I’m No Scientist but Numberless?

I am blown away by the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) deep space pictures. The dimensions they show are represented by units of measurement that boggle my mind. The picture below is of the Cosmic Cliffs, a ‘small’ slice of the Carina Nebula. The Carina Nebula, located in our southern skies, was  discovered in 1756 but with none of the details shown today. The Carina is not as famous as the Orion Nebula but it is four times bigger and brighter. The picture shows a majestic cavernous area with its backdrop of numerous galaxies. Its wall is spangled with glistening stars while its center bubbles with wild activity from intense ultraviolet radiation, strong stellar winds, billowing celestial mountains of steam, and jets of dust streaming away from newborn star! All this happening a mere 7,600 light-years from Earth!

As I said, these details boggle the mind but let’s zoom in to a conversation on earth:

“But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless . . .?”. . . Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.” Genesis 15: 2, 5, 6.

Abram must have been awe-struck as he looked up and saw the starry sky above him. But little did he know that he wasn’t able to see the nano-half, the femto-half of what God was showing him! His star-spangled-heritage would be trillions stretching down through time to us. Mind-blowing, right?

In the book of Revelation, John describes an equally unbelievable scene whose dimension throw into shade those of JWST:

“Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it! And the one seated on it was like jasper and carnelian in appearance, and a rainbow looking like it was made of emerald encircled the throne. . . From the throne came out flashes of lightning and roaring and crashes of thunder. . . Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal.” Revelation 4:2, 3, 6. 

But it’s not done yet:“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Revelation 7: 9, 10. 

The Webb telescope blows our mind with new cosmic revelations, but shrouded behind these mind-blowing pictures lies an exquisite cosmos yet to be revealed equally unbelievable and surpassing in its wonder. It is the celestial city of the Creator of it all. Too mind-blowing to be true?

I’m no Scientist but this infinitesimal slice of a ginormous Nebula is for real, and so too is  Abraham’s heritage!