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."
Joshua 10:13b "So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day."
John 11:9 "Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world."
The sun stood still "in the midst" of heaven is literally translated as "from the half" of heaven If the sun moved with earth's rotation 12 hours that is half way. Israel would see stars from the other half of heaven that night. While demonstrating to my wife the sun moving 180° around the earth to stand still in the sky it occurred to me earth would continue moving but now in reverse. Ancient Greek and Chinese records describe earth in a reverse orbit.

Harold Hill who wrote the Missing Day Story may have heard of NASA scientists discovering such a reverse orbit. He used Totten's book, published in 1890, instead. These may be the original NASA calculations in the Missing Day Story: When the sun moved 180° east to stand still in the sky for Joshua the sun moved to the other side of the earth, which takes 12 hours, and earth flowed into a reverse orbit. Then there was 12 hours of elapsed time unaccounted for. This must be February 26 1238 BC and half an orbit 186 days and 14 hours because earth was nearest the sun November 24 1239 BC. Then one would expect the sun moved 180 degrees east again September 1 2AM and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. 24 hours of elapsed time unaccounted for. For there to be 365 days a reverse orbit year earth must speed up 48 hours in its orbit around the sun. Else there would be 367 days a year because rotation is against orbit. Then we have about 24 hours of missing time unaccounted for. Earth must speed up 186 days 14 hours of 365 days, 186.5833/365 X 48, correlating to 24 hours and 31 minutes, rounding up to 24 hours and 40 minutes, because the half orbit beginning February 26 1238 BC covered the longest period of earth's elliptical orbit. Then we may have found the 40 minutes in the Missing Day Story. Next we find Gideon attacked the Midianites at the beginning of the second watch about midnight that year, slew 120,000 men and travelled 30 miles and back by sunrise. Not possible in the dark and not possible in just a few hours. The sun must travel 540° east, the sun rise in the west and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. Now we need to take care of the 40 minutes. In Judges 8:13 Gideon returned before the sun ascended, perhaps suddenly in the east. A second reverse orbit of 178.6 days right after the first covers the shortest half of earth's elliptical orbit. 178.6/365.24 X 48 = 23:29 hours rounded to 23:20 hours. 24:40 hours + 23:20 hours = 48 hours missing time. We have found the missing 40 minutes. 48 hours elapsed time countered by 48 hours missing time. The elapsed time: + 12 hours February 26 1238 BC + 36 hours the night of August 31 1238 BC - 12 hours September 1 1238 BC and + 12 hours February 27 1237 BC. 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.

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The space program began in earnest in 1958 so by 1969 when Harold Hill heard of the Missing Day NASA was capable of discovering it. According to Harold Hill NASA discovered it in the 1960's space mission to the moon. My cousin's wife's father who worked for NASA had to take regular lie detection tests and he and all his buddies from NASA died shortly after they retired. So the fact no one at NASA admitted to the story is not surprising. Michael Griffin said that during the space program to the moon NASA attracted many talented people, more so than today. That is, NASA spent more in the race to the moon than it does today. Some of these talented people may have been the ones to discover the missing day. View the Power Point Presentation here or Power Point Show (slide advances, press escape to exit) here. Get the free Power Point Viewer here. To print this page in PDF click here. To print this page in legal page format PDF click here June 19 2009. To get Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader click here. To hear my introduction to this page click here. For mobile devices click here.

The "Missing Day" Story

Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called myth in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore Maryland and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development:

I think one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland. They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space where they would be 100 years and 1000 years from now.. We have to know this so we won't send a satellite, up and have it bump into something later on during its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down..

They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong either with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out and they said what's wrong?

Well they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time. They scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer. Finally, a Christian man on the team said, You know, one time I was in Sunday school and they talked about the sun standing still. While they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said, Show us. He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with common sense.

There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy and if darkness fell they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right---The sun stood still and the moon stayed---and hasted not to go down about a whole day!

The astronauts and scientists said, There is the missing day! They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes---not a whole day. They read the Bible and there it was about (approximately) a day.

These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes you'll still be in trouble 1000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits..

As the Christian employee thought about it, remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but they got out the Book and read these words in 2 Kings: Hezekiah, on his death-bed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees? Hezekiah said, It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees. Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees backward! Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!

Isn't it amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth! References:
Joshua 10:8 and 12,13
2 Kings 20:9-11

The reference to the sun's shadow descending backwards in 2 Kings 20:9-11 was the Hebrew word for Mahaleh for ascending as well. Then the second reference should be Judges 8:13 instead when Gideon returned before the sun was up, before the sun ascended, to correct for this 40 minutes. Also, of note is the reference to the sun going backwards. The sun must have gone backwards to rise in the west at 2AM September 1 and then suddenly ascending 5AM September 1 in the east more than 42 hours later.

This may be the red light in the Missing Day Story:

Joshua's long day Blog

If the earth stopped or reversed its rotation, the problems are immense. If the earth stopped rotating for 24 hours there would be 24 hours of missing time. If the sun revolved around the earth 360° there would again be 24 hours of missing time. If the sun moved halfway around the earth in a series of 4 sun miracles there would be no net missing time. No evidence left. The word for - So the sun stood still in the "midst" of heaven - is literally half, "from the half of heaven". Of the 126 times it is used in the Bible, 108 times it is translated as "half" and 8 times as "midst". If you are counting on the stars of heaven as your guide, the only way the sun can stand still from the half of heaven is if the sun revolved around the earth to the other half of heaven. That night Israel would see stars from the other half of heaven.
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 or the sun must move up or down 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 not the pole, to keep in the same season unless the sun moved down. Probably the sun moved down when it went around the earth 180° keeping the same inclination to earth. Then earth would keep in the same season. Therefore, sun miracles are very believable. All that is necessary is to move the sun and planets. Earth can remain untouched. Only earth must be pulled around the sun 48 hours faster a reverse orbit year. 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. Earth must orbit the same distance from the sun in the same elliptical orbit it would have. Earth must rotate exactly as it would have. The sun's gravity makes earth rotate. Thus earth must have been carefully managed to leave no biological trace. Each day must be 8 minutes shorter than it would have in a reverse orbit because earth must be sped up 2 days, 48 hours, a year to keep 365.24 days a year because rotation is against orbit. The daily amount of heat radiation from the sun must have been adjusted to leave no biological trace in this 8 minutes less a day, 4 minutes less daylight a day. 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. 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 either shifting the earth to keep it in the same season or moving the sun up or down to keep earth 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. Moreover, 12 hours daylight of a normal day was a sign of the shortness of life. Nevertheless, there were many days with 12 hours more daylight, even 36 hours more daylight. Some will say this is not in the Bible. My response is, oh yes many of these days are in the Bible. And the Chinese record sun miracles on the same day and date as those in the Bible. The model of reverse orbit is in the Bible:
Joshua 10:13b "the sun stood still in the midst of heaven for about a whole day"
This verse literally reads the sun stood still from the half of heaven for about a whole day. This means the sun revolved around the earth as earth rotated half way to stand still in the sky for a day of 12 hours and earth's foward momentum carried earth into a reverse orbit of the sun. There were many other sun miracles on feast days of the Bible using this model with Chinese records of sun miracles. Even using this model with Bible records of sun miracles. So to say this is not in the Bible is not really true. If it is in the Bible you as a Christian are required to know about it. Some people only like to read only certain parts of the Bible. However, every Christian is responsible for all of the Bible.
Matthew 13:18 "Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side."
You have to understand the basics of this model or someone will persuade you to disbelieve it. You have to be honest or you won't recognize the truth when you see it.

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 would see a long sunset while the sun stood still at noon in Israel. 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. "King Wan dreamt that he was clothed with the sun and the moon. 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. 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 no longer. The powerful spirits of earth have left it; all the spirits are whistled away. The conjunction of the five planets in Fang brightens all within the four seas.'" The Annals of the Bamboo Books, Part V the Dynasty of Chow p.143, The Chinese Classics Chinese new year feast was from the first day to the tenth day. Thus, this was during the feast of new year. 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 above. 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 would be on the eastern horizen above Ajalon when the sun was in the noon position as Joshua would see them. 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.)
A form letter from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771:
We know nothing of Mr. Harold Hill and in no way can corroborate the "lost day" reference in the article.
The effects of epoch events such as leap year, Babylonian calendar sequential perturbations, etc., are considered in the development of long-term-running computer programs. We are limited somewhat in that many of our calculations terminate with Babylonian calendar events (4,000 years ago), but this has never given programmers any unexpected difficulties.
Although we make use of planetary positions as necessary in the determination of spacecraft orbits on our computers, I have not found that any "astronauts and space scientists at Greenbelt" were involved in the "lost day" story attributed to Mr. Hill.
Thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,

Edward Mason, Chief
Office of Public Affairs

Yes, NASA made use of planetary positions. Yes, they were going back 4,000 years. All they would have to do was open the Chinese Classics and come to this record of king Wan's dream. Right away the computer would put up a red light that this planetary conjunction in Fang at sunrise would not be visible. Also, the six day moon would not be visible at sunrise either. A computer service technician from NASA who started work just after the Missing Day Story came out emailed me from a newsgroup in about 2000 that these computers often put up a red light and had to be seen to. Yigael Yadin estimated Hazor was burned 1266 - 1233 BC while doing excavations there in 1958 and 1968. All the spacemen would have to do is look for a five planet conjunction at sunset for this period. Then the computer would tell them this conjunction in the first month of the Chinese spring and on the 6th day of the moon could only be February 25/26 1238 BC when there was a five planet conjunction in Taurus. Next they would see the conjuntion was in Fang/Scorpius 180° away and right away realize the five planets moved 180° with the sun to Fang/Scorpius. While they were looking at Assyrian Omens they would find the omen: "If in Adar (February 20 - March 20) the sun stands still in the middle of noontime: the land will experience siege (and) misery." Adar is February. February 26 1238 BC is when the sun stood still at noon time for Joshua and there was siege and misery. February 27 1237 BC the sun must return at noon when Joshua attacked at Merom and chased the Amorites into Assyria. Thus the double emphasis on this omen. Thus it became an Assyrian omen. And thus NASA had all the records it needed to find the missing day and the remaining missing 40 minutes with the help of the Bible. These were scientists on a mission. They could cut through the Bible to what they were looking for in a short time. The next book after Joshua is Judges and all they were looking for is anything astronomical. Their day was not done till the 40 minutes were found. Once it was found they did not need to record their findings. Their mission was to find problems to the space program. And since this problem had been solved and posed no risk to the space program it did not need to be reported. If they were counting leap years they would be interested in the Chinese 60 day cycle. They may have found the 60 day cycle was out one day. Moreover, for the planets to appear in their seasons as they would have all the planets would be 180° away from where they normally would be half an orbit later and again a year later. So, when the sun moved 180° half an orbit later the planets would simply move 180° also. So staying in their nighttime positions on that day, during the sun miracle and after it. Thus, far from planets being a problem to God, they would all make one easy movement. Except for a few instances given here, like the movement of Mars and Jupiter, ancient people thought this was normal. So for the space scientist this model explained everything he needed to know.

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 25/26 1238 BC. The sun must have moved back half an orbit or 186.6 days later 2AM September 1 1238 BC.
Here you see the sun on the left is on the opposite side of the earth as Israel. Thus it is midnight in Israel at the beginning of the sun miracle 2AM September 1 1238 BC. Then the sun moved with earth's rotation to rise to the noon position within an hour in this depiction with the sun on the right:

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. The sun may have returned 2AM September 1 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, technically that same September 1 5AM, to begin the second reverse orbit. Then this may have been September 1 and 178.6 days later the sun returned February 27 1237 BC. And perhaps the sun stood still again in the month of Adar, Sunday February 27 1237 BC. Thus also Joshua would view the camp of Midianites on Saturday the Sabbath and attack them on Sunday. Joshua 11 could have occurred on this February 27 1237 BC. If the sun rose in the west to the noon position for Gideon to be dimmed to not leave a daily coral line then the first reverse orbit may end about midnight. Perhaps the sun appeared purple as the Chinese recorded at the sun miracle in 141 BC when the sun may have been dimmed. "On the last day of the twelfth month (11 February 141 BC) it thundered. The sun appeared purple. Five planets moved in retrograde and guarded the constellation T'ai-wei. The moon passed through the center of the constellation T'ien-t'ing." The Grand Scribes Records, Volume II, p.213.

Here you see what the sun may have looked like while it stood still in the sky for Joshua, both on February 26 1238 BC and February 27 1237 BC. This is an example of how a purple sun may look. Light from the purple end of the light spectrum does not radiate much heat. Thus, one would expect this to be the colour of the sun when the sun stood still or rose in the west so as not to overheat one side of the earth. Nevertheless, earth must receive heat from somewhere else to keep a constant temperature. Even the invisible ultra-violet light that may be a part of this may not cause eye damage. It is the invisible infra-red light that burns a hole in your retina. Picture taken by a NASA satellite of ultra-violet light:

Perhaps the sun was this bright red crimson colour when the sun ascended suddenly in the east. Light from the red and infra-red end of the light spectrum causes heat. Thus one would expect the sun to be crimson red when the sun travelled east west for a short day of only 3 or 4 hours. Then this one side of the earth would receive the heat it normally would receive in 12 hours. This infra-red light would cause eye damage. At least the sun would not be in the sky for long to stare at it. Here is an example of a crimson sun:

The word for sun in
Judges 8:13 "Gideon returned before the sun was up."
khar-sooth'
From H2775 (Apparently in the sense of a red tile used for scraping); a potsherd, that is, (by implication) a pottery; the name of a gate at Jerusalem: - east.
That is, perhaps the sun was purple when it rose in the west at 2AM and then perhaps the sun was crimson like red tile when it rose suddenly in the east 42 hours later at 5AM. Thus, the writer of Judges would say Gideon returned before the crimson sun suddenly ascended in the east.
The second reverse orbit would begin about one hour after sunset September 1 1238 BC. Half an orbit later is Sunday February 27 12PM. 178 days and 17 hours after 7PM September 1 1238 BC is 12PM noon February 27 1237 BC.
Here you see the sun on the right at 6AM in Israel. Then you see the sun has moved against earth's rotation 180° to the left where it is sunset in Israel. This simple depiction is if the day only lasted one hour:

Then the second reverse orbit must begin 31 hours after the first reverse orbit ended. Thus 31 hours plus 5AM Saturday February 26 1237 BC, 178.65 days later, is 12PM the next day, February 27 1237 BC. That is, the sun must return half an orbit later, 178.65 days later. Plus the 31 hours to noon February 27 1237 BC. Thus the sun should return about 12PM Sunday February 27. Then the sun must stand still at noon February 27 1237 BC again in the month of Adar. In the month of Adar because February 25/26 1238 BC was the 6th day moon and February 27 1237 BC was the 17th day moon of the lunar month of Adar. Joshua's long day was 92 days after earth's nearest approach to the sun. Then about 90 days before earth's nearest approach to the sun is September 1. The sun must return 35 days before the autumn equinox just as the sun first moved 35 days before the vernal equinox. That is half an orbit later which September 1 is. 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 beginning right after a half reverse orbit will do the same and the 40 (31) missing minutes from the first reverse orbit will be cancelled out by the 40 (31) 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 the night of 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. Then earth may shift 70° counterclockwise when the sun completed the 540° orbit of earth at the noon position rising in the west. Thus earth flowing out of the first reverse orbit and reorienting. Then about sunrise the sun must have moved 180° west for a sudden sunrise and perhaps a 4 hour day with the sun seven times brighter to leave the same daily coral line. If the sun traveled 180° west in 6 hours that would leave the sun in the Israel sky 4 hours because the sun would still be moving 2 hours after it set. Then earth must shift 70° clockwise as it flowed into the second reverse orbit of the sun. However, earth did not need to shift between sun miracles. Or the sun moved 540° east on the anniversary of Joshua's long day at 6 PM February 25 1237 BC plus the 180° east of Joshua's long day countering a year of 48 hours missing time. However, most likely there were two reverse orbits necessitating these 4 sun miracles. The exact time of battle must have meant the sun was returning at these exact times, 2 AM September 1 1238 BC and 12 PM February 27 1237 BC:
Judges 4:14 "And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: Is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him."
Judges 7:9 "And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it unto thine hand." 19 "So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets and brake the pitchers that were in their hands."
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."

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 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 2AM September 1 1238 BC. Jesus' resurrection was about 2AM Sunday April 5 33 AD. Then the sun moved again to start a second reverse orbit 42 hours later about 5AM September 1 in Judges 4,5,6,7,8. The sudden sunrise may have been symbolic of Jesus' resurrection. Then the sun moved back for Joshua again in the final conquest of Palestine at Merom, noon Sunday February 27, Joshua 11:
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 midnight. The sun would suddenly rise in the east or west, probably in the west, about 2 AM. It is very unusual to fight a battle at night. There must have been more than moonlight. Thus the sun must have risen in the west shortly after the beginning of the second watch. Thus Gideon could chase the Midianites in the daylight. "139 BC June 11 China. "Emperor Wu of Han, 2nd year of the Jianyuan reign period, summer, 4th month, day wushen [45]. There was a bright light as if the sun appeared at night." East Asian Archaeology, p.89. Perhaps the sun did come out at night. This was just a few years after the sun miracle in 141 BC, 148 BC, 155 BC, 163 BC, 165 BC. Then Gideon may have experienced the same thing. The sun could suddenly reach the noon position, 180° from 2AM is 2PM if the sun only moved 180°. This would make about 7 hours of daylight that day on Israel. However if earth shifted to keep in the same season going into the reverse orbit earth may shift back immediately coming out of the reverse orbit. 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 2AM September 1, the Israelites would see the stars suddenly set in the west. The shift is on the zenith which would be just above China at midnight 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. Thus, factoring our elliptical orbit into the equation this second reverse orbit must have begun September 1. Then again that night at midnight the stars would shift 70° west as earth shifted 70° east. Thus the stars would suddenly disappear in the west 2AM September 1. However, earth probably would not need to shift between sun miracles. Even on Joshua's long day all that is needed is if the sun would move down when it moved to the other side of earth to keep earth in the same season.
Judges 8:13 "And Gideon the son of Joash, returned from battle before the sun."
After the sun rose in the west 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 27 again. There should be a second reverse orbit immediately after from September 1 to January 27 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 2AM 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 27 1237 BC. Then if the sun traveled 180° west 5AM September 1, half a year after Joshua's long day, this would counter the missing 40 minutes. If on 2AM September 1 before the autumn equinox 6AM October 5 the stars would stand still above Israel during the shift. However, earth probably would not need to shift because the second reverse orbit started 42 hours after the first ended. "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 asteroids. Perhaps what was meant is Israel would see stars from the other half of heaven that night before the third sun miracle and second reverse orbit 5AM September 1. There would be a normal night when the sun set and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. Then when the sun rose suddenly in the east at 5AM earth would flow into a reverse orbit of the sun and Israel would see stars from the other half of heaven again. The Septuagint:
Judges 5:20 "The stars from heaven set themselves in array, they set themselves to fight with Sisara out of their paths."
Thus the path of the stars may refer to the sun miracle 2AM September 1 1238BC. They would see stars from the other half of heaven that night because the sun had moved halfway around the earth. And earth flowed out of the reverse orbit, howbeit, for a night. 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 as a day. Nevertheless they were made aware of the sun for some reason to even mention it, probably by the sun miracle in Judges 5:31. 36 hours later the sun would stop. At what O'clock point in the sky the sun stopped I do not know. God could set the O'clock position of the sun stopping at the end of the 540° east that it moved to set the 12PM time the sun must return and stand still in the sky February 27. The only thing I really don't know is how long it took the sun to travel 180° west 5AM September 1 1238 BC. If we knew that we would know at what O'clock position the dim sun stopped moving east. Then the sun must start moving at 5AM to suddenly ascend in the east again. This day would count as a day because the sun normally ascends in the east. Joshua could not move his army through enemy territory to help Gideon unnoticed. Probably, Joshua attacked one year after Joshua's long day at the battle of Merom February 27 1237 BC. Then that day would be 12 hours longer just as on Joshua's long day. Then the Assyrian omen: "If in Adar (February 20 - March 20) the sun stands still in the middle of noontime: the land will experience siege (and) misery." - may refer to the second time the sun stood still in Adar, February. Then Habakkuk 3:11 may refer to the sun standing still this second time also. However, at the second time February 27 1238 BC was a 16 day moon and the moon was not visible at noon. Nevertheless in the battle of Merom probably February 27 1238 BC Joshua chased the Midianites north into Syria. Thus, this omen of the second time the sun stood still at noon time in Adar, February, would be an Assyrian omen.
Joshua 11:5 "And when all these kings were met together, they come and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
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 route is 30 miles long north to Zidon and Mizpeh. Joshua needed 12 more hours of daylight to chase them 30 miles and slay them all before dark when they could get away. Joshua could not have slain this many people in one day except it was a long day just like Joshua 10:12. Joshua and Israel now knew how to fight in a long day. Thus Joshua needed a long day February 27 1237 BC just as he needed a long day on February 26 1238 BC. This fourth sun miracle ended the reverse orbit begun when the sun ascended after Gideon returned. This fourth sun miracle also ended the series of four sun miracles in order for earth to leave the same eclipse paths on the face of the earth as it would have done. And everyone of them was used by God to help Israel get the victory. That Joshua was told "tomorrow at this time" meant he had to wait till the sun could move back at noon February 27 1237 BC. Just as Gideon had to wait till the sun moved back the night of August 31 1238 BC:
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."
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. Thus Gideon returned before the sun ascended in the east. He could not have gone 60 miles and back in 6 hours from the beginning of the second watch to sunrise. Also, Gideon slew 120,000 men - hardly possible in just a few hours. 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.
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."
The two kings of the Amorites must have been this Zeba and Zalmunna. They were kings of Midian. However, it appears Joshua was talking about Zeba and Zalmunna on the other side of Jordan. Thus Gideon and 300 men slew 120,000 Midianites. Thus the battle of Gideon must have been September 1 1238 BC.
The account of Gideon is in Psalm 83.
Psalm 83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

God promised the children of Israel that he would deliver the kings into their hand:
Deuteronomy 7:24 "And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until I have destroyed them."
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.
Judges 4:1 "And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
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.
3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
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.
18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
11 They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
19 The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
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. And the land had rest forty years."

Timing was everything because the sun must move at an exact moment to begin the second reverse orbit in order to correct the first reverse orbit. A sudden sunrise when the sun moved back the night of 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. Even if earth did not shift that leaves only several hours of daylight. 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. Also Sisera was weary when he fled. Perhaps weary fighting for almost 36 hours.
Judges 4:21 "Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died."
Also, Sisera's mother wondered why his chariot was so long in coming. Perhaps also because the battle had lasted for almost 36 hours.
Judges 5:28 "The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? "
There was cloud and heavy rain when there was a sun miracle. The Chinese could predict when the bright dragon would appear because of coming clouds and rain. Perhaps God made clouds appear when he appeared to move the sun so people on earth would not see him or record him. Perhaps there was a sun miracle September 1240 BC:
Judges 5:4 "LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water."
Numbers 21:14 "Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab."
Then there was much rain just as Habakkuk recorded on Joshua's long day "the rivers cleaved the earth".
Judges 5:21 "The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength."
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. Probably both Gideon's battle and Deborah's battle were on the same day September 1. Judges 4,5 must be before Joshua 11 because Sisera was king Jabin's general and king Jabin was still at Hazor.
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. Perhaps one full year. 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 Merom in Joshua 11. And the sun miracle marking the sun moving back 180° east and flowing out of the reverse orbit one full year after Joshua's long day may be the one. The sun must move back half a year or a year or years after Joshua's long day. 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 or November 24 1311 BC because this King Wuding of the oracle bone eclipse record reigned from 1324 BC to 1269 BC. NASA shows the moon just about to rise on China at the last of the lunar eclipse August 12 1269 BC. A lunar eclipse lasts three and a half hours, so possibly the Chinese saw the last of the eclipse. The moon would rise at 8 PM possibly with the last of the eclipse. There is only one other lunar eclipse on day 57 November 4 1311 BC during King Wuding's reign that could be month 12. However, month 12 was about August in the Yin calendar. Moreover, this lunar eclipse happened just after sunset. The only date that fits both criteria is August 12 1269 BC. This lunar eclipse August 12 1269 BC 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. Nevertheless China should have been able to get a glimpse of a naturally occurring lunar eclipse 8 PM August 12 1269 BC. The last bit of shadow would leave the full moon that night as the moon rose at 8 PM. NASA shows this eclipse was just visible in Anyang where the oracle bones were found. The vertical bars mark the margin of error west or east. Thus, if we move the border of visibility, visibility is white, by the margin of error west, this lunar eclipse would certainly be visible in Anyang, Henan, China. 1268 BC is 1269 BC because NASA uses Fortran and counts 0 BC, which there is no such thing, as 1 BC:

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 March 6 on the first day of the month of Nissan in the 10th year the children of Israel were in the wilderness. March 6 was this day 17: "Divined on day gengchen [17] the sun is blemished..." Heji, 33698 "Crack-making on day jimao [16], divined: Tonight the many Zi (Princes) should perform a you-ritual to the comet (hui)...5th month." Heji, 3266 Blemishes in the sun and comets, that is the dragon or phoenix, may be associated with sun miracles. The 5th month was February. "Crack-making on day jiwei [56] Xing divined: The King should host Jupiter (sui) using two oxen...12th month." Heji, 24247 "Crack-making on day xinyou [58], Yin divined: The King should host Jupiter...There will be no disaster." (6th month) Heji, 24266 The Chinese may have sacrificed to Jupiter at the end of the fifth month begining of the 6th month when there may have been a sun miracle March 6 1269 BC. Then 6 months later the sun must return on the 10th day of the 13th month. Eclipse records for the day of 60 are often one day out. Most likely they did not count short days as a day. Also, a sun miracle in Palestine would not be counted as the same day in other parts of the earth. Thus there is no way for God to tell the Chinese they made a miscount. No counter sun miracle would produce less days. Nevertheless, one of the two records for this lunar eclipse is for day 55 which leaves no missing days. There is only one other lunar eclipse given with the month:
Crack-making on guiwei (day 20), Zeng 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.
February 26 1278 BC was day 21 if August 12 1269 BC was day 56. Night began a new day. Thus the night of February 26 may begin the day 22. Likewise December 15 1275 BC or November 3 1301 BC may be the lunar eclipse for day 31. "On the night of the sixth day jiawu (day 31), the moon was eclipsed." That is December 15 1275 BC should be day 30 and the night begin day 31. Likewise February 3 1276 or June 20 1302 BC may be the lunar eclipse for day 9. "On the night of the tenth day renshen (day 9), the moon was eclipsed." Likewise October 12 1299 BC or April 8 1309 BC or July 11 1304 BC may be the lunar eclipse for day 20. "Crack-making on guiwei (day 20), Zheng divined: "On the next day jiashen (day 21), it will become sunny." On that night [of the divination day guiwei], the moon was eclipsed." All these lunar eclipses were visible from China. In counting back without any missing days February 26 1278 BC should be day 20 and August 12 1269 BC should be day 55. Like the Hebrews day began with the evening. Thus, day 56 would begin the evening of August 12 when it was recorded day 57. Thus the days of 60 are out at least one day going backwards from what cycles we know when eclipses were first accurately recorded such as September 6, day 28, 776 BC. However, the evidence is strong. See the lunar eclipse records yourself here. The lunar eclipse on February 26 1278 BC was total, thus it would become dark. Also, this eclipse occurred about 2:30 AM China time when the moon would still be overhead. The eighth month is normally April/May. However February 26 is almost March and if an intercalenary month had not been put in place in a month 13 the months would have backed up to the eighth month in February 26. Also, earth was in a reverse orbit from October 1 1280 BC to October 2 1279 BC. Thus September would be month 1 and not month 13. The Chinese may not have made September month 13 because earth was still in a reverse orbit and they could not tell the seasons by the stars. They could guess they should add a month 13 but they would have no way of determining it during the reverse orbit. Sun miracles that year would be confusing enough. "In his 29th year, at the supplementary sacrifice at the grand ancestral temple, a pheasant made its appearance." A pheasant may be the phoenix which was depicted as a pheasant. Wuding reigned 59 years perhaps to 1269 BC or 1264 BC. Thus from 1327 BC or 1323 BC. Thus his 29th year must be 1299 BC or 1295 BC while Ramses II was pharaoh over Egypt and the Hebrews there. This would be in Ramses II 56th year. In a recently discovered stele found in Damascus, "The pharaoh is depicted honouring the local manifestations of Re, the sun God, and his offspring, Seth, assimilated to the local God of storms" Damascus A History by Ross Burns, p.6 This may be honouring the manifestation of a sun miracle then. Also storms often accompanied sun miracles. Also this is 20 years after Moses fled pharaoh when he thought he could deliver the Hebrews. And 20 years before the Exodus. Also, only those who were 20 and under at the time of the Exodus were allowed to enter the promised land. Thus only those born before this possible sun miracle in 1299 BC were allowed to enter the promised land. There is plenty of reason to expect the sun moved back half an orbit after Joshua's long day even though we do not have a Chinese record of it. However, these Chinese records prove Joshua's long day was king Wan's dream of the sun miracle at his birth in 1238 BC because they prove the common chronology to be true. Thus king Wan dreamt about the record of the sun miracle at his birth and thus his right to be king of China. The night of 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 not have recorded it. Nevertheless, the Midianites would see the stars suddenly disappear in the west and then rise in the west. Thus though Gideon may have surprised them, that sight would surprise them even more. Next they would see the sun rise in the west and their flight from Gideon would be without hope of darkness. 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. The battle of Barak and Deborah probably was at the same time. 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 at 5 AM the morning of September 1 if the sun travelled 540° east 2 AM September 1 in order for there to be no net missing time when the sun returned February 27 1237 BC. There could be 51 hours from 2 AM September 1 to 5 AM September 1 because September 1 would not be counted a day till the sun rose in the east. Thus Judges 5:31 may refer to both the sun descending from the west at midnight and suddenly ascending from the east September 1. The sun must have gone 180° or 540° east 2 AM September 1 rather than west to give light for Gideon and perhaps inspired the writer of Judges to picture the might of moving the sun suddenly with earth's rotation, east, to ascend in the west rather than traveling 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."
That Gideon returned before the sun ascended September 1 may refer the sun sun descending from the west the night of August 31. The Egyptians believed the Bennu, the phoenix, died with the evening sun and rose some 70 days later with the morning sun. If this was rather 186 days from spring to fall, an evening sun miracle would be followed by a morning sun miracle 186.5 days later. A long sunset followed by a sudden sunrise. 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.
6 His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof."
In Chinese the sun is Yang Man and the moon Yin Woman. Thus the sun is likened to a man running a race. Moreover, this verse may be speaking about sun miracles rather than the daily sunrise. When the sun traveled 180° west, as it often did in the series of 4 sun miracles, the sun must brighten and travel very fast across the sky. The sun must brighten several times to leave the same daily coral line and when the sun traveled 180° west the day would last only 3 hours or so. Thus, the sun traveling west in a sun miracle is like a strong man to race, race across the sky. And nothing is hid from the heat thereof because the sun must shine several times brighter. Such as when the sun ascended right after Gideon returned from battle. The dimming and brightening of the sun may be light refracted or reflected to and away from the earth rather than the sun burning less hot and much hotter. The lessons of the day also 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 2AM September 1 and 70° counterclockwise at 5AM 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 186.6 days / 365.25 days = 24 hours and 31 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 on November 24 not January 3 as it is now in 2008. From February 25 12 PM 186.6 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 spring and summer meaning earth moves slower. 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 26 1238 BC would begin the slower half of earth's orbit thus the most days, 186 days and 14 hours, in half an orbit. There are 186.6 days in the half orbit from February 26 to September 1. After February 27 1237 BC days would continue on earth as if nothing had happened. The sun would have to travel very fast 2AM September 1 to keep ahead of earth's rotation. If the sun moved 180° in an hour the sun would end up at the 3PM position. Then the sun may have advanced more to the noon position in the remaining 360° eastward movement of the sun. And yet the sun must have been dimmed considerably. Earth must reorient during this time 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 at least giving Gideon twilight at least to fight by.
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 2 AM 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."
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,
Strong's 2114 means to turn aside (for lodging) possibly the sun now lodged on the other side of earth. "Strange?" act,
Strong's 5237 means to recognize, acknowledge, understand, respect, discern. Ends with the letter "He", perhaps a question. That is Isaiah may have thought sun miracles may or may not have been strange. Isaiah was the one who asked Hezekiah if the sun's shadow should go forward ten steps or backward ten steps. Then he was the one who prayed the sun's shadow should go backward ten steps. He may have understood sun miracles and may not have thought they were so strange. Even this may be a prophecy of a sun miracle when Jesus returns.
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."
Heber was a descendent of Moses' father in law, Hobab. 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) Strong's 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 night of August 31 following the sun that rose in the west at 2AM September 1 set in the west 6 PM August 31. The sun rising in the west should not be counted as a day. Then the following night of September 1 at 6PM when the sun set after the short day, the night sky would again be 180° away and revolving one degree from the west each night as earth was again in a reverse orbit. The night in between the stars would be normal and 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 day's position in the zodiac. The night of August 31 1238 BC after the second sunset at 6PM of the sun that rose dimly in the west they had a typical August 31 night sky. That was short lived and when the sun set September 1 6PM they had a February 26 starry night sky. The February night sky they were expecting on August 31 in the reverse orbit never came. Instead they were greeted with the normal August 31 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. From sunrise 5AM September 1 to sunset 6PM September 1 must be only 3 or 4 hours, a short day.
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) Strong's 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."
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."
How God did it is his secret. However, we now may know what this means to the movement of the sun and the earth. Basics in our understanding of the sun and earth, our world and God's power. 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 first fruits 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" - Strong's 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. "on the first day a holy convocation and on the eighth day a holy convocation", the eighth day was also Sunday, October 12 1279 BC, the first time the feast was instituted. Thus the return of the year on the Day of Atonement could have meant the return to a normal orbit, at least on lunar day 15 on October 3 1279 BC. The return of the sun to Virgo in September where it normally was, 180° from where it just was that day in Aquarius. The significance of day 56/57 August 12 1269 BC may have been strengthened with a sun miracle on a day 56/57 previous to the eclipse. Such as the phoenixes on day 57 in autumn September 21 2648 BC also. October 3, 1279 BC would be the 15th day of the seventh month, the first day of the feast of tabernacles. My guess there would not need to have been a feast of tabernacles because the children of Israel would already be in the promised land conquering it if they had obeyed Joshua and Caleb.
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."
There may have been a record of Joshua's long day on day 51 February 26 1238 BC: "Guichow (day 50) the king crack-making, 'In the next ten day week there will be no trouble.' The king prognosticated and said, 'Auspicious', in the fifth month, jiayin (day 51) the yong sacrifice to Da Jia." A Handbook of Ancient Religions, p.517. The fifth month in the oracle bones is February. This was recorded toward the end of the Shang dynasty which 1238 BC was. "Crack-making on day jiazi [1]; divined: (Charge:) the sun was blemished on day jiayin [51]...East Asian Archaeology, p. 19. The sun may have been covered with spots on Joshua's long day. Either they were sun spots, which meant more heat, or a covering like sackcloth to keep the sun from overheating one side of the earth. Xueshun Liu 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 7 1269 BC. And emperors were often deposed on the event of a sun miracle and sun miracles often occurred on feast days. "Crack-making on day bingxu 23, Zheng divined: (Charge:) the King should offer a you-ritual to the Heart star. 1st month." East Asian Archaeology, p.22. However, 186 days earlier there should be a sun miracle on day 16 and one and a half years earlier there could be a sun miracle on day 10. Perhaps the solar eclipse on day 10 in the evening March 6 1270 BC. Or half an orbit earlier on the new moon March 6 1269 BC on day 17 which may be this day: "Divined on day gengchen 17: (Charge:) The sun is blemished. This should be reported to ancestor Fu Ding with a sacrifice of nine oxen, at Lei." East Asian Archaeology, p.19. Then there must be a final sun miracle in the series of 4 March 6 1268 BC, 1300 years before Jesus' crucifixion. Half an orbit earlier was the first day of the year, the first day of the month Nissan. This was Chinese day 15 when possibly the first sun miracle may have been. 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 inscription 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 Liu 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 referred 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 55/56 October 3 1279 BC half an orbit after Moses' three days of darkness Sunday March 30 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 February 27 1237 BC are an 18th day moon. 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 8PM 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. Even so, 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. There are 36,000 people in Japan over 100 this year 2008. 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. Then also this record of a lunar eclipse on day 56 August 12 1269 BC depicts 1 missing day. Because August 12 1269 BC should be day 55 not day 56. 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". This could be the total eclipse June 5 1302 BC. However, June 5 1302 BC is Day 53 not day 6. Then this record may not be an eclipse. Moreover, it was reported today that this was China's first eclipse record recorded in oracle bones not far from today's eclipse August 1 2008 on China's ancient Silk Road. They point to the flames visible on the edges of the moon. This may not be so. The wording of the record does not simply read three flames ate the sun. Most experts do not believe this was an eclipse record. This may be the three days of darkness on day 47 March 30 1279 BC. And the great star may be God or the dragon that appeared according to the oracle bone inscription. Just like there was a brilliant star that issued out of Yih, or Corvus, in 2287 BC when phoenixes appeared. That is when there was a sun miracle. These records were in the reign of King Wuding from 1324 BC to 1269 BC. There was a lunar eclipse on day 57 November 24 1311 BC. The 12th month being the month before the winter solstice. August 12 1269 BC was in Wuding's reign. Thus the lunar eclipse on day 57 verifies the common chronology, the chronology of Joshua's long day being February 26 1238 BC. "This was the 12th month was the month of the Yin calendar. It was several months slower than our current calendar." Xueshun Liu This must be August. 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 sudden sunset when the red dragon was seen. 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 Jubilee may have originally been planned for 1269 BC because 50 year increments add up to the last Jubilee when Jesus spoke from Isaiah 61:1 and fulfilled the Jubilee 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 when Huang di became emperor and started the cycle of 60 days. If this sun miracle was about December 3 2698 BC or January 31 2697 BC the cycle of 60 days could have begun from that date. Then there was a sun miracle 50 years later in 2648 BC day 57 perhaps September 21 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 Jubilee was reckoned to be at 50 year intervals till Jesus fulfilled the Jubilee 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 12 PM February 26 1238 BC to 2 AM September 1 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 540° 2 AM September 1 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 31 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? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him."
This is a reference point of 180°. The sun stood still for about a day, for 12 hours for Joshua. Jesus was definitely speaking with Joshua's long day in mind. The day can only mean the long day. Christianity is wide enough to include all of what Jesus taught. Then also, Gideon could not have fought in the night, the sun must have risen in the west.
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. Sunday, April 5 33 AD the day following Jesus' crucifixion was the fifteenth day of the lunar month and thus a Sabbath. Because they counted their days from evening. Thus the evening of the Passover following Jesus' crucifixion was counted as Saturday the Sabbath day. Thus the 50th day of Pentecost that year would be on Sunday.
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 Jubilee at 790 BC, the time to restore lost land.

