The Heaven of Heavens by G. W. Mitchell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 23, 1871

“The Heaven of Heavens.”

By G. W. Mitchell

This language, used by several of the writers of the Old Testament, must mean something. We offer the following, as a probable hypothesis: There are, at the least computation, seventy-eight millions of fixed stars. Each star is a sun, the center of a system equal in magnitude, no doubt, to the solar system, which is composed of the sun, primary and secondary planets, asteroids, and comets. Now the position we take is, that these suns are heavens, each one being the center of its own system. Again, these mighty systems revolve around a grand center; which was discovered by astronomers, not many years in the past; and this grand center cannot be anything less than the great throne of the eternal God, and therefore must be the Heaven of heavens. How great is Jehovah! Praise the living and true God.

G. W. MITCHELL.

Zanesville, Ohio.