Chapter
Fourteen
Tabernacle
for
the
Sun
A
Tabernacle For The Sun
(The
Doctrine of the Great Deep)
In the creative
account given in
Genesis the earth
is deluged with water-S--plural. The heavens are also
plural as are the stars, moons, and suns.
The waters are
divided and the firmament is
situated between the two bodies of water like a sandwich. This firmament
contains the stars,
planets, and the sun. By the way, the waters are in liquid form--not vapor (Psa. 148:8).1 This firmament is the second heaven and,
once more, contains "all the host" of the stars and planets.2
The Psalmist
identifies a place
called the "heavens of heavens which were of
old"; and Solomon says there was a time and place before the
"depths", before the "fountains abounding with water", and in the
midst of all
the Lord performed His pleasure throughout the "deep places"
of His creative universe.3 The
pattern of His design has already been dismissed in Chapter Four: The
Pattern. That pattern was used by
Moses and Solomon, and God's plan is a "Tabernacle For The Sun".4
Not too
many folks believe
what I have just described-- even
among so-called Bible
Believers. Doubt is
cast on the Word-S
of God, and
disbelief clouds the
sky of knowledge.
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1 Genesis 1: 6-8;
P. S.Ruckman, Bible Believer'
s Commentary Series, The
Book of Genesis, (Pensacola: Bible Baptist
Book Store, 1988 ) , 10
2 Genesis 2:1; P. S. Ruckman, Genesis, 47.
3 Psalm 68:33; Proverbs 8:24; Psalm 135:6. 4 Psalm 19:3-4.
Atheistic scientists confirm
their "relative" theories, or try to "circumvent"
themselves, "warp" space-man-time, and teleport us to
"velocities in excess of the speed of light". That speed, as supposedly proved,
travels at 185,000 mps. That star that
you thought you saw last night may no longer exist. If it is situate say 5 billion light-years away, then the light
you saw last night is the light that left the star 5 billion years ago! It is
therefore concluded that no two events of space-man-time can occur
"simultaneous in an absolute sense" for space-man-time is warped by
"Newtonian-relativistic-gravitational" theology.5
Throughout the Scripture
the heaven is referred to in both the
singular and the plural. Somewhere "in" these heavens is the Almighty
HE. He is the "Our Father
which art in heaven" dwelling IN the
heaven-S--yea, above the
heaven-S.6 In any search of these "deep things of God" we certainly need to have
our guide--the Holy Spirit.7
These heavens
of the Almighty are called
"the house of the
Lord", "His temple", "His pavilion", and
"the secret of His tabernacle". It is the eternal house not made with hands,
tools, or craft. There is a "City of. ..God" on top
of His mountain to
the NORTH.
If you dare to swear by God's
heaven then you
swear by His throne and by
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5 Richard Morris,
Dismantling the Universe, (N.Y.: Simon &
Schuster, 1983), 15, 45, 58, 22, 111, 21.
6 Psalm 2:4;
Matthew 10:32-33; Psalm
123:1; Lamentations 3:41; Psalm
115:3; 108:5.
7 I Corinthians 2:10.
thereon! This city, that is
above the heavens, is full of God's glory, and through the sea of waters, above the firmament, is a path
carved out by Iaysous the Kristos--the SON of God. All the
plurality of heaven,
and the waters
there-in, praise the holy name
of the Lord.8 To say
that the heaven-S are higher
than the earth is trite,
but man needs
reminded of his insignificance. When Archai calls someone on earth it
is from "above" in the
heaven of heavenS
that are His.
He made the earth and gave it to
man. The heaven of Archai is above the waters above the
firmament. That body of water
is so huge that it is
called a "flood" in
His holy heaven--His high and holy place.
Isaiah was given special
treatment and allowed to see the Lord "high and lifted up" on His
throne in heaven.9
When God
rested on the seventh day He did
so because He had finished the creation and re-creation of the earth (singular)
and the heaven-S (plural). The Almighty
subdivided His creation into
"heaven of heavens", "all their hosts", "the earth", and "the sea-S". The heaven of Archai
is above the earth below. We are like the Austrialians--down under the
"heaven-S of the Lord". He is the director, and as necessary, sends
out terror from above. He has the objective viewpoint of looking upon us from His
lofty height of
heaven. You can
not hide from Him for He ---------------------
8 Psalm 27:4-5;
II Corinthians 5:1;
Psalm 48:1-2; Matthew 23:22; Psalm 8:1, 8; 148:1, 4.
