Total Eclipse…Total Design
Last month, the country was enamored with the rare total solar eclipse. The event was commercialized to the hilt with the sale of glasses, t-shirts, and anything else you could think of to sell. The political arena was also not immune to taking advantage of the opportunity in equating the prediction of an eclipse as proof for climate change predictions. Even the flat-earthers used it to put forth an argument that the solar eclipse somehow put the nail in the coffin for us round-earthers. People everywhere seemed to use it to further their causes. I have had this event on the calendar for quite a few years with great anticipation of viewing my first total solar eclipse. My eagerness for this event was to see my Creator’s power and Glory on display through His magnificent creation.
Just over 6000 years ago, the Lord created the greater light and the lesser light on the fourth day of history. He had already separated light from dark and established our day/night cycle on day 1 by His Glory. Then on day 4 the greater light was made to govern the light portion of a day for as long as the earth endures. The lesser light was made to give light during the night portion of a day. Beginning the day the sun and moon were made, there started a purposeful dance through the heavens allowing the occasional alignment from our point of view that makes the eclipse. From Earth, the moon and the sun appear to be the same size because of the precise design involved with size and distances of these great objects. The greater light’s size at 872,000 miles across at a distance of 93 million miles from Earth gives us the sun’s apparent size in the sky. The lesser light’s size of 2,100 miles across at a distance of 250,000 miles from Earth gives us the moon’s apparent size in the sky. Then, because of our orbit around the sun and the moon’s orbit around us, we experience wonderful total solar eclipses like the one on August 21.
Bob and I traveled to Nebo, KY for clear weather and good viewing of the eclipse. The Lord blessed us with about one minute and forty-five seconds of totality. Any words that I could write would do no justice to the event. I had planned on recording the sun’s corona with our ministry’s telescope and camera. However, with no way to practice the event ahead of time, it proved more difficult than anticipated. Bob was able to capture the still shots you see in this newsletter. Our take-away from the event was the tangible experience of seeing that the Lord’s creation shows His amazing power and glory through things He made in the beginning, just as Paul stated in Romans 1:20.
I am so thankful for the tools we have that give us the opportunity to go to churches and share the many aspects of Day 4 in history. Icing on the cake is for me be to be able to set up our telescope to see many objects live in color on a screen for all to see. If you have not yet had the opportunity to share in this, you can call Bob at the office and get on our schedule.
God Bless.
