Genesis Lecture 37 (Fourth day of the Creation 2) Swahili
Bible passage: Genesis 1:14-19
“14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. 17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.”
This is the 37th Lecture on Genesis.
I'll continue to explain the 4th day of the Creation from the last lecture. On the 4th day, God created the sun, the moon, and stars. In astronomical terminology, God created "our Galaxy" during the 4th day of the Creation. The stars beyond our galaxy have existed since there was only one space, "the original space." Compared to the vastness of the space, the earth is less than a tiny speck. In the last lecture, I said that the earth, among the all the stars in the first heaven, might be compared to a grain of sand of a beach. Scientists even say that the number of the stars in the universe is greater than the number of grains of sand that make up all the beaches of the earth.
They say so because they assume that there are roughly 100 billion galaxies in the universe. In our galaxy, which is one of 100 billion galaxies, there are about 100 billion stars. Therefore, the number of stars in the entire universe is more than 100 billon times 100 billion (1 with 22 zeros after it!) People call all the small shining lights in the night sky "stars." In astronomy, only the celestial body that can shine by itself is called "a star." Before I go on any further, let me explain some terms first. First, "the celestial bodies" refer to "all the existing things (material objects) of the universe." A "body," which shines by itself in a relatively fixed location, like the sun of the Solar System for example, is called a "star."
This is the definition of a "star" in astronomy, and the most of stars that we can see in the night sky are the celestial bodies that can shine by themselves.
