Joshua's Long Day
Joshua 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.
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 about a whole day.
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."
I theorize the sun moved on Joshua's long day. - This is not the missing day
story - You will read here of plenty of evidence of this occurring. In the summer of 1999 it occurred to me if the sun moved halfway around the earth, earth would continue moving in orbit. While I was demonstrating this to my wife it occurred to me earth would continue moving but now in reverse and where did I read of that? From James Legge in the Chinese Classics: "But the vernal mansions go to the west
and the autumnal ones to the east, reversing the previous directions of these two seasons, and in opposition to
the prevailing notion of the Chinese that the spring belongs to the east." Where the sun appears to move through the year like it does through the day from east to west - only in a reverse orbit and exactly like this reverse orbit. Where the sun moved from Aquarius to Virgo just before the vernal equinox, thus the vernal and autumnal mansions were reversed. The reverse orbit for Joseph/Yao in 2357 BC was like the reverse orbit of Joshua in 1238 BC.
These calculations had nothing to do with the Missing Day Story. However, had Harold Hill heard the correct calculations given here he may have thought they were the same as Totten's. That is, when the sun moved 180° east to stand still in the sky for Joshua there was 12 hours of elapsed time unaccounted for. Probably the sun moved 180 degrees east again half an orbit later, there are 187 days from the Spring equinox to the Fall equinox, and there was 12 more hours of elapsed time unaccounted for. 24 hours of elapsed time unaccounted for. Then earth must speed up in its reverse orbit of the sun 48 hours a year or there would be 367 days a reverse year because rotation is against orbit in a reverse orbit following the same distance from the sun. Earth must speed up 187 days of 365 days, 187/365 X 48, correlating to 24 hours and 40 minutes rounding up from 24 hours and 34 minutes because the half orbit beginning February 25 1238 BC covered the longest period of earth's elliptical orbit. Longer than the current 186.5 days from spring to fall because earth is nearest the sun 14 days after the winter solsice now in 2008. In 1238 BC earth was nearest the sun about November 24 and the second quarter 92 days later began with Joshua's long day February 25. January 3 - (2008 + 1238)/22500 X 365.24 + 13 days to the Julian date gives November 25 Julian. + 13 days because the vernal equinox in 1238 BC was April 2 Julian and now it is March 20. Meaning there should be the maximum 186.6 days from February 25 1238 BC to the day the sun moved back and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit and reoriented August 31 1238 BC. This is because in 1250 AD spring and summer were equal length because earth was nearest the sun December 20. Spring and summer added up to 186.6 days from equinox to equinox. This is 186.6 days and 31 missing minutes which could have been rounded up to 40 minutes for simplicity in the missing day story. Moreover, the sun must return at midnight to begin the second watch when Gideon attacked. This then would be about the time of the beginning of the second watch of Gideon around 2AM September 1 1238 BC 186.6 days from noon February 26 1238 BC. Napoleon wrote that no one is brave at 3 AM! If this was a day later, then 187.5/365.24 X 48 = 24:39 hours. Thus there could be 40 minutes of missing time. However, the sun must move back 186.6 days later which means there must be 31 missing minutes to leave no biological trace. This is missing time as opposed to elapsed time. 24 hours of elapsed time countered by 24 hours and 40 minutes of missing time leaves 40 minutes of missing time for 1238 BC. In the Missing Day Story the spacemen were still missing 40 minutes. You can read here of the parallel to the Missing Day Story. Coincidence? Perhaps. Also, likewise there may be no net missing time from all these sun miracles because the reverse orbits look to be half years like Joshua's long day. Thus there must be lots of +24 hour -24 hour years. Even the -40 minutes of 1238 BC must have been countered by a sun miracle in autumn for a half reverse orbit of 23:20 hours missing time because there are 178 days from September 1 to February 25. 178/365 X 48 = 23:20 hours. Countered by two +12 hour long days at either end. Or +36 hours and -12 hours. Thus the missing 40 minutes may have been countered by only 23:20 hours of missing time + 12 hours + 12 hours leaving no net missing time. Then when earth flowed out of the second reverse orbit eclipse paths on earth's surface would be exactly where we would predict them to be backwards in time. Exact to the foot and to the second. Perhaps why the spacemen had to find the counter to the remaining 40 minutes. The only way to avoid a second correcting reverse orbit is for the sun to move on the perihelion or aphelion of the sun the day it is closest or furthest from earth or for the sun to move back on the anniversary of the first sun miracle. Thus there is no way around these calculations and it would be no surprise if the spacemen from NASA actually discovered these simple basic mechanics. Earth's orbit is so important it would be no surprise if these spacemen thought it was important too. They would realize there must be no net missing time or else solar eclipse paths on the face of the earth would be in error. This because earth must continue to rotate as normal. Thus there must be no missing time to put everything back to normal. And unless earth's orbit goes back to normal nothing is sure. Thus there may be no missing time going back several thousand years at all. The elapsed time of the sun miracles must match the 48 hours of missing time that year. Thus + 12 hours February 25, + 36 hours August 31, - 12 hours September 1 and + 12 hours February 25 = 48 hours.
If the earth stopped or reversed its rotation, the problems are immense. If the sun moved not 360° but 180° the seasons would change. Earth would flow into a reverse orbit of the sun and must shift on its axis to keep in the same season, unless on the vernal or autumn equinox. If the sun moved 180° east February 25 1238 BC to stand still at noon in the sky for Joshua for 12 hours earth would flow into a reverse orbit and need to shift, turn 70° clockwise on the vertical, to keep in the same season. This shift would be less than stopping the earth's rotation and starting it again. Orbital Variations and Insolation Database (search and read up on it under "orbital
variations" or "insolation database") show the seasons and the sun's intensity did not change. This model leaves no evidence. If NASA is saying there is no trace, no physical evidence the sun moved, they are probably right. However, NASA may be saying there is no evidence whatsoever of the sun being moved around the earth. Then the abundance of evidence documented on this web page directly contradicts that statement. If the sun moved to the other side of the earth, earth's forward momentum would carry earth into a reverse orbit of the sun. Earth must match its
elliptical orbit in reverse perfectly. Earth almost certainly could not be left to itself. The reverse orbit must
have been very skillfully managed to keep the sun's same seasonal intensity, as it would have had, throughout the
year at the same time speeding up the yearly orbit 48 hours to keep the 365 days in a year because rotations are against orbit. The
"severed leg of the bull" in ancient Egyptian and Sumerian history
confirms this axis shift. If the sun moved earth must flow into a reverse orbit. This answers both concerns:
Earth is rotating at 1,000 mph at the equator and rushing at 70,000 mph around the sun. You will read here of many
reverse zodiacs/orbits. The evidence on this page is reliable. This is not speculation. There is no other way. If God went to the effort to move the sun around the earth he must know he cannot make the sun stand still in the sky by stopping earth's rotation. If God knows there is no other way, there is no other way.
Genesis 8:22 "While earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
We can see God kept all these promises at the same time moving the sun around the earth and shifting the earth to keep it in the same season. Moving the sun around the earth at the same distance means there would be no change to earth. Day and night depended on where the sun was and seeing earth continued to rotate day and night continued. Day was when the sun appeared. Thus if the sun moved 180° east generally day/night was 12 hours longer or if the sun moved 180° west day/night was 12 hours shorter. Earth continued to rotate exactly as it would have.
Earth probably exited the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day half an orbit later
Earth appears to have gone into a reverse orbit on Joshua's long day. The Hebrew states the sun stood still from
the half of heaven for Joshua. Perhaps Israel saw stars from the other half of heaven that night. The Chinese from
the time of Joshua state there was a long sunset: 
"King Wan was like the sun or the moon. He lightened with his shining the four quarters, -- the western regions." - that is, there was a sun miracle when the sun was setting. This Chinese record was of the sixth day moon and the sun. Logically the sun should be setting and the moon brightening in the evening sky. And that the five planets had a conjunction in Libra/Scorpius in February
when the sun would be in Aquarius/Pisces - Scorpius would only appear in the east just before daybreak! Scorpius
must appear in the west at sunset to fit the picture. If this was a sun miracle the Chinese were describing they were not describing particularly a conjunction but a long sunset. That all the planets appeared in the western quadrant at sunset stood still in the western sky, while they moved 180° with earth's rotation and with the sun, and 12 hours later they appeared about Fang/Libra when the stars finally came out. The center of the 70° conjunction was Fang or Libra. "King Wan dreamt he was clothed in the sun and moon..on the sixth day of the first month"
- A long sunset and the moon stayed directly overhead. Spring began on the new moon. The sixth day of spring the moon is 90° east of the sun. Thus the moon on the eastern horizon above Ajalon when the sun was in the noon position. The only way that all this is possible is if the sun moved
180° from Pisces to Virgo and the planets and moon moved 180° from Taurus to Scorpius and earth's forward
momentum carried it into a reverse orbit. Then the moon and planets would appear in Scorpius at the end of this
long sunset. (Then the sun would be in Virgo moving into Leo next on the vernal equinox.)
After Joshua's long day Joshua conquered Jabin and Hazor in Joshua 11. Jabin appears to be still at Hazor in Judges 4 & 5. Probably the sun in Judges 5:31 marked the sun miracle to begin the second reverse orbit. That is, Joshua's long day must have been February 25 1238 BC. The sun must have moved back half an orbit or 187 days later August 31 1238 BC. Then the net missing time is 40 minutes. Then the sun must have moved again to start a second reverse orbit that year the day God gave Israel the victory in Judges 4,5,6,7,8 and Joshua 11. The sun may have returned 11 PM August 31 when it rose in the west to give light to fight the battle. Then the sun may have suddenly rose in the east the day following September 1 to begin the second reverse orbit. Then This may have been September 1 and 178 days later the sun returned February 25. And perhaps the sun stood still again in the month of Adar. Joshua's long day was 90 days after earth's nearest approach to the sun. Then about 90 days before earth's nearest approach to the sun is September 1. Moreover, if the sun returns 365 days later there does not need to be a second correcting reverse orbit because all 365 days of sped up orbit near the sun and slowed down orbit furthest from the sun cancel out. Then a second half reverse orbit begining right after a half reverse orbit will do the same and the 40 missing minutes from the first reverse orbit will be cancelled out by the 40 more minutes of elapsed time in the second reverse orbit. Now we are getting no net missing time to the exact second! 178/365.25 is about 23:20 hours of missing time countered by +36 hours of a long day perhaps August 31 and -12 hours of a short day perhaps September 1 and +12 hours of a long day February 25 1237 BC. This leaves 40 minutes of elapsed time countering the 40 minutes of missing time from the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day. There is no way the Midianites could have been prepared on the day of the second reverse orbit. Or the sun moved 540° east on the anniversary of Joshua's long day plus the 180° of Joshua's long day countering a year of 48 hours missing time.
Joshua 11:4 "And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many."
Judges 7:12 "And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude."
The battle of Gideon and Barak and Deborah must have been the same day September 1 1238 BC. Thus Judges 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and Joshua 11 describe the same day. The sun must move back and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. Then probably the sun moved back at the first opportunity August 31 1238 BC and moved again to start a second reverse orbit depicting the final conquest of Canaan in Joshua 11 and Judges 4,5,6,7,8:
Judges 7:19 "So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch: and they had newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands."
The second watch would begin at 10:30 PM. The sun would suddenly rise in the east or west, probably in the west, about 11 PM. Thus Gideon could chase the Midianites in the daylight. The sun could suddenly reach the noon position, 180° from 11PM is 11AM if the sun only moved 180°. This would make about 7 hours of daylight that day on Israel. However earth must shift back immediately. Thus the stars would shift west 70° very fast if this was as earth shifted 70° east, the sun then rise in the west to appear for about 3 hours. If this shift was after the sun set, when earth flowed out of the reverse orbit August 31, the Israelites would see the stars suddenly set in the west. The shift is on the zenith which would be just above China at 11PM Israel time at the beginning of the second watch. So China would rather see the stars pivot above them. But Israel would see the stars suddenly disappear 70° in the west as much as anywhere else on the earth. However, this battle must be on the day of the beginning of the second reverse orbit. Thus, factoring our elliptical orbit into the equation this second reverse orbit must have begun September 1. Then again that night at 11 PM the stars would shift 70° west as earth shifted 70° east. Thus the stars would suddenly disappear in the west August 31.
