Believe it or Not!
Posted by: tz8cy5 <tz8cy5@...>
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 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.