More about Joshua's long day:

Here you see the sun in the noon position over Israel at the beginning of Joshua's long day. Note earth's axis is pointed about 18 degrees away from the sun. This is the normal February inclination. Earth's axis is pointed to the pole star for 1238 BC. Earth does not need to shift after Joshua's long day to stay in the same season, although a little of both is probably what happened.

To see Israel rotating with the sun click here. Note the sun's sun spots do not rotate to face earth. At the end of the sun miracle the other side of the sun faces earth. This depicts the sun going around the earth at the battle of Merom February 27 1237 BC for Joshua one year after Joshua's long day. Although you will see Israel staying in the noon position with the sun just like it did on Joshua's long day. You will see first the earth moving clockwise around the sun in reverse. Then the sun moving with earth's rotation to stay in the noon position over Israel. Then you will see earth flowing out of the reverse orbit of the sun. Earth is now moving counterclockwise around the sun, like normal.
Here you see the sun has revolved halfway around the earth with earth's rotation 12 hours later, still in the noon position over Israel. Now you see the sun has moved down to keep earth in the same season. Earth's axis is still pointing to the pole star. If you twist an Earth globe 35° on a table then you can see how the sun can fall 9° instead of this 18°. This 3D PDF document will show the earth in 3D. Click the + button to enlarge to full screen, then click the MOVE button to twist the earth. You can see the pole angled away from the sun in the upper right in this java applet. You can picture the sun now on the otherside of the earth and twist the pole from the upper right, 18°, to the upper left, 18° again, to keep earth in the same February 26 season. Or you can turn or move the sun to the otherside of the earth moving it down 18° in this java applet to keep earth in this same February 26 season. Select turn and you can move the sun around the earth, a tiny speck in comparison in this 3D PDF. Download the most recent free PDF reader from adobe.com

Here you see the solar systems flat plane of orbit:

Here you see how when the sun drops down 18° the inclination of orbit must drop as well:

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.

"King Wan dreamt that he was clothed with the sun and the moon. 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. 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 conjunction of the five planets in Fang brightens all within the four seas.'" The Annals of the Bamboo Books, Part V the Dynasty of Chow p.143, The Chinese Classics
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 a cloud about where Joshua saw the moon 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."
Job 38:22 "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail?
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?"
Hail was mentioned in connection with sun miracles in 155 BC in 149 BC and 148 BC. That hail pounded the ground 5 inches deep. There would have to be a massive thunderhead to generate hail that big, hail stones that could kill. Hail stones that big would begin immediately, no time to seek cover. "Hail can form as a result of strong updrafts in severe weather systems. A newly formed hailstone begins small but can grow as it meets a rising current of air and new drops of water cling to it." These updrafts may bring 90 km/h gusts of wind accompanied by lightning. Habakkuk 3 tells of massive rivers that day. The day must have been clear and sunny when Joshua commanded the sun and moon. Because if it was cloudy he could not have seen the six day old moon rising in the east. The hail may have occurred after the sun miracle began. Then there must have been heavy rain because of the rivers and flood mentioned in Habakkuk 3. The Chinese were very familiar with the dragon and sun miracles. They knew if the wind blew up clouds and rain that was to hide the bright dragon that came to move the sun. 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 known God would make the sun stand still at noon that October 1 1279 BC when the sun must return from the half orbit of the three days of darkness. When also the sun must have stood still October 1 1280 BC at night for a long night's rest, on the new moon, from Israel's bondage in Egypt when God had respect unto them in giving them rest. The long night of September 30 1280 BC Egypt would be the dawn of October 1 1280 BC China, long morning. That October 1 1279 BC would be when the fruits were gathered. Then Joshua and Caleb said to go up at once Wednesday October 1 in on the lunar day 14, just before the first day of the feast of tabernacles October 2 1279 BC, when the 12 brought the fruits of the land back to begin the feast of tabernacles. See Leviticus 23. Grapes and figs and pomegranates would be ripe in September.
Numbers 13:23 "And they came unto the brook Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs."
Then that night they could go up at once and know they would have 12 more hours daylight that day to get complete victory. Numbers 14:40 "And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned."
Numbers 14:45 "Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwell in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah."
Deuteronomy 1:42 "And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies."
43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there."
Hormah is about 60 miles north of Kadesh. So for the Amalekites and Canaanites to chase them 60 miles they would need 12 hours more daylight. So God may have planned the children of Israel would have more daylight this October 3 1279 BC just as Joshua chased them 41 years later from Gibeon to Makkedah February 26 1238 BC. Perhaps inspired thus Joshua asked God to make the sun stand still 41 years later when they entered the promised land. "their shade (defense) 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 so there would be no shade to hide in. The oracle bone describing a dragon taking the form of a rainbow at sunset in China would have meant the angel of the sun was surrounded by his glory when he went about to make the sun suddenly set in China and suddenly set on Egypt for the three days of darkness when Joshua was a young man and thus he would know and have faith God could make the sun stand still as well. Certainly he would know of some of the sun miracles God had done and known of God's power. The children of Israel would know about sun miracles while they were down in Egypt. There was one in 2287 BC, about 2274 BC, 2154 BC, 1891 BC, 1807 BC, 1788 BC, 1765 BC. Records of which Joshua probably knew of because sun miracles were meant for the children of Israel. Perhaps Joshua was the only person to actually command a sun miracle.
Psalms 84:11 "For the LORD God is a sun and a shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."
The forty days was from the time of ripe grapes, see Numbers 9. Thus if they went up at once the battle would be on Thursday October 2 1279 BC. Thus Joshua and Caleb stood up on the day before the first day of the feast of tabernacles, on Wednesday October 1, to encourage the children of Israel to go up at once. The twelve went to search out the land at the time of 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 same today. 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."
Thus if they obeyed they would have gone up to conquer Canaan the next day when God would make the sun stand still to finish them off. Thus likely the sun would have stood still Thursday October 2 1279 BC as it stood still Thursday/Friday February 25/26 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. On February 26 the moon would rise at 10 AM and appear over the hills by noon for Joshua to see. If the sun stood still February 26 the sun should stand still Sunday February 27 1237 BC at noon again for Joshua to have more daylight again, this time to chase the Midianites into Syria at the battle of Merom. Sunday would be preferred to a Saturday to do battle.
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 position 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 3:7. This may be the sunrise in the west for Gideon.).
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 September 1 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. Gravity can hold the oceans from moving. However, the upper atmosphere would move when earth shifted at least 100 miles per hour creating strong winds below. 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,and 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 and 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. Still earth must receive heat from the sun during Joshua's long day to keep the planet temperature normal. Also, the Chinese often report dark clouds gathered when the dragon appeared. This because the dragon was so bright the dark clouds hid the dragon. Such as it did on day 47 as per the oracle bone record in China, perhaps of the beginning of the three days of darkness in Exodus for Moses. Thus, Joshua may also have asked for clouds to hide the glory of the sun angel as it carried the sun to make it stand still in the sky. Such as the sun miracle when Jerusalem was taken:
Jeremiah 15:8 "Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noon-day: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD."
Ezekiel 32:7 "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light."
Ezekiel 12:4 "Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight."
The children of Israel were taken in sudden twilight. Thus the sun probably was dimmed to give twilight. That is, the sun must have stood still in the sky while it traveled 180° east and was dimmed considerably. Joshua commanded the sun to "damam" to be dumb also from which we get the word dim. Not as dim as in Ezekiel. Thus Joshua must have both commanded the sun to stand still and be dim. This may mean only the infra red light, heat, was silenced. The visible spectrum of light from the sun may have been just as bright. Thus Joshua could fight in the noon day light. The Chinese wrote of suns that gave no heat. 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. In ancient times the Chinese recorded the sun and moon were dimmed. It was thought that these were in reference to oppression. "His eulogies of the ancient sages were only the lighting up in the political firmament of so many suns which communicated no heat." The Chinese Classics III, The Ancient Empire of China, p.199. However, a sun miracle could trigger an attack and some of these records of the sun and moon being dimmed may be sun miracles. Also, clouds appear where records were taken in China to hide the phoenix or dragon. 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 26 1238 BC the sun would move to the zodiac sign of September 1 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. "In (King King's) 14nth year (504 BC) the milky way was not visible in the sky." may be the day the temple was finished, see Zechariah 14:5-9. There may have been a sun miracle in 480 BC. "I have represented the battle of Marathon as beginning in the afternoon, and ending towards evening. If it had lasted all day, Herodotus would have probably mentioned that fact. That it ended towards evening is, I think, proved by the line from the "Vespae" which I have already quoted, and to which my attention was called by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's account of the battle." The reverse orbit in Autumn of 480 BC indicated by the movement of Mars in China may have started with the sun falling from the sky in the midst of the battle of Marathon. The battle of Marathon must have been September 480 BC rather than 490 BC. Also there was an eclipse in 480 BC. Xerxes must have come to rule in 478 BC. A sun miracle can be taken as an omen for a new leader or an omen to go to battle. Xerxes was moved to attack Greece, officially dated 480 BC. Rather the Battle of Salamis may have been in 470 BC because king Tabnit reigned from 470 BC to 465 BC. Because Tetramnestos named in the battle of Salamis means "four times memorable" and may be Tabnit "model, image". Thus the captivity must have been in 575 BC to 505 BC and the battle of Salamis in 470 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. There were 490 years to the Shang dynasty from the sun miracle in 1765 BC to the sun miracle in 1125 BC. The first temple was completed in 1033 BC - 144 - 144 - 144 - 144 = 457 BC to when the wall of the second temple was completed. 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 Jubilee in 470 BC. Then the accepted date of 485 BC for the beginning of Xerxes' reign must be 7 years more recent and be about 478 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, a few days after Pentecost, on Sunday June 17 575 BC or Sunday May 19 575 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 690 BC, the year of the jublile, 13 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 32nd year 446 BC, about 144 + 300 years before the birth of Christ in 4 BC. Also, in 442 BC in the first year of Duke Tao a comet appeared. The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume 1, p.171. The Chinese often changed emperor's when there was a sun miracle: "Now having entered the Pass, he has taken no wealth nor slept with any woman of Ch'in. This shows that his mind is not set upon small matters. I have had a man observe his aeromantic signs, and they are always in the form of dragons or tigers appearing in all five colors. This is the aeromantic sign of a Son of Heaven. Set upon him quick, do not miss the chance." The Grand Scribes Records, Volume 1, p.190. Then this comet may be the dragon and there may have been a sun miracle while Nehehiah was still in Jerusalem. This 442 BC is 300 years before the sun miracle in 141 BC. This may have been the sun miracle that gave Malachi the inspiration to write about in:
Malachi 4:2 "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall."
Malachi may have been written about the year of the Jubile in 420 BC. There may have been several sun miracles in the year of the Jubile: "Pliny the Elder wrote in year 77, 470 BC, that a comet of Cerastes type (like a crescent moon) appeared when the Greeks fought the final battle at Salamis." Cometography: a catalog of comets By Gary W. Kronk, p.2. Thus there may have been a sun miracle at the time of the Jubile in 470 BC. The comet may have been the dragon, the glory of God, which appeared when there was a sun miracle. And this sun miracle may have been the day of "light and gladness" in Esther 8:16. The historian Diordorus Siculus wrote about 100 BC that during the 102 olympiad (776 BC was the first held every 4 years), 371 BC, 370 BC was the Jubile: "When Alchisthenes was Archon of Athens...there was seen in the heavens during the course of many nights a great blazing torch which was named from its shape a flaming beam.""At any rate this torch had such brilliancy, they report, and its light such strength that it cast shadows on the earth similar to those cast by the moon." Cometography: a catalog of comets By Gary W. Kronk, p.4. The dragon to the Chinese was very bright. In Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4 God's glory was as a fire. Aristotle records it with a tidal wave and earthquake which would be expected in a a sun miracle. Something brighter than the moon could create a rainbow, an azure rainbow. "The Chinese text Han Shu (100) is the oldest text to support this "long tailed star". It says the comet was seen "in the eastern quarter of the sky" sometime during 171 BC." Cometography: a catalog of comets By Gary W. Kronk, p.8. The Jubile was in 170 BC.
A comet was recorded in China in 2349 BC when there was a deluge. The Sojourn into Egypt was in 2348 BC. The seven years drought in Egypt began 2350 BC. If it did not rain in Africa it may have rained in China. A sun miracle at the beginning of the drought in 2350 BC would most closely match the account of all the rivers drying up in the story of Phaethon, where the sun fell from the sky. There was a comet recorded in China in 2315 BC when Joseph was 72. There were 72 who entered Egypt with Jacob in the Sojourn. There were 72 sent out by Jesus to preach the Gospel in Luke 10.
Some sun miracles happened 19 years apart. Such as 1807 BC and 1788 BC. 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 Sunday April 12 3636 BC, the three days darkness March 28 1279 BC, "the sun and moon did not meet harmoniously" October 30 2154 BC and possibly the new moon referred 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 1126 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. Moreover, the problem some have with this record is the moon was no longer visible yet the record implies the moon was waning, still visible. Then there may have been 1 missing day in the days of 60 in 1122. Then if day 29 was rather January 26 1122 BC the moon would still be visible and waning. Then there may have been 1 missing day going back to the lunar eclipse August 12 1269 BC day 56. 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 about Pentecost May 4 1122 BC and may have marked it with a sun miracle. "In his 12th year (1122 BC) the king led the tribes of the west and the princes to attack Yin, and defeated Show in the wilderness of Muh. He took with his own hand Show prisoner in the tower of Nan-tan; and entered into the bright appointment of Heaven, setting up, to continue the sacrifices of his ancestors, Luh-foo, the son of Show, known as Woo-kang. In the summer, in the 4th month, he returned to Fung, and sacrificed in the ancestral temple. The Chinese Classics, The Dynasty of Chow, p.144. The fourth month from the first month beginning January 28 1122 BC is in May. So emperor Wu may seen the sun rise in the west at sunset as per the quote by the Duke of Lu-Yang on Sunday May 4 1122 BC. Thus the bright appointment of Heaven may mean the sun rising in the west. Bright is the character for sun and moon together. 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 Liu
Thus king Wan would be very conscious, 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 referred 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 horizen 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. This could be the rainbow of glory around God's throne as the dragon that appeared like a rainbow on day 47 Sunday March 30 1279 BC. 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 when also there was an earthquake and a supernova in Leo. The emperor Chuen-Heuh; dynastic title Kaou-Yang. "His mother was called Neuchoo. She witnessed the Yaou-kwang star (Benetnasch) go through the moon like a rainbow, when it moved her self in the palace of Yew-fang, after which she brought forth Chuen-heuh near the Jo-water." Thus a second time the star and rainbow are mentioned. Probably in connection to a sun miracle and very likely the dragon and the rainbow around God's throne. The star Benetnash or Alkaid at the handle of the Big Dipper is never even close to the orbit of the moon. Then what was meant must have been the dragon and rainbow came from the star Benetnash and passed through the moon. Stars naturally do not have rainbows or move. The custom of the emperor being born on a sun miracle 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 visibility such as this fifth day of the moon. There were two suns together also in Wu's time in 1126 BC when he took over from his father Wan. Then perhaps the sun stood still in Judges in 1126 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. The oceans can be held by a gravitational force when earth shifted. However, the upper atmosphere is much less stable and winds of 100 miles per hour would be expected creating strong winds below. "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 phoenix, the red bird, had a song, "P'o - P'o - P'o," The Grand Scribes Records, Volume 1, p.60. The rooster was associated with the phoenix possibly because whenever 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. Josiah burned the chariots of the sun:
2 Kings 23:11 "And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire."
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 was Wen Ding who reigned to 1183 BC. Rather king Wan's first year was 1175 BC. This was the year emperor Di Yi died and Di Xin became emperor. 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.
Judges 8:28 "Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon."
Then there was Abimelech who brought upon himself swift destruction. So he may have only reigned part of a year.

Judges 10:1 "And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years."
From Gideon September 1 1238 40 years to 1198 BC. Then 23 years to 1175 BC. If king Wan's 35th year was 1141 BC, dated to the lunar eclipse then, then his first year was 1175 BC. Therefore this sun miracle may have been at the death of the Judge Tola and the new Judge Jair. Sun miracles were often in the fallow, seventh, year which 1175 was.
In Wanting's "12th year, phoenixes collected on mount K'e." Note: Which was the first year of king Wan. The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.139. 13 years later: "In Te-sin's 3rd year, a sparrow produced a hawk." Wanting was Wen Ding. King Wan reigned 51 years to 1135 BC from 1186 BC. Counting the years of reigns in the Bamboo Books back from the beginning of the Chow dyasty in 1122 BC, Wanting's 12th year would be 1186 BC. 1187 BC is 1100 years after the sun miracle in 2287 BC. The first Jubilee was in 1190 BC. Possibly there may have been a sun miracle the day of Pentecost about May 12 1188 BC when Boaz went to redeem Ruth to be his wife in the year of the Jubilee - see Leviticus 23. Likewise, Hannah prayed for a child probably on the Day of Atonement before Eli the priest about 1190 BC to 1185 BC on the day of Atonement in September. Then Samuel may have been born at Pentecost 9 months later in May. The aphelion of the sun was May 25. Thus there would be only a few missing minutes for the second reverse orbit to correct for or even if there was any need for a second correcting orbit. There may have been another sun miracle in 1175 BC and the sun returned two years later at the beginning of Di Xin's third year when "a sparrow produced a hawk". That is there may have been a phoenix seen and a sun miracle. "There was a shower of earth in Poh" in the fifth year, perhaps caused by astroids being moved into earth's path. Thus a sun miracle also in 1175 BC may have counted as king Wan's first year and have been confused with the sun miracle in 1186 BC/1188 BC. 1188 BC was the year after the fallow jubilee year as also 1175 BC was the year after the seventh fallow year as also the sun miracle in 155 BC, 148 BC and 141 BC.
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 50th day should be Sunday May 25 1279 BC in the Hebrew lunar calendar. Often sun miracles may have begun about May 25. 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. The day of Pentecost sometimes fell on May 24, the perihelion of the sun. This was when God delivered the Law unto Moses. This first day of the third month Sunday May 25 1279 BC was the same day as the day of Pentecost when Jesus sent the Holy Ghost Sunday May 24 33 AD. Sunday was important in the Old Testament too. Jesus disciples were gathered on the first day of the week to remember Jesus' resurrection. You cannot get any more right than that. 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. The phoenix in the Bible was the eagle.
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 must be two separate sun miracles. Sun and moon phoenixes collected on mount K'e suggests a similar sun miracle to 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 or 1133 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 be applied to the 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 25/26 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 1126 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. Joshua's long day on February 25/26 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. However, the sixth day of the moon may have been Friday and be Joshua's long day at the end of which Joshua put the five kings on crosses. Thus too Jesus' crucifixion may have been on 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. Thus day six could be Friday. 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's successor may have drowned in 1279 BC in the Reed Sea and the one lunar date for Pharaoh Ramses II works perfectly. Merneptah must have been the pharaoh that died a few months before the Exodus and Messuwy may be the pharaoh of the Exodus. Or if not Messuwy some unknown pharaoh must have been the successor to Merneptah. Thus, Messuwy may have been pharaoh and drowned in the Reed Sea. Then 41 years later must be 1238 BC and Joshua's long day. 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 half year of the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day was almost identical to the half year of earth's slowest elliptical orbit when earth is furthest from the sun. 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. The eclipse of April 16 1178 BC in the Iliad which was an omen in the attack of Troy may have rather been a sun miracle 76 years earlier in 1254 BC. Or possibly one of the series of four sun miracles in 1279 BC or 1269 BC or 1239 BC or 1238 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 to not give the amorites a chance to escape. In any case, resting would just give the enemy time to regroup. After the death of Joshua Othniel had to reconquer southern Judah in Judges 1.
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 1126 BC was a sun miracle, the sun moving 180° east or west. "In his (emperor Te-sin's 1126 BC) 48th year, the E goat (spirit like animal - exciting wonder) - was seen. Two suns appeared together." This was attributed to be 4 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 September 1 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". Possibly the double dawn was a short day like the day the sun ascended just after Gideon returned from battle. 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.

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.

(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 horizen 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 the day of Pentecost Sunday May 4 1122 BC. 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 the same season. Emperor Chuen-heuh came to the throne when his uncle died, 2513 BC, "fixed the commencement of the year in February." Chinese Classics III, p.101 - The planets are all visible in the west at sunset February 25 as per king Wan's dream which they are not January 26. Also Adar is normally February. - That is, the winter solstice in 2513 BC was on January 10 and thus spring began a lunar month later in February. If the sun moved in 2513 BC it must move back on the same date 2512 BC. Also, the yellow dragon - sun miracle that served as the omen for Chuen-heuh to become emperor may have been about the vernal equinox, and earth then in a reverse orbit, thus his reason to begin the year with spring. If Abraham was 75 in 2572 BC and born in 2648 BC, Isaac would be 36 in 2512 BC and Sarah would have died in 2511 BC. If when Abraham offered up Isaac, Isaac was the same age as Jesus at his crucifixion, 36, Abraham must have offered up Isaac in 2512 BC perhaps at the same time of year the 14th day of the moon, April 19, 7 days after the vernal equinox. Sarah lived to be 127 to 2511 and would be glad to have Isaac back for at least one more year of her life. More importantly is the encouragement of Sarah's faith in the coming of the Son of God when Abraham came back with Isaac and Abraham related his vision of the Christ. Genesis 22:15 "And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies."
God may have moved the sun for a sudden sunset and showed Abraham the stars, then he may have moved the sun for a sudden sunrise and showed him the sand. The Hebrew word used for sand is "whirling particles", Strong's 2342, which can also mean the phoenix: Strong's 2344: "I, travail, be in anguish, be pained, dance, whirl, writhe, fear, tremble." - As in Job 29:18.
Enoch may have been translated in year 365, 3872 BC when the Egyptian year had backed up to Wednesday April 16 and the 14th day of the Hebrew moon on the vernal equinox Friday April 25 or after 365 years 3871 BC when the Egyptian year had backed up to Thursday April 16 the 14th day of the Hebrew moon 7 days before the vernal equinox. 3872 - 969 - 969 - 969 = 965 BC, 998 years - about 1000 years - before Jesus' crucifixion in 33 AD. 3648 BC - 969 years = 2679 BC when there was a sun miracle in China. 3648 BC + 969 years = 4617 BC, less 69 years is 4548 BC the birth of Adam. 3448 - 969 years = 2479 the birth of Jacob when Isaac was 69. 2479 BC - 800 years to the beginning of 400 years of bondage in Egypt in 1679 BC, or 1200 years to the Exodus. From Noah's flood 3637 BC to Jesus' crucifixion 33 AD, 3637 - 2700 - 969 years is 33 AD. Noah's flood on the 17th day of the Egyptian's last visibility of the moon is the same 14th day of the moon's first visibility of the Passover April 3 33 AD. 2348 BC - 69 years = 2279 BC, + 969 years = 3248 BC, 40 years after Noah died. The lunar month matches the Julian date every 969 years in almost 12,000 lunar cycles (less 15). Elijah appeared to Ahab after 945 BC Sothis year 375. Probably Elijah appeared to Ahab about 937 BC about Ahab's eighth year. 937 BC is 969 years before Jesus' crucifixion and the 14th day of the Egyptian lunar month is Friday April 3, just as it is 12,000 lunar months later on the same Egyptian Sothis date, the day of the crucifixion Friday April 3 33 AD. If Jesus shared the Passover Wednesday, possible because nothing was recorded in the Gospels for Wednesday counting from Palm Sunday, rather than Thursday, the crucifixion would be Thursday April 2 33 AD.
Only Enoch and Elijah were translated so they did not see corruption, death. Enoch lived 65 years and was taken at half the age of Adam, 130 years. Jacob turned 65 in 2412 BC, Sothis year 365. Mahalaleel lived 65 years, Genesis 5:16. David turned 65 in 1048 BC, 144 + 900 years before the birth of Christ. The Christ was to come from the seed of David, howbeit Jesus is the Son of God. Jacob fled Beersheba in 2401 BC when he was 78 and Isaac was 147, Jacob lived to be 147. 65 years after Enoch's translation in 3871 BC the new year had backed up to April 3 in year 430 from July 16 4236 BC. Just as the new year would back up to April 3 2348 BC 430 years from July 16 2777 BC on the Sojourn into Egypt. Jesus is thought to have been crucified on the 14th day of the moon, on Friday April 3 33 AD 12 days after the vernal equinox. Enoch in 3871 BC was translated 3900 years before Jesus began his ministry in 30 AD. Also these are the same week dates as the Passover in Egypt, the 14th day of the moon, Thursday, and the Exodus, Friday, April 4, 1279 BC and the Sojourn into Egypt, the 14th day of the moon, Friday, April 3, 2348 BC. April 3 2348 BC and April 4 1279 BC are Egyptian dates from the moon's last visibility - invisibility before dawn. The 14th day of the moon when the Passover was to be kept were April 23 2515 BC or April 19 2512 BC and April 7 30 AD or April 3 33 AD date from the moon's first visibility at sunset = Genesis the evening and the morning were the first day, thus the evening crescent of the moon's first visibility was the Israelite new moon. Abraham offered up Isaac in the land of Moriah - Genesis 22:2, 2 Chronicles 3:1, on the same mount Jesus was crucified. That is, mount Zion. Jesus said:
St John 9:56 "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad."
Perhaps there was a sun miracle this day of Friday April 19 2512 BC. Perhaps the sun was darkened like it was when Jesus was crucified. Perhaps the sun stood still in the sky or retreated making a long sunny day. Zion originally meant sunny. The hill of Zion faces east and south and southwest, the sunny side of Jerusalem. This hill was above the other hills and often would be clear and sunny above the clouds.
Psalm 50:1 "The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down of thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together, unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah."
Toward the rising of the sun is affirmed here also:
Numbers 1:1 "And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,"
2:3 "And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah."
Joshua 12:1 "Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:"
That the sun rises in the east had to be emphasized. This right after the year of sun miracles from October 2 1280 BC to October 3 1279 BC in Numbers and right after the year of sun miracles February 26 1238 BC to February 27 1237 BC in Joshua 12. Thus sun miracles declared God's righteousness. And thus there may have been more than one sun miracle whose cause was mount Zion. It was very tempestuous at the sun miracle in October 1033 BC in China. The Chinese word for tempestuous could be hurricane. October 1033 BC was when the first temple was finished and the Day of Atonement and the feast of tabernacles held. Perhaps also Isaac was born at the same time of the year as Jesus, the same day of the week, perhaps in January/February.
Luke 2:21 "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb."
Acts 7:8 "And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day;"
Sodom and Gomorrah may have been destroyed in the sixth month from the end of the year in September, that is April, and be the night Isaac was conceived just as Jesus was conceived in the sixth month.
Genesis 18:7 "And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf, 1241 tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it."
A calf would be tender in April, a type of Jesus' sacrifice. Abraham must have went to offer up Isaac at the same age as Jesus would be when he would be crucified, probably 36 years old. The sun miracle then in 2512 BC may have signified the light of Christ. Jesus said:
John 9:5 "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
When Abraham saw Jesus' day it was like he saw the sun, a long day. Hesiod recorded the generation of the phoenix was 33 1/3 years over 30,000 years, 900 phoenixes. Perhaps God did move the sun around the earth in prehistory days, perhaps signifying the years of Jesus' life. "In the sky a divine dragon covered with golden scales appeared" - when the emperor Chuen-heuh came to the throne 2515 BC or 2512 BC. Also at this time Gong Gong strikes the pillar holding up the sky in the north west. The pillar is the pole star and the pole position must shift as earth shifts to keep in the same season when the sun moves 180° - the yellow dragon - a spiraling sun. The spiraling sun may refer to the circle of the zodiac; the sun moving 180° through the zodiac in one day. If the sun traveled 540° east over 30 hours on this spring equinox the sun would rise and fall and rise like the figure N, the shape of the yellow dragon. This is because the sun passes through the ecliptic of the zodiac, rising to summer heights falling to winter lows then rising to summer heights again before setting in the east. See diagram. If the sun stood still in April it would go up and down in the same place, perhaps in the upper figure 8 of the analemma - the pattern of the sun's shadow marked at the same hour each day for the half year. Thus the spiraling day. If the sun moved 180° April 23 2515 BC or April 19 2512 BC, earth must shift 24° or 16° counterclockwise to the north west, to stay in the same season. The emperor often changed the calendar when he came to the throne often on the omen of a sun miracle, as Yao did when he shot the 9 suns and changed this new year back to the lunar month before the winter solstice. Upon a sun miracle in 2158 BC the astronomers He and Ho were executed for not predicting it. They could not know the God of the Bible, so they could have no idea when there would be a sun miracle. Most often it was the emperor who was replaced at a sun miracle. Nevertheless, the Chinese correctly assumed God, Shangdi, moved the sun and they worshiped him when there was a sun miracle. And the Chinese fulfilled God's wish for change on earth when there was a sun miracle. He and Ho were Yao's astronomers in 2357 BC who determined the seasons by the stars after the 10 suns appeared together. He and Ho are a deity who gave birth to the ten suns. 2154 BC "The sun and moon did not meet harmoniously in Fang" in Chung-k'ang's first or fifth year "fifth year of emperor Zong Kang of Xia, autumn ninth month, day 47, the first day of the month there was an eclipse of the sun" "It was when Zong Kang began ruling over the land within the four seas on the first day of the last month of autumn the chen did not alight on Fang. The blind musicians beat their drums, the minor officers dashed about, and the commoners scattered." This day 47 given in the Chinese classics should be October 29 2154 BC. However, the Chinese may not have counted short days as a day as this Model would have them counted. Then the lunar eclipse on August 12 1269 BC may have been recorded as day 56 and not day 55 as we would expect counting days backward in time. If so, these days of 60 were 1 day more recent than we would expect in 1269 BC. Thus this record for a solar eclipse on day 47 2154 BC may rather be a sun miracle on the new moon two days later October 31 2154 BC when the sun and moon passed each other. There was no eclipse in China in 2154 BC but there was one in 2159 BC June 29 when the sun was in Cancer. Thus this eclipse for 2159 BC cannot be the one because the sun is not in Fang/Lupus and the month is not the ninth month and the day is not day 47 either. "on the first day of the ninth month" - must have counted from the end of February for the beginning of the ninth lunar month to be in October/November when the sun was in Fang (Libra/Scorpius) in 2154 BC. This sun miracle must have been on the first day of the moon the ninth month October 31 2154 BC. And that the sun and moon did not meet harmoniously may have had something to do with the sun miracle. A sun miracle often prompted the rise of a new emperor and gave strength to a newly arrived emperor. Then the emperor Wuding would be aware of this record of a sun miracle on a day 47 and be interested in divining for the day 47 October 28 1279 BC. This happened in his 5th year, 2154 BC. In his 6th year he appointed his son as his successor. In his 7th year he died or was deposed. In 1238 BC the winter solstice was on January 1 and thus the new year must begin in February. Then Joshua's long day in the 6th day of the first lunar month could be February. Even if the Israelite year was counted from the fall equinox, the 41st year beginning September 1240 BC, the entry into Canaan was Sunday April 12 1239 BC.
Joshua 3:2 "And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;
3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and to after it."
Then these three days must have been counted from Thursday and the Sunday they crossed into the promised land likened to the third day when Jesus rose from the dead. (Noah stepped out of the ark Sunday April 12 3636 BC the same day of the Sothis Egyptian year) According to the new Israelite counting of the month from the first appearing of the moon at sunset.
Joshua 4:9 "And Joshua set up twelve, stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day."
The twelve stones represented the twelve tribes. Also, April 12 1238 BC was the 12th day from the vernal equinox April 1. Jesus was crucified 12 days after the vernal equinox on April 3 33 AD. Joshua 4:19 "And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho."
They crossed the River Jordan on Sunday, the first day of the Passover. See Joshua's Altar. Then also they kept the Passover on the 14th day of that month, Thursday night April 16 1239 BC, just as they had kept the Passover in Egypt Thursday night (the Israelites began the day with evening, so to them this was the beginning of Friday) April 4 1279 BC. Some suggest Joshua asked for a longer day to finish the battle before the Sabbath. However, Joshua 10 appears to suggest they fought Saturday and Sunday and the second day Monday especially if Joshua's long day was Friday February 26 rather than Thursday. The earth must have turned 70° clockwise February 25 to keep in the same season. Then the sun would move 180° from Pisces to Virgo and progress, the zodiac progress, in reverse as earth orbited the sun in reverse. Earth would shift forward in precession to its 3000 AD north-south orientation, past the present pole star Polaris. The sign for spring and fall would be the reverse and the signs of the zodiac would progress in reverse. Earth must have gone into a reverse orbit on Joshua's long day and perhaps the other planets also went into reverse orbits. Then the planets could appear at the same O'clock time in the night sky - moving 180°, and the direction of their orbits apparent against the background stars must have been in reverse. It would seem impossible for the planets to appear at the same O'clock time through the year as they would have. The simplest way would be for God to move the planets 180° with the sun and the planets to continue in the same direction as normal at the same speed as normal. Then when the sun moved 180° back the planets would also move 180° back. Thus the planets would appear at their same O'clock position in the night sky through the seasons in the reverse orbit. And likewise they would move 180° with the sun back to their normal orbit when the sun moved back. All completely seamlessly. Thus records of the planets would show they appeared in the night sky on the days they should have. Only the background stars would be different.

