NASA is proving what we
already knew!
This is absolutely stunning to me..... I
had to share it. 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 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 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
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!
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Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in 2 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. Forward this to as many people who you believe would think this
is equally as cool. Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic!