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, in the summer of 1999, 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 might be February 26 1238 BC and half an orbit from then, 186 days and 14 hours 2 AM September 1, because earth was nearest the sun a quarter orbit earlier, November 24 1239 BC. Over the past 7000 years earth's nearest approach of the sun has shifted from September to January. Then the sun could move back and earth flow out of the reverse orbit and reorient with the pole star and keep in the same season. 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 in this half orbit unaccounted for. Earth must speed up 24 hours in half a year of 183 days. But this half orbit is 186 days 14 hours of 365 days, 186.5833/365 X 48, correlating to 24 hours and 31 minutes, from which we can round up to 24 hours and 40 minutes missing time. Then we may have found the 40 minutes in the Missing Day Story. September 1 2 AM may have been when 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.
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 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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You can see in the above orbits that earth in a reverse orbit has 2 more days a year. This means earth must speed up in its reverse orbit 48 hours, 2 X 24 hour days, to keep 365.2422 days a year. Or else there would be 367.2422 days a year. That is, earth must speed up from 105,000 kilometers an hour to 105,570 kilometers an hour.
Likewise, the moon in earth's reverse orbit has two more lunar months a year. This means the moon must slow down two orbits a reverse orbit year. There are 27.322 days a lunar orbit. Then in a reverse orbit the moon must slow down 54.644 days a year to keep the normal 12 lunar months a year. Because earth is sped up 48 hours a year, the moon must speed up 48 hours a year as well. So the moon must slow down 52.644 days in its orbit of the earth in a reverse orbit year to keep the same 12.36 lunar months a year. That is, the moon must slow down from 3,600 kilometers an hour to 3,100 kilometers an hour. All these orbits are relative to earth. Tides etc. would be exactly the same relative to the day. No evidence would be left.

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. Or else I am the first to discover the model of Joshua's long day. Email me, Andrew Bennett, at sunnyokanagan@telus.net View the Power Point Presentation here or Power Point Show (slide advances, press escape to exit) here. Get the free Power Point Viewer here. The old blog. To visit my new blog on The Day the Sun Stood Still click here. To print this page in PDF click here. To print this page in legal page format PDF click here August 23, 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. NASA computers often put up a red light and had to be seen to:

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. Possibly 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. Nevertheless, most likely God moved the sun up or down and shifted earth's axis. The adjustment would be less if both the sun was moved up or down part way and earth shifted on its axis the rest of the way to keep earth in the same season. Evidence of pole star shifts suggests earth shifted often. 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. 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.

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.




The zodiac progresses nomally on the left: Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricorn.
The zodiac progresses in reverse on the right: Leo, Cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpius, Libra, Virgo.
You can see not only does the zodiac progress in reverse in a reverse orbit, but also jumps six zodiac constellations. The inner planets Mercury and Venus and also Mars must also jump six constellations. The Chinese zodiac progresses in reverse perhaps because there were so many reverse orbits the Chinese thought they were normal.
This research would not have been necessary if only people read their Bibles. You cannot pick up the Bible without reading at least some hint of sun miracles.

How king Wan's dream perhaps February 1186 BC - 1135 BC was like Joshua's long day February 26 1238 BC

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. This may be from the year of his birth in 1238 BC. Or this sun miracle was one of several while king Wan tried to defeat the Shang dynasty. The next record of King Wan's dream may be from king Wan's first year as king 1186 BC or upto his death 1135 BC, it may have been a sun miracle on the same lunar month and lunar day as Joshua's long day. This to rehearse the conquest of Palestine in the sight of Israel in the time of Judges. The planetary alignment in Fang/Libra may just be where the planets were put during the sun miracle. There was a 5 planet alignment in Fang October 1 1141 BC when there was a sun miracle and when the 5 planets were on either side of the sun! "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 Pisces - Scorpius would only appear in the east at 10PM! Scorpius/Fang/Libra must appear in the west at sunset to fit the picture. The sun was 180° from Scorpius in February 1238 BC - February 1135 BC. How could Mercury, which is very close to the sun, be 180° away from the sun in Scorpius to form a 5 planet conjunction? 5 planet conjunctions were associated with sun miracles. 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 if Joshua's long day February 26 1238 BC was a similar 6 day moon sun miracle to King Wan's Dream. However, Joshua commanded the moon to stand still in the valley of Ajalon. The valley of Ajalon would seem to be to the west. However, it is not certain where in the Ajalon Valley the city of Gibeon was. Thus the sun may have been above Gideon on Joshua's right and the sixth day moon in the east in the upper Ajalon valley. Ajalon may mean deer or ram field or pillars. Perhaps the moon held in the pillars of the valley of upper Ajalon. Givat Zeev is built on this location and you can see the first quarter moon about where Joshua saw the moon that day. You can see the cliffs like pillars with the moon in between. King Wan's dream may have been a later date than Joshua's long day, when he would have been old enough to make this charge against the Shang, possibly such a planetary arrangement as February 15 1172 BC:




Here you see Mars, Mercury, and Venus all just above the sun at sunset. You can picture these three planets moving 180° to Fang, Scorpius, and Jupiter and Saturn undisturbed in their outer orbits already in Fang. Thus the five planet conjunction in Fang when the sun finally set 12 hours later. You can see Saturn would have to have had to have moved just a little to be visible at sunset 12 hours later when the sun had moved 180° around the earth. The moon was rising in the east at noon. Perhaps Joshua's long day was February 26 1238 BC when the moon was rising in the east at noon and to the east in the Ajalon Valley. Nevertheless, for king Wan's dream to be possible the sun must have 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.) Joshua's long day would be the same with the first quarter moon above China at sunset - at the same time the first quarter moon rising in the Valley of Ajalon and the sun at the noon position in Israel. Joshua needed more light, daylight and moonlight. Then the first quarter moon rising in the east at noon February 26 1238 BC makes the most sense.

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 five planet conjunction in Fang/Libra 180° from the sun in Pisces in February could not be possible. Mercury orbits very close to the sun. How could Mercury be 180° away from the sun in Fang/libra/Scorpius and still be next to the sun? No way could Mercury be in conjunction with the other planets in Scorpius. Together with a six day moon this record seems to depict the planets in the west just above the sun at sunset. 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. Joshua's long day perhaps February 26 1238 BC may have been like King Wan's dream perhaps February 15 1172 BC. They may have thought king Wan's dream was Joshua's long day February 26 1238 BC. 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 26 1238 BC. Next they would see the conjunction 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 probably 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 this became an Assyrian Omen. 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. All they were looking for is anything astronomical. The next book after Joshua is Judges. Boling wrote that Joshua and Judges began at the same time. 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.

Earth may have flowed out of the reverse orbit half an orbit after Joshua's long day

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. 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. Possibly earth did not need to shift between sun miracles. These time calculations of missing minutes assume earth shifted the night of August 31 1238 BC and flowed out of the reverse orbit for about 12 hours of normal orbit. Thus the reason for four sun movements. God could decide to let earth keep in the normal orbit from August 31 and move the sun to the other side of earth a year later August 31 1237 BC for the half reverse orbit to counter the missing 31 minutes, and 12 hours elapsed time. 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. "the three Miao tribes were in great disorder and Heaven decreed their destruction. The sun came out at night and for three days it rained blood. A dragon appeared in the ancestral temple and dogs howled in the market place..." from about 2274 BC. In this case the sun did come out at night. The dragon which the Chinese say was brighter than the sun also appeared. 139 BC 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. However, the sun probably traveled 540° east to stand still just below the western horizon. Thus there would be daylight and yet they would not see the sun till it rose suddenly 5AM September 1 in the east. 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. Thus records of the stars standing still may be true. 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. Although, if earth shifted God would not necessarily have to start the second reverse orbit right after but wait till next year. 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 this side of Jordan who fled to the land of the Amorites 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:
Habakkuk 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."
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. However, the sun may not have needed to appear. If the sun hoovered just below the western horizon, there would be enough daylight. 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. However, the glow of the sun just below the western horizon may have been enough daylight to fight the battle. The sun must have been dimmed to leave no extra daily coral line. 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 as 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.
The Valley of Gibeon refers to the head waters of Gibeon down the valley of Ajalon. This is the day the sun stood still for Joshua. For the moon to be in the Ajalon Valley it would seem the moon was to the west of the sun. However, the moon may have been to the east.
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 29 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 24:31 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 367 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 -24:31 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 ancestor with all J2 chromosones 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.
Try the example in this 3D PDF.
If earth shifted at the same time the sun moved down, earth could shift half as much and the sun move down half as much. If you twist an Earth globe 35° instead of 70° on a table then you can see how the sun can fall 9° instead of this 18°.
This 3D PDF document
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You can see the pole angled away from the sun in the upper right in
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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
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If you picture the sun on the other side of the earth on Joshua's long day you will see either earth must pivot 70° Clockwise resulting in tilting 35° the other way to keep in the same season. Or the sun must drop down 18°. Or both the sun must pivot 35° Clockwise - tilt 18° and the sun drop down 9°:

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. Even though king Wan's dream must have been February 15 1272 BC, China would experience much the same thing on Joshua's long day perhaps February 26 1238 BC.

"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 the first quarter moon, or cloud, about where Joshua saw the moon that day. This was April 8 2006 with the 10 day moon at 4PM. The moon was just rising there at noon February 26 1238 BC on the seven day moon. 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 - very much like the sixth day of the moon as recorded by king Wan in China at sunset in February.
Psalm 44:3 "For they got not the land in possession with 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 hast favour unto them."
This may refer to the right hand of Joshua commanding the sun. "the light of thy countenance" may refer to the brightness of God coming to their defense and moving the sun to stand still in the sky. The hail and rain had passed over, as in Habakkuk 3:10 and Joshua 10:11. Then Joshua was entering the valley of Ajalon when he commanded the sun to stand still on Gibeon and the moon to stand still to the east of the valley of Ajalon. Some suggest the moon was to the west of Ajalon. However, Joshua was asking for more light to pursue the Amorites. Then when the sun set about 18 hours later - 12 hours at noon and 6 hours to sunset, the first quarter moon would be overhead at sunset. Then Joshua would have about 5 hours of moonlight also to get the victory.
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 must have occurred before the sun miracle began and passed over. 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. Thus God had already appeared in the clouds before Joshua's command. Thus God was fighting for Isreal with the hail. Joshua saw that was not enough and asked God to make the sun and moon stand still in the sky to get the victory that day. Joshua said Israel should go up and possess the land 40 years earlier when the sun was to return for a long day they could use to get the victory. 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. With frequent sun miracles the timing of the return of the sun must have been known. 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.
In the Sommerset Zodiac Aquarius is marked by the phoenix. Ancient Mysteries, p.303. Many records of sun miracles happened when the sun was in Aquarius.
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. Greek philosiphers debated how many teeth are in a horse's mouth for 100 years. Then someone actually looked in a horses mouth and counted them. Thus the saying "From the horse's mouth". I work with horses every day. This is not hard to do. People debate Joshua 10:13 on the internet all the time. None of them has actually got a grip. The catholic church adopted Aristotle's 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 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. 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. Joshua would want even more light than the 12 hours longer day. Thus he could ask a rising moon to stand still for the added moonlight that night. The third quarter moon would be in the west February 12 or March 12 which seems to fit the orientation of the valley and Ajalon better. However, the third quarter moon could not benefit Joshua except as a sign to the Amorites the diety of the moon was fighting for Joshua. 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. The dragon was at times bright or dark, long or short, minute or gigantic and appeared at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. March 28 1279 BC - day 47 - is only a few days before the vernal equinox. A sun miracle on the equinox meant earth did not need to shift nor the sun move up or down to keep in the same season. Such as it did on day 47 as per the oracle bone record in China when thick clouds appeared, perhaps at 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. Earth must speed up 570 kilometers an hour in a reverse orbit of the sun. 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 orbit must be 4 days 6 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. Then there must be 23 days a lunar orbit of earth in a reverse orbit. This still computes to 29.5 days a lunar month. 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. This is all relative, because the lunar cycle would still be 29.53 "days". Just that these are 8 minutes shorter days than our normal day. 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 or 6 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.
Acts 26:13 "At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me."
The Chinese dragon was brighter than the sun. The Chinese believed all living things descended from the dragon. Just as Christians believe all life came from God. 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. The Passover was on the full moon. The sun miracle for Hezekiah could have been on the Passover March 20 705 BC. 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. Very possibly a similar sun miracle when he was king from 1186 BC to 1135 BC, to Joshua's long day seen from China about the year of his birth gave him further reason to record the sun miracle in his later years as a divine message he should be emporer. 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 or 1152 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. There very likely was a sun miracle also on October 9 1142 BC that king Wan took as his appointment from heaven. "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 Chinese named the fire bird constellation the Ho, the phoenix, perhaps because of the song of the phoenix. In the legend of the rainmaker, Ga'hga, called out "Ho, Ho, Ho" and it poured rain. Coyote was going there, p.189 Rain was associated with the Thunderbird, the phoenix. The Japanese called the phoenix the Ho. The Hebrews called the phoenix the Hol. 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 about 1181 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. Therefore this sun miracle may have been at the death of the Judge Tola and the new Judge Jair.
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." The phoenix was likened to 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. 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.
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 76 years more recent than the common chronology - the received 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. Moreover the sun may have returned a year after Moses' battle with Ammon about February 2 1239 BC. This suggests Joshua's long day was rather February 26, 1238 BC. Still January 26 1238 BC is possibly the date of Joshua's long day. 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. However, the word "Hol" probably means phoenix in this case, nothing to do with sand.
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.
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. Or the outer planets moved at the same rate only in reverse. Thus Jupiter would move one sign backwards each earth reverse orbit year to appear a month later each year as it normally does. This means Jupiter could orbit at the same rate, only in reverse.
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. "Typhoons can trigger slow earthquakes and that could be a good thing, according to new research." National Geographic Thus all these references to the earth trembling must be a necessary by product of the sun miracle. "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. 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 in 1096 BC.
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: "
Psalm 136:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:
11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:
12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:
15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:
21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:
22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.
23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Great wonders and great lights were associated with this battle, perhaps a sun miracle. 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 might 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.
Psalm 74:9 "We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long."
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. "Then he (Coyote) and Crane went out to set fire to the house. Crane's tail caught on fire..." Coyote Was Going There, p.139 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. "Each flapping of Thunderer's wings was a peal of thunder" Coyote Was Going There, p.141 "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 There was a lunar eclipse visible from China on day 14 August 4 1138 BC. From 1186 BC king Wan's 35th year was 1152 BC. "In his 23rd year, he imprisoned the chief of the west in Yew-le." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.110 This 1152 BC is when king Wan was imprisoned, perhaps just after his declaration, "eclipse is untimely". Then possibly "eclipse is untimely" may not refer to an eclipse but a sun miracle. Scholars do not think this was an eclipse record. 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 26 1238 BC and a long day at midnigth 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. There seemed to be a plague every 7 days in Exodus. Thus 10 plagues is 70 days. 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 as governor of Egypt. Perhaps a long night the night before when Pharaoh dreamed. Then Yao's long day may have been 6 months before, October 2357 BC.
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

Here you can see a rainbow with dragon heads at either end. Then below a dragon drinking. The full oracle bone is below:

"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. The dragon's light must have been brighter than the setting sun to cause an azure emerald green dragon rainbow. 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 - so bright the clouds had to come to hide him. The Chinese described the qilin, unicorn as 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?"
The qilin, unicorn, had hooves like a horse and was depicted by the Chinese as a creature to be ridden, perhaps as 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. A rainbow with just the colour green may be what the Chinese saw. Rainbows never show just the colour green. 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. This may have depicted the red bull calf of Egypt. Which was connected to the Bennu Bird, the phoenix. The Chinese also connected the unicorn, qilin, to appear with the phoenix. 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. Likewise, in the legend of Thunderer (the Thunderbird) and Eagle Boy, Thunderer threw five brothers over the cliff into the sea. Coyote Was Going There, p.199 Thunderer was the Thunderbird, the phoenix. 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. 1173 BC was king Wan's first year as king and there was a sun miracle in his first year, probably king Wan's dream. 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 could 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. However, from the Gospels Jesus ministry appears to have been 2 1/2 years.
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 or 6 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 1082 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 29 years from 719 BC to 690 BC instead of from 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. Even so, there appears to have been a sun miracle, king Wan's dream, on that 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 or 6 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. However, there were other sun miracles then and this sun miracle in Job very likely was another sun miracle. 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 the Egyptians dammed the Reed Sea so that it was at least several feet deep. Then the Reed Sea could have been deep enough to drown Pharaoh's army. 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. The dragon had horns also, like the qilin. There are four beasts before God's throne. One is like a calf or an ox. This may be the unicorn, or q'ilin of the Chinese. The qilin could carry a rider. Sometimes the qilin was depicted with wings. The patchy part of the Chinese character for qilin represents its scaly body. 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. 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. During earth's reverse orbit of the sun, Saturn must go through all 28 signs every 6 months. Or one lunar sign every 6 or 7 days. Saturn must orbit the sun twice every earth reverse year to appear in its seasons in the sky. 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 2 miracles six months later and/or a sun miracle on the anniversary of the first one. Thus there must be at least 100 sun miracles from 2700 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. Perhaps the command to observe the rising sun was 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, Alphard 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 Neaou, Alphard, and because 10 days before the fall equinox equals 180° to 10 days before the normal position of the vernal equinox. So Alphard 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. Nevertheless, earth's 22° shift would definitely make these for stars visible in their season. Moreover, the rising sun in spring in Yao's Canon may refer to a sudden sunrise, sun miracle, in spring. Perhaps 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 earth would remain shifted so Alphard would be visible at dusk. Then the sun must move 180° late that night for a long night and earth is in a reverse orbit again. Then the sun would move back to the autumn position in autumn and Heu Beta Aquarius would be visible that night. Then earth would flow out of the reverse orbit and earth shift back to keep in the same season. You can see how these four sun miracles work together. Two half reverse orbits to leave no missing time. No missing 40 minutes as in the Missing Day Story. Nevertheless, Neaou, Alphard is not mentioned in an old record of Yao's Canon. The calendar to be usefull should have Heu, Beta Aquarius, as the star visible on the Vernal Equinox. Beta Aquarius would rise earlier each night becoming more visible not less. Only Beta Aquarius would be at the meridian at dusk March 31 2356 BC. This because the sun had moved to the other side of earth October 5 2357 BC and the stars marking spring and fall would be reversed. You can see this depicted below:

Yao's reason for these stars for seasonal markers, right after the sun miracle at which he became emperor, could only be because the stars did not mark the seasons in earth's reverse orbit. The festival of Fire in spring was to be when the full moon was in Antares. This was March 30. However, this would not work in a reverse orbit. In this reverse orbit probably the second and third sun miracles would mark this date March 30 2356 BC perhaps in a sudden sunrise in which He was to greet the rising sun as his guest. 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. There were 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. When there was an eclipse the Chinese wrote the dragon ate the sun. Perhaps there were other times when the dragon did eat the sun and carried it to the other side of earth. - 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 or 6 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 or 6 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 or 6 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 or 6 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 or 6 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 or 6 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. 
        The 969 years is used from duodecimal sothis year 700, 7 X 144 
        from 5700 BC = 4692 BC.
        