Just as we find the Chinese recorded Jupiter to be in the 12 signs a month earlier each year instead of a month later in 103 BC, 102 BC and 101 BC. Saturn and Jupiter must orbit the sun twice a year to appear in their seasons - the opposite of their standing still as earth orbits past in order to keep appearances. That is they must pull away at the same rate in the reverse orbit as earth normally pulls away from them for them to appear at the same times in the seasons. We see stars travel west each night and pass on through the year to disappear in the west.
Below you will see the sun and planets as they appear just before the sun miracle on February 26 1238 BC, Joshua's long day:

Below you will see the sun and planets as they appeared immediately after Joshua's long day:

Below you will see the sun and planets as they appeared just before the sun miracle 2AM September 1 1238 BC for Gideon:

Below you will see the sun and planets as they appeared immediately after the sun miracle for Gideon September 1 1238 BC:

Thus you can see in the reverse orbit of the sun the planets would be 180° away from where they normally would be immediately after the first sun miracle and immediately before the second sun miracle. Thus the planets would appear at the same height in the sky at the same time of year as they normally would throughout the reverse orbit. And they could all be moved 180° with the sun in one easy movement on the first sun miracle and on the second sun miracle. The next diagram with the planets starting out in a reverse orbit all in a line and how they would end up half a year later still in the reverse orbit should help you visualize this better:

The below picture of the setting sun that king Wan recorded on Joshua's long day from China shows the planets and moon all in the western half of the sky. 12 hours later they would all still be there, the sun and planets stood still in the sky for 12 hours. Thus even though the sun and planets had moved 180° they all appeared that night as they normally would. And appeared every night after that in earth's reverse orbit as they normally would. Just the background stars would be different.

However, in earth's reverse orbit the stars and this Scorpius would advance east appearing brighter and higher in the sky through the year. Also Saturn must have moved 2700 million miles in twelve hours, at 225 million miles per hour! The speed of light is 670 million miles per hour. That is one third the speed of light. The moon must move 180° also, however, it must continue in its regular direction of orbit to also appear in the sky through its usual phases at its usual speed of orbit. "The State Archives of Assyria Volume VIII report 310 says, "If in Adar (February 20 - March 20) the sun stands still in the middle of noontime: the land will experience siege (and) misery." Bible & Astronomy (together with a cold winter - hail in Joshua 10:11, tablet written about 700 BC. The sun probably stood still at noon August 31 just before the Midianites were routed by Gideon, the same time as Debrah and Barak and again 6 months later for Joshua in the battle of Merom. Joshua marched to Merom and 12 more hours daylight would help in their surprise attack. At noon because the sun must move back exactly 186.5 days after Joshua's long day at noon February 25 1238 BC. The sun must move 5400° east to rise in the west and stand still at noon August 31. Then also when the sun returned February 27 1237 BC and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit, the sun would stand still in the afternoon sky for 12 hours. Thus the Assyrian Omen because Joshua chased the Midianites into Syria. Then the sun would stand still in the sky in the month of Adar both on February 26 1238 BC and February 27 1237 BC. Furthermore, at 11PM August 31 the sun should rise in the west suddenly to the noon position and stay there for 36 hours.
Here you can see Israel in the noon sun above Africa in this Hubble picture:

The sun must rise suddenly in the west at midnight August 31 because Judges 4 describes the battle in early morning. Thus Deborah called to Barak to "UP". Suddenly because Joshua attacked the Midianites at Merom suddenly in the early morning. Or the battle of Merom could have been with a sudden sunrise in the east at midnight February 25. More likely this early morning was a sudden sunrise in the west at 11PM August 31 and the battle of Merom, Barak and Gideon were at the same time. Because they chased the Midianites along the same route. There would not need to be an earth shift if the sun did one or two complete circles around the earth, so there would be no less hours of daylight. I do not know if God moved the sun right around the earth instead of halfway around the earth. Most sun miracles seem to involve a reverse orbit where the sun was moved halfway around the earth or at least one and a half times or two and a half times. I do not know if the sun needs to be moved 360° or 720° around the earth at the half orbit point August 31. The sun must move to the other side of the earth at the half orbit point for earth to reorient when it flows out of the reverse orbit. But if earth does not flow out of the reverse orbit, then perhaps there is something about the missing 40 minutes that requires a sun miracle at that point to mark half an orbit. At least if the sun moved 360° August 31 the missing 12 hours at that point would be made up. Earth must speed up around the sun 48 hours a reverse orbit or that year would have 367 days because rotation is against orbit. And the first 12 hours of the next missing 24 hours to February 26 would be made up. Thus August 31 would be the best time to keep short accounts. Then perhaps a triple reason for this omen inscription. Both the triple attack on August 31 and the sun standing still at noon February 26 1238 BC, September 1 1238 BC or February 25 1237 BC. Most likely however, is the sun moved 180° east February 26 1238 BC for Joshua, then 540° east 11 PM August 31, then 180° west September 1 then 180° east February 25 again. February 25, 2003 it snowed one foot in Israel. The spring equinox in 1238 BC was April 2. Accordingly, this February 25 1238 BC is February 15 today.) Perhaps a second independent witness of Joshua's long day.
Joshua 10:13b "Is not this written in the book of Jasher?"
The writer of Joshua was Joshua and he must have seen the account of the sun standing still for Joshua written in the book of Jasher. Both this and the Chinese record have the sun standing still at the same time of day and on the same date. Then the event that took place in Joshua 10:13 can be confirmed by counting the positions of heavenly bodies backward in time. February 25 1238 BC is the month after the winter solstice, January 2 1238 BC, for the Chinese and is the month before the vernal equinox, April 2 1238 BC, the month of Nisan. That is Chinese spring is reckoned from 45 days before the vernal equinox and the lunar month that takes in that day. So the new moon in the Chinese spring is the beginning of the year. For example, the Exodus was April 4 1279 BC, the month Nisan beginning March 21. Every three years there was a second lunar month of Adar added February 21 - March 21. So a first month of Adar might be January 21 to February 21. Homer's Iliad 2.490 Iliad 3.331 written 900 BC is perhaps the third independent witness of Joshua's long day. Bible verses of Joshua's long day: Joshua 10:12-14, Isaiah 28:19, Habakkuk 3:5-11. Adar is the month before spring, February 20 - March 20. The Chinese spring/new year is January 20 - February 19 when the sun was in Aquarius. The sixth day of the Chinese spring 1238 BC is February 25. The sixth day of the lunar month when the sun is directly over Israel is the same time of day and date, February 25 1238 BC 12PM Central Europe Time. "The fourth "New Year" occurs in late January or early February and is a tithing of the produce of the trees." The same February season as Joshua's long day and perhaps the Ugarit eclipse in February an hundred years or more before is rather also a sun miracle. On the Jewish calendar Shebat 15 was the beginning of the year of trees. 15 days later was the second month of trees, Adar. If Jesus began to be about 30 about the end of January then he may have been born in the month of Shebat. The first lunar month "New Year" 1238 BC should have been January 21 and the second February 21. Spring comes early to Europe. The sun must move 180° back half an orbit or a full orbit or multiples thereof later, and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. This would have been visible from half the planet. Much more likely to have been recorded than the narrow path of a brief eclipse. That is, the sun must move 180° back to its previous location on the same date, or half an orbit later or multiples thereof, for earth to turn back counterclockwise the same amount it turned clockwise to reorient and keep in the same season. And earth flowed out of the reverse orbit and continued as if nothing had happened.
Joshua 10:38 "And Joshua returned and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it."
Ashes from this stratum "undoubtedly date from the end of the 13th century BC" The Bible as History. Debir was taken in Judges 1 soon after Joshua died about 1210 BC "the end of the 13th century BC". Joshua 10:15 suggests Israel returned to Gilgal right after the day the sun stood still but Joshua 10:15 does not appear in the Septuagint. At the end of this tenth chapter:
Joshua 10:43 "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal."
Then Israel rather returned after they had smote all those cities in the tenth chapter. Then the battle of Merom in the eleventh chapter may have been 187 days after Joshua's long day.
The days of the week were counted from even to even. So an extra 12 hours would not mean a change in the days of the week. Sometimes Chinese dates of cycles of 60 days do not record an eclipse on exactly the right day. This may be sloppy recording or it may be because of a sun miracle and their days restored accurately after the next sun miracle. Every day was a date on our calendar and orbital simulations going back several thousand years line up as if nothing had happened. The seven day week was kept from earliest times in western Asia. See Origin of the Seven Day Week. The Hebrews numbered the seven days of the week rather than giving them names. Noah's flood may have been Saturday, April 12, 3637 BC. On the seventh day just as the Bible states. One would think perhaps the Chinese may have been confused in their counting of 60 day cycles when "the day dawned twice". January 7 1500 BC, a new moon, was day 5. Yet August 12 1269 BC was day 56 not day 54. An exception could be the sun rising in the west on Israel/Egypt/Babylon after sunset but not rising 90° away in China that same day. However, the sun rising in the west seems not to have been counted as a day. The Chinese began their day with sunrise, day and sun are the same character, so in most cases if not all, sun miracles happened on the same day of 60 in China as they happened on the day of the week in Israel. Sometimes the 60 day cycle was out a day. Then this could have been from the confusion of a sun miracle. August 12 1269 BC is out 1 day. This could have been from not counting short day sun miracles as a day. In the book of the dead "Adoration of Ra on the day of the month whereon he saileth in the boat. Homage to thee within his boat, rising, twice, shining with rays..making to rejoice mankind for millions of years according to his will, giving his face to the hamemet, Khepera within the boat." The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.143. by E.A. Wallis Budge. The sun rising twice and shining with rays may be a short day sun miracle. The sun must brighten several times to leave the same daily coral line.
Joseph Needham wrote that the Chinese in 1250 BC had counted the days from solstice to solstice, 1 1/2 years to be 548 days. Which is what it is. The sun must move exactly 180°. However, the sun must move 1/2° with earth's momentum because earth would have continued in its forward momentum for 12 hours. This 12 hour free only appears in the calculations for the period for earth to shift 70° to keep in the same season within a day. Otherwise the free fall is invisible. Then the days of the year should continue without adjustment, save earth must shift back 70° the next day to keep in the same season and calendar and earth must speed up 48 hours in its orbit because orbit is against rotation. By this time the Chinese had determined the year to be 365.25 days and the lunar month to be 29.5 days, which it still would be in the reverse orbit after Joshua's long day. The lunar month could still be 29.5 days by the moon slowing in its orbit of earth 4 hours an orbit. Then there would be 29.5 days a lunar month when earth was in a reverse orbit of the sun. Then the Chinese would see no difference in the year or the month in a reverse orbit. Then there would be 548 days every solstice to solstice, including the long day, just as the Chinese had calculated.
Days equal dates on the calendar of orbital simulations. Tides, including the height they would have been, also must match dates because the moon must move with the sun. The duration of the solar and lunar tides would be shorter or longer or reverse on the day the sun and moon travelled 180° or more west or east. Solar tides in a reverse orbit would be identical to the day and date of course. Days must have been 8 minutes shorter to keep 365 days in the year. That is, 4 minutes less daylight and 4 minutes less night each day. Also, the solar tide would progress 1° east each day instead of west in a reverse orbit, progressing backward. The orbits of the solar system cannot have matched continuous time even after the counter miracle of a sudden sunset because reverse orbits must have been 48 hours short to keep the 365 day year. Also, if there were 365 days a year in the reverse orbit there would be no trace that there was a reverse orbit. "The axis wobble has two major cycles with the annual tide circling the planet every twelve months and the Chandler tide about every 14.29 months...Gravitational tides simply add several new cycles into the equation because of the earth's spin rate, moon's elliptical orbit around the earth and earth's elliptical orbit around the sun." The Earth's Shifting Axis, by Mac B. Strain. p.108 The Chinese wrote that the Yin Yang "was as day emerges from night and as low tide follows high tide". The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China Thus when God moved the moon with the sun and the tides followed this stable pattern remained and the Chinese associated this stable pattern with the Yin Yang. All may change but Jesus never. All this can be managed in a reverse orbit of the sun, there is no difference in tides in a reverse orbit. However, God must have shifted earth's axis very soon after to keep it in the same season. That is, if the sun moved 180° in January 26 2287 BC for emperor Shun, earth would be in a July 26 inclination of the sun. To avoid a change in season, in insolation, earth must shift 180° counterclockwise or clockwise in just a few days and earth would be in the January 26 or July 26 inclination to the sun again. Then keeping earth in its cycles of a very small wobble would be comparatively a minor problem. Ocean and atmospheric currents must have been affected and droughts and rains were associated with sun miracles and reverse orbits.
The other possibility is that God moved the sun around the earth 360° each time. Then everything could continue as before without any evidence. The problem is each miracle must be 24 hours long and does not always fit the context. Joshua would be glad for 12 extra hours, but 24 extra hours may be long. If the sun backed up from noon to sunrise for Hezekiah at the same rate it normally advances west, the sun must move 180° in six hours. Or in the case of Lu Yang a few hundred years after Hezekiah, sometime between 515 BC to 450 BC: "the sun reversed three solar mansions" we might consider the sun slowly reversed to the eastern horizen over 30 hours passing 180° 360° 540°. And earth's forward momentum must carry it into a reverse orbit. Possibly the sun moved 180° east in six hours to the eastern horizen and earth flowed into the reverse orbit. We all know the earth orbits the sun. It is not too hard to appreciate the sun must move around a delicate earth in order to stand still in the sky.

Perhaps the visible night sky was moved 180° as the sun now shone 180° east. A day is 12 hours. Joshua 10:13 "hasted not to go down about a whole day" I theorize to mean 12 more hours of daylight accomplished by the sun moving 180°. The sun stood still "in the midst" of heaven is literally translated as "from the half" of heaven - Strong's 719b. This letter "Bet", first from the right, originally meant "from" just as from the first chapter of the Bible, Genesis 1:4

Just as the letter "Bet" meant from, from the sojourn into Egypt Sothis year 430 - April 3 2348 BC to the exodus April 4 1279 BC, from Exodus 12:40

- not to be confused with the similar looking letter Kaph in "kayom tamiym" below. That night the Israelites must have seen stars from the other half of heaven.

Some contend the term "kayom tamiym" - "about day whole" as day as in the warm hours - in Joshua 10:13 - signifies the longest day of the year - the summer solstice. Early observers believed the sun traveled north (up) to the summer solstice then stopped and travelled south (down) in its seasonal movement. That is, the sun rose higher in the sky towards summer then lower after. The sun rose and set further to the north every day approaching summer then to the south approaching winter. The days grew incrementally longer, then stopped growing, then grew shorter. Likewise the days stopped shortening on the winter solstice. However, we see the solution here as the sun moved 180° = 12 hours leaving no evidence as earth flowed into a reverse orbit of the sun. The sun standing still in the middle of the sky climbed to the summer solstice position by the eighth hour of the 12 hour miracle. The east and west reversal on the Dendera Zodiac may depict the sun moving 180° even on the winter or summer solstice and earth shifting 180° on the ecliptic (not upside down). The language of Yao's Canon, 2357 BC, suggests a reverse orbit after the sun moved 180° to stand still on China whereupon Yao was made emperor and commissioned He and Ho. Everything points to a reverse zodiac for Joshua as well. Then Joshua's long day was far from a natural phenomenon. This was many very extreme miracles working together to provide a semblance of normality.

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Joshua 10:12b (Hebrew reads from right to left) "Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, thou Moon upon Ajalon"

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Habakkuk

1:5 "Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you." (the resurrection of the Christ, Jesus. The rebirth of the phoenix - the sun - has been likened to the resurrection of the Christ, and his coming again.)
Habakkuk 3:1 "A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
3:2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
3:4 And his brightness was as the light; he had rays coming forth from his hand; and there was where his power was hidden.
3:5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. 3:6 He stood, and measured the earth; he beheld, and made the nations tremble; and the eternal mountains were shattered; the everlasting hills did bow; his goings were as of old.
3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in great affliction: and the curtains of Midian did tremble.
3:8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
3:9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
3:10 The mountains saw thee and they trembled: the overflowing of water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high."
3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear."

"Habitation", Strong's 2073, can also mean height. "They went" can mean the sun and moon moved in order to remain at the same height. That the children of Israel understood the sun and moon went around the earth to stand still in the sky means they must have understood the sun does not go around the earth each day. "According to the commandement the sunne was directed by the weapons of thy people, that fought in thy cause, as though it durst not goe forward." Notes in the Geneva Bible 1594.
Habakkuk 3:4 "And his brightness was as the light; he had rays coming forth from his hand; and there was where his power was hidden".
"revive thy work in the midst of the years" may refer to the pair of sun miracles in the middle of a reverse orbit year. "His glory covered the heavens" may refer to God appearing, perhaps like a fiery star. "his power was hidden" - God's power in these sun miracles is hidden. "burning coals went forth at his feet" may refer to lightning or meteorites. Exodus 24:10 "And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness." "He stood, and measured the earth" - God shifted the entire earth to keep it in the same season. He would have to know exactly the measurements of the earth and earth's orbit. "the eternal mountains were shattered" As God moved the earth there were earth quakes. "the curtains of Midian did tremble" as Joshua pursued the Amorites to the south they passed through the land of the Midianites while the sun stood still in the sky and the earth shook. "Thy bow was made quite naked" may refer to the glory of God the phoenix or dragon rather than a rainbow. - See Ezekiel 1:28, Revelation 4. The bow of the LORD must be the emerald bow of God's glory. Rather than a rainbow which only occurs at 5PM this emerald bow would be "Thy bow was made quite naked". "The mountains saw thee and they trembled" means God appeared probably like the brilliant dragon which could be seen behind the clouds. The rain and rivers like the hail in Joshua 10:11, would accompany the sun miracle to hide the glory of God moving the sun. "that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?" may refer to the four beasts before his throne. The Chinese wrote of the dragon horse. "at the light of thine arrows they went" may refer to lightning. This also may refer to the speed the sun was traveling to stand still in the sky while the earth rotated. The speed of Lightning. The angels move with the speed of lightning also. Joshua's spear would have glittered in the sun:
Joshua 8:18 "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city."
Joshua 8:26 "For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai."
Joshua pointed to the sun with his right hand and the moon at his left when he commanded them to stand still, thus "the deep uttered his voice." The name "Joshua Tree" was given by Mormons to a common tree in South West American States in the 1850s, who saw the craggy branches of the trees as the arms of Joshua leading them to the promised land. Hands outstretched towards the sun from Hatschepsut's temple. At Koptos in Egypt, the Bennu bird (the phoenix) is depicted with two human arms stretched upwards and outwards toward the star. The sun disk. "Thou givest thy face to the west, and my two hands are in adoration when thou settest as a living being; thou, behold, art maker of eternity, art adored thou when thou settest in Nu." The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.134. Thus "the deep uttered his voice and lifted up his hands on high" may refer to the phoenix as well as to Joshua. Moses also lifted up his arms when Joshua fought Amalek when also there may have been a sun miracle. This Native American pictograph of a man's outstretched arms may seem similar to Joshua's outstretched arms and the pictograph below, click on the image, may depict creatures associated with sun miracles, such as the tortoise the sun bird and the deer. However, Joshua pointed straight ahead at the noon sun with his right hand and to the rising moon on his left. The world did not know God before Jesus came, except the Jews. Now it is the responsibility of everyone to come and hear and receive the Gospel the way Jesus meant. Nevertheless, before Jesus came God showed himself in old times to the world in sun miracles. This whole of Chapter 3 of Habakkuk must pertain to the sun miracle of Joshua in Joshua 10:11-14.

Dead Sea Scroll 2Mur XII Hab 3:1-19

Habakkuk was written 598 BC, in the time of Daniel and Jeremiah

More About Joshua's Long Day

Joshua 10:13b "So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day". This is a record of fact, an eye witness account - not alleged, not a metaphor, not an allegory, and not pretext, not a myth set to poetry and not a command to the deities of the sun and moon.
Joshua 24:26 "And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD."
Thus Joshua wrote the book of Joshua and was both an eye witness of Joshua's long day and the source of the request of God that he make the sun stand still. That is, they saw the sun stand still in the noon position for 12 hours. If this was an eclipse they would see the sun move past the moon. If this was a dark day they would not see the sun and could not have recorded it thus. You can see below that the Dead Sea Scrolls cover most of these Bible miracles. The Dead Sea Scroll 4QJosha includes fragments 10:3-11 leading up to Joshua's prayer and God's answer. "Joshua's restraining of the sun (chapter 10) in frg. 26 (cf. especially line 5),": "1 a man who knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty...2 keep faith with us, O man of God, because...3 and the Council of the Most High heard the voice of Moses...4 God Most High...5 and mighty portents. By anger were restrained...6 a pious man, and remember forever and ever"
The Septuagint Joshua 10:12 "Then Joshua spoke to the LORD, in the day in which the LORD delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gabaon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, Let the sun stand over Gabaon and the moon over against the valley of AElon.
13 And the sun and the moon stood still, until God executed vengeance on their enemies; and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; and it did not proceed to set till the end of one day.
14 And there was not such a day either before or after, so that God should hearken to a man, because the LORD fought on the side of Israel."
That there was no day like it means this is to be taken plainly and literally. What was remarkable was that God hearkened to the voice of Joshua in this on this day.
Job 38:12 "Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?"
Joshua was descended from Joseph who dreamed the sun and moon did obeisance to him. Perhaps the sun obeyed Joseph too. This means Israel was the chosen people of the Creator of the Universe. More importantly God always hearkened to Jesus:
John 8:29 "And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him."
There were many other sun miracles. The sun may have stood still also February 25 1237 BC when the sun returned and earth flowed out of the second reverse orbit. Then king Wan's dream must be Joshua's long day because the five planets were only visible in the west at sunset February 25 1238 BC at Joshua's first opportunity and they would most naturally appear in Scorpius going into a reverse orbit when the stars finally appeared. If the 40 years in the wilderness was really 39 years then king Wan's dream could have been the sun miracle one year after Joshua's long day. Then Joshua's long day would be February 25 1239 BC when the moon was setting in the west. However, the Bible is clear there were 40 years in the wilderness. Nevertheless there may have been a similar sun miracle for David 144 years later when he slew Goliath as recorded by the Chinese in emperor Ching's 18th year.
Joshua met the Captain of the LORD's host by Jericho, Christ Jesus, who led a brilliant campaign to complete victory.
Hebrews 2:10 "the captain of their salvation"
Joshua 5:13 "And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
5:14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?
5:15 And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
Only Jesus and God are worshipped in the Bible. Thus this captain must have been Jesus.
Joshua 11:13 "Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds -- except Hazor, which Joshua burned".
Hazor was destroyed by fire in the second third of the thirteenth century B.C. 1266 - 1233 BC (Yadin 1985), generally believed in the late thirteenth century 1250 - 1200 BC.

Joshua 19:50 "According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein."
Timnathserah from Strong's 8553 and 2775 = "abundant portion" or Timnath-heres "portion of the sun" Judges 2:9. Fittingly the name of the city they gave to Joshua meant "portion of the sun". The letters may have been reversed to represent the reverse zodiac after Joshua's long day and the meaning changed to portion of the sun to signify the miracle of the sun standing still at Joshua's request. 4QMessAr read left to right, a Dead Sea Scroll Horoscope that read Hebrew backwards, perhaps likewise the last four letters after Timnath were written backwards to depict the reverse orbit/zodiac. Or they may have identified Timnath with nearby mount Heres, the mount of the sun - near Ajalon where Joshua requested the sun and moon stand still. And near Bethshemesh, the house of the sun. There it is sunny most of the time and when it rains they get rainbows.
Since the invention of the telescope we have come to know earth and the rest of the solar system orbit the sun. The Gospel message is man revolves around God and Jesus. God immediately moved the sun and planets around the earth at Joshua's request. Man is not the center of the universe, God is. Perhaps there was a sun miracle the day Noah stepped out of the ark, Sunday April 12 3636 BC. The days of the seven day week was named after the sun, moon and five visible planets in western Asia from ancient times. The first day of the week was important in the Old Testament foretelling Jesus' resurrection on Sunday. Jesus was associated with the first day of Creation, the creation of the Sun. The first light earth saw was from the sun on the first day:
Genesis 1:3 "And God said, Let there be light and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the day from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."
Genesis 1:14 "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night: and let them be for signs, and or seasons, and for days and years."
"Hebrew ‘oth, from ‘athah, to come. Signs, therefore, of something or some One to come." That is, sun miracles were signs of Jesus' coming into this world and of his sacrifice on the cross. God moving the sun the 180° must be the signs, God's purpose in sun miracles.
Acts 14:17 "Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
Sun miracles every century before Jesus was born were God's witness of God's power and salvation to the world.
Acts 17:26 "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply, they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:"
The times before appointed is Jesus coming into the world. Sun miracles seen from all over the world nearly every century were to point men to the coming of the Christ, to shake them up and make them think of their Creator.
According to the Chinese, the Yin Yang resulted from the separation of chaos in the creation of the world. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China The seven day week goes back further than recorded history. The seven days were named after the seven heavenly bodies, firstly the Sun, then the moon and the five visible planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The days of the week in the Bible were simply numbered one to seven. New years day in Egypt marking the new 1460 year cycle was Sunday July 16 2777 BC. The year of a sun miracle observed by China in 2678 BC the Egyptian new year was Sunday June 21, the year Joseph became governor in 2357 BC the new year was Sunday April 2. A sun miracle when Isaac was 36 probably underscored God's plan for salvation: If when Abraham offered up Isaac, Isaac was the same age as Jesus at his crucifixion, Abraham must have offered up Isaac in 2512 BC, perhaps at the same time of year; the 14th day of the moon, Friday April 19 2512 BC 7 days after the vernal equinox. Jesus is thought to have been crucified on the 14th day of the moon, Friday, April 3, 33 AD, 12 days after the vernal equinox. On April 2 the sun is at its maximum offset and is 8 minutes east of what the clock is, see www.analemma.com Also these are the same week dates as the Passover in Egypt, the 14th day of the moon, Thursday, and the exodus, Friday, April 4, 1279 BC on the vernal equinox. They were to take a lamb in the tenth day of the month. Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, the tenth day of the month. The first day of the Egyptian lunar month began March 20 with the first day of the summer season of 120 days, with the first day of the 30 day month and the first day of the lunar month and the first day of the Egyptian 10 day week. Following was day one of the next 10 day week, Sunday, March 30. Also, Israel kept the Passover in the second year after the Exodus, Friday, March 29, 1278 BC two days before the vernal equinox, see Numbers 9. The three days of darkness may have been Sunday March 30 1279 BC, the Sunday before the passover Thursday night April 4 1279 BC. Also Israel kept the Passover just after crossing the Jordan River on Thursday, April 16, 1239 BC on the 14th day of the moon, 14 days after the vernal equinox. They crossed Sunday April 12, 1239 BC. See Genesis 22: God had asked Abraham to offer his son in sacrifice. Abraham went up with Isaac in faith probably to where Jerusalem now is. The angel stayed his hand and Abraham offered up a ram caught in the thicket instead. There Abraham built an altar and called it Jehovahjireh "the LORD will see". Perhaps Friday April 19 2512 BC. Jesus said:
John 8: "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad."
Abraham understood how God would feel offering up his son, when Jesus would be crucified to take away his sins and the sins of the world. This means the awesome God is the Christian God. The sun miracle that year, perhaps April 19 2512 BC, may have helped Abraham to see the light of the sun as the light of Christ.
Jesus said:
Matthew 5:45b "for he maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and on the good"

The battle at Heshbon

Deuteronomy 1:3 "And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: "
The first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year must be January 3 1239 BC or February 2 1239 BC. Perhaps Sunday February 1 1239 BC or Friday January 2 1239 BC. If February 1 1239 BC there must be a sun miracle Friday night August 7 1239 BC. Or if January 2 there must be a sun miracle Friday night July 3 1238 BC. Just as there were two sun miracles half an orbit after Joshua's long day on September 1. Two 12 hour longer nights/days right after each other. If January 2 then 183 days later is half an orbit. This is Friday night July 3 1239 BC. If February 2 then 186 days later is Friday night August 7 1239 BC. The aphelion of the sun was November 25 thus the length of half an orbit varies depending on where in earth's elliptical orbit you start. Followed by a long day on Saturday. Friday night may be a long night enabling Israel to rise with the sun on Saturday. Then Saturday could be a 12 hour longer day also. This could be Saturday August 8 1239 BC or Saturday July 4 1239 BC the seventh day. Perhaps this day.
6:15 "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.
6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city."
Just previous to this Joshua had sent out the two spies to Jericho. Which Rahab hid on her roof.
Joshua 2:6 "But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof."
Flax was harvested in July. A few weeks earlier at Jericho. So if the spies came to Rahab in the middle of July on August 8 the Israelites may have conquered Jericho. Or if the spies came to Rahab in the middle of June this might be the time of the Jericho harvest of flax. Then the conquest of Jericho may have been July 4 1239 BC. Then there could be a sun miracle on the anniversary of the first one as well. A sun miracle of a 12 hour longer day January 2 or February 1 1238 BC. A sun miracle February 1 would leave just 24 days before the five kings attacked Gideon and Joshua's long day on February 26 1238 BC. A sun miracle January 4 1238 BC would leave 50 days before Joshua's long day.
Joshua 8:29 "And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day."
A year is 365.24 days. Thus the sun miracle one year later must be 6 hours later on the anniversary of the first one. Thus, a sun miracle February 1 1239 BC could mean a sun miracle at noon February 1 1238 BC. Likewise, a sun miracle January 2 1239 BC could mean a sun miracle at noon January 3 1238 BC. Then just as in Joshua's long day, Joshua hung the king of Ai till the long day finally set. On Joshua's long day, Joshua hung the five kings till the sun finally set. Joshua 10:26 "And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening."
Then the battle of Ai may have been January 3 1238 BC or February 1 1238 BC and Joshua's long day 50 or 25 days later February 26 1238 BC.
Numbers 33:38 "And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month."
Thus there is the possibility there was a sun miracle July 9 1240 BC and a second sun miracle 179 days later January 3 1239 BC.

