Title: Sun and Moon, Stand Still
1Sun and Moon, Stand Still
- How we thank God for all of this! It is he who
makes us victorious through Jesus Christ our
Lord! - 1 Corinthians 1557
2The Facts, Please!
- God Created the sun and then moon to make day and
night on earth and to divide our seasons and
years. Without them, every living thing would
die.
3More Facts, Please!
- The solar system is made up of the sun, the
planets, and all the other heavenly bodies-such
as moons, asteroids, and many meteors. The
planets and smaller bodies are held in place by
the pull of the sun, as they travel around it and
receive and reflect its light and heat. Each has
a regular path (orbit) around the suns.
4More, and More Facts!
- The diameter of the sun is 865,400 miles, which
is 109 times the diameter of the earth and 400
times the diameter of the moon. If the sun were
a two-foot ball, the earth would be the size of a
pea. The earth makes one revolution around the
sun in a years time. At the same time, it spins
once around its axis daily, giving us light (day)
and darkness (night).
5 6More Facts!
- Our solar system is a small part of a galaxy
called the Milky Way, which consists of 100
billion stars. Some are 10 miles in diameter
some are as big as 330 times the size of our sun.
Todays telescopes can identify more than one
billion galaxies n the universe.
7More Facts
- If God can make this huge universe and keep it
all running in place and in order, he can also
change any part of it if he chooses to do so.
The Bible tells an incredible story about a day
when he did that-the day the sun stood still.
How did this come about? Did God stop the
rotation of the earth, so that the sun appeared
to stand still? Did he cause the whole solar
system to stop in place for a day? It doesnt
matter how to happened, but we know it did
because the Bible says so.
8Verse Maze No one can defeat God. Do you have
friends or family members who oppose you in your
Christian life? Are temptations, sinners, or
Satan making it difficult for you to right?
Romans 831 says, If God be with us, who can be
against us? On the handout, with a pencil,
trace these words, in order through the maze five
times, going up, down, right, and left.