Mark 4:35-40 “That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”

Yesterday was a very interesting special day for me. I’ve been going through the storms, trials and tribulations for the past 8 years on and off. Sometimes I
feel like we must go through them to get God to the point He is taking us. We just might not be able to handle the big good awesome things He’s about ready to do! We also might have to really get educated by God through life! Man and employers trust your reputation more to hire you if you have experience and/or an education. God is the same way if He has a job for us to do, He’ll give us an education in life to get us to our place in Him to do what He has called us to do “a job” to do!

If I’m going through rough times right now, trials, tribulations and storms in life, you may ask why yesterday was a good day? Well recently on my Myspace and Facebook I got confirmation in my spirit when my status said “Greg is coming out of the wildnerness into His promised land!” I wrote it out of my faith.

Well, here’s what happened yesterday… In the morning I was kind of down in the dumps and depressed. Around lunch time I was strolling through a park here in town. On the sidewalk I was walking with a Christian lady friend I made. She was creeped out, she looked down at the sidewalk and asked “is that a snake or a worm?” I had to look closely, it was a worm, I’m a dude it didn’t really creep me out. Just one of God’s creatures!

As we walked further down the sidewalk it was kind of odd but there were several like 20-30 on the sidewalk, I didn’t look closely at them but they did appear to all be dead. I thought it was kind of odd, but my mind has been so busy on life lately, I didn’t really think about it too much! I forgot all about it. She got on the bus I got on the bus, we went our separate ways to achieve our endeavors for the day.

Later on that evening around 5ish here I was almost done with my computer internet time at the library. My status I wrote was something like “The sun is beginning to come out of the storm.” I wasn’t talking about a literal storm, the storms in my life. It was weird, here in Hot Springs it hadn’t rained for several days and late at night, not the evening, maybe a week or two ago. A downpour came in! I wasn’t expecting it, I hadn’t heard the news! It rained for a good three hours at least sometimes hard! I got soaked going home! As I was waking getting soaked I was literally laughing! I honestly thought it was funny and maybe a sign. God reminded me about the worms earlier that day. And I knew there was something I needed to learn. Growing up in Phoenix, Arizona it rarely rains, I don’t remember seeing the worm thing before! I knew I had to research on the internet what I had to learn. I did remember there was a corrolation between worms and rain, this was before the rain came in. I asked someone who might know. He just said worms come out during a storm to get out of the dirt not to drown. Which made sense but this was 5 hours before any rain came in and it had been days! He didn’t understand why?

I found a couple websites that are ministering to me and the holy spirit is showing me stuff. First off, God calls the junk and sin in our life “worms”! There’s also a reason dead bodies after our spirit leaves them and goes to one of two places gets infested with worms. It was our flesh our sinful bodies, which we are now “dead” to and alive somewhere. These worms were in fact dead, now that I look back!

A website (http://www.jstor.org/pss/2451329 states: “During the rain in Washington, D.C. on the 20th of March my attention was attracted to the earthworms so abundant on the paths, the sidewalks and the streets of the city.” Some were large, some small; some active, some sluggish; some alive many dead. I had noticed their presence before, during January and February in the Capitol grounds, especially on the pavements. I suppose then they had simply come of some rubbish lying along the sides of the walls, and that they would straggle back again. I have since come to a different conclusions-a conclusion which is effect, that few indeed of those which come out are able to, or at least seldom really do, straggle back.”

Wow I see all kinds of things in this guys writings! So much from the holy spirit, it is very deep! I hope you all get a witness in your spirit! First off we are made of the ground, the dirt, we come out of the rain and storms in life. Then our worms go, we become more like our spirit man which should reflect Christ. Some of our “worms” in life are large, some are small! We can either coming out of our storm be active or sluggish depending on how fast we learn, but we do eventually come out of the storm when our focus is on Christ! Some will die, some will live on! (read that again! there’s a second death, the bible calls hell hades and the lake of fire!). Some people will even go back to their “worms” and remain in storms in life!

I ask “How long have you been in your storm or your “worm?” Will you come out? It may be a bit scary to come out of your rubbish and see the light! And you may be sluggish, but “The Light” is there!” “Have trust and have faith to get out of the boat and step on the water!”

That is bizarre too! I do find Jesus has felt like He has been sleeping and not answering me too! Look what you’ll find and be shown if you walk after the spirit!

Remember the story of Job? Job was extremely wealthy — enjoying a wonderful family. Then tragedy struck. He lost his wealth. His children were killed and his wife deserted him. Then Job lay in excruciating pain, covered with sores from head to toe. All this was too much for Job. He accused the Lord of being unjust. God didn’t answer Job’s accusation directly. He merely raised questions concerning the wonders of His creation. Three of these questions found in Job 38:31, 32, illustrate the dynamic logic conveyed in God’s questions.

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

ORION

“Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion?” Garrett P. Serviss, the noted astronomer, wrote about the bands of Orion12 in his book CURIOSITIES OF THE SKY.

At the present time this band consists of an almost perfect straight line, a row of second-magnitude stars about equally spaced and of the most striking beauty. In the course of time, however, the two right-hand stars, Mintaka and Alnilam, will approach each other and form a naked-eye double; but the third, Alnitak, will drift away eastward so that the band will no longer exist.

