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We all know that Heaven is God's throne (Isaiah 66:1, Matthew 5:34), but here's something else fascinating about it. Even hellbound God-mockers know the following verse:
Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
But let's read through verse 8:
Genesis 1:1-8: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
As you see, God created Heaven twice, and on separate days. If something is going to serve as God's throne, it has to be just right.
Liberal false Christians may say that this reading results from a mistranslation of the original Hebrew. We know that the King James Bible is God's preserved Word and therefore lacks any mistranslations, but just for the sake of argument, let's look at the words used in the original Hebrew. Genesis 1:1 uses הַשָּׁמַיִם, hashamayim, while Genesis 1:8 uses שָׁמָיִם, shamayim. It's the same word, except that one time it has the definite article ha-, "the." So the King James Bible is accurate (as always). Besides, it would have made no sense to call something "the heaven" if a different heaven were to be created the next day.
Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
But let's read through verse 8:
Genesis 1:1-8: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
As you see, God created Heaven twice, and on separate days. If something is going to serve as God's throne, it has to be just right.
Liberal false Christians may say that this reading results from a mistranslation of the original Hebrew. We know that the King James Bible is God's preserved Word and therefore lacks any mistranslations, but just for the sake of argument, let's look at the words used in the original Hebrew. Genesis 1:1 uses הַשָּׁמַיִם, hashamayim, while Genesis 1:8 uses שָׁמָיִם, shamayim. It's the same word, except that one time it has the definite article ha-, "the." So the King James Bible is accurate (as always). Besides, it would have made no sense to call something "the heaven" if a different heaven were to be created the next day.
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