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 or 6 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 or 6 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 = 4/6 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.
719 BC Ahaz died, there was an eclipse recorded in China that could not
       have been an eclipse on that date, not even close,
       therefore a sun miracle.
705 BC the sun reversed 10 steps for Hezekiah.
690 BC Hezekiah died.
687 BC There was a sun miracle recorded in China.
575 BC Jerusalem was taken whereupon there was
       a sun miracle, not an eclipse..
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.




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. Then Lamech would be 36 when Noah was born. There were 500 year periods, 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 from David in 1082 BC, less 7 for the queen, to the carrying away of king Zedekiah and the destruction of the temple in 575 BC and the 500 years from the building of the second temple in 504 BC to Jesus' birth in 4 BC or 6 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. Also there would be 694 decimal years or 490 duodecimal years from 687 BC to Jesus' birth in 4 BC or 6 BC. Then the sun must have moved on Hezekiah's death on March 23 690 BC and moved back March 23 687 BC. 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. 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 Chinese 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. The Egyptians believed there was a sun miracle at the start of each Sothis cycle. Likewise an earlier Sothis period may have started July 15 5692 BC 144 + 144 + 5400 years before Jesus' birth.
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. That is, if you add up the generation back from Enoch in Sothis year 300, 3936 BC you get 4558 BC for Adam. 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 or 6 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 then, 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. However, Jesus may have been born in 6 BC and started his ministry in 31 BC when he was 36. The flood 3637 BC is 33 + 3600 years before the birth of Christ in 4 BC or 6 BC. 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. The celestial ceiling of Seti I may depict 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 when there was a sun miracle when the Chinese emperor ascended the throne.
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 2648 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. Abraham left Haran immediately after his father died in the Sothis year 205, 2572 BC, when he was 75. Then Isaac would be born 100 years after the sun miracle in 2648 BC and be 36 in 2512 BC at the appearing of the yellow dragon, God moving the sun, and Jacob born 200 years after the sun miracle in 2678 BC, Moses led Israel out of Egypt 1200 years later in 1279 BC, Jacob sojourned in Egypt in 2348 BC, 300 years after Abraham's birth in 2648 BC. From Joshua's victory in 1238 BC to Jesus' victory on the cross in 33 AD, less the 70 years of captivity is 1200 years. The dimensions God gave for Noah's ark were 50 cubits wide by 30 cubits high by 300 cubits long. A sun miracle in 2678 BC and on Abraham's birth 2648 BC, 30 years, 50 years later in 2598 BC, 50 and 50 years, then the Sojourn into Egypt 300 years after Abraham's birth 2648 BC to 2348 BC - perhaps a pattern from Heaven. The end of the flood to Jesus' birth is 3636 BC to 4 BC. Thus 144 + 144 + 144 + 3200 years before Jesus' birth. Abraham's birth in 2648 BC is 2500 + 144 years before Jesus in 4 BC. Isaac's birth in 2548 BC is 2400 + 144 years before Jesus. Jesus may have been born in 6 BC and the wisemen worshiped him at two years of age in 4 BC. Jacob entered Egypt in 2348 BC, 2200 + 144 years before Jesus. There are forty generations from 2348 BC to 1348 BC. 1348 BC is 144 + 1200 years before the birth of Christ. The Egyptian calendar had backed up 75 days since 2648 BC to 2348 BC and there were from 70 to 75 of Jacob's family at the Sojourn into Egypt:
Acts 7:14 "Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls."
Luke 10:1 "After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face, into every city and place, whither he himself would come."
The Egyptians mourned for Jacob 70 days 1331 BC, perhaps from about April 5 when Jesus would be crucified. These sun miracles had to do with the patriarchs of the Bible and the coming of the Christ rather than the Chinese emperors. Thus "Oh! it is difficult to rely on Heaven;- its appointments are not constant." Chinese Classics, The Books of Shang, p.213 1750 BC and again in 1050 BC. These sun miracles were for China and for the rest of the world to point them to the coming of the Christ. Just as the Chinese made a new emperor when there was a sun miracle God was pointing them to make Jesus the coming King the king of their heart. Currents of thought from Dong Zhongshu (179 BC - 104 BC?) "sought to support imperial authority as an integral part of the universal order of Yin Yang." Thus, the Yin Yang was associated with sun miracles. "The active Yang and passive Yin cooperate as male and female, high and low, heaven and earth, or take turns to grow and diminish in the alterations of motion and rest, light and dark, hot and cold." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China Typical of day and night and the seasons. Also typical of sun miracles. The Yin Yang in Chinese is written in the characters for the moon and the sun as you see here - "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." James Legge wrote: "The invention of the cycle of 60 is ascribed to Hwang-te [Huang di] 2636 BC." Some believe Huang di's reign started the cycle of 60 days January 12 2697 BC on the winter solstice. However, the traditional view is it started from Huang di's 60th year in 2637 BC. (Astronomy programs use the Julian calendar which simply has leap year every four years. So just multiply by 365.25 days in a year, check to be sure you are including leap years back every four years from 1 BC, and divide by 60. You can start from January 7 1500 BC which was day 5.) Jesus must have been conceived in the sixth month, March and born in January, the same month as this sun miracle. Then earth must shift 112° clockwise in 8000 years in forward precession and earth's axis point to the star Alderamin. Then perhaps from Huang di's 20th year to his 50th year from 2678 BC to 2648 BC. The emperor would likely have been in his boat on the river in July 2678 BC to observe the sun miracle thus in 2678 BC. An August miracle and Alderamin would be the pole star while earth revolved around the sun in reverse. After Huang di's 100th year, 2597 BC, Shao Hao (Che) - Jin Tian Shi - began to reign: "When Che ascended the throne there was the auspicious omen of phoenixes." Chinese Classics, vol.3, p.109 The totem of the Shao Hao clan was a phoenix. He was the founder of the Niao bird kingdom. You can see such a village totem here. Chao means bird nest such as the sun is the nest of the phoenix. Totem's were paintings on pottery commonly with the dragon beginning from this 2500 BC. Totems of the phoenix date back to 5400 BC: "A large amount of pottery, decorated with the patterns of beasts, the sun and birds have been excavated at the Gaomiao relics site in Hongjiang, Huaihua City of central China's Hunan Province, according to a report by the Guangming Daily. "The patterns of birds should be the phoenix worshipped by ancient Chinese," said He Gang, a researcher with the Hunan Institute of Archaeology."
"Shao Hao" associates fall with the sunset. In a reverse orbit the sun appears to travel west through the zodiac. That is, the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west through the zodiac. The sun is to the west of the zodiac in a reverse orbit. Phoenixes must mean a sun miracle.
"(Sodom and Gomorrah) reestablished their trade with Ebla as recorded in the Ebla tablets that have been dated to 2500 BC." A raw C14 date of 2000 BC is really 2500 BC. Sodom and Gomorrah must have existed to 2500 BC. "Long Drought Climate records show rainfall dried up in the Middle East around 2200 B.C., which would have deprived farmers of needed winter rains."
Genesis 13:10a "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where,"
Suggests a date earlier than 2200 BC.
Genesis 11:25 "And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years,"
32 "And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran."
If these are Sothis dates, then year 119 from 2777 BC is 2658 BC (in year 100 in 2678 BC there was a sun miracle recorded by emperor Huang di) and Abraham's father died in year 205 from 2777 BC, 2572 BC. (Abraham then may have seen the Great Pyramid being constructed. Model of how the pyramids looked. The Pharaoh he encountered there may have been Khufu - Cheops - about 2589-2566 BC) A possibility then is Abraham witnessed the destruction of Sodom in 2549 BC and Joseph was made governor over Egypt in 2357 BC. Then the Sojourn into Egypt was Friday April 3, 2348 BC from the beginning of the 430th year of the Sothis period beginning July 16, 2777 BC. That is, the Sothis calendar had backed up (430/4) 107 days from July 16 to March 31 2348 BC. Joseph may have been made governor March 31 2357 BC which was the beginning of the Sothis year in 2348 BC when Jacob entered Egypt. Then the Exodus out of Egypt was Friday April 4, 1279 BC, the self same day of the week, lunar month and year as the Sojourn into Egypt. The beginning of months of Exodus was to be the lunar month Nisan, March 21 1279 BC and the Exodus on the spring equinox April 4 1279 BC. Thus the beginning of months about the vernal equinox centered on the Passover and Jesus crucifixion on the same Egyptian Sothis date April 3 33 AD. Then the total time of the Sojourn in Egypt may be 1069 years:
Genesis 15:16 "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
May have originally read "in the fortieth generation."

