Bible by accident.
Every note and detail has a reason for it being placed there. So there must be a reason why God is speaking of gathering the nation of Israel from the outermost parts of heaven. Bikeseh comes from the root kesah and has the proposition Beth (in or on) in front of it and literally means “in the end or extremity.”
The following word “hashimayhim” is from the root shama’ which means heaven.
The word has a definite article Hei at the beginning and a plural ending and we would render that as the heavens. So we are not referring to our final resting place and the celestial city but most likely it is used to describe the sky or outer space. If the writer wanted to depict God gathering the Jews from the ends of the earth he would have said kesevi eres.
So why does the writer say the heavens or sky? Here is where opinion comes into play. We creating an opinion that makes sense and we are left with just a metaphor, a poetic expression and a wonderful one at that. God will not only search out every corner to restore the ones He loves, but He will even look in the most unlikeliest places and if necessary in outer space.
God cares for and is mindful of everything in His creation.
Taken from a study on the sparrow falling. In the Aramaic language, you say that God is aware of everytime a sparrow lands. He is not only aware when a sparrow dies, He is aware when a sparrow lands and they do a lot of landing. 
Again another verse to show how aware God is of every individual He created and how He longs to draw them to Him. He knows every corner and every rock on earth; and every place in the sky and the universe, we just cannot escape His notice
Isaiah 66:1 Heaven is my throne and the earth my foot stool.
Heaven is ‘as the chair’, to God.
Because that’s where He dwells and the stool is the earth.
By nature He doesn’t dwell there but He does touch it with the ‘feet of His presence’ as part of His footstool. It is therefore under ‘His feet’ and under His control and His perfect will and plans and purposes.
According to Ephesians 1:22, all things are under Messiah’s feet and under ours too!
The constellation in the picture above is called the hand of God.
When we have a friend we spend time in each other’s company, we have the same interests and talk about them together. So we should be the same with God. His home is in heaven as well as in our hearts; and we are already invited for a future event where He lives.
The marriage supper of the Lamb.
Home is where our hearts are fixed and focused.
Meanwhile we have His spirit with us and He never leaves us or forsakes us. Hebrews 13:5. Jesus told us, I am with you always. Matt. 28:20
However our human curiosity wants to know what heaven is really like.
Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12:2, he thought it was the third heaven.
Just how many are there?
The Hebrew language gives seven words for heaven and the ancient model in the form of drawings illustrates what Genesis describes; and the meaning of the seven Hebrew words; and how they saw everything fitting together.
This is the root of where we get our idiom to be in the seventh heaven.
The word in Genesis, in the beginning God created the heavens and earth. The word heavens is plural; it is not singular, meaning, that there is more than one heaven.
God is the God of the Heavens El HaShamayim’
שָׁמַ֫יִם = heavens
2 Corinthians 12:2 (2 Cor. 12:7)
The phrase “heaven and earth” is used to indicate the whole universe (Gen. 1:1; Jer. 23:24; Acts 17:24).
According to the Jewish notion there were three heavens,
Shechakim “expanses,” with reference to the extent of heaven. (33:26; Job 35:5) Pauls’ expression “third heaven,” 2 Cor. 12:2, had led to much conjecture. Grotius said that the Jews divided the heaven into three parts:
1) The First Heaven: Earth & Man. The air or atmosphere, where clouds gather. The firmament, as “fowls of the heaven” (Gen 1:26 2:19; 7:3, 23; Ps. 8:8 etc.), “the eagles of heaven” (Lam. 4:19)
2) The Second Heaven: Space and Stars* The firmament, in which the sun, moon and stars are fixed;
The starry heavens (Deut. 17:3; Jer. 8:2; Matt. 24:29).
(Isaiah 13:10)…(Isaiah 14:13)
Astronomy is the scientific study of the individual celestial bodies (excluding the earth) and of the universe as a whole.
Astrology is the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs. (a form of prophecy but is false prophecy, false predictions, demonic, a diversion away from God’s truth).
3) The Third Heaven: God and Glory The upper heaven, the abode of God and his angels, the invisible realm of holiness and happiness the home of the children of God.
“The heaven of heavens,” or “the third heaven” (Deut. 10:14; 1 Kings 8:27; Ps. 115:16; 148:4; 2 Cor. 12:2,
The Bible speaks of three heavens, the third heaven is the heaven of heavens, the dwelling place of God, where His throne has always been. 
