Here is an interesting email I recieved from a friend. Thought I would share.
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
Greenbelt, 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 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
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
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
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
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 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."
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.