fourth

fortieth
You can see a letter added in front of and behind the letters for fourth. A scribe could have miscopied these letters accidently or intentionally leaving only the word fourth. Thus originally this verse should read:
Genesis 15:16 "But in the fortieth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
40 X 25 = 1000 years. Moses' generation. The Bible must have originally contained forty names, perhaps 40 from Joseph to Joshua or 44 from Abraham to David. A scribe must have made the decision to delete them and leave the "they shall afflict them 400 years" in Egypt and the Exodus was "from the 430th year" to appear Israel was in Egypt only 400 years when in fact Israel was in Egypt 1069 years. They were slaves for 400 years from 1679 BC to 1279 BC. The sojourn in Egypt was not for 430 years but from the 430th year sothis, from the 430th year from 2777 BC. 2348 BC to 1279 BC. And thus just give four names for four generations for the four hundred years. Rather the sojourn into Egypt was from the Sothis year 430. Likewise in Genesis 5 the long 800 year ages of Adam etc must be Sothis dates. Likewise in Genesis 11 the last date for Terah of 205 years must be a Sothis date of 205 years from 2777 BC the end of that Sothis period of 1460 years. Thus Terah died in 2572 BC. Likewise the temple was begun on the 480th year. Probably this was a typo. First 240 changed to 440 and then 440 changed to 480. The Septuagint from 350 BC gives 440 years when it actually may have been originally written 240 years. Then perhaps the scribe let it seem Judges was 400 years long in consecutive judges when in fact it was only 120 years long in concurrent judges. The temple was begun exactly 240 years after the Exodus. 12 X 20 = 240. Also from Abraham's death in 2473 BC to Jacob's death in 2331 BC is about 240 years. The death of the Passover lamb was fulfilled when Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead and raised up the temple of his body. Thus the period of judges must have been half the time since the Exodus to the start of the Temple. 40 years in the Wilderness, 117 years of judges, 40 years of king Saul and 40 years of king David, 3 years of king Solomon to 1039 BC. A supposed solar eclipse "Tian-da-yi" (the sky darkened greatly) in king Zhao's 19th year would have been about the completion of the Temple seven years from 1039 BC. Thus the Temple was completed in the seventh year 1033 BC which is the same year as king Zhao's 19th year from 1052 BC.
II Chronicles 6:40 "Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
6:41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
6:42 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house."
7:8 "Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.
7:9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people."
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. Jacob died in the 17th year in Egypt from 2348 BC is 2331 BC. The temple was completed 1300 years later in 1033 BC.
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."
There was a battle in Gaza where Ptolemy from Egypt drove out the Syrians October 1 312 BC, the year of a sun miracle in China. October 1 would be the 24th of the lunar month 720 years after the Temple was dedicated in 1033 BC. 5 X 144 years after. Also, October 1 would be just a few days after the autumnal equinox when earth would not have to shift to keep in the same season, nor need a second correcting reverse orbit. There probably was a sun miracle the day Wuding the emperor of China died on the Day of Atonement September 7 1269 BC. Then there probably was a sun miracle 236 years later possibly on the Day of Atonement October 7 1033 BC. 200 + 36 years later, perhaps likened to Jesus' perfect life of 36 years. Also, from this 1269 BC we can count 50 year cycles to the last Jubilee on September 15 31 AD when Jesus fulfilled the Jubilee on the Day of Atonement at Nazareth, Luke 4:18-19, when he stood up to read Isaiah 61:1-2.
Leviticus 23:39 "Also in the fifteenth, day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath."
Thus what was described as an eclipse in China may have rather been a sun miracle in Israel at the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem. This Day of Atonement would mark the beginning of the Sabbath year of rest for the land when they would not sow nor reap the land that coming year.
See Zhou Chronology, that is the common chronology. Solomon died in 1002 BC and also this king Zhao died then too. Perhaps king Zhao was deposed at a sun miracle on Solomon's death. And thus may be a sun miracle to do with the completing of Solomon's Temple. There was an eclipse rather sun miracle in 1033 BC when the Temple was finished in the seventh year. Then Solomon would have died about 1004 BC, 1000 years before Christ was born.
The 300 years Jephthah spoke of must rather be within 100 years just before the second jublile 1140 BC. This could be January 1 1141 BC and be the sun miracle, the red bird, fire bird, or phoenix written of in the Chinese Classics. That Ruth was accepted into Israel and there was lots of time in the 400 years given for judges lead many to the wrong conclusion, perhaps intentionaly, that Ruth entered Israel after 250 years. Because the Moabites were not to enter the congregation till the tenth generation. Rather Ruth must have entered the congregation on the feast day of barley and wheat, the day of Pentecost, in May 12 1188 BC still considered the year of the Jubilee, the first jublile. Just as the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given to Jesus' disciples following the fallow year of the Jubilee. Then perhaps an exception of the law was made for Ruth to enter the congregation of Israel, a Moabitess, foretelling the beginning of the New Testament on the day of Pentecost when God would give his Spirit and we would be free from the law. The day of Pentecost in 1188 BC was May 12 and the day of Pentecost in Acts is Saturday May 23 33 AD. Then the sun miracle, phoenixes collected on mount K'e in Wanting's (Wen Ding's) 12th year and king Wan's first year as king may, have been then in May of 1188 BC. There are 969 years from the sun miracle in 2158 BC to this Jubilee in 1189 BC. Thus king Wan was king for a little more than 50 years till he died in 1135 BC. This was the first Jubilee in 1190 BC just 50 years after Joshua's conquest.
Leviticus 25:31 "But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the Jubilee."
Leviticus 27:24 "In the year of the Jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong."
Ruth 4:3 "And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.
8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.
9 And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day."
Perhaps this barley harvest was in the 48th year in preparation for both the Sabbath of the land in the 49th year and in the year of the Jubilee in the 50th year. Thus, Boaz would redeem Ruth that next year, the Jubilee. Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament with his life.
Luke 4:17 "And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
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 brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
Leviticus 25:9 "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the Day of Atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family."
Thus Jesus would hear the trumpet and stand in the synagogue and speak these words. Thus also, Ruth did not have to be the tenth generation. This psalm of the Exodus may reflect on the forty generations and the many generations previous. Our ancestors first settled the middle east 40,000 years ago. I say our ancestors because the route of migration out of Africa to the rest of the world took them through the Middle East. 1000 X 25 = 25,000 years:
Psalm 105:8 "He hath remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations."
Deuteronomy 7:9 "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;"
Exodus 1:5 "And all the souls who came out the loins of Jacob were seventy five souls."
Exodus 12:37 "And the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children."
Time for Israel to grow to two million. Exodus 1:11 "Therefore they did set over them task masters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses." Ramses II built Pi-Ramses (Per Ramesses) "The Domain of Ramses" possibly during his co-reign with his father Seti I but probably during his 66 year reign. Thus Pithom and Raases were already built at the time of the Exodus, April 4, 1279 BC, perhaps Pharaoh Merneptah's last year, last day. The Exodus could have been in 1279 BC because: "In the eighth or ninth year of his (Ramses II) reign, he took a number of towns in Galilee." Then counting back from the eight year was 1279 BC rather than 1278 BC. However, Merneptah could just have easily been the pharaoh that drowned in the Reed Sea April 12, 1279 BC because Ramses II's 52nd year could have just as easily been in 1304 BC, 76 years earlier than 1228 BC. Thus making Merneptah's tenth and final year 1279 BC.
Deuteronomy 1:3a "And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month,"
Perhaps Sunday January 4 1239 BC.
Deuteronomy 1:4a "After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon,"
"the archaeological excavation at Tell Hesban DID NOT uncover any remains ANTEDATING about 1200 BC." Moses defeated Heshbon by the first day of the eleventh month, Sunday January 4 1239 BC. "Israel dwelt in Heshbon" probably not at the same place.
Numbers 21:30b "Heshbon is perished"
Therefore the remains at Hasban were from 1239 BC, and not after "about 1200 BC".
Nevertheless, some believe this represents an older wave of immigration by several tribes before Moses. Judges 3:11 may be an independent 40 years from about 1210 BC to 1170 BC to the 40 years discussed here, 1238 BC to 1198 BC. Or Othniel's conquest may be 1233 BC when Caleb was 85, Joshua 14:10, and Joshua stricken in years, Joshua 13:1, may have died just before, Judges 1:1. Thus Othneil's 40 years may be the same 1238 BC to 1198 BC. 1 Samuel 4:18 may represent forty years from 1238 BC to 1198 BC. The forty years of Gideon in Judges 8:28 also from 1238 BC to 1198 BC. The battle of Gideon follows the same route as the battle of Barak and Deborah starting at mount Tabor, the same Midianites - see Psalm 83:9-11. Thus Gideon's battle must also have been in 1238 BC, perhaps at the sun miracle in fall to start the second reverse orbit that would counter the missing 20 minutes from the reverse orbit of Joshua's long day.
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."
The 10 years famine in Ruth perhaps from the sixth year 1198 BC then the fallow year 1199 BC, then seven years to the seventh year the fallow year 49 1191 BC and the fallow year of the Jubilee 1190 BC to harvest in the following year in May of 1188 BC:
Ruth 1:1 "Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons."
4 "And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years."
6 "Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread."
The western judges may have served concurrently with the eastern judges to 1123 BC when Saul became king. See Chronology of the Judges Period. Israel was established by the time of the Merneptah stela rather 1286 BC than 1210 BC: "The princes are prostrate, saying: "Mercy!" Not one raises his head among the Nine Bows. Desolation is for Tehenu; Hatti is pacified; Plundered is the Canaan with every evil; Carried off is Ashkelon; seized upon is Gezer; Yanoam is made as that which does not exist; Israel is laid waste, his seed is not; Hurru (Canaan) is become a widow for Egypt! All lands together, they are pacified." This may rather describe Israelites already in the land in 1286 BC and why there were no Israelites recorded in southern Palestine by the 12 spies in 1279 BC. Also, Israel is preceded by the word people where as the others are described by the word land suggesting they were nomadic at the time. A bowl salvaged from the ruins of Lachish has inscribed the fourth year of Pharaoh, probably Mernpetah. Lachish was Canaanite and destroyed in the 13th century, possibly in 1287 BC, and resettled by Canaanites. Merneptah may have been the Pharaoh of Exodus meaning the stela may describe his campaign against Israelites already in Canaan perhaps the third day of the fixed 30 day months, "the third day of the third month of the third season" of his fourth year about June 1286 BC. Likewise the papyrus Anastasi is believed to represent the campaigns of Pharaoh Merneptah against southern Palestine. Abraham was promised his seed would leave Egypt in the fortieth generation (fourth generation must be a copy error). 25 years to a generation, 2348 BC - 1000 = 1348 BC they had right to settle in Canaan and by every indication were in at least northern Israel.
The civil war against Benjamin at the end of Judges may have been in 1210 - 1200 BC: Joshua may have died just before 1210 BC, because Caleb and possibly Joshua were 40 when they spied out the land and 80 when they entered the promised land, 1239 BC; making Joshua 110 in 1210 BC. Joshua and Caleb "ascended by the south" when they spied out the land, Numbers 13:22 and perhaps did not see the Israelites in the north already in the land.
Joshua 14:7 "Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart."
Joshua 14:10 "And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old."
Leviticus 19:23 "And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.
25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God."
Thus Caleb and Joshua ate of the fruit of the land in the fifth year. Joshua was a young man in Exodus 33:11. However, Joshua was old and stricken in age in Joshua 13:1 about the time of Othniel's conquest, meaning Joshua may have been much older than Caleb. Joshua then could be 65 rather than 40 in 1278 BC in Exodus 33:11. Thus Joshua may have died about 1233 BC the year Caleb asked Joshua for the mountain of the Anakims. Thus Judges 1 begins with this conquest after the death of Joshua and the land had rest 40 years counting rather from 1238 BC. The civil war of Benjamin must have been early on and could also have been from about 1233 BC. Fall 1233 BC was a seventh year fallow year. Gibeah was destroyed and a number of settlements in the region abandoned before 1150 BC. The Macmillan Bible Atlas Only Joshua and Caleb crossed the river Jordan, Numbers 26:65, 32:12 and all the rest died in the wilderness. Of the rest only those under twenty, Numbers 14:29, at the time of the Exodus lived to cross the river Jordan.
There were 40,000 of Judah and Israel slain in the civil war against Benjamin. That makes about 40,000 widows. This may have been the reason Samuel's father had two wives. There were only 600 survivors of Benjamin in this civil war, those who were able to run the fastest. Thus they would need the eleven generations from about 1210 BC to 900 BC to become the 280,000 soldiers:
II Chronicles 14:8 "And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour."
And be sizeable in Saul's army in 1120 BC and to be more than could easily be counted even after Saul's defeat when David counted Israel and not Benjamin about 1044 BC. Perhaps one of these Benjamite survivors brought news of the ark being taken to Eli 1198 BC. Samuel was an old man when Israel wanted a king in 1123 BC. Thus Samuel may have been 84 if he was born in 1207 BC. Then if Saul reigned 40 years, he must have reigned from 1122 BC to David in 1082 BC.
I Samuel 4:12 "And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head."
Therefore Shilo may have been abandoned from 1198 BC. Saul must have had just one surviving relative from the civil war, perhaps his great grandfather Zeror. This Phinehas is the son of Eleazar, the father of Eli rather than the son of Eli; and this may be 1210 BC:
Judges 20:28 "And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand."
Eli may have served with Phinehas from 1238 BC to 1198 BC as high priest. Forty thousand men mostly of Judah and twentyfive thousand of Benjamin plus women and children were slain. Benjamin was reduced to just 600 men.
1 Samuel 9:1 "Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people."
If Saul became king at 25 in 1123 BC, then he may have been born about 1150 BC, Kish in 1175 BC, Abiel in 1200 BC, Zeror in 1235 BC, Bechorath in 1260 and Aphiah about 1285 BC in Egypt. Thus Aphiah must have been one of the settlers of Benjamin in Israel being about 50 at the conquest of palestine in 1238 BC and perhaps given land and power. Also he likely witnessed the great works of God from the Exodus in 1279 BC. And thus Zeror may have been the one of the Benjamites who escaped the sword about 1233 BC - 1210 BC.
Joshua 24:31 "And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that over lived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel."
Joshua lived to be 110. If he was 80 in 1239 BC he lived to 1210 BC. The land had rest 40 years from August 31 1238 BC, Judges 4 & 5, to 1198 BC, Judges 5:31. Thus the elders that over lived Joshua may have been to Eli in 1198 BC. However, the battle of Othneil occurs after Joshua died, Judges 1, when Caleb was 85. Thus Joshua may have been 110 years old in 1233 BC. The battle of Othneil was also about the time of the civil war of Benjamin. Benjamin is mentioned next in Judges 1:21. Thus the civil war of Benjamin may have been next. The forty years of rest of Othneil Judges 3:11 may have counted from 1238 BC and included this battle in 1233 BC.
2 Samuel 4:15 "Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years."
From 1237 BC to 1198 BC.
I Samuel 2:27 "Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?"
Thus Eli's father was born in Egypt, perhaps about 1298 BC and would be under 20 when he crossed the Red Sea and thus live to enter the promised land. Counting generations from the day the ark was taken:
1 Samuel 14:3 "And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone."
If Ichabod's brother was born soon after he was, 1198 BC, then Ahitub may have been born 1190 BC and Ahiah born 1160 BC and be 37 when Saul became king about 1123 BC.
The 300 years in:
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?"
This must have originally stated within 100 years. Just before the Jubilee of 1140 BC. A later scribe probably tripled the years to make the chronology of Judges follow in sequence rather than what it was concurrent judges. This appears to date from the occupation of Heshbon 1240 BC. A Jubilee would be the time to give back land as outlined in:
Leviticus 25:10 "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family."
Perhaps after 1140 BC began this third Jubilee the next 50 years. Jubilees were: 1240 BC - Friday October 4 1190 BC the first 50 years, 1190 BC - Saturday September 21 1140 BC the second, 1140 BC - beginning the third 50 years, and the next Jubilee Sunday October 7 1090 BC. After the Day of Atonement September 21 1140 BC, lands could be returned for another 50 years. Perhaps what Jephthah meant was it had not yet been 100 years, "within that time". Thus it was not yet the Jubilee. Judges from 1198 BC: Abimelech 1 year 1197 BC, Tolah (west) 23 years 1174 BC the same year as king Wan's dream and sun miracle in his first year as king, Jair (east) 22 years 1175 BC, Ammon oppressed Israel 18 years to Jephthah 1156 BC or 1135 BC. However at the same time the Philistines oppressed Israel 40 years perhaps from 1175 BC to 1135 BC. Thus Jephthah may have made this statement in 1142 BC.
Judges 11:32 "So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
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."
The sun may have stood still for 12 hours, thus the two suns double day like for Joshua, enough time for Jephthah to destroy twenty cities with a very great slaughter. There must have been 3 more sun miracles to correct for missing time.
Judges 11:4 "And it came to pass after days, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel."
The after days may be after the Day of Atonement. God told Moses that a Moabite may not enter into the congregation till the tenth generation. Many have figured 250 years from Exodus till Ruth, 10 X 25 years. Naomi may have brought Ruth to Israel in the spring of 1188 BC and Boaz may have redeemed her on the day of Pentecost that Jubilee year. The Jubilee or Day of Atonement may have been Saturday October 5 1190 BC beginning the 50th year and the day of Pentecost 1188 BC on the 50th day was the first harvest since then. Thus the day of Pentecost following the year of the Jubilee was part of the Jubilee. Jesus read Isaiah 61:2
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 brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
21 "And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
Jesus read Isaiah 61:2 probably fulfilled on Saturday September 15 31 BC and possibly written on the Jubilee 690 BC. Hezekiah died on the first day of Nisan 690 BC. Thus he may have heard these words then and appreciate the words Jesus would speak and fulfill. He would realize when the Messiah came and spoke the message of salvation that those that accepted the Gospel by those sent by the Messiah, Jesus, and made him their Lord and Saviour would find salvation.
Luke 10:24 "For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them, and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them."
And said this day is this verse fulfilled in your ears. Perhaps the same day of the week Ruth heard the Jubilee in Leviticus 23. That is, the Jubilee foretold the day Jesus would speak these words and make men free from the law of sin and death.
Leviticus 25:10 "And ye, shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return everyman unto his family."
This would give Boaz the right to redeem his brother Elimelech's land and purchase Ruth the Moabitess to be his wife. This was the beginning of the New Testament. Likewise the 50th day of Pentacost was the beginning of the New Testament Church.
David reigned from when he was 30, about the same age Jesus was when he started his ministry. David reigned 40 years, 33 years from Jerusalem. David must have reigned from 1083 - 1043 BC:
Perhaps in emperor Ching's 18th year (1096 BC) in the first lunar month about spring 45 days after the winter solstice from December 31 thus about February 14. "in the spring, in the 1st month, Phoenixes made their appearance, and a sacrifice was offered near the Ho." "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." Thus this Assyrian report may refer to both Joshua's long day in February 26 1238 BC, February 27 1237 BC and a long day for David also in February 1096 BC these being a bad omen for those Assyrians. See "The Sun Stood Still, Institute for Biblical & Scientific Studies" Many of these omens look like they could be sun miracles to me. This is the first month of tender shoots when the trees start to bud. Spring comes early to Europe, to Israel. King Ching became emperor, was considered a child before, about when David was born perhaps at a sun miracle. This sun miracle recorded by the Chinese may have been when David was 17 perhaps when he slew Goliath. Goliath was four cubits and a span in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Septuagint. His height was increased to five cubits in the LXXmss and six cubits in the MT LXX. The average height of an Israelite was five feet. Thus Goliath at 6 foot 4 inches could both be large, strong and quick and David would be no match without the help of God.
1 Samuel 17:16 "And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days."
The forty days may have been towards spring. The reason this verse is in the Bible may be because Jesus presented himself to his disciples forty days after his resurrection.
1 Samuel 17:1 "Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim."
The Philistines had taken Azekah. Joshua had chased and smote the Amorites to Azekah and Makkedah 144 years before at the end of Joshua's long day, Joshua 10:10. After David slew Goliath the Israelites chased the Philistines from Azekah to Ekron. Perhaps God moved the sun 180° around the earth at the same place and same time, about noon in Azekah/Ajalon February 26, as he did for Joshua this time for David giving Israel more daylight to pursue the Philistines the day David slew Goliath, see Psalm 18.
Genesis 49:24 "But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)"
Joseph was a shepherd until he was sold by his brothers into Egypt at 17. David was a shepherd and would have had a sling to protect the sheep also. Thus, "from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel". David had just saved a lamb from the bear and from the lion thus this must have been lambing season, February 15 - March 15 1096 BC, the first month of the Chinese spring. "In his 18th year, in the spring, in the first month, the king went to Loh, and settled the place of the tripods there. Phoenixes made their appearance, and a sacrifice was offered near the Ho." Note: Having dropped a gem into the water, and finished all the ceremonies, the king retired and waited till the day declined. Then rays of glory came out, and shrouded all the Ho; and green clouds came floating in the sky. A green dragon came to the altar.." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.147 The sun miracle happened when the sun was rising in Israel and setting in China. Thus this was like Joshua's long day. I Samuel 17:46b "that all of earth may know there is a God in Israel." All of earth would know if the sun stood still. The day does not end till 1 Samuel 18:10 "on the morrow".
I Samuel 17:20 "And David rose up early in the morning,"
Does not appear in the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Septuagint. It may have been noon when David slew Goliath. Israel then chased the Philistines 20 miles to Gath and 30 miles to Ekron. The same day David went to Jerusalem, more than 30 miles from Azekah, with the head of Goliath and was greeted "Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands." Then this might have been a long day like Joshua's long day. 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18 may have been inspired by the sun miracle that day. Perhaps there was a sun miracle also in 2 Samuel 22 1082 BC. "In King Ching's 34th year, 1082 BC, it rained gold in Heen-yang." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p. 148. Thus Psalm 18, 2 Samuel 22, could describe a sun miracle. King Ching died on May 24, day 2 of 60 in the fourth month in summer, 1078 BC on the day of Pentecost, perhaps he was executed on the day of a sun miracle. The next king. King Kang, "In his 26th year, in the autumn, in the 9th month, on the day ke-wei (56 of cycle), the king died." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p. 149. This was October 18 1053 BC the day of Atonement. Likewise, perhaps king Kang was executed at a sun miracle on the day of Atonement. 100 years earlier in 1152 BC king Wan declared "eclipse is untimely" rather a sun miracle when he was taken prisoner. On September 7 1269 BC on the day of Atonement, together with a lunar eclipse August 12 1269 BC, "there was incoming trouble". Likewise there may have been a sun miracle on the day of Atonement and an attempt to assassinate king Wuding. 100 years before Solomon became king of Israel in 1042 BC there was a sun miracle when Jephthah defeated the Ammonites, perhaps October 9 1142 BC about 98 years after an earlier battle, and perhaps sun miracle, about February 2 1239 BC.
I Kings 3:1 "And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about."
The Pharaoh Psusennes I "The Star the Appears in the City" reigned from this 1040 - 992 BC. (Then if Merneptah drowned in 1279 BC there is a space of 76 years not currently ascribed to pharaohs back from 1040 BC.) Further: "The part played by women in ancient Egypt had always been great, but at this juncture it was greater than ever. The inscriptions are abnormally communicative in the use of such epithets as 'King's Daughter', 'King's Great Wife'."
1 Kings 9:16 "For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife."
1 Kings 6:1 "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD."
This must be May 1039 BC the second Hebrew month, the fourth Chinese month: "In his, King Ch'aou, 14th year, in the summer, in the 4th month (May), the regular stars were invisible." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.149 Thus when the Temple was begun the stars were not visible and when the Second Temple was finished in 504 BC the Milky Way was not visible.
Zechariah 14:6 "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8a And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;"
Isaiah 13:10 "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine."
Then in King Ch'aou's "19th year, in the spring, a comet appeared in the space Tsze-mei (about the north pole star). The duke of Tse and the baron of Sin followed the king against Ts'oo. The heavens were dark and temptestuous. Pheasants and hares were terrified. The king's six armies perished in the Han. The king died." The Chinese Classics III, p.149 This is reckoned 1033 BC when Solomon's Temple was being finished. Comets and sudden darkness and hurricanes together with lost armies suggest an unexpected sudden sunset in the middle of the day when the sun moved 180° west.
The Septuagint reads "440 etel", years or half years. This may have been originally written in an earlier scroll 240 years. The Septuagint was translated from the Hebrew about 350 BC and this verse 1 Kings 6:1 is not in the fragments from 1 Kings in the Dead Sea Scrolls from 150 BC. Then 1279 - 240 = 1039 BC Solomon's 4th year, 200 years, perhaps to the day, after entering the promised land in 1239 BC. 1040 BC / 1039 BC was also the year of the Jubilee beginning with the Day of Atonement October 1040 BC. The month Zif in 1039 BC may have begun Friday, April 12, the same day of the year as when Israel crossed the river Jordan and perhaps the same day of the year Israel crossed the Reed Sea about Saturday April 12, 1279 BC. On the first day of the third month was the feast of Pentecost. Examples can be found in 2 Chronicles and in Ezekiel:
Perhaps Sunday May 7 968 BC or Sunday May 27 967 BC.
2 Chronicles 15:10 "So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth, year of the reign of Asa."
Perhaps May 23 565 BC.
Ezekiel 31:1 "And it came to pass in the eleventh, year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
The tabernacle in the wilderness must have been reared up Sunday, March 15, 1278 BC, Exodus 40:17. There may have been a sun miracle the day the temple was finished in 1033 BC or 1032 BC. There was a solar eclipse recorded in China in 1033 BC when there was no solar eclipse. Rather this must have been a sudden sunset in China, sun miracle. Then the sun may suddenly rise in Israel. The middle of the eighth month 1032 BC was the autumnal equinox. Thus if there was a sun miracle then earth would not have to shift to keep in the same season.
I Kings 6:38 "And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So he was seven years in building it."
"In the month of Bul (October), in the fourteenth year of the reign of King Esmunazar, king of the Sidonians, son of King Tabnit, king of the Sidonians, King Esmunazar, king of the Sidonians, spake"
"In memory of Esmun. After rain, the sun shines forth;"
2 Samuel 23:4 "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass sprining out of the earth by clear shining after rain."
God did just the opposite when he ended the kingdom of David 500 years later:
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."
This was very like Jesus crucifixion when he died for the sins of the world. In Zechariah 14:7 the evening shall neither be light nor dark, perhaps when the second temple was dedicated, when the Chinese could not see the Milky Way, in 504 BC. Biblical chronology gives the date 1012 BC as Solomon's fourth year. Modern scholarship has cut off 60 years from this traditional date of 1012 BC to 952 BC for Solomon for unjustified reasons. This was to match Pharaoh Shoshenk I with Shishak that invaded Judah in Rehoboam's fifth year, II Chronicles 12:1-4. Their date for this is 725 BC. This is 73 years too recent, perhaps the 76 years too recent date for Pharaoh Merneptah had been passed down yet uncorrected. Or Pharaoh Shoshenk I rather invaded Judah 73 years after Rehoboam's fifth year. Then the revised chronology is 87 years too late leading to problems in synchronism with world history. Solomon must have died in 1003 BC and Rehoboam made king and the ten tribes revolted about 1000 years before the birth of Christ in 4 BC. If Hezekiah's Sign was in 705 BC (the kingdom of Israel must have ended 7 years after Hezekiah became king from 719 BC to 712 BC - 2 Kings 18:1, 17:1. 712 BC +144 years + 600 years is Jesus' crucifixion 33 AD. Thus the popular date for the destruction of Samaria of 722 BC must be wrong. Thus Hoshea must have reigned for nine years as the king of Israel to the destruction of Israel in 712 BC.) the Bible chronology gives 1002 BC as Solomon's fourth year, a missing 37 years to 1039 BC according to the kings of Judah. According to the kings of Israel there is 41 (63) years for Jeroboam II and 20 (27) years for Pekah. (The synchronistic length follows in parentheses, when it differs). Likewise Ahaziah began his reign when he was 22 according to the Septuagint rather than 42 in 2 Chronicles 22:2. Then the differing lengths may agree with 1039 BC as the fourth year of Solomon. Even my Bible chronology at the back of my bible gives only 53 years for Jeroboam II when it should be 63 years. Likewise Hezekiah's sign was at the time of Sennerachib's siege on Jerusalem 705 BC. This is 7 years later than this Bible chronology at the back of my Bible because the temple was destroyed in 575 BC not 585 BC. The so called record of an eclipse in 585 BC was rather the sun falling from the sky in 575 BC just before the temple was taken. So there needs to be 27 more years in the reigns of the kings of Judah and Israel. Calculations here. "Hezekiah was king of Judah at the time, and he outlived Sennacherib by 15 years (20:6). Upon his death, Manasseh his son reigned in his stead (20:21) for 55 years (21:1). Amon reigned after Manasseh for two years (21:19), and then Josiah reigned for 31 years (22:1). After Josiah, Jehoahaz was king for three months (23:31), and then Jehoiakim reigned for 11 years (23:36). His son Jehoiachin reigned for three months, after which he was taken away captive by Nebuchadnezzar, who made Zedekiah king (24:10-17). Zedekiah reigned for 11 years (24:18), and then he was carried away to Babylon (25:6). All of these reigns add up to 123+ years that transpired after Sennacherib's assassination." This adds up to 125 years. So from 705 BC to the captivity in 575 BC is 130 years. So we are still missing 5 years at the sun miracle of Hezekiah. So going back 337 years to the beginning of Solomon's reign in 1042 BC from this 705 BC we are missing 32 more years.
Judges must fit into 100 years according to Boling chapter XX: "If the Shechem assembly of Joshua 24 is to be dated around the close of the 13th century (1238 BC) then Shechem's role as a central sanctuary town was short lived;" That is Shechem, Tell Balata, was destroyed ("city's destruction in the 12th century B.C., traditionally attributed to Abimelech, see Judges 9:42-45") in "the early to mid 12th century", 1200 - 1150 BC according to Boling. Then the ark may have been taken from Shilo 1198 BC. According to Boling neither Saul nor David used Shechem, David used Hebron and Jerusalem, leaving Shechem abandoned from Saul's time, perhaps 1123 BC. Shilo was destroyed by 1050 BC according to the Danish expedition and David destroyed Bathshan and Esdraelon soon after as punishment for the ignominious treatment of the deceased king Saul. Bathshan and Esdraelon must have been destroyed soon after Saul's death about 1083 BC. The judges ruled in different regions at the same time. I Samuel begins with Eli as the priest. Perhaps then Aaron was born in 1363 BC, Ithamar about 1325 BC, Eli about 1295 BC and Samuel about 1205 BC. When Samuel was a young boy the ark was taken:
1 Samuel 6:6 "Wherefore ye shall then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?"
And the Philistines remembered the Exodus so well because it was less than 100 years ago. Likewise Salma must be born about 1270 BC to be one of the two spies to Jericho and be about 30 in 1239 BC, Boaz about 1230 BC, Obed about 1190 BC, Jesse about 1150 BC and David 1113 BC. In 1 Chronicles 12: all the tribes named in Joshua are intact, perhaps because this was only 165 years since the conquest of Canaan. No traces of Solomon's temple can be seen now. Timna may have been a copper mine during Egypt's 19th dynasty to 1087 BC and may have been used by Solomon shortly after. Solomon exchanged copper from Timna for Ophir, Yeman, gold. Late Bronze Age I (LB I) 1500-1000 BC. 1039 BC may very well be Solomon's fourth year. If we can agree Jephthah's battle was after the Jubilee in 1140 BC, the Exodus can be brought to April 4, 1279 BC. Exodus 1279 BC + 40 years in the wilderness = 1239 BC works counting 50 year and seven year cycles back from 163-162 BC, a sabbatical fallow year, September 1233-1232 BC perhaps the seventh year, the first fallow year; 1190 BC perhaps the first 50th year Jubilee - 190 BC a Jubilee less 28 years to the seventh year September 163-162 BC. This also works when omitting the 70 years of captivity, 575 BC to 505 BC. Thus also, if Jesus was born in January of 4 BC or 6 BC, the people would have bread. The fallow year began in September 7 BC. Thus in September 6 BC the children of Israel sowed and in 5 BC they had bread. Thus, this was a reasonable time to tax the people in January/February of 4 BC.
2 Chronicles 36:21 "To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths: for as long as she remained desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill three score and ten years."
The land was desolate so they did not keep the Jubilee.
Job 4:8 "Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same."
Isaiah 28:24 "Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?"
Hosea 10:12 "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men."