Seven Hebrew Words translated into the word “Heaven” – (please note you will have difficulty in locating these words without extensive study. You will not find them in the Strong’s Concordance since the Majority Text utilizes only the Hebrew Word ùÑîä ùÑîéí shâmayim ).
The word for Heaven is always plural in Hebrew. Here are the seven levels noted in Scripture. The names are:
Dok
Rakia
Shechakim
Maon
Machon
Aravot
The meanings are noted below for information, as the Hebrew words describe:
DOK
Pronounced like Coke, is the word used in Isaiah 40:22. In the Hebrew commentary they use another synonym. Vilon
Vilon or SHAMEH – Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: H8064 ùÑîä ùÑîéí shâmayim shâmeh
Vilon (“curtain”): a curtain which is rolled over the earth at nighttime to block the sun (Isaiah 40:22); contains the atmosphere, minor stars, snow and dew; abode of Adam and Eve; governed by Gabriel; called curtain or veil because it veils or hides the other six levels; represented by the moon – Word describing the hand of God stretching out like a tent or curtain separating the heavens
Dok retires in the morning and comes out in the evening and renews the work of creation daily. Dok is the entire universe, going beyond what we can see with telescopes.
ḵad-dōq כַדֹּק֙ as a curtain 1852 [e] strongs
Rakia
– Genesis 1:17 – Word describing the physical and visible heavens of the stars, moon and sun.
Heb. rakia is closely connected and is rendered “firmamentum” in the Vulgate, whence our “firmament” (Gen. 1:6; Deut. 33:26, etc.), regarded as a solid expanse.
Rakia is where God set them in the firmament (Rakia) and spread them out like a tent to dwell in. Genesis 1:17
Raqi’a/Raki’a (“expanse,” “canopy”): possibly refers to the frozen canopy over the earth before the Flood (Genesis 1:7-8; Deuteronomy 11:11); Did Moses visit Paradise here to receive the Ten Commandments? Fallen angels are imprisoned here for marrying human women (Genesis 6:4); dwelling place of souls awaiting judgment including “men of renown,” apostates, tyrants; called expanse because it’s where the sun and planets dwell (Genesis 1:14, 17); represented by Mercury.
It’s a reference to the stars, Sun, Moon, and planets: it refers to outer space where the various heavenly bodies move in their prescribed orbits and or maintain relationships in constellations, solar systems galaxies etc. Rakia is the part of the heavens that can be seen with the naked eye both in the day and at night.
bir-qî-a‘ יעַבִּרְקִ֣ in the firmament 
SHECHAKIM
Psalm 78:23 – Word describing atmosphere/air
Shechakim is from the Psalms 78:23, 24. though He had commanded the skies (Shechakim) from above and opened the doors of heaven, and had rained down manna on them to eat and had given them the grain of heaven.
This is where it is believed the millstones are located that grind manna for the righteous.
His word is still miraculously feeding us.
Shechakim is the atmosphere.
wə-ḏal-ṯê יוְדַלְתֵ֖ and the doors
šā-ma-yim יִםשָׁמַ֣ of heaven
Meaning of term. Isa. 14:13, 14; “doors of heaven” (Ps. 78:23); heaven “shut” (1 Kings 8:35); “opened” (Ezek. 1:1). (See 1 Chr. 21:16.)
Spiritual meaning. The place of the everlasting blessedness of the righteous; the abode of departed spirits.
Shehaquim/Shehaqim/Shehakim (“clouds”): Eden and Tree of Life, also includes paradise and hell/hades (Psalm 78:23-24); represented by Venus.
ZEBUL/ZEVUL
Zebul or Zevul – Isaiah 63:15 – Word describing where God’s glory exists as in a Heavenly City.
Zevul is the location for 1Kings 8:13 for I have surely build you a house of habitation (Zevul) a place for you to dwell in for ever. This is said to be the location of celestial Jerusalem and the Temple with the heavenly altar. How do we know that Zevul may be this place? Because Isaiah 63:15 tells us look down from heaven and behold from the habitation (Zevul) of your holiness and your glory.
zə-ḇul לזְבֻ֖ to dwell in
Zebul (“habitation”): stratosphere, sun, moon, and “four great stars,” including celestial mechanics; dwelling of the winds; called habitation because it’s where the New Jerusalem is located with its temple (Isaiah 63:15); and is represented by the sun.