Judges 8:13 "And Gideon the son of Joash, returned from battle before the sun."
After the sun rose in the east for a long day of 36 hours for Gideon to chase the Midianites and capture Zebah and Zalmunna, there should be a sudden sunrise in the east. The sun rising in the east suddenly must be brightened several times to leave the same daily coral line. This because the missing time of a year of two reverse orbits must be countered by 48 hours of long days. Then +12 hours for Joshua's long day, + 36 hours for Gideon, -12 hours for the sudden sunrise and +12 hours for the sun to stand still February 25 again.
There should be a second reverse orbit from Autumn to Spring to counter the remaining missing 40 minutes. Thus, Gideon's chase may have begun at the beginning of the second reverse orbit. The sun could move 540° east September 1 and produce a long enough day, plus 36 more hours, Gideon could chase the Midianites 60 miles plus and return before the sun. The second reverse orbit was needed to give Gideon 36 hours to get complete victory over the Midianites. That is the sun may have been dimmed for the 36 hours as it traveled east to rise in the west or Israel was kept in twilight, then the sun would rise in full strength the following sunrise. The sun rising in the west must be dimmed to not leave a daily coral line. This sun miracle on September 1 1238 BC then was to counter the 40 minutes of missing time from the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day. Then the sun must move back half an orbit later, February 25 1238 BC. Then if the sun traveled 180° west half a year later this would counter the missing 40 minutes. If on August 31 before the autumn equinox the stars would stand still above Israel during the shift. "The stars in their courses fought against Sisera". There should be meteor showers visible that night before the sun rose in the east as Israel would catch meteorites as earth and Israel moved into astroids. The word for before as in before the sun, Mahaleh - same as the feminine for steps on a sundial as in Hezekiah's Sign when the sun retreated 10 steps in 2 Kings 20:9, means ascending an elevation. Thus the sun rising from the west may not count. Nevertheless they were made aware of the sun for some reason to even mention it, probably by the sun miracle in Judges 5:31. 48 hours later the sun would ascend in the east again like normal. Gideon could have fought in the light of the full moon August 30 and on into the next day and finished by the close of that day at a sudden sun rise after sunset when the sun moved back. However, Gideon pursued the Midianites for 60 miles. Perhaps this was the same day:
Joshua 11:6 "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid of them because tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon (or Zidon-rabbah), and unto Mizrephothmaim (or salt pits), and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining."
This is the same route as Gideon and Joshua's attack was sudden like Gideon's and perhaps the sun rose in the west that night suddenly too:
Judges 7:24 "And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan, Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan."
This is the same route depicted in all three battles.
Judges 8:12 "And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host."
Joshua 24:11 "And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before, you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow."
Zebah and Zalmunna are these two kings.
Judges 8:4 "And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
8 And he went up thence, to Penuel, and spoke unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.
9 And he spoke also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east, of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.
12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?
16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
Thus Gideon took the two kings of the Amorites. When Gideon taught the elders with thorns this was a type of Christ. Because when the soldiers crucified Jesus they put a crown of thorns on his head. Just like when Joshua hung the five kings of the Amorites on trees toward the setting of the sun on Joshua's long day this was a type of Jesus' crucifixion with the two thieves.
Possibly Gideon chased the Midianites from a sudden sunrise in the west at the beginning of the middle watch and through that long day. This must be the same time as Sisera began his attack on Deborah and Barak. Thus the Amorites were poised to attack both at once.
However, God directed Gideon and Deborah to attack first. Also Joshua made an early morning surprise attack at Merom probably at the same time, Joshua 11. Note Jabin and Sisera must have perished in the same battle because they are mentioned together. Thus Joshua must have taken Jabin at Hazor in Joshua 11 from the battle of Merom at the same time Barak and Deborah defeated Sisera. Gibeon waited to the right day. Timing was everything because the sun must move at an exact moment to begin the second reverse orbit inorder to correct the first reverse orbit. A sudden sunrise when the sun moved back August 31 would only be a few short hours of daylight to fight because the sun must travel 180° east at 11PM less 4.6 hours of earth shift, then a full moon to complete the chase. Hardly enough light or time. Probably what was needed was a sudden sunrise in the west September 1 that day lasting 36 hours. 36 hours would be enough time and a dimmed sun would be much better than moon light.
Possibly Gideon fought from
the night before Joshua's long day. Then the sun may have rose like normal February 25 and stood still at noon for 12 hours giving Gideon time to complete the chase of some 60 miles and return before the sun rose the next day. However, 16.6 more hours of daylight, 12 + 4.6 hours as earth shifted west to keep in the same season. probably would not be enough time to go more than 60 miles and return before dawn. Also, the text implies the sun had not risen in the east the whole time of Gideon's chase. Then probably Gideon's surprise attack was at the beginning of the second reverse orbit that year, September 1. Possibly all three battles were on the same day on the sun miracle marking the beginning of the second reverse orbit the night after the first reverse orbit of Joshua's long day ended. Thus the Midianites would not be expecting another sun miracle. Judges 4,5 must be at the same time as Joshua 11 because Sisera was king Jabin's general.
Judges 4:2 "And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles."
Joshua 11:1 "And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,"
Joshua 10:42 "And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel."
Joshua 11:17 "Joshua made war a long time with all those kings."
Thus there was time between Joshua's long day in Joshua 10 and Joshua's conquest of Hazor in Joshua 11.
Thus the sun moving back 180° and earth flowing out of the reverse orbit half a year after Joshua's long day may not be the sun miracle of these battles. And the sun miracle marking the beginning of the second reverse orbit may be the one. The sun must move back half a year or a year or years after Joshua's long day. There may not be a Bible record of the sun moving back but there may be a Chinese record.
The soonest is 187 days later August 31 1238 BC on a full moon. That Tuesday night was a Chinese day 56/57 and a lunar eclipse was recorded in China on a day 56/57 full moon. However, the day 56/57 (the night) recorded by the Chinese as a lunar eclipse must be August 12 1269 BC because this King Wuding of the oracle bone eclipse record reigned to 1269 BC. NASA shows the moon just about to rise on China at the last of the lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse lasts three and a half hours, so very likely the Chinese at least saw the last of the eclipse. The moon would rise at 8 PM with the last of the eclipse. For the Chinese to have recorded it, and there is no other lunar eclipse on a day 56/57 during King Wuding's reign, this could be during earth's reverse orbit. The moon must slow in its orbit of the earth to keep in its lunar phases each night. Then if the moon slowed enough it would rise earlier in China and earth would cast a shadow on the moon then and China could see this lunar eclipse that they recorded. China must have caught at least a glimpse of the last bit of shadow leaving the full moon that day as the sun rose at 8 PM. The incoming trouble on day 23 was the day of Atonement, perhaps a sun miracle taken as a bad omen by the Chinese. If so, there would have been a sun miracle on the first day of the Hebrew new year in March on the first day of the month of Nissan.
This may be the record: On day 7 "three flames ate the sun". Joshua's long day February 25 187 days earlier was day 50 of the 60 day cycle making 187 days later day 57. Then the three flames that ate the sun for day 7 of the 10 day week may be September 1 1238 BC is when the sun must move again to counter the missing 40 minutes of the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day. September 1 1238 BC is day 7 of the 10 day week because sometimes days were not counted in 60's as day 57 but rather just day 7. The Chinese would not see the sun that night of Gideon's attack at 11 PM. However, one website has this record as a record of an eclipse in 1080 BC. This would be about 1152 BC in the common chronology if the king is included in this record because the common chronology is 72 years earlier than the revised chronology. Total eclipses visible from China can be some 50 years apart. There was no eclipse visible in China in 1080 BC. And the common chronology places this eclipse much earlier, before 1122 BC. There were eight kings in the Yin dynasty from 1324 BC to 1122 BC.
There is plenty of reason to expect the sun moved back half an orbit after Joshua's long day even without the Chinese records for day 56/57.
August 31 1238 BC, half an orbit after Joshua's long day, is the soonest the sun and moon could have moved back. 11 PM Israel time at the beginning of the second watch is 5 AM China time. Thus the Chinese would not see the sun, or see it move and may describe the long night as the sun being eaten. Likewise the Midianites would see the stars suddenly disappear in the west and the rise in the west. Thus though Gideon may have surprised them, that sight would surprise them even more. For the sun to suddenly rise in the west to the noon position in Israel the sun must travel about 200 million miles per hour, one third the speed of light.
Perhaps the writer of Judges perceived the terrific speed the sun must have travelled that day:
Judges 5:20 "They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera."
5:31 "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth
in his might."
The sun probably rose suddenly and shined several times brighter the morning of September 1. That is, the sun must travel 180° west the morning of September 1 if the sun travelled 540° east 11 PM August 31 in order for there to be no net missing time when the sun returned February 25 1237 BC.
The sun must have gone 180° or 540° east 11 PM August 31 rather than west to give light for Gideon and perhaps to picture the might of moving the sun suddenly with earth's rotation, east, rather than west. Probably the sun moved 540° east for the sun to rise in the west for about 30 hours of daylight rather than 180° east for only some six hours of daylight.
II Kings 20:10 "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees."
An example of the might in moving the sun likened to running a race is also given in Psalm 19 -
Psalm 19:4 "Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race."
In Chinese the sun is Yang Man and the moon Yin Woman.
The lessons of the day speak of creation. The coming of Christ was proclaimed to the world in ancient times through sun miracles. There were no more sun miracles after his coming.
Gideon must have had light to fight the battle:
Psalm 97:11 "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart."
Perhaps Debra and Barak could sing about the stars fighting against Sisera in Judges 5:20 and the sun in Judges 5:31 because the sun moved 180° or 540° east for a sudden sunrise, surprise attack and complete victory. That night they would see the stars from the other half of heaven and realize the sun and moon and planets had moved 180° past the stars. They may have realized the sun and moon and planets actually moved 540°. Also, if earth shifted the 70° clockwise August 31 and 70° counterclockwise at 11PM September 1 1238 BC while the stars were out, the stars would appear to move west several times faster than just by earth's rotation. Also, Israel would be turning into earth's forward path before the sun rose in the west. This means Israel should see meteor showers, perhaps the stars in their courses. Meteor streams in earth's path have resulted from the gradual breakup of comets that once moved in similar orbits to earth's.
The Chinese recorded meteor showers, the stars fell like rain, at least twice in association with a sun miracle. The earliest record of a meteor shower in China is in the Bamboo Books 2133 BC and may be in association with a sun miracle. It rained gold in Yu's eighth year 2198 BC, perhaps also a meteor shower on the night of a sun miracle upon which he may have been deposed. (1) "The
Year 687 BC, in the summer, in the fourth moon, in the day sin mao (23 March according to the Chinese reference book on sexagesimal dates), during the night, the fixed stars
did not appear, though the night was clear (cloudless). In the middle of the night stars fell like rain." (2) "In his 10th year (1807 BC), the five planets went out of their courses. In the night, stars fell like rain. The earth shook. The E and Loh (rivers) became dry."
The Bible mentions it too, Joshua 10:11, Psalm 18:12, Daniel 8:10, Matthew 24:29, Revelation 6:13.
On Joshua's long day the inner planets must stop and reverse in slow and the outer planets stop and reverse very fast (Saturn must go some 1,200,000 mph) to be in the same O'clock position in the night sky as they would have been in each season in a normal orbit.
Then on Debra and Barak's short night the planets must move 180° or 540° with the sun back to where they would have been on that date relative to the sun.
Earth would shift east and the stars appear to shift west also very suddenly - as they would be visible from China at 4 AM. Nevertheless, Israel would see the stars shift west, 70°, suddenly at 11 PM: "the stars in their courses fought against Sisera." Thus we need not look any further for the second reverse orbit that countered the missing 40 minutes from the first reverse orbit of Joshua's long day. A large pendulum set in motion will appear to turn 360° in 24 hours while earth rotated; 180° in 12 hours.
