lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Sunday, June 11, 2006
-1:49 pm
This is a real article I received in my email inbox, which appeared in October 10, 1969, in "Evening World", a newspaper in Spencer, Indiana. A rather enlightening read if you'll take the time...------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called a 'myth' in the bible is true? Mr Harold Hill, president of Curtis Engine Company, Baltimore, Md, and a consultant in the space program related the following developement:-
"I think that one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Md, where they would checking the position of the sun, moon and planets out in space, where they would be 100 and 1000 yrs from now. We have to know this so we don't send a satellite up and have it bump into something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbit in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be, so that 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 it put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong, either in the info fed into it, or with the results as compared with the standards. They called the service department to check it out, and they said -"It's perfect." The IBM head of operations said -"What's wrong?" "Well, we have found there is a day missing in space in the elasped time."
They scratched their heads and pulled their hair. There was no answer.
One religious fellow on the team said -"You know, one time when I was in Sunday School and they talked about the sun standing still." They did not believe him, but they didn't have any other answer, so they said -"SHOW US!" He got a bible, and went back to Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculously statement, for anyone who has common sense.
They found the Lord saying to Joshua -"Fear them not. I have delievered them into thy hand. There shall not be a man of them stand before thee." Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy, and if darkness fell, they would overpower him. 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."*
The sapce men said -"There is the missing day." Well they checked the computers and found it was close, but not close enough. The elasped time that was missing in Joshua's time was 23 hrs and 20 min -- not a whole day. They read the bible and there it said -"about a whole day." These little words in the Bible are important.
BUT they were still in trouble, because if you cannot account for 40 min you'll be in trouble 10,000 yrs from now. 40 min HAD TO BE FOUND, beacause it multiplies many times over in orbits. Well, 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 the Bible and read these words in 2 Kings 20. Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah, who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah did not believe him and asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah asked -"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 turn backward 10 degrees."** Isaiah spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow 10 degrees backward. 10 degrees is exactly 40 min. So 23 hrs and20 min in Joshua, plus 40 min in 2 Kings, make the missing 24 hrs that space travellers now had to log in the log-book as the missing day in the universe."
* Joshua 10:13
** 2 Kings 20:10
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