MAON
Maon – Psalm 42:8 – Word describing where angels reside which comes from songs
Maon is where the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime and in the night His song will be with me, according to Psalm 42:9. This is where He is ministering and it is said where angels stay. We know that this could be heaven because of Deuteronomy 26:15 looked down from your holy habitation (Maon) from heaven.
מָעוֹן Phonetic Spelling: (maw-ohn’) habitation, strongs 4584
Ma’on (“refuge”): apparently home to “Grigori” — fallen angels who mourn for their brothers in Raqi’a; hell/Gehenna; Michael possibly presides; filled with ministering angels who sing by night; called refuge because it’s where most of the angels reside; represented by Mars.
MACHON
Machon – Deuteronomy 26:15 – Word describing the location of God’s storehouses of treasures of rain and snow, rain, hail, whirlwinds, storms etc. for the earth.
The Lord will open unto you his good treasure. Deuteronomy 28:12. We know that this is heaven because the same word is used in 1Kings 8:39 then here in heaven your dwelling place (Machon).
מָכוֹן Phonetic Spelling: (maw-kone’)
1 Kings 8:39 HEB: תִּשְׁמַ֨ע הַשָּׁמַ֜יִם מְכ֤וֹן שִׁבְתֶּ֙ךָ֙ וְסָלַחְתָּ֣ NAS: Your dwelling place, and forgive KJV: thy dwelling place, and forgive, INT: hear heaven place your dwelling and forgive.
Makhon/Machon/Makon (“city,” “established place”): home for angels in charge of nature’s cycles and good governing systems of the world; angels who write men’s actions in books; (Deuteronomy 28:12); It is called city, because it is said here is the City of Angels; represented by Jupiter.
ARABOT/ AVAVOT
Arabot or Aravot – Psalm 6:4 – Word describing the storehouse of righteousness and peace, where angels also reside and it is thought by some scholars this is where souls of those not yet born are waiting.
Aravot is that in which are, righteousness, judgement and charity. The storehouses of life, of peace and blessing, the spirits of the righteous, with which the Lord will hereafter revive the dead. Those living here, include the Ophannim, Seraphim, Holy Chayyot, the ministering angels, the throne of glory and the King of the universe; according to Psalm 68:5, extol Him who rides upon the clouds (Aravot) by His Name, Yahweh. YHWH
The storehouse of life contains the force of life for all those yet to be born because it is said that when God finished creation in Genesis 2:1; He had made everything that would ever be – including our descendants. It is also thought that here, the spirits of the righteous dead are sleeping with their fathers. An interesting concept!
Araboth/Aravot (“deserts”): also known as the 10th heaven; The throne of Glory and God dwell here, as well as Seraphim, Cherubim, justice, righteousness, souls of the righteous, and ineffable light (Psalm 68:5); called desert because it has no moisture and no air; God also said to be above the seventh heaven; represented by Saturn.
It’s possible that Judaism’s belief in multiple heavens could have been influenced by their exile in Babylon.. In fact, the word “paradise,” one of many words used to reflect heaven, comes from the Persian for “enclosed park or garden.”
Also note here that the first three represent the universe, the visible night sky and sun, and the atmosphere. These are natural physical things even when beyond the range of telescopes.
Each of the other four levels is both physical and spiritual. Three levels are translated habitation. Three levels are said to be populated: Zevul Maon and Aravot with various heavenly beings, the throne, and the spirits of the Saints. That is probably the level Paul referred to, the third of the populated levels as the dwelling place of the Most High, the third heaven, is the highest heaven. (2 Cor. 12:2)
One thing is certain, whether 3, or 7, or how ever many heavens, levels, realms and dimensions there are…Heaven is our final home and the ‘heaven’ of it will simply be dwelling in His presence. Shalom!
Heroes & Heroines
Heroes/heroines are the ones who would never give themselves that title.
They are the ones who pay the price of laying down their life for others.
The ultimate self sacrifice and many do so on a daily basis.
They come in all guises and sizes but their goal is the same and their heart motivation is one to be both admired and emulated.
This week we say ‘THANK YOU’, to each and every one, who has given their time and heart, to the service of country and fellow woman, man and child in whatever sphere of life you are in. 
We will never know or comprehend the true cost of your service. 
We can however, turn our hearts towards all of you, both past and present, in gratitude and humility.
The reality of knowing that most of us would not be here; and certainly not living in the freedoms we enjoy, if not for those who fought the battles and won the many past wars,
and those ongoing conflicts all around the world today.
