GOD IS A STAR- COSMIC EDITION #4

A simple question leads to an outstanding, life-changing revelation. In this foundational episode of Diysalvation Cosmic Edition, we explore Genesis 1:3 and the mystery of the light that appeared before the sun. This episode bridges science and Scripture, expanding your faith with a stunning view of the God of creation.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to God as a Star
• 6:09 Genesis and the First Light
• 11:41 Scientific Perspective on Galactic Systems
• 18:35 Revelation vs. Science
• 23:42 Divine Revelation: "I Am a Star"
• 30:42 Jesus as Earth's Original Star
• 35:35 The Bright and Morning Star

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:18

hey, fam, welcome back to another episode of diy salvation cosmic edition, the series where I go full astronomy geek on you. I'm just kidding, but, honestly, what you're about to hear today might just shift the way you see the Bible, the universe and God himself especially. Today's episode is titled God is a star. We're going to start. I don't know whether we're going to be able to finish, but we'll start. Okay, and yes, I know that sounds controversial God is a star, but this is the foundational teaching for our entire cosmic edition series.

Speaker 1: 1:14

The fact that we're even talking about DIY Salvation Cosmic Edition started from the experience that I had and the encounter that I had, or began to have from this particular topic. Okay, so let me tell you what happened not too long ago. This all began on Sunday, march 30th 2025. Today's date is the 2nd of June 2025. That particular day, I was sitting with my son. It was a Sunday, and usually we just hang out on Sundays after church. So we're having a conversation about Genesis, chapter one.

Speaker 1: 2:03

This is a chapter that many of us know, but very few of us truly pause to question. I know, when it comes to the Bible and Christians, you know we've been taught to take everything that we see in the Bible dogmatically, you know, and not to question it, I agree. However, understanding is also very key because a lot of Christians they have this interaction with the Bible where they do not understand a lot of things in the Bible, but because they are free to even question it in the Bible, but because they are free to even question it, you know, they tend to veer off the course of the Bible or the course of God, or the course that God has set for their lives and they tend to veer off into other things because, oh well, they don't really understand the Bible. But that's the reason why we're here and we're doing DIY Salvation to be able to bring light to those dark topics that you thought you didn't understand or you just did away with because you felt like it just didn't make sense. So we're here to explain all of those things in a bead that you, after understanding these things, you will get closer to God, you'll know, you'll love God better.

Speaker 1: 3:17

So while we're having that conversation, my son and I, I asked him a question that I have been curious about, you know, but I've not really taken much thought to. But I just mentioned, and I'm sure maybe some of you may have wondered as well, but before I share the question, I want to read the verses that I was referring to in Genesis, chapter 1, so that we can all be on the same page. I'll be reading from the Young's Literal Translation and as I read, I'll point out a few things that might help, you know, to weed out popular misunderstandings. This way we can move forward with clarity and insights. We'll all be on the same page, you know, and yeah, genesis, chapter one, from verse one to five, the young's literal translation I love this translation because it's literal from you know, know, literally translated from the original language is used to write the bible.

Speaker 1: 4:24

So he says in verse one, in the beginning of god's preparing the heaven, heavens and the earth, the earth had existed, waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep and the spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters. And God said let light be and light is. And God seared the light, that it is good, and God separated between the light and the darkness and God called the light called to the light day, and to the darkness he hath called night, and there is an evening and there is a morning day, one. Now pause day. We see, light appears, all right, but it's not until day four that God creates the sun and the moon. Do you see that? Because we see this is Genesis, chapter one, from verse one to five. But then we see, in day one, light appears. God said let light be, and light is. On day two, we see that he creates the firmament, the sky. We didn't read all that, you can go ahead and read it. So he, he created the farmament, right. And then, on day three, dry land, plants and herbs appear, because on the tree, you see, he divides the waters, you know, above, from the waters beneath, and then there's dry land, and then he calls for for plants and herbs to appear as well. So we see all these things happening three days. There is morning and there is evening. The first day, as the King James Version will say, there is morning and there is evening. The second day, there is morning and there is evening. The third day, three days, there was morning and you know, um evening, night.