In other words, one star is traveling in a certain direction at a certain speed, a second one is traveling in a different direction at a second speed, and the third one is going in a third direction and at a still different speed. Actually every star in Orion is traveling its own course, independent of all the others. Thus, these stars that we see forming one of the bands of Orion are like three ships out on the high seas that happen to be in line at the present moment, but in the future will be separated by thousands of miles of ocean. In fact, all these stars that at the present time constitute the constellation of Orion are bound for different ports, and all are journeying to different corners of the universe, so that the bands are being dissolved.

THE PLEIADES

“Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades . . . ?” Notice the amazing astronomical contrast with the Pleiades. The seven stars of the Pleiades are in reality a grouping of 250 suns. Photographs now reveal that 250 blazing suns in this group are all traveling together in one common direction. Concerning this cluster, Isabel Lewis of the United States Naval Observatory tells us: 13

Astronomers have identified 250 stars as actual members of this group, all sharing in a common motion and drifting through space in the same direction.

Elsewhere Lewis speaks of them as “journeying onward together through the immensity of space.”

From Lick Observatory came this statement of Dr. Robert J. Trumpler:14

Over 25,000 individual measures of the Pleiades stars are now available, and their study led to the important discovery that the whole cluster is moving in a southeasterly direction. The Pleiades stars may thus be compared to a swarm of birds, flying together to a distant goal. This leaves no doubt that the Pleiades are not a temporary or accidental agglomeration of stars, but a system in which the stars are bound together by a close kinship.

Dr. Trumpler said that all this led to an important discovery. Without any reference whatsoever to the Book of Job, he announced to the world that these discoveries prove that the stars in the Pleiades are all bound together and are flying together like a flock of birds as they journey to their distant goal. That is exactly what God said. “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?” In other words, Canst thou keep them bound together so that they remain as a family of suns?

INCREDIBLE! God’s laws of cosmology are loosing or dissolving the constellation Orion. Sometime in the far distant future, Orion will be no more. Conversely, wonder of wonders — every last one of the 250 blazing suns in the Pleiades are ordained of God to orbit together in their symmetrical beauty throughout eternity.

ARCTURUS

“Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?” Garrett P. Serviss wrote:15

Arcturus, one of the greatest suns in the universe, is a runaway whose speed of flight is 257 miles per second. Arcturus, we have every reason to believe, possesses thousands of times the mass of our sun. Think of it! Our sun is traveling only 12 ½ miles a second, but Arcturus is traveling 257 miles a second. Think then of the prodigious momentum this motion implies.

A further observation of Arcturus by Serviss reveals: 16

It could be turned into a new course by a close approach to a great sun, but it could only be stopped by collision head on with a body of enormous mass. Barring such accidents, it must, as far as we can see, keep on until it has traversed our stellar system, whence it may escape and pass out into space beyond to join perhaps one of those other island universes of which we have spoken.

Charles Burckhalter, of the Chabot Observatory, added an interesting note regarding this great sun: 17

This high velocity places Arcturus in that very small class of stars that apparently are a law unto themselves. He is an outsider, a visitor, a stranger within the gates; to speak plainly, Arcturus is a runaway. Newton gives the velocity of a star under control as not more than 25 miles a second, and Arcturus is going 257 miles a second. Therefore, combined attraction of all the stars we know cannot stop him or even turn him in his path.

When Mr. Burckhalter had his attention called to this text in the book of Job, he studied it in the light of modern discovery and made a statement that has attracted worldwide attention:18

The study of the Book of Job and its comparison with the latest scientific discoveries has brought me to the matured conviction that the Bible is an inspired book and was written by the One who made the stars.

The wonders of God’s universe never cease to amaze us. Arcturus and his sons are individual runaway suns that seem to be out of orbit in our galaxy. Traveling at such incredible speeds, why don’t they crash with other suns or planets? Where are they headed? Only God knows. Indeed they are not runaways. They will not crash. Why? God is guiding them.

The Lesson of The Pleiades, Orion, and Arcturus

Few have suffered the multiple tragedies of Job. How could God reach through the enormity of Job’s self-pity? (Job thought God just didn’t care.) In these three questions (Job 38:31, 32) God is in reality saying:

Job, you think I am not concerned about your suffering. Well, let Me ask you these questions. Can you loose the bands of Orion? No, you cannot. But My Divine power will. Some day Orion will no longer exist. Job, can you bind the 250 stars of the Pleiades together in their symmetry of beauty and not have a single one drift off? Only I have this power and wisdom. Can you prevent the runaways — Arcturus and his sons — from colliding as they go dashing out of the Milky Way? No, only My Divine power and wisdom can.

Job, if I am caring for the details of the universe, do you doubt that I not only care for the details of your life, but I have the ability to solve your problems? Trust that there is a good reason I am permitting these tragedies. Remember, Job, I work from the perspective of your eternal welfare.

What an awesome way God chose to tell Job that He was in full control of human affairs, including Job’s life!

The Lesson of Job for Us

Some write off the history of Job as Old Testament folklore. Whoever heard of God talking to a man! These are hand-me-down tales! However, the account of Job cannot be gainsaid. Whatever the method of communication used by God, the astonishing facts cannot be refuted. These scientific facts recorded in the book of Job concerning the Pleiades, Orion and Arcturus anticipated scientific discovery by nearly 3,000 years. Scientists only discovered these startling facts in the Twentieth Century, yet they were recorded in the book of Job nearly 3000 years ago. What an awesome confirmation of the Bible! Who can doubt the Bible is the inspired word of God? Yes, the book of Job has a powerful, exclusive lesson for modern man. Twentieth Century science has proven God’s Word, the Bible, is true.

Source: http://www.bibletoday.com/archive/proof_text.htm