For all the 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 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?
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