Viewing Another World

Today, we talked about how YHWH is creative. The Bible teaches us that He created the heavens and the earth:

"In the beginning, YHWH created the heavens and the Earth."

The English word create has a "plain" sound... but when you read it in Hebrew, you understand that YHWH literally created everything FROM nothing.  He took no ingredients, and created everything.
  
When we consider the care and detail He took in creating the earth, we must also remember that he took care to create the entire universe.  Each star and each planet has it's own unique terrain, atmosphere, and make up.  Yet, He gave special attention to make a place suitable for His special creation, mankind.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; 

What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?

So, when I heard that on May 9, 2016, we could actually see Mercury transit across the sun, I rushed to get my homeschoolers to an observatory! We had to take this opportunity to view this "other world" that YHWH created with our own eyes!!

But.... Pittsburgh is a notoriously cloudy city.  So, of course it was cloudy!

The amateur astronomers at the observatory were great though!  They jumped in to give my children a grand tour of the observatory.

Before they closed up the refractor telescope, fitted with a special solar filter, they let us see it.

Then, they showed us the reflector telescope:

Then we found a globe model of Mercury... which was kind of cool because they didn't get to see the real mercury. A ball that looks like it is the next best thing, right???

My kids enjoyed their time looking around the observatory.  They learned about telescopes and asked when we can go back to view the night sky.  They almost forgot about the original mission to see just one piece of Yah's heavenly creation that we have never "seen" before....  Good thing in a virtual society, you can find EVERYTHING online, and in real time at that....

So,.... Mercury was really just a speck on the Sun.  (The bottom speck in the pic below).  A little anti-climatic, but significant on several levels.

My children asked me if it is morally wrong to leave this perfect home that YHWH created for us, and to travel into space. 

I said... maybe..... 

But then is it morally wrong to fly when he didn't give us wings?

I don't pretend to know all the answers.  But what I do know is that YHWH is the Master Creator, the Master Builder, the Master Designer... The Master of the Universe. 

Melech HaOlam