Have you ever held a really big, beautiful diamond? A “GIA grade F” diamond is considered flawless. These are the rarest diamonds on earth, revealing no visible internal or external imperfections. Three to four carat “grade Fs” are valued at $250,000 to $300,000 or more. But these diamonds are unimpressive specks compared to the diamonds the Creator God possesses. His diamonds are thousands of miles across—and, they sing for Him!
A very large engagement-ring diamond may be two or three carats. The largest diamond on Earth is the brown-colored Golden Jubilee, which is 546 carats. But God’s celestial diamonds are greater than 10 billion, trillion, trillion carats!
A two-carat diamond is about eight millimeters across. But God’s celestial diamonds are about 2,500 miles across—roughly the size of the entire continent of Australia!
Earthly diamonds are weighed in fractions of grams. God’s celestial diamonds weigh more than two septillion tons! And there are trillions and trillions of them! These are real diamonds, the super-compressed cores of old stars. They are crystallized carbon. They are white dwarf stars. They are brilliantly radiant. And they do sing for their Creator – just as Scripture proclaims.
In Scripture, angels and stars are often represented together, and the terms are sometimes interchangeable. But the meaning of such passages may be more literal than many have long supposed. Job 38:7 reveals that when God laid the foundations of the earth, “the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” Indeed, mighty angels rejoiced when they witnessed God creating the physical universe. But what about the literal stars in heaven?
Modern astronomers have long understood that the stars “sing.” White dwarf stars are no different. These massive cosmic diamonds perpetually resonate unbelievably deep, subsonic “sound waves” throughout the universe, at frequencies of 0.01 to 0.001 cycles a second. This booming base reverberation is far deeper than what any human can hear. Scientists speed up two or three days of “sound” from these stars to produce just a couple seconds of audible sound.
Indeed, “the heavens (literally) declare His righteousness” (Psalm 97:6). The Hebrew word, “declare” in Psalm 97:6 is nagad and is the same word used in other Scriptures such as Psalm 9:11 to mean “sing praises.”
Isaiah 44:23 (“Sing, O heavens”) uses the Hebrew ranan which means to “shout for joy” and “to give a loud ringing of exaltation.” Indeed, the stars do “give a loud ringing of exaltation” (ibid.) as they “praise Him” (Psalm 148:3).
The heavens indeed declare God’s glorious handiwork (Psalm 19:1; 97:6). And all of this handiwork, including these majestic, celestial singing diamonds will one day be given as an inheritance to those who truly accept Jesus Christ as their living Lord and High Priest, who overcome, and who are given the gift of eternal life (Romans 6:23; 8:16-17; Hebrews 2:8).