21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 40.21-23

Gyroscopes are really cool.  I was first introduced to this word in fifth grade, when our teacher explained what a gyroscope is, and he showed us several of them in class, and we were able to play with them throughout the year, as several of them remained in our classroom on a shelf or on the floor.

He showed us a bicycle wheel, and he had somebody come up to the front of the class, and he talked with them for a few moments softly about the wheel, and he asked them a couple of questions, they nodded their head, and then he called someone else up to the front of the class to stand with them, and he instructed the students on what to do. 

He gave the first student the bike wheel and told them to hold it by the axle screws, with their arms out horizontally so that they were holding onto it in a way that it could spin freely. 

He instructed the second student to spin the wheel slowly, and to keep it spinning just ever so slowly.

The first student was asked to move the wheel and mention anything they noticed about it.  They moved it around a little and just looked at the teacher and shrugged their shoulders.

Our teacher then told the second student to spin the wheel faster, so they spun it faster and faster and the teacher said "that's enough," and then, "ok, go ahead and slowly move the wheel and tell us what you notice."

The first student then began to move the wheel, but it seemed like somebody had just slightly bumped into him, putting his footing off balance, because when he moved the wheel, his feet moved and he stepped sideways, as if to catch his balance.  He moved it back and forth, and it seemed like he was perplexed by it as it moved in arcing angles in front of his face and in his hands.  We couldn't quite understand what was going on until we all got to try it, but it was a profound moment from the start, to see such a simple little wheel have such a profound effect on one person, and on us all.

Later that year, I realized that I should be able to spin a basketball on my finger because of what I learned about gyroscopes, and so I did it, and I was able to spin a basketball on my finger, and I even can move it from finger to finger and sometimes even toss it up in the air and catch it again while it's still spinning, to keep it spinning some more.  Knowledge truly is power.  (Saving knowledge is saving power.)

This same teacher who taught us about gyroscopes was also teaching us about N.A.S.A. and space and about space shuttles and astronauts, and we went through a long simulation of what it would be like to be an astronaut, and during this we learned about the plans to build a spinning space station that would create its own artificial gravity for the astronauts who lived inside of it, and this teacher also showed us the Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, where we watched in awe as some of the very things our teacher had told about were depicted in front of us on a screen, as if it were real.

In later years, I learned a lot about how electricity is generated, and I learned that in most manmade electricity generators which produce electricity for large communities, whether it's coal or natural gas or nuclear, most of that energy is used to simply boil water or some substance, which is then used simply to spin some sort of engine in a circle, and this became even more fascinating when I learned that some of these generators have gigantic circular engines spinning very fast, creating enormous centrifugal force, as a gyroscope, and how they require delicate balances to remain spinning without destroying everything around them.

The Earth spins roughly at about 1000mph, which is roughly about 1500fps.  The Earth is a kind of gyroscope.  It spins on its circle how God told it to, and it is affected.

At the tower of Babel, God punished man for building a tall tower and making himself like a god, saying that man can do anything.  He scrambled their languages so that they could not complete their work.  I think there are people who read this story and cannot understand it, but I see it as such an act of love, and now with science understandings, it is easy to see how that act of love was an act of foresight.

When our teacher was showing us how gyroscopes work, he showed us several different displays of the forces involved, which were very impactful and memorable, so that I'm able to remember it like I saw it yesterday.

In one of the experiments, students were given a very long string, and the gyroscope, and they were tasked with sending the gyroscope across the string from one student to the other, while it was spinning, with nobody holding onto the gyroscope after it was released.  With wonder, we watched as two students held the string between them, and after a few tries, they were able to successfully spin up the gyroscope with the help of a third student, and send it on its way down the string from one end to the other.  

Then another student was called up and he was able to spin the gyroscope and place it on the tip of a pencil lead, and we watched, transfixed as this gyroscope pirouetted around so gracefully in a tight circle, held up in the air by an invisible force in a way so unfamiliar to our young minds, yet so familiar to every one of us who learns that the Earth spins on an axis and is held in place by these very same forces.

When tires are first put on a car, they need to be professionally balanced, otherwise the car won't drive right because there are many things that throw off a tire's perfect balance, so that without additional load balancing, when that tire begins spinning fast, it "wants" to move outside of its normal circular axis, and this causes the entire car to move, from a slight vibration to actual thumping and bumping, depending on how fast the driver drives, and how much of the mass of the tire is out of balance.