They kept the feast of booths from the Day of Atonement, Nehemiah 8:14 when the wall of Jerusalem was finished after six months perhaps in 445 BC. However the wall was finished more likely 458 BC. 187 days from the first of Nisan, to the Day of Atonement, exactly half an earth orbit. A sun miracle on the first of Nisan could have been followed with a sun miracle on the Day of Atonement. Likewise when the Temple was completed on the Day of Atonement perhaps on October 7 1033 BC the sky was darkened in China - the time for a sun miracle to mark the event. Every 50 years the Day of Atonement was the day of the Jubilee. Reckoning the 70 years captivity this means 31 AD was the last Jubilee, probably on the Day of Atonement Saturday September 15 31 AD when Jesus read Isaiah 61:1 in Luke 4:18 and said:
Luke 4:21 "And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
Thus God intended Jesus would fulfill this verse that day thousands of years before, as indicated by the many sun miracles and important events that were 144+ 100's of years before Jesus' birth. Thus at 1279 BC there must yet be 10 years of captivity. After 40 years in the wilderness there must be 20 or 70 years of captivity as there was from 575 BC to 505 BC. The temple rebuilt that year being 500 years before the birth of Christ in 4 BC or 6 BC. And this means the Jubilee of 170 BC was followed by a fallow year in 163 BC. Sowing was done in the September previous Israel's entry on April 12 1239 BC:
Joshua 5:12 "And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year."
The manna first fell Sunday, May 4, 1279 BC, Exodus 16:1. Israel must have crossed the River Jordan Sunday April 12, 1239 BC. Therefore they must have gathered manna Sunday morning and the morrow, Monday, the manna ceased.
Leviticus 23:10 "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I gave unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:"
The 50 days to the feast of Pentecost were numbered from the Sabbath during the feast of unleavened bread, from the 15th to the 21st day of the month.
Luke 6:1 "And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat rubbing them in their hands."
Leviticus 25:5 "That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land."
Thus the pharisee's protested because it was also a Sabbath year. This would be an exception to letting the land rest that year. The first year of Jesus' two year ministry is depicted by some as a land Sabbatical year just as from September 30 AD to September 31 AD was. Also, the feast of Pentecost after Jesus' resurrection in 33 AD would have corn that year because the year of the Jubilee September 31 AD ended September 32 AD, meaning they would have sown October 32 AD and had corn on the 50th day of the Passover, Pentecost, 33 AD.
Leviticus 25:11 "A Jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed."
The feast of unleavened bread ended on the second Sabbath of the Passover. Then Jesus must have fasted the forty days before the Passover which better agrees with the Gospels. Thus Jesus must have begun his ministry with the Passover of 31 AD and the Sabbaths must have been counted from the Passover. The new year Nisan was the month of the Passover. Moreover, this year, the beginning of his ministry, may have been the year of the Jubilee April 31 AD. Thus from September 30 AD there was a Sabbath year for the land to rest, the 49th year. Thus the people would be free to come and hear Jesus. Also from the 50th year beginning September 31 AD would be the year of the Jubilee and the people also would be free that year too to hear the Gospel of Jesus. Thus Jesus said "to preach the acceptable year of the Lord", acceptable because people were free to hear and accept the Gospel. Then also if Jesus began his ministry just before the month of Nisan, spring, the beginning of the 49th year, his ministry must be 3 1/2 years. However, the Gospels may be two years long. John the Baptist started his ministry in Tiberius' 15th year.
Luke 3:1 "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrach of Galilee, ..
2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;"
Since Tiberius began his reign in August 14 AD his 15th year would be 28 AD or 29 AD. Then from the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry to Jesus' crucifixion may have been 3 1/2 years. John the Baptist may have begun his ministry on the Day of Atonement when the angel promised Zachariah a son. Thus 3 1/2 years from September 29 AD is Jesus' crucifixion on April 3 33 AD. Then 2 years later Jesus fulfilled the promise of the Day of Atonement by his life and the healings he did when he read Isaiah 61:1 in Luke 4:18 on the Day of Atonement. This feast following the first Passover may be the feast of tabernacles just after the Day of Atonement:
John 5:1 "After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
Nevertheless, there is no reason Jesus' ministry could not have been 3 1/2 years. There was record of shortage of bread from drought in 28 AD. From the fall of 30 AD they did not sow being the seventh year. Neither did they sow the next year being the Jubilee year. Thus when Jesus compared his coming to Elijah and the 3 1/2 years famine then, he may have been talking about the present 3 1/2 years. There were 24 Jubilees from 1239 BC to 31 AD less 70 years in captivity, 1200 years. The children of Israel must have only kept 24 sabbatical years for the land from 1239 BC to 575 BC because the land kept Sabbath 70 years = 490 years of omission. Which they kept in the 490 years from the building of the wall of Jerusalem 458 BC to Jesus' crucifixion in 33 AD. Rather 500 years including 10 Jubilees. Leaving only 174 years from 1239 BC to 575 BC they kept Sabbath. 575 BC was a land Sabbatical year because 590 was the Jubilee, 589 to 575 are 14 years. They kept 11 Jubilees from 470 BC on to 31 AD and 75 Sabbatical years from the return from captivity in 505 BC to 30 AD. 505 BC to the next Jubilee 35 years later in 470 BC. There also be a Sabbath on the 15th day of the month after the 14th day of the Passover as in Leviticus 23. Thus the 15th day would be on Wednesday April 25 31 AD or Tuesday March 27 31 AD. And thus 50 days from this 15th day would be the feast of Pentecost. Thus also, from Sunday April 5 33 AD 50 days to the feast of Pentecost Sunday May 24. Thus the resurrection Sunday April 5 33 AD was the day after the Passover and was the Sabbath of the first day of the 50 days of Pentecost. Evidence for this is in Luke:
Luke 24:13 "And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them."
Threescore furlongs is a Sabbath days journey. Note this was Sunday. The Passover was Friday night and the day was counted from evening. Thus Friday night was considered Saturday and the seventh day the Sabbath. Thus Saturday was the 14th day of the Passover and Sunday was the 15th day the Sabbath beginning the 50 days of Pentecost.
Luke 6:25a "Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled."
Thus this must be during a Sabbatical year, there being no harvest that year. Then that feast of Pentecost would be held eating grain from the previous year. And since there was a shortage of bread in 29 BC there probably was not much to eat at the feast of Pentecost 31 AD. The disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, Sunday, May 24 33 AD, after Jesus' resurrection when there would be a harvest. Thus Jesus' ministry may have only been two years, from the spring of 31 AD to 33 AD. However, there is no reason Jesus' ministry could not have been 3 1/2 years. Jesus appeared after his resurrection 40 days from this April 5 33 AD to Friday May 16. And the disciples had only a week to wait for the promise of the Holy Spirit that coming Sunday on the day of Pentecost. At Jericho there were large storage jars filled to the brim with carbonized grain. Joshua 3:15b (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of wheat harvest, - wheat harvest by Jordan is in April/May) Father Hugues Vincent dated the fall of the wall 1250 - 1200 BC, the Late Bronze Age 1 2B. This must be 1239 BC. Evidence of no pork bones from the middle of the 13th century, 1250 BC, is evidence of Israelite settlement. From about 950 - 900 BC the temperature in Samaria became cooler and wetter. If Solomon reigned from 1043 BC Ahab must have reigned from 945 BC. China often changed emperors when there was a sun miracle. King Kung became emperor in 945 BC.
I Kings 17:1 "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
Then after the 3 1/2 years of drought this wet period began when there would be no further drought after about 950 BC. Then the objection raised because of rising levels of the Dead Sea at this time is answered by this earlier chronology. Also, it began to become cooler and wetter about the time of Elijah's prayer that it not rain. Thus, the 3 1/2 years of no rain was not natural. The seven year famine would be before 900 BC after which was this period of more and steady rainfall:
II Kings 8:1 "Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever though canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years."
Then all Bible dates are accurate. The Sojourn into Egypt in the Sothis year 430, April 3 2348 BC, point to the sun miracle in Joseph's dream being Yao's long day Friday March 31 2357 BC. Thus the Exodus out of Egypt - 14th day of the Egyptian lunar month, counting from the moon's last visibility in the morning, Friday April 4 1279 BC is the same Sothis day as the Sojourn into Egypt - 14th day of the Egyptian lunar month Friday April 3 2348 BC. April 3 2348 BC is the same Sothis date as April 4 1279 BC because the year counted back from the first appearing of Sirius July 16 2777 BC and backed up 364 days to start over at the first appearing of Sirius July 17 1320 BC. This backed up year over 1460 years like the backed up zodiac of a reverse orbit, perhaps where the idea came from. Then also this April 3 2348 BC is day 17 of their fixed 30 day months, as is April 4 1279 BC day 17 also. Because April 4 is the same number of days back from July 17 as April 3 is from July 16. Who says the Bible does not give exact dates? The Bible is a history book and meant to be read as historical fact. The Bible does not describe the sun circling the earth each day. Those verses that suggest the sun went around the earth were referring to sun miracles. The Bible describes the earth as having wings:
Job 38:13 "That it might take hold of the wings of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
15 And from the wicked, their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken."
Then they knew the earth orbited the sun. Earth turns each day. Then they knew earth turned and normally the sun stood still to produce day and night. Nevertheless, earth must be turned on the ecliptic pole to keep in the same season after each sun miracle. Earth turns on the north pole. The ecliptic pole is not a place on earth, it is the zenith of the earth when you look at a globe. Light is withheld when the sun revolves to stand still on the opposite side of the earth. Such as in the three days of darkness just before the Exodus out of Egypt.
The Bible describes the sun as having wings:
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."
Then they knew the sun moved around the earth on a sun miracle. Some say "the Bible does not have to be literally true, that what is important is the underlying message."
Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Rather faith is believing miracles are fact, that the Bible is literally true. You have to hear and believe the Gospel to be saved. Email me, Andrew Bennett, at s@sunnyokanagan.com if you have any questions. Likely each miracle was accompanied by a second several years after on the same day of the year. Earth must turn very soon after the sun moves the 180° to keep in the same season. (If earth turned at the same time there would be some hours plus or minus the 12 hours made by the sun moving 180°. See Calculations) The pole star changes with precession 1.4° (360/260) per 100 years. "If it were possible to fix the exact century, in which it was first observed that the stars of the equinoxes and solstices were neaou and heu, ho and maou, that century may have been anterior to Yaou, and not the one in which he lived." p.89 Rather than 26800 BC or 800 BC Yao's observations must have been then, in 2357 BC. This turn must be about the ecliptic pole. This must be more than several centuries in forward precession. Because Neaou was probably Alphard, the first part of Hydra - Alpha Hydrae, (Cor Hydra) which transits at 6:04PM on the vernal equinox April 11 2357 BC before the sun sets at 6:20PM! - Because of the reverse orbit this is the autumnal equinox - Then at 800 BC on this vernal equinox March 29 Alphard transits at 7:29PM - one hour after the 6:26PM sunset. "Ho" on the summer solstice probably Antares, transits at 6:28PM 2357 BC before the sunset! at 7:42PM. By the time Antares is visible it is almost setting! In 800 BC it transits at 8:02PM, 20 minutes after sunset at 7:42PM. On the fall equinox - spring equinox in this reverse orbit - , Heu - Beta Aquarius, transits at 7PM 2357 BC 45 minutes after the 6:14 sunset. In 800 BC it transits at 7:41 PM, more than one hour after the 6:12PM sunset. On the winter solstice Maou - Pleiades, transits at 6:07PM 2357 BC one hour after the 5PM sunset. In 800 BC it transits at 7:36PM 2.5 hours after the 5PM sunset. (Mao may rather be Taurus) James Legge said "the stars would not be visible for a half hour after sunset". All four stars marking the four seasons are about 90° apart, perhaps what they were aiming for. And in a 800 BC sky all these stars are also visible in their seasons. These stars of Yao could now begin to be visible in their appointed seasons. This is a reverse orbit, so Alphard previous to March 31 2357 BC would appear westward of the meridian at nightfall and could not have been recorded directly above on the spring equinox April 11 2357 BC. That is, spring was 11 days later. And earth in a reverse orbit from March 31 by April 11, moving backwards 1° a day, would make Alphard visible directly above at first dark after sunset, howbeit Alphard for the autumn equinox and Beta Aquarius for the vernal equinox. Earth orbits the sun 1° a day, 360°/365 days. Then 11 days before the equinox plus 11 days of reverse orbit to the spring equinox equals this 22° of shift. Then perhaps the sun moved 180° March 31 2357 BC and earth turned 22°, 1500 years, in forward precession to the 800 BC pole. Tuesday March 31 2359 BC, the third day, was pharaoh's birthday and Joseph may have appeared before pharaoh two full years later and the sun moved 180° for Joseph Friday March 31 2357 BC. See animation of planets pivoting around the earth March 31 2357 BC. Yaou pi p'tou may be the pole star in Yao's time. In 2358 BC the normal pole star was Thuban as you can see in the diagram on your left. From TheSky Software Bisque - However, on March 31 2357 BC earth must have shifted to the 800 BC pole position to keep in the same March 31 season. Then you see the pole position on your right is changed and the new pole star, SAO 7814, which may be too faint to see with the naked eye. Perhaps Yao's canon depicts this pole shift, the stars marking the solstices and equinoxes and pole shifting 22°. Yao from March 31 2357 BC to March 31 2350 BC would see a 800 BC pole position. You can try astronomy programs to verify my calculations: Sky View Applet 2 minute download. You can try the dates given here for yourself. 1 BC is 0, 2 BC is -1, in the old "TheSky" and "Dance of the Planets". In newer versions of TheSky 1 BC is -1, 2 BC is -2.

