Like all planets in our solar system, the Earth is in an elliptical orbit around our Sun. In Earth’s case, its orbit is nearly circular, so that the difference between Earth’s farthest point from the Sun and its closest point is very small. Earth’s orbit defines a two-dimensional plane which we call the ecliptic.
The Bible states that our planet earth has a course in that course was an elliptical orbit around the sun
👉 In Ephesians 2:2
“…According to the course of this world, …”
👉 “course“
the act or action of moving in a path from point to point.
Earth’s orbit defines a two-dimensional plane which we call the ecliptic. It takes roughly 365 days for the Earth to go around the Sun once. This means that the Earth is rushing through space around the Sun at a rate of about 67,000 miles per hour!
Earth spins on its axis once in every 24-hour day. At Earth’s equator, the speed of Earth’s spin is about 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km per hour). The day-night has carried you around in a grand circle under the stars every day of your life, and yet you don’t feel Earth spinning.But it appears to rise and set because of the Earth’s rotation on its axis. —
( Ecclesiastes 1:5 )
In Job 26:10 “He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
The moon walking in his silver pathway the moon orbits the earth every 27.322 days.
👉 In Job 31:36 ““Have I looked at the sun shining in the skies, or the moon walking down its silver pathway,
The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still.
God commanded the sun to stood still– ( Joshua 10:13 ) because the sun is moving through space in a huge orbit around the center of Milky way galaxy — ( Psalms 19:4-6 )
Yes, the Sun – in fact, our whole solar system – orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are moving at an average velocity of 828,000 km/hr. But even at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way! The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy.
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