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sustaining life (Gen 1:1). Our Earth has its own heaven (Gen 1:1). Water exists on
               at least one other planet (Psalm 148:4).


               There are prophecies which suggest that Man would travel into space before the
               second tribulation occurs (Jer 49:16, 51:53). The Word acknowledges the planets
               are in orbit (Job 22:14).


               Cherubim and Seraphim are the forms that angels sometimes assume (Gen 3:24, 2
               Sam 22:11, Isaiah 6:2, 6, Ezekiel 1:1-28, 10:1-22). They exist in spiritual places
               e.g. Heaven and in the case of Cherubim the spiritual dimension of Paradise also
               (Gen 3:24, Rev 2:7) and God rests upon and dwells between the Cherubim (2 Sam
               22:11, Psalm 80:1) whilst the Seraphim are above the throne of the Lord (Isaiah
               6:2). Cherubim and Seraphim can refer to man-made representations of the real
               entities (Ezek 41:18, 25, Heb 9:5).

               They show us that God can create beings that are technological that also have spirit
               (Ezekiel 1:20). Saved animals praise God before His throne (Eccl 3:18-21, Rev
               4:8, 19:4).  Animals, as well as ‘men’ that have dominion and evolved (Gen 1:26,
               Eccl 3:18-21, are subject to Salvation either by conversion if capable of this
               experience or via incorporation in the second, perfect, Heaven and Earth (Isaiah
               11:6-11, Rom 1:20, Col 1:20, 23, Rev 5:13).  Indeed Man is a beast or animal (Eccl
               3:18-21).  All men including Christians are manifest as such until appropriation

               (Eccl 3:18), whereupon they are manifest not as the sons of men but as sons of God
               (Rom 8:19).

               There are other worlds (Heb 11:3).  The preaching of the gospel to other ‘men’ on
               other planets is in accordance with the likening by God of the growth of Christians
               with the numbers of stars (Gen 15:5, 22:17, Heb 11:12).


               Visibility of God


               God, the Father and God, the Holy Ghost are not normally directly visible to the
               flesh being Spirit (Col 1:15, 1 John 4:12). However they were represented on
               occasion by, for example, a burning bush and a dove respectively (Ex 3:4, Luke
               3:22).  The Holy Ghost is God or the Spirit of God (Mat 3:16, Luke 3:22, John
               4:24). Christ is the image of God having the dominion of God as He is God (Col
               1:15-16, Heb 2:8), visible to the flesh in certain circumstances as Jesus and
               invisibly, through faith, ‘seen’ as God (Heb 11:26-27), as a mystery, and
               understood via the basic spirits of men (Rom 1:20), as he has dominion which
               includes dominion over the flesh and all other enemies of God (1 Cor 15:25, Phil
               2:10-11, Col 1:15-16, Heb 10:13).  Christ’s form was dominion both as Man and as
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