Other Legends of Sun Miracles

There were many recorded sun miracles. Some legends may relate to Joshua's long day, however, many more relate to the many other times the sun moved 180° at different times of the day observed at different locations, sometimes the sun appearing to stand still, sometimes setting in the east/rising in the west or setting suddenly in the west/rising suddenly in the east. Some legends, such as Atreus' ascension to the throne depicted by Seneca's Thyestes, and Apollodorus though fiction may be based on real celestial events. "Helius, already in mid career, wrested his chariot about and turned his horses' heads towards the dawn." Then the details: "The zodiac's falling." Can be taken a number of ways. When the sun moved 180° the night time stars of the zodiac would appear at the same height as usual for those stars. When the earth had shifted to keep in the same season these stars would appear to go up or fall down. Earth must also fall backwards as earth's forward momentum carried it into a reverse orbit of the sun, thus the zodiac would progress backwards. Thus also the sun and planets would stay on the plane of the ecliptic/zodiac. How could they come up with the notion of a falling zodiac if they did not actually experience it? "no more shall the stars mark off summer and autumn". If the sun moved 180° March 21 or September 21, on the vernal or autumnal equinoxes, the September night sky would be a March night sky and vice versa. If at any other time the earth would also need to turn in a pole shift, in order to leave the same season on earth and leave no evidence. Turn your globe stand on a flat surface. Notice earth's incline to the sun has shifted. Earth must regain the same incline soon after the sun moves the 180° to keep in the same season. The shift must have been made in a matter of 24 hours. If this was over a week, February 25 day of daylight would suddenly become a May 9 day, at midweek a March 21 day and at the end of the week a February 26 day. However, seven days later it is March 3. Daylight must match continuous calendar days to keep the same insolation of season. Therefore, the shift must have been made within 24 hours of the sun moving 180°. Land heats up faster, the oceans take much longer to heat up. The affect on the weather would be immediate. For the calendar days of the season to continue the shift then rather must have been made the same day. "the Wain (The Wagon - Big Dipper), which was never washed by the sea, the swathing whirlpool shall engulf." Our circum polar region must drop below the horizon. Therefore earth's axis must have turned away from Ursa Major. If the sun moved 180° near the winter (or summer) solstice, as recorded by the Chinese - such as January 26 2287 BC, earth must turn nearly 180° to Vega to keep in the same season. Then a good part of the "Wain" would disappear below the horizen - the ocean. Also, this legend is from 30° latitude, which means the pole star would be just 30° above the horizon. Then even more of the "Wain" would rotate out of view. "Into the universal deluge will the Wain descend, which never touched the sea before; the Snake, like a meandering river sliding Between the Bears; and the great Dragon's (Draco) smaller neighbour, the freezing Cynosura" - the path of precession to the pole star where it was thousands of years before, earth must turn on the ecliptic axis, the poles pivot back down this path, to keep in the same season. The The Gilgamesh Epic Tablet VI, theme of the celestial ceiling of Senmut, Yao's/Joseph's Long day and Yao's Canon may describe the same pole shift of 22° and may be one event. However, there were a great many other sun miracles requiring 70° or 156° or more of pole shift. Perhaps where the celestial north became south. Sailors used the pole star to guide them at night. Imagine their confusion when their star had shifted south! They would have to study the apparent rotation of stars at night to discover the new pivot point. Sailors counted on the stars moving in a steady and predictable order. If the sun moved 180° their night sky would likewise start 180° away. That is, they would see a night sky six months away and each day progressing 1° in reverse! That is, instead of the stars disappearing in the west through the year they would rather counter wise rise in the west. Likewise migrating birds may use the stars for navigation. However, it is now believed birds mostly use an internal compass and the sunset to guide them. If the earth turned 180° about on the ecliptic pole on the winter or summer solstice and earth's axis pointed to Vega, Ursa Major would drop below the circum polar region and disappear below the horizen in the Mediterranean Sea.
Seneca's conclusion: "Are we alone of mankind deemed worthy of being overwhelmed by an unhinged universe? Is it upon us the last day has come?" They thought earth hinged on the pole star. They thought it was the end of the world. Wouldn't you?
Likewise depicted "on Buddha's death there were many collapsing world pillars and unhinged mill trees." Hamlet's Mill

Amos 8:9 prophesied the sun would set at noon. Some 50 years later the sun did set in the east at noon for Hezekiah. And sometime between 515 BC and 450 BC the sun rose in the west on China for Lu Yang.
Esther 8:16 "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour."
Thus this may be the same day for a sun miracle for Esther and Lu Yang in about 474 BC. The sun setting in the east for Hezekiah would be rising in the west in China. Thus the sun must have rose in the west in China in 705 BC, 515-450 BC, 230 BC and 163 BC. The sun must have been at the 12PM position on Israel in 705 BC, whereupon Isaiah prayed and the sun retreated to the eastern horizon. Therefore, for the sun to descend to the beginning of Ahaz's dial in the east, it must move backwards at least 6 hours. There are 36 decans to 24 hours. 7 hours = 10 decans. According to the tract Sanhedrin 96a, the sun set 10 hours early on the death of Ahaz, so as not to allow time for Israel to mourn an evil king. Geneva Bible Notes: "Let the sunne goe so many degrees backe that the houres may be so many the fewer in the Kings diall. Which diall was set in the rop (rope - Middle English or top?) of the stairs that Ahaz had made." Perhaps these early translators imagined a stairway with rope for the gnomon. Probably though, this upper sun dial depicted 36 decans, 360°. The ten degrees in the King James appear to mean 10 decans, 100°. The sun must have retreated 100° from the noon position to the dawn position. This March 20 eight days before the spring equinox March 28 705 BC, therefore, earth's axis must turn (2° X 8 days) 16° clockwise to keep in the same season.

Background

Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision", published by Macmillan, was sold to Doubleday because of a threatened boycott in 1950 by the scientific community. Velikovsky then wrote a book on this conspiracy against him. In 1981 Bob Forrest wrote "Velikovsky's Sources" henceforth VS. Essentially he argues there is no evidence of catastrophe. Where some see evidence against faith others see evidence for far greater faith. The faith of a child of God. Herodotus, a Greek historian, wrote that the Egyptian priests reported "Thus the whole number of years [of early Egyptian history] is 341 pharaohs, in which entire space, they said, no god had ever appeared in a human form; nothing of this kind had happened either under the former or under the later Egyptian kings. The sun, however, had within this period of time, on four several occasions, moved from his wonted course, twice rising where he now sets, and twice setting where he now rises. Egypt was in no degree affected by these changes; the productions of the land, and of the river, remained the same; nor was there anything unusual in the diseases or the deaths." The History of Herodotus, chapter 2 There was and is no trace. See De Situ Orbis "Four several" may be 4 X 7 = 28. The sun must have moved 180° at least 60 times from Noah's Flood 3637 BC to Herodotus at 480 BC, because the sun must move 4 times in a series. Sun miracles may predate recorded history because of the Middle East's Phoenix and the Chinese Feng (Phoenix) and the Native American Thunderbird's origin go back many thousands of years.
"[X] Divined: "The Lord-on-High may happen to [be able to] order thunder in this thirteenth month." "Upon the coming of the first month, the Lord-on-High may happen to [be able to] order thunder." Heji 14127" The Chinese associated thunder with God. They associated the appearing of the dragon or phoenix with rain. There was a sun miracle in 141 BC when it thundered. Thus the Native American association with thunder and the thunderbird may go back to when first Nations were still in Asia.
North American Indian Cree legend tells of the "benevolent spirit" ordering the sun to keep silence. Pueblo legend Long Sash extends the night sky. -- The night sky was extended 5 hours; therefore the earth kept rotating and the sun moved. Note the native legend from the Omaha s "How the Rabbit Caught the Sun". Possibly the sun traveled west for a sudden sunset on Ahaz and early sunrise in the Americas. The sun appearing to stand still in the Rabbit's snare could have been the sun setting on Joshua or 12 hours of twilight for Zechariah - as in the Aztec account above. The Japanese have a legend of the sun hiding in a cave.
Depicted on totem pole on left - The Pacific Northwest has a legend of a crow stealing the sun from out of a box. The Raven flew up the smoke hole with the box of daylight. The sun may have moved 180° over the north pole. See How Raven Stole the Sun The sun often moved from Aquarius to Corvus, the Raven. The Chinese used to use the character for crow to depict the sun. The sun went up the sky towards the serpent and the Great Bear - the pole - in the legend of Phaethon - the river Eridanus suggests the sun went over the south pole. However, most likely the sun moved with the planets around the earth along the plane of the ecliptic - east west - holding their relative positions all the while. A Native American story in "Indian Myths & Legends From the North Pacific Coast of America" p.509, tells a story that parallels Phaethon:
"Snq, Sun, had a son called T'oot'k-oa'ya who was living with his mother in the village. Snq said "I am old. Henceforth you shall carry the sun in my stead. But pay attention, keep walking straight and don't bend down, otherwise earth will be burnt up." T'oot'k-oa'ya promised and in the morning walked slowly and quietly up the sky, but towards noon he bent down to have a look around the earth. Thereupon it became very hot down there; the rocks burst open and the sea began to boil over, covering all the land. The people saved themselves in their canoes, but many perished and others were scattered. The mountain goats hid beneath stones; that is why they stayed white, while other animals were scorched. When Snq saw what T'oot'k-oa'ya was doing, he seized him, tore him into pieces and threw them down to earth. There the pieces were transformed into minks."
Perhaps the sun stood still at noon for 12 or 36 hours. Then it could get very hot. The sun in 36 hours would appear to move from side to side as it revolved around the earth in a straight level plane as our tilted earth rotated. Then perhaps the sun suddenly set in the west. That is, the sun fell from the sky just as it did for Phaethon. Then there should be meteor showers perhaps the pieces of T'oot'k-oa'ya that were thrown down to earth. These two sun miracles could be the second and third in a series of four. A Salish legend tells of different suns, perhaps noting some of these miracles from an America perspective. The sun moved away in another Salish legend. The North California Indians tell how the mole held up the sun. Cottontail In the legend Cottontail Shoots the Sun, Cottontail shoots several arrows at the sun. Then with just one arrow left he shot the sun and the sun fell. Then cottontail ran to it, split it open and took out its gall and threw it into the air. "The sun shall go this way so that it won't be dark before I kill enough cottontails for my meals." And that is how we get long days. Coyote Was Going There, p.255. "The sun fell" could be a sun miracle. Also, this could be an explanation for sun miracles when there would be long days in ancient times. The Sun Snarer The Thunderbird was the Native American Phoenix. "Thunderbird: A huge and mighty creature, Thunderbird is one of the most powerful of all spirits. It appears mainly on Kwakuitl poles, rarely on Haida or Tlingit poles, but all coastal peoples include Thunderbird in one form or another in their ancient lore and attribute various powers to this supernatural bird...Thunder rolls from the great bird's wing beat and lightning flashes from his blinking eyes. Thunderbird has curled appendages on his head (the crown)...The bird is often dramatically depicted with outstretched or uplifted multifeathered wings atop many a pole." Looking at Totem Poles, Hilary Stewart, p.34 The Chinese recorded clouds would appear when the phoenix or dragon appeared. As also recorded in Psalm 18. The Chinese also record thunder and rain with sun miracles. The Chinese recorded the phoenix as a red bird. The Native Americans also: "In the end Tsqtskna'sp (a climbing bird with red wings, tail and cheeks) became the sun." Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America, p.67
See a pictograph of the Thunderbird Similar to the Chinese phoenix. See a pictograph of a sunrise nearby See the Chinese character for the Feng bird the phoenix as on an oracle bone . You see a bird flying straight up like the Thunderbird.
Psalm 139:9 "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;"
The wings of the Thunderbird are very evident. There are many more like Native American legends. A myth that reflects an actual worldwide event will have a perspective that is covariant with respect to the observer's frame of reference. That is, this long night in Egypt would mean a long day on the Pacific Islands, just as we find. Because of the Chinese book burning in 213 BC by the Emperor Ch'in Shih Huang and the burning of the Library of Alexandria in 47 BC, 391 AD and 641 AD - which is thought to have held more than half a million documents from Greece, Persia, Egypt, Assyria, India and elsewhere, most of the works that would have recorded these events were lost. Augustus' eagle was copied from the eagle on the ceiling depicting the founding of Rome about 750 BC. This ceiling to this cave is fragile and is being analyzed this year 2008. The sun fell from the sky about then as prophesied by Amos. Thus this may have been the sun miracle or its counterpart depicted by the eagle. Augustus' eagle was at the last of the phoenixes before Christ's birth may have symbolized the phoenix as people would have got familiar with the depiction of the sun angel. The Romans depicted the phoenix as the eagle. Augustus was emperor of Rome from the late first century BC to 14 AD.
Luke 2:1 "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; because (he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son,"
The Aztec priests related to Bernardino de Sahagun in Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana, BK. VII, Chapter 2.: "And when the sun came to rise..he kept swaying from side to side...with a rabbit he came to wound in the face [the moon], and he killed its brilliance (the moon must move 180° and show its hidden side to earth until it turned) when both appeared they could not move nor follow their paths..At once he [the wind] could move him, who thereupon went his way. And when he had followed his course only the moon remained there. At the time the sun came to enter the place where he set, then once more the moon moved." There were strong winds recorded by the Chinese, king Wan, at the time of Joshua's long day also. This suggests the Aztec account is Joshua's long day seen from Mexico. The Aztec observation may be Zechariah 14:7 about 500 BC or later. The earliest writing of the Mayans dates as far back as 600 B.C. and was found in Mexico's Oaxaca valley. There could have easily been pictographs from 1238 BC that described Joshua's long day from Mexico just as the Aztec priests claimed. Only Joshua's long day has the sun standing still at noon on Israel, thus standing still in the eastern horizen on Mexico. The Aztecs feared that the sun wouldn't come up again the next day, probably because there were times when it did not. The historical lore of the Peruvians (Olcot, 1914 p. 206) "In a pass of the Peruvian Andes stand two ruined towers on opposite hills. Iron hookes are clamped into their walls for the purpose of stretching a net from one tower to another. The net is intended to catch the sun." The Golden Bough, Sir James Fraser - The sun catcher legend is from Peru or Chile from about 700 BC; and Babylonians (Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, p. 39 by P. Jensen) speak of a "day of twice natural length." "The legends from primitive man in Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America of the day the sun set in the wrong direction; The legends from primitive man in Peru of the day the sun stood still; The legends from Malayan and Sumatran aborigines of the long night." The Adam and Eve Story The Greek god Phaethon rode the chariot of the sun up the sky before losing control and "plunging headlong down, they set the world on fire." The sun suddenly plunging from the sky probably scared people into thinking a boy was at the controls. Thus the story of Phaethon. The sun starts at Scorpius and climbs up the sky. The sun travelling 180° west from Scorpius would "rise" to the July summer solstice position at sunset in the west. (A summer sunset) This may have been the sun moving 180° January 26 2287 BC from Aquarius to Leo. Likewise, January 1096 BC. Or this could be the sun travelling 180° east at noon to set in the east from Scorpius to Taurus - the sun moving back after Noah's flood April 12 3636 BC or the sun moving back after Joseph's long day March 31 2350 BC. Phaethon may be connected to the Phoenix bird that burst into flames and the flaming unicorn of the Chinese. That is, the sun moved 180° or 9 X 180° and earth in the resulting reverse orbit experienced drought and forest fires to mark the beginning of the seven years of famine in Egypt as per Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dream. The long day of 108 hours according to the nine 12 hour days of Yao's long day may have been enough to cause forest fires. The Egyptians believed the sun rose in the shape of the Phoenix bird - was reborn - every 100 years. They imagined the sun was born in the east to pass through 180° of sky to die in flames in the west every day, likened to the Phoenix. The phoenix however, stood for a sun miracle, the sun moving through 180° of constellations of the zodiac. In China the phoenix was reborn or resurrected a day or two later. There often would be a day or two between the second and third sun miracle of a series of four sun miracles a reverse orbit year. Thus the Phoenix could be seen again a day or two later carrying the sun to the other side of the earth. "and it is because you have shone forth as the Phoenix stone in the House of the Phoenix in the (spinal) Column Center." - 2255 BC (perhaps one of the Chinese sun miracles 2287 BC, 2285 BC, 2274 BC or the sign when Shun abdicated to Yu 2255 BC).
Papyrus Anastasi I III: "mayest thou make thy transformations as thou listest like the Phoenix, every form of thine being a god when thou" Recorded Sun miracles average once every 100 years in the Bible years BC all told. There must have been several more because several sun miracles do not have the other of their pair or series of four recorded. According to the story the Egyptian priests told Herodotus (ii.73) the phoenix was reborn every 500 years. The phoenix may not have been observed at every sun miracle. Thus, perhaps he was only observed in the Middle East about once every 500 years there being many sun miracles in that 500 years. Such may be: between 3637 - 2777 BC, 2287 - 1891 BC, 1765 - 1317 BC, 1096 - 749 BC, 687 - 312 BC. "Tacitus tells us that the bird was said to have appeared first under Sesostris (Senwosri) (Sesostris I 1918-1875 BC or 1986 BC = the 10 suns in 1891 BC?), then under Amasis (Ahmosi) II. (569 BC - 525 BC, a phoenix sothis cycle from 1986 BC to 525 BC of 1461 years.) - Cyrus? - A sparkling star comet was seen in 524 BC, under Ptolemy III (246 BC - 222 BC = Prince Tau of Yin 230 BC)." Few people were literate and most records were lost. Thus some phoenixes were not recorded leaving 500 year gaps. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Woods: "Read the Bible as you would Livy or Tacitus. For example, in the book of Joshua we are told the sun stood still for several hours." That Joshua's long day is proven here, the Bible is to be read as fact. King Wan recorded Joshua's long day from China and recorded phoenixes were seen. Perhaps the sun had set, stood still below the horizen in the west to rise a little in the north in the summer solstice position in the eighth hour perhaps rising on mount K'e briefly eight hours after sunset. In the Iliad 2.490: 'King Agamemnon raised his voice in prayer: "Most powerful Zeus exalted lord of thunder clouds, you who dwell in heaven, may before the sun sunset and before the darkness come before I have cast down Priam's palace to have covered it with dust, destroyed its doors in all-consuming fire, and with my bronze sword sliced to shreds the tunic on Hector's chest." This is supposed to be the burning of Troy and the Greeks did not command the sun. However, parts of the book of Joshua may have made its way into the Iliad. Joshua burned Hazor to the ground after the battle of Merom following the battle for Gibeon when Joshua asked God to make the sun stand still and God made the sun stand still. Iliad 3.331: "Father Zeus! Ruling over us all from Ida, god of greatness, god of glory! Helios, Sun above us, you who see all, hear all things! .. be witness here, protect our binding pacts.." Iliad 11.242 "then Zues will hand you the power to kill and kill till you cut your way to the benched ships and the sun sinks and the blessed darkness sweeps across the earth!" Rena from Greece has put us straight "You can find astronomy in the Iliad in the last chapter of the book, the funeral of dead Hector. Dead Hector is in the chest. Three [3] women cry for him [Andromache, Hecuba and Helen]. Three are the stars in the tail of the constellation Great Bear. Its front side is a chest ! In arabic myths of stars, Great Bear was the funeral of Al Nash, the Great Warrior of the sky. The tree stars in the tail for them was the 'Three mourners'. 3 women. That's why and the ILIAD STOPS EXACTLY AT THAT POINT. To the funeral of Great Warrior, Hector. Greeks wanted to 'put Great Bear in its place'. And Hector was the Great Warrior of the Trojans. With his death everything was under control again, on the earth..." Mount Ida was the first to burn when the sun fell from the sky in the legend of Phaethon. The second correcting 180° movement of the sun to Joshua's long day must have occurred about the time of the defeat and death of Sisera according to Judges 5. See the book of Jasher. Then earth must have flowed out of the reverse orbit, reoriented and continued as if nothing had happened and "earth was under control again". Astronomical calculations must be accurate to thousands of years previous this sun miracle and other sun miracles as if nothing had happened. Homer's war covered the period 1250 - 1130 BC, the Iliad was written 900 BC probably describing Joshua's long day about 1238 BC. Homer's Odyssey Book 23 (select Poetry), tells of the dawn being held back, (perhaps the three days darkness for Moses) 'A famous Hittite legend says that, one day, the Sun god was MISSING, the Weather God sent messengers: "Go! Bring the Sun God"' Possibly also the three days of darkness for Moses and the weather cold. Because of rising CO2 gases 8,000 years ago due to farming, weather patterns that had been stable for 400,000 years that had left their mark in ice, were disrupted as evidenced in the ice. See Man changed climate for 8,000 years? Then weather change from these solar reversals remain all the more hidden. The Egyptian legend of Horus: "When Set gauged out Horus' eyes, light disappeared from the world. And was only restored when the goat dribbled milk into his eye sockets." Myths and Legends of the World Explored, by Kenneth McLeish, p. 173 During these three days of darkness for Moses the sun must move 540° back, just past Capricornus the goat, to Aquarius. Also, this long day in Israel for Joshua would mean a long night in the Pacific, just what we find. Moreover, the Chinese, king Wan, had a recorded observation of a long sunset at the same time as Joshua's long day. That is, they saw the same sun standing still in the west that was standing still at noon on Israel. And more importantly this was not a myth but a detailed recorded observation. There was only 50 million people on earth to witness Joshua's Long Day (Long Night on the other side of earth).

