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 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 in it's 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 asked "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 (check references below).
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!" 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 that 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 2nd Kings make up the missing day in the universe! Isn't it amazing?!
Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth!
References: Joshua 10:8, 12, 13; 2 Kings 20:9-11