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DAY 3 - The APPEARANCE of Plant Life

We said we would be focusing on the aspects of the Genesis account that dealt with astrophysics. So what does plant life appearing on the third creative day have to do with that? Everything. For it tells us much about the kind of light source that creative days are measured by. The events of Day 3 obviously occurred in the absence of stars including our Sun. How then did the plants survive?

The range of light waves that plants use for photosynthesis falls between 400 nm to 700 nm. The range of visible light is 380 nm to 750 nm. In other words, in the whole electromagnetic spectrum, plants can only use visible light to photosynthesize, and since we know the creative days were extended periods of time, the only way plants survived was because the light that was regulating the day and night portions of each day was visible! So, the fifth property of these two different kinds of light is not a contrast, but a similarity: both sunlight and the light of the Creative can support photosynthesis - i.e. they both fall within the thin sliver of light that forms the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Notice how the disappearance of this light was cleverly timed by God to coincide with the appearance of Sunlight! A sort of relay where the Day portion of the third creative day ended just as Jehovah started to make "the two great luminaries" and "the stars." If you are paying close attention, you might have noticed the order of the parts of one whole cycle of a creative "Day." They are not sequenced with the morning first and then evening. No. They have the opposite configuration, where each day starts with darkness and ends with light. You can see this pattern for yourself in verses 5, 8, 13, 19, 23 and the last verse in chapter one - verse 31. In all of them we find the following phrase:

The origin of this evening-to-day template will be discussed later. What is pertinent for us now is to realize that the end of Day 3 as light was being turned off coincided with the beginning of Day 4, where the first thing Jehovah created was the Sun. Now we know why the earth had to start rotating at this point - otherwise the plants on the opposite side of the Earth would die without photosynthesis. It is clear from a reading of Genesis that the initial part of the long (by our standards) Day 3 started with the appearance of land from under the surface of the waters that had been covering the whole Earth up to that time. This occurred in darkness. For God does not procrastinate! Nor does he tire out - he doesn't take breaks when he's working. Verses 9 and 10 describe what took place immediately after Day 2 ended:

The fact that the light that regulated the creative days was so effective at keeping plants alive for centuries and centuries only deepens the mystery of why we don't see this ubiquitous light source today. We will come back to that in due time. I write this detail to make you aware of one singular fact: the brilliance of Jehovah - and of his intense love for mankind. It may seem to you that when I explain one or other detail that doesn't seem to be central to our story, that I am going off-track. That would be a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of The Greatest Story Ever Told. It is not my purpose to explain to you how the universe came to be. My purpose is to glorify Jehovah God for having created it! Any side stories that glorify my God are the main point of my writing. The exposition of how the universe came to be - is just a tool, a means, to glorifying Jehovah! Jehovah first! Everything else second .... So how did the front to back creation of plant life and the Sun glorify God? It gives us vital information about the range of the light of the creative days. That will be crucial later on! Visible light is a very small percentage of the whole electromagnetic spectrum, as you can see for yourself below in figure 79.

Figure 79 - The Electromagnetic Spectrum (EM)

Learning Through Light

Everything we have learned scientifically about the universe, we have learned through light. While humans only see a very small percentage of the electromagnetic spectrum, we can learn much from the spectrum in its entirety. Some of the stronger types of EM rays are quite harmful to humans. Even so, as in the case of X-Rays: all have specific areas of niche utility. Many people make the mistake of thinking Radio waves are sound waves, but they are light rays. Each part of the EM spectrum provides some utility to humans, and helps us to "see" things our eyes cannot visibly see.

Resolving the Mystery

Now, let us move on to another critical area of our exposition - identifying what the one-piece structure that spans the whole universe is. If we are to truly synthesize the Bible account of creation with the empirical evidence as borne out by years of collecting scientific data. Every structure identified by science must be accounted for in the Bible! And the biggest mystery of all is what is the invisible one-piece, brain synapse-network-like structure that spans the whole universe called? How could such a large structure that accounts for an estimated 80% of all the mass in the universe, not even be mentioned in the Bible? Any so-called "Holy Book" that does not account for the invisible cosmic web cannot be sourced from the Creator of the universe! If such a structure is to be found in the Bible - which must be the case - where can we learn about it; and what is its true identity? What is Invisible Zint?

