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One religious fellow on the team said, "You know, one time I was in Sunday School and they talked about the sun standing still." They didn't believe him, but they didn't have any other answer 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 anybody who has 'common sense.' There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hands: 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." Joshua, 10th chapter, verses 8, 12, 13.
The space men 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.
This religious fellow also remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS. The space men told him he was out of his mind. But they got out the book and read these words in II Kings : Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said, "Do you want the shadow on the sun dial to go ahead ten degrees?" Hezekiah said, "It's nothing for the sun to go ahead ten degrees, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees." II Kings 20 : 9 - 11. 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 to Joshua, plus 40 minutes in II Kings makes the missing 24 hours the space travelers had to log in the logbook as being the missing day in the universe!
Isn't that amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth!
From "Did the Sun stand still"?
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