JD: Are we misusing the term shower? Is it the Earth going through all these items in space or are they actually falling towards the Earth?
DD: Well these debris clouds are orbiting the sun as well and what happens is our orbit of our Earth happens to intersect their orbit that’s when we see them. So everything is moving. We actually move through there and we would say we sweep them up. So our gravity captures them so then they fall through the upper air.
Now some of these particles Jimmy are large enough that they
do not vaporize. They’ll survive the trip and hit the ground and then they
become a meteorite and people collect those. These are either metal or rock. They’re
rather rare these rocks from space that can be found on the ground.
JD: But all of this a part of God’s creative act there in
chapter 1 on the fourth day right?
DD: Well it certainly is Jimmy and further more these meteor
showers I would say are showing the growing old of the Earth. If these were
previous comets that have disintegrated there gone and now they’re sweeping up
their debris I think it’s all a demonstration that the Earth is growing old,
waxing old like a garment as scripture says and wearing down. Of course some
day the Lord will return and make a new Heavens and new Earth because this
present one is fading away.
JD: Until that time as Psalm 19 tells us the Heavens do declare His glory. And it’s great to be able to watch all of these things happening isn’t
it?
DD: Well it certainly is. It’s part of the beauty of
space. Yes, even in a world that’s far from perfect under the fall, under the
curse we can still see the beauty in the way the Lord has set up this whole
system for our well being. And meteor showers are just another dramatic sign of
God’s presence and His control over all things.
JD: Don DeYoung with the details behind the recent meteor shower
that displayed the glory of the Lord to the entire world.
We report this information because it is setting the stage
for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
In Don’s report on the recent meteor shower he said that
these showers are evidence that this Earth is winding down or actually dying. Revelation
21 speaks of a new Heaven and a new Earth. II Peter 3:10 says that this old
Earth and Heaven will burn up and then the new. With four words Jesus brought
the Heavens and all that is in them into existence on the fourth day of
creation. Isaiah 65:17 also speaks of a new Heaven and a new Earth. Once again
Jesus will create that new Heaven and new Earth. However until that happens
these Heavens we see today declare the glory of the Lord, that’s Psalm 19. The
Lord is in control of everything.
