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 hasten 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? God is Truth!
- References:
- Joshua 10:8 and 12,13
- 2 Kings 20:9-11
