The Missing Day


Joshua, Hezekiah, and the Scientists

The Missing Day

Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Co. in Baltimore and a consultant to the space program, has told a most remarkable story which found its way into a few newspapers - and eventually into the evening newscast of Bob Gooding. WFAA.TV Dallas. Here it is as related by Mr. Gooding:

Mr. Hill stated that he thought one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened to our
astronauts and the space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland. They were trying to determine the position
of the Sun, Moon, and Planets 100 years and 1000 years from now. In order to do this, they had to plot the
orbits through the past centuries. They ran the computer measurements back and forth over the centuries
and suddenly it came to a halt. The computer signaled that there was someething wrong either with the
information fed into it or with the results compared to the standards. They called in the service
department to check it and and found nothing wrong technically. The computer still came up with the same
discrepancy - a day was missing in space elapsed time.

The scientists were dumbfounded. There was no answer. One of the team remembered a reference to the
Sun standing still in the Bible. Upon checking, they found in the book of Joshua a pretty "ridiculous"
statement for anybody who has "common sense". According to the scriptures, 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. "So the sun stood still in the heavens, and hastened not to
go down about a whole day". Joshua chapter 10 verse 13

There was the missing day!!

They checked the computers going back to the time it was written and found it was 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
again read the passage and there it said, "About (approximately) a whole day".

Apparently, those little words in the Bible mean something.

This still did not account for the other missing 40 minutes. The 40 minutes had to be found because in
predicting special orbits, it would be multiplied many times over. Again, remembering his Bible,
the same man recalled how somewhere in the Bible it said that the Sun went backwards.

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 said, "...shall the shadow
go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees".

Hezekiah replied, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; nay but let the shadow return
backwards ten degrees". 11 Kings chapter 20 verse (9 - 10)

Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes!

Twenty three hours and twenty minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in 11 Kings make the missing 24 hours the
space travelers had to log in the logbook as being the missisng day.
AND THEY SAY THE BIBLE IS OUT OF DATE !!


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