9 Isaiah 55:9;
Psalm 50:4; 115:16;
29:3, 10; 20:6; Isaiah
57:15; 6:1; Psalm 11: 4.
fills the
whole of all
the heavens and
the earth--He is Omnipresent!10
KURIOS IAYSOUS KRISTOS11
Far and away, beyond the
distance of Alpha Draconis (Ezk. 1:4; Psa. 48:50; Isa. 14), at the apex of the
universal pyramid, sit the "Capstone" of creation--Mount
Sion--straight NORTH (Psa. 75:5-7; Job 37:18; 38:30). It is "the city of the living God" of Psalm
48 and 50, and the
home-town of Kurios
Iaysous Kristos.12
Abraham was told to look
to the stars and attempt to count their
number. We are
told that Archai's chariots number 20K and
are manned by thousands of His holy angels. His name
is JAH and He rides His
chariots on the
winds of heaven.
The vastness of His
territory is described
as "high as
heaven", "deeper than hell", "longer than the
earth", and "broader than the
sea". There is
an "end" of
this heaven, and
it has a "circuit" to its
course. While this
expanse is beyond
our comprehension, to the Almighty
JAH the end has a measure, the wind
has weight, and
the "waters" He
can weigh and
measure. In the vast
regions of this
deep tabernacle above we are to "ask a sign".13
JAH and Kurios Iaysous
Kristos founded this
tabernacle on a flood of seas,
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10 Genesis 2:1;
Nehemiah 9:6; Deuteronomy
10:14; Joshua 2:11; Lamentations 3:66; Job 37:3; Psalm 68:35;
102:19; 33:13-14; 14:2; 80:14; Lamentations 3:50; Psalm 53:2; Isaiah 23:24.
11 See f. n. 9 of
Chapter Eight .
12 Ruckman, Hebrews, 324.
13 Genesis 15:5; Psalm
68:17, 4; Job 11:8-9;
38:13; Psalm 19:6; Job 28:24-25;
Isaiah 7:11.
the stars from
the sides of
the north. This
Kurios Iaysous Kristos is
able to condescend into the depths below and to His heaven above.
He can gather the "waters in a garment" and determine where the
earth shall end.
Kurios Iaysous Kristos has supreme authority over
demons, and when
confronted, they knew their
ultimate destination is
the bottom of
the abysmal pit--"into the deep".14
There is an open door of
heaven that leads to "the portal to
the palace of the Great
King". The only hand to guide us
"feeble" folk, and the only hand that can open the door is
that of Kurios Iaysous
Kristos. And we must ask "What mortal may
venture to the audience-chamber of
the King of
kings?" What is it
that draws us
to the sky? "What lies
on the silvery surface above...the
overarching
firmament?" Is it
not true " spiritual life
and movement"?15
You are
invited to come to this throne
in glory. It is a costly throne, but
you can come--FREE!16 You can come
across the vastness of
our Solar System
where the orbit
of Mercury takes 88 days and
that of Pluto--250 years.l7 You can traverse
this galaxy at the speed
of 300,000 kilometers
per secondl8 and make
60 sun circuits while the
Milky Way comes
together into four dimensional space-man-time. Without the hand of the
Almighty; NASA can
get you started at seven miles per second to
overcome gravity:19 -------------------
14 Psalm 24:2;
Luke 1:78; Isaiah
14:13; Proverbs 30:4; Ezekiel 4:10; Romans 10:6-7; Luke
8:31.
15 Psalm 78:23; Thompson, Mercy Seat, 64, 61, 81.
l6 Thompson, 20. 17 Trefil, 85.
