So, God 'let' the lights appear.  You recall that I said that the word 'let' means to allow something to happen.  I 'let' you out of the car.   From Genesis 1:1  In the beginning, God 'created' the heaven and the earth.  It was the earth that was void, dark, and without form--not the heavens.  Now the stars are visible.  All the atmospheric junk around the earth that interfered with a clear view of the heavens is swept away.

When I began this blog, I said there were three words that I found interesting.  One was "Create".  One was "Let".   And the third was "Made," which can be best described as meaning to take something and do something else with it.

 In Gen. 1:7,  God 'made' the firmament.  (Science says the firmament is still expanding.)

 Now we come to the second 'made'.  Verse 16-18.  "And God 'made' two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night:  he made the stars also.  And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.  And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness;  and God saw that it was good."

This is the first time the moon is mentioned.

When the moon began rotation around the earth, something strange took place.  Tides.  Tides change everything.