A pendulum on Joshua's long day would do the same, always moving back and forth in the same direction while the sun moved 180° around the earth and earth rotated under it. Earth's rate of rotation does not seem to have changed from creation. Earth's speed of orbit in reverse must be accelerated 48 hours a year because rotation is against orbit, to keep 365 days a year.
Then there really was a missing day of 24 hours because earth must accelerate 24 hours in half a year of a reverse orbit. A missing 24 hours as opposed to 24 hours of elapsed time. If the sun travelled 180° east instead of west August 31 1238 BC there would have been 24 hours of elapsed time that year too, both cancelling each other out in net time loss. The earth in free fall only means earth can wait till after the free fall to shift to keep in the same season. Earth was in free fall for the 12 hours of Joshua's long day but we do not know how long it took for the sun to move back half a year later. Possibly the sun moving 180° east February 25 1238 BC and earth shifting 70° clockwise was countered by the sun moving 180° east August 31 1238 BC and earth shifting 70° counterclockwise. There was 12 hours of Joshua's long day of elapsed time, and there either was 12 hours more of elapsed time August 31 if the sun moved 180° east or 12 hours less time if the sun moved 180° west August 31.
Probably the sun moved 180° east both on Joshua's long day and when it returned half an orbit later. + 12hrs + 12hrs less 24 hours in earth's sped up reverse orbit and there would be just the 40 minutes of missing time for the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day.
Thus earth must have continued to rotate exactly as it would have normally. Then although earth's orbit must have changed earth's rotation may have never changed since creation.
Earth must accelerate 48 hours over one complete reverse orbit. So over half an orbit: 48 hours X 187 days / 365.25 days = 24 hours and 34 minutes. Now in 2008 Summer is 4.66 days longer than Winter and Spring is 2.9 days longer than Fall. However, that was not the case then because earth was nearest the sun in November not January 3 as it is now in 2008. From February 25 12 PM 187 days to August 31. These two sun miracles are exactly half an orbit apart. Because earth's elliptical orbit takes earth farther from the sun in summer meaning earth moves slower in summer.
So from the equinox March 20 to the equinox September 23 this year there are 186.4 days from March 20 9 AM to September 22 7 PM. There are only 185.7 days from the vernal equinox 1 PM April 2 1238 BC to the autumn equinox 6 AM October 5 1238 BC because the sun was nearest earth November 24. Then starting February 25 1238 BC would begin the slower half of earth's orbit thus the most days, 186.6, in half an orbit. There are 186.6 days in the half orbit from February 25 to August 31.
After February 25 1237 BC days would continue on earth as if nothing had happened. Also, it appears the sun travelled very fast August 31 traveling 180° east. If the sun moved the 180° in an hour, east or west, earth would free fall for only that hour. Very soon after which earth must reorient to keep in the same season because earth would then be in its regular orbit with earth. Probably the sun stood still in some part of the world August 31 till the sun had travelled the 180°, 12 hours later. Thus right after there may have been 4.6 hours less. That is, instead of the sun standing still for 12 hours if the shift was at the same time the sun would stand still for 7.4 hours after earth shifted the 70° back. Then the sun must have moved again 11 PM September 1 and that reverse orbit lasted till Febuary 25 1237 BC. When most likely the sun traveled 180° west and that day February 25 the anniversary of the long day would have lasted just a few short hours. Then the sun rising in the west September 1 would not count for a day. Then the sun finally rose in the east again September 2 36 hours later when Gideon returned before the rising of the sun.
Isaiah connects the day of Judgment when Jesus comes again with Joshua's Long Day: Dead Sea Scroll words in bold.
Isaiah 28: 19 "From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by
morning shall it pass over, by day and by night sheer terror: and it shall be a vexation only to understand
the report.
20 For the bed is shorter for people to stretch themselves on it: and the covering to wrap themselves
in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth in the valley of Gibeon, that he may
do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bonds be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD of hosts
a consumption, even determined of the whole earth."
It shall be a vexation only to understand the gospel after the redeemed meet the Lord in the air because it will be too late. To obey the Gospel is sheer joy.
Perazim refers to the Perezzites:
Joshua 17:15 "And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel."
Sisera had 900 chariots in Jezreel. Then the LORD rising up in mount Perazim may refer to the sudden sunrise in the west possibly September 1 1238 BC. Joshua did not give them rest on the Saturday Sabbath after Joshua's long day Thursday/Friday February 25/26 lest the Amorites would escape, and they would be very tired after 24 hours of daylight:
Hebrews 4:7 "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time: as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."
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Thus "the bed shorter for people to stretch themselves on it" because they had no rest the day following on the Sabbath but continued to battle. "He shall be wroth in the valley of Gibeon" must refer to Joshua's long day. Then Joshua's long day may be "his strange work" and the sudden sunrise of Judges 4 & 5 and the defeat of Sisera may be "his strange act".
- On the other side of earth would be a long night, hence the short bed. "The Hervey
Island Legend: Te-eroi and Te-tareva heard there was a land of light. They built two canoes 'weary of darkness'
and 'sleepless nights'.. " VS King Wan's dream was of the long sunset seen from China of Joshua's
long day. "King Wan dreamt he was clothed in the sun and the moon". "Strange" work,
Strongs 2114 means to turn aside (for lodging)
possibly the sun now lodged on the other side of earth. "Strange?" act,
Strongs 5237 means to recognize, acknowledge,
understand, respect, discern. Ends with the letter "He", perhaps a question.
The Septuagint Isaiah 28:21b "he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath
shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange."
The Hymn of Deborah Judges 5 speaks of the Conquest of northern Palestine. Judges 5:31 may be the part of the book of Jasher referred to in Joshua 10:13.
Judges 4:17 "Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there
was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite."
Joshua 11:10 "And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword:
for Hazor before time was the head of all those kingdoms."
This battle of Barak and Debra and Gideon must have taken place soon after Joshua's long day.
Judges 5:20 " They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera."
Judges 5:31 "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth
forth in his might."
- "courses" (mecillah) Strongs 4546 implies a revolving frame barrier that did not let Sisera through,
a turnpike. Earth had flowed into a reverse orbit on Joshua's long day and the zodiac was in reverse, earth in reverse momentum around the sun. They would see the other half of the
night sky February 26 1238 BC. Then half a year later the sun moved 180° back. Then earth would flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun and reorient and the progress of the stars be normal for the following night of August 31 as earth now continued in its normal orbit of the sun. The stars would no longer rise 1° in the west each night but 1° in the east like normal, and that 180°
away from the sun's previous position in the zodiac. That August 31 1238 BC they had a February 25 night sky. The February night sky they were expecting in September in the reverse orbit never came. Instead they were greeted with the normal September night sky. Likewise the night following the sun miracle marking the second reverse orbit they would see stars from the other half of heaven again.
Exodus 34:10 "10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels
, such as have not been done in all the
earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible
thing that I will do with thee.
11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite."
"'Marvels' (pil^i) Strongs 6381, preceded with "Nun" a command, (entreat). 'wonders' that are incomprehensible.
Designates either cosmic wonders or historical achievements on behalf of Israel...things that are unusual, beyond
human capabilities...it is essential that the miracle is so abnormal as to be unexplainable except as showing God's
care or retribution."
Jesus Hebrew name is Joshua. The conquest of Canaan by the Captain of our Salvation is summed up: "Thy love has wholly conquered I am wholly thine".
Joshua 3:5 "And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among
you."
Exodus 34:22 "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast
of ingathering at the year's end."
"at the year's end" means "coming round, circuit of time or space" "a revolution"
- "t qupa" - Strongs 8622. God knew the earth revolved around the sun and very likely Moses knew this
too. The year's end was the fall harvest, October, which would be just after the battle of Debrah and Barak September 1 1238 BC. Likewise if Moses' three days of darkness was the new moon March 21 1279 BC the beginning of months, the second correcting sun miracle could come half an orbit later, September 23 1279 BC - the 10th day of the seventh Egyptian moon could be the Day of Atonement, which Yom Kippur means, - the beginning of the civil year. If the sun also stood still for Moses at Rephidim in the second month in May it must be followed by two more correcting sun miracles to correct earth's shift. Unless God moved the sun around the earth 360° for a 24 hour sunset. March 21 was day 38 and September 23 was day 44 in China in 1279 BC for oracle bone records for a sun miracle on the Chinese day cycle of 60, we don't know what year, to match. The Day of Atonement was Day 10 September 23, the the seven days of the feast of tabernacles Day 15 Sunday September 28 to day 23 Sunday October 5, "on the first day a holy convocation and on the eighth day a holy convocation", the eighth day was also Sunday.
Thus the return of the year on the day of Atonement could have meant the return to a normal orbit if there was no sun miracle at the battle of Rephidim. The return of the sun to Virgo in September where it normally was, 180° from where it just was that day in Aquarius. However, if the three days of darkness of Moses was day 50 April 2 1279 BC, the day before the passover the night of April 3 1279 BC, then the sun may have moved back 187 days later October 5 1279 BC. Then earth would not have to shift at all because the sun moved on the equinoxes. This would be a Chinese night between day 56/57 of cycle 60. The significance of the lunar eclipse at sunset on day 56/57 August 12 1269 BC may have been strengthened with a sun miracle on a day 56/57 previous to the eclipse. However, there is no record of a sun miracle for October 5 1279 BC. Nevertheless Sunday October 5, 1279 BC would be the 21st day of the seventh month, the last day of the feast of tabernacles.
Leviticus 23:36 "Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein."
Xueshun tells me there must be at least 140 years of kings from the lunar eclipse of day 56/57 because the King at the time was Wuding: "As for the reigns of those 8 Yin kings, I have published my estimation in China. Based upon evidence in the inscriptions, it is my opinion that those reigns were at least 140 years long." Which brings this lunar eclipse on day 56/57 to the last year of King Wuding 1269 BC, on August 12. Nevertheless, the incoming trouble on day 23 following the lunar eclipse on day 56/57 was on the day of Atonement, September 5 1269 BC. And emperors were often deposed on the event of a sun miracle and sun miracles often occurred on feast days. However, 180 days later or 186 days earlier there should be a sun miracle which there may have been on day 22 "Crack-making on guiwei (day 20), Zheng divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters." On the night of the third day yiyou (day 22), the moon was eclipsed and it became dark. [Day yiyou was in] the eighth month." From day 22 in the thirteenth month, September 7 1269 BC, to day 22 in the eighth month, March 6 1268 BC, is 180 days. Then if Zeng is King Wuding he may still have been alive in 1268 BC. Also this oracle bone inscription may record the counterpart sun miracle a year earlier, on day 20 September 5 1270 BC. 'Crack-making on guiwei (20), Que divined: "today, there will not be wind." (It was in) the 12th month.' What was the 12th month in 1270 BC would be the 13th month in 1269 BC. Likewise two and a half years after September 7 1269 BC is day 40 March 4 1266 BC also possibly when the sun returned: 'Crack-making on guimao (40), Bin divined: "(The king would do something to) pacify (the spirit of the) wind."' However, this reverse orbit should only be half a year because the long days to counter it would have to be much more than 12 hours longer to counter it. Half an orbit earlier was the first day of the year, the first day of the month Nissan. This was Chinese day 15 when probably the first sun miracle was. This may have been by design because a sun miracle on the first of the year would be followed by one 187 days later on the day of Atonement the end of the civil year. Now back to this oracle bone incription for day 57 is for a lunar eclipse at sunset August 12 1269 BC: "After seven days, at the time from jiwei (day 56) to gengshen (day 57), the moon was eclipsed." There were two inscriptions, perhaps of the same naturally occurring lunar eclipse. This is supposed to be the lunar eclipse of August 14 1166 BC. "Those experts in modern astronomy can calculate the time and date of all early eclipses very accurately. Consider their results and information deduced from oracle bone inscriptions together, the year of that lunar eclipse has been identified as 1166 BC."