18 Morris, 21
19 Trefil, 86, 110,
1O8.
across the vast
ocean of space
[past the]
moon...planet[s];
thence to the
farthest [star]...,
till that distant
place were reached,
where we may
suppose is the
more immediate presence
of God--the
Trinity Bay of the universe...what a sensation!20
The infinite
power of the eternal throne is
"enfolded by infinity"--the
infinity of heaven's
stars and space.21 Paul got a glimpse
of this "third heaven" in
"Paradise" and heard quite "unspeakable words"--words that
exalted God. At the right hand of God
one can see the Majestic High Priest--JESUS.
This is the throne that rules over all kingdoms in heaven and earth.
This High Priest will dry up the waters of the great deep, as He did the
Red Sea, and make "a way for the ransomed to pass over".22 Until all the ransomed have "crossed
the bar" to the portals of glory the house we live in here remains intact:
The "word" (small w) means that the reason this
building
hasn't collapsed and the roof hasn't fallen in is because
God hasn't told it
to fall down...The atoms and protons
and neutrons...are held together by the word of God.23
The firmament
of the heavens, that contains
the stars, planets, and
a multitude of
galaxies, is also
the domain of the
monsters that the
purveyors of the
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20 Thompson, 33.
21 Freemasonry, 190.
22 II Corinthians 12:1, 2, 4; Psalm 57:5, 11; Hebrews 8:1; Psalm
103:19; Isaiah 51:10.
23 Ruckman, HEBREWS, 7.
the Scriptures which told them that the heaven has "pillars",
and that the power of Archai divides the seas of the Great Deep where he
formed "the crooked
serpent". This serpent
causes the celestial kingdom to "boil" and creates an ethereal
"shining" of the hoary deep
among all the host of heaven. After
running "to and fro" around the world, he ascends across the abyss of
space and intrudes the Holy
Palace with the
angelic sons of
God and accuses us before Archai.24
This serpent
has been so astute that he presumed himself to be God, called
himself God, and attempted to
imitate, and then to usurp God from His throne upon the seas. He used his anointed status
to invade the
Holy Place of Archai's courts and stand on the "stones of fire". One of these days the fire of Archai will fall across
the universe devouring
the Great Deep, blotting
out the stars--creating a cloud of
darkness. The brightness of
the celestial bodies
will be extinguished and we will be
back to Genesis
1:2!--"but the Lord
shall arise":25
O what a terrible day will be the day of Christ's coming
to judgment, when so many millions of unbelievers shall
be brought to his tribunal to be solemnly sentenced!26
When He comes
it will be
with "everlasting
light" that will quite literally
"outshine the sun" and the need for its light will be extinguished into eternity present.
He will -------------------
24 Ruckman, Genesis, 15; Job 26:11-13;
41:31-32; II Chronicles 33:3,
5; Job 1:6-7; 2:1-2.
25 Ezekiel 28:2, 14; Amos 7:4; Ezekiel 32:7-8; Isaiah 60:1.
26 John Flavel, The Method
of Grace, (N.Y.: American Tract Society,
1820 ) , 516.
execute punishment on
the unrighteous inhabitants
of "Mother Earth" and
expose the blood
shed in innocence
The gates to the
portals of glory
in heaven shall open and Kurios
Iaysous Kristos, with the
holy angels of
heaven, shall descend
upon us from on high. The
plurality of the heavens, and the earth, will be overwhelmed with the light of
His glory and praise.27
Kurios Iaysous
Kristos will come
forth upon horse-drawn chariots with
the four spirits of the winds of heaven out of the depth of the Great Deep.28 As the ship in space-man-time we call
Triton made its trek across our Solar
System it sent
us pictures of
revelation. Pictures, that, instead of
land landscapes gave us "ICESCAPES" of terrain caught "frozen while in a
boil". We stepped across -years
of timelessness and looked into a
"past of intense internal unrest". Our Jupiter is
said to be
"condensed out of the dust and gas that became our Solar
System at a distance where water remains frozen".29
When the
flood came in
upon Noah and his generation, it came from above. It came for forty days; it came at 725 feet
per day; it came at 30 feet per hour; it came at 6 feet per minute. At
29K+ feet above sea level that equals 3,856 x 1018 TONS of
excess weight of water.
