From cncbranham@unidial.com
Thought you might enjoy this. If this
is accurate it is pretty neat!
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 out. 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 hastened 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?" 20 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? God is Truth!
References: Joshua 10:8 and 12, 13 2 Kings 20:9-11 |