"If that lunar eclipse record indeed refers to the eclipse on Aug. 14, 1166 BC, which is most likely correct, then Wu could not possibly begin the Zhou dynasty in 1122 BC, because there were eight kings between the Yin king of that eclipse and Wu. Clear inscriptional evidence shows that the rule of those eight kings were much longer than 44 years."
"As for the reigns of those 8 Yin kings, I have published my estimation in China. Based upon evidence in the inscriptions, it is my opinion that those reigns were at least 140 years long."
Xueshun This is because the King was Wuding who reigned to 147 years before the fall of the Shang dynasty.
There are only 44 years from this 1166 BC to 1122 BC when Wu became emperor in the common chronology. The common chronology is sometimes refered to as the "long chronology" and the Bamboo Book chronology as the "short chronology". However in the common chronology this lunar eclipse is rather August 31 1238 BC when there was no lunar eclipse. The common chronology is the chronology passed on down unaltered. Their revised chronology has the conquest of Wu (Woo) 1050 BC when it is rather 72 years earlier in 1122 BC. Thus if 1122 BC was the year of Wu's conquest and the beginning of the Chow dynasty the rule of those eight kings to be 116 years and would place the "lunar eclipse" to be August 31, 1238 BC when there was no lunar eclipse. However, the length of reign of these eight kings must be at least 140 years according to Xueshun. Meaning the Chinese may not continue to insist this was a record of the August 14 1166 BC lunar eclipse.
There are two lunar eclipse records for day 56/57. However Xueshun wrote: "After checking those inscriptions again, my answer is they could not be for two separate events that were 40 years apart." Then probably they are for the same naturally occurring lunar eclipse.
157 years before the Chow dynasty would be day 56/57 October 5 1279 BC half an orbit after Moses' three days of darkness April 1 1279 BC. However the 12th month is for August. The sun and moon must have moved back August 31 1238 BC half an orbit after Joshua's long day. The sun and moon may have moved back October 5 1279 BC half an orbit after the three days of darkness in Egypt. Both August 31 1238 BC and October 5 1279 BC are an 18th day moon, just past full moon. Likewise if the sun and moon returned a year after Joshua's long day February 25 1237 BC it would be on an 18th day moon also. Thus the moon would be visible to China if the sun moved back in the first year. This is what the Chinese would have seen even though we have no record from them of it. These are not this Chinese record of day 56/57 in August and in King Wuding's reign.
Most importantly the only record that meets all the criteria is the lunar eclipse on day 56/57 August 12 1269 BC 6:30 PM Anyang China, the last year of King Wuding:
Image produced by TheSky 1:40AM August 13 1269 BC.
This is the NASA lunar eclipse page: Lunar Eclipses: -1299 to -1200
U.T. Greatest Saros Pen. Umb. S.D. S.D. GST Moon Moon
Date Eclipse Type # Gamma Mag. Mag. Par Tot (0 UT) RA Dec
-1268 Aug 12 10:20 N 8 -1.265 0.540 -0.435 - - 20.6 20.70 -19.9
1268 is rather 1269 BC because there is no 0 BC. 10:20 Universal time is 6:20 PM in Anyang China. The sun would set at 7PM and the moon would just be rising. Thus it is possible with the margin of error of more than plus or minus one hour that this eclipse was visible in Anyang China. When I look at China from the position of the earth's shadow at 10:20 AM UT, I can just barely see China, thus China should just barely be able to see the last of the lunar eclipse. These two records for day 56 appear to be for the same day. Evenso, August 31 1238 BC is also month 12 day 56. To get the date of day 56 you start from day 60 January 2 1500 BC. 1500 - 1269 BC = 231, 231 X 365.25 (Julian) = 84372.75, add one day because February 29 1269 BC was leap year, 84373 / 60 = 1406.2167 We are only interested in the .2167, .2167 X 60 = 13 Then January 2 1269 BC was day 13, keep adding days to August 12 = 234, 234 / 60 = 3.9, .9 X 60 = 55. The 60 day cycles were sometimes out a day in dating eclipses I have read, then August 12 1269 BC must have been this day 56. If the year of 60 was given it would be the 49th year of 60.
This must be the one, 147 years before the beginning of the Chow dynasty in 1122 BC according to the common chronology. Then "those reigns were at least 140 years long", that is 147 years long to King Wuding's last year. If so this proves the common chronology to be correct and Joshua's long day/Wan's dream February 25/26 1238 BC also to be correct. Because king Wan's dream was the year of his birth thus his right to be emperor of China and he lived to be 100 years old in legend. Then king Wan's death in 1135 BC in the common chronology means his birth and Joshua's long day must be February 26 1238 BC.
There likely was a sun/moon miracle half an orbit after Joshua's long day in any case. "At the time period from the night of the seventh day jist (day 6) to...there was a big new star that was seen beside Mars." Heji 11503b Or otherwise translated: "Three flames ate the sun and a great star was seen". The night of August 31 is the beginning of day 7 of the 10 day week, day 57 of the 60 day cycle. Thus if the sun moved 180° east the Chinese may have to wait 12 hours for sunrise. August was the 12th lunar month of the Chinese Yin calendar.
"This was the 12th month was the month of the Yin calendar. It was several months slower than our current calendar." Xueshun
This is the same as the Hebrew calendar that begins the year at Yom Kippur in September. Likewise the name for day in Chinese is Yue like Yom. Moon in Chinese is Yue and the day of the moon is Yue.
Crack-making on guichou (day 50), [X] divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters." On the seventh day jiwei (day 56), [when the night] cut the gengshen day (day 57), the moon was eclipsed.
Crack-making on guihai (day 60), [X] divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters." The king read the crack and declared: "There would be a curse."
Crack-making on guiyou (day 10), [X] divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters."
Crack-making on guiwei (day 20), Zheng divined: "[In the next] 10-day week, there will be no disasters." The king read the crack and declared, "There would be a curse." On the third day yiyou (day 22), [when] the night cut the bingxu day (day 23), there indeed came [a curse. There was] incoming trouble. [Day bingxu was in the] thirteenth month.
The incoming trouble could be the death of king Wuding. Or possibly a sudden sunset, sun miracle, whereupon King Wuding may have been deposed. This when night cut the day also symbolized the red dragon perhaps a long sunset. Perhaps after the lunar eclipse at sunset "[when the night] cut the gengshen day (day 57)" at 7PM August 12 1269 BC the moon showed some of the last of earth's shadow when it rose at 8PM. There may have been a sun miracle when "night cut the bingxu day (day 23)" and this taken as a strong omen because of the lunar eclipse just weeks before just after sunset. Then at the same time of day as the lunar eclipse, at sunset, Wuding was deposed.
Jeremiah 10:2 "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them."
This day 22 was the 10th day of the 7th Hebrew lunar month Saturday September 7 1269 BC, Yom Kippur - the day of Atonement, the new year. The jubile must have originally been planned for 1269 BC because 50 year increments add up to the last jubile when Jesus spoke from Isaiah 61:1 and fulfilled the jubile of Leviticus 23 in Luke 4:18 Saturday September 15 31 AD to preach the acceptable year of the LORD - to preach the Gospel. 969 years from the flood in 3637 BC was 2668 BC. If we count the years as the years of Jesus' ministry, we could see 3639 BC a year and a half from the flood on April 12 3637 BC as in keeping with the day of Atonement when Jesus spoke from Isaiah 61:1 and fulfilled it. Then 3639 BC - 969 years = 2670 BC in keeping with the 50 year cycles to this day of Atonement. The feast of tabernacles followed five days later and was to be kept in booths:
Leviticus 23:43 "That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out, of the land, of Egypt: I am the LORD your God."
50 years previous to 1269 BC is 1319 BC when Moses thought to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. 50 years previous to that is 1369 BC perhaps when Seti I became pharaoh and perhaps also when there was the sun miracle depicted on the ceiling of his tomb. There was a sun miracle in China in 2698 BC and 50 years later in 2648 BC at Abraham's birth and 50 years later in 2598 BC and 50 years later was Isaac's birth in 2548 BC. Isaac died in 2368 BC perhaps from when this 50 year jubile was reckoned to be at 50 year intervals till Jesus fulfilled the jubile in 31 AD. When also, 2368 BC, there was new emperor in China possibly due to a sun miracle. Because Isaac was a type of Christ and he could look ahead to the day Jesus would come and preach the Gospel just a year and half before they would crucify him. From 2368 BC to 1269 BC is 1099 years which is 777 years in duodecimal. That is, 7 X 144 + 7 X 12 + 7. Likewise Enoch preached the Gospel - see Jude, was born about year Sothis 300 3936 BC and lived 65 years to about 3871 BC when he was translated so he did not see death.
Jesus came to take away the curse of the Law with the New Testament:
Mark 14:22 "And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many."
See the book of Jasher. Joshua waited almost a year to attack the Amorites noted in the record of the sun standing still at noon in the month of Adar, February/March. A sun miracle is also noted in Judges 5:31. Therefore Judges 4 and 5 must have occurred half an orbit after Joshua's long day at the soonest. The soonest is August 31 1238 BC. Also, king Wan's dream matches Joshua's long day February 25 1238 BC in every astronomical detail.
Therefore Joshua's Long Day is solved.
To quote Reasons to Believe:
"In any case, ancient eclipse observations are not given with an accuracy of a few minutes even by local time. Therefore, confirmation of Joshua's 23 hours 20 minutes or even 24 hours remains, to date, beyond the reach of human or computerized calculations." This calculation is not beyond our reach. I have demonstrated it here with absolute certainty.
The missing time of the day of Joshua's long day is not a missing 24 hours but a missing 12 hours. The sun sun stood still in the sky for 12 hours while the sun moved 180° east to the other side of earth. This is elapsed time as opposed to missing time. Earth must speed up its reverse orbit 24:20 hours from February 25 1238 BC to August 31 1238 BC because orbit is against rotation to keep the same number of days in the year. Or else there would be 366 days that year. Then the sun must move back 180° August 31 1238 BC. Probably the sun moved 180° east making a +12 hours. Then +12 hours -24:20 hours +12 hours in 1238 BC leaving 40 minutes, actually 33 minutes, in net missing time. You might write this as 40 minutes for simplicity's sake. Hmm, the spacemen discovering the Missing Day as the story goes were still missing 40 minutes.
John 11:9 "Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?"
This is a reference point of 180°. The sun stood still for about a day, for 12 hours.
Matthew 12:38 "Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40 For as Jonas was thee days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
Jesus in Hebrew is Joshua. The people may have thought they could see a sun miracle from Jesus just as from Joshua when Jesus the Son of God was right before them. Sun miracles were done for a reason, a critical battle, a sign of Jesus' coming etc and not for show and not necessary when Jesus was right there amongst them. Today people often ask me where is the scientific evidence for sun miracles? So they can explain it away. They just want a magic trick.
Matthew 4:3 "And when the tempter came to him, he
said, If thou be the Son of God,
command that these stones be made
bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is
written, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Matthew 17:1 "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light."
God's purpose in creation is to make a kingdom for his Son. And so is God's purpose in these sun miracles. And so is the purpose of this web site, to prove the power of my Heavenly Father so that you too will seek and find Jesus and make him your King too.
This verse implies there was a sun miracle for Jonah:
Jonah 3:3 "So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was a city of God of three days' journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a days' journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
Nineveh was where the descendents of Noah settled and is beside Ur of the Chaldeans of Abraham. The most dense population of the J2 Y chromosome is there at the foothills of Mount Ararat. 20% of the Jewish population have this J2 chromosome and share a common about 10,000 years ago. Noah's ancestors may have come from there then moved to the place which God destroyed by flood after which Noah returned. Kerek Ur - round lord, and Egeto Ur - scorching lord, are Sumerian for Sun. Thus it was a city of God. A great city of 60 miles in circumference taking three days to circle. Jonah was in the whale's belly three days then travelled to Nineveh and arrived on day one, Sunday, the morrow after the sabbath of the passover, Sunday. "a day" in the verse in Hebrew says "day one" may mean day one Sunday. There is the possibility the sun stood still long enough for Jonah to circle the city Sunday. However, the significance of Jonah's message was that God delivered him out of the whale's belly and sent him to Nineveh. The forty days must count from Sunday. The Hebrews did not name their days, they numbered them one to seven. Jonah was in the whale's belly the same days Jesus was in the heart of the earth.