Speaker 1: 6:44

Now, in genesis, chapter 1, from verse 16, verse 16, it says and god maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day and the small luminary and the stars for the rule of the night. So you see, this verse tells us something important. That this just by the side. I just want you to keep this in your mind, because it tells us in verse 16, using the Young's literal translation, that God did not create the stars in Genesis, chapter 1. The stars already existed, they were already there, all right. But what Young's tells us here is that God created two great lights, which is the moon and the sun, right? And then he says that the small luminaryinary reaches the moon, starts to explain what the work of the luminaries are, for the great luminary rules the day and the small luminary rules the night, alongside with the stars. That's what the implication of the Young's Literal Translation tells us.

Speaker 1: 7:55

But of course, in the King James Version we see something else, because it tells us that God created and he made. There's a statement that was included in the King James Version, which is he made the stars. But if you notice in your Bible and you're using the King James Version, it says he made is written in italics. That means that the translators included that by themselves it was not in the translation, right? So they included it because they felt that it didn't make sense, you know to say, and the stars, you know, to rule the night, because there was no place about God creating the stars on that day. So, yeah, so on that particular day, just bear in mind that God created the moon and the stars relating to our earth, right, Relating to our earth on the fourth day, right, but the rest of the stars were already existing.

Speaker 1: 8:53

Now, the big question that I asked my son in that conversation is this Judging from all these scriptures that we have just examined, when God said let there be light, you know, in the third verse of Genesis, chapter one, what light was he talking about? Because we see that the sun and the moon were not created until day four. Okay, so there's a way, when I'm having a conversation with my son and then he starts to think, you know, you could almost like literally hear the little gears in his head, you know turning, because you will see the way his, his, you know, eyes, would you know, as if he's seeing something that you're not seeing, right, something invisible. And then he begins to calculate things and think and all of that. But then he said something that stunned me in his response. He said Mom, there must have been another star holding the earth in place, wow. And so he was very convinced about that. Right, he was convinced because at that point I noticed that, the way he was looking, he doesn't know the Bible as much as I do, right, but in that moment he knew science more than I did, and so he was very much convinced. I could see the look on his face that he was convinced and there was nothing else I was going to say about it.

Speaker 1: 10:18

He was convinced that there had to be some kind of star or sun. You know, because the sun is a star, the star is a sun, right, and he said this star was not just to shine, but it's what needed to stabilize the earth, to provide a gravitational anchor for the planet's earth to spin and orbit. You know, because for him he's like how did God even create the firmament If the earth was already bobbing? You know, like moving, he's already off his, his, um, his course. You know, and it's, you know, moving back and forth and all of that. How would have, how would God have stabilized the earth to be able to create the firmament and then to also divide the waters and then to create the plants to actually be there? You know, and guess what science actually supports what he was saying, because of course, he was saying scientifically.

Speaker 1: 11:13

So let's veer off a little bit into science for the sake of let's just make these things plain. We're teaching bible. Understand this. We're not teaching science. We're teaching bible. So, but we have. Let's just make these things plain. We're teaching Bible, understand this. We're not teaching science, but we're teaching Bible. So, well, we have to understand some of these things.

Speaker 1: 11:26

And for those that are, you know, coming in contact with the topic for the first time, we're going to try to make it as simple as possible so that you'll be able to catch up. Like I said, this is a foundational topic for every other thing we're going to be discussing in DIY Salvation Cosmic Edition. So I would like to have you, you know, to grasp everything that we're talking about. If you already know it, bear with us, please. Okay, so let's just step into science, into the science, for a moment, because it's very key. This part is very key.