Where do you get so much water? You get it from the top of
the Great Deep where it was,
and
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27 Isaiah 60:19-20: 26:21; John
1:51; Habakkuk 3:3.
28 Zechariah 6:1-5; Psalm
130:1.
29 Rick Gore, Neptune:
Voyager's Last Picture Show, 45; Bradford A. Smith, Voyage of the
Century, 62, (National Geographic, Vo1. 178, No. 2, Aug 1990).
is, frozen. At the time it was needed--it was defrosted!30
Waters do
not pass their
boundaries without His
order. He uses this frozen masses a heavenly foundation for the pillars
of glory so that He is well supported
when He takes a stroll across the universe.
He can measure this body by the span of His hand, which means the sands
of earth will simply fill His
bucket, or one of our
mountains on His
gram scale. When He exhales Jack
Frost appears and people come out for ice skating. He thoroughly
encompasses the "face
of the deep"--which is
frozen.31
The depth is not in the
sea, but ultimately in His hand. He stands, and with His rod, measures where we
stand. He spreads out the clouds, and
sends forth the noise from heavens stereo. He covers the sea with His light,
and in turn, covers His shining glorious firmament with a cloud. He swaddles the darkness with a band
of the sea and shuts
the doors with
bars of frozen celestial holy water. When He commands these floods of water arise
and overflow--but they
shall pass with the wave of His hand or the color of His bow. Jonah got a sample of this power when he was cast into the depths of the abyss, in the valley of billows
and waves. His
strength is displayed
in the "fountains of the
deep”. 32 -------------------
30 Ruckman, Genesis, 203,
207.
31 Proverbs 8:29; Psalm
104:3; Isaiah 40:12;
Job 37:10; Psalm 8:27; Job
38:30.
32 Job 28:14;
Psalm 95:4; Habakkuk
3:6; Job 36:29,30,32; Genesis 1:16-17;
1:6-8; Job 38:8-10;
Psalm 93:3 Habakkuk 3:10; Jonah 2:3,5; Proverbs 8:28.
In Archai's
creative power He cut-out the fountain of the
flood, and determined where rivers run, or whether they be dry. His
knowledge of the depths of His creation
allow Him to break things up, or pour rain on the dry ground. Any time He decides, He can
open heavens windows
and pour us out a blessing or a
curse! He can restrain the flood waters
of the deep. In the stories of His
heavenly storehouse He
holds the rain
and at His discretion shares a
little upon us. His sprinkling bottles
are used in wisdom. He
controls the clouds in righteousness and judgment from His throne above
the darkness. The depths above call to the depths below
across the great divide of the Great Deep.33
(parenthetical thot:
Are the burning
stars the remnants of the lake of fire? When the great deep was formed and ice fell into the lake--were
these burning embers splashed up?)
So there is depth to the
river, and a spring in the sea, heaped
up, gathered together,
and locked away
in God's storehouses--a
multitude of waters in the heavens.
These waters of the deep are
used for a covering garment--they have covered the mountains twice above and
below the earth. The
path through these waters was put there by God, you will find His footprints
there. When He strolls the
heavenly beach the waters are
troubled. They are troubled knowing
that
it is His word holding them in place, this Majesty on High.34
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33 Psalm 74:15; Proverbs 3:20;
Genesis 7:4, 11; 8:2; Ezekiel 31:15;
Amos 9:6; Job 38:37; Psalm 97:3; Job 28:11; Psalm 42:7; Job 38:25.
34 Zechariah 10:11; Job
38:16; Psalm 33:7; Jeremiah 10:13; 51:16; Ezekiel 26:19; Psalm
104:6-ff; Deuteronomy 5:8; Isaiah 43:16;
Psalm 77:16, 19; Habakkuk 1:3.