Visualize earth's forward momentum carrying earth into and out of a reverse orbit.
Calculate the turn needed.
Calculate the force of gravity, centrifugal force.
Try pulling the sun in a perfect orbit around the earth.
The apparent motion of the sun against the stars

One Seed, Jesus

The reason man lived so long from Adam and down was this was the lineage of Christ and they were thus blest with long life to fulfill God's purpose and God's timing to point men to his Son. Thus their date of birth and death line up with Jesus' birth and crucifixion, perhaps as outlined on this page.
Genesis 10:31 "These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood."
The genealogy of Israel is reckoned from Shem. Shem is short for Shemesh, sun.
Genesis 15:16 "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
This must be "the fortieth generation". (40X25) The fortieth generation is 1000 years. The Sojourn started 200 years after God's promise to Abraham, Isaac's birth, 2548 BC - 2348 BC. The Amorites had 1310 years from this 2548 BC till their full time had come 1238 BC.
Genesis 36:9 "And he (Joseph) dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me."
Joshua was a direct descendant of Joseph. Perhaps Joseph foretold Joseph/Yao's long day and these many miracles of the sun. Jacob blessed Joseph:
Genesis 48:22 "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."
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, in the valley of Ajalon."
Psalm 78:67 "Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:"
68 "But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved."
69 "And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established forever."
70 "He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:"
There was a sun miracle recorded in China in February perhaps when David was 17, the year he slew Goliath. God made the sun retreat as a sign to Hezekiah and probably a sign to others before and after. The Christ was to be from David, of which line is Hezekiah, howbeit Jesus is the Son of God.

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Hezekiah's Sign

II Kings 20

5 "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD."
6 "And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake."
8 "And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz."

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Dead Sea Scroll 1QIsaa 11-44 complete, 1QIsaa 38:1-22, 1QIsab 38:12-22. (The same account is given in Isaiah 38 and in 2 Chronicles 32:24 "In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign .
The sun's shadow upon the sundial retreating to the beginning, to the sunrise position in the east, being likened to God making Hezekiah pure as a child to live the day of his life for God.
Proverbs 4:18 "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day"
Their beginning as the sunrise to the light of the noon day sun, the bright eternal day of a saved eternity with Jesus.
32:25 "But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
Thus Hezekiah had three days to prepare a great Passover like the first. And thus God intended this sun miracle to be connected with the Passover. Thus also the Passover was to be about the time of the vernal equinox March 31. This also made it easier for there to be a sun miracle then because earth would not have to shift to keep in the same season.
March 20 705 BC is 13 years, beginning the 14th year, from the sun miracle at the death of Ahaz March 20 718 BC in the Chinese Classics. However, there must be a sun miracle one year before, March 20 719 BC that could have been Ahaz's sign when he died in 719 BC, Hezekiah would be 39 about the age of Jesus at his crucifixion in 705 BC 700 years before Jesus' birth in 6 BC- 4 BC. Hezekiah was 25 when he began to reign and he had reigned to his 14th year just before the sun miracle in 705 BC. 25 + 14 = 39 years old. Then Hezekiah could be a type of Jesus, dying at the Passover at the same age of Jesus. Before him both Jotham and Ahaz lived to be 36.
John 8:57 "Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Jesus woud be just turning 38 or 39 and almost be 40. Thus, the Jews said, "Thou art not yet fifty years old". Also Hezekiah would begin his reign with Emperor Hwan because Emperor P'ing was deposed at the sun miracle at Ahaz's death in his 51st year March 20 718 BC. "In the 48th year of Emperor P'ing there was thunder without any clouds."The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.160. Hezekiah would have been 38 in 705 BC, 4 X 144 years after the Exodus in 1279 BC, the age Jesus may have been when he was crucified. However, when Hezekiah died 15 years later he was also in the likeness of Jesus' death being the year of the Jubilee beginning March 23 690 BC and the same time of year. "In his 6th year, in the 5th month, he buried king Hwan." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.161. The 6th year from 695 BC is 690 BC. Thus a sun miracle at the end of the second month, March 23 690 BC, may have been reason to depose king Hwan. Thus also Hezekiah went up to the temple to partake of the Passover probably 36 hours later the same day of the sun miracle March 20 705 BC. The day of the sun miracle in II Kings 20:11 may not have been the first in a series of four. The sun may have been determined to return on this day at noon after half a reverse orbit or after a year of a reverse orbit. Thus the question shall the shadow go backwards ten steps or go forward 10 steps. It did not matter if the sun's shadow went forward or back, only the sun had to move at least 180° to flow out of the reverse orbit. Possibly this was at the end of a half reverse orbit. Then there should be two sun miracles like in Gideon's battle. The sun must move 540° east and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. Then before the next day the sun must move 180° west. The Bible does not record the shadow moving forward perhaps because it was counted as a light thing for the shadow to move forward. This probably was March 20 705 BC the day of the Passover. Then Hezekiah would probably have 36 hours to prepare a great Passover which he did not and being he had enough time there was wrath from God. This could be the sun's shadow suddenly moving foward at noon after that long morning pehaps depicting God's wrath. If God was pleased he could make the sun travel 180° west at night or have told Isaiah the sun traveling 180° west was not because of his wrath or make the sun travel 180° east. Hezekiah's Sign could have been the first sun miracle in a series of four or the second in a series of four. Hezekiah was promised 15 more years. 15 more years plus these three days is March 23 690 BC. The sun miracle on March 23 687 BC must have been the sun returning on the same date three years later. Therefore, there probably was a sun miracle on King Hezekiah's death. Likewise his going up to the temple on the third day from his illness to partake of the Passover was a type of the resurrection of Jesus.
Isaiah 37:30 "And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof."
Thus this 705 BC the first year after the fallow Sabbath of rest - the seventh year of Sabbath of the land, because 690 BC was a Jubilee.
32:31 "Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors (interpreters) of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart."
Strong's 152a "mopet"; sign, wonder, miracle, portent. In the second instance "mopet" is preceded with the letter "He". This does not signify that the wonder was in question but that the wonder was the object of their inquiry. The Babylonians named the hours of the day by the names of the seven luminaries, - sun moon mercury venus mars jupiter saturn - repeating over the 24 hour day to start again after 7 days. The tract the Sanhedrin 96a says that the ten hours lost on Ahaz's death were regained on Hezekiah's Sign. Perhaps the sun moved 180° for Amos and 180° back on Ahaz's death. The sun, moon and five visible planets must move 180° back to their normal position among the background stars. Thus the planet's move back would be a smooth 180° with the sun. Then the sun must have moved 180° or 540° backwards for Hezekiah March 20 705 BC, and moved again March 23 690 BC at King Hezekiah's death and returned the same date March 23 687 BC 3 years later. September 14 or October 13 690 BC was the Jubilee and Hezekiah could feel free to give back land to the original owners at the beginning of the year of Jubilee March 23 690 BC. Thus Hezekiah may have died the year beginning the Jubilee and Jesus was crucified the same time of year the year after the Jubilee. The sun miracle on sin mao, day 28, is March 23 687 BC according to the Chinese reference book on sexagesimal dates. Yao/Joseph's long day was also on day 28, March 31 2357 BC. The vernal equinox was March 28 700 BC. Earth must turn 10° in progressive precession if the sun moved on March 20 705 BC. The sun from the noon position must move "up" to the plane of the sun on the summer solstice while it descended to the eastern horizen at first appearing to move sideways, then setting in the normal spring sunrise location. If the sun moved over 540°, the sun slowly descending to the eastern horizen over 30 hours may appear to move up and down along the plane of the ecliptic. Hezekiah was promised 15 years at the time of the sun miracle. Thus the sun miracle in 687 BC must have been the sun returning 3 years after the sun miracle at Hezekiah's death March 23 690 BC, 15 years later. Sun miracles like this in a series of 4 would counter reverse orbits of one year, two years or three years. Perhaps the sign to king Ahaz was a sudden sunset at his death. This may be an example of a rare sudden sunset in the west sun miracle. Perhaps why Hezekiah said it was a light thing for the shadow to go forward. Perhaps the day was only two hours long so they could not mourn an evil king:
2 Chronicles 28:27 "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchers of the kings of Israel"
Isaiah 14:27 "For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?"
28 "In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden."
There is an eclipse in the Chinese Classics for 718 BC when there was no solar eclipse visible from China. Neither the year before or after. This eclipse was for March 20 the second month of Chinese spring, day 42 718 BC. "In his 51st year (718 BC), in the spring, in the 2d month, on the day yih-sze (42d of cycle of 60), there was an eclipse of the sun. In the 3d month, on the day kang-seuh (47), the king died." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.160. March 20 718 BC is a full moon not time for an eclipse. March 16 was what may have been the time for the Passover. Then Hezekiah offered the Passover in the second month to give time to keep the Passover. This may have been in May. Then this eclipse record may have been the sun traveling 180° west to suddenly set in China and for a short day in Israel. 718 BC was the last year of king P'ing who may have been deposed 5 days later on day 47 because of the sun miracle. Then the 3d month would not have begun but was added because someone thought this was an eclipse therefore a new month. Then this sun miracle must have been when Ahaz died rather March 20 718 BC. Then Hezekiah's first year must be 718 BC and the sun miracle when Hezekiah was near death March 20 the Passover 705 BC. Thus the Passover would not have been held when he was near death. But would be held a few days later when he was suppose to offer a great Passover. Perhaps the sun retreated from the noon position to the eastern horizen in 36 hours or 3X12 hours, 3 days. Thus on the third day, by the end of the 36 hours Hezekiah was healed and could hold the Passover, even on that same Passover day March 20 705 BC. "and who shall turn it back?" means to retreat to the starting point. Perhaps the sun had moved 180° for the sun to go down at noon for Amos about 748 BC and earth flowed into or out of a reverse orbit. 748 BC is the year king Uzziah died because Hezekiah's Sign was about 705 BC. Thus Uzziah died about 8 years more recent than 758 BC, perhaps 748 BC rather than 750 BC. 748 BC is 144 + 600 years before Jesus' birth in 4 BC or 6 BC. Then the sun must have moved 180° previous or after for earth to flow out of the reverse orbit. Thus if the sun traveled 180° west on Ahaz's death 716 BC earth must flow out of or into a reverse orbit and the counter sun miracle must happen on the same date one or two years later up to five years or half year or multiples thereof. Thus the sun returned to the same place - same sign of the zodiac and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit and the zodiac progress as normal. "Confucius' Chronicle of the Ch'un Ts'ew commences in B.C. 721. The 1st of the 36 eclipses mentioned in it took place three years after, on the 14th February (N.S.) B.C. 719; and it is recorded that in the month after king P'ing, died." The Chinese Classics, James Legge commentary This total eclipse was February 22 720 BC and the eclipse path passed upto China. However, it is questionable if the Chinese could have seen it. The cut off point is the eastern edge of China at sunrise. Also February 22 is day 6 no where near day 42. Then this Chinese record could not have been a solar eclipse. The same word was used to describe the sun retreating to the starting point for Hezekiah, Strong's 7725, who shall "turn it back?". Perhaps Ahaz said he would not ask a sign nor tempt the LORD because he rightly feared sun must move back after a few years and the zodiac progress as normal and this sign would mean his death. Thus, rather than as the Chinese emperors wrongly feared, Ahaz correctly realized the sign of a sun miracle would mean his death and Hezekiah's appointment by Heaven to the throne. Sun miracles had to do with the God of Israel. Perhaps the sign that preceded Uzziah's death just previous Ahaz in 749 BC. Ahaz reigned in 734 BC when he was 20 so would be 5 in 749 BC. If the day of Ahaz's death the sun traveled the 180° west in two hours the sun's intensity must have been increased seven times to leave the same daily coral line as in a normal day:
Isaiah 30:26 "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound."
Native legend from the North West of North America, "Ha Ma", tells of a boy angered because he could not find his father becoming the sun and burning so hot that he burnt plants, animals and people could have originated from days like this. Very like Yao's hot sun, perhaps the sun miracle March 31 2357 BC or the second possibly westward sun miracle a year or two later. Perhaps the sun set 10 hours early on Ahaz's death (12 hours, 180° worldwide - perhaps the sun traveled 180° westward just after sunrise), whereupon Hezekiah became king and offered this great Passover:
2 Chronicles 30:26 "So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem."
14 years later the sun headed towards the dawn for Hezekiah for a sign perhaps just three days before the Passover:
"But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him."
That is, he did not give to God a great Passover just 3 days after the sun retreated and he was healed. That there was wrath from God indicates this was a major miracle. Hezekiah could have kept the Passover in the second month Zif just as he did when he offered a great Passover when he become king. Hezekiah should have known God moved the sun around the earth that day, that this was no light thing. However, we today can appreciate the tremendous forces and skill at work. Hezekiah was promised 15 more years. The sun may have moved again 180° 15 years later on the same day of the year as he was promised 15 more years. This third day on which Hezekiah went up to offer the Passover in the temple may have foretold Jesus' sacrifice the Passover and his resurrection on the third day. Thus the importance of offering a great Passover to point people to the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus.
2 Kings 20:5b "I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD."
The sun must have stayed in Israel's sky while it retreated to dawn and rose again. Then more likely the sun moved 180° east at noon and retreated to the dawn position in 6 hours. The third day is often recorded in the Bible. Abraham offered up Isaac on the third day a type of Jesus resurrection on the third day.
Hebrews 11:19b "from whence also he (Abraham) received him in a figure".
The days of the week match the days of this 14th day of the lunar month April 19 2512 BC the same as Jesus' crucifixion April 3 33 AD. Pharaoh's birthday was always on March 31/April 1. Pharaoh's birthday in Genesis 40:20, may have been on the third day of the week and the third day of the Egyptian 10 day week also, Tuesday March 31 2359 BC. Thus Joseph appeared before Pharaoh March 31 2357 BC and the three days of darkness of Exodus may have been also on Pharaoh's Birthday April 1 1279 BC just before the Exodus out of Egypt on Friday April 4. Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, from Friday - Sunday.
Isaiah 38:8 "Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down."

Dead Sea Scrolls text in italics: Isaiah 38:8 "See now, I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper dial of Ahaz, marking the setting sun, return backward ten steps."
Perhaps the dial was high up for the sun to retreat to the beginning of the dial on the eastern horizon. Or this word may be upon (the first three letters are the same for upper and upon in Hebrew) perhaps suggesting God had forgiven Hezekiah's sins, reversed the disease, made him whole again and reversed the past and gave him the heart of a child. The Great Isaiah Scroll: Isaiah 38:8 "Behold I will cause the shadow to return of the degrees which have gone down in the sundial upper Achaz by the sun backward ten degrees and the sun returned ten degrees in the degrees by which it had gone down."