Speaker 1: 11:58

Let's start with the fact that the universe is a collection of galaxies. All right, the universe has is a collection of galaxies. Of course, there's dark matter, there is space, there is time. Then there's there are galaxies, there are black holes. Those are like basic things that make up the universe. Okay, so now let's after the. We've talked about the entire universe, now we'll talk about galaxies.

Speaker 1: 12:28

A galaxy is a massive system of stars, gas, dust and especially, planets. They're all held together by gravity, okay, so in a galaxy, you'll find stars, right, and with those stars, you also find planets. You'll find gas, you'll find dust, and they're all held together by gravity. For us, our own galaxy is called the Milky Way, and the Milky Way contains billions, billions of stars, many of which have their own planets. So each star has its own planetary system, do you understand? Just like our sun has Earth and the nine planets that you know of, okay, and of the other planets. So you think of it this way A galaxy is like a giant city in space. The stars are like the homes. The solar systems are like the little families living in those homes, right? Okay, so our galaxy has billions of stars, and many of them, many of the stars, all have their own solar systems. That means they have planets attached to them, right?

Speaker 1: 13:44

Each solar system has a central star, and it's that central star that we usually call the sun, right? And this sun, or this central star acts as the gravitational center. So the rest of the planets orbits around this star. It's star, okay, they all orbit around the sun or their star. All the planets orbit around it and it is that star that keeps the gravity from that star that keeps everything stable. It's the gravity from that star that keeps everything stable, is the graph gravity from that star that makes all the planets orbit around it. So for us, in our solar system, that star is the sun.

Speaker 1: 14:30

Do you understand what we're saying now? That means that the massive gravitational pull from the sun is what keeps the earth and all the other planets in orbit together. You know, around the sun. Without the sun, our planets. What happens to it is that our planets will all drift. Earth will drift into chaos, directionless and unstable. So this is the big scientific question that Coburn was asking my son. He was asking.

Speaker 1: 15:01

This is the big scientific question that Coburn was asking my son. He was asking. He said if there was no sun at the beginning, when God was creating, the sun was only created in verse 16, which is on day four, verse 16 of Genesis, chapter one. So what was holding our earth in place before then was holding our earth in place before then. What was the gravitational center during those first three days, especially since Genesis says that there were already days and nights, evening and morning, because we also know that when we're talking about day and night, it means that the earth would have been rotating and revolving. Do you understand? It means that normal life on earth had begun even if there was no man, but the earth was already doing its thing. But the earth was already doing its thing. So if the earth was already rotating and revolving, if it was revolving, you understand, it means that it would have been going around the sun, but it was no sun. For it to even be stable, there had to be a star that was holding it in place and was serving as its gravitational center. So this points to Genesis, chapter 1, verse 3, when God said let there be light, and there was. What was that light? Do you see that? Now this is the big question what was that light that God was making reference to?

Speaker 1: 16:43

Because, according to science, a planet cannot maintain orbital stability without a central gravitational force. If there is no central mass, there is no balance. If there is no balance, no orbit. If there is no orbit, of course, no rotation. And yet Genesis tells us that the earth was already spinning, water was already existing, day and night were already happening before the sun was ever formed. So again I ask what was the gravitational ankle holding the earth steady?

Speaker 1: 17:25

All right, so that particular day I was having this conversation with my son. We didn't really find an answer immediately because he asked me that question. I didn't really have an answer, but somehow we didn't dwell on it because we ended up veering off into a discussion about evolution. You know, because he had made a statement and he said that you know, I know that christians would just say no, there's nothing like evolution. He believes that as well. But he also doesn't believe that we would just jettison everything that science, all the years of research that scientists have put into these things, and we'll just throw themisoning everything that science, all the years of research that scientists have put into these things, and we'll just throw them away just like that. That there has to be some connection, all right. So in that moment I told them something that I've come to believe very deeply and that's what I'm also going to tell you, that you have to keep bear in mind while we're having this, this series of discussions.

