The Missing Day - do you believe it now?

AWESOME.  This is one of the most interesting things I have heard in a

                while. Hope you think so too. 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

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 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,and planets 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 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 with either

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

lapsed 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 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 lasted not to go

 down

about a whole day!' (Joshua 10:12-13) 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 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?

References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11.