Tuesday,
November 20, 2018
SUN
STAND STILL!
Josh 10:12-13
12
Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the
Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun,
stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
13
And the sun stood still, and the moon
stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not
this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of
heaven, and hasted not to go down about
a whole day.
This
is also recorded
in the apocrypha “Did not the sun go
back by his means? and was not one day as long as two?” Ecclus 46:4
According
to a
book by Harry Rimmer, titled The
Harmony of Science and Scripture, 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. So how do we account for the other 40
minutes? NASA knew that 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.
One
Christian employee of NASA remembered
that the sun went backwards. in 2 Kings that told of 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.”
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?
Scholars and scientists continue to try to debunk this gap but the fact that
the controversy exists indicates a continued interest on the part of
the scientific community.
Lord, I am inclined to believe your Word! You know I
have deadlines that must be met. By whatever means, help me to meet them. AMEN
NASA never found the missing day, in fact according to what I have read, they never even looked for it.
ReplyDeleteThey have no way of telling if any time is missing at all.
The universe is like a large clock. However, as with any clock, you cannot tell if it is missing time unless there is something to compare it with. We have no other clock to compare the universe with.
Yes, the sun stood still, but we need to take it but faith.