Invisible Zint is ... H-E-A-V-E-N

Did that surprise you? It's a writing technic I learned from the trailer for Dan Brown's masterclass on suspense writing - I hope it worked. Basically, how to leave a trail of breadcrumbs that lead to a surprise ending: If only there was a substance known to man, that was not electromagnetic and, was proven to be a volume, it would have the perfect EVIDENCE PROFILE, to fulfill all the functions of - Space! We have not yet proven Invisible Zint to be a volume! So, it couldn't be Space. Misdirection. This is part scientific exposition, part thriller ... lol. In reality, the Evidence Profile for dark matter, that is, Invisible Zint, fits exactly the one for HEAVEN. Let's go though the surprising evidence.

The GAUZE

Remember I told you about how Jehovah wrote the Bible using plain language so that everyone could understand? How, then, does he keep the truth hidden in plain sight? By using hyperlinks to connect texts that seem to have nothing in common. In searching for Invisible Zint in the Bible, we have to look for a structure that has the same Evidence Profile. The three key identifying marks of which are: 1) One-piece architecture 2) The one-piece architecture must be interspersed with large voids in between. In other words the structure must look more like Swiss cheese than a solid block of wood 3) The parts that are not empty voids must be strand like and intersect forming nodes. There are more requirements, but if it doesn't meet those initial requirements, there is no need to investigate any further - it doesn't match the Evidence Profile of Invisible Zint.

In the Bible just such a structure exists and all three of those critical features are included in the word picture Jehovah uses to describe this marvelous structure - "fine gauze!"

Now, all gauze has three identifying marks: 1) One-piece architecture 2) The one-piece architecture must be interspersed with large voids in between. In other words the structure must look more like Swiss cheese than a solid block of wood 3) The parts that are not empty voids must be strand like and intersect forming nodes. The structure that Jehovah is describing does have the same 3 fundamental features, so we can go onto considering its other necessary features that must match for the Evidence Profiles to be the same! Let us test if there is any possible synthesis of the structure God describes as Heaven and the structure science has identified as dark matter and we have more correctly renamed as Invisible Zint. We will do so by considering all the rest of the known, empirically proven facts about Invisible Zint. They are: it's invisible; it's eternal; it's non-interfering; it houses galaxies; it stretches; it's made of filaments; it controls the movements of all the galaxies throughout the universe (that is how they spin); it is a realm. Eight more features in all to match. Let's go.

Invisible

This is perhaps the easiest of the dominoes to topple over:

The following two scriptures are parallels of each other and again - when taken together - draw the contrast between the Earth being visible and Heaven being invisible:

And ...

The point is already made: the Heavens are invisible, in contrast to the visible Earth. But just to make it clear that Heaven is invisible, we will use the example of Christ himself. In the following scriptures, the resurrected Christ is spoken of synonymously as being "heavenly" and "spirit" or "spiritual" in bodily composition - for "If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one." - 1Co 15:44 Let us reason by following the evidence. The next scripture establishes that the resurrected Christ was not fleshly, but in "spirit" form:

Our second scripture, again draws the distinction between a fleshly body and a spiritual one:

The contrast is clear, the only problem, is that at this point, the only thing we have proved is that spirit means heavenly, and heavenly things are spiritual. We have not yet given proof that 'spirit' or 'heavenly' also means invisible. That connection is taken for granted, because when people think of spirits, they think of invisible creatures like ghosts. In fact, many Bible translations equate 'ghost' with 'spirit.' So that "holy Spirit" and "holy Ghost" become synonymous in general language. But we are scientific. We take nothing for granted. We want a scripture that is going to show definitively that a spirit is invisible. For that we must move from Christ to Jehovah himself:

2 Corinthians 3:18 clearly establishes that Jehovah, like the resurrected Christ is a spirit. Since he is the prototype of all spirits, he is the "Spirit" with a capital 'S.' We also remember that 1 Corinthians 15:47-49 equated being made of spirit instead of dust to being "heavenly." Let's widen our search to confirm this detail. Are all angels, who also live in Heaven spirits? Indeed they are: "But with reference to which one of the angels has he ever said: 'Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet?' Are they not all spirits for public service, sent forth to minister for those who are going to inherit salvation?" (Heb 1:13,14) Sorted. Next, we tackle the connection between being spirit/spiritual/heavenly with being invisible:

That scripture was of course speaking of the Christ in relation to God. Our immediate focus is that it confirms that God, whom we know is "the Spirit," is also "Invisible!" Thus all heavenly ones are also invisible! For, as the principle found at 1 Corinthians 15:48 puts it, "Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust; and like the heavenly one, so too are those who are heavenly." Through this principle, the property of invisibility obviously extends to heaven - itself!

