Another year around the Son 2.3.25
Read Job 38, Colossians 1:1-14
Check out Isaiah 40:26. What has the power to make us feel small? If you said the night sky in all it’s stargazing glory, you are on to it. God is asking question after question. Job can you lead out the constellations in their seasons? Let alone can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? The gravitational power binding them together for thousands of years has not failed. They were mentioned in early Chinese writings about 2,300 BC. The Pleiades also appear in Amos 5:8 KJV (“Seek him that maketh the seven stars. . .”) The Pleiades are a young open star cluster, 444 light years away.
Can Job or anyone loosen Orion’s belt? We can’t change a thing in orbit. In 2 Kings 23:5-6 Josiah will do away with the idolatrous habit of sun and constellation worship. God is the Creator and it’s not lost on Job. This same God and heavenly Father has qualified you and I to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. Colossians 1:12 NET
It is as if God has credited Job, who earlier mentioned these same stars in Job 9:9 and now here they are in God’s questions to Job. (Job 38:32-33)
And what were those chambers of the south? Here is something I found poetic, historic, and thought provoking.
THE CHAMBERS OF THE SOUTH—JOB, BY THEODORE COOPER. (from 1910)
“Look unto the Heavens and see.”
WHEN Job, on a cold starry night, from his ash heap on the shores of a sea, cried “Which alone stretcheth out the heavens And treadeth upon the waves of the sea, Which maketh the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades, And the Chambers of the South,” his hand swept over the sea and through well-known constellations, and rested at two dark spots in the south just above the horizon, where “He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters”; true chambers of mystery, which sailors have named “the Holes in the Sky.” This is the impression conveyed to the mind of one who for over half a century has been a star gazer on land and sea, under both northern and southern skies. The most beautiful and impressive portion of the heavens is centered about the south celestial pole. It contains the continuation and brightest part of the Milky Way, the Magellan clouds which are great patches of the Milky Way gone astray, the Southern Cross, the Holes in the Sky and a quarter of all the stars of first magnitude in the heavens. These “Holes in the Sky” and the adjacent Southern Crossare 25 ° to 30 from the celestial pole and on the same meridian as the handle of the Great Dipper. Under favorable conditions at points south of north latitude 25 °, the Southern Cross and theDipper can be seen in the heavens at the same time. These “Holes in the Sky” are great islands in the Milky Way absolutely free from stars. By contrast to the brightness of the surrounding Milky Way and the neighboring stars of first and second magnitude, they appear to the naked eye almost black. Their darkness and sharply defined edges give the impression of holes broken through the blue and starry firmament to an outer region of utter darkness. The name given them by the early sailors is a perfectly expressive one. There is nothing like them elsewhere in the heavens. They are not in- conspicuous, their apparent sizes being about 80 to 20 times the size of the moon. They impress the thoughtful observer with awe and a deep realization of the immensity of space and the infinite. (THE CHAMBERS OF THE SOUTH, JOB, IX, (J. 5OI)