Speaker 1: 18:18

We don't just throw away scientific discoveries just because we believe in the Bible. However listen, this is very important we don't use science to explain the Bible either, right, we do not use science to explain the Bible either. The Bible always comes first. Why? Because it is revealed knowledge. And the way we are wired. We are like multi. We are multi-dimensional beings trapped in a three-dimensional world.

Speaker 1: 18:52

Some people, we're not really four-dimensional. We do experience the fourth dimension to an extent, which is time. But for us time is just, you know, is a straight line, is linear, is in front of us, right? So that's how we experience it. We don't experience all the sides of time, so it's just a little bit of the fourth dimension that we have a little bit of, you know, insight into. So, when really three-dimensional? Well, this body is three-dimensional, basically. So our experiences are mostly three-dimensional, right, but we are multi-dimensional beings.

Speaker 1: 19:30

So for you to be able to trap into the multi-dimensional-ness of you, you would have to go into something deeper, supernatural. That's where revealed knowledge comes in. That's the reason why we walk by faith and not by sight. We can't see god, but we interact with him by faith. All right, and god is a multi-dimensional being he's way, like if, when you're interacting with God, you're already what's that word? Now Interacting in the fifth dimension, for example, do you see? But yes, you're trapped in a three-dimensional world. So faith is very, very key and is very, very important.

Speaker 1: 20:13

So, but, like I said, the Bible always comes first because it's revealed knowledge. So, but like I said, the Bible always comes first because it's revealed knowledge. We put more trust in revealed knowledge than we do with things that we see with our physical senses. That's what the Bible tells us. We walk by faith and not by sight. We walk by faith but not by what we see, feel or experience. Why? Because those things are subject to change. But the things you cannot see, those are the eternal things, those are the true, true things. All right. So the Bible comes first, it's revealed knowledge. Science is catching up with what has already been revealed in the Bible, all right.

Speaker 1: 20:51

So in this particular situation, I was having this conversation with my son. I didn't really know the answer to it immediately, but somehow we didn't dwell on it. It wasn't because it was deliberate on my part, it was just something I was thinking about, because I knew for me. I know that there's the answer somewhere. I just maybe God hasn't revealed to me yet, but there has to be an explanation. The way the Bible is arranged is deliberate. The way God arranged it is deliberate.

Speaker 1: 21:22

If I'm a writer and I'm writing chapters of my books, you know I usually the chapters. They flow one into the other. It's deliberate the way I arranged my chapters. They flow one into the other so that it would give understanding of the overall topic to the person who is reading. I wouldn't expect any less from the God of the universe when he's writing a book. Do you understand the God of all creation, the creator himself, when he's writing a book, a manual for living for us? So there is a way he arranged it. So it was deliberate for him to have said that there was light first, before light was created. There is a reason, and so I just left it at that. And then we discussed all of these other things.

Speaker 1: 22:12

But, like I was saying about science catching up with what has been already written, the example I would give is that for black holes. You know, science has discovered black holes. They make it such a big deal about black holes, you know, and they call them black holes. For example, they give them a name based on what they do they absorb light and matter. They collapse space and they bend time. That's what black holes do, but the Bible already spoke about such places and the Bible didn't call them black holes. The Bible calls them the pit.

Speaker 1: 22:47

You've heard Jesus talk about the pit. You've heard the Bible talk about the abyss. You've heard the Bible talk about Sheol or Hades, the place of the dead. Scripture tells us exactly what they are, spiritually and eternally. Science is just now observing their physical side. So you see that the Bible and science are not enemies, but rather we must understand that revelation must come first.

Speaker 1: 23:19

Science is man's observation. Revelation is God's explanation. I just love this. I love this.

Speaker 1: 23:29

Science is man's observation, revelation, knowledge is God's explanation. And this is exactly what happened to me three days after that conversation with my son. It was just so powerful. So three days later April the 3rd 2025, I'd just woken up, like many mornings, you know, when I just wake up like that, once I open my eyes, I don't know why God is the last thing I think about before I go to bed. Maybe it's because I'm a writer and I'm writing and he's always telling me things to write. I don't know, but he's the last thing on my mind before I go to bed.