Eternal

Invisibility transitions nicely into heaven being eternal, for the same scripture that spoke of the "things unseen," that is, invisible - also spoke of them as being "eternal!" (2Co 4:17,18) The fact that Invisible Zint is eternal: it doesn't disappear; nor does it change into something else, is one of its most critical features, and one that must be corroborated about heaven. But while second Corinthians equated invisibility with being everlasting, other scriptures give us the technical, scientific reason, why that is so. Let's review 1Co 15:42-44 again, highlighting the relevant portions as we do:

In every expression, there same two things are being compared: the fleshly body that dies ("sown") and the spiritual body that is resurrected ("raised"). And every expression is contrasting the difference between the two. We are interested in the highlighted difference of corruption and incorruption. What does that mean in this context? It cannot mean moral corruption, because Christ died a perfect, sinless man. (Heb 4:15) Remember when Lazarus' sister Martha objected when the Christ was about to resurrect him? She protested, "Lord, by now he must smell, for it has been four days." (Joh 11:39) DECOMPOSITION - that is what "corruption" means in the context of Christ - and everyone else - dying. The reason Christ was prophesied to be resurrected within 3 days was that God did not want his body to undergo decomposition - to get to day four!

It is obvious that the words "grave" and "pit" are referencing two different realities, for this scripture shows that Christ would be in the grave but without seeing "the pit." The word pit in this scripture then, has a meaning beyond just merely dying and going to the grave. It has a footnote which gives its alternate rendering in the original Hebrew: [Or possibly, "to see corruption."]. This becomes clear when we hyperlink this scripture with other verses that give us a word picture of what the term "pit" signifies:

Since Christ was prophesied to both die for mankind and to not see "corruption" or "disintegration"; his resurrection had to be within 3 days. When asked for a sign of his being the Son of God, the only "sign" he was willing to give the people of that generation was the "sign of Jonah the prophet. For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights." (Mt 12:39,40) The solitary purpose? To keep Christ's perfect body from undergoing decomposition - or "corruption." This is clear and well documented in Scripture:

Perfectly clear. baryonic matter has the capacity to decay. Even whilst we are alive, our bodies are constantly undergoing decay - the only difference is that when we are living our bodies replenish dead cells. In contrast - Invisible Zint in the form of "spiritual bodies" are INCAPABLE Of decay! (1Co 15:44) This is why although Satan is the original sinner, unlike Adam he is still alive! Some artist's impressions of him depict him as ashen or aging, as if his evil over many years has had a decaying effect on him. This is not true! He is as handsome today, as he was when Jehovah created him as a perfect angel. Those who know Scripture know, the reason he turned against God and became Satan is because his extreme beauty made him arrogant and proud! But since he has a spirit body, he - and all other angels and demons - undergo no decay! When Christ was resurrected, one of the angels whom Jehovah sent to Earth to inform his disciples is described as:

This "young man," an angel, was present when Jehovah created the Heavens and the Earth, and then fashioned them into their finished forms. "All the sons of God" applauded him as he was completing his creative works. (Job 38:7) That includes Satan and this young man. Each creative day, we have discovered, is at least 3 500 years long, and there were six of them. So this "young man" is at least 21 000 years old! So if Satan were still allowed to materialize, we would see a "young man." This is why Satan like Adam has already been judged (Joh 16:11). But unlike Adam, his judgement will not fulfill itself automatically. Jehovah must actually kill him! Otherwise he would continue living forever - as a "young man," for the "things unseen are everlasting." (Re 20:10,14; 2Co 4:18) THUS WE CONCLUDE THAT: SPIRIT BODIES - LIKE INVISIBLE ZINT - DO NOT DECAY!

