3747 — Making of Worlds
By Editor
Were the worlds made at one time, or was our earth made later than other worlds? And was the Sabbath kept before creation? There are a great many things that God has not fully revealed to us, nor can eternity reveal them, because our minds are finite, while God in His works and His creation is infinite. We read in Gen. 1:1 that "in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Just how much time, as men look upon it, is covered in that expression "in the beginning," we do not know. It may be that all the various suns and worlds in space were created at one time. So far as the Scripture reveals, we know of nothing which would give us any information upon that point. Astronomers think that the evidence goes to show that some worlds are a great deal older than other worlds; but they are judging things wholly from this earth, that has been blasted by sin. The term "worlds" itself, to which our questioner seemingly refers, in Heb. 1:2 and 11:3, does not mean world in the sense in which this earth is a world, a material globe, but refers to ages, a more literal translation of the Greek term. Some of these wonderful things we will have to leave to the study of the glorious eternity which lies before. As to the Sabbath, we understand it to be a general law of God's universe adapted to all worlds for all worshiping creatures, a joy, a delight, a blessing.