Bible Truths

The Bible is TRUE

I actually put this true story out some while ago but it is well worth reminding ourselves of the proven truth of the Bible stories – in particular those which defy the natural laws we claim to understand so well. Time is one thing we understand quite well. The sun, moon and stars all have their natural courses in the heavens and we can state with stunning accuracy the position of any of the known stars and planets at virtually any moment in history – past , present, or future – as this story illustrates.

I was reminded again this morning that science is proving the veracity of the Bible time and time again. Some time ago I heard of a newspaper clipping which I think will benefit both believers and non-believers alike. It was a letter from a lady in Sheffield, England to a magazine regarding the position of solar objects and their movements.

“Dear Editor, I was surprised that your writer, (name), was not aware that Joshua 10:12-14 is perfectly true. I read the following in a newspaper some years ago and kept it in order to show Bible scoffers.

“American scientists working on the U.S. Space Programme were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets 100 years from now. It was part of their planning for satellite flights. The computer measurement was being run over the past centuries when it stopped, showing a red signal. Apparently, there was a day missing in space in elapsed time.

“Then one of the scientific team recalled the story in Joshua Chapter 10 where Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still for ‘about a whole day’. This was still not accurate enough for the computer, which was short of 40 minutes.

“Even this discrepancy was cleared up when a team member, knowledgeable on scripture, recalled a passage in 2 Kings Chapter 20 in which Isaiah called on the Lord to make the sun go backwards 10 degrees as a sign for Hezekiah. Ten degrees in this kind of calculation is exactly 40 minutes.”

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Joshua 10:12-14 (New International Version)

“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.” So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself 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. 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!”

2 Kings 20:8-11

“Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the LORD on the third day from now?” Isaiah answered, “This is the LORD’s sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?”

“It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said Hezekiah. “Rather, have it go back ten steps.” Then the prophet Isaiah called on the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.”

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Oh what a wonderful God we serve !! \o/