Jonah preached from this Sunday: "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown". The same forty days of Noah's flood from Saturday/Sunday April 12 3637 BC. The same forty days the 12 spied out the promised land from Sunday March 29 1278 BC. The same forty days, in the third month that is, Moses was in Mount Horeb with God when God gave him the ten commandments - the two tables of testimony, written with the finger of God. The same forty days Elijah went on to go to the same mount Horeb. The same forty days Jesus was tempted 31 AD February/March.
The same forty days Jesus appeared after his resurrection from Sunday April 9 30 AD or from Sunday April 5 33 AD. The 50 days of Pentecost were numbered from the morrow after the sabbath of the passover, - see Leviticus 23. Thus April 4 33 AD the day following Jesus' crucifixion and the passover was also a Saturday, also a sabbath, and thus also the 50th day of Pentecost that year would be on Saturday.
II Kings 14: "He (Jeroboam II) restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher."
This may have been on the Jubile at 790 BC, the time to restore lost land.
More about Joshua's long day:
Probably the sun moved instantly with earth's rotation to stand still for 12 hours, 180°, at sunset on China
as per the Chinese record attributed to king Wan's dream below. Joshua 10:13b "So the sun stood still in the
midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day" Probably the sun stayed at the noon position
for 12 hours. Joshua 10:12a "Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, moon upon Ajalon". (Gibeon was
on the 31:50 Latitude and 35:10 Longitude and Joshua 10 miles west in the Ajalon
valley. Givat Zeev is built on this location and you can see the moon similar to the way Joshua saw it that day. Joshua was facing south in "the going down to Beth-hor-on"
by the city of Ajalon, the valley running east west through the town and rather it was the valley to the east that
was being referred to.
Joshua 10:11 "And it came to pass, as they fled from before the Israel, and were in the going down of Beth-hor-on, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died of the hail stones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
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."
Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still at the going down of Beth-hor-on. "House of caves - the pass of Bethoron was a difficult part of the road from Jerusalem to the sea. Between the Upper and Lower or Nether Bethoron the distance is 1 3/4 miles, and the descent 700 feet. Beyond Lower Bethoron, the ravine widens out into the valley of Aijalon." Cambridge Bible, Bible Dictionary, Beth-horon.
The sun perhaps directly south on his right hand and the moon rising on his left on the
valley of Ajalon - the sixth day of the moon as recorded by king Wan in China at sunset February 25 1238 BC.
Psalm 44:3 "For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them."
Joshua said Israel should go up and possess the land. They did not and wandered in the wilderness forty years.
Numbers 14:9 "Only rebel not ye against the LORD,
neither fear ye the people of the land;
for they are bread for us: their
shade is departed from them, and the
LORD is with us: fear them not."
Joshua may have planned to ask God to make the sun stand still at noon when "they went up at once", and instead asked God to make the sun stand still 40 years later when they entered the promise land. "their shade (defence) is departed from them" may have been intended to mean the sun would stand still at noon for 12 hours in the heat of the battle rising to 80° so there would be no shade. The oracle bone describing a dragon taking the form of a rainbow at sunset in China would have meant the sun was standing still at noon in Egypt when Joshua was a young man and thus he would know and have faith God could make the sun stand still. Certainly he would know of some of the sun miracles God had done and known of God's power. Perhaps Joshua was the only person to actually command a sun miracle.
Psalms 84:11 "For the LORD God is a sun and a sheild: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."
The forty days was from the first ripe grapes, the fortieth day of the passover perhaps from March 1278 BC see Numbers 9. Perhaps they returned Wednesday May 6 1278 BC the fortieth day counting from the day after the passover on Friday March 26. Thus if they went up at once the battle would be on Friday May 8 1278 BC.
The twelve went to search out the land at the time of first ripe grapes.
Numbers 13:23 "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff;"
The Gospel was always meant to be carried by two of God's servants, perhaps these were Joshua and Caleb. The message is the same:
Numbers 13:30b "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." The message is
Hebrews 4:7 "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."
The Friday passover may have symbolized the Friday Jesus was crucified. The forty days is the same time of the year as Noah's flood, the spies that spied out the land, Jesus' forty days fast when he was tempted by the devil forty days in the wilderness and Jesus forty days appearing after his resurrection. Thus if they obeyed they would have gone up to conquer Canaan on a Friday and when probably Joshua would ask God to make the sun stand still to finish them off. Thus likely the sun would have stood still Friday May 8 1278 BC as it stood still Friday February 26 1238 BC. Whether February 25 or 26 depends on what day the Chinese chose as the sixth day of the lunar month. Not so simple because there are 29.5 days in a typical lunar month rounding to 29 or 30.
In February 25 1238 BC the 6 day old moon would rise in the east at 9AM and appear over the hills
by 11AM. In China as the sun stood still at sunset the moon would stay directly south moving up to directly above, as per king Wan. That is,
the sun and moon moved 180° along the ecliptic plane, the moon moving up in the sky to the summer solstice inclination, 80° straight up, by the eighth hour of the sun's 12 hour 180° movement. Likewise, Jupiter and Saturn would rise to 80° with the moon. Joshua 10:13b "the sun stood still in the midst of heaven"
more literally "the sun stood still from the half of heaven" appears to have a double meaning.
Joshua must have asked God to make the sun stand still at noon for the sun to be setting on western China and
the sun must have moved to the other half of heaven appearing to stand still in the sky from our spinning earth.
When they saw the sun had moved 180° from Aquarius to Virgo the people of God would understand the sun had
revolved halfway around the earth with earth's rotation that day and further understand the earth rotates each
day and the sun stands still. The ancients would observe the sun's glow to the north at midnight in June/July and realize the sun was not moving but the earth rotating.
For example, Pythagoras, 525 BC, 175 years before Aristotle, proposed that the sun was the center of the universe.
He also determined the moon was round, thus earth must be round also. Anaxagoras determined earth's shadow on the
moon produced the lunar eclipse by 430 BC. Aristarchus, 310 BC - 230 BC, was the first to theorize that the earth and planets revolve around the sun. He appears to have been born the year the shadow lengthened ten cubits and rose a cubit in China in 312 BC when the sun, moon and planets must have moved 180° when Greece settled in Israel and died the year the sun retreated from the sunset postion in the west to the meridian in China when the sun and planets must have moved 180° east. Well before Columbus in 1492 AD thinking people knew the earth was round.
It was Aristotle that proposed earth was the center of the universe and not the sun. The catholic church adopted
his position which had nothing to do with the Bible.
I Thessalonians 5:8 "But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love: and for a helmet, the hope of salvation."
Joshua's long day probably was an inspiration to Paul to write these words. The extra daylight was needed to get the victory:
Joshua 10:10 "And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon,
and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah."
From Ajalon at noon Joshua's army had to march 18 miles to Azekah and 30
miles to Makkedah. With the extra 12 hours plus the extra 4.6 hours of shift (6 +12 +4.6 = 22.5 hours day light after noon) Joshua's army
would have enough time to march the 30 miles to Makkedah, roll the great stones on the cave on the five kings, slay all the enemy, then open the mouth of the cave and hang the five kings, and leave them hanging for some time till the sun finally set that day in Joshua 10:28, hardly possible in just 6 hours.
Joshua 10:21 "And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel."
All of the people would have to return in the daylight also, to Makkedah! The fact that the Israelites continued fighting while the entire solar system rotated around the earth only means God kept earth 100% intact, as if nothing was happening (other than the trembling of the curtains of the tents of Midian - Habakkuk 3).
Joshua 1:4b "and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast."
The city Moses named "Utter Destruction" Hormah in Numbers 21:3 Joshua renamed Bethshemesh "House of the Sun", Joshua 19:22, perhaps just 12 miles out of Ajalon. The five kings may have been hanged on crosses at noon, after the sun completed the 180° and started to set, just as Jesus and the two thieves where hanged at noon and were taken down at sunset. Perhaps foretelling when Israel, the Jews, would crucify their king, Jesus. Then the sun must have stood still at the noon position for 12 hours then began to set when the five kings were hung.
Perhaps the Chinese counted Friday February 26 1238 BC the sixth day of the moon instead of Thursday. February 20 may have been counted day 30 from rounding the 29.5 day lunar month - the Chinese used 29 day and 30 day months alternately. The traditional Chinese calendar is basically lunar, the sixth day must be the sixth day of the lunar month. The Chinese had 28 lunar months when there are 29.5 days in a lunar month perhaps because the Chinese kept the seven days of the seven luminaries, the sun, moon, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn. Thus the six day of the moon may also have meant the sixth day of the week.
(The moon would be just to the left of the five planet conjunction February 26 1238 BC rather than in the middle February 25 1238 BC. The moon would rise at 10AM on February 25 and a fuller moon at 11AM on February 26 just appearing before Joshua gave his command at noon.) February 26 1238 BC is 35 days before the vernal equinox April 2. Likewise the sun miracle of August 31 1238 BC is 35 days before the autumnal equinox October 5. Thus Joshua may have foretold Jesus' crucifixion on Friday.
Joshua 10:32a "And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day,"
The second day is Monday. This means Joshua's long day must have been Friday, passed from Makkedah Saturday, took Libnah Sunday and then took Lachish Monday. Joshua does not say they rested Saturday.
Hebrews 4:7 "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time: as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."
Put yourself in the
place of a soldier in Joshua's army. You have marched all night and pursued, chased, the enemy to Ajalon by noon. You have
come 40 miles, a 4000 foot climb from Gilgal, in 18 hours and now you have to chase the enemy another 30 miles
in just 6 hours before dark! The fleeing Amorites had a head start and were fresh. This was February - note the
hail - and sunset at 5:30PM. If earth shifted the 70° clockwise keeping the same inclination to the sun as
the sun moved the 180° that extra 12 hours would be 4.6 hours more; from noon: +5.5 +12 +4.6 = +22.1 hours to sunset. If earth shifted during this 12 hours of earth's free fall then the five kings would have been crucified about 18 hours after Joshua's command to the sun. Thus this would have been noon Friday. Jesus was crucified with the two thieves on noon Friday. If earth shifted back after sunset there would be an extra 1.4 hour August 25 inclination from the February 25 inclination sunset time. This extra 1.4 hours would be offset once earth completed the 70° clockwise shift. Possibly earth shifted back that night into the next day, leaving a +4.6 hours of night in which to rest from the long day. If earth shifted after the stars had come out in China, China would see the stars almost stand still as earth shifted. The ecliptic axis would be above North America, the axis moving across the continent as earth rotated, meaning China would experience the full benefit of the shift; stars standing still and high winds.
Possibly the sun stood still at noon for 12 hours then proceeded to set in 6 hours like normal. There may have been 24 hours of daylight to 27.6 hours of daylight that day. The sun would be in the sky for 11 hours in a normal February 25 day. The sun must remain in the noon position for exactly 12 hours for the sun to revolve 180° around the earth. Thus the sun stood still for about a whole day, 12 hours. If earth shifted back after then earth must shift back during the night and the sun rise a few hours early the next morning.
The Canaanites were expecting to escape in the darkness but the extra 12 hours gave Israel enough time to finish
them off and gain the victory. Jesus walked up this route from Jericho on Palm Sunday before he was crucified and got the victory over death at his resurrection that next Sunday. The palm branch was a symbol of triumph and victory and because Jesus name in Hebrew is Joshua a parallel is made between Jesus and Joshua. You will read on to
Joshua 10:27 "And it came to pass at the going down of the sun..28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah".
This is the sunset to Joshua's long day. There is no way the events from Joshua 10:10 to Joshua 10:28 could happen in one day unless the hours of daylight were extended several hours. They followed Jesus, and Jesus gave them the victory.
Note the same hail in:
Exodus 9:25 "And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both men and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field."
Joshua 10:11 "And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-hor-on, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they were more which died with hailstones than the children of Israel slew with the sword."
Isaiah 28 speaks about Joshua's long day as the day of judgment. Likewise Isaiah 24. Joshua's long day then must have been almost one year after Joshua crossed the river Jordan:
Exodus 23:29 "I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee."
