Thought this was pretty amazing and interesting!! I know the bible is true, i hope the story about Nasa is also true
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 Green Belt,
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 out. 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 [approxi-mately] 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 1000 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.
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R.Chandrasekaran
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