...sun and moon and other heavenly bodies ; but on the fourth day He commanded them to rule the day and the night, and to be " for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years." The Bible was never intended to teach us physical science, as we are expressly told in Ecclesiastes,...

...importance to mankind, — ' to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night; to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.' The fact of their creation had been stated before in the first verse." The question of the meaning...

...sun and moon and other heavenly hodies ; but on the fourth day He commanded them to ruk the day and the night, and to be " for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years." The Bible was never intended to teach us physical science, as we are expressly told in Ecclesiastes,...

...is recorded that " God made lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth : to divide the day from the night, and to be for signs and for seasons, and for days anil years. He made the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night...

..."—just as Jehovah appointed, at the birth of light upon man's earth, the luminaries m the firmament, "to divide the day from the night, and to be for signs and for seaeons, and for days and for years." To this the same Jehovah has appointed you. He has endowed you...

...soil. On the fourth day, Moses tells us, God made the sun, moon, and stars, or rather He appointed them to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. All that is meant may be that then the sun, moon, and stars became visible through the clear air, as...

...shone forth in the sky ; and two greater lights were set in the firmament, to divide the day fi >m the night, and to be " for signs, and for seasons, and for days and for years." Then the finny-tribes sported in " the waters of the seas," the birds of heaven filled the air with...

...that place, so that it should find life and enjoyment in it. He set lights in the firmament of heaven, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. Not till the earth was...

...varied operations ? Is it in vain for you that God has placed His lights in the firmament of heaven, to be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years, and caused this globe on which you tread to shape her annual voyage through the ocean of wide space,...

...of the light ; and the sun was also required as the ordained instrument for reflecting the light, to divide the day from the night, and to be for signs, and seasons, and days, and years. As an engine is made up of several parts, and each part is essential...