Monday, February 14, 2011

New Moon

Recently on a field trip to the Wilson Coulee Observatory, I was reminded of how magnificent our God is. He created the firmaments of the earth and the stars of sky. Every celestial object in space, is in it’s place, because He decided where it would go. One of His specially placed objects is our moon.

While not knowing all the reason’s why He choose to place this round rock where He did, the scriptures, however, are clear about one of the reasons. According to Genesis 1:14-19, it is how our Father marks time. It is God’s calendar. The moon marked the days and years for Adam and Eve and for every generation of God’s children after them.

For example, God’s lunar calendar is used to mark the first Passover (Exodus 12). A festival celebrated on the fourteenth day of the first month. Why the fourteenth day of the month? The fourteenth day of a lunar month is the time when the moon is full and shines the brightest. This extra light would have benefitted the exiting Hebrew’s of the original Passover as they travelled into the wilderness; a sort of heavenly flashlight. Yahweh is so cool.



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