"On the kea-tsze day (day 1), in the last month of autumn, a red bird came to Fung with a writing in its beak, which it put down at the door of Ch'ang." The Chinese Classics III, The Bamboo Books, The Dynasty of Chow, p.143 The red bird must be the phoenix as recored on this page here for the Autumn of 1142 BC. October 9 1142 BC is day 1 of the last lunar month of autumn beginning October 2. Ch'ang is king Wan. King Wan died in 1135 BC so was still alive in 1142 BC. Thus a sun miracle Sunday October 9 1142 BC would explain this record of the red bird, undoubtedly from the context the phoenix. In 1142 BC in his 32d year it was recorded: "A red crow lighted on the altar to the spirits in the land of Chow." The Chinese Classics, The Bamboo Books, p.140 Literally "red bird". The red bird may be the red phoenix. Also it was recorded there was a five planet conjunction in Fang then which may have been the planets near in position to the sun moving past Fang at the start of the sun miracle when the sun was in Fang October 9 1142 BC. "On day jiazi, 1, the sun and moon were like linked jade annuluses and the five planets were like linked pearls. In the morning twilight at dawn King Wu reached Muye on the outskirts of Shang and followed Heaven's command in punishing king Zhou of Shang. Hence the blades of the weapons were not bloodied and all under Heaven was pacified." East Asian Archeaology, p.241. This is written as 1135 BC but must be 1142 BC. Thus this planetary conjunction was on day one the same day the red bird the phoenix appeared. Perhaps the sun was dimmed enough to see the five planets in the day. That is, sunlight to earth was dimmed but sunlight reflected off the planets was not dimmed. For China to see all five planets at once this would have to be 1PM China time, 7AM Israel time. The sun rises at 6AM. Then rather the planets may "loose their order" and be "piled together in a pit" during the sun miracle. Seven years later in 1135 BC: "When King Wu of Zhou attacked King Zhou of Shang, a comet appeared and tendered its handle to Yin" East Asian Archeaology, p.107. Sun miracles in 155 BC, 149 BC and 142 BC are seven years apart. Thus there may have been sun miracles every seven years. The comet or dragon often appeared when there was a sun miracle. "After he burned the fish in sacrifice, and announced the event to Heaven. Lo! fire came down from heaven, and rested over Wang Uh, gradually floating away into a red bird, with a stalk of grain in its beak. The grain was in commemoration of the virtue of prince Tseih; the fire was an auspicious response from heaven to the burnt offering of the fish. Woo then went eastward and attacked Show,.." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p. 144. Another translation: "As the prince Fa had got to the middle of the stream in his boat, a white fish entered it. The king knelt down and took it up. He then went on the bank and burned it, in sacrifice to Heaven. All the dukes said 'This is auspicious!'. On the fifth day there was a ball of fire which descended from above, till it came to the king's house, and there dissolved into a crow. Its colour was red; its voice was calm and decided; five times it came bringing a stalk of grain..." "When King Wu was crossing the Ho, a white fish jumped into his boat in midstream. King Wu bent down and picked it up to use as a sacrifice. After crossing, there was a fire which came down which came down from above to the roof of the king's residence and transformed into a raven. Its colour was ochre. Its call went "P'o-p'o-p'o". At this time the feudal lords who met at Meng-chin without any prearrangement numbered eight hundred. The feudal lords all said, "Chow can be chastised!" King Wu said, "You do not know the heavenly mandate. He cannot be chastised as yet." Then he withdrew his troops and went home." The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume 1, p.60. The fire which came down may be a fire ball, a meteorite which often accompanied sun miracles. The red crow in the notes is likened to the "fire crane" the phoenix. That it was a red ochre in colour is just like the pictograph of the thunderbird, the phoenix, done in red ochre powder mixed with animal oil. See a pictograph of the Thunderbird. The Thunderbird looks like a vulture with the dip in the wings. "Nekhbet A goddess portrayed as a vulture. Protrectress of Upper Egypt." "Winged Solar Disk This is a form that the god Horus Behudety (Horus of Edfu) takes in his battles with Seth. The god Thoth used his magic to turn Horus into a sun-disk with splendid outstretched wings. The goddesses Nekhbet and Uazet in the form of uraeus snakes joined him at his side." The Thunderbird was not a natural bird but an angel or god.
Isaiah 6:1 "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly."
Seraphim means fiery serpent or burning ones. Thus perhaps the description of the protectress of Upper Egypt. Thus perhaps also the phoenix has the burning colour red. The fire from heaven could be the colour of God or one of the four beasts as in Ezekiel 1. Then the fire that became the red bird must be the phoenix and the grain in its beak may be the sun. The fire bird or fire crane was also recorded at a sun miracle in 155 BC. The red bird was recorded in the autumn of 1142 BC, Day 1 of 60 - October 9, which may be the sun miracle of Jephthah. The red bird the phoenix. "On day guihai [60], in the evening: on day jia [1] we should perform a bi-sacrifice to the [Northern] Dipper." Heji, 21355 Perhaps this day one was the same day as the sun miracle. Perhaps the Chinese expected a pole shift on this day. This may be evidence of a pole shift as well as the sun moving up or down when there was a sun miracle to keep earth in the same season. Note by Yo (by this 33d year) "King Wan thus for 9 years received the appointment of Heaven; and the empire was not yet secured by him at his death. His plenipotentary authority to punish and attack, in which the will of Heaven might be seen, commenced in this year." Thus this series of four sun miracles beginning October 9 1142 BC may have given king Wan and the people reason to believe he was appointed by Heaven at this time. Then king Wan died 9 years later in 1133 BC. October was near the time of year of the eleventh month January/February when Moses took the land. Thus at this time of year the Ammonites would be moved to take the land back. Thus Jephthah was so inspired to say:
Judges 11:26 "While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?"
This undoubtedly was spoken 100 years. This lunar eclipse must have followed the sun miracle October 9 1141 BC: "35th year of king Wen of Zhou, 1st month, day bingzi 13, during worship of the full moon the king announced, '...eclipse is untimely, you should begin planning for the succession.'" Yi Zhou shu. Xiao kai jie. ch.17 This lunar eclipse on October 17 1141 BC was on the bingzi day 13 and very visible in China. Thus the common, long, chronology of China must be correct. The year given was 1065 BC in the short chronology. You add 76 years to get the date in the common chronology 1141 BC. 76 years to the date of the Chow dynasty 1046 BC to get 1122 BC. Thus at 98 years Jephthah was inspired to say "within one hundred years". Sunday October 9 1142 BC is two days before the Day of Atonement. The Israelites would gather at the tabernacle at Mount Ebal for the feast of tabernacles on October 17 1142 BC. Then Jephthah may have needed the extra daylight or miss the Day of Atonement. Then there would also be a sun miracle Friday April 6 less than a week before the Passover Wednesday April 11 1141 BC. Then another sun miracle on the anniversary October 9 1141 BC during the feast of tabernacles. A sun miracle would give Jephthah 12 more daylight hours to get the victory. Thus Jephthah could take 20 cities in one day, and that God heard him when he vowed:
Judges 11:29 "Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
11:31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
11:32 So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
11:33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel."
Then there would be a series of four sun miracles just as there were from Joshua's long day. Another long day/long night and a short day/short night on April 6 1141 BC and then a long day again on the anniversary October 9 1141 BC.

The brooks of Arnon

Numbers 21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab."
They journed "toward the sunrising" instead of saying towards the east. That is, they may have been in a reverse orbit and the zodiac would be reversed east to west. That is, the sun would progress east to west through the zodiac in a reverse orbit. In the book of wars it should read Reed Sea not Red sea. The fact the same thing was done in the brooks of Arnon points to a miracle, perhaps a sun miracle like there may have been in giving two million Israelites more time to cross the Reed Sea. Then with 2 X 24 hours of elapsed time, the reverse orbit of October 2 1280 BC may have gone on for two years. Thus a second reverse orbit may have been started after October 3 1279 BC with the sun traveling 180° east and a year later the sun moving 180° west and earth flowing out of the reverse orbit. This year of reverse orbit would mean 48 hours of missing time as earth was sped up around the sun to keep 365 days in a year. Thus 48 hours elapsed time and 48 hours missing time to leave no net missing time. Like Arnon is a river the Reed Sea may be the Nile river. Then to determine dates. This battle was after Aaron died in the fifth month and after the 30 days of mourning. Numbers 33:38 "And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month."
So probably in the seventh month. Miriam died in the first month, perhaps also on the first day.
Numbers 20:1 "Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there."
So there may have been a sun miracle when Miriam died and six months later a sun miracle at the battle at the brooks of Arnon. The first day of the first month is a Sabbath, the beginning of the year. Half an orbit later, 187 days later, is the Day of Atonement, the end of the year. Then there must have been a sun miracle in the seventh month the year before in 1241 BC. Perhaps around the Day of Atonement and the feast of tabernacles. Perhaps at the rebellion of the priests of Korah.

Moses' Three Days of Darkness

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Exodus 10:21 "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings."
The start of a reverse orbit can be at any time, but the exit out of the reverse orbit must be exactly half a year or a year or multiples thereof after for earth to reorient and stay in the same season. Just as is the case with Joshua's long day February 25 1238 BC and a long day or night August 31 1238 BC in Israel.
However, if the sun moved 180° west suddenly at noon in Egypt, then stood there at the opposite side of Egypt/earth for 3 X 12 hours moving 540° east with earth's rotation, earth would not need to go into or out of a reverse orbit because the sun would have moved back to where it was and earth continued. Then earth may have already been in a reverse orbit. It appears in an Egyptian text at the time of the Exodus the earth flowed into a reverse orbit this day: "The sun - it has come to pass it riseth not. The winter is come as summer, the months are reversed, and the hours disordered." Papyrus Anastasi IV Then if this was a long night October 2 1280 BC the Egyptians would say the sun riseth not and the winter night sky is become the summer night sky and the signs of the zodiac would progress in reverse and the hours that night would be disordered.
This may have been the setting in 1280 BC with some Israelite farmers already in Palestine. And some two million Israelite slaves in Egypt. Pharaoh Merneptah may be more accurately dated to have reigned from 1289 BC - 1279 BC because of corresponding lunar dates and the records of Hapiru, Hebrew slaves, in Ramses II reign. No eclipse path matches these dates. 'The comment by the author of the quoted paper, Tidal Friction and the Earth’s Rotation, F. R. Stephenson, in summarizing the Ugaritic (cuneiform: 1600 BC - 1180 BC) observation, is "Sun put to shame; went down in daytime, with Mars in attendance"' may have been mistakenly ascribed to an eclipse - this eclipse suggestion from NASA has the eclipse at dawn barely visible in Palestine - and rather this record may be the sun falling from the noon position for Moses for the three days of darkness, the ninth plague of the Exodus, March 28/29 1279 BC:

Mars was above the setting sun March 29 1279 BC. Thus Mars would be in attendance when the sun went down for Moses in the three days of darkness. Far enough from the sun to brighten in the darkened sky when the sun went down suddenly. "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 This could be day 7 of the 10 day week. Thus this could be day 47 March 29 1279 BC at the beginning of the three days of darkness. Or this could be day 6 of the 10 day week Friday March 28 the night beginning day 7. Then day 47 could be at the sudden sunset in China at the beginning of the three days of darkness, rather day 46. Then in Egypt the noon sun would suddenly set on Friday March 28 1279 BC and the Sabbath suddenly begin. This because the evening and morning were the seventh day as in Genesis 1. Thus the sun would suddenly set in Egypt about the time Jesus was crucified Friday noon April 3 33 AD. Then also this three days of darkness of 3X12 hours, 36 hours, may represent the three days Jesus would be in the tomb, from 3 PM Friday to 3AM Sunday. Thus Mars was there setting after the sun, and thus this bright star could be seen near Mars. When there was a sun miracle in spring of 2287 BC a brilliant star issued out of Yih, or Corvus. The bright star in both cases may be the glory of God, the dragon of the day 47 oracle bone inscription to begin the three days of darkness. That is, the dragon was so bright he could be seen through the gathering clouds. The sun was also put to shame in an eclipse July 3 1424 BC at the death of pharaoh Amenhotep III and the rise of pharaoh Akhu En Aten. The eclipse of May 25 1217 BC may have been observable in western China. I asked Xueshun Liu about this eclipse, he said: "As for "the solar eclipse May 26 1217 BC": the site does not provides any reference at all. Its style and content show that is not an academic website. Without any reference, there is no way to verify what they are talking about."
Xueshun tells me about a solar eclipse on a day 10: "About that solar eclipse, it was an opinion proposed by Dong Zuobin in 1940s. He based his conclusion on the following inscription: On guiyou (day 10), (the king) divined: "the sun and moon were eclipsed. This does not means there will be any disasters." It appears that there is no definite date for the eclipse. Its date is not sure at all." The Chinese cycle of 60 was out 1 day at that time. So May 25 1217 BC must be day 10. There was no eclipse on May 26 1217 BC so day 10 must be 1 day earlier May 25 1217 BC. Then the days of 60 were still out one day in 1217 BC. Thus the three days of darkness could be day 47 Saturday March 29 1279 BC. Merneptah may have been the pharaoh that died just before God spoke to Moses. Then his son Messuwy may have been the pharaoh of the Exodus. The sun should stand still in the Pacific October 1 1280 BC. Then the sun should set in the west suddenly at noon perhaps Saturday March 29 in Egypt when Moses stretched forth his hands and stay in the Pacific for the three days of darkness. Then the sun should stand still October 5 1279 again. March 30 1279 BC is day 47 of 60. However, the days of 60 may have been missing 1 day at that time if the lunar eclipse on day 56 was August 12 1269 BC. Thus the day 47 when a dragon appeared in the form of a rainbow when the sun was setting in China may when the sun set at noon in Egypt for Moses to begin the three days of darkness of Exodus. Then this day 47 would rather be Saturday March 29 1279 BC. Thus the children of Israel would rest on the Sabbath Saturday inside with light in their dwellings while Egypt was in total darkness. Most important, this series of sun miracles are almost exactly the same as the series of four sun miracles beginning with Joshua's long day. Thus earth would be in a reverse orbit when God spoke to Moses. Pharaoh Merneptah would have sought Moses' life as would Pharaoh Ramses II and be dead when God spoke to Moses. Then Merneptah's son Messuwy would be the likely successor for the next few months going into Exodus. Or the pharaoh of Exodus is totally unknown. There was no immediate successor to Merneptah on record. Seti II was supposed to have reigned right after Merneptah. However, I doubt that. Amenmesse ruled Egypt in Seti II's 3rd and 4th year. This indicates to me Seti II may not have been the immediate successor to Merneptah. Seti II gained the throne not long after Merneptah's death. However, there is a period of perhaps months when an unknown pharaoh may have became king of Egypt for the month of the plagues of Exodus. And after he died in the Reed Sea Seti II became pharaoh. Then the three days darkness and the months still reversed from October 1 1280 BC and Egypt destroyed as in the Papyrus Anastasi IV. Eclipse records are not certain before Joshua's long day on February 26 1238 BC. Joshua's long day should not have made a missing day in the days of 60. However, sun miracles come in a series of 4. And sometimes China would see a short day when the sun suddenly rose and set in a few hours and not counted it as a day even though daily coral lines did and God meant it to be counted. There are days of 60 that match the eclipse records before 1217 BC. However, we cannot be sure that these records are these eclipses because of a number of serious problems with the calendar months. That is these eclipse records could not be on the days of 60 because they are in the wrong month. Then there is no reason not to believe there were missing days and August 12 1269 BC was day 56. So that is one missing day in the cycle of 60. Many sun miracles, not one. Yet if the Chinese only counted a day when the sun rose in the east they would be right. With all the sun miracles and missing only one day is pretty accurate record keeping. "on day 10..the sun was eclipsed in the evening.. is it good?..is it bad? In the eighth month (April/May)" Heji 33694 April/May may be the time of the Passover or Pentecost. The solar eclipse in 1217 BC may be the right one. The days of 60 may have been out 1 day at the time if August 12 1269 was day 56 in the 12th month, the correct month. Thus day 10 would be May 25 1217 BC. And also, this eclipse could have been visible in western China just before or just after sunset. Visible because the twilight of evening would have suddenly darkened. Evening in China is after sunset.
Perhaps the night of October 1 1280 BC:
Exodus 2:23 "And it came to pass in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of their bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And God looked upon the children of Israel and God had respect unto them."
Then earth would be in a reverse orbit and the Hebrews conscious of this sign from God about when God called Moses. That is, if the three days of darkness has the same pattern of sun miracles as Joshua's long day there should have been a sun miracle six months before the day of Exodus out of Egypt, a long night. Joseph's rose to governor over Egypt at the same time as there was a sun miracle in 2356 BC. The sun stood still for 9 days. Perhaps the sun stood still when Joseph was made governor over Egypt and that day made a long day for Joseph to go out into Egypt and the people to make obeisance unto him.
Genesis 41:42 "And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.
43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt."
The Sojourn into Egypt from 2348 BC to 1279 BC was 1069 years. And the Exodus on Friday night April 4 1279 BC was the same Egyptian 14th day of the moon also a Friday April 3 2348 BC when the Sothis 430th new year began and Jacob entered Egypt to begin this long Sojourn.
There may have been other sun miracles in Egypt where earth went into a reverse orbit: From the tomb of Horemheb "Harakhte, only god, king of the gods; he rises in the west, he sends his beauty.." Perhaps the sun moved 180° east to appear to stand still on the western horizen and earth's forward momentum carried it into a reverse orbit. "About 1920, Forrer discovered on a clay tablet from Boghazkoi, the description of a solar eclipse observed in the tenth year of King Mursilis II when he was breaking up a winter camp preparing for a spring campaign". "Omen of the Sun" - so sinister that the dowager queen, Tawanna, interpreted it as portending the eminent disaster of the entire royal house. The "The Omen of the Sun" the Hittite king Murshilish probably wrote this about 1395 - 1390 BC. There was an invasion of Hapiru into Canaan then, perhaps those that were the 40th generation of the Sojourn into Egypt as God had promised Abraham: "Abdi-Heba, the Egyptian vassal ruler of Jerusalem in the Amarna period (mid-1330s BC - rather 1400 BC), wrote a series of letters to the Egyptian king in which he complained about the activities of the "Habiru." The Habiru were plundering the lands of the king. Abdi-Heba wanted to know why the king was letting them behave in this way; why was he not sending archers to protect his, the king's properties? If he did not send military help the whole land would fall to the Habiru." Wikipedia "The king inspected the bone and said: "A disaster will happen." Eight days later, on the day gengxu (47), clouds came from the east, and the sky became overcast. As the sun was setting, a dragon in the shape of a rainbow appeared in the north, and drank from the Yellow River." The Chinese Language, Its History and Current Usage, P.80.
- you can see the dragon/rainbow in the center and the dragon drinking. The dragon's rainbow is different than the character for rainbow, with a dragon head at each end. Above the rainbow the character looks like a foot getting out of a pit and it means to come out/appear. Thus the dragon came out and appeared in the shape of a rainbow. That is, when the dragon appeared in China he was very bright. So when they saw him through the clouds they would see a glowing rainbow around him and say that was the dragon! Often just before the dragon appeared clouds came. Yet they could see the dragon through the clouds because he was so bright. "On day xinhai [48]; we should perform a gao reporting rite about the Dragon to Fu Ding using one ox." Heji, 32679 This may be the day after they saw the dragon on day 47. "In the shanhai jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) there is a myth about the God Zhulong (Shining Dragon). Shining dragon is said to be a thousand li long and that his red body wreathed like a snake. It was daytime when he opened his eyes, but night came when he closed them again. He did not eat or sleep and his light shone dimly but grandly in the north." East Asian Archaeology, p.184. "The sage said, 'When a flying dragon is in heaven, it brings profit to meet a great man.'" The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII, p.249. The Chinese developed such detailed and accurate records in astronomy because they were looking for such omens as dragons, and saw them. Nevertheless, the king in 100 BC despaired looking for them. Because there were so many records of these angels he wanted to see one himself. Angels were not seen everytime there was a sun miracle. Nevertheless in 100 BC the legend of the ascention of the yellow emperor on a dragon at the sun miracle in 2598 BC was recounted. Thus the reason for recounting it may have been a sun miracle in 100 BC.
Psalm 18:7 "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them."
David described God the way the Chinese described the dragon, the dragon horse. The dragon horse may be one of the four beasts before God's throne.
3:8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
Notice the flared nostrils of these race horses:

"He flew upon the wings of the wind." There were often strong winds when there was a sun miracle. Also, the dragon moved very quickly, like a flash and was hard to catch sight of. "At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed". Hail stones and earthquakes were often recorded with sun miracles. The Chinese wrote that thick clouds came out of the dragon's nostrils. The reason clouds and rain came when the dragon appeared to hide his brightness.
Ezekiel 1:1 "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake."

Revelation 4:1 "After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
"The 1596 CE Bencao gangmu Chinese materia medica describes the shen or chen ? under the jiaolong entry, with quotes from the Yueling and Lu Dian's Piya.
A kind of crocodile shaped like a huge serpent. Horned like a dragon, with a red mane. Below the middle of the back it has scales inversely arranged. It lives on swallows. It spurts forth clouds of vapour in huge rings. It appears when it is going to rain."
Many rainbows occur in Chuci descriptions of shamanic "flights" through the skies, frequently in contexts with other dragons, for instance (Hawkes 1985:290): "To hang at my girdle the coiling Green Dragon, To wear at my belt the sinuous rainbow serpent.." This mythical Green or Azure Dragon ruling the eastern sky and the Vermilion Bird ruling the southern sky reoccur (8, tr. Hawkes 1985:217) with baini "Bright rainbows darting swiftly in the traces".
God might not want to be seen and send clouds to hide his glory. Yet his brightness would shine through and his glory cause this rainbow.
"Crack-making on bingshen (day 33), Que divined: "The coming yisi (day 42) day, (we should) conduct a you-cutting sacrifice to Xiayi. The king prognosticated cracks and declared: we will perform the you-cutting sacrifice. But there might be a hex. There may happen to be some unusual phenomenon. On the yisi (day 42), the you-cutting sacrifice was performed. At dawn, it rained. When decapitating, it rained completely. When finishing the decapitating, it also rained. We disemboweled and split open sacrificial animals to offer sacrifice to the Bird Star. Heji 11497" This could have been a prediction of rain the day the sun was expected to return during a reverse orbit. There could have been a year of a reverse orbit before the three days of darkness in Egypt in Exodus. Thus, this record could depict a sun miracle October 2 1281 BC. Then with earth in a reverse orbit the sun should return 178 days later March 28 1280 BC. Then to hide this sun miracle from China records there could have been rain all that day. Moreover, this Bird Star is Neaou, the star that marked the vernal equinox in Yao's Canon. The vernal equinox in 1280 BC was April 1. This Neaou is the phoenix star. Moreover, the Bird Star may appear the night following the sun miracle March 28 1280 BC. That night earth would flow out of the reverse orbit for a few hours before the second reverse orbit started. Thus the Bird Star may appear March 28 1280 BC even if in a reverse orbit. Moreover, Yao could correctly identify Neaou with spring in a reverse orbit because the star should appear briefly between reverse orbits. Like the night of August 31/September 1 1238 BC between reverse orbits.
Likewise the whirlwind which accompanied sun miracles. Likewise the fire like the fire star of the azure (green) dragon.
Ezekiel 1:4 "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire."
"In his 26th year, an azure rainbow was seen in Tsin." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.66. This was in 493 BC and the emperor was King King who reigned from 518 BC to 474 BC. See what an azure rainbow may look like or 2, only God would be the center not the sun. There may have been a sun miracle for the Jews in Esther in 474 BC. Thus this may have been reason to change emperors at this time in 474 BC. This was in the twelfth year since the Israelites returned from exile. This was King Darius' 20th year when Ptolemy reported there was a lunar eclipse. The original may have rather been a sun miracle. Likewise the lunar eclipse in King Darius' 31st year may have been a sun miracle in a series of 4 associated with 480 BC. King Darius' first year must have been 509 BC. Darius the king of Persia is a different person than Darius the Mede in Daniel. Also, 493 BC was 1400 years after ten suns appeared together in 1892 BC. Azure is green and this green rainbow may be the emerald rainbow around the throne. The jade Bi, round disc with a hole in the middle, that Shun sacrificed after a sun miracle may have been an emblem of the emerald green rainbow around the throne. You can see the emerald is a blue/green azure colour in comparison to this jade phoenix from China 1765 BC - 1122 BC. Note the crown. The Chinese word for jade means blue/green:

"Long ago when Ching K'o admired Tan of Yen's priciples, a white rainbow pierced the sun.." 230 BC. Notes: "the same phenomenon occurred after Nieh Cheng killed Han K'uei." 397 BC The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII, p.287. Perhaps this azure rainbow was as bright as the sun and sometimes looked white. A white rainbow that pierced the sun must come from another light source and be brighter than the sun, perhaps the dragon. A few pages later, p.297: "If we look closely at his aspirations, they could even contend with the sun and moon for glory." He begins talking about T'ang, (Wan), and Wu who were noted for their glory like the glory of the sun and moon. Then possibly the glory of God exceeded the brightness of the sun and moon. 397 BC was soon after Malachi wrote about sun miracles in 420 BC.
The chariot of the sun may have been depicted as this dragon with wheels appearing when there was a sun miracle. Thus the yellow horse dragon could be depicted carrying the chariot of the sun.
The 30th year may be the 5th year of exile. Which may be June 30 582 BC or June 18 581 BC, the fifth day of the fourth month in the fifth year counting from Zedekiah's first of 11 years to 575 BC. This would be about the time of the summer solstice. A sun miracle then would not require a series of four sun miracles. Rather just one more sun miracle at the winter solstice for earth to reorient and flow out of the reverse orbit. Thus this record could be the record of a sun miracle as well. The sun miracle on the ninth day of the fourth month when Jerusalem was taken should be Sunday June 17 575 BC or Sunday May 19 575 BC.
The significance of day 47 if not an eclipse must be a sun miracle. The rainbow may refer to the glory of an angel of God. If we count the 1 missing day, day 47 at the time of Exodus would be Friday March 28 1279 BC because 1279 BC had a February 29 leap year. That is, Friday at sunset began the Sabbath just as Jesus was crucified on Friday sunset began the Passover. Then the first sun miracle half an orbit before would be Tuesday night October 1 1280 BC and half an orbit after would be noon Friday October 3 1279 BC in Egypt. March 28 1279 BC is near the new moon so as to give complete darkness to Egypt. October 3 1279 BC would be just as the feast of tabernacles was to begin. The children of Israel would not need the feast of tabernacles to help them remember they were wandering in the wilderness because if they had heeded the call of Joshua and Caleb they would be going into the land to possess it. This record of a rainbow may not be a typical rainbow. Rather the rainbow may be the glory of the angel of the sun making the sun set on China and may be the sun suddenly setting in the west from the noon position in Egypt for Moses to begin the three days of darkness.

