Day 811 – The Ancient’s Guide to the Galaxy – Wisdom Wednesday

Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy Welcome to Day 811 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom The Ancient&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy &#8211; Wisdom Wednesday Thank you for joining us for our five days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. Today is Day 811 of our trek, and it is Wisdom Wednesday. The past several weeks on Wednesdays, we have been focusing on interpreting current events through a Biblical worldview. To establish a Biblical worldview, it is important that you also have a proper understanding of God’s Word. Especially in our western cultures, we do not fully understand the Scriptures from the mindset and culture of the authors. In order to help us all have a better understanding of God’s word, I would like to invest the next several weeks reviewing a series of essays from one of today’s most prominent Hebrew scholars Dr. Micheal S. Heiser, which have been compiled into a book titled I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible. We are broadcasting from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. Although we are technically still in winter as I am creating this podcast, there are signs of spring in the air with the daffodils sprouting and birds making their nests in preparation of raising a new family for this year. Spring is always a time for renewal, a time of new beginnings. As we explore God’s Word from a new perspective, that is the perspective of an Old Testament Israelite, allow it to be a time of growth in your spiritual life, a time of renewal. So our essay for today is titled… The Ancient’s Guide to the Galaxy God chose a specific time, place, and culture to inspire people to produce what we read in the Old Testament: the ancient Mediterranean and the ancient Near East of the second and first millennia BC. Understanding the worldview of this culture can lead to more faithful understandings of Scripture on our part, especially when it comes to an understanding of how the Israelites viewed God and the universe. · Old Testament Cosmology “Cosmology” refers to the way we understand the structure of the universe. The biblical writers’ conception of how the heavens and earth were structured by God represents a particular cosmology. The Israelites believed in a universe that was common among the ancient civilizations of the Biblical world. It encompassed three parts: a heavenly realm, an earthly realm for humans, and an underworld for the dead. These three tiers are reflected in the Ten Commandments: &#8220;You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea,&#8221; Exodus 20:4. <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17552 aligncenter" src="https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Ancient’s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-3-300x225.jpg" alt="The Ancient’s Guide to the Galaxy 3" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://wisdom-trek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Ancient’s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-3-300x225.jpg