The Day the Sun Stood Still

^{Joshua 10:12-14}

 

 

 

^{The Day the Sun Stood Still}

 

 

 

¹² On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel:

“Sun, stand still over Gibeon,
    and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon."¹³ So the sun stood still,
    and the moon stopped,
    till the nation avenged itself on its enemies,

as it is written in the Book of Jashar.

The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. ¹⁴ There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a human being. Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel!

 

 

 

 

As my family and I were watching the sun go down last night over the Pamlico Sound in North Carolina, I was reminded of the Bible lesson we had the opportunity to teach a few weeks back to our Northlife Community Church's Sunday School class (Kid's Central). Joshua prayed to God during this battle for the Sun to stay out to give the Israelites time to defeat the Amorites before nightfall.

 

 

 

While I was doing some research for this class, I came across a report from NASA that proves to non-believers what us Christians already know, that nothing is impossible for God ! (see below)

 

 

 

An email says that NASA (The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has stumbled across some computer generated evidence that the Bible is true.  A man named Harold Hill, a NASA consultant and president of the Curtis engine company, describes how NASA computers were looking back in time when they issued an alert that something was wrong.  There seemed to be a day missing from the calculations.  The scientists puzzled over this a long time until someone in their midst reflected that in the Bible, there's a story about the day the sun stood still for the Hebrew leader Joshua.  This solves the puzzle, almost.  According to the computer, not an entire day was lost, but 23 hours and 20 minutes.  Now there's a new problem.  What about the other 40 minutes?  That's when the same employee remembers that there is another story in the Bible about a day when the sun moved backwards 10 degrees which (see Isaiah 38:8)  , according to the employee, is an arc of 40 minutes...so the entire question of the missing day is solved!      

 

 

 

 

Joe