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Originally Posted by Disciple_of_Word
Someone please put my mind at ease.
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I noticed your correct use of Genesis 9:12-15 in another thread and can reassure you that when God sees what's in the sky (He's on the other side of it but can see through it OK) He remembers the promises made not to flood us again, except for local events occasionally. Viewed from its upper surface, The Firmament described in Genesis 1:6-7 could be any shape. We don't know what that shape is because we can't see it. We can see the underneath side though which appears smooth but measurements suggest there could be upward indentations perhaps with a star at each apex.
John 10:16 [Jesus speaking] And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Jesus is on the other side of The Firmament. We know this because very occasionally it has opened and He has been seen there. Looking down He sees not only us, His earthly sheep, but sheep of other folds too. If we could see those for ourselves He wouldn't need to have told us about them. Let's say we live underneath the Green Firmament. We could launch a telescope up as far as the moon and attach it there or farther away up inside one of those extruded green tentacle-looking things. Then it would be more distant than the moon and (obviously) closer to any stars inside there too. In the picture the Green Firmament is shown from the other side so none of the stars or the moon or planets – II Kings 23:5 – are visible.
If Jesus were viewing from the same perspective, He'd be able to see other folds too, very likely underneath other Firmaments. I predict that in accordance with the many firmaments hypothesis, the JWST will never detect any of them because it will always be inside our own Firmament and until that was broken, nothing outside it could be seen. As we saw in Genesis, one function of firmaments is to hold back the waters above and as you yourself posted, God has set the rainbow as a reminder to Himself not to flood the earth again, a promise we can rely on. Therefore our Firmament will not be ruptured in the future and the Webb telescope will not commit blasphemy by peering into Heaven.
I hope that puts your mind at ease.