- Likewise this rainbow depicted above an elk by Native Americans thousands of years ago may depict a sun miracle. The rainbow may be the emerald green rainbow around God's throne. The azure rainbow. Likewise, the rainbow after Noah's flood may have depicted a sun miracle also. That is, Noah's rainbow may have been this azure rainbow. Nevertheless, Noah's rainbow was directly connected to the rain and flood. The promise with every common rainbow. The sun miracle may have happened thousands of years previous, retold in legends, before being depicted on this cliff. The Salish Indians depicted the Big dipper as an elk chased by three hunters. The elk may have been the Chinese qilin, unicorn, perhaps known to the Asian settlers when they crossed the Bering Strait in Alaska. The elk may symbolize the phoenix, like the Chinese unicorn and Feng bird with legs of a stag. The horn of the unicorn, qilin, may be the crown of one of the four beasts before God's throne. Just as the comb of the phoenix may be its crown also. Thus the likeness to a rooster that sings as the sun rises. The song of the phoenix as the sun rises in a sun miracle. The ox in Ezekiel 1 or calf in Revelation 4 may be the unicorn or q'lin of the Chinese. Even the golden calf Aaron made instead of worshiping the invisible God in spirit and in truth, may have depicted one of the four beasts before God's throne. The calf reminding them of sacrifice. Perhaps the beast they may have seen that moved the sun to begin the three days of darkness.
Exodus 32:4 "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
However, they may have been thinking of the Egyptian bull of heaven around the pole star that was slain every time there was a sun miracle. There is also a similar pictograph to the left of this one depicting a deer with long horns now covered in lichen. Then theme depicted on this cliff may go back thousands of years. The ambiguous pictograph below the elk and rainbow is of a strong man running. The piece had fallen off and when fitted in you can make out the man as in this drawing. Perhaps symbolic of the sun as in Psalm 19:5 "as a strong man to run a race".
To the right of this elk and rainbow you can see two partial eclipses, lunar or solar, depicted on the sun or moon on the left, 40% at the top and another eclipse 40% at the bottom. The spikes represent the zodiac the sun passes through, just like sun one and sun two nearby. Natives used chalcedony such as a piece I found locally to see partial solar eclipses through a chip they carved out. The chalcedony is a smoky color, ideal for viewing the sun, like what modern eyepieces to solar telescopes use. What is dangerous is the infrared light that will burn a hole in your retina, light you cannot see. It works much as this local brown glass piece does. Nevertheless, when there was a sun miracle the heat or infra red light from the sun may have been blocked. Thus ancient people were free to look for the phoenix when there was a sun miracle without harm to their eyes. A 40% solar eclipse does not change the amount of light from the sun to a discernable amount. I observed a 40% solar eclipse that was not noticeable except to look at the sun through a solar filter. Nevertheless, a partial solar eclipse is discernable on the forest floor with many half circle sun beams coming from pinpoints of light above. A lunar eclipse would be very noticeable. You can see the rest of this pictograph - an elk, rainbow, lines/lunar months/years, a sun or moon being eclipsed - There appear 20+ lines perhaps depicting 20+ years. Eclipses seem to come in 18 year cycles. There were three lunar eclipses at 2 AM Pacific Time in 1247 BC 22 years after this Chinese record in 1269 BC. Then these records could be the same if Native records go back this far, at least they probably demonstrate the same pattern depicted by these two eclipses. Thus the elk is rather a depiction of a Native phoenix associated with eclipses and sun miracles. This depiction of an eclipse looks similar to the Chinese character for a foot getting out of a pit in the oracle bone above.
- More about this oracle bone which belongs to King Wuding of Shang. The depiction of an eclipse above may be like the dragon's foot getting out of a pit likened to the earth's shadow on the moon. However, I have not found any lunar or solar eclipses on day 47 in Wuding's reign. King Wuding reigned 58 years from about 1327 BC to 1269 BC. Thus the king at the time of the lunar eclipse on August 12 1269 BC was Wuding. Then rather the common chronology - long chronology must be correct. The rest of the oracle bone on the upper left translated by Xueshun Liu: 'Crack-making on day gui-hai, diviner Que divined: "There will be no disaster during next ten days." The king inspected the crack and said: "Maybe, there also will be a disaster. On the fifth day, ding-mao, Prince went to X, Y (meaning unknown). The king inspected the crack and said: "Like you said, (somebody) will not die."' Perhaps this dragon was a sun miracle, the sign to the Hebrew slaves when pharaoh Ramses II died in 1289 BC. Or perhaps a sun miracle at the beginning of a new Sothis cycle in 1320 BC Moses may have mistakenly taken as a sign to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. A dragon is the same as a phoenix usually signifying a sun miracle. Notice the sun in the setting position for there to be a rainbow. The same position the sun would be in China when the sun was standing still at noon on Israel for Joshua many years later. Perhaps the sun was standing still at the 11 AM position in Egypt, a sign to the Hebrew slaves. A rainbow may remain for hours if the sun stood still above the horizon, thus a connection between a rainbow and the dragon. A rainbow can only last minutes naturally as the sun continues to set. Also low river levels were often associated with sun miracles and drought. Thus the dragon drank from the Yellow River.
See this inscription for day 41 on an Oracle Bone: "On guimao (day 40), diviner Zheng divined: "There would be no disasters during next ten days." On jiachen (day 41), (there was) strong wind. (During the short time period) from that night to yisi (day 42), five people escaped. (It was in the) fifth month (January). (It was divined) at X. ". Zheng from 1324 BC to 1269 BC. Strong winds were often recorded with sun miracles. Winds this strong are what to look for. The five planets were known as the five old men. It is possible what was meant was the five planets escaped when the sun moved. Jesus may have been born in late January. Thus, the possibility of this being a sun miracle foretelling his coming. The year is not known. Nevertheless, half a year/orbit after day 41, 186 days later, is day 47 and may be the second correcting sun miracle. On day 47 "As the sun was setting, a dragon in the shape of a rainbow appeared in the north, and drank from the Yellow River." Strong winds are associated with sun miracles, such as with Joshua's long day as recorded in king Wan's dream. - Likewise another record for the month of August: Crack-making on guiwei (20), Que divined: "today, there will not be wind." (It was in) the 12th month. Xueshun Liu: "The last character on this rubbing is the character feng. It clearly is the image of a bird. Many people think this graph is the image of the phoenix. The whole inscription is not complete and its meaning is not really clear." Thus you can see the Feng bird the phoenix looks like a Y, like a bird flying straight up. The inscription could read "today, there will be no phoenix." This was the 12th month July/August. Perhaps earth was already in a reverse orbit, the reverse orbit of 1279 BC, and not near the half orbit mark when the sun must return. Thus there could be no sun miracle during a reverse orbit. Likewise you can see the word Feng in the inscription on your right - Xueshun: Crack-making on guimao (40), Bin divined: "(The king would do something to) pacify (the spirit of the) wind."
Thus some believe the wind and the phoenix are related. A strong wind was recorded in Liu Pang's victory song:
"A great wind arose, clouds flew up!
My prestige increasing within the seas, I return to my hometown.
But where will I find valiant warriors to hold the four directions?"
'Surrounded by those who helped him take the four directions in the first place, this is a strange inquiry.'
The Grand Scribe's Records, volume II, p.94 The third month of 203 BC. Perhaps about the time of the Passover. 204 BC August 14 - September 12: "3rd year of Emperor Gaozu of Han, 7th month. A fuzzy star appeared (xing bo) in Dajiao for over ten days before going out of sight." East Asian Archaeology, p. 129. Perhaps there was a sun miracle in August/September 204 BC and earth had flowed into a reverse orbit of the sun. Thus the need to find the four directions.
"Thereupon, he ordered the officials in charge of offerings to sacrifice to Heaven, earth, the four directions, Shang-ti (The Supreme Deity), the mountains and the rivers. The sacrifices were to be made according to the proper times." July/August 205 BC. The Grand Scribe's Records, volume II, p.51
The same thing happened in Shun's 14th year "auspicious clouds appeared; and he ordered Yu to consult about affairs for him." "They were like smoke, and yet not smoke; like clouds and yet not clouds; brilliantly confused; twisting and whirling..the eight winds blew genially, and other felicitous clouds collected in masses." The Chinese Classics, p.115, 116. Sometimes the clouds were red and green when the phoenix was seen. Perhaps the northern lights were active during a sun miracle. But they would not be seen in daylight. That they were felicitous means they were blessed and looked for when there was a sun miracle.
The first emperor of the Shang dynasty 1765 BC came after a series of sun miracles 1807 BC and 1788 BC: "She saw a white vapour go through the moon; was moved to pregnancy; and on the day Yih bore T'ang, who was therefore styled T'een-yih." The Chinese Classics III, The dynasty of Shang, p.128 That this vapour was so notable may have been a cloud going before and covering the dragon passing on the other side of the moon. This may be the LORD:
Exodus 13:21 "And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people."

Liu Pang, Liu Bang, Liu Chi; the same person, had this victory in 203 BC when there may have been a sun miracle and earth flowed out of a reverse orbit - no more need to determine the stars that marked the four seasons as Yao did in Yao's Canon because everything was back to normal. The first August emperor of China 221 BC: "Let the tenth month be in future the first in the year instead of the eleventh" "That is to say he took as the civil first month the twelfth astronomical month or that in which the sun enters Sagittarius". Then the tenth month would be November/December. There was an emanation in the tenth month in 210 BC seven years earlier. A sun reverse orbit from May to November would leave more than 8 minutes in missing time. Then a sun miracle from November to May would counter that 8 minutes and eclipse paths across earth's face. Thus a second reverse orbit at the same time of year may counter the missing time from the first one. 1279 BC - 1069 years of the Sojourn from the Exodus = 210 BC. This was thought to predict that Liu Pang would become emperor. The first August emperor of Ch'in once said "To the southeast there is an emanation of a Son of Heaven" and went to repress it. Note: "Just before the banquet at Hung-men, Fan Tseng also recognized that the emanation about Liu Pang indicated he could become emperor and urged Hsiang Yu to kill him." The sun must move back on the same date or half year. Often a sun miracle on the day of Pentecost was followed by one in November/December half a year later. Thus the sun may have moved back in the tenth month of 203 BC also. I saw the Xiang River in Hunan, a wide river of 200 feet with large barges slowly going up it. The largest river in Hunan. Liu Pang attacked Hsiang Yu while crossing this river near Changsha in 203 BC when he got this victory. In contrast Joshua parted the river Jordan and Israel crossed on foot. There was a sun miracle in 230 BC that needs a counterpart just before or just after when the sun moves back and earth flows out of the reverse orbit. A reverse orbit in 221 BC may have made the calendar change more difficult to tie the months to the constellations. Perhaps there was a sun miracle both at the feast of Pentecost in 210 BC and again half an orbit later in November and likewise at the feast of Pentecost in 203 BC and half an orbit later in November. Here is a link to a Roman coin with Aquila or a phoenix 211 BC - 208 BC. "In his (King Zhao) 19th year, in the spring, a comet appeared in the space Tsze-mei. The duke of Tse and the baron of Sin followed the king against Ts'oo. The heavens were dark and tempestuous. Peasants and Hares were terrified. The king's six armies perished in the Han. The king died." The Chinese Classics III, The annals of the Bamboo Books, p.149. "The last year of King Zhao of Zhou. In the night a multi-coloured light penetrated Ziwei. In this year the King inspected the southern regions and did not return." East Asian Archeaology, p.188. The word for tempestuous is windy. On a sun miracle it was often recorded as being windy. The word for dark is extraordinarily dark. The northern lights do not necessarily accompany a solar eclipse. However, they may accompany a sun miracle as they did a number of times. This probably was 1033 BC when there was no such eclipse. The seventh month is September of 1033 BC. Thus the Day of Atonement may have been Tuesday October 7 on the Autumnal equinox. Thus if there was a sun miracle then earth would not have to shift to keep in the same season. Then the fifteenth day a Sabbath day was on Sunday October 12 and the eighth day a Sabbath was on Sunday October 19. This event and the king's death must have been at the end of the year. "In his first year, in the spring, in the first month, after he came to the throne.." Thus this event could have been a sun miracle at the completion of the first temple October 1033 BC. The comet in the spring of 1033 BC may have been the dragon, the glory of God. Thus there could have been a sun miracle six months earlier in March/April, then 187 days later two sun miracles that same day in October. Then a fourth sun miracle in spring again one year later, and eclipse paths on the face of the earth would be back to normal. Again armies crossing the river were attacked and defeated, probably assisted in a sudden sunset sun miracle. The king before King Zhao was King Kang. If this was at his death October 8 day 56 1051 BC, this would be on the Sabbath the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. Like October 1033 BC October 8 1051 BC on the feast day could be a time for a sun miracle. Thus King Kang would be deposed that day. The same "the heavens were dark and tempestuous" was recorded in King Dixin's reign, 1173 BC to 1122 BC. The last king of the Shang dynasty. There were two sun miracles recorded at the end of his reign in 1126 BC and 1122 BC. So a short day in the series of four sun miracles would be expected then. Also, there probably was a sun miracle in about 1140 BC when Jephthah conquered the Amorites about 100 years after Moses did on December 31 1240 or January 1 1239 BC.
Mao Tze-Tung used this tactic crossing the river in his tactical retreat also leading to his victory of China. "The 4th Regiment of the communist 2nd Brigade at Flowing Water Ditch (Liu Shui Gou, ???) crossing point was in the process of crossing when the nationalist 16th Brigade of the 75th Division reached the crossing point, but under the cover of the 8th Regiment of the communist 3rd Brigade on the eastern bank, the 4th Regiment of the communist 2nd Brigade was able to complete the crossing."
Exodus 2:23 "And it came to pass in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them."
God waited until he heard their cry and he had a plan all worked out when he talked to Abraham. Perhaps this means there was a sign, a sun miracle, then. Moses may have taken the beginning of the new 1460 year Sothis period in 1320 BC and that he was the fortieth generation of the sojourn into Egypt from April 3 2348 BC as a sign he should lead the children of Israel out of Egypt when he was 40 in 1319 BC. There are 969 years from the sun miracle in 2287 BC to 1318 BC, or rather December 2288 BC to 1319 BC. Moses may have taken this 969 years from Joseph when he was 100 to 1319 BC to be the time God had intended the Exodus to be. Thus he would be correct in the 1069 year period only it should be from the Sojourn in 2348 BC. There is the horoscope of Unas depicted in Ramses II's tomb 1289 BC which may suggest a reverse orbit/zodiac in Ramses II's life time as in the seven years of plenty of Joseph for pharaoh Unas 2357 and 2350 BC as depicted by Yao in China. In Yao's 7th year there was a unicorn, 2350 BC. Moses was born in 1359 BC 1000 years after Joseph was imprisoned by Pharaoh in 2358 BC. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt when he was 80 in April 4, 1279 BC on the Passover on the same day they entered Egypt April 3, 2348 BC.
Exodus 10:21 "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:"
Egypt and half of earth in darkness three days 3 X 12 hours. China would see a sudden eclipse (sudden sunset and sudden darkness) at sunset in China which they recorded on day 47 March 28 1279 BC. Then the sun must have suddenly rose on the Pacific and stood over the Pacific for the 36 hours, moving 540° with earth's rotation giving daylight for the Polynesians to build their houses. The 36 hours may represent the time Jesus was in the tomb before his resurrection. There are 12 hours in a day, thus 3 X 12 hours = 36 hours. From 3PM Friday to 3AM Sunday. The sudden sunset in Egypt may represent the three hours the sun was darkened while Jesus was on the cross from noon to 3 PM. Thus the 36 hours to his resurrection from 3 PM Friday to 3 AM Sunday. The Chinese would see the sun stand still just over the eastern horizen for 36 hours - exactly 180° from Egypt.
Psalm 105:27 "They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word."
"In ancient Egypt the king, the representative of the sun on earth, would walk around the walls of the temple to ensure that the sun maintained its steady progress through the skies without eclipse or other mishap."Many Moons You can see the people after three days of darkness realizing pharaoh was no god, that the god of the Hebrews is God. "On the ceiling of Pharaoh Seti I - Osiris-Sah, participating in the nightly westward motion of the sky, is running away from Isis-Sepdet; he turns his head back eastward to look at the pursuing goddess; the bow of her boat is almost ramming the stern of his. With the reversed orientation of the southern panel, Orion, the most conspicuous constellation of the southern sky, appeared to be moving eastward, i.e., in the wrong direction." A. Pogo "Isis" 1930. Pharaoh or Orion is waving back at Taurus moving in reverse with Sirius just ahead. Orion normally appears to move westward each night eventually disappearing into the sun. In a reverse orbit Orion would still set in the west each night. However, as the year progressed Orion would gradually move east. Perhaps the sun just having been 180° in Virgo in February and moving in reverse (actually earth in the reverse orbit) towards Sirius, then moving 180° to Pisces, lodging there in February like usual and earth orbit the sun as usual. Seti I may have died in 1355 BC and this be the sun moving 180° back and earth reorienting and flowing out of the reverse orbit it entered about 1390 BC. The sun may have moved back on the new moon February 23 1355 BC. The moon is in the same phase on the same date every 19 years. 4 X 19 = 76 years. Many date Seti I's death 38 years earlier than 1279 BC because 2 X 19 = 38 years and lunar phases match dates. So dating Seti I's death just this 38 years earlier still, 76 years earlier than 1279 BC should not seem out of line. Perhaps a sun miracle February 23 1355 BC was a forewarning of the three days of darkness on February 23 1279 BC and the Exodus to come. Lunar months match the Egyptian fixed months of the year in the year Seti I died 1355 BC and the year Merneptah died 1279 BC and perhaps the sun miracles match the same dates also. If Merneptah had died about October 1280 BC or at least February 1279 BC and Messuwy became the Pharaoh of Exodus this would explain Egypt's sharp decline and anarchy from that time of the 10 plagues of Exodus, lack of slaves, and explain the gap of 76 or 38 years of lack of history in the period following 1279 BC. Lack of history from a dark age. This would bring Merneptah's death from 1203 BC to 1280/1279 BC. Pharaoh let the Israelites go when his son died. "The only objects from Messuwy's tomb which identified a pharaoh all named Merneptah." Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenemses Perhaps because Messuwy had been pharaoh for such a short time and was associated with the destruction of Egypt. In any case if Messuwy was the Pharaoh of the Exodus his death in 1279 BC was not natural.
("Red Sea" is the identification given to the sea since the Septuagint.) Osiris, Orion, represents the dead past pharaoh. Isis-Sepdet represents the star Sirius and is facing counterclockwise. This celestial ceiling of Pharaoh Seti I depicts a typical shift for February or August. Thus August may be a possibility when the sun was in Taurus. The Bull's tail is being grabbed at its end, a symbol for the pole star. The pole star was just above the bull in 1355 BC. A man is measuring the span between the pole star at the tail of the bull and the severed leg of the bull where the pole star had been. This span is supposed to be the difference of hundreds of years of precession, say from Thuban, which was the exact pole star in 2750 BC (the same time as the new Sothis cycle beginning July 16 2777 BC when also the seasonal calendar matched the Sothis calendar because the beginning of the year July 16 was the summer solstice then. Dubhe had a supernova in 2700 BC which is the star on the upper right of the Big Dipper, the lip pointing to Polaris.), to this SAO 7814, the pole star in 1355 BC BC. However, the distance being measured is from the pole to the severed leg of the bull rather depicting a pole shift and may rather be much farther up. If the sun had moved 180° February 1395 - 1390 BC and earth must have shifted 70° (2° X 35 days from the vernal equinox) in forward precession to keep in the same February season then perhaps the sun moved 180° on pharaoh Seti I's death 1355 BC about February. Or if the sun had moved 180° in June when the sun would have been in Taurus earth must shift about 180° to about Vega, also above the Big Dipper. Then the pole must shift to the 4000 AD position (70°/ precession per century (360/258) = 5300 years) or 13,000 years backward or forward in precession to Vega and back again. Thus the span being measured may be from the 4000 AD pole star Gamma Cepheus back to the normal pole position the year of Seti I's death, 1355 BC. Or it may be the span to and from Vega.
The tail of the Big Dipper points west as depicted at 7:30PM on the autumnal equinox. The Big Dipper was the severed leg of the bull. In this reverse orbit the Big Dipper, the severed thigh of the bull, would appear thus at 7:30PM in February just before the sun miracle perhaps marking pharaoh Seti I's death perhaps February or August 1355 BC. The sun just having been in Libra in January at sunset - where the tail of the Big Dipper points. Of all the Chinese constellations, only the Big Dipper is the same as ours. The Big Dipper was the domain of Shangdi, God, to the Chinese. "The Dipper was the throne of Shang Di, the High Lord, the supreme deity in the Chinese pantheon, and the handle indicated the focus of his power." Thus the handle of the Big Dipper pointing to Arcturus culminating at midnight late winter/early spring in 4 BC would also be the sign to the Chinese of the coming of a King, the Christ. Thus also, when there was a sun miracle and earth shifted to keep in the same season, the Big Dipper is the region where the pole position would shift up and down and away from. Emperor Shun sacrificed a Bi in the Lo river to Shang di when there was a sun miracle, January 26 2284 BC.
Amos 5:8a "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion,"
The seven stars must be Pleiades, the brightest star cluster in the sky, just to the upper right of Orion. Orion and the Pleiades may have appeared in the south when the sun was darkened for three hours from 12PM to 3PM when Jesus was on the cross. Nevertheless the sky must be very dark in order to see the Pleiades and the sun was just to the right of Pleiades April 3 33 AD. Galaxies from the beginning of the creation as seen by the Hubble are seen just south of Orion. Also, when earth shifted more of the chambers of the south were visible. The constellations below Pisces and Aquarius.
Job 9:7a "Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not;"
9 "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number."
God made the stars, God made the universe. How he did it is past finding out and these sun miracles can hardly be numbered.
Here you can see the relative size of the sun compared to earth.
Here you can see the relative size of the sun compared to Arcturus.
Here you see the relative size of the sun with the star Antares or Ho, Huo, in Chinese.

The sun may have moved 180° in February 1390 BC then 180° back, February or August, perhaps on pharaoh Seti I's death 1355 BC. The deceased pharaoh was imagined to become the pole star, thus its importance in this celestial ceiling. The sun likely moved back 180° and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit in Seti I's lifetime. Then the sun must move back to Aquarius from Virgo/Leo, perhaps the significance of the stars around what appears to be Leo the lion. The Chinese record a lunar eclipse on the night of a day 9. This is a separate record from the Chinese record of the sun being eclipsed in the evening on a day 10. They also record "Crack-making on wuxu (day 35), Nei (divined): "(We should) call on Que to sacrifice a specially reared sheep to the rising sun and the setting sun." Heji 6572 Aries, the Ram, normally marked the month of Nisan. Perhaps earth flowed out of a reverse orbit then, the sun in Virgo/Leo then in Aquarius/Pisces. Perhaps one reason for the two new years, year in Hebrew means double, in the Bible was sometimes when the sun moved 180° in Nisan, Spring, the sun then moved 180° in Tishri, Fall, such as it must have for Joshua February 25 1238 BC and Barak and Debrah August 31 1238 BC. From beginning of months of the lunar month Nisan is exactAtonementAtonemently half a year to the 10th day of the seventh lunar month the Day of Atonement. There is more to this oracle bone: "On day 56, when the night cut the day 57, the moon was eclipsed..On the 22 day when the night cut the day 23, there indeed came a curse. There was incoming trouble." The Day of Atonement was the day 22; September 26 1238 BC 116 years before the fall of the Shang dynasty. However we need more than 140 years. All we know was this was in King Wuding's reign, before 1268 BC, and this was the 12th month about August and the 56th day. Or this could be half an orbit after the Exodus also on the lunar day 22, October 5 1279 BC, the first Day of Atonement. Thus the first day of the year may be the vernal equinox and the Day of Atonement the autumn equinox. This because there are exactly 187 days from Nisan to the Day of Atonement, 6 X 29.5 days + 10 days. If the sun was moved near the spring or fall equinox earth would not have to shift much to keep in the same season - such as at April 12 3637 BC - 9 days before the spring equinox April 22, April 23 2515 BC - 11 days after the spring equinox or April 19 - 7 days after the spring equinox, March 31 2357 BC - 9 days before the spring equinox. The sun miracle September 2648 BC the year of Abraham's birth was during what would be the feast of tabernacles. The 15th to 21st Hebrew lunar day of the seventh month which corresponds to Sunday September 17 - Sunday September 24 2648 BC. Day 57 should be September 21 2648 BC. Likewise the sun miracle January 2287 BC was of the seventh Egyptian 30 day month, III Peret, and was 490 years after the new Egyptian Sothis period July 16 2777 BC. The Egyptian new year had backed up to March 15 2287 BC, the 30th day of the fixed 30 day month - 12X30 day months from July 22 to July 16. Thus there would be 110 more years till the new year had backed up to February 16 where it was in year 600 the year of the flood, perhaps foretelling Joseph would live 10 more years to be 110. The tabernacle was reared up on March 15 1278 BC, 1000 years after Joseph died in 2277 BC. Joseph's bones may have been present in or near the tabernacle. March 15 1278 BC was a Sunday the first day of the lunar month and the beginning of the Hebrew year.
John 2:19 "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body."
This third day is the resurrection Sunday.
There are also 490 years from the change of emperors in 2255 BC from the dynasty of Hea possibly at a sun miracle: - "When the day declined, there came a fine and glorious light; and a yellow dragon issued and came to the altar, bearing a scheme on his back, 32 cubits long and 9 cubits broad, in lines of red and green intermingled, the words were which that he should resign in favour of Yu." - and the sun miracle in China at the fall of the dynasty of Hea in 1765 BC. The common chronology gives the Xia dynasty from Shun 2255 BC to 1765 BC. Xia means summer. Then the names of the Shang: Yin means prosperous, Shang means commerce. Dong yi means eastern barbarians. Radiocarbon dates from this site (Erlitous, in the city of Yanshi) indicate that they existed from 2100 to 1800 B.C. 70 years after Joseph became governor over Egypt at the sun miracle March 31 2357 BC there was a sun miracle January 26 2287 BC when Joseph was 100. Judah went into captivity 70 years, from 575 BC to 505 BC.
Daniel 9:2 "In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem."
This shifted the Jubilee 70 years forward and enabled Jesus to stand and speak and fulfill the words of release and forgiveness of the Jubilee on the last Jubilee, Leviticus 23, Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18 = Saturday September 15 31 AD.
Matthew 18:21 "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times?"
22 Jesus said unto him, I say not unto seven times: but, Until seventy times seven."
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 the prophesy, and to anoint the most Holy."
Luke 4:18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
This was the last Jubilee on Yom Kippur which means Day of Atonement, from Saturday September 15 31 AD. Only the life of Jesus lived out in you is acceptable.
Romans 5:10 "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement."
You can only receive the life of Jesus by hearing and obeying the Gospel given by God's servants going in God's appointed way proclaiming this same message. That is, by hearing those that leave all to follow Jesus. Those that follow Jesus' homeless ministry and go two and two into every city where Jesus himself will come.
Luke 10:1 "After these things the Lord appointed seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come."
There was a Sabbath on the first day of the seventh month of the Jubilee. This must be Thursday September 6 31 AD. Jesus' ministry may have only just begun about February that year. Some say the "acceptable year" means Jesus' ministry was only one year. However, Jesus' ministry must be at least two years, the acceptable year being this 50th year of the Jubilee, this whole year, from September 15 31 AD plus half a year before and half a year after, two years. Thus about six months after the first Passover of Jesus ministry. Or Jesus' ministry may have started at the beginning of February 30 AD, making his ministry three years two months. 3 1/2 years including the time Jesus went homeless to try the homeless ministry for himself first.
John 4:44 "For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country."
Matthew 13:54 "And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, in so much that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?"
57 "And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."
John 5:1 "After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
This could be the feast of tabernacles from the 15th day of the month. Thus Jesus could have stood up for to read on the Sabbath on the first day of the month or the 10th day of the month, Leviticus 23 in Nazareth. Then traveled to Jerusalem for the feast of tabernacles to be there in the middle of the 8 day feast. Then there was one more Passover in April 32 AD, John 6:4. Next the feast of tabernacles mentioned in
John 7:2 "Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand."
Then the final Passover and Jesus' crucifixion April 3 33 AD.
God emphasized the tenth day of the month:
Exodus 12:3 "Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house:"
Leviticus 23:27 "Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a Day of Atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you: and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD your God."
Sheep were bred in late August for lambs to be born 144 days later in January when the new grass appeared. 144 days after the sun moved back August 31 1238 BC in Joshua 11, Judges 4,5,6,7,8 from Joshua's long day is January 23. This is the same time of year there were sun miracles for January 26 2287 and 2284 BC. Then these sun miracles may point to Jesus' birth in January 4 BC the chosen Lamb without blemish sacrificed for the sins of the world. 1765 BC to 1279 BC is 486 = 144 + 171 + 171. 2648 BC to 2287 BC is 361 years. 1765 BC to 1404 BC is 361 years. 1404 BC is 1400 years before the birth of Christ. Isaac was 144 in 2404 BC and about Pharaoh Horemheb's 10th year was 1404 BC, perhaps when the sun rose in the west as recorded in his tomb. There were 360 days to the Egyptian calendar with five days left over and the first of these new year's day July 16. Abraham was born in 2648 BC then Isaac in 2548 BC and Jacob in 2478 BC. Abraham was 100 at Isaac's birth 2548 BC and Joseph was 100 at the sun miracle of 2287 BC. Joseph died in 2277 BC Sothis year 500. Noah was in Sothis year 500 3737 BC - either he was then born or had then started building the ark. The flood was April 12 3637 BC, the 17th day of the lunar month and the 27th day of the Egyptian month. A year later Noah stepped out of the ark on the 27th day of the lunar month and the 27th day of the Egyptian month. Shem lived after he begat Arphaxed, 3634 BC, five hundred years, Genesis 11:11. There are 500 years from the sun miracle when Huangdi became emperor in 2698 BC and when a new emperor replaced Yu in 2198 BC perhaps also at a sun miracle. "In the time of Yu the five planets piled up like a string of pearls and sun and moon shone like linked jade annuluses." East Asian Archaeoastronomy, p. 240. There was no planetary alignment then. Jupiter and Saturn were far apart from 2205 BC to 2198 BC. Then this record is probably of a sun miracle. "In particular, Sima Qian discusses the astrological significance of planetary groupings of various kinds, and for the first time explicitly charaterizes clusters of all five planets as a portent of a momentous shift of cosmo-political "phase" and the signal that Heaven is transferring the imperial Mandate to a new dynasty...there is no indication that they were aware of the periodicity, except for vague allusions in pre-Han texts to "something over 500 years" as the optimal interval for sage kings to arise." East Asian Archeaology, p.239. Five planet alignments were noted just before new dynasties in 1807 BC, 1141 BC and in 206 BC. There was 500 years from the sun miracle in 2287 BC to the sun miracle in 1788 BC. There were exactly 500 years of kings from David 1083 BC to the captivity 575 BC if 7 years are omitted for the queen Athaliah. There were to be no more kings after Zedekiah was taken in 575 BC. Hezekiah reigned from 718 BC instead of 726 BC thus the captivity must be 575 BC instead of 585 BC. Then the second temple may have been finished in 504 BC, 500 years before Jesus' birth. There are 270 to 280 days in human gestation. Thus Mary would thus carry Jesus. There are 280 years from the birth of Abraham in 2648 BC to the death of Isaac in 2367 BC. There are 270 years from the birth of Isaac in 2548 BC to the death of Joseph in 2277 BC. There are 270 years from Jacob's birth in 2478 BC to the emperor change in 2198 BC. January 26 2287 BC was the 19th Egyptian lunar day 17th Hebrew lunar day. The new year had backed up 17 days from April 1 2357 BC to March 15 2287 BC the beginning of the 120 day season. The Bible starts the day and lunar month in evening, "the evening and morning were the first day". Then during the Sojourn in Egypt the Bible uses Egyptian months. And after the Exodus the Bible again starts the day and lunar month with the moon's first visibility at sunset. The Sojourn into Egypt on April 3 2348 and the Exodus out of Egypt on April 4 1279 BC were on the 17th Egyptian day of the month. Jesus' crucifixion may have been April 3 33 AD. Noah's flood was on the 17th day of the lunar month April 12 3637 BC. The significance of the date was the Egyptian lunar day 17 and the sacrifice and God's covenant in the rainbow when they left the ark on the same date one year later. Just like Jesus' sacrifice for us and God's New Testament covenant on the Hebrew lunar day 14, Egyptian lunar day 17. Joseph was 17 when he was sold into Egypt and Jacob lived 17 years with Joseph from the Sojourn into Egypt. The Egyptian calendar backed up one day every four years, thus 10 days to the new 1460 Sothis cycle July 17 when Moses was 40, 20 days when he was 80 to the summer solstice July 7 the year of the Exodus and 30 days to June 27 when he was 120.
Deuteronomy 34:8 "And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended."
The forty days that were fulfilled for Jacob when he was embalmed may have been from Sunday April 5 2331 BC the same forty days Jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection. Many Bible dates date from Sunday. Examples:
Sunday, May 4, 1279 BC, Exodus 16:1, God gave the Israelites Manna on the 16th day of the Moon.
The tabernacle in the wilderness must have been reared up Sunday, March 15, 1278 BC, Exodus 40:17.
Deuteronomy 1:3a "And it came to pass in the fortieth year in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month"
Sunday, January 4, 1239 BC. Possibly with a second month of Adar, to make the crossing of the River Jordan on dry land April 12 1239 BC, or March 14 1239 BC.
Also the fall zodiac constellations appearing in spring and spring constellations appearing in fall be likened to two year ends. An ancient bird constellation now called the Phoenix is just below Pisces, the constellation the sun is in spring and would have been visible in the Nile delta if the sun moved 180° in winter or summer because earth must shift exposing this bird constellation normally seen only from the equator south. Thus the Egyptians would see a 4000 AD sky for several years before 1355 BC. You can see with precession over thousands of years the bird constellation is very visible in the 4000 AD sky but not at all visible in the normal 1355 BC sky. Thus the head of the River Eridanus constellation may have been thus visible when the sun fell from the sky in the story of Phaethon likened to the "still hidden head of the River Nile". Perhaps Phaethon's fall was the sun moving 180° back 2350 BC, earth (the Middle East) was in darkness for a day, and the beginning of the seven years of famine. Then perhaps the head of the River Eridanus being revealed was the sun moving 180° January 26 2287 BC 63 years later, and the forward shift in precession to the 8700 AD sky revealed the head of the constellation River Eridanus. And thus this ancient bird constellation now the Phoenix which is marveled at that Egypt and Greece recorded it when even from southern Egypt it was not visible up to the time of Christ is now no marvel. For the Egyptians, not just south Egypt and even Greece, would have seen these southern constellations clearly that night of January 26 2287 BC. Spring marked the end of this month Adar (when the sun was in Pisces) and beginning of the month Nisan (when the sun was in Aries) and the beginning of the spiritual year Exodus 12:2 and Exodus 13:4 and the month of Abib, - to bring forth shoots, ripening of barley, Spring. This "beginning of months" of Exodus began March 23 1279 BC. The spring equinox was April 2 1279 BC and the Exodus out of Egypt must have been April 4 1279 BC. Notice the reference to spring shoots. That is, in a reverse orbit the constellations would not tell the time of year yet the year would begin when "the ripening of barley".
Exodus 14:28 "And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them."
Pharaoh would be the first one in.
Exodus 15:21 "And Miriam answered them, 'Sing you to the LORD for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.'"
The horse and rider is pharaoh.
Psalm 106:11 "And the waters covered their enemies. There was not one of them left."
Exodus 14:30 "Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore."
Some consider Seti I to be the Pharaoh that drowned in the Red Sea 1279 BC of Exodus because some date Ramses II to have died in 1213 BC too late a date for the Exodus because the forty years in the wilderness would bring the invasion of Canaan to 1173 BC, way too recent a date. If so, Seti I's body must have been recovered from the sea shore. However, there is some indication Pharaoh Merneptah did die from drowning: "Dr Bucaille discovered that Merneptah had received very violent blows to several parts of his body and had suffered a massive heart attack. Amazingly, these are the results which occur when someone dies from drowning!" "In 1898, the mummified body of Merneptah was found in the valley of Kings in Egypt. In 1975, Dr. Maurice Bucaille with other doctors received permission to examine the Mummy of Merneptah, the findings of which proved that Merneptah probably died from drowning or a violent shock which immediately preceeded the moment of drowning." "In 1975, Dr. Maurice Bucaille with other doctors received permission to examine the Mummy of Merneptah, the findings of which proved that Merneptah probably died from drowning" Then there is a possibility that Merneptah was the pharaoh of the Exodus. They may be right in that Merneptah may be the pharaoh that died when the book of Exodus begins. Probably Merneptah did not drown in the Reed Sea with his army in Exodus. Instead, the pharaoh must have been Merneptah's immediate successor. That this pharaoh is not recorded may be due to the short time he was pharaoh and the hate the Egyptians would have for him after going through the 10 plagues of Exodus and the anarchy that would develope after his death. There were Israelite settlers already in the land, re the Merneptah Stela, and the lunar date for Ramses II 52nd year must work. This would mean Ramses II must have begun his reign 76 years earlier in 1355 BC. Ramses II 52nd year was dated by the 28th day of the moon December 20 1228 BC = 20-XII-1228 B.C. (year 52 II prt 28). The fixed 30 day months began July 22 and Dec 20 began a new month on the 28th day of the moon. "Re raises the vault the first day in the second period of peret (prt). That must be 21st December" However, December 20 1304 BC is also the 28th day of the moon. (More accurately December 18 is the 28th day of the Egyptian moon and the beginning of the II peret) 1279 BC (Exodus) - 1203 BC (Merneptah drowned) = 76 year gap. Then 76 + 1279 BC = 1355 BC and Ramses II's 52nd year may be 1304 BC. Thus Ramses II's lunar date does work for Merneptah to be the Pharaoh that died when the book of Exodus began. Because this is an exact fit, all lunar dates for Seti I and Ramses II can be shifted back 76 years and still work. This is no surprise because all lunar dates may be shifted back in multiples of 19 years. See Towards an Absolute Chronology for Ancient Egypt. Also the major battle of Ramses II against the Hittites at Kadesh in Ramses II's 5th year could be 1351 BC rather than 1300 BC. Ramses II would have the Hebrew slaves he needed for his many building projects. Egypt went into decline after Pharaoh Merneptah just as in depicted by the Bible. Just read the Papyrus Ipuwer at Admonitions of Ipuwer. This would mean Moses was born in 1359 BC was adopted by one of Pharaoh Seti I's daughters. Moses may have been about three when he no longer could be hid. Perhaps pharaoh Seti I died soon after his daughter adopted Moses and the boy child killing stopped. Moses had the same experience as Jesus, king Herod killed all the boys under two in Bethlehem immediately after he saw he was mocked of the wisemen. And Ramses II became pharaoh - Exodus 1 & 2, and the pharaoh Moses fled from in 1319 BC was Ramses II.
Exodus 1:15 "Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:"
2:23 "And it came to pass in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage."
This rather must have been this same Ramses II that died 1289 BC, then Merneptah became pharaoh till 1280 BC. Also, Merneptah was already taking over from the aging Ramses II 10 years before Ramses II died. "he appears not to have become the heir to the throne until Ramesses II's 55th regnal year" - this would be 1300 BC, 9 X 144 years before the birth of Christ in 4 BC. Although many claim Merneptah did not take any power until Ramses II's death. There is no pottery trail, very little to identify Ramses II to any date. However there is mention of Hapiru, Hebrew, slaves building a temple during Ramses II's reign and also mention of Hapiru settling in the hills of Israel as farmers during Ramses II's reign. Perhaps the early settlers of Judges 4 & 5
If the sun moved 540° east the sun would stand still over the other side of earth for 36 hours for Moses in the three days of darkness. Papyrus Anastasi IV: "The sun - it has come to pass it riseth not. The winter is come (instead of) as summer, the months are reversed, and the hours disordered." from "Les mois sont a l'envers, et les heares se confondent." A. Erman, Egyptian Literature (1927) p.309 Written not before this 19th dynasty [not before Ramses I] according to Sir Alan Gardiner. This papyrus has been identified with Pharaoh Merneptah. The Papyrus Ipuwer may also be identified with the Exodus of the unknown pharaoh that succeeded Pharaoh Merneptah in my opinion. March 29 1279 BC is my guess. Dark and cold like winter. Just what you would expect if the sun remained on the other side of earth for 36 hours. The months in reverse suggests earth went into a reverse orbit and the constellations of the zodiac progressed in reverse through the year. If this was March 29 1279 BC it would be just after the beginning of the 120 day summer season, then when they experienced cold when summer was begun they might say winter is come instead of summer.
Job 9:7 "Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars"
In the three days of darkness that could be felt, the stars could not have appeared. This suggests Job was written at the time of this ninth plague of Egypt. Job was written in the same script as the five books of Moses, perhaps in the time of Moses. A quick paced Exodus could have the three days of darkness March 29 and the Exodus April 4 and thus Pharaoh's threat to Moses to see his face no more and immediately after God sent the death angel. Then the three days of darkness would be the same date about March 31, 2357 BC, as Yao's long day in China and thus the long morning, perhaps predawn, for Joseph in Egypt. Because a morning sun in China is not visible yet in Egypt. And earth would not have to shift to keep in the same season if the sun moved on the vernal equinox and back on the autumn equinox. Then also the second correcting sun miracle half an orbit later October 3 1279 BC would be on day 56 and when there was the eclipse on August 12 day 56 10 years later the eclipse was more impressed on them as an omen because it also was on day 56 and thus was recorded twice on oracle bones. Day 56 because the cycle of 60 would be out 3 days both October 3 1279 BC and August 12 1269 BC. Nevertheless, if the sun moved 180° at noon - west or east, then 540° east to stand still at the opposite side of earth from Egypt earth would not need to flow into or out of a reverse orbit because essentially the sun would move around the earth 360° and earth continue in its current direction of orbit. Therefore Moses' three days of darkness may be solved.

