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Moon, The

 

Moon, The

Created by God - Ge 1:14; Ps 8:3

Made to glorify God - Ps 148:3

Called the lesser light - Ge 1:16

DESCRIBED AS

• Fair
- So 6:10
• Bright
- Job 31:26

Has a glory of its own - 1Co 15:41

APPOINTED

• To divide day from night
- Ge 1:14
• For signs and seasons
- Ge 1:14; Ps 104:19
• For a light in the firmament
- Ge 1:15
• To light the earth by night
- Jer 31:35
• To rule the night
- Ge 1:16; Ps 136:9
• By an ordinance for ever
- Ps 72:5,7; 89:37; Jer 31:36
• For the benefit of all
- De 4:19

Influences vegetation - De 33:14

First appearance of, a time of festivity - 1Sa 20:5,6; Ps 81:3

MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH

• Standing still in Ajalon
- Jos 10:12,13
• Signs in, before the destruction of Jerusalem
- Lu 21:25

Lunacy attributed to the influence of - Ps 121:6; Mt 4:24

Worshipped as the queen of heaven - Jer 7:18; 44:17-19,25

WORSHIPPING OF

• Forbidden to the Jews
- De 4:19
• Condemned as atheism
- Job 31:26,28
• To be punished with death
- De 17:3-6
• Jews often guilty of
- 2Ki 23:5; Jer 8:2
• Jews punished for
- Jer 8:1-3

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of glory of Christ in the Church
- Isa 60:20
• Of fairness of the Church
- So 6:10
• Of changeableness of the world
- Re 12:1
• (Becoming blood,) of judgments
- Re 6:12
• (Withdrawing her light,) of deep calamities
- Isa 13:10; Joe 2:10; 3:15; Mt 24:29
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