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NASA AND THE BIBLE.....GOD IS GREAT

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 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
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.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built
the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

Jim Beasley