Flat Earth, Solar System, And Galaxies: A Biblical Perspective

MOVEMENT OF SUN AND MOON

Ps 19:4-6 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

God set a tabernacle for the sun. The sun goes forth from the end of heaven and its circuit unto the ends of heaven. Unlike the earth that does not move, the sun moves in its circuit every day.

Eccl 1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

Judg 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

The sun rises and goes down. The sun goes forth in his might. The sun moves and is not still.

Josh 10:12-13 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

The earth does not move but the sun and moon move. To achieve his objective Joshua did not command the earth to stand still for it was already still and immovable. Rather it was the sun and moon that stood still at Joshua's command.

2Kgs 20:8-11 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day? And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

The shadow of the sun went backwards as a sign to Hezekiah that the Lord would heal him. The movement of the shadow of the sun depended on the movement of the sun itself.

Job 9:6-7 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

Hab 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

God does command the sun and the moon to stand still at times.

THE EARTH HAS PILLARS AND FOUNDATIONS

1Sam 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.