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Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been
called "myth" in the Bible is true?
Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore,Maryland
and a consultant in the space Program relates the following
development. "I think one of the most amazing things that God has for
us
today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Greenbelt,
Maryland. They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets
out in space where they would be 100 years and 1000 years from now. We
have to know this so we won't send a satellite, up and have it bump into
something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms
of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole
thing will not bog down.
They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries
and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which
meant that there was something wrong either with the information fed into
it or
with the results as compared to the standards.
They called in the service department to check it out and they said, What's wrong?"
Well, they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time. They
scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer. Finally,
a Christian man on the team said, "You know, one time I was in Sunday School
and they talked about the sun standing still." While they didn't believe
him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said, "Show us." He got
a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous
statement for any one with "common sense." There they found the Lord saying
to Joshua, "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall
not a man of them stand before Thee." Joshua was concerned because he was
surrounded by the enemy and if darkness fell they would overpower them.
So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right-"The
sun stood still and the moon stayed-and hasted not to go down about a whole
day!"
(Joshua 10:12-13)
The astronauts and scientists said, "There is the missing day!" They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes-not a whole day.
They read the Bible and there it was "about (approximately) a day."
These
little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble
because if you cannot account for 40 minutes you'll still be in trouble
1,000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied
many times over in orbits.
As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere
in the
Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS. The scientists told
him he was out of his mind, but they got out the Book and read these words
in 2 Kings that told of the following story: Hezekiah, on his deathbed,
was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to
die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said "Do you want the sun
to go ahead 10 degrees?" Hezekiah said "It is nothing for the sun to go
ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees."Isaiah
spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD!
Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes
in
Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the
universe!" Isn't it amazing? (References: Joshua 10:8 and 12, 13 and
2 Kings 20:9-11)