GRAVITY OF ALL THINGS SEEN

 Nowhere in the Bible (that I have found) is gravity mentioned specifically. However, the very word ‘gravity’ means weighty or grave.

Gravity is a weak force compared to nuclear energy, but gravity is so strong that it holds all existence together.

If what we see as ‘existence’ are particles of matter in space, then antimatter would be the unseen particles of matter with much different internal properties. Recently discovered by science in 2023, that although much different, both matter and antimatter are subject to gravity.

Gravity rules the universe. All things are subject to gravity. If anyone endeavors to lift or carry things made of matter, at some point in the process matter overcomes them because of the invisible force of gravity. Since gravity is so mysterious and foundational why was it that gravity is not mentioned in scripture! Because gravity was unknown in those days, except by God and perhaps Enoch.

However, perhaps it is in the Bible! Take for instance the resurrection of the dead saints that arose with Jesus at the Resurrection: 

The graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (Mat 27:52-53)

 Long dead material — the residue of bodies (matter) — was beneath the ground. They were incapable of doing anything because they were nothing more than dead weight. Their remains were in the ground and subject to gravity. The ground held them in their graves. Gravity was what contained them.

If not for gravity, long before that time, the absence of that weightiness would have released them from the Earth and their remains would have floated as if there was nothing constraining them.

Gravity implies death, would you not say?

Think of the effects of gravity on human beings. The robust and elastic-like flesh of a newborn baby, given enough time sags to the extent that its elasticity and liveliness is gone. Stretch the skin of a baby and it rebounds; stretch the skin of an aged person and it sags. Gravity ages. The living body cannot even sustain flesh.

After the first original sin, the flesh of Adam and his woman did not die immediately but withered for over 900 years until they could endure the world no more. Gravity withered their flesh and Adam and Eve aged.

The ‘world’ seems to be anything that is subject to a gravitational field. One of the consequences of sin was directed at Adam, “In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it was you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return” (Gen 3:19).

Work was first defined right then after the first sin. Gravity would take its toll on Adam. It is implied that there was an absence of work in the paradisical Garden of Eden. Therein, God would have provided and there would be no work therein; they would eat manna from heaven with no toil on their part.

(For more on that idea, review my commentary “VEGAN MAN OR CARNAL MAN;” Aug 1, 2022).

 Even standing upright is work. To stand erect, the first man would have no gravity to overcome him. It would require work to overcome the weightiness of Paradise if it had weight to overcome. Weight is resistance to particle movement to put it simply. When a person stands on a scale, the scale measures the force to overcome the body of matter upon it.

God cast Adam and his mate out of Paradise (Gen 3:24), ostensibly to the world where there was gravity because work would be required by them to even eat. Without God who is in heaven, the man and woman would need to overcome the world unassisted. It was gravity that would hinder them and age them at the same time.

Time is basically a measurement of gravity. Time is measured by the orbit of the Earth around the sun and the moon about the Earth. They remain in orbit because of gravity that holds them back against flying haphazardly out of the universe. As such, it is gravity that ages because it is the source of time!

At the Terrible Day of the Lord (The Wrath of God) something severe will happen: 

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. (Rev 6:13-14)

 God uses gravity to redo what He has done. The sixth seal is the absence of gravity. Stars are held in their orbits by gravity, and when the stars fall, it is not toward anything, but just a forever falling away into the nothingness of unwanted space.

The “earth” in that context is not planet Earth but solids (Strong 2006) made up of matter. Not so much them falling, the stars will disintegrate into the particles, or dust, from which they came. Gravity will explode them and with that done, without bodies of matter, there will be no more time, given that the Sun is a measurement of time.

The genesis of the earth (all solid matter) will be undone. The heaven (and the bodies within) will roll up as a scroll. The Creation will be undone.

Now think backwards in time; Isaiah envisioned the Creation: 

Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in. (Isa 40:21-22)

 In the beginning, according to Isaiah the prophet, God unfurled the cosmos as a curtain would be unrolled. He saw that from the past event — the Creation.

John saw into the future. He saw the curtain that God unrolled in the beginning (before time) rolled back up like a scroll. God will undo what He did in the beginning and redo it for the Resurrection. He will Create a new heaven and a new earth.

Sometime later, Isaiah saw into the future and, beheld, God creating new heavens and a new earth: “and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” (Isa 65:17). That corresponds with John’s vision hundreds of years later, “I (John) saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Rev 21:1).

The root of the Greek word translated ‘sea’ is salt (ibid). Salt is a basic compound of matter. It may be that the heavenly bodies disintegrate, leaving nothing material. In other words, without matter, there should be no more gravity to overcome.

If the new heaven is that way, then the old heaven — the realm of the Garden of Eden — would be without particle mass as we know it and without mass, no weightiness or gravity.

I propose that Adam and Eve were cast out of Paradise in heaven and into the world wherein gravity would overcome them. All the work that they would do themselves would never overcome the gravity of the world. Only God could subdue the effects of gravity.

There remains a huge problem with that hypothesis: That God first created the ‘phantom’ of man — his soul (Gen 1:27), then made him material, to wit: “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). God formed the man. He did all the work and gravity would have no part in his delivery from the ‘womb’ of God. Gravity is what gives birth. The being inside has weight and gravity attracts the unborn to the world.

Man was formed from dust, as scripture says, but the essence of mankind, as well as the other kinds, are their specific DNA. Not to be New Age, science has proposed that fossil fuels are not fossils at all, but dust from ancient and massive stars in their formation at extremely high temperatures. Carbon, from which our carbon chain comes, comes from ancient stars. The ingredients of mankind, as well as animal kind (life itself), was generated by God before the foundation of the world. My hunch is that the material for Adam’s body was carbon dust, not from the ground of the Earth but the matter from distant stars. (That is the apologetics for my hypothesis that Adam and his woman were first in Paradise in heaven before they were cast out to the world.)

Much of this is speculation that goes beyond traditional theology. However, it is somewhat supported by Jesus, speaking of Himself He said, “In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

How did Jesus do that? He arose! He overcame gravity as He ascended into Paradise within the realm of heaven. My proposition is that there are no graves or gravity in Paradise. John wrote, “Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1 John 5:5).

Those who believe that Jesus is God, overcome the world, obviously at the rapture when they are removed from the grave and gravity to be with Jesus in the heavens.

There must be a distinction between this realm and that one, the seen and the unseen. The seen consists of particles of matter, but the unseen a substance that cannot be beheld. The properties of the things here and there are much different. Perhaps it is a massless realm where massless things exist and of a substance that gravity is not required to exist. God alone is the Power therein to keep things in their places, as John saw in the Revelation.

Just as God is the Light, perhaps God is capable of bending the light without gravity to do that work; especially since He is Almighty God!

Did science find that gravity effects antimatter particles, or was that another of Lucifer’s cunning deceptions, taking away the Glory and Power of God to do things that they attribute to the ‘Unknown God’ — Gravity.

In mythology, it was Atlas who held the Earth in its place. What he was standing on is not revealed, but if there is a ‘God of Gravity’ in mythology, it would be Atlas and perhaps he was the ‘Unknown God’ that Paul revealed to them that is really Jesus.

With that evidence, perhaps there is no gravity or graves in Paradise!

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