Deuteronomy 7:22 "And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed."
Joshua's long day was almost one year after the crossing of the river Jordan, Sunday, April 12, 1239 BC. Likewise Deborah/Barak/Gideon's battle must have been on a day in September/October/November 1238 BC 6 to 9 months after Joshua's long day, perhaps also when in Joshua 11 Joshua defeated King Jabin at Merom and burned the capital Hazor. 1238 BC was 24 hours shorter than a regular year because earth's orbit must have been sped up 24 hours for the half year of the reverse orbit from February 25 1238 BC to August 31 1238 BC. Earth must speed up its orbit or there would be 366 days that year because rotation is against orbit. This leaves 24 hours of missing time. Then if there ever was a missing 24 hours Missing Day associated with Joshua's long day this would be it. The sun may have been dimmed while it stood still in the sky to leave the same daily coral line, coral polyps lay down daily growth rings. "If a ring is added each day it could be that on a day with particularly bad weather no ring is added". Still the sun must have caused moderate to excessive weather highs that would in turn cause high winds. The sun goes through cycles of luminosity howbeit lasting decades and centuries. Also, I have read not much study has been made of daily coral lines for many years. Nevertheless, King Wan in China recorded high winds that day. Also, the Aztecs: "And they say that although all the gods died, even then the sun could not move and follow his path. Thus it became the charge of Ecatl, the wind, who arose and exerted himself fiercely amd violently as he blew. At once he could move him, who thereupon went on his way." The sun is naturally dimmed by clouds. Perhaps "the sun's heat wave was silenced" in order to leave no physical trace. Joshua commanded the sun to "damam" to be dumb also from which we get the word dim. Thus Joshua must have both commanded the sun to stand still and be dim. Jesus was silent before his accusers, Isaiah 53:7b "as a lamb before its shearers is dumb", - "'alam".
Luke 23:44 "And it was about the sixth hour, and
there was a darkness over all the earth
until the ninth hour.
45 And the sun was darkened, and the
veil of the temple was rent in the
midst."
God darkened the sun when his Son was crucified, then also in earlier times.
Isaiah 24:23 "Then the moon shall be confounded,
and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of
hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem, and before his ancients
gloriously."
The sun was darkened for three hours when Jesus was on the cross April 3, 33 AD and at sunset the moon was darkened by a lunar eclipse. If the sun was dimmed, slowed and made ashamed, then the moon must be dimmed even more so.
The moon must move 180° also, or
else that lunar month must be only 15 days. Then the moon should appear to stand still in the sky with the sun
from our spinning earth. That is, on February 25 1238 BC the sun would move to the zodiac sign of August 25 and
the moon would pass through the lunar signs for August that lunar month. There are 29.53 days in a lunar cycle, 28 lunar mansions in the Chinese lunar zodiac beginning with Corvus where the moon would be on the first day of the moon with the sun in the August sign. Thus the Chinese would see the sixth day moon that night move into the lunar sign 4, Fang or Scorpius. The lunar signs varied in length and were only approximations. Also, the moon's orbit is going against earth's orbit meaning the last 5 lunar mansions would not be visible. Nevertheless there would be the same 29.5 days in the lunar month. Earth must speed up its orbit of the sun 380 miles per hour, 48 hours a year, in reverse. From about 70,000 mph to 70,380 mph. However, the moon would have to slow down in its orbit of the earth by the same amount 380 miles per hour because orbit is against orbit. From 3,600 kilometers an hour to 3,100 kilometers an hour.
The moon must slow down its orbit of the earth for there to be 29.5 days a lunar cycle in a sped up reverse orbit of the sun because orbit is against orbit. Even so, each lunar month must be 4 hours shorter than normal equaling the same number of lunar cycles, same number of days to a lunar cycle in a 48 hour sped up reverse orbit of the sun.
There are 27.3 days for the moon to complete an orbit around the earth. In one year of a reverse orbit the moon would completely orbit earth 50 hours slower than a normal year. Earth would orbit the sun one year faster in the same period. The moon must move 180° with the sun east or west on the day of the sun miracle. Also when the duration of the sun miracle was 12 hours as for Joshua the moon must move with the sun also for the 12 hours while earth was in free fall as the sun moved to the other side of earth. Then the moon would continue in a slower orbit of the earth, yet each lunar cycle from earth would be 4 hours shorter than our lunar cycle of 29.53 days.
The moon must orbit the sun as it does now, travelling east. Then lunar phases in a reverse orbit would match what
they would have been without interruption, save the long day/night or short day/night. Also, the moon would miss the last 3 of the 28 lunar mansions because the sun would have moved in reverse in earth's reverse orbit. The lunar signs would be for the month
that is 6 months, 180°, away. "The moon's swiftness throws away one day and one night from the count of
its course every nineteen years, and that day is called the saltus lunae, that is 'the moon's leap,' because it
leaps over one day." The moon must have leaped 180° to the other side of earth. This leap must have been
observed on each miracle of the sun, perhaps something to do with this leap terminology. The moon also must slow in its orbit in earth's reverse orbit 4 hours a moon orbit to keep the same 29.5 days a lunar month from earth because orbit is against orbit. Then the slowness of the moon against the background stars should have been obvious. Then also when the normal orbit began again the moon would seem to leap by stars in comparison to its slow orbit in earth's reverse orbit. From India: "Garuda
(the phoenix) tucked the moon under his wing and flew out of heaven." There are 19 years between emperor Kwei's
long night 1807 BC and his long day 1788 BC, also between Huang di's unicorn 2697 BC and the unicorns and phoenixes 2678 BC. From 2698 BC to Joshua's long day is the length of a Sothis period, 1460 years. From the Chinese emperor Shen-nung perhaps on a sun miracle at the birth of Serug in 2737 BC to the Exodus in 1279 BC is 1460 years. Perhaps Moses thought he should lead the children of Israel out of Egypt at the beginning of a new Sothis cycle in 1320 BC 40 years earlier. From 2678 BC to the Exodus in 1279 BC is 1400 years. Also between "In (King King's) 14nth year (504 BC) the milky way was not visible in the sky." and the Omen of the sun in 485 BC that drove Xerxes to attack Greece - may have been 480 BC.
The book of Esther may have occurred about 474 BC. If Daniel's 490 years from the 20th year, in Nehemiah, in Shushan count to Jesus' crucifixion in 33 AD, then the first year must have been in 478 BC.
Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy."
"weeks" or seven days more specifically refers to seven years, thus 70 X 7 = 490 years. Nehemiah began and finished the wall around Jerusalem in the 20th year in Shushan. Which then must be about 458 BC. The temple was completed in 1033 BC - 144 - 144 - 144 - 144 = 457 BC. The feast for 180 days in Esther 1:4 may have symbolized the 180 degrees or 180 days between two sun miracles from September to March. And the seven more days 187 days from March to September. This would mark the third year in Shushan. And perhaps Esther saved her people from about the fourth year 474 BC and Mordecai fulfilled the last verse of Esther in seeking the wealth of his people with the jubile in 470 BC. Then the accepted date of 485 BC for the beginning of Xerxes' reign must be 5 years more recent and be about 480 BC, and then also the Temple must have been finished in 504 BC, 11 years more recent than the accepted date of 515 BC. Then also, the fall of Jerusalem must have been on the day the sun fell from the sky, the day after Pentecost, in Sunday June 17 575 BC rather than the year of a solar eclipse in May 28 585 BC.
Hosea 8:1 "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law."
The eagle may be the phoenix that moved the sun to a sudden sunset when Jerusalem was taken.
Then also, Hezekiah must have died in 687 BC, 10 years more recent than accepted Biblical chronology.
Nehemiah 13:6 "But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:"
Thus Nehemiah cleansed the Temple in the 32 year about 448 BC, 144 + 300 years before the birth of Christ in 4 BC.
Some sun miracles happened 19 years apart. The same calendar date and lunar cycle coincide every 19 years. Israel used a lunar calendar based on the 365 day year. Every 19 years the same moon phase would appear on the same 365 day calendar. This was very important to an agricultural community.
The Chinese did not discover the 19 year lunar cycle till 600 BC. The Hebrew calendar months start on the same day of the year every 19 years, with 12 years of 12 months and 7 years of 13 months. Every 9.5 years from a full moon or a new moon the moon is a new moon or a full moon respectively. Then a pair of sun miracles half a year apart may be followed by a pair of sun miracles 9.5 years later half a year apart. Then a sun miracle on a full moon may be followed with a sun miracle on a new moon. 'Report 176 says, "When the Sun stands
in the place of the Moon, the king of the land will be secure on his throne."' Institute
For Biblical and Scientific Studies If in a full moon the sun moved 180° the moon must also move
180°. The sun then in the place of the moon. This could also refer to a new moon for which there were some
sun miracles as well. Such as possibly the day Noah left the ark April 12 3636 BC, Yao's/Joseph's long day about March 31 2357 BC, the three days darkness March 1279 BC, "the sun and moon did not meet harmoniously" about 2158 BC and possibly the new moon refered to in Amos 8:5. Some have seen the sun's corona in a total eclipse appear as wings on the sun. See Pedigree of the Phoenix. However, the total eclipse path is narrow and lasts only 4 minutes. Although most people on earth could see a partial eclipse most would not look at the sun to notice it because it is so bright even when 40% covered - such as I observed July 10, 6PM, 2002 from Kelowna BC Canada with a telescope through a solar filter. It was a sunny day and I could not discern any shading whatsoever and the sun was too bright to look at without a filter. If the sun moved 180° everyone on earth would notice. Thus, Chinese, Biblical and Egyptian sun miracles can be shown to have happened on the same day. Also, most of these sun miracles are not on a new moon necessary for an eclipse. Although eclipses are more frequent than sun miracles the characteristics of sun miracles distinguish them from eclipses. A petroglyph of a moon god was found at Hazor. That
the moon stood still as well as the sun for Joshua would terrify these Canaanites. Also the moon's dark
side must have been illuminated to earth, at least until the moon rotated 180°. Also, the moon must shift
on its axis to maintain the appearance of its "sunny side" to earth. "King Wan
was like the sun or the moon. He lightened with his shining the four quarters, -- the western regions." The
Chinese would have seen a long sunset on the first quarter moon in the time of Joshua. Skeptics
have claimed such a world wide event would have been seen by everyone yet no civilization recorded it. The Chinese
did: on the first quarter moon, 6th day of the lunar month, in the time of Joshua. The moon is just visible in
the east at noon on the 6th day old moon. Not only that, but there was a five planet conjunction in Scorpius in
late February in that the five planets appeared in the western sky at sunset. At the end of the day when the stars appeared the planets would appear from Scorpius to Virgo. The event that the Chinese were trying to describe was the sun, moon and planets standing still in the sky. To describe it they said there was a five planet conjunction in Fang, Jupiter and Saturn in Scorpius beside Fang, Mars Venus and Mercury in Virgo, Fang being in the middle. Thus it was not particularly a conjunction the Chinese recorded just how remarkable how all five planets could stand still in the west, staying 70° apart, for 12 hours. Mercury is hard to see most of the year. However, near the equinox as this February 25 date is, Mercury could definitely be seen. The sun must have moved 180° to Virgo to the other side of earth and earth's forward momentum
carried it into this reverse orbit. That is, the moon, sun and planets must have pivoted 180° around earth.
