November 05,2000
I have always believed that there is physical and scientific proof of what is contained in the Bible. We don't always know how to find it ... but sometimes we just fall over it
NASA & the Bible
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 HiII, 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 layout 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 program back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt, putting 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 found there was a day missing in elapsed time in space. They scratched their heads and tore their hair, but there was no answer.
Finafly, 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 down about a whole day!" (Joshua 10:8, 12-13)
The astronauts and scientists had a missing day, but they didn't want to believe the Bible's explanation for it. So they checked the computers again, going back into the time the verse of Scripture 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 looked again at the verse in the Bible and there it was "about 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 20:9-1 1. And there they found 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!
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?
(Article from Internet)
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