pg. 2 heavens, what do we know

Proverbs 8:22-27; holds the keys that answer part of this question. spec. verse 27.

ORIENTATION !

We, as a people, all know that "orientation" comes before everything else.
I'm pretty sure that this holds true with God also.

Thus, ORIENTATION - "a compass" is the logical 1st choice.
"when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:" Proverbs 8:27;
notice here, that, "the depth" already was present - preexisted before the compass: else, upon what did God place "the compass" ? Therefore, the depth had to have existed already for God to have placed a compass thereupon. I know of nowhere else in the Word of God that accounts for when, how or where "the depth" was created -or- came into existence.



NOTICE here that, Proverbs 8; like the rest of the Word of God, is a puzzle - it is up to us to figure it all out and put the pieces all together in order to put the puzzle all together.see this link
NEXT - WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW ?
NOTICE HERE THAT, the "sides of the north" predate the creation of angels in that, for Lucifer (an angel) to have known about "the sides of the north" means that these same "the sides of the north" had to have already existed in order for Lucifer to have known about them.