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NASA & THE BIBLE

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, andplanets 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 itsorbits.We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satelliteand 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 itor with the results as compared to the standards.They called in the service department to check it out, and theysaid, '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 wasin Sunday School, and they talked about the sun standing still.' While theydidn'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 apretty 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 nota 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 makethe 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! Theychecked 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 introuble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes, you'll still be introuble 1000 years from now.Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied manytimes over in orbits.

As the Christian employee thought about it, heremembered 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 exactly40 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, 12-13 2 Kings 20:9-11.

12 On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: "O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon."
13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on [b] its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. 14 There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the LORD listened to a man. Surely the LORD was fighting for Israel!
15 Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.

2 Kings 20:9-11

8 Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the LORD on the third day from now?"
9 Isaiah answered, "This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?"
10 "It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps," said Hezekiah. "Rather, have it go back ten steps."
11 Then the prophet Isaiah called upon the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.