Freedom is NEVER free and we honor all veterans and remember every one in our thoughts and prayers.
November 11th is ‘Remembrance Day’, on many continents and it touches us all, for through the years, every family has lost someone.
In Europe, the poppies of the Flanders fields, highlight the overwhelming number of lives lost in the struggles for victory.
The ultimate hero OF COURSE, is Jesus, because how ever many people died in the place, or service, of others, the scriptures tell us, only Jesus can save our eternal souls.
Only His blood can redeem the sinner and wash us white as snow, so we can be acceptable and presentable in our Heavenly Fathers presence. 
In our comfort and complacency, where we demand our rights; and often display selfish attitudes of our perceived entitlement, to everything we think we should have….Let us never forget to whom we owe our freedoms and our futures, both in this life and the next.
While we remember with hope, that one day there will be no more war. 
For then our King will reign and all tears will be wiped away and in His presence, His true Shalom shall be all we know and experience.
We live free because of the brave and because of the courage of those who would protect us with everything they have.
We Remember
and
Thank You.
A Hebrew word for,”Complete peace, contentment, completeness, wholeness, wellbeing and harmony.”
Hubble CROSS-ing The Great Divide
Hubble Sees aCROSS The Event Horizon Into The Singularity
We’re going on a stunning journey, surveying all the wonders He has created. Thanks to the Hubble telescope, we can ‘virtually’, travel millions of light years from here, to see what a distant black hole has in common with our own DNA!
Above the structure of a black hole.
An earlier mmm post asked us if we felt small yet, and showed just how BIG our Heavenly Father is.
https://www.minimannamoments.com/dare-feel-small/
Its something that we should remind ourselves of on a regular basis; as it keeps everything in our lives in its correct perspective. Because…
whatever the problem is and how huge it seems, it will pale in comparison to what is out there in the heavens where God is.
Ps 33:13-14 The Lord looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of His habitation He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Our situations will not seem so insurmountable after we look at these pictures and we will realize that God is BIG enough to handle anything and that we can overcome all obstacles together.
We looked at the relative size of the universe and our solar system,
the Milky Way galaxy 
and at our place within it.
The pictures below are to scale! and YES the big yellow one is our sun, our star. The sun is 93 million miles from earth, it takes 499 seconds, (about 8 mins) for light to reach us.
and if we think that is BIG just look at this…
and Betelgeuse is small compared to Antares and Antares is tiny compared to VV Cephei!
Betelgeuse can be located in the night sky NNW of Orion’s Belt 
As earth turns at night a long exposure camera records the tracks of the stars in the heavens above.
WOW! HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
God cannot be contained. He is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, everywhere all at once. Not constrained by time or location there are no limitations for Him. He is not bound by our three-dimensional parameters or our five senses.
He is pure spirit, pure life, pure light, pure love, purity itself… manifested as HOLINESS… (Kadosh in Hebrew).
A Holy, perfect, infinitesimal being, comprising spirit and light, beyond our finite understanding.
In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. John 1:4
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1John1:5
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. Rev 21:23
We attempt to quantify His attributes and character and draw some conclusions from His words about Himself. 
Our human senses, abilities and descriptions are too incomplete and will never do Him justice. 
He exists outside of our known 3 dimensions of length, breadth and height, (4 if you include dimension of time and 5 if we add the dimension of the spiritual realm). Mathematicians, scientists and physicists project their ideas and question everything; theorizing that there may possibly be as many as 11 dimensional layers, realms and parallel dimensions.
Col 1 :15-17 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
From the vast universe to the feathers on this beautiful bird. Picture sent to us by M.E.
The fabric of space and time is still an unknown, (to us). However there is One who does know because He created it all. He is ‘THE‘ math genius, scientist, engineer, physicist and IT technician and everything else, all rolled into one.
We know that the closer you get to traveling at the speed of light, everything slows down. Then at the speed of light.. time literally stands still. If God IS LIGHT, then by definition, He exists at the speed of light!
God exists at the speed of light where time stands still and He calls it Eternity, we call it Heaven!
Mass or weight of any object increases exponentially the faster it moves and the scriptures declare, the exceeding and eternal weight of glory or light of His presence, His Shekinah. 2 Cor 4:17
He has all the answers and one day we will too but for now, our man-made telescopes and microscopes reveal a partial view.