Non-Interfering

We find ourselves in the first century, trekking along with Christ and his disciples. They have just landed ashore in the region of the Gerasenes. There they come across a demon possessed man, who is living in wretched conditions among the caves - away from society. Now remember that Christ in his prehuman existence created each and every angel. Including all the ones that would later morally corrupt themselves - becoming demons. Christ tells the demon to come out of the man, and it pleads with him, not to torment it. He then asks the demon a personal question: "What is your name?" Although there is one demon who is acting as spokesmen, perhaps out of shame of his debased condition from being a glorious son of God living in heaven, to being lowered to possess humans, just so he can have a house (I will explain later), the demon runs away from giving a direct answer. Instead he hides behind the fact that he is not the only demon possessing this troubled man. "My name is Legion," he starts, "because there are many of us." We don't care about demon stories, we are interested in accounts that give us clues about the properties of heavenly/spirit/spiritual beings.

Christ's sojourn to the Earth coincided with Rome being in power over Jerusalem. A Roman legion was the largest unit of soldiers in the ruling Roman armies. According to Wikipedia, it consisted of 5 800 individuals in the time Christ was on Earth. Have you ever played musical chairs as a child. Its a simple game where you arrange chairs in a circle, but you have more players than chairs. You play a song, and people must move around in a circle. As soon as the music stops, everyone rushes for a chair. Someone will be left without a chair - and they lose. Why? Because of "electric repulsion: as Nick Lucid said. The repulsive force of the electrons on the outer shells of all our atoms means two objects made of baryonic matter cannot share the same space. On the other hand, Lucid explained, we cannot put Invisible Zint inside a container. It will go right through the walls of the container, because being free of electrons, it does not have the baryonic property shared by all visible matter of electric repulsion. The property that makes baryonic matter solid, or physical!

That brings us to a clear understanding of the resolution to a loose end we had in an earlier chapter. The opposite of "visible" is invisible. But what is the opposite of "physical?" Is it non-physical? No the answer was buried in a scripture we have already covered:

So it was the non electric-repulsive capacity of "spiritual" bodies that allowed "many" demons to possess one man - effectively living in the same space. Musical chairs doesn't work with demons. Even if there was only one chair and 5 800 of them - they would all fit! Scientists have named this property non-interference. But we will call it being "legionous." As in spirit beings have the capacity to share the same space because they are legionous. Another Evidence Profile matched. We move to Invisible Zints capacity to act as a halo that houses galaxies and super clusters.

Houses Galaxies

I hate Job's three comforters! I never listen to what they say, just because it's in the Bible. To me their expressions are just like when Satan himself is quoted in the Bible. Yes the statement is in the Bible, but only for reasons of narration. So whenever I read the book of Job, I only ever internalize what comes from Job or Elihu, and of course - everything that Jehovah of Armies himself says (Mt 4:4). In Job 9:9, it is Job - the greatest of all the Orientals of his time - who is speaking. And he shares a detail that the inspired account recorded for the edification of all mankind. It is important enough that I will quote the scripture in 6 different translations of the Holy Bible!

This verse might seem innocent at first glance, because it merely says what all believers in the Bible already believe: that Jehovah created all the stars, and, hence galaxies as is outlined in Genesis chapter one. But that is not what this verse is saying at all! It is not talking about God creating stars, but about him creating constellations! - which are groupings of stars in galaxy clusters and superclusters. The point of the verse and hence our interest is how Jehovah accomplishes this? When people hear the word constellation they immediately think of what is visible to them - the stars! That is why many think this verse is about God creating stars and grouping them together. But that view is mistaken. For the second half of the verse then does two important things: it moves from specific examples of constellations to speaking generally about all the constellations of the "southern sky." But it does more. A second important detail is that it defines "constellations" not by the visible stars that they contain, but by something else altogether - the "interior rooms" or "chambers" as alternately rendered by various translations. The reason people assume Jehovah is speaking of stars in this verse, is because the structure the verse is actually referring to is invisible, and you wouldn't know to look for it, without guidance. Invisible "interior rooms," invisible "chambers" - in the night sky? What could those possibly be? You already know - don't you!