More about Moses' three days darkness

Exodus 14:20 "And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night."
A long night?
- Perhaps there was a sun miracle of a long night three days after the Exodus on Sunday April 6 and they were by the Reed Sea.
Exodus 17:12 "But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek."
A long sunset?
Numbers 33:5 "And the children of Israel removed from Ramses, and pitched in Succoth.
6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is the edge of the wilderness.
7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pihahiroth, which is before Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migol.
8 And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness,"
14 "And they removed from Alush, and encomped at Rephidim,"
Thus the third day they pitched could be Sunday April 6 at the Reed Sea, perhaps at the Bitter Lakes. Only perhaps reeds did not grow in the Bitter Lakes. Perhaps this was the eastern branch of the Nile River which had become a lake deep enough to drown Pharaoh's army in. Perhaps these are two sun miracles. Perhaps a long night of 24 hours longer while the sun went 360° around the earth and two million people crossed the Reed Sea. Then a long sunset weeks later when the sun again went 360° around the earth.
The third day:
Exodus 3:18 "And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God."
From my Cambridge Bible concordance: "it was probably crossed by the Israelites at a point north of the Gulf of Suez, now dry land, where at very high tides the Red Sea joined the waters of the Bitter Lakes. Up to 1200 BC sea level increased 23 cm a century. Then it slowed to 4 cm a century with two sudden rises of a meter and drops of a meter. Nevertheless the Children were at a bitter lake just a few days after crossing the Reed Sea. Perhaps they had crossed part of the Nile River, the Reed Sea, and a few days later were at the Gulf of Suez then south back at the Reed Sea, Nile River, then at Rephidim. The Red Sea is probably not meant in Numbers 21:14, Deuteronomy 1:1." The margin for Numbers 21:14 reads "Vaheb in Suphah", that is "what he did in the hurricane sea". Suphah sounds like Soof, reed. That is the sound of Reed Sea may have brought to mind a distinct way to call the sea by another name, hurricane. Moreover, when there was a sun miracle there were strong winds, like a hurricane. So rather than a strong wind parting the Reed Sea, the hurricane mentioned here may be only the strong wind from the sun miracle. And rather than the Children of Israel walking in a hurricane, they may have been sheltered by the wall of water on either side of them. Almost all references in the Bible to the Red Sea really state Reed Sea in Hebrew, some 15 or more.

soof
Probably of Egyptian origin; a reed, especially the papyrus: - flag. Red [sea], weed. Compare H5489. For H5488 (by ellipsis of H3220); the Reed (Sea): - Red sea.
yawm
From an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article) the Mediterranean; sometimes a large river, or an artificial basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south: - sea (X -faring man, [-shore]), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Exodus 10:19 "And the LORDH turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt."
Red sea here is Reed Sea. The Reed Sea was mistranslated Red Sea in the Septuagint. Then Bible translators translated all the Reed Sea references as Red Sea. In the Hebrew it is still the Reed Sea.
Exodus 15:4 "Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Reed Sea."
Papyrus reeds only grow in fresh water, just like the word used for the reeds where Moses in his ark were caught in the Nile River. This could be a lake from the overflowing Nile River Lake Menzalah or one of the ancient lakes that once existed where the Suez Canal is now. However this is the same word in Jonah 2:5 "weeds were wrapped about.." Thus these references could be to the weed sea which could be the Red Sea. At the full moon at midnight April 6 the Red Sea would be at high tide. However, Red Sea tides are notably slow and if the children of Israel were more inland perhaps the tide did not raise the lake level. The children of Israel again camped by a bitter lake three days later perhaps from inflow from these tides, making it more likely they had crossed the Reed Sea.
Exodus 17:12 "But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun."
Earth may have been in a reverse orbit after the three days of darkness. If not, then the sun could have moved 180° east to stand still at sunset for Moses, then earth flowed into a reverse orbit of the sun. Then there would have to be a second correcting sun miracle on the same date in May or in November. Then the record of the months in reverse after it came to pass the sun did not rise could have been less than three months after the three days of darkness and thus included together in the same record. Bible & Astronomy: '"The oldest recorded eclipse is in Ugaritic which probably took place on March 5, 1223 BC. It states, btt ym hdt, hyr `rbt, sps tgrh, rsp (KTU 1.78) which I translate, "In the second month (Late February - early March) the gates of day were renewed after the setting sun by the gatekeeper Rsp (god of the underworld; which some identify with the planet Mars)." See the journal Nature 338 (1989), March 16, 204 and 238."' March 5 1223 BC was not a visible eclipse thus this date does not work. Inscribed on a clay tablet in the ruins of Ugarit (Syria - Mesopotamia). Another earlier record of an eclipse: "On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance." This must be the eclipse of July 4 1424 BC when Akhu En Aten became pharaoh 144 years before the Exodus. Mars was just above the sun and thus would appear in the eclipse. The solar eclipse March 5, 1223 BC - was for 9:50 PM long after the sun had set and only visible in North America. Planetarium simulation will show the correct position of moon and planets for every given day and date but not actually at that date. The fact that the Chinese cycle of 60 days match both sun miracles and eclipses is proof earth sped up its orbit 48 hours a year in a reverse orbit.
Ecclesiastes 1:5 "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose."
9 "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
- earth's rotation producing day and night is commonly understood. And at 31° latitude so near the equator the sun does not change much in its rise and set position. However, in Amos 8:9 the sun going down at noon means literally the sun setting suddenly in the east or west.
Exodus 10:22 "And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings."
In order for there to be three days of darkness the sun must have moved around the earth for 3 X 12 hours, that is, the sun must move 540° east. For maximum effect Moses must have stretched out his hand after sunrise and the sun moved 540° east to set in the east or west suddenly, then maintained a position on the other side of the earth. Thus leaving Egypt in darkness for about 3X12, 36, hours. If the sun set suddenly in the west 180° then travelled 540° east to keep Egypt in darkness there may not need to be a second correcting sun miracle if the sun moved back to the same side of earth as it was at the beginning of March 1279 BC. However, the months were reversed suggesting earth was already in a reverse orbit and the sun may have moved back half an orbit later about the Day of Atonement and feast of tabernacles. This miracle of darkness for 3 days was the ninth plague before the Passover the night of April 4 1279 BC. Thus the three days of darkness must have been anywhere from the Egyptian beginning of summer March 20 Julian up to the Passover April 4.
Moses may have taken as a sign for the right time to lead Israel out of Egypt the beginning of the new Sothis period of 1460 years July 17 1320 BC 40 years old would lead out the Israelites into the promised land. Nevertheless God called Moses to lead out the Israelites when he was 80 in 1279 BC. Then with God's help Moses lead the children of Israel out with the tenth and last plague after the night of the Passover April 4, 1279 BC. Papyrus Anastasi IV "The sun - it has come to pass it riseth not."
If the sun stayed over the Pacific for 36 hours 1279 BC there would be hardly anyone to see the sun, just a few islanders. Homer's Odyssey tells of a long night and this modern poem may reflect ancient wonder: "For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire, To follow a sinking star." - Stars would sink 1° each evening in the east in a reverse orbit. There is a tradition in the Fiji Islands of a long sunset. - Geocentricity If the sun stayed in the noon position in Fiji, almost all the rest of earth's land mass and mankind would be in darkness.
Oceanic Mythology Roland B. Dixon 1916: (New Zealand Maori)
"Maui went off eastward to where the sun climbed daily out of the underworld, and as the luminary went up, the hero noosed his legs one after the other and tied the ropes strongly to great trees. Fairly caught, the sun could not get away, and Maui gave him a tremendous beating..To save his life, the sun begged for mercy, and on promising to go more slowly ever after, was released from his bonds." - After the second miracle days would be 8 minutes longer than in the reverse orbit. Our human clocks over periods of years in a reverse orbit, many people and many days, may notice less sun. A cloudy day is five times brighter than the brightest offices and our eyes do not perceive it. However, our brains perceive the length of daylight and eight minute shorter days year round may be noticeable. More noticeable in a reverse orbit may be the orbit of the moon. The moon's orbit must be 4 hours longer yet the lunar month be 4 hours shorter from earth, because orbit is against orbit and there must be 29.53 days a lunar month. Thus the moon's movement against the background stars should have been noticeably slower.
"Walpole tells a Samoan story of a man who was toiling hard in the building of his house..but the sun passed across the sky so quickly that he made little progress..Then the great Itu provided a noose. The sun being then in a bad season, tired and dull, put his head in the noose and was caught, and was held and could not move until the man had completed his house, when it was allowed to resume its career." VS Five accounts above are given for February/March: the "Omen of the Sun", the three days darkness, the sun that stands still at noon, the moon that was eclipsed and "the gates of day renewed". The sun standing still at noon and the moon that was eclipsed are a pair and are exactly half a year, half an orbit, apart. Thus Joshua's long day is countered half an orbit later and likewise perhaps Moses' three days darkness was countered half an orbit later at the return of the year, the return of the sun.

Some Eclipses that have not been Located:

The eclipse of the sun the Chinese recorded on day 10. "On day kuei-yu (the 10th day of a 60-day cycle), it was inquired (by divination): 'The Sun was eclipsed in the evening; is it good?' On day kuei-yu it was inquired: 'The Sun was eclipsed in the evening; is it bad?'" From: the An-yang oracle bones of the Shang dynasty, China (c. 1765-1122 BC).
On an oracle bone in China "Three flames ate (time word) the sun, and a great star was seen." as translated before 1980. Date estimates have been made for the total eclipse 1307 BC or 1302 BC. However, the eclipse for 1302 BC was on day 53 not day 6: "On the 7th day of the month, a chi-szu day (last quarter moon), a great new star appeared in company with Antares." Antares would be visible overhead March 28 1279 BC in the reverse orbit at sunset. Nevertheless, in the three days of darkness the whole sky may be visible, unless the sun remained close to sunrise in China for 36 hours. Then Antares would be the star they would see for the few hours of darkness. Antares is Huo the fire star or phoenix. So this might read "Three flames ate the sun, and a bright new star appeared in company with the phoenix." Or "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
From Xueshun Liu: "As for the inscription that appears in the picture below, you cited two translations. The first one has translated the first four characters as "On the 7the day of the month, a chi-szu day (last quarter moon)..." The second one translates those characters as "At the time period from the night of the seventh day jisi (day 6) ..." It appears that the second translation is correct because of two reasons. First, there is no character yue, 'month' among those four characters. If there is no yue, how could one be sure it was the seventh day of the month? The phrase "seventh day" only means day jisi was the seventh day from whichever day they started counting. Second, if jisi indeed is the seventh day of the month, it should be the first quarter of the month. That's the principle of Chinese lunar calendar. Therefore, the translation "the 7th day of the month (last quarter moon)" is wrong. Without more information from the inscription, it is not possible to determine to which quarter of the moon day jisi belong.
Now, let's turn to eclipses. First, "Three flames ate (time word) the sun, and a great star was seen" in your email quoted below and "The first record of a solar prominence has been found in a tortoise shell inscription, which describes "three suddenly bursting fires eating a chunk of the sun", which appears on the web site http://www.china.org.cn/e-gudai/6.htm cited in your email yesterday, refer to the same inscription. It is not considered a record of solar eclipse by experts in early Chinese astronomy and early Chinese history. When I was a Ph.D student in China and in UBC, my advisors include scholars at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which is the most prestigious academic institution in China, Prof. Keightley at UC Berkely, Prof. Takashima at UBC, and Prof. Pankenier at Lehigh University. I also have friends at Chinese Academy of Sciences. All these scholars do not think that inscription is a record of eclipse."
If it is not a record of an eclipse it may be a record of a sun miracle. However, the three days of darkness could not have been as early as February 19 1279 BC.

Joseph/Yao's sun miracle

In a reverse orbit stars marking spring and fall are reversed and the stars rise later each evening instead of earlier. James Legge noted in the Chinese Classics that according to the sky in 2357 BC from the noon sun in summer in Leo, the sun had been in the west in Taurus in spring "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." Chinese Classics, III, p.94 Only in a reverse orbit can the sun be in the east in spring. "Those labours of the east are the labours of spring". The spring night sky becomes the fall night sky and vice versa. Moreover, only in a reverse orbit does the sun progress through the zodiac like the sun rises in the east each day. Another translation: "It is work to look to the east in spring", perhaps because most people have a hard time understanding a reverse orbit at first. Every time I give a talk people have a hard time grasping the concept of a reverse orbit and what it means to the observer. The original Dendera Zodiac is in the Louvre museum in Paris: "The first chart startled the investigators because in it west and east are reversed...The zodiac and the heavenly bodies, including Phaethon, rotate anti-clockwise on this diagram as the day advances." S.I.S. Egyptian is read against the face of the characters. Thus this zodiac appears to progress as normal. However, the march of characters may indeed be intended to indicate the reverse orbit of a reverse zodiac. In a reverse orbit the spring night sky and fall night sky are reversed not the constellations of east and west. For east and west to actually be reversed earth must also turn 180° clockwise or counterclockwise in December or June on the ecliptic pole from the current north pole star in 100 BC to Vega. The pole of the ecliptic will only displace itself a mere 2.5° over its 40,000 years cycle. That is, earth's axis, the north pole, shifts or pivots 360° in precession in 25,800 years while straight up, the perpetual zenith, the ecliptic pole, remains essentially the same. This 40,000 year wobble is very slight. Today earth's axis is at 23.45° in 3300 BC it was 24° making winters and summers more extreme in 3300 BC. Earth's orbital eccentricity goes in 100,000 year cycles. That is, earth comes three times more close to the sun and more distant from the sun than it does now - more eccentric, and less eccentric to an almost circular orbit, in cycles of 100,000 years. See The Seasons and the Earth's Orbit - Milankovitch Cycles. This means 13,000 years ago our winter in the northern hemisphere was when earth was furthest from the sun - earth's elliptical orbit was almost the same just the season at the other end of the elliptical orbit had shifted 180° over 13000 years - one reason for the ice age then. If you look at a globe of the earth, straight up is the ecliptic pole, 23.5° is earth's axis, turn the base and you have precession. Tilting earth won't work, earth must pivot like precession to keep in the same season and keep the path of the zodiac. You can see the effect of shifting earth is very large and noticeable, even to ancient people. They eventually noticed the gradual precession over thousands of years. However, they immediately noticed the large earth shift at the time of sun miracles. The sun must move to or from Sagittarius to Cancer. The Dendera Zodiac "indicates that the constellation Leo lay at the vernal point in the epoch of its start." Mercury is depicted in Leo, therefore the sun must be in Leo. Then the sun must have moved 180° about June 100 BC to be in Leo in March. Likewise for the sun to be in Pisces on the vernal equinox in a reverse orbit the sun must move 180° about December 100 BC. Also if the sun moved 180° on the vernal or autumn equinox the sun would then be in Leo or Pisces respectively. The sun was in Leo in spring 10000 BC, too early to be remembered. The severed leg of the bull is depicted in the center. This must signify the sun moved 180° other than on the equinoxes and earth shifted on it axis to keep in the same season and to point to a new pole star, thus the leg severed from the bull of the north pole in the center. The 36 figures around the outer edge depict the 36 Egyptian decans and progress in reverse suggesting a reverse orbit. Depicted in a nearby zodiac sculpture from the grand temple the sun is depicted in Cancer as a morning sun. Earth would be "upside down" because north would point south according to the celestial stars above. No change to earth's land maps. Not earth turned over, earth's axis turned around to point to Vega keeping in the northern hemisphere. The stars and the sun advance counterclockwise as the year progresses in a reverse orbit. If the sun moved 180°, other than at the equinox, the axis must pivot on a vertical axis | for the seasons to continue as before. We rotate on an axis 23° / off vertical. The path of the sun through the constellations through the year is still through the zodiac because earth must turn about the ecliptic pole. The zodiac would progress in reverse, constellations marking spring and fall would reverse and the shift in axis, turn about the ecliptic pole, would shift the seasons up and down the zodiac. Yao's zodiac appears to represent a 26800 BC or a 800 BC orientation. That is if the sun moved 180° a little before or after the spring or fall equinox earth must shift a little on its axis to keep in the same season. Perhaps this was October 1 2357 BC and a second sun miracle Friday March 31 2356 BC. If we consider Scorpius visible on the 12th month earth must be in a reverse orbit, the sun on the other side of earth and opposite Scorpius in October. If the sun moved the 180° on October 1 2357 BC the sun would be on the opposite side of the zodiac from Scorpius in October and Scorpius visible all night. "We are prepared to affirm that three of the men sent to the four borders of China could not have seen the stars, which occupied for the time being the equinoctial and solstitial points, culminating on the seasons named. E.G. the first part of Libra (beside Lupus next to Scorpius) could not seen culminating at nightfall, when the sun is in the first point of Cancer, for it must culminate at 6PM, where as the sun would not set in any part of China much before 7PM (summer) and the stars would not be visible for a half hour after sunset. This last fact would stand equally at the equinoxes, of the observers seeing their culminating, unless, indeed the time of observation was several centuries later than the date usually assigned to Yaou (BC 2356 - 2255), so that the stars to be observed had ceased to be exactly in the solstitial co lure." Chinese Classics III, Astronomy of the Ancient Chinese, p.92 James Legge could make the calculation easily. He could test to see what stars currently appear first at the meridian at dark on the equinoxes and solstices in 1860. Precession then was accurately known to be 50.1" yearly, 1.4° per century. Then calculating precession 1.4° per century back, these stars of Yao's in 2356 BC would be some 10° west of the meridian when they first appeared on these seasons. The jade sighting tube Yao used was credited to be accurate to within 3° and this was done for all four seasons perhaps for several years, making the observation more accurate. "Dr. Medhurst in his translation of the Shoo King has made the following note: 'If Cor Hydra culminated at sunset on the day of the vernal equinox in the time of Yaou, the constellation on the meridian at noon of that day must have been Pleiades in Taurus (perhaps the first written account of Pleiades other than perhaps Job 9:9). Now as by retrocession of the equinoxes the stars of the zodiac go back a whole sign in 2000 years, it would take 4000 years for the sun to be in Pleiades at the time of the vernal equinox, which is about the time when Yaou is said to have flourished, and affords a strong confirmation of the truth of Chinese chronology. For Pleiades is 56° and one third from the point the ecliptic crossed the equinoctial A.D. 1800, and as the equinox travels backwards 50 seconds and one tenth per annum, it would take 4000 years for Pleiades to be in the zenith at noon on the vernal equinox." Pleiades transits directly above at 7PM on the vernal equinox March 20 6000 AD! Not even visible at April 11 2356 BC before the sun sets at 6:20PM! This observation had to do with the rising sun. This suggests the sun moved from Taurus to Scorpius February 15 2356 BC. Then the sun would be in Virgo on the vernal equinox. However, there are four stars to Yao's canon, and the other three stars suggest the sun moved 180° October 1 2357 BC. Then if the sun was in Scorpius March 31 2356 BC probably part of the bird constellation - Neaou, which the Pleiades is apart, should appear just after sunset in the meridian. James Legge knew these stars should appear much westward of the meridian and said "could not have seen the stars, which occupied for the time being the equinoctial and solstitial points, culminating on the seasons named."
The perihelion of the sun, which has to do with earth's elliptical orbit, is 22,000 years. The sun is closest to the earth in January and is shifting - in 22,000 years it will have gone through all the months of the year and be at January again. Earth is farthest from the sun now July 4 2008, the aphelion of the sun. Earth is nearest the sun, the perihelion of the sun, January 3 2008. Earth's elliptical orbit must adjust when the sun moves the 180° to keep the same distance from the sun as it normally would have had. Earth must receive the same intensity of light every day as it normally would have had. Thus the net missing time of 20 minutes is counted during the half orbit while earth is furthest from the sun. Thus a sun miracle must be when the earth is closest or furthest from the sun for there to be no need for a second half reverse orbit to counter missing time. The sun is closest to earth January 3 and furthest July 4 2008.
Monuments made to tell the seasons, winter and summer solstices and spring and autumn equinoxes, using the sun many thousands of years ago are just as accurate today. Such as at Newgrange built 3000 BC in Ireland. Or at Jebel Barkal, pharaoh Taharqa's pyramid precisely aligns with the sunrise on ancient Egypt’s New Year’s Day. July 16 700 BC Julian. If you rotate earth around an axis perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic the relation between the sun and the earth remains the same. Thus in every case when the sun moved and earth turned on the perpendicular to keep in the same season ancient monuments would tell the seasons correctly by the sun. However, the passage of stars at certain times would not work in periods of earth shifts and precession. Thus constellations disappearing, shifting into the ocean with an earth shift, may appear like a perishing old earth and the new four stars marking the four seasons make for a new earth.
Precession takes 25,800 years to complete a wobble around the perpendicular. So, we know earth precesses 1.4° per century. And if the sun moves 180° before or after the equinox earth must shift forward or backward in precession. However, every day before or after means 2° earth must shift to keep in the same season. Then if Yao's stars could only have been visible 700 years after Yao then this is a 7 X 1.4° = 10° shift. 10°/2° = 5 days before the equinox. Then Yao's long day may have been April 6 2357 BC, 5 days back from the spring equinox in April 11. However, more likely the "several centuries later" is a minimum and possibly more than 1000 years are needed. If the sun moved 180° on March 31 2357 BC and earth turned 22° in forward precession immediately to keep in the same season, earth must turn 1500 years in forward precession to the 800 BC pole. Then Yao's stars would have been first visible in the four seasons more than several centuries later to a 800 BC pole, to allow for their first visibility after dark. Then the turn in 1500 years of precession would mean the sun must have moved 180° 11 days before the fall equinox on October 11 2357 BC or 11 days before the spring equinox on April 11 2357 BC, possibly September 31; but more likely March 31 2357 BC because Yao began his year in Yao's Canon with the spring equinox immediately after the sun miracle to correctly determine the seasons whereupon he was made emperor. Earth must keep in the same season. The equinox 800 BC was March 29. Then earth would be in a March 18 800 BC season. Even so the zodiac would be back to front and in reverse. Then the celestial ceiling of Pharaoh Seti I depicting theme from Joseph/Yao's long day, that is, the severed leg of the bull, may also depict this axis shift. Earth must turn 2X the number of days after or before the equinox in ° to keep in the same season. See earth turn calculations. The position of the sun in spring and fall are interchanged in a reverse orbit because the sun moves 180°. The seasons continue without interruption, just the stars marking the seasons are shifted up or down the zodiac and the signs marking spring and fall are reversed. In the Tso-chuen: "in the 12th month Scorpio was still visible in the west" in this March 31 2357 BC reverse orbit Scorpius would be visible all night in October when it was supposed to be covered by the sun. Therefore the path of the sun against the constellations through the year remains the same path of the zodiac. The stars marking the equinoxes and solstices would be identical to what they were just previous the reverse orbit if the sun moved 180° on the equinox. That is, the star marking spring would now mark fall and the star marking fall would now mark spring. The sun would progress through the zodiac in reverse and the zodiac be a mirror image of what it was before. A mirror image because the season the sun moved 180° would be in the sign 180° across from the sign it was in that day. If the sun moved 180° other than on the equinox earth must shift to keep in the same season. This shift in axis, turn about the ecliptic pole, only shifts the seasons up and down the zodiac. See Yao's Canon and Yao's zodiac below. Or earth tilted to keep in the same season. Or the sun lodged up or down to keep earth in the same season - the plane of earth's orbit inclined accordingly. However, only a turn about the ecliptic pole would keep the path of the zodiac. The Chinese had an old legend about Gong Gong and Zhuan Xu getting into a brawl that knocked Earth off its seat. Many since then have said this just describes the discovery of precession. However, the legend may more likely depict a sun miracle and earth shift. Yao's long day happened just before he was made emperor: "J.B. Biot finds the statements of the Shoo a sufficient confirmation of the date in the received chronology, B.C. 2357. Freret was of opinion that the observations left an uncertainty to the extent of 3 degrees, leaving, a margin of 210 years." (Yao) Chinese Classics, Vol.3, p.89. "Kwang's standard tables place Yaou's first year in B.C. 2,357, (or 2,356)" See Joseph/Yao's long day. The Chinese dating method was very reliable.

