great gulf – Page 3 – Matty (Headwind)

September 26, 2020October 2, 2021

If Hell is Expanding Why isn’t the Earth Getting Bigger?

O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Frace be with you. Amen.
(1 Timothy 6:20-21) NKJV

Continuing the theme of weird things that people say on social media there’s another question which comes up from time to time which pertains to Jesus’ teaching on hell.

If hell is expanding, why isn’t the earth getting bigger?
– Someone trying to sound clever.

September 10, 2020March 23, 2022

The Earth with Her Bars

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
(Jonah 2:6) KJV

“The earth with her bars” is how Jonah described the pillars of the earth when he was in the belly of hell, possibly in the place which we euphemistically refer to as Abraham’s bosom.

September 10, 2020March 23, 2022

The Pillars of the Earth

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

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.
(1 Samuel 2:8) KJV

“The pillars of the earth” are incorporated into a 3D model of a spherical Earth in which they’re part of Earth’s internal structure. They don’t require us to believe that the Earth is flat.

September 10, 2020March 23, 2022

The Bars of the Pit

They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
(Job 17:16) KJV

“The bars of the pit” is a synonym for “the pillars of the earth.” They’re in the great gulf or “mega chasm” which is the region of Earth’s interior which mainstream science (SciPop) calls the “liquid outer core.”

September 9, 2020September 9, 2021

The Great Gulf P-wave Shadow

Cutaway of planet earth showing hell at the center

And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
“Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’
And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
(Luke 16:23-24, 26) NKJV

The popular science (SciPop) “liquid outer core” is speculative at best, and there’s no reason why it can’t be open space. The P-wave shadow zone is the great gulf of which Jesus spoke in Luke 16:26.

September 7, 2020November 22, 2021

Biblical Seismology

But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
(Luke 16:25-26) NKJV

The testimony of Jesus Christ establishes that there’s a great gulf of open space inside the Earth. It’s described in the passage known as the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31).

August 31, 2020March 15, 2022

Sheol

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
(Psalms 16:10) KJV

Sheol refers to life beyond the grave, quite literally an underworld realm of the dead. It’s also modified in a variety of ways which can be grouped to correspond to the main regions of the interior of the Earth.

August 31, 2020March 26, 2022

Tehom was Wet. Sheol is Dry

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the relative depth of Noah's flood

and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’
(Luke 16:23, 26) English Standard Version

The space in the interior of the Earth formerly occupied by the great deep is now a great gulf (chasm) of open space that Jesus spoke of in Luke 16:26. The open space is no longer referred to as tehom, it’s now sheol.

August 3, 2020February 7, 2022

Functional Orbital Mechanics

Conceptual diagram of the Cassini space vehicle flight path

The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.
(Ecclesiastes 12:11) ESV

Any opposition to the popular science (SciPop) heliocentric cosmological model will be greeted with the general refrain of “it must be true because it works.”

August 2, 2020March 26, 2022

Tehom became Sheol

I had another vision from the Sovereign Lord. In it I saw him preparing to punish his people with fire. The fire burned up the great ocean under the earth and started to burn up the land.
(Amos 7:4) Good News Translation

The region between Earth’s core and mantle, referred to by Jesus as a mega chasm or a great gulf, has to transition from water filled to open space due to the expansion of hell.