Our exercise is currently to prove that the "fine gauze" Jehovah spoke of in Isaiah matches with everything we know about Invisible Zint in the form of the universe-wide one-piece-structure we call the universal-web! So, now, you take the driver's wheel, and steer us in the right direction. What feature of the universal-web holds galaxies, galaxy clusters and galaxy super-clusters inside of it? Remember, the universal-web is a very simple structure architecturally. It only has 3 major components: long filaments; large voids; and halos where the filaments intersect with each other to form nodes - just like a gauze! Which of those three features do scientists claim houses galaxy clusters (which is what constellations are formed of)? HALOS! Halos is the answer. That gives a very definite Evidence Profile to look for, because - although they are invisible - we know much about how such halos work and what they generally look like from extensive mapping through gravitational lensing. They have the following features: they are spherical and hollow on the inside (like an invisible tennis ball), since their interior is the space occupied by the visible galaxies; they are massive containing many times more Invisible Zint, than the visible matter they encapsulate; they hold the galaxies within them in place; they regulate the movements of the galaxies they house; they are not a solid block, but are composed of the individual strands of filaments; and lastly, they are connected into one overall structure by long filamental strands. That is why the universal-web is one structure. There is one universal-web, not multiple cosmic-webs. Below we catalogue how each of those 6 features matches with the Evidence Profile of the "fine gauze" as described in detail in the Bible.

Spherical & Hollow

We already know how Invisible Zint manifests these features. So in this section, we are interested in how they are manifested by Jehovah's "fine gauze." The only thing Job told us was that constellations are "interior rooms" or "chambers." With nothing else to go on, you might think that that means they are square. So the first thing we want is too find their specific shape, through a hyperlinking of corroborating scripture. For that we turn to the book of Amos:

Other translations refer directly to this "structure" as "chambers." As this scripture makes clear through a footnote on the word "structure," that term can also be rendered "dome; vault!" A vault, just like a "chamber" or "interior room" can take many shapes, but there is only one shape that satisfies the criteria of a "dome" - a HOLLOW SPHERE! There is no dome that is solid like a bowling ball.

"But hold on," you might say. "A dome doesn't have to be a sphere. A half sphere still counts as a 'dome.'" This is true. however the object that the Bible says Jehovah has set this structure over is the whole Earth. As such, just like the light of the creative days, the dome must encompass the Earth on all sides - making it a sphere! That is the only way it can be above someone in Australia, and Canada simultaneously - which is the only scenario that qualifies it as being "over the earth." Otherwise, its over the northern hemisphere, or over the southern hemisphere, but not over "the Earth!" This is why when Job chapter nine spoke of the constellations of the "southern sky," it was a scientifically correct description, since you can't see them from many locations in the northern hemisphere for much of the year (depending on the tilt of the Earth etc. etc.). It should be obvious to you that the in Job 9:9, the Bible was describing how such structures encompass galaxies and even superclusters. The Earth is of course also part of a galaxy, and thus has its own "dome." So when Amos talks about this "chamber" being over us, it is referring to the spherical hollow "interior room" that encompasses OUR own Milky Way galaxy. That should be obvious to all. Job, is speaking in general terms. Amos is speaking specifically of our local "interior room" or "dome" that houses our local galaxy. Moreover, it is obvious that this structure is not solid, in the sense of being like a bowling ball as opposed to a tennis ball, because Jehovah built it "over the Earth," meaning it doesn't share common space with the Earth. It is over us, not through us.

Massive

According to Nasa, the Milky Way is about 100 000 light years across. That means the Invisible Zint Halo that surrounds the Milky Way, the "interior dome" has a radius of 50 000 light years. We can only imagine how large a structure, this node, this Invisible Zint halo, this intersection of gauze threads ... forms. But such "domes" are massive in another way. The amount of Invisible Zint, or gauze-like threads it takes to hold a galaxy together. Vera Rubin estimated, that must be 5 or 6 times more Invisible Zint in such halos, than baryonic matter. Of course the Tully-Fisher Relation has since borne out the fact that the amount of Invisible Zint isn't arbitrary but always has an exact relationship to the amount of baryonic matter it is holding together. Since we know that the halos are not found around individual solar systems, but are found only from the scale of galaxies upward, we recognize that the "dome" is not just over the Earth, but over the Milky Way - as a whole. That is the smallest scale on which Invisible Zint can be found. Read Amos 9:6 carefully, again. I have highlighted the relevant portion we are going to focus on:

Some questions come to the fore. Are the structure and the stairs two different entities? What does Jehovah building stairs in the heavens mean - what is their purpose? Since the heavens start pretty close to Earth, why do we say "the heavens" are many thousands of lightyears away? All these questions are answered in our next section.