More about Joseph/Yao's long day

2357 BC: Chinese emperor Yao recorded "the sun did not set for 10 days". This quote is commonly associated with Joshua. Realistically, Yao lived 1000 years earlier, so this must be something else:

Yao was made emperor right after he smote the 10 suns whereupon he recorded his seasons. That is, the sun stood still in the sky in China so he hired an archer to shoot at it 9 times and refrained and the sun proceeded as normal. This may have been 12 hours or it may have been 9 X 12 hours. It must have been 108 hours for earth to flow into the reverse orbit and counter the missing time of the reverse orbit. Therefore the sun cannot move 360° around without being in a reverse orbit to counter missing time. Sped up reverse orbits can only be countered by long days to leave no trace. 108 hours must be countered by a sun miracle of 36 hours on the same date three years later. Only half a reverse orbit can only occur on the day when the sun is nearest or furthest from the earth. The sun was recorded to stand still again for 10 days in 1891 BC. The only reason for the sun to stand still that long would be to counter missing time from 3 years of a reverse orbit. It was said of his birth: "His mother was called K'ing-too. She was born in the wild of Tow-wei, and was always overshadowed by a yellow cloud. After she was grown up, whenever she looked into any of the three Ho, there was a dragon following her. One morning the dragon came with a picture and writing. The substance of the writing was: - 'The red one has received the favour of Heaven." The eyebrows of Yao were like , and of variegated colours. The whiskers were more than a cubit long; and the height was 7 cub. 2 in. The face was sharp above, and broad below. The feet trod on the constellation Yih. After this came darkness and winds on every side; and the red dragon made K'ing-too pregnant. Her time lasted 14 months, when she brought forth Yaou in Tan-ling. His appearance was like that in the picture. When he was grown up, his height was ten cubits. He had the virtue of a sage, and was invested with the principality of T'ang. He dreamed that he climbed up to heaven. When Kaou-shin was decaying, the empire turned to him." The Chinese Classics, Volume III, p.112. The red dragon sounds like a sun miracle 14 months before Yao's was born. In Ezekiel God was a bright fiery colour.
Ezekiel 1:26 "And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about."
Amber is the colour of God and perhaps this red dragon. Darkness and winds on every side seem to describe a sun miracle. Dark because the sun had suddenly set in the east or west. And winds often follow a sun miracle.
Perhaps Yao was born March 2369 BC. A sun miracle on one's birth was a sign to become emperor. Isaac died about 2368 BC, thus the sun miracle must have had something to do with Isaac and the fact that 2400 years later Jesus would die on the cross for the sins of the world in 33 AD. The constellation Yih, Corvus, is 180° away from Aquarius. The sun must move 180° from Aquarius to Corvus, Yih, January 2287 BC. When also a bright star issued out of Yih. The bright star could be God or an angel. The star issued out, that is moved from very quickly. Perhaps the sun moved 180° from Aquarius to Corvus in January 2370 BC at the time of Joseph's dream when Joseph was 17, or perhaps when Joseph was 12 and Jacob 102 and Isaac 171 in 2376 BC making Yao 18 (Yao was about 20 when he became emperor according to legend) when they made him emperor, and then moved 180° back from Yih to Aquarius in January 2367 BC when Isaac died at 180. Like it did January 26 2287 BC and January 26 2284 BC when Shun became emperor when a bright star issued out of Yih, very near Arcturus.
"The feet trod on the constellation Yih", perhaps the Chinese had the privilege of seeing something similar:
Exodus 24:7 "And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink."
Sapphire has a hardness of 9, the nearest thing to a glittering diamond. Sapphires and rubies came from dust winds from Quasars. Sapphire is blue/green. Just as the Chinese saw perhaps the color of God red like clear jasper walking on this pavement of sapphire: "When the day declined, there came a fine and glorious light; and a yellow dragon issued and came to the altar, bearing a scheme on his back, 32 cubits long and 9 cubits broad, in lines of red and green intermingled, the words were which that he should resign in favour of Yu." The yellow dragon may be the fire star often mistaken for a comet. The fire star was so bright that it cast a shadow at night like the moon casts a shadow. The glory of God was like a fire, yellow, like the yellow dragon.
Jacob dreamed in 2401 BC just shortly before:
Genesis 28:12 "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;"
The sudden darkness and strong winds also suggest a sun miracle. Joseph dreamed the sun and moon and eleven stars did obeisance to him when he was 17 in 2370 BC, Genesis 37:9. 2370 BC is 48 X 50 year Jubilees before the last one fulfilled when Jesus began his ministry in Luke 4:18 in 31 AD. 4 X 12 X 50. Then the second sun miracle may have been in 2367 BC when Joseph was 20 and in Egypt. Perhaps Yao was 12, although he was 20 in legend, in 2357 BC meaning he lived to be 110 years old like emperor Huangdi, old enough to become emperor but young enough to reign for 100 years to about 2255 BC, also like emperor Huangdi. Gao Xin (Di Ku) reigned from 2436-2367 BC; and perhaps there was this sun miracle at the end of his reign 2367 BC because sun miracles usually caused a change in emperor. 2367 BC was the year of Isaac's death at 180 years old and perhaps the sun moved 180° to mark his death. 180 years in duodecimal is written 130. Adam lived 130 years. Isaac would be 110, (Joseph and Joshua lived to be 110), and Jacob and Esau be 40 in 2437 BC at the start of this emperor's reign:
Genesis 26:34 "And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
35 Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebeka."
Esau had red hair. "Recent studies have shown that there is more red hair in Scotland and Wales than anywhere else in the world. It's a mutation that probably occurred between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago." Royalty in Ancient Egypt also had red hair and was not native to the region. The native Kazahk has blue eyes and red hair. J2 [M172] also appears in 6% of non-Jewish Europeans and about 20% of Jews. M172 is found in Turkey and the Caucasus at a rate of about 20%. There are several lineages of J2 all of which start about 4500 years ago, 2500 BC. One of these must be descended from Isaac. Or Isaac is descended from J1. See Y chromosomal halpogroup J as a signiture of the post-neolithic colonization of Europe. 65 years - the age of Enoch before he was translated - after the 365 year of Enoch 3871 BC in the previous Sothis cycle from 4236 BC, is year 430. Year 430 April 1 (pharaoh's birthday was always April 1) 2348 BC from 2777 BC - the beginning of the Egyptian year - and the beginning of the year for Israel God emphasized in Exodus 12, is from the lunar month of April 4 1279 BC. The new beginning of the New Testament when Jesus gave his life for the world April 7 30 AD or April 3 33 AD. In the 300th Egyptian year 3936 BC Enoch was born. In the 300th Egyptian year 2477 BC Jacob was born. Jacob entered Egypt in his 130th year, the age or generation of Adam and twice the age of Enoch's age of 65 when he was translated. 300 years earlier in 2737 BC Shen-nung became emperor perhaps also at a sun miracle. And 1200 years earlier Noah entered the ark, April 12 3637 BC. God may have made a sun miracle to show his disapproval of Esau at which the Chinese took as an omen to change emperors. Also 3637 BC is 3600 + 33 years before the birth of Jesus. 2737 BC is 2700 + 33 years before Jesus. 2437 BC is 2400 + 33 years before Jesus. Jesus lived on the earth 33 years. Then Joseph would be 17 about the time this red dragon appeared to Yao's mother, his age when he was sold into Egypt perhaps just before he had told Jacob and Leah and his eleven brothers he dreamed the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed down to him. The sun must move 180° twice. Perhaps the first time was at Joseph's dream in 2370 BC and the second at Isaac's death in 2367 BC. Joseph may have realized the sun miracle in 2367 BC signified his grandfather Isaac's death. The sun may have moved 180° at Isaac's birth, at Abraham's offering of Isaac and at Isaac's death at 180, perhaps symbolic of the sun moving 180°. And the sun miracle in 2357 BC when Joseph was 30 was to typify Jesus when he would begin his ministry when he was 30. Even Joseph lived 36 more years after 2312 BC to 2277 BC just as Isaac lived 36 years to 2512 BC when Abraham went to offer him up. Also, Joseph was 75 in 2312 BC the age Abraham was when he left Haran for the promised land. The 200 years difference from 2512 BC to 2312 BC point to Jesus' life of 36 years.

There must have been at least two sun miracles maybe four for Yao's long day. There could be four, 108 hour day, half an orbit later a 36 hour day and a sudden sunset in the west immediately after for a -12 hour day and then on the same date three years after the first one a 12 hour longer day. Yao's Long Day and Yao's unicorn were 7 years apart and mark the beginning of the years of plenty and famine for Joseph. Then for the sun to fall from the sky as in Phaethon to mark the years of famine, there must be a -12 hour day, half an orbit later a 36 hour longer day, the next day a 12 hour longer day and one year after the first a 12 hour longer day. The year must add up to 48 hours in net longer days. Then you can see there are some more possible combinations.
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"in Yao's 7th year there was a Lin" - deer with horse hooves (together means unicorn) - word sounds like rice (Lin the k sound represents the word "there was"). A "qilin" was a deer like creature with fire all over. See qilin Wikipedia - you can see the light brown color of the deer its green and blue horn and make out its figure - the unicorn here has all the colors of the sun. There are four beasts before God's throne. One is like a calf. This may be the unicorn, or q'ilin of the Chinese. The unicorn could move like lightning in legend. The beasts before God's throne can move like lightning, see Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4. The character for the Chinese word pronounced "shun" means flash and looks alot like this unicorn the Lin - also you can see the character for Emperor Shun who became emperor in Yao's 70th year is the same character as flash - Click here for enlargement. "The unicorn resembles a large stag, but has the body of a musk deer, the tail of an ox, the forehead of a wolf, and the hooves of a horse. It has a fleshly tipped horn extending from its forehead." Things Chinese That the unicorn had the feet of a horse is like the chariot that drove the sun. That is, they may have known the sun did not move and rather when there was a sun miracle God moved the sun. Then the sun moved again seven years after on the same day it stood still and Yao was made emperor. Two unicorns were sighted during Yao's reign. The second could have to do with the sun miracle on Yao's 70th year. "According to Chinese cosmology, the succession of natural phenomena during a calendar year is determined by the two forces and substances called yin and yang which gradually supersede each other. The lu deer belongs to the category yang (male, sun, and so forth); therefore it sheds its antlers in mid-summer, the fourth or fifth moon, and begins to grow new ones." Thus the association with the phoenix and the antlers of a deer. You can see the dragon and the deer with antlers depicted in the Chinese constellation the Azure Dragon. The sign of the dragon was in May/June when was the feast of Pentecost. See The Ceremonial Usages of the Chinese, B. C. 1121: Being an Abridgement of the Chow Le Classic. - The Che bird (remove - like remove the sun) and Lin (unicorn) were used together. See king Ching's unicorn and emperor Huang di's unicorn. Huang di became emperor at the appearance of a unicorn. Chinese writing began with Cangjie (c. 2650 BC), a bureaucrat under the legendary emperor, Huangdi.. See Legend of the Yellow Emperor. The Chinese character for fish scales is also pronounced lin and looks almost identical to the unicorn. One of the characteristics of the phoenix was fish scales and the Egyptians depicted the phoenix as a fish on top of the sun in the Dendera Zodiac. Perhaps at the beginning of the 60 day cycle Saturday February 17 2697 BC. This is the same Sothis date as the new year the year of Noah's flood Sunday February 17 3637 BC. The Chinese record a sun miracle then in 2697 BC, then 20 years later in 2678 BC, then 30 years later in 2648 BC, then 50 years later in 2598 BC, in 2437 BC there was a new emperor perhaps at the sign of a sun miracle, in 2368 BC also a new emperor, and 2357 BC Yao becomes emperor when the sun stood still. Noah's flood was 3637 BC, a new emperor in 2737 BC, perhaps accompanied with sun miracles. And are 900 years apart, 15 X 60. Also the start of the Egyptian Sothis cycle 4236 BC is 600 years, 10 X 60, to Noah's flood in 3637 BC in the 600th year. The Babylonians and Egyptians divided the sky into 360 degrees. See BABYLONIAN MATHEMATICS AND SEXAGESIMAL NOTATION The Egyptians had a 360 day calendar. Thus cycles of 60 were also common in the Middle East. Thus sun miracles at 10 year intervals or multiples thereof may have inspired the Chinese 60 year and 60 day cycles. Solomon started building the temple in 1039 BC, 240 years after the Exodus and 200 years after Israel crossed the river Jordan into the promised land. Also the children of Israel kept the Jubilee every 50 years and were in exile for 70 years. There may have been a sun miracle in Darius I 's reign 522 BC - 485 BC (509 BC - 477 BC): "In (King King's) 14nth year (504 BC) the milky way was not visible in the sky." Thus king Darius could say:
6:27 "He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."
Confucius reportedly saw a unicorn in his old age. He died in 479 BC. His mother reportedly saw a unicorn before he was born in 560 BC. Confucius told his disciples before he departed: "Birds I know can fly, fish I know can swim, and beasts I know can run. For that which runs, one can make snares. For that which swims, one can make lines. For that which flies, one can make arrows with strings attached. As for the dragon, I can never know how it mounts the wind and clouds and ascends into the sky." The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII, p.22 Confucius could have seen a sun miracle, one in a series of four in 504 BC, 492 BC, or 480 BC and thus seen one of the four beasts the ox or calf that looked like a unicorn, perhaps with a crown. He may have seen the dragon or God ascending the sky when there was a sun miracle. Confucius died in 479 BC. That is, there was an omen of the sun for Xerxes to conquer the Greeks. This NASA eclipse for 480 BC could be Xerxes' omen. A sun miracle at the battle of Marathon in 480 BC could be Xerxes' omen. Then the final chapter of Esther may have been written in the year of the Jubilee in 470 BC when Mordecai took care of his people. Then the deliverance of the Jews must have been in 474 BC when also there may have been a sun miracle. Or the deliverence of the Jews was in the year of the Jubile 470 BC. Confucius saw a unicorn just before he died in 479 BC. Which may indicate a sun miracle in 480 BC. See Unicorns: "To them, it was a symbol of wisdom. Around 2852 BC, (3322 BC by James Legge) the Emperor Fu Hsi wrote of seeing a k'i-lin. He saw markings on the coat of the animal, and perceived those symbols as a written language, thus giving credit to the k'i-lin for the establishment of the written Chinese language." The Eight Trigrams surround the Yin Yang. These were expanded to 64 by king Wan - the foundation of the Chinese language. The yellow horse dragon emerged from the water of the Lo River and presented the elements of writing to him. This may be: "When the day declined, there came a fine and glorious light; and a yellow dragon issued and came to the altar, bearing a scheme on his back, 32 cubits long and 9 cubits broad, in lines of red and green intermingled, the words were which that he should resign in favour of Yu." Thus the lines may have seemed like writing. Thus also one of the four beasts before God's throne may have moved the sun, the ox or calf or unicorn with a crown. The five colors of the unicorn may represent the five colors of one of the four beasts before God's throne: blue (and green) yellow red white and black. The cycle of the five colors of the yin yang may also refer to the five visible planets which must also move 180°. "The five colors take turns each conquered by the next in sequences such as the rise and fall of dynasties." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China Likely the sun was dimmed while it stood still making it easier and safer to look at as it stood still at the horizon. The tail of the Lin, unicorn, may represent motion as the sun appeared to move through 180° of constellations. The deer is known for its ability to run thus the likeness. Thus the tail to the running flaming deer, the sun. Judges 5:31 "Let them that love the LORD be as the sun which goeth forth in its might." Psalm 19:5 "as a strong man to run a race." The Chinese depicted the sun standing still on the horizen as running because like the Hebrews they knew the sun was moving against the constellations that day, moving with earth's rotation. The Chinese phoenix has the same tail. Ancient depictions of the Chinese phoenix likened it to the peacock's tail, or more like a pheasant. 10 E 45 Newtons were needed to move the sun so it should come as no surprise the forces at work to move the sun may have left a long tail if one could look closely at the sun to see it before the sun temporarily blinded the onlooker. Warning, looking at the sun is dangerous and can cause permanent eye damage. Also the tail may represent the five visible planets keeping their relative position in the sky to the sun, trailing behind, all moving 180° at the same time. Huang di became emperor at the appearing of a unicorn 2697 BC, a sun miracle. Then this unicorn in Yao's seventh year must have been the sun standing still at the horizon, the sun moving 180° east, either standing still in the middle of the Egyptian sky or a 12 hour longer Egyptian night, to usher in the seven years of famine, March 31 2350 BC. In legend the seal of heaven was given to the emperor Yao by a phoenix as the emperor was sitting in a boat. Likewise, according to the Han dynasty legend the first seal was given to the yellow emperor, Huang di, by a yellow dragon. Thus there should have been a sun miracle in 2698/2697 BC whereupon Huang di was made emperor. The yellow dragon is the fire star often mistaken for a comet. In Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4 the glory of God was like a fire, yellow.

These lunar mansions date from the time of Yao in 2350 BC. The earliest lunar mansions date from 3117 BC. "The most common and the earliest division of the ecliptic is that of the 28 mansions. These are of very unequal extent, and consequently very inconvenient for any purpose but that of astrology" Never the less the moon was in the first lunar sign Yih or Corvus on the sun miracle January 26 2287 BC perhaps described by the calendar bean - see Shun. This lunar zodiac progresses counterclockwise as the moon appears to orbit earth counterclockwise as does the sun in earth's normal orbit and the lunar mansions are in normal sequence. Even when earth was in a reverse orbit of the sun the moon maintained its orbit, only 180° from the star it was in the day before. Likewise, the lunar month would begin the 180° away and close one sign of the zodiac in reverse, each successive lunar month beginning with the sun appearing in the reverse sequence of the signs of the zodiac. The Chinese could not have used all 28 mansions for 28 days of the 29.5 days of the lunar month when earth was in a reverse orbit because the sun moved into the 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, days as earth orbited the sun in reverse. That is, the sun moves with the moon's orbit in earth's normal orbit of the sun to leave the 27 and 28 day mansion visible that was not visible at the start of the lunar month because the sun was there. The opposite happens in a reverse orbit of the sun. Thus the Chinese could only use 3/4 of their lunar mansions in a reverse orbit of the sun. At the same time there would still be 29.5 days in the lunar month. Also the lunar month must be 4 hours shorter than the normal lunar month because the year must be 48 hours shorter. The moon would not have to orbit faster because its orbit would be against earth's orbit and the 4 hours less a month automatic. These mansions are only approximate divisions of the sky. Nevertheless, not seeing a quarter of them every month would confound them. See the TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY OF THE CH'U SILK MANUSCRIPT from 400 BC.
Here you see the first lunar day February 20 1238 BC. The moon is at the end of Pisces:

Here you see the sun has moved east one monthly zodiac constellation, Pisces. You see the last visible lunar day of this cycle March 20 1238 BC. March 20 is day 28. The moon is in the middle of Pisces. Thus all 28 visible lunar mansions are accounted for:
In a reverse orbit the last two lunar mansions would not be visible because instead of the sun moving up Pisces the sun would appear to move down. Thus the last two lunar mansions in Pisces would not appear because Pisces would not appear. Thus the last two lunar mansions would not be visible. Some of these 28 lunar mansions were as large as one zodiacal sign. Thus the Chinese would not see the last lunar mansion at least in a reverse orbit.
Yao's reverse solar zodiac would progress clockwise through these lunar mansions, that is, not in normal sequence. Which way the zodiac progresses depends if you are looking south or north. However, we are talking about the very real event of earth orbiting the sun in reverse, the sun progressing through the zodiac in reverse sequence. "There are stars which favour wind and stars which favour rain. When the sun and moon move, we have winter and summer. If the moon follows the stars [rather than following its own path], there will be rain and wind." The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume V.1, p.276. That is, when earth was in a reverse orbit of the sun the moon would appear to move with the zodiac. That is, The moon moves west east as it orbits. In a reverse orbit of the sun the stars would move west east through the year. East west each night but west east through the year. The sun in 2300 BC was in Taurus in spring which is depicted here in the west "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" Chinese Classics, III p.94 It would not matter what month the sun moved 180° spring would always be in the east in a reverse orbit, because the constellation the sun was in the winter solstice would be north. "We must remember the hour of midnight at the winter solstice is with the Chinese a grand epoch; a sort of repetition of the T'ae-keih or commencement of all things. Let the circle in the annexed figure represent the position of the ecliptic at midnight in mid-winter, in relation to the Chinese earth, represented by a square space in the center. At the season and hour in question, in the time of Yaou, Leo would be in the meridian, and south of the zenith in the middle of China; Taurus would be in the west, and Scorpio in the east; and it is correctly inferred that Aquarius, though invisible, would be north of nadir. Accordingly, the seven winter mansions of which Aquarius is the center are assigned to the north, and the seven summer mansions of which Leo is the center are assigned to the south. Thus far the arrangement agrees with that already described according to the motions of the Great Bear. 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, etc." The Chinese Classics III p.94 The zodiac represents the constellation the sun is in at the time and since Yao was talking about the sun there should be no problem. This depiction is a depiction of the vernal equinox. However, the sun can only be in the east in spring in a reverse orbit. And that this was the prevailing notion of the Chinese reverse orbits must have been so frequent so as they thought they were the norm. Every sun miracle was followed by a sun miracle within a few years. Thus there must be at least 100 sun miracles from 3000 BC. "The special object of He's observation was to ascertain that mid spring, the vernal equinox, was correctly fixed; and the final end was that the 'labours of the east' might be adjusted. Those labours of the east are the labours of spring..the south stands for summer the west for autumn and the north for winter." That is, the sun at sunrise in Scorpius in the east in spring, the sun at noon in Leo in summer would have had the sun in the east in Scorpius in spring in a reverse orbit, the sun at sunset in Taurus in autumn with Scorpius in the east, the sun on the other side of the earth at midnight in Aquarius in winter with Scorpius now visible again in the sunrise position in the east, the year likened to a day. Thus the sun in a reverse orbit would appear to move from east to west through the year, through the stars, just as it does though the day. Just as depicted in this grand epoch at midnight on the winter solstice. This picture is only complete when earth is in a reverse orbit and the sun was in the constellation in the sunrise position in spring when the sun is in the summer constellation at noon. The above diagram depicts the zodiac. The sun is to the east of the zodiac 2356 BC on the spring equinox. Of course sunrise in the east could symbolize spring, a noon sun in the south summer and a sunset in the west autumn. Likewise the apparent association with a day and a year - the sun appearing to move from the west to the east against the stars as we orbit the sun counterclockwise as we do now. However, in a reverse orbit the sun would travel through the zodiac from east to west and spring would be in the east. James Legge is right, there is no way in the present counterclockwise orbit for the zodiac to depict spring in the east. "The labours of the seasons are therefore called 'changes.' For Ts'een has 'the hidden things,' with reference to the energies of nature now working in concealment." The Chinese Classics, The Canon of Yaou, p.19 p.21 Notes. "only since a new order of things has it come about that the stars move from east to west." Bellamy, Moons Myths and Man, 1938, p.69 This must mean earth in a reverse orbit, the stars gradually moving from west to east through the year. The months of the year must be in reverse against the sign of the zodiac the sun was in, in a reverse orbit. See Seneca's falling zodiac. Except for Aquarius none of Yao's stars would have been visible in their season. Yao's Canon may also be depicted with a -20° or +70° = 90° shift in axis because all four of these stars are 90° apart. Therefore the shift could be March or September 20° clockwise, or May or November 70° counterclockwise. Ho, Antares, is 99° from Neaou, Alphard. A possibility then is the sun moved 180° on March 31 and earth shifted 20° clockwise to keep in the same season and produced these star markers for Yao's seasons. Neaou is the phoenix, the bird star. This March 31 2357 BC rendition would see the sun move 180° from Aquarius, beside Pegasus, to Virgo. This is about the time horses were introduced to the Middle East. Perhaps the people of the Middle East were so terrified by this sun miracle or an earlier one they sacrificed a horse and named the constellation Pegasus and the altar the Great Square. "Did seeing the stars of Pegasus above the altar of the setting sun prompt early observers to conceive of the constellation as an inverted, sacrificial horse?..many writers place the establishment of our currently accepted Greek constellations at this time" (2500 BC - 1500 BC) The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, April 2003 Eos the goddess of dawn rode Pegasus. Perhaps a sudden sunrise was like Eos openning the gates of heaven so Helios could ride his chariot up the sky. The Chinese unicorn, qilin, was often seen when there was a sun miracle. The hoofs of the unicorn were depicted as on a horse. They probably saw one of the four beasts before God's throne like and ox or calf with two sets of wings, Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4. Thus the people of the Middle East may have likened this angel to a horse with wings. Thus also, they may have likened this angel to pulling the sun when there was a sun miracle as in the chariot of the sun.

These four stars can only be at the meridian on the solstices and equinoxes in the 800 BC axis position, only possible in a reverse orbit. The star marking the day of the equinoxes and sostices would change depending on the date of the first sun miracle. If the sun moved up or down after the sun miracle earth would be kept in the same season. However the months would progress in reverse against the stars. So, a sun miracle in March 31 2356 BC would have the effect of having the stars that marked the seasons be as if it was in 800 BC. Instead of passing westward in following days, these stars must pass eastward, 1° each day, and thus then be east of the meridian when they appeared. Thus the emphasis on their first appearance after dark to mark the solstices and equinoxes. And thus all the easier to observe at the meridian when they first appeared at dusk. This observation makes more sense when taken just before dawn in a reverse orbit. Thus perhaps the command to observe the rising sun, perhaps on the day of the second sun miracle. Also, because the sun must have moved 180° about 10 days before the equinox, perhaps fall equinox, Ho should be just east of the meridian at dusk at the second sun miracle half an orbit later. This because earth is moving in reverse toward Ho, Antares, and because 10 days before the fall equinox equals 180° to 10 days before the normal position of the vernal equinox. So Ho would be 10 days more visible, more like 800 BC visibility in 2357 BC just because of the position of earth in orbit around the sun without even factoring in earth's shift to keep in the same season. Earth does not have to shift, the sun can move 180° around the earth and move up or down to keep earth in the same season without earth shifting. Moreover, the rising sun in spring in Yao's Canon may refer to a sudden sunrise, sun miracle, in spring. The object of the observation to see a normal sky that night as earth flowed out of the reverse orbit and Alphard was visible at dark. Thus the bright valley moreso than spring's brightness, the brightness of the sun to make up for a short day. Then the sun must move 180° late that night for a long night and earth is in a reverse orbit again. Two half reverse orbits to leave no missing time. No missing 40 minutes as in the Missing Day Story. You can see this depicted below:

If you line up earth on the left with the sun and the red E on the right above you see the sun is in the east in the reverse orbit in spring. Similarly, to the left you see a zodiac. The sun was in Scorpius in the east in spring, and now is in Leo in summer at 12PM. Spring can only be in the east in a reverse orbit. Likewise the sun is passing from east to west through a reverse orbit year just like the sun appears to move from the east to the west through the day. - Likewise the Han dynasty from 200 BC depicted these Chinese phoenixes on the left, Feng and Huang, facing each other to mean south. Perhaps because the sun would appear to move from east to south to west in a reverse orbit. Like Nan Yang meant south sun which was changed to Lu Yang which means dull sun when the sun reversed. The character for "Lu" depicts a horn, as in the horn of the unicorn, over the sun. The sun must dim when travelling east. This in order to leave the same daily coral line. Joshua commanded the sun to Damam from which we get the word dim. Thus Joshua was commanding the sun to be dull or dim. Then also he was commanding the sun to travel east whereupon God would make the sun dim. When the sun moved 180° near the spring equinox the noon position would mark the constellation the sun would be in summer. The phoenixes looking at each other could represent two sun miracles, one in spring and one in fall. Such as the reverse orbit from Joshua's long day on February 26 1238 BC to Deborah/Barak/Gideon's sudden sunrise half an orbit later, August 31 1238 BC. "The signs of the Chinese zodiac have the strange peculiarity of proceeding in a retrograde direction, that is against the course of the sun." Bellamy, Moons, Myths and Man. This can only mean a reverse orbit. Only in a reverse orbit does the sun proceed in a retrograde direction opposite to what it does now. "The Chinese ecliptic (the Yellow Way - Huang To) progresses in the reverse order." That is, the rooster which depicts the sun in the west is in September/October. The sun can only be to the west of the zodiac in September/October in a reverse orbit.
The "yellow way auspicious day" means auspicious day; auspicious/unfortunate - can mean reverse such as the sun reversing, this character for auspicious was used in connection with phoenixes "When Che ascended the throne there was the auspicious omen of phoenixes." "In his (emperor Kin's 1891 BC) 8th year, there was an inauspicious (unfortunate) portent in the sky -- 10 suns appeared together" The zodiac is the "yellow way twelve temple map". Emperor Huang di introduced the zodiac about 2637 BC. There was a sun miracle recorded in his first year 2697 BC, 2678 BC, 2648 BC and his last year 2598 BC. Thus it should be no surprise that the first zodiac moved in reverse.
That is, the sequence of constellations the sun passed through was in reverse whether depicted in a clockwise circle or a counterclockwise circle - earth in a reverse orbit. In 10 BC the Chinese asked "What should we do if there is a solar eclipse?" Xueshun Liu May possibly read "What shall we do if the sun suddenly sets?" "During the third year of the Yuan-Yen reign-period a (po) comet was seen at She-Thi and Ta- Chio. Spring, first lunar month. Mount Min [in Szechuan] collapsed. It blocked the river Chiang (Yangzte) for three days...Further a hsing po has reached the constellations Shi-T'i and Ta-Chueh extending from Shen to Ch'en, disaster is certain." Halley's Comet and the Ghost Event of 10BC, p.114. A comet and an earthquake may indicate a sun miracle. The comet may rather be the dragon, the glory of God. This may have been the reason for the oracle bone inscription "What shall we do if there is a solar eclipse?"
"The [movements of the] Sun and the Moon .... (= verb?) in confusion, the Stars and the Constellations will not be in harmony. Should [the movements of] the Sun and the Moon have already become confused, then by the close of the year .... (= verb?), the seasonal rainfall will come and go, and there will be no regularity. Respectful (= humble?) people not yet aware [of this], .... will regard [it] as thence (= as a norm). Do not move (= disturb?) the multitudes of the people" TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY OF THE CH'U SILK MANUSCRIPT BY NOEL BARNARD
That is, what the Chinese meant by eclipse may rather be the more startling event of a sudden sunset. When the sun moved 180° back the planets must move 180° back to where they normally would be for that day in a planetarium program and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. Perhaps the Yellow Way was originally reference to Huang di the Yellow Emperor, 2697 - 2598 BC, in his first year was a unicorn and in whose 20th year there came together phoenixes and in his 50th year phoenixes appeared and in whose 100th year the earth was rent. Plenty of sun miracles in the beginning of Chinese history. The sun is yellow, probably what is meant by the yellow way. The yellow dragon, however, probably describes the glory of God, a fire, as in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4. The fire star was often mistaken in Chinese records for a comet. Only the star moved like lightning at times and sometimes gave a flash of light. The dragon or the phoenix was seen when there was a sun miracle. Some sun miracles occurred in fifty year intervals perhaps like the 50 year Jubilee. "Huang di was immortalized into a dragon, (the yellow dragon, when he died in his 100th year) that looks like his emblem. That explains why the Chinese dragon has a body of a snake; the scales and tail of a fish; the antlers of a deer; the face of a qilin (a deer-like mythical creature with fire all over its body); and two pairs of talons of eagles; and the eyes of a demon. They fly in the sky among the clouds. Almost all pictures of Chinese dragons show them playing with a flaming pearl." Red or pink pearls were very rare and only the emperor was allowed to wear the pearl. I saw this depiction of the dragon chasing the sun pearl in the Jade Factory in Beijing. You can see the depiction of the sun pearl in the center and dragons and phoenixes chasing it from the temple of heaven at Beijing. Also at the temple of heaven there were dozens of phoenixes surrounding it with their beaks open, round as if to carry the sun. Likewise dragons. - Likewise you can see several phoenix beaks facing up on the sides of this brass bell. The impressions on the surface are supposed to depict a heavenly creature. The dots look like the little dipper above the big dipper. The little dipper was the region of the pole star/position about 200 BC and was associated with the emperor. Also when there was a sun miracle/phoenix, the earth must shift on its axis to keep in the same season up and down this same region. This phoenix bell would be rung when there was a sun miracle, a phoenix. From TheSky Software Bisque - As you can see from this depiction of the Big Dipper on the ceiling of Pharaoh Seti I the man below is pointing to the position of the pole which was where the Egyptians imagined the deceased pharaoh had gone in 1355 BC. This bell was made only a few hundred years after in the Chow dynasty. Thus the pole position was about the same. "The mother of Kao-ti of Han once met a jade bird which held a red pearl" This could be the Feng bird carrying the sun. Likewise the mother of Liu Bang was said to have conceived to a dragon. Thus Liu Bang called himself "Son of Dragon" when he became emperor of China in 202 BC. There was a sun miracle recorded in China in 230 BC and the counterpart to it may have occurred about the time Liu Bang was conceived. The flaming pearl must be the sun that was moved 180° east or west around the earth.
Perhaps "Huang To" symbolized the yellow sun appearing to move in reverse against the zodiac through the year. The sun's yellow color made more apparent from standing still in the sky for 12 hours. A 12 hour yellow sunset. Perhaps marking the beginning and ending of one of the earliest recorded reverse orbits of earth. "The emperor Yao ordered his ministers Hsi and Ho to make the sighting-tube (lit. horizontal traverse) to observe the degrees of the positions of the stars. The ring and tube were made of hard jade because they wanted the apparatus to endure all weathers and to be always movable, not decaying with age." Joseph Needham, Heavenly Clockwork, p62. In the stone age jade was prized because it did not fracture. The diagram above of Yao's Canon explains what follows: (Try applet) James Legge on ancient Chinese Astronomy: (Read pages 92 and 93 for yourself) According to the interpretation of the Canon of Yahou, [1 2 3 4 5], all these stars would have passed on to the west before they were visible. Yet Yao recorded these stars at the zenith, (mid sky, culminate, in transit - passing through the noon position, the meridian, directly above, straight up, mean the same thing) when they first appeared at night fall on the equinoxes and solstices. As you can read in Yao's Canon, he put some emphasis on how nature tells these seasons, perhaps because the stars in the reverse orbit cease to determine the seasons thus when earth flows into its normal orbit of the sun. The fire star that is above in summer is part of the azure dragon, green dragon. Thus, there is the inference the green dragon had something to do with the reason to determine the four seasons. Moreover, Li Hsueh-ch'in argues that the constellation Niao does not appear in the bone inscriptions. In that reverse year of 2357 BC the star marking spring must have been what would normally mark fall, and likewise the star marking fall be what would normally mark spring.
"See! the floods assail the heavens. Oh! chief of the four mountains, destructive in their overflow are the waters of the inundation. In their vast extent they embrace the mountains and overtop the hills, threatening the heavens with their floods," Canon of Yaou Yao commanded Yu to combat the flood waters. Attributed to 2283 BC, just after the reverse orbit from December 2288 BC/January 2287 BC to December/January 2285 BC. Shun was made emperor after the sun miracle on January 31 2287 BC, actually January 20 2287 BC because of some 10 missing days counting back from 776 BC. If the sun moved 180° and earth flowed into a reverse orbit, a weather change, rain or drought, would be expected. The direction of the earth's axis naturally changes over a period of 25,800 years (this is the precession of the equinoxes). For earth to keep in the same season earth must precess, shift on its axis. This means there would be a new pole star, perhaps the very faint SAO 7814 2357 BC - 2350 BC. If the sun moved 180° January 31 or January 20 2287 BC earth must turn 150° to Alderamin. Earth shifted about 22° on Yao's long day to an 800 BC pole star. "The god of the north pole was named Yaou pi p'tou after the emperor Yao." The Puranas, Barriedale Keith p.165 VS: Dhruna was the sun of Uttanapada's second wife..Though only 4 or 5 years old, the younger lad resented this inferiority..Dhruna determined to venerate Vishnu. Vishnu elevated Dhruna to the position of the pole star. "The stars, and their figures, and also the planets shall turn around you." Hamlet's Mill Vishnu may have been closely associated with the Sunbird Garuda (the phoenix). In these writings also "the Sun is stopped from rising". The 4 or 5 years may depict the duration of a reverse orbit. 5 years is about the maximum of a reverse orbit because both sun miracles must be 9 X 180° to leave no missing time.