Speaker 1: 24:09

And the moment I wake up, my mind goes to him immediately because I have so many questions. Goes to him immediately because I have so many questions, you know, I have, like, maybe we had a conversation the day before, so I have questions. I'm asking him, okay, so what's this or what's that? And all of that, not necessarily in prayer. I this, just this is even before my prayer time, because my prayer time usually is like a moment, is is like a duty that I have to do. You know so it's. You know the way a priest will go okay, light the candle in the temple. That's how my prayer time is, you know so it's even before my prayer time. I'm having just this conversation with God. So, instantly I wake up and then my mind turns instantly to God. Wake up, and then my mind turns instantly to God and by this time but sorry, this time, before I could even say a word, god spoke to me first.

Speaker 1: 25:08

This hardly happens, because I wake up, open my eyes, I'm like dad. That's how I start. I'm like dad. Then I start to say whatever it is on my mind. So, but before I could even say dad. He said something to me immediately. He said I am a star, that was it. There was no buildup, there was no explanation, there was no follow up, just that I am a star. So, you know, I stopped, I heard the words, of course, and then I thought about the word and then my mind you know the little gears in my head also going back and forth and then I realized he was saying something very, very important. You know, he wasn't saying anything else because he had already said enough and that one sentence had sent me into, of course, deep reflection. And then I remembered my conversation with my son and he hit me Jesus is a star. Wait, jesus is a star. God is a star, is it? Is it sinking in, like from all the things we've talked about? Is it sinking in? Yet Jesus is the star that my son was talking about, the one that's, you know, stabilized earth.

Speaker 1: 26:41

You know, like you have to understand when god says something, it's not imagery. I don't know why we often think that the bible is full. Yes, there is imagery, that means it makes us see, but that doesn't mean they're just symbolic and it's not real, it's literal. So he wasn't referring to symbolic light or poetic imagery, god was revealing something literal, prophetic and cosmic. So we have to rewind back to Genesis, chapter 1, verse 2. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. This we see now from Jesus saying I am a star. We already know that. In Genesis, chapter 1, verse 2, in Genesis, chapter 1, verse 2, the fact that it was saying that the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep, it wasn't just describing God's original creation, but we can see that this was a recreation or a renovation of the earth after something must have happened. You know, I know that you probably have heard this so many times.

Speaker 1: 28:41

Scholars have taught about it and the person that's mostly pushed this school of thought forward is Dr Phineas Dake. You know who wrote the book, his book God's Plan for man, god's Eternal Plan for man. I really love that book. God's plan for man, god's eternal plan. I really loved that book. God's eternal. Is it God's eternal plan for man? Yes, I love that book.

Speaker 1: 29:03

Right, so he suggests that this was the second dispensation because the first world, the first earth as we know, it was judged right and it was possibly judged by water, and he connected it to being to the fall of Lucifer and the rebellion of Lucifer in heaven. So, immediately after the fall of Lucifer, we see that this verse two, because we see Genesis, chapter one, verse one says in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, right. And verse two tells us that the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. That means something had happened. For the earth to now become, to become form and void, right, something must have happened. And God was here again trying to, you know, like, um, renovate or recreate the earth. So, first and foremost, we do know that there is an earth already existing, but this earth now was empty. Darkness was upon the face of the deep. We also see that there is water. That face of the deep shows that there is water in the earth. So God wasn't creating water, um, afresh, you know. So he just came on the scene to do some kind of correction or some kind of renovation or some kind of recreation, all right. And so we see that this is connected to Jeremiah, chapter four, verse 23, when Jeremiah was saying I beheld the earth, like I saw the earth.