1 Cor. 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly.
They give us a minuscule window into some of the most astonishing details that God has placed within His creation. There is nowhere beyond His reach.
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. Ps 139:8
He stretched out the heavens and named the stars
Is 42:5 Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Is. 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Jer. 10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Within the known universe and also within our own bodies – heaven is within us. Maybe we can add another dimension and layer of understanding to ‘the kingdom of God being within us’??
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21 KJV
Are the building blocks of our very existence planted deep within our DNA, having its source deep in the universe that God created?
Ps 33:6-9 By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: He layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
So then are we made of stars too? For the same God who breathed out stars at the moment of Genesis creation; also breathed into our forefathers the very same breath of His Eternal Essence.
Think of it …
We serve the God who breathed out stars when He spoke.
Stars are in His mouth. The breath of God is filled with stars and galaxies. When God breathes, He breathes out LIFE and when He breathed life into Adam, He breathed into him the stuff of stars.
Ps 139:13-14 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
This is what our physical bodies are made up of:
Eternity is surely within our hearts. Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.
He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end
He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end. AMP
We need to remember within the immense vastness of untold galaxies and the myriad of distant universes; He sees every one of us and knows our down sitting and up rising. Ps 139:2
May these facts and pictures lift our spirits fuel our faith and remind us that nothing is impossible for him. Matt 19:26
Nothing is too big to overwhelm Him and nothing is too small for him to ignore and not be concerned with Ps 139:11
Every hair on our head is numbered (Luke 12:7), in the same way, every star is counted Ps 147:4.
God is BIG and each of us, the apple of His eye (Ps. 17:8) He loves us with an everlasting love.(Jer. 31:3)
Ps 33:6-9. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
We are inside the small red circle on the one arm of the spiral of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
This is only a small part of the galaxy that we see and call the milky way. 
close up of lower section of previous photo
If we look at the other nine planets in our solar system around our star, the Sun, this is how BIG the sun is. However to get a better understanding of the size not only of our star at the enormity of the god with love and serve, here are some other stars /suns just a few light years from here!
if you look up at the night sky, here it is, a tiny dot! Zooming in with the help of Hubble…
It’s the Whirlpool Galaxy
Hubble sends back jaw dropping images
as the Whirlpool Galaxy is
seen sitting perpendicular to earth 31 million light years away
Some enLIGHTening facts about the Whirlpool galaxy
As Our Heavenly Father spoke and said ‘Light Be’, ‘Yhee Or’. Light came out of the Creators mouth traveling at 186,000 miles per second.
This will make your head spin:
How far light travels in 1 year = 1 light year
and 1 light year is = to 5.88 trillion miles!
If we wanted to get to the Whirlpool galaxy we need to multiply 31 million x 5.88 trillion miles! Or travel at 186,000 miles per second for 31 million years.
The Whirlpool galaxy contains 3,000 billion stars and is one of hundreds of billions of other galaxies in the known universe!
Now for the really incredible facts!
The Whirlpool Galaxy also called Galaxy M51
At its center Hubble found a black hole (four-frame comparison) 
Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the core of the giant spiral galaxy M51. These images, taken at different wavelengths of light, reveal complex structure and detail in the galaxy’s core, which is thought to hide a massive black hole.
Hubble.org sent back THIS IMAGE of the center of the black hole in Whirlpool galaxy!
WOW! 31,000,000 light years away is the image of the agent of our salvation!
Furthermore…
WE ARE EACH PERSONALLY MARKED BY MAJESTY.
Our DNA is 6 feet long contains 3 billion parts, enough to go to moon and back.
It would take 96 years to read the description contained in the DNA of each individual. We are built from one cell and everyone is unique.
Ps 139:13-14 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
16 cells at 3 days old
In our DNA, scientists have found a cell adhesion protein molecule located in the ‘extracellular matrix’, 
These are the sheets of protein that form the substate of all internal organs and is also called the ‘basement membrane’.
They called the cell adhesion protein LAMININ.
Laminin is vital to making sure overall body structures hold together.
Why is this important?
Don’t be concerned with the scientific language. Simply see what Laminin looks like under a powerful electron microscope.
Laminin holds everything together,
as a cell adhesion molecule it’s the rebar of the human body.
He made peace with the blood of His cross, He is the star breather, the sin bearer amongst all His other attributes AND HE IS THE ONE WHO LOVES AND CARES FOR EACH ONE OF US.
THANK YOU FATHER IN JESUS NAME!
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