Knowing that it is the
hand of God that holds everything
together, what do you do with the findings of the astrological-
prognosticators? Bell
Laboratories (1964) says they discovered a
cosmic microwave radiation background of light
from the degraded "primeval
fireball" of the Big Bang. This light form was the equal of Kelvin's
"black body" or absolute 0o (-270oC). Other contents of the Great Deep are helium and
denterium which would take the force of a nuclear reaction to create.35
These astrological-prognosticators readily
admit that the forces
holding all together
are very strong,
especially considering
the total mass
available throughout the
galaxies of the deep. Four of these forces are electricity, magnetism,
radioactive decay, and gravity. In the world of the electron, an electron mass
contains about 550, 000 eV. The proton
is said to have 939
million eV, and
the never seen
neutrino is 0 to 50 eV: i.e., 100,000 times lighter than an
electron. Another
astrological particle or unit is the "bosons". Spinning their
way through God's space-man-time they are said to "bind matter
together" or "tear it apart". I guess that depends on what Archai
does or allows:36
He is before all things, and
by him all things consist.37
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35 Morris, 176-177.
36 Trefil, 46,
94, 139, 147.
37 Colossians 1:17.
So,
as you contemplate the substance
of space-man-time, and the
elements of the Great Deep, and the
Face of the Deep, and the throne of God in the heavens, "think on these
things":
He
stretcheth out the north
over the empty place, and
hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters
in
his thick clouds;
and the cloud is not rent under
them. He holdeth back
the face of
his throne, and
spreadeth his cloud upon
it. He hath
compassed the
waters with bounds, until
the day and
night come to
an end (emphasis mine).38
Now back to this
business of Dark Matter. In the
revelation to man (the
Hebrew-Christian Bible) we
are told that
Archai dwells above the
stars in a
cloud of darkness in a pavilion of waters, in a
palace of brightness. In the channels
of these waters He casts His "hail stones" and sifts His "coals
of fire". In His creative plan He set the end for darkness and He knows
where the shadow of death will next
fall. He searches through the deep to
find that which is needed for rain upon earth whether life, death,
blessing or cursing.
He created the
darkness, He can command
the light to
shine into the lowest depths of the abysmal pit because
He knows the way where light and dark part
company. He sees the end and
result of both as if both were light--without darkness. One day heaven lights to us will be put out!39
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38 Job 26.7-10.
39 Job 22:12-14;
Psalm 18:11,12,15; Job
28: 3-4; 12:15, 22;
II Corinthians 4:6;
Psalm 88:6; Job
38:19, 24; Psalm
139:12; Isaiah 5:30.
The theology
of the "Big Bang" says
our universe is expanding.40 In
the 1930s two
astrophysicists began taking pictures of a small
piece of Archai's deep place. In
this pinhead spot they
say they found, at a distance of
a billion lightyears away, a
body that is "receding from the earth" at
the speed of about 10,000
mps". Celestial body identified as
3C273 has a 16 percent
red-shift putting its
receding speed at about the
speed of light, or 3 billion light-years from earth. It is
said to be
100 times brighter
than any other
source observed by radio.
Still another (3C48) has such a red-shift that it is placed
at the outer reaches of
known space. Its recession speed
is 37 percent or 1/3 the
speed of light and at a distance
of 6 billion light-years.41
Still the
search goes on. A
"Celestial
Dynamo" viewed by optical
and radio waves is estimated to be some 18 million light-years across.
Sometimes when these
astrologers are piercing God's
universe with their
gadgetry they see
radiant energy surpassing the
power release of
10 billion supernova blasts. Before Schimidts broke the color code of 3C273 others
announced recession speeds
of 90% the speed of
light at 12 billion light-years, at 200 to
300% red-shift; or
was that "velocities of recession" developed in the 1960s by Arp? One such
red-shift was up
to 400% and light from that quasar would have traveled some 15 billion years or
about 90% of the current age given to the universe. Most of the
galaxies discovered
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40 Morris, 175.