Speaker 1: 30:34

I saw it and, lo, it was without form and void. The same word, form and void, tohu bohu, is the same word that we find in Genesis, chapter 1, verse 2. So we know it is a connection. It was without form and void. It was without form and void. Jeremiah said I saw it in a vision. And he said and the heavens? And they had no light. In other words, jeremiah was saying I saw the earth and there was no sun, there was no moon, do you see? So it was darkness. And he didn't just explain that.

Speaker 1: 31:03

In Isaiah, chapter 24, verse 20, isaiah also adds and says I saw the earth also, and it was reeling to and fro like a drunkard. You know it explains to say it was reeling to and fro like a drunkard and inside of, to say it was really too afro like a drunkard. And inside of, the earth was empty. The cities were not inhabited anymore, no man was in it, no birds, no, no animals, nothing. So you could see that this was the state of the earth it was. It was destroyed by water judgment, all right. So it wasn't just dark in atmosphere. The heavens had no light. So the original sun was gone, the moon was gone. All right if the sun had been destroyed listen, just like we've talked about the scientific part now then it means that the earth would have lost its gravitational center and it began to wobble, precisely what Isaiah had described.

Speaker 1: 32:02

So when God says in Genesis, chapter 1, verse 3, let there be light, he wasn't just turning on a bulb, he was reintroducing other, and that light was Jesus. That means Jesus is a star. Originally, you need to understand God that you serve. God is a star, he is a star. His spiritual form is a star. All the stars in the universe. I already talked about in our previous episode that they are angels and they're also called the sons of God. If they are sons of God, they're made in the image and likeness of God. God is a star, all right. So that light was Jesus. John chapter one says it perfectly In the beginning was the word In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Speaker 1: 33:01

So he calls jesus light and he says the light shines in darkness. All right, the light shines in darkness. When god said I'm a star, he was declaring his role in cosmic stability Not just, I mean it's general, but in this instance it was in creation. So God showed forth his light as a star. He held the earth properly with his gravitational center, the earth properly with his gravitational center. I often hear, minister Dunsion-Yukasi, that you know, god is the center of gravity. He really is not just for earth now, but in Genesis 1, he did it for earth but for the entire universe, because the Bible says that in him all things were created, collusions, and by by him all things consist. He truly is the center of gravity. He holds everything together. Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 3, says that he upholds all things by the word of his power. Do you get that? So that's how he operates, that's how he uses his power by words. So he said let there be light. So immediately he shone forth and he held the earth and then he began to create.

Speaker 1: 34:23

God is a star, he is the light of the world. He's the bright and morning star. We've sung it in worship he's the bright and morning star. Revelations, chapter 22, verse 6, 16,. Jesus says I am the root and the offspring of David. He's the bright and morning star. Revelations, chapter 22, verse 6, 16,. Jesus says I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star. Wow, this is not metaphorically, this is not symbolically, he meant it literally. I am. I am the bright and morning star. What is a morning star? The brightest object in the sky just before sunrise, the one that announces a new day. That's our sun. It's the bright and morning star. He's the bright and morning star for the entire universe. Glory to God. God is a star. He's the one that stands in the darkest moments and signals the dawn of a new day.

Speaker 1: 35:20

If there's darkness in your life right now and you were wallowing in darkness, understand that God is a star. You can understand it. You know symbolically for you right now, because he can shine light into the dark places of your heart. He can shine light in it. You just need to go go to him in prayer.

Speaker 1: 35:43

I would like to pray for you, father. Thank you so much. I thank you so much for shining your light into the dark places of our hearts. I thank you for helping us to understand you, understand the universe, understand all of creation even more deeper than before. I thank you for your light. I thank you for your word. I thank you for the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives, for understanding, for growth, for increase, for health, for prosperity, for wealth. Thank you so much. I bless everyone listening to me today in the name of Jesus. I bless them with understanding, with understanding of the scriptures, because from it will flow everything that they've ever ever desired. In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray for you that the eyes of your understanding will be enlightened even more and more, for you to know the things that God has called you to become, because that is where your hope really is. Thank you, heavenly Father, in Jesus' mighty name, amen.