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Joshua's Long Day - Skip to the Long Version Joshua's Long Day - Skip to the Long Version Joshua 10 10:12 "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, sun stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, moon upon Ajalon. 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down a whole day. 10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel." NASA states on their web site: "According to the laws of physics, there are only two possible explanations for having the Sun stand still in the sky for a day: (1) the Earth would essentially have to stop spinning on its axis...for which there is no evidence. -or- (2) the Sun would have to start moving about in the solar system in a very specific way so that it appeared to us on our spinning Earth to be standing still. There is no evidence of this occurring either." The Sun standing still at noon for Joshua for a day may have been produced by God moving the Sun around the Earth. The history and the working model are given here. God may have moved the sun around the earth with earth's rotation to make the sun stand still in the sky. Perhaps God moved the sun around the earth, to the other side of earth, and earth flowed forward into a reverse orbit of the sun. Then half an orbit later, and a year later, He moved the sun back and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun leaving no evidence, no biological or geological trace, not even any net missing time. There is no other way. Yes, there is Joshua's long day of 24 hours longer day. Because orbit is against rotation in earth's reverse orbit, earth must speed up its orbit 48 hours a year, or there would be 367 days a year instead of 365 days, and earth must speed up its reverse orbit about 24 hours (23:20 hours) in half a year = missing time = the missing day + the sun revolving around the earth for 24 hours = the long day of Joshua 10:12 and there is the 40 missing minutes. Earth in the reverse orbit was sped up 48 hours + the total time for the sun to move 2 X 360° or 4 X 180° or any number of combinations, is 48 hours = no net missing time. When the NASA scientists discovered the sun on the other side of earth, I discovered it and surely NASA discovered it, and earth in a reverse orbit of the sun, they would discover earth could flow out of the reverse orbit at the half orbit point. And that meant there must be 24 hours of sped up half orbit = 24 hours of missing time, or else we would have 367 days a year. Days of the year can be counted in coral. Thus, there has to be 365 days in a reverse orbit year. Thus, the 24 hours of missing time = the missing day. The missing day story of about 24 hours appears true because of both missing time and elapsed time and earth's elliptical orbit. The same missing time of 23:20 hours and the same elapsed time as 24 hours and the same missing 40 minutes, missing time and elapsed time. If God were to stop the earth from rotating, He would have to start it rotating again. The ocean would drop and dry land would ring the equator. Earth's circumference is 40075.017 km equatorial (24901.461 mi) and 40007.86 km meridional (24859.73 mi). Simply the ocean would drop about 70 kilometers or 42 miles at the equator, and the poles would be under 70 kilometers or 42 miles of water, if the earth stopped rotating. Water is unstable. Oceans would over flow. If earth's rotation per day was slowed by just one minute, the oceans at the equator would be 800 feet lower. Rather than to hold earth together and still for 24 hours, to move the sun around the earth is much more practical. In an old Bible encyclopedia is stated that God must have moved the sun to make the sun stand still in the sky rather than stop earth from rotating. Earth rotates 1000 miles per hour, 1600 kilometers per hour, at the equator. If the earth stopped rotating people would fall over and could not fight a battle. A continuous watch would show days of elapsed time unaccounted for. If earth were to stop rotating: earth's atmosphere would continue at 1000 miles per hour at the equator, worse than any hurricane. If earth stopped rotating the winds at the equator should also afterwards stop and the coriolis effect would stop as well. The equator spins so that winds spin in a circle, clockwise north of the equator and counterclockwise south of the equator. If the earth stopped rotating the coriolis wind would stop as well. Yes, there is no evidence earth stopped rotating because God must have moved the sun to make the sun stand still in the sky. There is no evidence the sun burned out when the sun was darkened in the Bible because God again must have moved the sun, this time just under the speed of light. Luke 12:54 "And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is." 1 Kings 18:42b "And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, 18:43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. 18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. 18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel." Earth's rotation at 1000 miles per hour at the equator creates a wind blowing east to west. Then, the wind circles back at the northern latitudes and brings the clouds "out of the west". If earth was to stop rotating earth's inner core would continue to spin, tearing earth apart. Scientists Detect Surprise Structures Wrapped Around Earth's Core A Short Explanation Here you see a picture of Jupiter. Note that the planet is wider at the middle, the equator. Jupiter rotates once every ten hours at 28,000 miles per hour, 43,000 kilometers per hour. Earth rotates at 1,000 miles per hour, 1,600 kilometers per hour, one rotation every 24 hours. Stopping time does nothing. If time is stopped on earth, then no time passes, no battle is fought. Reversing time is total nonsense. 2 Kings 20:11 "And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." God must have moved the sun backwards, not time went backwards. And the sun must go ten steps backwards = ten hours on a sundial, not 10° of a 360° circle. The sun must have been moved at least 180°. Moving the sun back and forth has the net effect of no net missing time. A continuous watch, from before the sun miracle and one year after when the sun moved back, would show no missing time. God moving the sun makes far more sense. God moving the sun is heavy lifting. Earth is slowing down its rotation about one second every 18 months. Tonight, December 31, 2016 a leap second is added. Over 10,000 years a whole hour is added. Thus, earth's rotation is unchanged. Only the sun moved around the earth with earth's rotation to appear to stand still in the sky. All sun miracles may be produced by God moving the sun, not slowing or reversing earth's rotation. "1.4 billion years ago the Earth turned a full revolution on its axis every 18 hours and 41 minutes." New research has enabled this study of earth's slowing rotation to go back billions of years. "Earth wobbles as it spins". Earth's axis shifts four inches every year. This is all the more important how God moved the sun around the earth in historical times without a trace when we can go back billions of years. This is all the more important that God moved the sun, and that God did not stop or reverse earth's rotation. About four billion years ago: "The impact gave the Earth extra mass, and a lot of extra angular momentum: so much that it spun once every five hours. The earth's slightly oblate shape, squashed at the poles, exerted tidal forces that aligned the Moon's orbit with Earth's equator, and stablished it there." Calculating the Cosmos.
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