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 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 done for us today happened
recently to our astronauts and space scientists at GreenBelt,
Maryland. They were checking out where the positions of the sun,
moon, and planets would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now. We
have to know this so we won't send up a satellite 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 with either
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 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 lasted 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
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?
References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11.