Isaiah 38:13 "I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me."
Perhaps that day the sun set in the east to start a new day, returning to the morning position. Then on the day after the next day, the third day, Hezekiah was healed and worshipped in the temple.
Isaiah 38:17 "Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back."
Isaiah 38:22 "Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"

The Passover was to be kept on the 14th day of the first lunar month, about April. Ahaz had died just before and Hezekiah needed to prepare for the Passover:
II Chronicles 30:2 "For the King (Hezekiah) had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month."
If Ahaz's death was in the first month of Nisan March 28 - April 28 Hezekiah would need time to prepare the Passover. The second month is Zif May 21 716 BC. The temple was begun in the second month Zif for Solomon. Hezekiah began to reign in the first month, the sun must have moved 180° west about March 28 on Ahaz's death. The vernal equinox was March 28 700 BC. Perhaps Amos's Sign in 748 BC was near the spring or autumn equinox and earth did not need to turn much to keep in the same season. They commonly added a 13th month, the second month of Adar to compensate for their 354 lunar year. When a first month of Adar was inserted into the calendar it was named Adar 1, the second month just Adar. That is, Adar 1 only came into being in years when there were two months of Adar. However, the Passover was kept in the first month of Nisan, so the second month must have been Zif.

If the sun moved back from the 12PM position to the 6AM position in Israel, for Hezekiah's Sign, it would return to the noon position in China. This apparent Native American sun dial casts a shadow on the dot in the center from the hour of day. Spikes in a similar pictograph may depict the zodiac. Then probably this represents the 12 signs of the zodiac with a path for the sun. Thus an ancient example of the duodecimal numbering system of 12. There are likewise seven spikes inward, and likewise 7 must have been an important number. If the sun moved back 3 stalls as for Lu Yang a few hundred years after Hezekiah's Sign this could be 3 such points on the sun dial, covering 180° in the zodiac. That is, if you look at a clock 3 divisions is 90°. This is, the sun moved 90° east in the sky in 6 hours, while really moving 180° east in 6 hours while earth rotated.

Proverbs 25:1 "These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable."

The 15 songs of degrees Psalm 120-134 were thought to have been written for the 15 years the LORD had extended to Hezekiah. The 10 psalms by Hezekiah for the 10 degrees the sun retreated. 13 of these psalms are together in an ancient grouping in two Dead Sea Scrolls, the last two were found elsewhere. Psalms 120 121 123 125 126 128 129 130 132 and 134 were thought to have been written by Hezekiah. Psalms 122 124 131 133 are David's and Psalm 127 Solomon's. Psalm 130 may bear similarities to Hezekiah's prayer and the sun returning to the morning position.

More Records of Hezekiah's Sign

Seneca wrote "The sun reversed its course and blotted out the day in mid-Olympus". Herodotus writes that the Egyptian priests told him in Herodotus, Book 2 "Twice the sun rose where he now sets and twice he set where he now rises."
Pomponius Mela in "De Situ Orbis" I.9 VS: "Ipsi vetustissimi, ut praedicant, hominum, trecentos et triginta regesante Amasin, et supro tredecim millium annorum aetates, certis annalibus referunt; mandatumque literis servant, dum Aegyptii sunt, quarter cursus suos vetisse sidera, ac solem bis iam occidisse, unde nun oritur."
"Yea, the most ancient of men, as they declare, recount in certain annals 330 kings before Amasis and more than the summers of 13,000 years; and they preserve the mandate in their records, as long as there have been Egyptians, that the stars turned their courses four times and that the sun had already set twice from whence it rises."
- Note: the sun must move faster than earth's rotation to set in the east! If the sun moved 180° four times the direction of earth's course would reverse. Then earth must have come out of these reverse orbits four times also. This then describes four reverse orbits and eight sun miracles.

The sun may have traveled forward 180° for Ahaz and earth flowed out of or into a reverse orbit of half a year or a few years and backward 180° or 540° for Hezekiah and earth flowed into a reverse orbit of half a year or a few years. For the sun to travel backward at the same rate it travels forward the sun must move 50 million mph. For the sun to retreat 10 decans (90°) at the same rate it travels west in the sky it must move 180°. (If the sun moved 270 million miles in 6 hours the sun must be 1 minute younger. That is approaching the speed of light, time for the sun would slow 1 minute relative to earth. Then the accumulated time warp over what appears to be more than 50 miracles the sun must be some 30 minutes younger than earth, the outermost visible planet Saturn must be some 30 hours younger than the earth. An orbiting object is perpetually traversing, therefore there must be a time dilation. The sun and planets moving around the earth at millions miles per hour should show red-shift and blue-shift and time warp. However, the astronauts on the space station experience .007 of a second time warp when they return to earth and that while they orbit the earth. See 5 Relativistic Effects on Satellite Clocks.) If we make this one day, the day must be 12 hours longer and the miracle must have lasted 6 hours. However, the sun retreated to the eastern horizen, perhaps setting shortly before rising again. Saturn must have traveled at 2/3 the speed of light, 450 miles per hour to the 670 miles per hour of the speed of light, to move with the sun. The Chinese may have seen Saturn appear slightly to the east at dark, then the sky brighten with the sun rising in the west to their noon position. The Spanish would see the morning sun set in the east, the stars come out, and perhaps see Saturn briefly rise above the western horison.
Our sun is not stationary, we are moving in several directions at once. For instance the sun is moving at 440,000 mph around our Milky Way galaxy.

Some Eclipse Records May Rather Be Sun Miracles,
The day of two dawns may be similar to Hezekiah's Sign.

The timing of the eclipse and therefore the exact path of the eclipse, are less certain for times far from the present because the earth is slowing down at an irregular rate. This is a problem for any effort to tie down exact times far into the past. Earth slows down in its rotation about 2 to 3 milliseconds a day, almost 1 second a year. About 23 seconds since records were kept from 1950. However, there have been no leap seconds for 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 as our international calendar is based on earth's exact rotation. However in accumulated time this adds up. Some irregularity is due to wind, such as winds pushing against the Andes Mountains. And this irregularity adds up to + or - 2 hours going back to 2000 BC. See Changes In The Earth's Rotation Are In The Wind. This latitude and longitude are too far away from Palestine to be considered.

Solar Eclipses of History - "Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espanek, NASA/GSFC". The Homer's Odyssey 20:355 "the sun has perished out of heaven" eclipse April 17 1178 BC probably was Moses' three days darkness March 1279 BC probably the sun falling from the noon position in Egypt. The earliest eclipse record in 2158 BC in China may rather be a sun miracle. China's 'Double-Dawn' Eclipse April 20 899 BC possibly was the sun setting suddenly in the west to rise suddenly in the east. This could not be an eclipse. And there are no such eclipses for Zeng from 1100 BC - 840 BC. Eclipse maps show the eclipse would not be noticeable in China. See ASTRO-HISTORIOGRAPHIC CHRONOLOGIES OF EARLY CHINA ARE UNFOUNDED. The Assyrian Eclipse June 15 763 BC possibly was the sun setting suddenly for Amos where the sun went down at noon. The sun setting suddenly would be much more likely to be recorded than an eclipse because it would be seen from everywhere and noticed by everyone on earth.
Malachi 1:11a "For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles;"

India: "In his extensive work "key to the chronology of Hindus" doctor ch. Hamilton leads the biography Of krishny, in which it is said, that during, that corresponds to contemporary chronology, near XV v. to X. 3., "the sun slowed down its motion and did not go, after being heard by the blagochestivnym singing Akroon`.a, that praises the virtues Of krishny, during the journey of the latter into Bindrebly. When it arrived there in the soundness and the safety, the sun visited with the delay approximately twelve it was hour."
The Epic of Mahabharata India:"If, ere comes to-morrow's sunset, Jayadratha doth not die, Jayadratha dies to-morrow, victim to my vengeful ire, Arjun else shall yield his weapons, perish on the flaming pyre!"
Arjun vowed to kill Jayadratha before sunset.
"Now the Sun in crimson splendour rolled his car of glistening gold, Sent his shafts of purple radiance on the plain and mountain bold,"
The Chinese recorded the sun was purple and the five planets in retrograde motion in 141 BC. The sun appears to have risen soon after it set.

The source of a day with two dawns in China is given in "Atlas of Historical Eclipse Maps : East Asia, 1500 BC-AD 1900" by F.R. Stephenson, p.219. "During the first year of King Yi (?1100 BC - 840 BC), the day dawned twice at Zheng". The Chinese depicted a sun rise as you see to the left, the sun just above the horizen, the horizontal bar. Then two sunrises cannot be an eclipse. This was King Yi's first year, perhaps there was a counterpart sun miracle some 180 days previous this one whereupon Yi was made emperor. Possibly this was the sun moving 180°, or multiples thereof, west. If the sun moved 540° against earth's rotation to compensate for earth moving 540° with earth's rotation there would be two days of only two hours daylight. Or the sun may have moved 180° east as it did for Hezekiah. Then China would see the sun rise in the west to their noon position, the meridian. However, Hezekiah's Sign must be in 703 BC, much after 840 BC. Thus a day with "two dawns". Records of a day of two dawns are also found in other cultures. The days of the week were kept intact going back to Noah's flood. Then days in the week in the middle east must have been counted from sunrise. At least they were counted the way God intended. - the suggested 899 BC eclipse reduced brightness by less than 10%, not even noticeable. Then the double dawn may not have been an eclipse. See China's double dawn eclipse.

The Chinese record the sun reversing from sunset to the meridian:

Huai-nan tzu VI iv

--See the Chinese on left (top to bottom, right to left): Huai-nan tzu who lived in 200 BC, writes about Han's rise to power. This event must have occurred sometime between 515 BC and 450 BC. The Temple in Jerusalem was rebuilt in 504 BC when the Chinese recorded there was a night the milky way was not visible, perhaps a fulfillment of Zechariah 14:5. This sun miracle in 504 BC must have a counterpart soon after and might be the sun rising in the west for Lu Yang, Lu Yang being the grandson of Chu Ping Wang who died in 515 BC. Nevertheless, China must have seen the same thing in 705 BC when the sun retreated to the dawn for Hezekiah and to the meridian in China. The Duke of Lu Yang quoted King Wu in 1122 BC when he conquered China. This being the same Chow dynasty. At the time of Pentecost in 1122 BC the children of Israel chose a king instead of their King God. And God showed his displeasure by sending rain on their just ripe wheat harvest. Often when there was heavy rain there was a sun miracle. Also, he may have shown his power in a sun miracle. King Wu began his campaign on January 27 and completed his conquest of China in the fourth month in May. Wheat ripens in May in the hills and in early May by the river Jordan. This was Gilgal in the Jordan Valley. Wheat harvest at Gilgal would be about May 4, the day of Pentecost. That the people sacrificed suggests this was Pentecost:
1 Samuel 11:14 "Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORDH in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
12:16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.
12:17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
12:18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel."
This may be the time the sun reversed when King Wu shook his spear at the setting sun. The fifth day of the lunar month is Pentecost. The fiftieth day from day 15 is lunar day 5, 50 - pentecost. Thus this might very well be the day of Pentecost in 1122 BC. In the Chinese Classics it says that Wu received the bright appointment of heaven in the fourth month which is May the month of Pentecost.
Thus, the sun may have reversed on Israel when the children of Israel chose Saul as their king. Then, in China while Wu was waging war the sun reversed also and Wu uttered these words which became famous in China. There is a possiblility the sun miracle of October 9 1141 BC may be the context of king Wug when he "grasps a golden yue". However, on October 9 1141 BC king Wu declined to fight at the sight of the sun miracle. Then again when this duke of Lu Yang waged war the sun may have reversed also prompting him to repeat the words of his ancestor king Wu. There was another time when the king wielded a spear, this time against a comet: "When Duke Wen of Jin was about to battle King Cheng of Chu at Chengpu, a broom star emerged in the astrological space of the state of Chu. Chu wielded its handle, on account of which Jiu Fan was asked about it. He responded: 'In doing battle in conjunction with a broom star, the one who moves contrary to it gains the victory.'" East Asian Archaeology, p.111. This was about the time Josiah was made king of Judah who purged Judah from idols. The broom star may rather be the dragon, the glory of God.
Then in 139 BC this was written, as you see on the left, for the emperor of China now the emperor of the Han dynasty:
"King Wu's left hand grasps a golden yue (ancient Chinese weapon with a hook), his right holds a white banner, humbly glaring and says: "No one in the world would dare to harm me!" Thereupon a breeze aids the wave to the movement. Lu Yang duke and Han relations difficult war fierce sun sunset apply spear and swang sun for Lu Yang reverse three stall. They [King Wu and the Duke of Lu-yang] had kept their nature intact, preserved their genuiness and avoided injury to their person. When they met with crisis and were pressed with difficulties, their essence merged with Heaven as if they had not yet begun to emerge from their origin. How could they not succeed then, in all their undertakings!"
"Long ago, the Yellow Emperor, (Huangdi 2698 BC), governed all under Heaven with tender strength. Mount Taishan bowed out to the side so the sun and moon Emperor was able to govern and make the laws for people's livelihood. The Emperor regulated the Qi of Yin and Yang, apportioned the length of the seasons and rectified the numbers of the calendar, separated men and women and distinguished male and female animals, made clear the distinction between those above and those below and classified the ranks of noble and common. He kept the strong from crushing the weak and the many from oppressing the few. The people fulfilled their life-span and did not meet with untimely death. Harvests ripened at the propitious time and were not damaged by any calamity. The Hundred Officers were upright and devoid of self interest. Those above and those below were harmonious and not fault-finding. Laws and orders were clear and their was no confusion. Ministers were public-minded and not partial. Land tillers did not transgress balks and fishermen did not wrangle over deep-water channels. People did not appropriate what had been left along the road and the prices were not fixed in advance in the market-place. The gates of the inner and outer city walls were left unlocked and manors were free from thieves and robbers. Rustic folks mutually yeilded goods to each other and dogs and pigs spat out grain and millet on the roadside. All were devoid of aggressive hearts. Thereupon, sun and moon shone with pure brilliancy and stars and constellations did not leave their courses. Wind and rain came a seasonable times and the five grains grew to maturity. Tigers and leopards did not bite recklessly and birds of prey did not strike at random. Male and female Phoenixes swirled over the court-yard and the Unicorn wandered in the countryside. The Green Dragon took flight to where the yellow bend becomes Northern black. Everyone in the country shared each others duties."
Translation by Tom Jackson

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"Lu Yang duke and Han relations difficult war fierce sun sunset apply spear and swang sun for Lu Yang reverse three stall"

Read the Chinese explanation word for word here : "Lu Yang was the head of a county of Chu. He was the grandson of Chu Ping Wang and son of Si Ma Zi Qi. He was the person whom Guo Yu (title of a historical text) called Lu Yang Wen Zi. Chu overstepped titles and (its ruler) called themselves king and the heads of counties called themselves as Duke. Therefore, the text called Lu Yang as Duke. Nowadays Nan Yang is the place Lu Yang. Han means (he) fought face to face and felt happy. Hui Ri means (he) ordered (the sun) to return and (the sun) retreat three She. She means successive mansions."
Charles Le Blanc translated Ci Xiu (?) as "successive solar (or celestial) mansions".
"sun began to set, He (the Duke) raised his spear and waived at the sun, and the sun reverted three mansions on his behalf." Lu Yang did not command the sun, he observed the sun while God moved it, probably having something to do with Israel. Nan Yang means south sun, Lu Yang means dull sun, perhaps Lu Yang then became the new name. The character is related to the unicorn. Thus perhaps one of the four beasts before God's throne was seen with the sun with its horn. - You can see the character for Yang is the same as for sun.
Esther 8:9 "Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof;"
Esther 8:16 "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour."
This was about 474 BC in summer after the feast of Pentecost. Thus this "light" in Persia may have been this sun miracle of Lu Yang in summer. The only thing that can really give light to the earth is the sun. Thus, a sun miracle of a long day to enjoy gladness, joy and honour. If this sun miracle was in August then every one would know that the decree for the Adar 14 would be 180 days later and the sun would return then when they would have vengeance. Thus the honour and light. The sun must move 540° east making a +36 hours more daylight and then travel 180° west on Adar 14 for a sudden sunrise on Adar 15. Or the sun traveled 180° east in August and 180° east in February making two +12 hour long days in order to leave no missing time. When in this province of Han, in Changsha, there was a carving of this very event outside a restaurant just outside of the Dolton Hotel with Lu Yang holding up his spear. Not far from Changsha is a place Lu Yang. I saw the sign from the highway. I asked Xueshun Liu about it and this is what he had to say: "As for the event where the sun reversed three stall for Lu Yang, there is no specific date in early Chinese texts; at least, I cannot find any. According to notes of that event, which you put a link to it, Lu Yang was not Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty. If the note is right, Lu Yang was a grandson of King Ping of Chu who ruled Chu from 528 BC to 515 BC. Thus, Lu Yang might live between 525 BC (?) and 450 BC (?). The date of that event, if it is true, should be around that period."
If the sun just rose above the horizen and set again, the sun must be traveling very fast east. Even if the sun was standing still at the horizen it must rise some 30° as it traveled in a strait ling along the ecliptic over a tilted earth and the twilight be about 12 hours. Thus, Lu Yang should have at least three more hours of daylight. If the sun rose 30° - the greatest of the 28 lunar mansions, Lu Yang would have more than an hour more daylight. Because the sun must have moved at least 180° east Lu Yang probably had 12 more hours of daylight. If the sun reversed three stall is to be meant 3 X 180° this battle could have lasted 36 more hours in daylight. The sun standing still at sunrise in Israel, and at sunset in China, would still rise and fall a little as it traveled 180° along the flat plane of the ecliptic as the sun moved around the tilted earth. Thus the sun may have stayed just above the western horizen for this battle of Lu Yang. Thus this sun miracle might have something to do with the last books of the Old Testament to 430 BC. Lu Yang must have been of the Zhou dynasty. Nevertheless, this battle helped the Han to eventually take over all of China hundreds of years later in 202 BC. Today 90% of the population of China is the Han people.
The upper sun dial above the shadows. According to ancient Chinese astronomy, there are 12 Ci, each of them consists of different Xiu (constellation, mansion). Therefore, even in Han dynasty, the annotator did not know She meant Ci or Xiu. Should Ci be translated as "group of constellations"? I am not sure. -- Translation by Xueshun Liu. 3 groups of 2 = 6 or 180°. You can easily see depicted at the bottom "3 stalls". Three solar mansions could simply mean the sun moved 1 1/2 times around the earth 180°, 360°, 540°. If this took the sun 30 hours, the sun would retreat from the noon position to the sunrise position. In this scenario a few hundred years before king Hezekiah would see the sun gradually retreat over 30 hours and the illness having remitted, gone up that day, the third day, to the temple.
II Kings 20:8b "What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?"
They must have understood from many previous sun miracles that 180° was the basic movement of the sun. Then 3 X 180° = 540° and earth must flow into a reverse orbit of the sun. The three suns appeared together of emperor Kwei may depict the sun standing still in the sky for 36 hours. Hezekiah's Sign was the sun moving 180° or 540° east, retreating from the noon position to the dawn position, in 6 hours or 30 hours and earth flowing into a reverse orbit. This may have been the case for Lu Yang sometime between 515-450 BC. Thus if you can imagine the 12 signs of the zodiac in a circle, you can picture the sun would reverse 3 signs from sunset to the meridian in the daylight.