The twilight may have lasted 12 hours, whereupon Scorpius may have moved into the moon, Saturn and Jupiter, being
"stationary", and the sun finished setting and these planets and stars appeared in the planetary conjunction
in Scorpius setting four hours after the sun. When
more than one sun appeared it predicted the fall of a dynasty. You can see the Chinese record of three suns in 1788 BC just before the fall of the Hea dynasty in 1765 BC when there was a sun miracle of two suns, then the record of two suns in 1133 BC just before the fall of the Shang dynasty in 1122 BC when there probably was a sun miracle then too. Perhaps the sun standing still at sunset on
China, perhaps 1238 BC, was associated with the fall of the Shang dynasty and the rise of king Wan and the Chow
dynasty. King Wan (Wen) was reckoned to have been born to king
Chi. Wan's son, Woo, became emperor 1122 BC according to the common chronology. "In the first month, the day jin-shin immediately followed the end of the moon's waning." - the year Woo became emperor. January 27 1122 BC is this jin-shin day 29 of cycles of 60, the moon had just passed out of visibility into the sun. Thus I have no problem with the common chronology. There may have been a sun miracle in Wu's first year as emperor helping his campaign in 1122 BC. Thus it was written "How sun and moon were Wan and Wu!" God made Saul king of Israel on the day of Pentecost in 1122 BC and may have marked it with a sun miracle. Saul reigned 40 years to David in 1082 BC. David slew Goliath in the year following the fallow year of rest in 1096 BC. David became king of Judah in the year following the fallow year of rest in 1082 BC. David became king over all of Israel in the year following the fallow year of rest in 1075 BC.
David reigned 40 years to 1042 BC and Solomon became king. Solomon began the Temple 240 years after the Exodus in 1279 BC in Solomon's 4th year in 1039 BC. 1440 years from Jacob's birth in 2479 BC is 1039 BC. From the sun miracle in 2678 BC to Joshua's long day in 1238 BC is 1440 years. From the Sojourn into Egypt in 2348 BC to the Exodus out of Egypt in 1279 BC is 1069 years. 1039 BC - 1069 years is 31 AD when Jesus began his ministry. This appearing of phoenixes of Wan's dream may have been the year of his birth, thus the appointment of heaven.
If this was the year of his birth there is no problem with the common chronology, Woo could easily still be emperor in 1122 BC and Wan could have dreamt about the sun miracle in the year of his birth after reading the recorded observation of Joshua's long day from China. Wan means evening, Wen means writing. King Wan may have been originally named Wan named after the sun miracle in the evening and later named king Wen when he further developed the Chinese language. "Afterwards a male and female phoenix went about Wan's capital with a writing in their beaks" could signify king Wan had changed his name from "evening" to "writing", this writing.
An example of such a Chinese word: "The character that "appeared bird" is the image of a kind of wheat. Because its pronunciation is the same as that of word lai, which means "to come", people use it to represent the word "to come." It is a part of the sentence: Maybe, there will be coming of a disaster = Maybe, there will be a disaster." Xueshun
Thus king Wan would be very concious, perhaps consider it every evening, of the reason he was named Wan. Then when he was imprisoned and further developed the Chinese language he may have recounted the record of Joshua's long day from China at his birth and changed his name to Wen for writing.
Following Woo, king Ching about 1096 BC recorded flying phoenixes and unicorns. Almost everything written about Wan and Woo, several hundred pages in the Chinese Classics part III, alludes to these long days. King Wan may have written this account from his year in prison when he further developed Chinese writing from Fu-hsi's unicorn in 3322 BC or 2852 BC in the I Ching in 1143 BC and copied this record of a recent sun miracle about the year of his birth as a sign to show he should be emperor: "King Wan
dreamt he was clothed with the sun and the moon. Son of Chang. A phoenix duck sang on mount K'e. In the first month of spring,
on the 6th day, the five planets had a conjunction in Fang (Scorpius). Afterwards a male and female phoenix went
about Wan's capital with a writing in their beaks, which said: 'The emperor of Yin has no principle, but oppresses
and disorders the empire. The great decree is removed: Yin cannot enjoy it longer. The powerful spirits of earth
have left it; all the spirits are whistled away. The conjunctions of the five planets in Fang brightens all within
the four seas'". Perhaps king Wan's father Chang, about the time of his birth, waited 12 hours for the sun to set so to sleep, and thus refered to it as a dream. Then perhaps this record of the long sunset was shown to him that thus he was born and king Wan dreamt this astronomical event was heaven's favour for him and pictured himself in night clothes as the moon stood still above him and the sun stood still at the horizon in the west. The mother of emperor Che had an astronomical dream at the time of his birth: "His mother was called Nen-tsee. She witnessed a star like a rainbow come floating down the stream to the islet of Hwa.
Thereafter she dreamt that she had received it, and was moved in her mind, and bore Shaou-haou. When he ascended the throne there was an auspicious omen of phoenixes." 2598 BC.
This custom was perhaps naturally adopted by Wan's parents. "It was in the ninth month. The King was at Zong Zhou. He ordered Yu. The king spoke thus: "Yu, the glorious King Wen received the great mandate with the assistance of Heaven. Then King Wu inherited this from King Wen and established the state.." The inscription of the Greater Yu Tripod. Thus king Wan/Wen was glorious because of the sun standing still in the west. He received the great mandate with the assistance of Heaven because only God could make the sun stand still and this happened the year of his birth. "The sighting of a K'i-in was a considered a good omen, and often
signified the birth of a good ruler." Sightings of the K'i-in, unicorn, occurred with the appearing of phoenixes. Thus Joshua's long day in China may have occurred in the year of king Wan's birth, considered a good ruler by the Chinese. The Chinese considered sun miracles to be good omens. That the moon stood still
above him also for the 12 hours perhaps shows up in later writings: "How sun and moon were Wan and Woo!" Sun and moon together in Chinese means brightness, or the beginning of the moon's visibity such as this fifth day of the moon. There were two suns together also in Wu's time in 1133 BC when he took over from his father Wan. Then perhaps the sun stood still in Judges in 1133 BC also. The female phoenix is the moon. Sun miracles to the Chinese were a sign that the emperor should
step down. Thus the demand the emperor of Yin step down in favour of Wan. God's purpose for the sun miracles had to do with the coming of his Son. The Chinese were correct in worshiping the Creator who moved the sun. Read the Chinese definition of God. A shift in axis would affect the coriolis force that causes
winds to veer to the right in circles in the northern hemisphere. See image Thus when earth shifted 70° clockwise after Joshua's long day, earth must shift against winds in the northern hemisphere and thus there would be the high winds as recorded in Wan's dream in China the day/night of Joshua's long day. The sun standing still in the sky would make some places warmer than others creating differences in air pressure which push the air around in winds. "spirits..whistled away" describe the
oncoming strong winds. "brightens all within the four seas", may refer to this shift causing the stars to stand still. "A phoenix duck sang from mount K'e" may refer to the birds that sang in the twilight, perhaps for 12 hours. This phrase is not written in the Chinese account but the Chinese did believe the phoenix had a beautiful song. The rooster was associated with the phoenix possibly because when ever the sun rose the rooster cried.
Sun miracles marked the birth of a great king, such as this king Wan in 1238 BC. Apollo stopped the chariot of the sun to listen to the song of the phoenix, perhaps another account of Joshua's long day. Most birds are quiet after dark. Or there could have been a loud bird like noise, a result of the enormous physics involved:
2 Peter 3:10 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,"
From the legend of the Phoenix: "As the sun soared above the horizon, the Phoenix faced east, opened its bill and sang such a bewitching song that even the sun god himself paused for a moment in his chariot."
In Wanting's "12th year, phoenixes collected on mount K'e." Which was the first year of king Wan. Wanting must be Wen Ding who reigned to 1102 BC in the short chronology. Thus add 72 years, and 5 more years because the short chronology ends the Shang dynasty in 1046 BC instead of 1050 BC, to the common chronology. Making Wen Ding's 12th year about 1179 BC. However, king Wan reigned 51 years to 1135 BC from 1186 BC. 1187 BC is 1100 years after the sun miracle in 2287 BC. The first jubile was in 1190 BC. Wen Ding's 12th year was his last year. Thus probably he was deposed because of the sun miracle. Thus king Wan would reflect on how the mandate of heaven was given to him at the sun miracle at his birth, now also again a sun miracle and a mandate for his first year as king. Sun miracles are usually only a few years apart. Thus one of the four sun miracles because of the need of a second correcting reverse orbit, may have been the day of
Pentecost about May 12 1188 BC when Boaz went to redeem Ruth to be his wife in the year of the jubile - see Leviticus 23.
Exodus 19:1 "In the third month,
when the children of
Israel were gone forth
out of the land of
Egypt, the same day
came they into the
wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were
departed from Rephidim,
and were come to the
desert of Sinai, and
had pitched in the
wilderness; and there
Israel camped before
the mount.
3 And Moses went up
unto God, and the LORD
called unto him out of
the mountain, saying,
Thus shalt thou say to
the house of Jacob, and
tell the children of
Israel;
4 Ye have seen what I
did unto the Egyptians,
and how I bare you on
eagles' wings, and
brought you unto
myself.
5 Now therefore, if ye
will obey my voice
indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall
be a peculiar treasure
unto me above all
people: for all the
earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto
me a kingdom of
priests, and an holy
nation. These are the
words which thou shalt
speak unto the children
of Israel.
7 And Moses came and
called for the elders
of the people, and laid
before their faces all
these words which the
LORD commanded him."
Thus the first day of the third lunar month was the day of Pentecost Thursday May 22 1279 BC. This was when God delivered the Law unto Moses. Jesus gave us the law of the New Testament also about May in Matthew 5, 6, 7 and also the night before he was betrayed and crucified, Thursday April 2 33 AD John 13 - 17. This day of Pentecost was May 25 1279 BC - the same day as the day of Pentecost when Jesus sent the Holy Ghost Saturday May 23 33 AD. And thus God bore them on eagle's wings perhaps likened to God guiding earth's reverse orbit after the sun miracle on the three days of darkness.
With this second sun miracle king Wan would feel motivated to write about it as he did. Then king Wan's dream and the phoenixes of Wanting's 12th year may be two separate sun miracles. If there was a sun miracle in Wen Ding's 12th year there should be a second counterpart sun miracle not many years before or after this record of phoenixes, 1186 BC - 1178 BC. Sun and moon phoenixes collected on mount K'e suggests a slightly different sun miracle than Joshua's long day.
7 " See how the phoenixes appear,
And their wings rustle on the ear,
As now they settle down !
Such are those noble men who wait,
0 happy king, upon your state,
The servants of your crown !
8 " The male and female phoenix, lo !
With rustling wings about they go,
Then up to heaven they soar.
II. IX.] THE BOOK OF POETRY. 317
Such are those noble men who stand,
Prompt to obey your least command ;
None love your people more.
9 " Hark how the phoenixes emit
Their notes, as on that ridge they sit !
There the dryandras grow,
And on its eastern slope they rise
With richer growth ; and thence the cries
Sweet and still sweeter flow !
2 Long after How-tseih, in his line,
King T'ae arose, quick to divine
Heaven's will, who eastward came and dwelt
South of mount K'e. There first was felt
380
THE BOOK OF POETRY.
[PART IV.
The power of Chow, and Shang's fierce sway
Began to dwindle and decay.
From him we pass to Wan and Woo,
Continuing T'ae's great work to do,
THE BOOK OF ANCIENT POETRY,
TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH VERSE,
WITH ESSAYS AND NOTES
JAMES LEGGE, D.D., LLD.,
"his readers will find in it, in an English
dress, the Chinese poems themselves, and not others composed by para
phrase from them."
King Wan died in 1135 BC and lived to be 100 years old in legend. One Chinese scholar determined that Wan might have been born in 1231 BC. However, there is no Chinese text to support this. Perhaps he lived 103 years from this 1238 BC to 1135 BC. The word for long lived may have come from these 103 years of Wan's life - 
Then the sun standing still in the year of his birth that propelled king Wan to victory was February 25 1238 BC. "King Wen is on high, In glory in heaven. His comings and his goings Are to and from the presence of God."
Perhaps the sun miracle in the year of his coming into this world was thus associated with the heavens, the sun and moon standing still, and his going, dying, when the "the E goat was seen. Two suns appeared together" in 1133 BC. Likewise a planetary conjunction in Fang in 1131 BC could only be if there was a sun miracle then. Thus Woo became king four years after his father died upon the sign from heaven of this sun miracle. This was nine years before Woo became emperor of China in 1122 BC.
