A Diamond as Big as the Moon

A Diamond as Big as the Moon

A Diamond as Big as the Moon

The heavens have always invited people to look up from our tiny little sphere and to contemplate the immensity and marvels of the universe above us.

God once invited Abraham to gaze into the night sky, saying to him: "Look up, please, to the heavens and count the stars, if you are possibly able to count them."

If Abraham were so inclined, he could have counted about 5,000 stars.

As a shepherd living out-of-doors, the poet, David, no doubt frequently contemplated the awesome majesty of the lunar phases and other celestial phenomenon, in comparison to his own smallness and insignificance. Accordingly, the lyrics to one of his inspired songs ponders the question: "When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have prepared, what is mortal man that you keep him in mind, and the son of earthling man that you take care of him?"

Unfortunately, because of so-called "light pollution," city dwellers now can see far fewer stars than David and Abraham did. However, the trade-off is that modern astronomical science has extended our view far, far beyond the limitations of unaided sight. Ancient sky-gazers, in fact, had no idea of how immense and wonderful the universe really is. The to unaided eye many of the twinkling lights that appear as stars are themselves swirling galaxies containing billions of stars. The orbiting Hubble telescope has extended our view of the heavens even farther. It seems that we are now peering out from our insignificant location to the very edge of the universe.

Scientists and astronomers have recently discovered a strange new heavenly wonder. By observing the pulses of light from a dying star known as a white dwarf, researchers have theorized that the core of the star has solidified into a giant diamond-like crystal the size of our moon. The New Scientist magazine says of this phenomenon: "But the crystal, which has been likened to a diamond, is in fact unlike any known on Earth. The pressure inside the white dwarf is a million, million times the pressure that produces diamonds."

Although the ancient patriarch, Job, could not have known about such phenomena as a diamond as big as the moon, still, his appraisal of God's work is apropos. "Stretching out the heavens by himself and treading upon the high waves of the sea; making the Ash constellation, the Kesil constellation, and the Kimah constellation and the interior rooms of the south; doing great things unsearchable, and wonderful things without number." Job 9:8-10

Centuries later the Hebrew prophet called Amos also referred to the Kesil and Kimah constellations and credited their creation to Jehovah. Amos 5:8 states: "The Maker of the Kimah constellation and the Kesil constellation, and the One turning deep shadow into the morning itself, and the One who has made day itself dark as night, the One calling for the waters of the sea, that he may pour them out upon the surface of the earthJehovah is his name..."

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