Subject: Fw:"1 Day Missing: Bible Fact or Myth?"

 
This is amazing! If nothing else, it makes you whip out your Bible  to
Check.

For all the scientists out there and for all the students  who have a 
hard time convincing these people regarding the truth about the  Bible, 
here's something that shows God's awesome creation and shows 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 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 orbit.

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 out and they  said 'What's wrong?" Well they
found there is a day missing in space in  elapsed time. They scratched 
their head 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 the answer either  so 
they said, "Show us."

He got the Bible and went back to the book  o! f Joshua where they found a
pretty ridiculous statement for any one with  "common sense."

      The Lord said to Joshua,  "Fear them not, I have delivered them 
into they hand; there shall not a  man among 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!

      "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  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 the 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 2nd  Kings that told of the story:

      "Hezekiah,  on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah  who
      told him 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 10 degrees BACKWARD!"

And guess what? 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?

I suggest you forward this to as many people who you believe  would 
think this is equally as cool.

References: Joshua 10: 8, 12-13  and 2 Kings 20:9-11