When they balance a wheel on a car, they generally use a machine that has a precise computer which spins the wheel up to different speeds, and it monitors how it wobbles, and then the machine prescribes the amounts of weight, and the locations where the weights should be placed.  Even a big loud truck's tires are balanced by these little tiny weights precisely placed around the edges of the wheel.  If you were to mis-place one of these tiny weights, it might not be noticeable driving around a parking lot, but at highway speeds of 55 - 80 mph, that little change would be a huge difference.

The further out from the center of the circle that a change in weight happens, the more the circle is affected.  If you've ever spun in a circle, either on your feet or on a tire swing, or just on a rope, you might have noticed that when you are curled up in a ball, you spin faster, but when you are stretched out, you spin slower, and also you've probably noticed what it's like to be spinning off-balanced vs. balanced.  When an object's matter is more dense, it weighs more, because there's more stuff in the same space than something that is less dense, taking up the same space.

The Earth was spinning for a long while before the 1800s and 1900s when man's machines began resurfacing the surface of the planet.  For eons, the Earth's own mechanisms shaped and reshaped the planet, violently settling to what it would be until the next great tectonic or hydrologic upheaval.

Nowadays, man is concentrating so much weight in smaller and smaller areas, while extracting so much weight from more and more areas.  Can you imagine if you were spinning a bike tire, like a gyroscope in your hands, and then someone gave you a bike tire that had a small part of its tire dipped in cement before the demonstration, so that by the time you spun it, it had hardened into a solid lump of cement?  What would happen if you were to try to hold that wheel while somebody else spun it?  It would not spin smoothly, it would likely jostle and jolt your arms all around, and you would be powerless to hold it still.

Since the 1800s, mankind has been moving gigantic sections of rock and other minerals and magnetics and all matter of heavy materials from "far reaches" where the people have not grown up into such greedy civilizations as ours, and our industries have robbed those "foreign" lands of their God-given minerals and matter, and nations like America and other "developed" countries have concentrated all these materials into single countries, into single states, into single cities, into single square miles, into single acres.  Now we have entire cities built on top of hubris that is thicker than the bedrock, and coastal places like New Orleans and in the sandbar called Florida and most everywhere near the ocean are going to continue to suffer collapsing buildings, and the people are going to continue to blame the laws that "the other side" made, and clamor to make more laws which they claim will solve the problem.

These people argue like their laws are all-powerful.  They argue that laws will stop the effects of disease, guns, weather, and ill tempers, but they are so blind to the fact that they are powerless to stop these things.  The problems this world faces are in the spirits and souls and bodies of men and women and children who are being brought up to think that sin is good and normal, and these problems will never be fixed because people love their sin more than they love God, and we are at the end of all things, when God's presence is poured out upon the planet before His presence destroys the planet.

The Earth is very out of balance.  God says in His Word that He is going to destroy those who destroy the Earth.  Not only have our nations taken and moved minerals and rocks and magnets with our big machines, but the Earth's veins have been drained of its oil and gases, and those huge caverns which were once pressurized are now collapsing under the weight of the world above, and the strain of the global gravity that is generated from the spin of the Earth.  That insulating and lubricating and pressurized oil is no longer there, but it has been dispersed into the air we breathe as a byproduct of the engines we drive.  When mankind is done with sucking out the oil, they use the opportunity to put really nasty wastes and byproducts from human industry and war into the voids left behind, and then they squirt some cement on the holes they perforate the Earth's crust with, and move on to the next one to start the process again.

Those caverns are filling and re-pressurizing, but with magma which will soon be mixing with water, which will soon be making some big booms and shakes, which will break the "records" set by Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai.

The world itself is going to become a lake of fire, and simultaneously be flooding with water and many people are going to die and be relocating soon.

Soon people will be saying things like, "If God made such a miserable world as this, I don't want to love such a hateful God."

What they are ignoring is that God made paradise.  It is the sin of mankind which has destroyed it.

Jesus Christ is the only Way.

Jesus Christ is the only Truth.

Jesus Christ is the only Life.

And these, abundantly!

Maranatha Jubilee!

Jesus Christ is Lord!