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Joshua's Long Day Continued Joshua's Long Day continued Joshua 10:13b "So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day". This is a record of fact, an eye witness account - not alleged, not a metaphor, not an allegory, and not pretext, not a myth set to poetry and not a command to the deities of the sun and moon. This was not a localized event. There is only one sun and one moon seen from the whole earth. Purple Sun, and Crimson and Ruby Sun There may be a search for evidence of sun miracles in the daily coral layers. True wisdom costs us our all. The price of wisdom is not money. It is our will and beyond ruby like suns. The price of ancient coral is about $100,000 a kilo. Job 28:18 "No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies." Perhaps the sun appeared purple as a ruby as the Chinese recorded at the sun miracle in 141 BC when the sun may have been dimmed. "On the last day of the twelfth month (11 February 141 BC) it thundered. The sun appeared purple. Five planets moved in retrograde and guarded the constellation T'ai-wei. The moon passed through the center of the constellation T'ien-t'ing." The Grand Scribes Records, Volume II, p.213. The moon was in the polar region of the sky. The sun must move 180° from Scorpius to Taurus. Thus, the sun would appear nearer the pole star and in the polar region. The sun must move 180° to the zodiac path six months away. Thus, the path of the zodiac stayed the same. "As seen from the Northern Hemisphere, the December full moon mimics the lofty path of the June summer solstice sun. That’s because the sun is so far south right now, and because, at the vicinity of full moon, the moon rises and sets pretty much opposite the sun. Therefore, this December 2018 full moon rises and sets far north of due east and west, much as the sun does on the June solstice." Thus, the moon in winter was seen in the northern regions. Nevertheless, the sun should be 180° or six months away from the December zodiac and the moon likewise six months away from the winter lunar zodiac, and thus be all the more noteable. "If it thunders in the sign of Taurus, revolutions against..If it thunders in the sign of Gemini, fear and distress from the foreigners.." The Dead Sea Scrolls, Study Edition, Volume II, 4Q320, 4QCalendrical Doc A, p.679. If the sun moved in Scorpius it must appear 180° away in Taurus. Then earth's revolution around the sun would be in reverse. If the sun and moon moved to the other side of the earth, the sun and moon must also move up or down to keep earth in the same season. This is accomplished by moving six months ahead to the same zodiac path = same season on earth. Normally this position would be six constellations of the zodiac away in that constellation the sun would be in six months ago, the same as six months ahead. Nevertheless, if the sun did not move up or down after moving 180° around the earth, earth must shift on its axis to keep earth in the same season. Notes: "the relative resonance of the sun and moon mirrors that 'communicate' with the 'higher poles'... of that which could 'communicate' with the 'highest pole' Huai Nan Tzu, Peering into the obscure, p.129 Thus, the sun and moon may move up to the pole region to keep the same season on earth. Earth did not move its axis. Only plane of earth's orbit moved. Thus, the sun must move up to the pole region. If 90 days before the spring equinox earth must pivot 180° backward or forward, similar to this February 11, 141 BC. If you have a globe of earth, move the sun to the other side of the globe. Then pivot the base on a flat table 180° to the sun to keep earth in the same season. Thus, if earth did not pivot, the sun must move up or down after moving 180° to keep earth in the same season. If earth were to shift, the sun and moon may have appeared in the polar constellation. This shift would be like the precession of the equinox which pivots 360° in 26000 years. Thus, the zodiac of Yao made just after Yao shot down the 9 suns = the sun stood still in the sky for 9 days. If earth pivoted, (pivot a globe stand on a flat table and the axis will pivot also) it would pivot not 10 degrees for 10 days but 20 degrees for 10 days, because 180° is 2 times 90 days and the sun 180° on the other side of earth, earth must pivot 180°. Earth did not move, the sun moved up or down to keep earth in the same season. Earth's elliptical orbit means half the orbit may be 187 days, and the other 178 days. This is because of the perihelion = earth's nearest approach of the sun = January 3, 2018 AD. In 1241 BC earth's perihelion was about December 1. Then, the sun miracle at the fall of Jericho, February 17, 1241 BC was about 90 days after the perihelion. This means that half orbit was the maximum of 187 days. Sun miracles from sabbath to sabbath means the sun returned two more days later 189 days later, Saturday, August 24, 1241 BC. James Legge commented Yao's astronomers He and Ho could not have seen the four stars culminate in the four seasons in the time of Yao 2300 BC or 2000 BC. The stars could not have culminated so till 700 years more recent minimum. Here you see the stars appear 1400 years more recent. The truth is these stars culminated 1400 years more recent - 2300 BC was like 900 BC. The date of Yao given here as 2315 BC, and the calculation from April 1 in Genesis for Joseph to appear on Pharaoh's birthday April 1 ten days before the vernal equinox April 10, make the observation of the four stars in Yao's Canon only possible with this sun movement. Thus, this model is the solution to a long time big puzzle. Xueshun emailed me about 2008 that no solution to this puzzle had yet been proposed. Because earth must remain in the same season, the sun and moon and planets may appear in the polar constellation. The term "blue moon" may come from these ancient times when a purple sun would reflect the colour blue from the moon. Theoretically the blue moon was when there was a volcanic eruption that made the sun and moon appear blue. However, the origin of the term may refer back to Old Testament days when the sun appeared purple during a sun miracle. This was so rare, that a blue moon signified a rare event. So now when we say there is a blue moon, it simply refers to two full moons in a 31 day month, such as this last July 1, 2015 BC and July 31, 2015. Here you see what the sun may have looked like while it stood still in the sky for Joshua, both on August 24, 1241 BC and February 15, 1240 BC. This is an example of how a purple sun may look. Light from the purple end of the light spectrum does not radiate much heat. Thus, one would expect this to be the colour of the sun when the sun stood still or rose in the west so as not to overheat one side of the earth. Nevertheless, earth must receive heat from somewhere else to keep a constant temperature. Even the invisible ultra-violet light that may be a part of this may not cause eye damage. It is the invisible infra-red light that burns a hole in your retina. Picture taken by a NASA satellite of ultra-violet light. The moon is the dark spot in front of the sun: Perhaps the sun was this bright red crimson colour when the sun ascended suddenly in the east, such as for Gideon perhaps on August 25, 1241 BC. Light from the red and infra-red end of the light spectrum causes heat. Thus, one would expect the sun to be crimson red when the sun travelled east west for a short day of only 3 or 4 hours. Then this one side of the earth would receive the heat it normally would receive in 12 hours. This infra- red light would cause eye damage. At least the sun would not be in the sky for long to stare at it. Here is an example of a crimson sun: The purpose of the crimson colour sun may be the crimson red blood Jesus' shed on the cross for the whole world. The word for sun in: Judges 8:13 "Gideon returned before the sun was up." Sun = khar-sooth' = sun burn. Thus, a brilliant sun could create sun burn. The sun with the colour crimson may also refer to the crimson phoenix. From H2775 (Apparently in the sense of a red tile used for scraping); a potsherd, that is, (by implication) a pottery; the name of a gate at Jerusalem: - east. This is "heres". Joshua renamed the city he dwelt in Timnath- heres = portion of the sun.
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