Hi Zander,
Well here is where Ray is talking about planet movement.
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[comment: the sun keeps the earth in the gravitational orbit, it’s a balance so the planets won’t go flying off into space.]
Yes, but not completely. All of the planet bodies are needful of it, but if you pull Saturn out or if you pull out Mercury, eventually we’re going to die. They all balance this elliptical orbit and the speed and everything So if you pull any one of the planets (well maybe not Pluto-laughter), but if you pull out Jupiter or Saturn or Neptune and you pull them out of the solar system, we will die.
[comment: what would happen first, say if you pulled the sun out? Would it get dark first, what would happen first the gravitational pull or the lose of life?]
Well either way, we’re gone.
[comment: If the sun was pulled out, how soon would the gravitational pull take us out into the universe?]
The gravitational pull to the outside is very slight. A scientist said in relation to astrology, as they say you are born under a certain star, it has to do with the gravitational pull on something. Well he said there is a thousand times more gravity exerted on the new born child by the physical body of the doctor, then the whole outer space combined. It was the doctor’s physical mass holding the baby, that exerts a thousand times more gravitational pull on the baby, which is almost infinitesimally nothing. But still it is a thousand times more than the sun or any other body. It’s very very little.
Now you get the big orbit of the earth. You have that because there is no friction in space, strictly centrifugal force keeping it out there. Speed will keep it out there, but then you got this crazy orbit thing. If you had round orbits it would make sense, but you have an elliptical orbit.
So if it flies by the sun and goes all the way out here and makes the swing and come back, why doesn’t it come back and crash into the sun? Well it’s far enough out and the speed that it by-passes it, without that happening. But it needs all the other planets to do their thing. They’re all orbiting and doing their thing to the fraction of a thousandth of a second, it is perfect timing.
The earth is so finitely balanced with a thousand other things, if you move any one of them, we’re all dead!
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Now I think I understand your question, would there validity in the planets/stars being signs of events that happen on earth.
Gen 1:14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.
There is a good example of this with the Star that signified the coming of our Savior. Didn't the Magi, being star gazers/astronomers, locate baby Jesus by following signs in the heavens? I do not believe that these Magi were astrologers that believe that celestial bodies influence human affairs, but astronomers which is the study of the motions and natures of celestial bodies, like planets, stars, and galaxies. So there is Scriptural reference to this.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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