God Creates Planet Earth (MP 3)

God required a place that could support life;
In the growing universe there was none,
Till the Milky Way emerged from the strife
Many years after creation begun!
A star, our Sun, appeared in the right spot,
Capturing eight planets; our Earth was one;
Earth was neither too cold, nor too hot;
It towed the Moon, and both circled the Sun!
The Moon served Earth as an essential brake,
That its path remained in the safe-life zone;
God made Earth safe for His beloved Man’s sake;
We can live here and thrive, and here alone!
God planned and caused Earth for His testing place,
Because of His great love, mercy, and grace!

Scripture Quoted: Psalm 19:1-6 (NIV)
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they pour forth knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat.”

Commentary
The universe is a work in progress; it is continuously growing and accelerating from its starting point almost 14 billion years ago. It was planned by God, and it all came from His exhalation of energy when He commanded it to “Be.” There was nothing pre-existent in the void that was space. Albert Einstein was Jewish and not a believer in God; he said of the Big Bang that “the universe has a beginning; there must have been a superior reasoning power”. He was the discoverer of the amazing fact that all matter is created from energy in 1907. Today the universe is 13.7 billion years old and still expanding.

God needed a heavenly body as a platform of testing for mankind, and it would have to be safe for plants, animals, and men to exist and thrive. Such a body could not have been made by chance in the cataclysmic turmoil of super heat and cold; the extreme radiation; the catastropic collisions; and gravitational maelstrom of solid matter creation. God had pre-planned for a galaxy of stars called the Milky Way. It appeared 9.2 billion years after the beginning of the universe, and in one of its outer spirals a star called the Sun was formed in the exact spot it needed to be. Had the Sun been nearer the center of the galaxy or farther away, it could not have served the Earth to provide safety for life.

Because of God’s provision for nature’s law of gravity, the Sun drew eight planets that were held in orbit by its gravitational pull; Earth was the third one from the Sun, which was where it had to be for life to survive. If it had been 4% closer, the temperature would have been so high that nothing could live; just 1% farther away, and Earth would be solid ice, making it impossible for life to exist.

Earth had a captive Moon one-third its weight. It is heavy enough to exert gravitational pull that tilted Earth’s axis to 23 degrees, making its orbit about the Sun almost circular, the only planet to do so; therefore Earth never leaves the narrow zone of safety for life. Numerous other “lucky” aberrations not found in any other heavenly body in the whole universe supply evidences of God’s thoughtful preparations for the safety of Man during his brief life in the flesh. God put His signature on creation. Earth and the universe will not last forever. The universe is expected to collapse inward upon its starting point when it reaches 20 billion years of age. Science and the Bible agree on this; in fact, the more science discovers, the more it agrees with the Bible!

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)