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What Lies at the Bottom of This?
Rude Table Manners
A monstrous black hole's rude table manners, include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. At least, that's the gustatory practice of the super massive black hole residing in the hub of the nearby galaxy, NGC 4438. A peculiar galaxy because of its unusual shape, NGC 4438, is in the Virgo Cluster 50 million light-years from Earth. These NASA Hubble Space Telescopic images of the galaxy's central region clearly show one of the bubbles rising from a dark band of dust. The other bubble, emanating from below the dust band, is barely visible, appearing as dim red blobs in the close-up picture of the galaxy's hub, revealed in the colorful picture at the right. The left image represents a wider view of the galaxy, with the central black hole region defined by the white box. These extremely hot bubbles are caused by the black hole's voracious eating habits. The eating machine is engorging itself with a banquet of material swirling around in an accretion disk shown in the white region below the bright reddish bubble. Some of this material is spewed from the disk in opposite directions. These twinjets of matter sweep out the material in their paths, with the jets eventually slamming into a wall of dense, slow-moving gas, which is traveling at less than 223,000 mph.. The collision of matter and gas produces the glowing effect of combination of the materials. The bubbles will continue to expand and then in time will eventually dissipate. Compared with the life of the galaxy, this bubble-blowing phase is a short-lived event. The brighter bubble is 800 light-years tall and 800 light-years across. Credit: NASA, with Jeffrey Kenney and Elizabeth Yale.
Note: In the above accompanying credits, we begin to understand that galactic closeness is measured in hundreds of light years. To grasp the size of this Black Hole phenomenon, one light year is the distance traveled by light in one year, which is approximately 5.9 trillion miles of travel. Our entire solar system would be less than a micro speck in the midst of the inferno's vortex.
The Black Hole Vortex of Sin and Death.
We see in the above NASA Hubble Space Telescopic photographs an image of what was once a magnificent giant solitary star, having extinguished the fuel of its glory of that which gave it life and brilliance, imploded upon itself, and in its death was reduced to a smaller hard core of unfathomable density. Because of its immense gravitational pull, the black hole, also known as a singularity, has created a vortex that sucks in all matter and light that comes remotely close to what is called the event horizon, an apparent point of no return. All the outward beauty of the natural phenomena is the result of the violent clashing of light energy and matter as they are inescapably being devoured, to eventually become one with the single core. All light is extinguished at the bottom of that old former star.
Sin is just like that celestial black hole with its immense gravitational pull. Sin’s nature, on first appearance may have wonderful and beautiful allurements that tantalize the natural sensual appetites of the solitary man, but it too is a vortex that leads to the violent depths of hell. The author of this black hole of sin and death, was known as Lucifer, whose name ironically means the Morning Star.
Hear of the Fall and Judgment of Lucifer.
"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, Son of the Morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High".
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, and who did not open the house of his prisoners?" All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house; But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like the garment of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trodden underfoot. You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named. (Isaiah 14 verse 12 thru 20.)
Lucifer, before he progressively set his will to be above that of the Creator, was perfectly magnificent in the day that God created him, that is, until personal desire and lust was conceived within his own heart of reason.
The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "`You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: the ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching. All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more." (Ezekiel 28 verse 11 thru 19 .NIV.)
And as you can see, Lucifer, who is depicted in the above scriptures as the King of Tyre, became vain and arrogant with the great beauty and wisdom that God gave to him. Lucifer became Satan by feeding upon his own glory, thus consuming himself away and then imploding into a dark hole of self importance. With his conceited perception of his own allure and brightness of wisdom, he appealed to a third of God's created celestial beings, pulling them down with his rebellion into the dark abyss of his own existing death.
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. (Revelation 12 verse 3 thru 4.NIV.) And there was war in heaven, and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelations 12 verse 7 thru 9.)
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Robert Glenn Pratten