"Time Stood Still"

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)

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