Joseph's Dreams may have been fulfilled in the beginning of the 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine. The Egyptians started the great era July 16, 2777 BC of 365 day years. Because they did not have leap year the calendar fell further behind. So by 2348 BC the calendar new year would be April 1, the month Jacob came down into Egypt. The Egyptians used to end their year with the appearing of Sirius, a five day feast. Later they began their year with the five days. Their Sothis calendar would back up a day every four years, that backed up date being the Sothis cycle new year's day. This was simply a result of their 365 day year. The year is 365.2422 days even back then. However, Sirius first appeared July 16 from 4236 BC to 2777 BC and July 17 1320 BC on till Sirius was noticed to no longer appear on the same July 17 date a few hundred years before Christ. So the Sothis calendar of 365.25 days worked perfectly with Sirius. However, the spring equinox fell back one day ever 128 years in the Sothis calendar of 30 day months tied to Sirius. Meanwhile precession of the equinoxes against the stars was and is 1.4 degrees every 100 years. This 365.25 day calendar meant that the calendar had backed up to July 16 2777 BC at the appearing of Sirius before dawn after 1459 years. Then the calendar had backed up to July 17 at the first appearing of Sirius before dawn 1320 BC after 1456 years. Thus long Sothis cycles made dates much easier to uncover.
Exodus 41:1 "And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands;". Yao's long day March 31 2357 was recorded just before Yao became emperor.
Phaethon: "The springs turned into steam; the rivers shrank. It is said that it was then the Nile fled..."
Genesis 41:56 "And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses of the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt."
Genesis 15:12 "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;"
The sojourn must have begun on the 430th year of the Sothis cycle and appears to have been over 1069 years. The affliction must have been during the last 400 of these years. See 400 year stela. The Egyptians may have been aware of the 400 years in scripture and knowing it began 1679 BC were unwilling it would end in 1279 BC. Pharaoh Ahmose must have been the pharaoh that knew not Joseph and enslaved the Hebrews. Ahmose is dated to 1550 BC. We must put him 76 years further back because Ramses II can be shown to have died in 1289 BC not 1213 BC. 76 years because every 19 years the moon date is the same. So 4 X 19 = 76 years using the only date to Ramses II. 1550 BC + 76 = 1626 BC. There were three pharaohs that celebrated a 30 year Sed in year 21, 16 and 17. This 30 years cannot be changed. See Ahmose I So we should put Ahmose 36 more years back. 1626 + 36 = 1662 BC. There are only 17 more years back to 1679 BC. Sun miracles in: 1891 - 1807 - 1788 - 1765 BC must have been to help the Israelites right up to the time they were made slaves about 1680 BC (Possibly there was a sun miracle in this period in Senmut's time, 1460 BC - rather 76 years earlier 1544 BC, suggested by his celestial ceiling). Perhaps the Israelites were made slaves from the Hyksos invasion in 1663 BC to the Exodus in 1279 BC. Perhaps the Egyptians wanted to prevent them from leaving Egypt from this period of instability.
Genesis 46:3 "And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:"
1069 years is time for Israel to grow to two million people and become a great nation. So the 400 years must be a period and the 430th year a date. 969 years after Abraham's birth in 2648 BC is 1679 BC when the 400 years began. Moses writes of Joseph:
Deuteronomy 33:13 "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that croucheth beneath,
14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moons,"
The seven years of plenty after the sun stood still for Joseph about March 31 2357 BC may be these precious fruits. The precious things brought forth by the moons may refer to Christ's precious blood shed on the full moon of the Passover, which began the day of the Sojourn into Egypt on the full moon April 3 2348 BC and the Passover night of the Exodus out of Egypt April 4 1279 BC.

Adjustments to Bible Dates

Romans 5:6 "For when we were yet without strength, according to the time Christ died for the ungodly."
Many dates for sun miracles suggest they were to point to the coming of Christ in 4 BC: Genesis 5:4a "And the days of Adam after..were eight hundred years". Perhaps Adam lived after year 800 Sothis. Then Adam was born in year 800, perhaps Sothis year 800. However, 800 may represent the duodecimal system, a 12 base number system instead of our 10 base number system. Thus 800 may be 8 X 12 X 12. Languages in the Nigerian Middle Belt such as Janji, Kahugu, the Nimbia dialect of Gwandara, Mahl language of Minicoy and the Chepang language of Nepal are known to use duodecimal numerals. This region encompasses what is described as Eden the Nile and Euphrates Rivers:
Genesis 2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that encompasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the name of the fourth is Euphrates."
Thus vestiges of the duodecimal system would be expected from the fringes of this land which we find. Havilah, Kush, may refer to the upper Nile which went by the same name as this location - An ancient Gold Center was discovered on the Nile in June of 2007. From Minicoy: "The kings of the Maldives styled themselves as "Kings of Twelve Thousand Islands. This indicated a huge number rather than a numerical value. In the old Maldive duodecimal system of counting, twelve thousand was a round figure such as a hundred thousand in the decimal system." - There are 12,000 lunar cycles in 969 years, the age of Methuselah. This area is just east of Yemen possibly associated with Havilah. This area is also is south of the Uizhun Golden River which empties into the Caspian sea, which has been suggested by David Rohl to be the land of Havilah. This area is also just south of the Indus River which has been suggested by Josephus as the River Pison. These are near the Chepang of Nepal, still an ancient hunter gather people much as Adam and Eve were. "Duodecimal Area in Nigeria - Meek reported several languages with duodecimal numeration. Most of them belong to Plateau Group of Niger-Kordofanian languages." This area is just west of the Nile basin, one of the four rivers of Eden. "Cush (Ethiopia) generally refers in the Bible to Nubia, a region south of Egypt corresponding roughly to the present-day Nilotic Sudan." The onyx stone is a member of the chalcedony family. You can see some sun getting through in image 1 and you can see the ring carved out behind the bubble lens in image 2 and you can see the bubble lens in image 3. The stone was used to see solar eclipses and the phoenix. "Onyx is originally an Assyrian word meaning ring, and so could refer to anything used for making rings." Looking through the groove in the ring one may see the sun through this smokey chalcedony. The onyx may also mean diamond which came from Africa and sparkled in the sun more than any other stone. Nevertheless, this Native American chalcedony stone with a ring carved around it for viewing the sun may be the original meaning of the onyx stone in the Bible and originating in Asia and perhaps Africa thousands of years ago.
This 4548 BC could explain seven generations from Adam - if generations were 87 years as is consistent with the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, this could be so. 4548 - 7 X 87 = 3939, Sothis year 300 from 4236 BC - the age given for Enoch probably at his birth, the seventh from Adam. More importantly adding the generations back from Enoch in Sothis year 300 below; 3936 BC, we get 4558 BC for Adam's birth. Most likely Adam was born in 4548 BC to be 144 + 4400 years before the birth of Christ in 4 BC as many other important dates also follow this pattern of 144 + hundreds. 4548 - 130 + 13 X 144 = 2546 BC. Isaac, a type of Christ, was born 2000 years after Adam in 2548 BC.
Romans 5:17 "For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ."
Adam at 1152 (8 X 12 X 12) years from the beginning of the first Sothis cycle about 5696 BC is 4544 BC. Moreover, probably the Sothis cycle began rather July 17 meaning there was one more day to July 16 4236 BC, four more years. That is the Sothis calendar backed up one day past July 17 to July 16. Meaning Adam must have been born exactly 144 + 4400 years before the birth of Christ.
God reversed the fall of Adam with the birth of Christ. 10 X 12 X 12 duodecimal years is 1440 years just 20 short of a Sothis cycle of about 1460 years. And is 5 days short, 5 X 4 = 20, equaling 360 days. This is a perfect fit, for the Egyptian Sothis calendar has 360 days with 5 days left over. Then because the Egyptians left out leap year their calendar backed up 1 day every 4 years to back up 365 days in 1460 years to the exact appearing of Sirius before dawn at 4 AM July 16 Julian. If a 24 hour day were divided into quarters, sunrise to noon one quarter; there would be 1440 quarters in a 360 day year. 360 days in duodecimal would be written 260 or 21/2 X 144. Also the three seasons of 120 days would be written in duodecimal A0 days, 10 is A, 11 is B, and 12 is 10. They had 12 weeks of 10 days to a season. Jupiter orbits the sun in 12 years. The 12 constellations Jupiter passes through match the 12 constellations the moon passes through with the sun a year. The oldest calendar is a pebble from Iraq from 10,000 years ago with 12 notches for the 12 lunar months in a year. Thus Adam in Eden may have used the duodecimal numbering system.
Genesis 5:31 "And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died."
From the birth of Adam perhaps 4548 BC to the birth of Seth 130 years after and perhaps the death of Adam, 4418 BC, less 777 years is the year 595. Thus Lamech may have lived 777 years after Adam, Genesis 6:30,31. Jesus' ministry may have been just over two years about 777 days. However Jesus' ministry may have been three years two months, 1152 days. Then Adam must have been born in 4548 BC and the Sothis cycle began July 17 5700 BC and ended an additional day later July 16 4236 BC, a 1464 year period. Then Adam's birth lines up with Jesus' birth and Eden with Jesus' doctrine. Then from the beginning from Adam marriage was for life as Jesus said:
Matthew 19:8 "He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery."
Methusaleh lived to year 969, notable because it is the biggest number and is 12,000 lunar months to the day. That 11,985 lunar months, 969 years, end on the same Sothis/Julian date. Perhaps counting from an event 144 years before Adam's birth, duodecimal Sothis year 700, 4692 BC. Then Methusaleh may have died in 3723 BC and been born 187 years earlier in 3910 BC when Enoch was 26. There may be 10 years unaccounted for. Then perhaps Methuselah was born in 3900 when Enoch was 36, the age Jesus was when he would be resurrected then Methuselah would be 29 when Enoch was translated. Perhaps we can use it for ages after Adam, not necessarily Methusaleh's age: 4548 BC - 130 - 969 = 3448 BC, 144 + 3300 years before Jesus' birth in 4 BC. Then 3448 BC - 969 years to when Isaac was 69 when he had Esau and Jacob in 2479 BC. Likewise 69 years after the Sojourn into Egypt in 2348 BC is 2279 BC back 969 years is 3248 BC - 144 + 3100 years before Jesus' birth. Noah lived 350 years from 3636 BC to 950 Sothis. Then Lamech would be about 38 when Noah was born, perhaps 3786 BC, if Noah lived 500 years to 3286 BC. 1000 years later Joseph was 100 in 2287 BC when there was a sun miracle recorded in China, and 1400 years from Noah's birth to Joseph's birth. If Noah was born 150 years before the flood he would be 30 at 120 years before the flood and 50 when he fathered Shem. Noah may have lived 35 years after the flood instead of 350 years. This would be about 3600 years before Jesus birth in 4 BC. Shem may have lived 50 years after the flood instead of 500 to be 150 years old when he died. And Lamech would have lived 144 years after Noah's birth. Lamech may have died 777 years after 4418 BC in Sothis year 595, 3642 BC. Lemech the son of Cain, the sixth from Adam, said if Cain be avenged 7 fold, then Lemech 77 fold. Thus the parallel with Lamech and the 777 years from the birth of Seth, the seed God had appointed in place of Abel whom Cain slew Genesis 4. The Bible states that Noah lived 350 years after the flood. If Noah lived to Sothis year 950, 350 more years after the flood, to 3286 BC, he must have lived to about 500 years.
Genesis 5:32 "And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
Shem was born in Sothis year 500. Probably also Noah lived to be 500 years old. Thus lunar dates for 3448 BC were 19 years after 3467 BC and thus lunar dates matched Sothis dates from Adam's death and the birth of Seth in 4418 BC. 3448 BC less 969 = 2479 BC Esau and Jacob's birth when Isaac was 69. Methusaleh was Enoch's son and died at 187 year 969. Adam's 800th year may be 5696 - 800 = 4896 BC. 4896 BC - 130 - 969 = 3797, 3797 + 187 = 3984 Sothis year 252. However, Enoch was in Sothis year 300 to Sothis year 365. Likewise counting the ages back from Enoch in 300 Sothis, 3936 BC: Jared 162 + Mahalaleel 65 + Cainan 70 + Enos 90 + Seth 105 + Adam 130 = 4558 BC = Adam's birth. That is, these were the ages of the patriarchs when the next generation was born. Thus Adam's birth must be 4548 BC 144 + 4400 years before Christ was born in 4 BC. Thus perhaps an extra 10 years was added to the generations from Adam.

4548 BC Adam born 144 + 4400 before Jesus' birth in 4 BC
4418 BC Seth, 2600 years later there was a sun miracle in China
        in 1817 BC - 969 - 144 - 700 years to Jesus' birth in 4 BC.
        4418 BC - 969 years to 3448 BC - 144 - 3300 years to Jesus'
        birth in 4 BC. 
3448 BC - 969 years to Esau and Jacob's birth in 2479 BC when
        Isaac was 69.
4312 BC Enos 1800 years to when Abraham went to offer up Isaac in 
        2512 BC. 144 + 4200 years to Jesus' crucifixion in 33 AD.
4222 BC Cainan
4152 BC Mahalaleel
4088 BC Jared 1800 years to the sun miracle in 2287 BC when Joseph 
        was 100.
        The same 162 years from Isaac's birth in 2548 BC to
        Joseph's birth in 2388 BC.
3936 BC Enoch Sothis year 300 from 4236 BC
3910 BC perhaps when Methuselah was born
3823 BC perhaps when Lamech was born when Methusalah was 87
3723 BC year 969 from duodecimal year 700, 4692 BC. Methuselah 
        died at 187. 

        There are 187 years from the sun miracle in 2698 BC to 
        the sun miracle when Abraham whent to offer up Isaac in
        2512 BC. 1200 years before Abraham went to offer up Isaac.
        There are 187 days from Nisan to the Day of Atonement.
        There are 187 days from a sun miracle in winter/spring 
        to when the sun may at the soonest move back.
3824 BC when Lamech was born.
3757 BC 120 years before the flood. 
3737 BC Sothis year 500. Noah was in year 500, perhaps when God 
        spoke to him to build the ark. Then Noah would be 100 years 
        building the ark. 
        Just after this Noah begat Shem.
3642 BC in Sothis year 595. 182 years till Lamech died. 
        If Lamech had lived to 187 years he would have
        died in the year of the flood 3637 BC.
        777 years after Seth was born to Adam. 3642 BC - 969 
        - 969 = 1704 BC
        1700 years before Jesus was born in 4 BC. 
        The 969 years is used from duodecimal year 700, 7 X 144 
        from 5700 BC = 4692 BC.
        7 is the number of completeness, total submission to God.   
3637 BC was Noah's flood in Sothis year 600, 2700 + 969 years 
        later Jesus was crucified in 33 AD.
        The Septuagint gives generations of 130 years which 
        almost adds up to Terah's generation when he had Abraham in 2648 BC. 
        There are 6 more years which could be due to rounding errors. 
        If these generations were an average of 32 years instead of 
        130 years there would be about 30 generations from Noah to Abraham.
        Then there would be 144 generations from Adam to Jesus.
3636 BC Arphaxad born.
3499 BC Salah born.
3369 BC Eber born.
3287 BC Noah died. 1000 years later there was a sun miracle in 2287 BC 
        when Joseph was 100.
3235 BC Peleg born. 
3105 BC Rue born. About 3100 years before Jesus in 4 BC.
2973 BC Serug born.
2837 BC Nahor born. 800 years after the flood.
2718 BC Terah born. 2718 BC - 144 Terah's life - 969 = 1604 BC, 
        1600 years before Jesus in 4 BC.
        3637 BC - 777 - 144 = 2716 BC - 144 = 2572 BC when Terah died.
        2000 years before Hezekiah was made king at the sun miracle at 
		King Ahaz's death.
2648 BC Abraham born.
2572 BC Terah died.
2548 BC Isaac born.
2479 BC Jacob born.
2387 BC Joseph born.
2348 BC The sojourn into Egypt for 40 generations.
2335 BC Jacob was 144, 2335 BC - 777 - 777 - 777 = 4 BC Jesus' birth.
1359 BC Moses born
1279 BC The Exodus
1238 BC Joshua's long day
1190 BC was the first Jubilee.
1122 BC Saul became king.
1082 BC David became king.
1042 BC Solomon became king.
1039 BC The Temple was begun.
705 BC the sun reversed 10 steps for Hezekiah.
687 BC Hezekiah died and there was a sun miracle recorded in China.
575 BC Jerusalem was taken.
504 BC The Temple was rebuilt.
470 BC was the next Jubilee.
168 BC the Greeks took the Temple.
163 BC the Temple was rededicated and there was a sun miracle.
4 BC Jesus was born.
33 AD Jesus was crucified.


More about the number 7:

666 is and incomplete number, rather 
111 should be added to it to become
777

4548 BC Adam was born. 800 years after was
3748 BC 111 years before the flood in 3637 BC.

2479 BC Jacob was born to Isaac when he was 69, year 969
        from 3448 BC which was 969 years from 4418 BC when Seth 
        was born to Adam.
 111    years later
2368 BC Isaac died 2400 years before Jesus was crucified in 33 AD. 
        969 + 111 = 1180 years
 111    years later
2357 BC China made Yao emperor perhaps when there was a
        sun miracle. About the same day Joseph was made
        governor over Egypt.
2348 BC was the Sojourn into Egypt
1069    years later
1279 BC was the Exodus out of Egypt
2348 BC was 2380 years before Jesus was crucified
        111 + 1069 + 200 years to 33 AD
        666 + 111 = 777 years
        Lamech was 71 in 666 years from the birth of Seth
        and lived 111 years more to 182 years.
        Adam lived 130 years to the birth of Seth in 4418 BC.
4418 BC - 777 years = 3642 BC when Lamech, Noah's father died 5 
        years before the flood. Thus Lamech entered into rest 
        and was not destroyed by the flood. The number 7 speaks 
        of rest as in the seventh day of creation.

        The number 7 is the perfect number. 
        Jesus is the perfect example. 
        And we are complete in Him.
        These numbered years point to Jesus' coming perhaps 
        the way they are meant to.

Generations of Adam:

10   generations from Adam to Noah.
8    generations from Arphaxad to Terah.
4    generations from Abraham to Joseph.
40   generations in Egypt to Salmon.
3    generations to David.
Matthew gives:
(14   generations from Abraham to David.)
14   generations to the carrying away to Babylon.
14   generations to Jesus.

93   generations from Adam to Jesus.


If we use Luke's list

21   generations from Adam to Abraham
14   generations from Abraham to David
40   generations in Egypt
21   generations from David to the Exile
21   generations from to Jesus

117  generations from Adam to Jesus.


There were 24 generations added by Luke to Matthew's list.
Likewise if there were 27 more generations there would be 
144 generations from Adam to Jesus. 
Moreover, 144 generation of 25 years is 3600 years. 
4548 -4 -3600 = 944 years for long generations.

Adam     130 - 25 = 105
Seth      105 - 25 = 80
Cainan     70 - 25 = 45
Mahalaleel 65 - 25 = 40
Jared     162 - 25 = 137
Enoch     ?25 - 25 = 0
Methusaleh 87 - 25 = 62
Lamech     62 - 25 = 37
Noah       25 - 25 = 0
Shem      102 - 25 = 75
Abraham   100 - 25 = 75
Isaac      69 - 25 = 44
Jacob      91 - 25 = 66
                    ---
                    581

So 944 - 581 = 363,/130 = 3
  
So the age of an average generation among the remainding 130 
would be 28, 25 +3.

Thus all the ages work to produce 144 generations.

1 Corinthians 15:45 "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit."
The last man Adam was Jesus.
The practice of using duodecimal years must have stopped when Adam left Eden.
Nevertheless there are 700 duodecimal years, 1008 decimal years, from the sun miracle in Joseph's 100th year, 2287 BC, to the Exodus out of Egypt in 1279 BC.
Perhaps the years from Adam to Jesus birth were alluded to in the number 4500:
Ezekiel 48:30 "And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures."
Jared would be born 800 years after Sothis year 800, 5700 - 800 - 800 = 4100 BC. That is adding 162 years to Sothis year 300, 3936 BC, is 4098 BC. Perhaps the 800 years accorded to him. Methusaleh then would be about 36 when Enoch was translated so he did not see death, the age of Jesus when he was crucified and resurrected. Most likely Noah lived 150 years before the flood and 350 years after the flood, about 500 years altogether. Then Lamech would be 36 when Noah was born. There were some other 500 year periods. Such as the 500 years Noah's son Shem lived after the flood. Such as two 500 year periods from Noah's death in 3287 BC to the sun miracle when Joseph was 100 in 2287 BC and 500 years to the sun miracle in 1788 BC and 500 years to the sun miracle at pharaoh's Ramses II's death in 1289 BC. Such as the 500 years from the sun miracle when Huang di became emperor in 2698 BC to the year it rained gold in Yu's last year perhaps a meteor shower from a sun miracle in 2198 BC. Such as the 500 years from Hezekiah's sign in 705 BC to the sun miracle at Liu Bang's Han victory in 203 BC. Such as the 500 years of kings of David to 575 BC and the 500 years from the building of the second temple in 504 BC to Jesus' birth in 4 BC. 500 duodecimal is 720 decimal years, there are about 720 years the sun miracle March 23 687 BC to Jesus' crucifixion on April 3 33 AD. Chinese eclipses are often out one year when the day of 60 is given. Also there would be 694 decimal years or 490 duodecimal years from 688 BC to Jesus' birth in 4 BC. Then the sun must move back March 28 688 BC on the last day of the last lunar month of Adar. Methuselah lived to year 969. 12,000 X 29.5 / 365.25 = 969, thus there are 12,000 lunar cycles in 969 years. To be exact there are 29.53059 days a lunar month and 365.2422 days a tropical year. 969 is very like the 1069 years the children of Israel were in Egypt. The 40th generation in Egypt from 2348 BC may have begun 969 years later in 1379 BC. The full moon Friday April 3 1379 BC was 12,000 lunar months from the Sojourn into Egypt on the full moon Friday April 3 2348 BC. This may have been seven years before the end of the reign of pharaoh Horemheb, a depiction of the sun rising in the west in his tomb may have been from his reign. 4548 BC -130 -969 = 3448 BC, 144 + 3300 years before the birth of Christ. 3448 BC - 969 = 2479 BC when Esau and Jacob were born when Isaac was 69. Then the 1069 year period of the Sojourn from 2348 BC to the Exodus in 1279 BC. From the end of the Sothis cycle 4237 BC less 969 years is 3300 years before Jesus' crucifixion in 33 AD. 969 years from the flood in 3637 BC is 2700 years before Jesus' crucifixion. New emperors in 2737 BC and 2437 BC may have begun on a sun miracle, less 969 years is 1800 years and 1500 years respectively before Jesus' crucifixion. From Noah's flood in 3637 BC, less 969 years is 2700 years to Jesus' crucifixion. Joshua's long day 1238 BC less the 70 years of captivity is exactly 1200 years to Jesus' crucifixion - the five kings put on crosses that evening likened to the two thieves crucified with Jesus. The new Sothis cycle in 2777 BC - 1000 - 969 = the year Akhu En Aten became pharaoh after a sun miracle or eclipse 1424 BC 3:30PM July 3 from Cairo, then 144 years to the Exodus in 1279 BC. Then 1279 BC - 969 = 310 BC, there was a sun miracle recorded by the Chinese in 312 BC. From Jacob's birth in 2479 BC to the Exodus in 1279 BC is 1200 years. The start of the Egyptian calendar was 4236 BC 144 + 144 + 144 + 3800 years before Jesus' birth perhaps marked by a sun miracle. Likewise an earlier Sothis period may have started July 15 5692 BC 144 + 144 + 5400 years before Jesus' birth. Or Adam in year 800 from 5696 BC was born about 4892 BC, 144 + 144 + 4600 years before the birth of Christ.
Genesis 5:22 "And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years,"
300 years after 4236 BC is 3936 BC, 144 + 144 + 144 + 3500 years before the birth of Christ. Enoch was 44 in 3892 BC 27 X 144 years before the birth of Christ. Then Enoch may have lived to 3871 BC, 3900 years to the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry then Jesus' ministry 30 AD. The end of Noah's flood April 12 3636 BC is 144 + 144 + 144 + 3200 years before the birth of Christ. If Methuselah was born in 3910 BC, 4548 + 144 - 969 + 187, then he died 187 years later in 3723 BC when Lamech would be 100. Perhaps Methuselah was born 10 years later, perhaps where the extra 10 years from Adam went. If Methuselah was born in 3900 BC he would be 29 when God took his father and he would have died in 3713 BC, 144 + 3600 years before Jesus' crucifixion and 1200 years before Abraham went to offer up Isaac when he was 36 in 2512 BC when Lamech was 110. The 187 years of Methuselah's life may be likened to the 187 days between the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox. If there was a sun miracle on the vernal equinox the sun must move back 187 days later or full year later for earth to reorient. Likewise if the 182 years of Lamech's life are likened to sun miracles then this must have been near the summer solstice in July or winter solstice in January Julian at that time. The sun miracle in 2648 BC is 144 + 2500 years before the birth of Christ. The Isaac's birth 2548 BC is 144 + 2400 years before the birth of Christ. Likewise the sun miracle in 2512 BC, when Abraham went to offer up Isaac, is 144 + 2400 years to Jesus crucifixion April 3 33 AD and resurrection April 5 33 AD. The sun miracle of Joseph in Egypt in 2357 BC plus 144 years, may be a sun miracle recorded for Shun, is 2213 BC 300 years after Abraham went to offer up Isaac at 36 years old perhaps 2512 BC. Jacob entered Egypt in 2348 BC is 144 + 2200 years before the birth of Christ. Shun died in 2208 BC and there were three years mourning till Yu became emperor in 2205 BC. Nevertheless Shun's reign was counted 50 years from 2255 BC to 2205 BC. There may have been a sun miracle 100 years after Joseph/Yao's long day in 2357 BC that marked the end of Yao's reign in 2257 BC. Likewise there was a sun miracle in Joseph's 100th year in 2287 BC. Likewise there was a sun miracle to mark Huangdi's reign in 2697 BC and 100 years later in 2598 BC when he died. Yu became emperor or at least it was an important date to the Chinese perhaps because of a sun miracle in 2205 BC, perhaps at the Egyptian new year Thursday February 23. 2202 BC was duodecimal 777 years plus 777 years, that is 7 X 144 + 7 X 12 + 7, 1099 + 1099 + 4, to Jesus birth in 4 BC. From the sun miracle in 2287 BC to the sun miracle in king Wan's first year 1188 BC is 1099 years. From the sun miracle in Joseph's 100th year in 2287 BC to the Exodus in 1279 BC is 1008 years, 7 X 144, 700 duodecimal. likewise from Isaac's death in 2368 BC to Moses' birth 1359 BC is 1008 years. From 2368 BC when Isaac died to 1269 BC when Wuding may have died on the Day of Atonement is 1099 years. Yu's reign ended in 2198 BC when the Egyptian new year was Friday February 22, 144 days back from the appearing of Sirius on July 16 in Egypt perhaps when the sun returned. The sun miracle in 1892 BC is 144 + 144 + 1600 years before the birth of Christ. 2348 BC to 1892 BC is 144 + 144 + 144 + 24 years. 127 years after the notable sun miracle in 1892 BC there was a notable sun miracle in 1765 BC - perhaps pointing to Sarah who lived to 127, to 2511 BC, to hear Abraham relate his vision of the Christ when he returned from going to offer up Isaac and how he saw how God would feel when he would offer up his son. The Chinese often changed emperors when there was a sun miracle. They changed emperors on 1847 BC, on 1648 BC, on 1548 BC.There are forty generations in Egypt from 2348 BC to 1348 BC as God promised Abraham. 1348 BC is 144 + 1200 years before the birth of Christ, 3200 years after Adam's birth in 4548 BC, and Moses would be 12 in 1348 BC. Akhu En Aten, the pharaoh who started sun worship began his reign 1423 BC, 76 years shifted back from 1347 BC in Egyptian chronology, 144 years before the Exodus in 1279 BC perhaps influenced by a sun miracle or eclipse then: "The day of the new moon of Hiyaru (April/May Julian) was put to shame as the sun set, with Rashap as gate-keeper." This letter was written following the death of Amenhotep III, whereupon Akhenaten became pharaoh. Pharaoh's and Kings - a Biblical Quest, p.237 Total solar eclipses at sunset are very rare. There was one July 3 1424 BC at 6 PM totality in Persia then through the northern Mediterranean. This may be a sun miracle marking the beginning of Akhenaten's reign. Or this eclipse may confirm the date of Akhenaten's reign at 1424 BC. Jotham began his reign about 748 BC, 144 + 600 years before the birth of Christ. 144 in duodecimal is 100. 12 figures strongly in the Bible and the duodecimal system may have been divinely inspired. Jesus was both 100% divine and 100% human and both the decimal and duodecimal numbers may be used to foretell the year of his birth. Even the 36 years of his life are 3 X 12 years.
Luke 2:42 "And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast."
47 "And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers."
Isaac was a type of Christ and died 2368 BC, 2400 years before Jesus died, 33 AD, on the cross. The 36 hours before his resurrection are 3 X 12 hours. The duodecimal system is better for counting quarters, four threes instead of four 2.5's. 10 is divisible by 2, 5. 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6. Likewise the number 12 is the addition of 5 the basis for the decimal system and the number 7 representative of Heaven. The world's oldest language is "Click" in Africa going back more than 60,000 years. "Each language has a set of four or five click sounds". Their word for four is quor, just like our quarter. Fours are also useful in the Sothis calendar, because every four years the calendar backs up one day. Also there are four seasons in a year and four weeks in a lunar month. The first quarter moon, full moon, third quarter moon and fourth quarter moon. The Egyptians had three seasons of four months of 30 days to their 360 day plus 5 left over day calendar. A season of 120 days was written A0 in duodecimal. The Chinese 60 day cycle also had 5 left over days a year, a date backing up 5 days a year. Four is the four corners of a room and the four directions of a compass.
I Kings 7:23 "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward."
Thus the 12 oxen faced 12 directions 30° each. Like the Gospel carried by God's servants to all the world.
The new moon about when Moses appeared before pharaoh, February 23 1279 BC, is 144 days back from the Egyptian new year at the appearing of Sirius July 17. There was a sun miracle 144 years after Joshua's long day 1096 - 1094 BC perhaps when David slew Goliath. David must have been about 17, 10 + 7, the same age as Joseph when he was sold into Egypt. Likewise 33 years may have symbolized Jesus life 4 BC - 30 AD. If Jesus was crucified in 33 AD, 33 years may symbolize his life before his ministry in 30 AD. The flood 3637 BC is 33 + 3600 years before the birth of Christ. Perhaps there was a sun miracle that day April 12 3637 BC and again April 12 3636 BC when they walked out of the ark. China often changed emperors on a sun miracle. New emperor Shen-nung at 2737 BC is 33 + 2700 years. New emperor Gao Xin at 2437 BC is 33 + 2400 years. A sun miracle in 2437 BC = 1069 years, the period of the Sojourn into Egypt, is 1368 BC when Seti I was made pharaoh perhaps also on a sun miracle. "For this eclipse? the king gave obelisks as offerings to the solar gods and erected many other religious structures." If this was in his ninth year that would be the year Moses was born in 1359 BC. 1368 BC is 1400 years before Jesus' crucifixion. Isaac must have been the same age Jesus was when he was crucified. Thus Abraham must have went to offer him when he was 36 at 2512 BC.
Perhaps Abraham was born in Huang di's 50th year, 2648 BC and was 50 in Huang di's 100th year. ("In Hwang-te's 50th year, in autumn, in the 7th month, on the day Kang-shin [57th of cycle], phoenixes, male and female arrived." September 22 2348 BC. In 2598 BC Abraham would be 50. Lunar cycles would match the Egyptian Sothis date 50 years later. That is the Sothis calendar would have backed up 12 days in 50 years, 1 day every four years, and at the same date the moon be in the same phase. However this could only be a separate pair of sun miracles because this backed up Sothis calendar is way out of step with the tropical calendar and the sun must move back on the same tropical date. Abraham left Haran immediately after his father died in the Sothis year 205, 2572 BC, when he was 75. Terah may have been born 70 years before Abraham in this 2717 BC. If the Jubilee were calculated back from when the children of Israel were expected to settle Canaan, this would be from 1278 BC and perhaps the sun miracle in 2678 BC was a predecessor to the Jubilee. Then Terah would live to be 144 in the Sothis year 205. Then perhaps Abraham was born when Terah was 69, the same age as Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born to him.

4418 BC Seth born
3637 BC was the flood - 777 - 144 =
2717 BC Terah born 1700 years after Seth.
2572 BC Terah died at 144 years.
4418 BC - 777 years =
3641 BC when Lamech died.
2335 BC Jacob was 144, - 777 - 777 - 777 = 4 BC when 
        Jesus would be born. 
2417 BC - 777 years =
1940 BC 50 years later there was a sun miracle in
1891 BC this was the same pattern of 50 years in the 
        Jubilee from 
1240 BC when Canaan was conquered by Joshua