WOW!!!! God is so amazing!!!
For all you scientists out there and for all the students who have a hard time
convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible...here's something that shows
God's awesome creation and shows that He is still in control. 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 Green Belt, 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 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!" 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: Hezekiah, on his death-bed, 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? Our God is rubbing
their noses in His Truth!
References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11
Forward this to people who would think this is equally as cool.