41 Galaxies, 80, 81, 91.
thus far are
receding from us
(or we're traveling
away from them) at "unheard of speeds". Why,
with just a single
slip of his pin, Hubble stretched the universe a "hundred
fold".42
So let's
"shift colors" and talk about the Milky Way--our own
home. How about a few statistics to
start with--a "celestial score board":
A GALACTIC SCOREBOARD
Age : 13
-15 billion years
Observed
mass: 100 billion solar masses
No. of
stars: 100 billion
Diameter of
Disk: 100,000 light-years
Thickness
of Disk at Sun: 700 light-years
Diameter at
Central Bulge: 30,000 Light-years
Distance of
Sun from Center: 27,000 Light-years
Orbital
Velocity of sun around Center: 135 mps
Time to
orbit: 250 million years43
The diameter
of Milky Way
is computed at
about 100,000 light-years. A
distant neighbor about the same size takes about 240,000 light-years
to make a
rotation. That tells
us that the tips
of the spiral arms are moving
faster than the speed of light. The
light we are able to perceive from these spirals is said to have traveled for
up to 190,000 years.44
Another near
neighbor is Andromeda
only about 2
million years away. She
approaches us at
the speed of
light. Some of the
nebula spirals are
receding at about 500 mps.
Hubble says Andromeda is
900,000 light-years beyond
Shapley's Milky Way.45
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42 Galaxies, 33, 34, 92-96. 43 Galaxies, 61.
44 Galaxies, 15, 30, 34.
45 Galaxies, 15, 29, 31, 86.
Using "symmetrical radio lobes" our
astrological- prognosticators
have come up
with Cygnus A
at 320,000 light-years. It is by far, up to whenever, "the
largest single entity in the known universe". Cygnus A literally has a "home in glory land" and
"outshines the sun"
by a hundred billion fold--a
marvel to our scientists.46
Another constellation of consideration is
Sagittarius. Harlow Shapley of
Missouri says the center of our
galaxy lies in that direction.
Oort calculated the same thing.
With the possibility of three
spiral arms the
astrophysicists say one arm
goes by the
sun, another about
6500 light-years toward Perseus away from the
galactic center. The third is situate between the sun and
galactic center of Sagittarius.
Sagittarius graduated from energetic radio 'A' with electrons and magnetic fields to a thousand
times in brightness--the brightness vacuumed into a Black Hole.47 A perfect hiding place for the Almighty
Archai in the black hole channels of
the sea of space and the foundation
of our world.48 Is this
the place Kurios Iaysous Kristos told of
when He said "cast into outer darkness; there shall be weeping
and gnashing of
teeth"? Well, I suppose it
could be said, and it has been, that
the "matter" will not be "laid to rest" until
somebody gets his hands on some of Archai's Dark Matter and drags it
to the laboratory. It is
probably something of which we have not seen the likes. As man is with most things, he is probably highly
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46 Galaxies, 88, 81, 86.
47 Galaxies, 27,28,49,57,67-69.
48 II Samuel 22:10, 12,
16.
49 Matthew 8:12; 22:13.
what's in the
Black Hole at
the Center of
the Milky Way.50
Such a Black Hole is a compression
of matter, much as depression is to
mental health. It only takes a small
bit of matter to create
such a hole, about a ten-billionth of
a gram or "1014 (100 trillion) protons or neutrons".51 If
you were to venture by, or Archai should send you there, you
would find a rend in the universe of
space-man-time and fall
through an unlovely tunnel to "some other
part of the
universe--or in another universe altogether". To
escape such force as the horizon of a Black Hole you would have to exceed the
speed of light--for light is sucked-up by 'the force'.52
As we
continue to peer
across space we
notice voids in the
blackness of darkness,
some as big across as 250
million light-years of space-man-time. These are empty
spaces full of nothingness.53 As the forces of gravity warp space-man-time
the pressure is exerted upon the massive objects of the universe. When hydrogen
fuel is depleted, and the body cools, the pressure becomes degenerating and the dwarf
will implode and, low and behold, a Black Hole.54 As always, the Book of books is ahead of
space-man in time and (we are ready to get into the second), reports two total,
universal upheavels:
Thus,
we see that on at
least two occasions,
in the
past,
the whole system
which controls cosmic
rays,
bombardment of atoms, deterioration of mass, break down
of
chemicals, an "escape" of molecules has
been
radically altered.55
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50 Trefil, 173,
121, 145, 190. 51 Morris, 151.
52 Stars, 118-119. 53 Trefil, 42, 74 54 Stars, 109, 56, 55. 55 Ruckman, Genesis,
220-220; Genesis 1:1,2; 7 & 8; II Peter 3:5,6.