The Missing Day
By Johnny Angel
Science and the Bible? (The Missing Day.....)
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 satelite, 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 (aproximately) 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: 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
2 Kings 20:9-11
N Prayer,
Johnny <*}}}><