This record also on day 6 may also be of Joshua's long day from China: "At the time period from the night of the seventh day jist (day 6) to...there was a big new star that was seen beside Mars." Heji 11503b Or "three flames ate the sun and a great star was seen". From sunset to sunrise on China would be 24 hours, thus a long time to wait for the sun to rise. February 25 1238 BC was perhaps the only time when all five planets would have been visible in the west at sunset in February and have moved 180° into Scorpius. The sixth day of the Chinese lunar month is most accurately Thursday February 25 1238 BC the same day Joshua put the five kings on crosses. Thus too Jesus' crucifixion may have been on Thursday April 2 33 AD. However, Jesus' crucifixion most likely was Friday April 3 33 AD. Lunar months were often out a day because of the approximation of 29.5 days a lunar cycle. So some lunar months had 29 days and some had 30 days. If we had a year of 60 for this record from which king Wan had his dream it would be in the 20th year of 60. James Legge writes: "It obliges us to conclude, that not only were the characters for years introduced in the Annals after their emergence from the tomb, but that the lengths of the reigns also were altered, so that the value of the chronicle, as a guide in chronology, is altogether taken away." "The date in the Bamboo Books places it too late; that in the common chronology cannot be far from the truth." There is no problem with the common chronology if we take king Wan's birth as the year of Joshua's long day. Also, Yao's long day in 2357 BC works using this common chronology.
The Revised Chronology is 72 years more recent than the common chronology. Likewise the Egyptian chronology is 76 years too recent. Pharaoh Merneptah may have drowned in 1279 BC in the Reed Sea and the one lunar date for Pharaoh Rameses II works perfectly. The sun must move back exactly half a year, half an orbit, later. Then if Joshua's long day was February 25 1238 BC and the sun traveled 180° this August 31 1238 BC would be 187 days after, exactly half a year - half an orbit - later, exactly 36 days before the vernal and 36 days before the autumnal equinoxes. Furthermore, August 31 is 86 days before the perihelion of the sun November 25 when the sun is nearest earth. This means the number of days before the vernal equinox should match the number of days before the autumnal equinox because the speed of the earth in both periods is very similar.
Then earth must shift 70° counterclockwise August 31 1238 BC and that day be 4.6 hours shorter + 12 hours or - 12 hours depending if the sun traveled west or east.
72 years to the Revised Chronology of the beginning of emperor Wu of the Chow dynasty to 1050 BC is the common chronology 1122 BC.
72 years to the planetary conjunction in Fang to 1059 BC is 1131 BC - possibly the conjunction was rather the sun moving 180°, probably the sun moving 180° back that day, from the sun miracle in 1133 BC, and the planets appearing 180° among new stars. This 1131 BC perhaps being the sun miracle ascribed to Woo and in his ninth year he became emperor in 1122 BC.
Joshua did not give Israel rest on the Sabbath because Joshua's long day is Friday February 26 1238 BC and the following days to the second day, Monday, Israel was fighting each day. In anycase, resting would just give the enemy time to regroup.
Hebrews 4:8 "For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not have afterward spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a keeping of the sabbath to the people of God."
The sun must move back exactly half a year or exactly a year later or multiples thereof because earth must reorient to continue as if nothing happened. Earth must come out of the reverse orbit soon after and continue as if nothing had happened, Judges 4 & 5 must have been soon after Joshua's long day, and this is the earliest possible date for earth to reorient. In Seneca's Thyestes: the "planets piled
together in a pit". "While the beginning of a day is dawn, a five-planet conjunction occurring at
dawn, with a new moon, and the start of spring would truly be the beginning of all cycles, he said. For calendar
makers, such a moment would also be an ideal starting point for counting days, months, years and planetary periods."
Chinese Calendar Joshua's long
day could not have been on a new moon because the moon was visible. Perhaps encouraged by these miracles in the
13th century BC their search continued till 1280 AD when they concluded such a magical event never did occur. However, there was a five planet conjunction recorded in 1059 BC, Bamboo Book chronology, which indeed appears in astronomy programs for April that year. However, the conjunction was recorded in Fang, Scorpius, when in TheSky it is 180° away in Taurus. Then this 1059 BC date must be wrong. Perhaps this conjunction 9 years before Woo became emperor in 1122 BC was a sun miracle, just as perhaps the two suns appeared in 1133 BC was a sun miracle, the sun moving 180° east or west. "In his (emperor Te-sin's 1133 BC) 48th year, the E goat 
(spirit like animal - exciting wonder) - was seen. Two suns appeared together." This was attributed to be 11 years before the conquest of China when Wan died and Woo became king. The E goat may be like the qilin the unicorn.
The sky from Beijing China February 25, 1238 BC (the capital of the Chow dynasty was Hao beside Sian, 7.5° west of Beijing. See The Zhou Dynasty, Mandate of Heaven): The sun must move a whole/complete 180°
to Virgo and the planets a 180° to Scorpius. Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Venus were at 99% illumination as seen
from earth. Mercury was at 12% illumination - yet set at 7PM and reflecting so much light from its closeness to
the sun was very visible. The moon must move 180° also from Taurus to Scorpius and brighten the planetary conjunction.
The moon must move 180° because the moon stayed in the valley of Ajalon, perhaps the moon's location was pegged by the eastern hills of Ajalon and thus easily determined that it did not move. However the moon must follow the plane of the ecliptic when it moved the 180°. Thus the moon must move up and north staying on the eastern horizon. The sun at noon was at 45°. Perhaps the shadow of a five foot Israelite would still be five feet long in the February noon day sun when the sun completed the 180° revolution. However, then earth must shift 70° on its axis at the same time and the extra hours be 7.4 rather than 12. If earth shifted the 70° 12 hours later, the sun would rise through the July 2 midsky solstice position to 82.5° inclination (near 90° straight up) on the eighth hour of the miracle to the August 25 position to 65° still at the noon position on the 12th hour of the miracle. A five foot Israelite would have a five inch shadow at the eighth hour. Thus the sun literally in the middle of the sky and no shadow, no shade. The Chinese may have seen the setting sun rise 15° in the west and set again - in another sun miracle a few hundred years later this could possibly be "During the first year of King Yi (?1100 BC - 840 BC), in the first month of spring, the
day dawned twice at Zheng". The planets February 25 1238 BC are
Saturn and Jupiter in Taurus; Mars, Venus, Mercury and sun in Pisces. The Chinese during this long sunset may have
witnessed the planets and moon moving very fast, appearing to stand still in the sky, against the night stars to
arrive at Scorpius. That is, Scorpius would be rising in the east several hours after the start of the miracle
to progress westward as normal because earth kept rotating. They would have seen the same stars appear and repeat
that long night if it had not been for the 12 hours of twilight. That is, they would have seen stars from the other
half of heaven when the sun finally completely set. The first quarter moon would stay directly above with Saturn
and Jupiter, and Mercury Mars and Venus would stay westward as earth rotated and the stars if visible appearing
to move into them. The stars then appearing and Scorpius then meeting up with Jupiter, Saturn and the moon, then
the sun stopped revolving around the earth and these then set with and in Scorpius. The sun setting at 5:52PM and
Scorpius setting at 11 PM that night, 12 hours later.
| From China, the planets, sun and moon with their background constellations at the start of Joshua's long day. From TheSky Software Bisque. |
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| Twelve hours later the planets, sun and moon have moved 180°. Saturn, Jupiter and the moon to appear just past Fang in Scorpius with Mars, Mercury, Venus and the sun just before Fang in Virgo. Saturn probably was in Fang when the stars first appeared, the planets standing still appearing to move into the stars till they and the sun had moved the 180°. Therefore the five planets were identified with Fang, Fang being in the middle. From TheSky Software Bisque. |
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(The sun must move 180° to the August/May inclination till earth turned back to the February season. The sun
would be in the Sign of August and earth in the inclination of August till earth turned back. That is, earth would
suddenly be in the May 9 season till earth turned back the next day to the February 26 season.) The sun on the
next day or soon after would set at 6PM (rise 7AM) again when earth had turned 70° clockwise to keep the February
season and Scorpius would set at 11 PM. Then the sun would be higher 12 hours later still at the noon position,
now August 31/May 10 position, in Israel. However, that night the sun would be in an August 31 inclination to earth and
twilight twice as long. So even though the planets would be visible the stars may not have appeared until Scorpius
was about to set. The moon would also be higher that night as it moved the 180° to its relative August inclination
with the sun. The next night the planetary conjunction in Scorpius would then brighten when earth had shifted.
Also Scorpius would set later and later, 1° later, each night because earth was now in a reverse orbit and
Scorpius brighten in darker skies. 6 months later Scorpius, with Jupiter and Saturn, would be rising in the east
"brightens all within the four seas" at sunset. These five visible planets would not have all been visible
at sunset if this was January 26, 1238 BC. This suggests Joshua's long day was rather February 25, 1238 BC. The
chinese calendar uses the actual new moon, not the visibility of the first crescent as the Jewish or Muslim calendar.
February 25 1238 BC is the sixth day of the actual new moon. The Chinese spring began 45 days after the winter solstice January 2. This was February 16 and the next new
moon February 19 could very well have been chosen for the first month of spring. Perhaps these planets were moved
180°, standing still in the sky as earth rotated, to Scorpius, to their same position - height, in the night
sky as the night before. Jupiter and Saturn were in a fairly rare conjunction in Taurus 1238 BC. The next possible grouping of Jupiter and Saturn in Taurus is 1215 BC. Jupiter has a 11.5 year
orbit, Saturn a 29.5 year orbit. Joshua's long day must have occurred at the same time as king Wan's long sunset.
Then Mercury, Venus and Mars would appear close to the sun at sunset. They would normally only have been briefly
visible for a few minutes before setting. Only this was a long sunset of 12 hours and those Chinese observers were
probably keen on what was happening in the west - the sun was standing still. Jupiter and Saturn would appear at dark just 60° above the
western horizon as they did the sunset the day before in Orion. Only now they were in Scorpius. The moon must stand
still in the sky rather than move from Jupiter to Saturn as it would have in its orbit around the earth in a 12
hour period. The Israelites would see an August 31 night sky instead of a February 25
night sky and the months would be in reverse against the zodiac. The length of daylight would also be as for
August 31 till earth shifted back to the February 25 length of daylight and the calendar seasons continued. Dead
Sea Scrolls Zodiacal Calendar month of Adar: when the 1st and 2nd day of the new moon the moon is in Pisces and
the 29th and 30th day of the new moon the moon is in Pisces again. (That is when the sun is in Pisces) This Assyrian-Babylonian
Adar favours February 25 Pisces. When an extra lunar month of Adar was added for Nisan to begin March 21, the first month was Adar 1, the second month just Adar. To the Hebrews, "first Adar"
or "Adar Aleph" and the month is followed by "Adar Beth" or "Ve-Adar" ("and-Adar"),
the second Adar. In the 19 year lunar cycle, years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 19 are leap years with a second month
of Adar. The first month of spring in China began January 20 - February 19 after the winter solstice when the sun
was in Aquarius. In 1238 BC the winter solstice was January 2 and then the new moon January 19 and one lunar month
later the new year, February 20. Chinese spring began 45 days after the winter solstice (a more accurate measure of the seasons than today). Then 45 days after January 2 is February 16 1238 BC just 3 days before the new moon February 19. Then the month of spring may very well have begun with the new moon February 19 and the sixth day be February 25 1238 BC. This new moon began the 15 day spring festival. "King Woo, king Wan's
son, when he became emperor, (1121 BC) ordered that the year should begin before the winter
solstice, while the first month of the year was absurdly styled the first of spring." Sun miracles in 1122 BC may have influenced King Wu to begin the year in December perhaps when the sun moved back half a year after June 1122 BC when the sun may have moved on Pentecost when Saul became king of Israel. King Wu uttered the same words in this year of conquest as the Duke of Lu Yang when the sun reversed three solar mansions. Then on Joshua's long day in 1238 BC during the Shang dynasty the first month of spring was February. Then we may
have found Joshua's long day February 25 1238 BC Thursday, or February 26 1238 BC Friday. See Julian Date Converter for
the day of the week. If this was January 26 earth must turn, shift on its axis in forwards precession, 124°
clockwise to keep in the same season. If this was rather February 25 earth must turn 70° clockwise to keep in t
