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Topic: Miracles
Read this, I know most of you all know about this, but look at what the
scientists "discovered"...
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 hasted 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 2Kings: 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? Our God shows doubters in His Truth!
Ref: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13; 2 Kings 20:9-11
Anonymous
(Inspirational submitted by: Anonymous)