"Where does the sun not reach to? How does Chung Lung illuminate it?" of the Li Sao section of the songs of Ch'u, Yuan K'o 1980 1.439 from the fourth century BC. Chinese Mythology, and introduction by Anne Birrell If the sun moved 180° at any time of year there would be no telling of where the sun would reach to in the zodiac or the daytime sky.
"Prince Tau of Yin was an involuntary guest of the king of China when the sun returned to the meridian; it was interpreted as a sign to allow the prince to return home", Lu-Heng II, 176 "Prince Tan of Yen was detained as a hostage in the Ch'in State. Its sover- eign promised with an oath to set him free, when the sun returned to the meridian, and Heaven rained grain, when the crows got white heads, and the horses, horns, and when the wooden elephants, decorating the kitchen door, got legs of flesh." "If somebody in white mourning like a woman helped the Prince, and brought about these wonders, when Tan was released, or, as others say, he made his escape in 230 b.c. The story is narrated in Lnm-heng V, 7 {Kan-hm). ' The same is said of Hsin Yuan Ping {Shi-chi chap. 28 p. 19v). Shi-chi chap. 79 and 70.
"In short, it is again an unfounded assertion that the wife of Cli i Liang caused the city wall to tumble down by her tears. '^ On this principle of sympathetic actions a white halo encir- cled the sun, when Ching iCo stabbed the king of C/iin,^ and Venus eclipsed the Pleiades, when the scholar from Wei drew up the strat- agem of CK ang-ping for Cliin."
"Mercury between the constellations of the House and the Heart denotes an impending earth-quake. When an earth-quake is going to take place, Mercury corresponds to the House and the Heart. The offuscation of the Pleiades by Venus is like the position of Mercury between the House and the Heart." LUN-HENG. PART 1. ^nffcoSOPHICAL ESSAYS OF WANG CHEUNG. TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE AND ANNOTATED BY ALFRED FORJvE, PROFESSOR OF CHINESE AT THE SEMINAR FCR ORIENTAI.ISCHE SPRACHEX, BERLIN. The time of the sun miracle in 230 BC must have been about midnight in March. Then the sun would travel 180° east. Then Venus in Aquarius would pass through the Pleiades before the sun dawned in the west to pass through the meridian. The sun may have traveled 540° east. Still this must have been about midnight in March for Venus to pass through the Pleiades. The wall tumbled down because of an earthquake. Earthquakes often occurred when there was a sun miracle. "There was an earthquake in 232 BC." "There was an earthquake in 230 BC and the people suffered from a major famine." The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I, p.132. Famine and drought often followed sun miracles. The planets were moved when there was a sun miracle. A white rainbow pierced the sun in 397 BC and in this 230 BC. Hsin Yuan Ping saw an emanation of a diety when the sun returned to the meridian also in 163 BC. There may have been sun miracles in 210 BC and 203 BC also. There were also sun miracles in 155 BC, 148 BC and 141 BC. This very likely was the phoenix of Ptolemy III 246 BC - 222 BC. This jade phoenix from the Han dynasty from 230 BC - 206 BC may have been a representation of recent sightings of phoenixes.
Note the rooster comb or rather crown. Note from the side it looks like an eagle with two sets of wings like the four beasts in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4:

Note from the bottom the talons that grasped the sun:

The sun crow is depicted with three legs. In a profile sometimes only three of four legs are seen. The four beasts before God's throne had four legs. Thus the phoenix must have four legs.
"In his 15th year, of emperor Wen, 166-165 BC, a yellow dragon appeared in Ch-eng-Chi..At this the sovereign issued an edict, saying "A super natural being appeared in Ch-eng-Chi. That will do no harm to the commoners. This year there will accordingly be a good harvest...The ritual officials concerned all said, "In ancient times the Son of Heaven in summer personally paid salutation and offered sacrifices in the suburbs to the Supreme Diety." "He performed the rites in response to the auspicious Heavenly signs in the fourth month, the first month of summer, May 6 - June 4 165 BC. Hsin-yuan P'ing, a man of Chao, had an audience by virtue of having observed an emanation." Notes: "Hsin-yuan P'ing claimed he had observed an emanation of a deity northeast of the capital." The grand scribe's records, by Ch'ien Ssu-ma, William H. Nienhauser, Tsai Fa Cheng, Weiguo Cao. That he saw a diety may have been he saw the angel at the sun move the sun, perhaps on the day of Pentecost Sunday May 11 165 BC. "Emperor Wen of Han, 15th year of the Qianyuan reign period, in spring. Within the sun there was the character wang (king)." East Asian Archeaology, p.152. The sun must be dimmed considerably to leave the same daily coral line while standing still in the sky for 36 hours. Then infrared light would be dimmed also and this invisible harmful light should not burn a hole in the back of the retina of the eye while observing the angel of the sun moving the sun. The color of a dimmed sun should be red and the phoenix is usually described as red sometimes as green. Probably the phoenix was only observed when the angel of the sun moved the sun. The head of the oracle bone characters for phoenix and dragon look like the character for deity and may be even a partial vision of God. In the Bible we have descriptions of what God looks like in colours of light energy. Ancient people may have seen this light energy yet never saw God. Nevertheless, it was clearly understood God moved the sun.
John 1:18 "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."
Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."
Romans 1:22 "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things."
The Pharisees maintained the Pentecost was to be counted 50 days from the day after the Passover while the Sadducees held that it be counted from the Sabbath following the Passover. Thus the Pharisees would be there to celebrate Pentecost on Sunday May 24 33 AD and the Sadducees would be a week late. Then a sun miracle right when the Pharisees grouped from this 165 BC on this 50th day from the day after the Passover Sunday May 11 165 BC and Leviticus 23 would have given them reason to be so particular about the feast of Pentecost. Hsin-yuan P'ing waited for the sun to return to the meridian and saw it, 163 BC. VS After the sun had returned to the meridian once, he told the emperor, "I expected the sun to rise to the meridian twice [in one day.]" After a while the sun really rose to the meridian again. Liang Yu-Sheng argues it was this incident that made emperor Wen change the calendar. When he changed the 17th year to the first year. - in the 17th year, 164 - 163 BC, a jade cup was obtained and it was carved with the characters "The Ruler of Men will live a long life". At this the Son of Heaven changed the reign year count to the first year. Logically this would have happened in winter when the new year began when the sun normally began to pass through Sagittarius. Perhaps the Chinese thus began to count their years from this date because the sun had just moved back to Sagittarius just as their new year began.
Click For this reference to 163 BC. Please see page 174, 175, and 176. May 6 - June 4 165 BC and again perhaps the same time of year 163 BC or winter late 164 BC. This could have been Sunday June 9 165 BC and Wednesday December 9 164 BC. But probably was Sunday May 11 165 BC and one and a half orbits later about November 11 164 BC. Likewise one and a half orbits after June 9 the sun must move back about December 9. On the 25th day of the month was Saturday December 12 or Sunday December 13. The May 11 date seems certain because that was the month recorded by the Chinese as the first month of summer from about 45 days before the summer solstice June 22 and the fourth month of the year counting from February. Likewise lunar dates slide back 11 days every year. More likely, the lunar month Kislew had slid back to October. Then the month Kislew could have been October 20 - November 18 164 BC and the 25th day of the lunar month would be Friday November 13 164 BC. Jesus' crucifixion was on Friday April 3 33 AD. The sun had to return about November 11, the more correct time for the sun to move back may have been at the offering of sacrifices on the new altar November 13. There must be a second correcting reverse orbit. Then the second reverse orbit could begin two days after the first one ended. Thus the difference between November 11 and November 13. Also, there could have been a first half orbit from May 11 165 BC to November 11 165 BC. Then one year later a half orbit from November 13 164 BC to May 13 163 BC. And each of the four sun miracles be for 12 hour longer days. Just like the sun returned 2 AM September 1 1238 BC and the sun was moved back to the noon position, earth flowed out of the reverse orbit for 18 hours, then the sun ascended suddenly in the east at 5 AM 18 hours later to start the second reverse orbit. And the second reverse orbit ended one day one year after Joshua's long day. Thus the first sun miracle of Joshua's long day was on February 25/26 1238 BC, the second and third were on September 1 1238 BC and the fourth was on February 27 1237 BC. Or May 11 165 BC was the half way point of a reverse orbit of 3 years. Thus one and a half years earlier there may have been a sun miracle in November 13 167 BC. Then sun miracles at the half way point would be expected to leave no missing time. So eclipses would pass over the face of the earth like normal when earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. The sun moved back to the meridian in China, which means the sun moved from the noon position in Jerusalem to the east in the dawn position. This would make for a 12 hours longer day perhaps when the sacrifices were offered. The winter solstice is 12 hours later on the same day of the month as the summer solstice. Then the sun would move back 12 hours later, a 12 hour longer day, on the same day of November as of May plus just a day or two later and still leave no trace. Earth would reorient to the same tropical time of year. Reverse orbits must begin and end on the same date. Thus a half reverse orbit may begin again a year and a half later and end on the same date two years after the first sun miracle. For this reverse orbit to be two years the sun must stand still in the sky for 36 hours three of the four times and set in the west suddenly for -12 hours to get 2X48 hours net longer days to counter 2X48 hours missing time from the sped up reverse orbits. Perhaps how Hsin-yuan P'ing got such a good look at the angel of the sun from China moving the sun two of the four times. Leaving no missing time. Moreover, sun miracles near the summer and winter solstice mean the sped up reverse orbit over that time will match the missing time of the sped up reverse orbit within minutes. Joshua's long day February 26 1238 BC left 31 minutes of missing time which had to be countered by an autumn sun miracle and reverse orbit leaving 31 minutes of elapsed time. A sun miracle in May/June will leave only 8 minutes of missing time. This 8 minutes must be countered however. Either there were two reverse orbits of half a year or there was one reverse orbit of half a year and another of a year and a half. The begin date of May 11 165 BC for the first reverse orbit and the begin date of the second reverse orbit November 13 164 BC. The second reverse orbit would counter the 8 minutes of missing time from the first reverse orbit. Then solar eclipse paths would be exactly where we would predict them to be. Most often reverse orbits must have been just for half a year. So it may be possible for these Chinese records to have observed these sun miracles half a year apart. Sun miracles for two half reverse orbits may be four 12 hour longer days, adding up to 48 hours leaving no net missing time. Also, because so many sun miracles occur on the day of Pentecost, earth must shift almost 180° on the vertical to keep in the same season very very often. Later, in September of 163 BC there would be the Sabbath fallow year marked by Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement. Then the need for the Jews to overthrow the Greeks and sow and reap double that year before the Sabbath fallow year. There may have been a sun miracle in the battle of the Jews to retake the Temple or when the Temple was rededicated. Then earth flowed into the second half reverse orbit. Hsin-yuan saw the first sun miracle, probably even the phoenix, and was looking for the second. He may have been aware the sun must return one orbit or half an orbit later. And he may have been aware the sun returned to the meridian just 67 years earlier and also be looking for this too. Just as he may have been aware the sun rose in the west to the meridian in 705 BC for Hezekiah and rose in the west at least part way in the battle of the Duke of Lu Yang about 474 BC. 165 BC is 161 years before the birth of Christ. The 162 years of the generation of Jared, the sixth from Adam:
Genesis 5:18 And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and he begot Enoch:

The Syrian king Antiochus IV desecrated the temple in 168 BC, 200 years before Jesus' crucifixion.
"Now on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is called the month of Kislew (December), in the hundred forty and eighth year (164 BC), they rose up in the morning, and offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burnt offerings, which they had made." I Macc. 4:52
John 10:22 "And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch."
The feast of dedication was to this December, the lunar month November 18 to December 18, of 164 BC when the Temple was cleansed. The aphelion of the sun was about December 3 so there may not have needed to be a second correcting reverse orbit. This was 777 years after the Jubilee of 1040 BC and after the temple was started in 1039 BC. This December 164 BC could be the sun returning to the meridian one and a half orbits after the sun miracle in June 165 BC. The day of Pentecost could have been in then in June. This was the beginning of the Sabbath year of the land, the seventh year. They would remember the children of Israel went into captivity for 70 years because they did not keep the Sabbath of the land and would be very intent to oust the Greeks in order to keep it and worship as they should. Perhaps Hsin-yuan P'ing expected a second correcting sun miracle on the same day of the year as the first one perhaps a few years earlier. Just as Shun did in January 31 or January 20 2285 BC when he waited on the anniversary of the sun miracle just two years previous, when came a glowing light, and the sun returned. Perhaps he knew the sun could return half a year later as well. Then that day he waited and watched for the sun to retreat to the noon position. There may have been a sun miracle November 10 2154 BC and November/December of 210 BC and November/December of 203 BC. A Hanukkah dreidel has 4 letters, an acronym for "a great miracle happened there". The sun reversing that day was a great miracle too, only people at that time did not comprehend the enormity of a sun miracle to note it. A coin minted possibly in 163 BC has the image of a reversed year, perhaps indicating a reverse orbit in 163 BC: "Turning to Svoronos 1486, the formula on this coin is not given as LLG (year 33), as one would expect. Instead it is written as the mirror image of A-GLG, i.e. there is no year sign (L), but two reversed gammas, one of which must be understood to represent an inversion of the year sign." "But in the west a star will shine which they call 'cometes', a sign to mortals of sword, famine, death, destruction of leaders and of great illustrious men." Cometography: a catalog of comets By Gary W. Kronk, p.9. This was written about 163 BC. The sign may have been the glory of God accompanying the sun miracle at the beginning of 163 BC.

"A comet appeared in the northeast." In autumn. A comet appeared in the southwest in the 12th month January 15 to February 15 155 BC. Two separate events. In autumn hail fell in Heng-shan, the large ones measured five ts'un, the deep ones penetrating to two ch'ih. Mars moved in retrograde and guarded the North Star. The moon appeared in the vicinity of the North Star. Jupiter retrograded amid the constellation T'ien-t'ing. An elongated star appeared in the west. (February 154 BC)." Notes: "T'ien-huo probably refers to ignis fatuus. This is the only reference to this phenomemon in the Shih chi. On ignis fatuus in general, see William H. Nienhauser, Jr., "A UFO in Ancient China: A Comparative Study of the Pi-fang (Fire Crane) and its Western Analogues," Asian Culture Quarterly, XVII (Winter 1989): 69-79" The Grand Scribes Records, Volume II, p.197-199. The Han Shu records "sparkling star" in the western quarter of the sky in autumn. T'ien-huo is literally deity-fire. The Fire Crane probably is the phoenix. The phoenix in Chinese was often refered to as the red bird. Also, the Egyptian phoenix the Bennu was depicted as an Heron, crane. "Guarded" means moved to. Thus Mars would be moved 180° to near the north star, perhaps Scorpius in the sun miracle perhaps in July/August. 180° from where Mars normally is in August, Taurus, is Scorpius. Jupiter likewise moved to near the north star perhaps the night of the sun miracle in January/February. Chinese to French to English: "the planet of the year went the wrong way till the constellation T'ien-ting." Thus Jupiter may have orbited the sun twice that year till the sun returned in February 154 BC and Jupiter was in the constellation Libra, the constellation the sun is in in winter. Thus this could be the north constellation. The comet may be the dragon, the glory of God. Thus a sun miracle in February, a sun miracle half an orbit later in August the beginning of the Chinese autumn, and a sun miracle in February again with the next comet. Then there must be a sun miracle one year after the sun miracle in August. "On the yi-hai day of the sixth month (27 July 154 BC), the Emperor pardoned the troops that had fled and Yi the son of King Yuan of Ch'u, and others who had participated in plotting rebellion." p.201 Thus this July 27 154 BC may be the day the sun returned and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. The comet that started the rebellion must have been on the day of a sun miracle January 27 154 BC. This comet was associated with rebellion. Then the first sun miracle must have been July 27 155 BC and was counted as autumn. Then also half an orbit later the comet or fire crane must have appeared at a sun miracle January 27 154 BC. "Emperor Jing of Han, 3rd year of the Qianyan reign period, 7th month. In the northern sky there was a scarlet object like a mat. It was more than ten zhang long. Some said it was a scarlet vapour, some said it was a fissure in the heavens." East Asian Archeaology, p.188. The seventh month began August 1 154 BC. Jupiter and Mars never vary more than 2° from the plane of the ecliptic. Thus they could not normally approach the North Star, neither can the moon. So this must rather describe earth in a reverse orbit and the planets shifted out of the plane of the ecliptic. All the planets would appear to move in retrograde to appear in their seasons while earth was in a reverse orbit.
170 BC was the Jubilee. Thus in September 169 BC the children of Israel could sow. Likewise 7 years later in 162 BC and in 155 BC. Thus that summer of 155 BC the children of Israel would be hungry because that seventh year the land was fallow. Likewise at the sun miracle in autumn of 148 BC and in February 141 BC. These sun miracles may have been intended for the Sabbath year.
There was an earthquake and it hailed heavily in 149 BC. Perhaps one year later on the new moon October 22 148 BC: On day 11 October 22 148 BC there was an eclipse recorded. However, there was no eclipse anywhere near that time. There was an eclipse recorded for day 35 November 10 147 BC which did occur. No eclipse on day 11. October is half an orbit from April. Thus this eclipse record may rather be a sun miracle. Then also there should be a sun miracle on April 21 148 BC. There may have been a sun miracle on April 23 149 BC the day of the passover, one and a half orbit before October 22 148 BC. In the third month (18 April-17 May 148 BC) the emperor summoned the King of Liu Chiang to come to the capital: he died shortly after in the office of the Capital Commandant." p.207 The king was often killed when there was a sun miracle. There was an amnesty declared on May 31 148 BC. And what may have preceeded it "The earth quaked. It hailed in Heng-shan and Yuan-tu with the large stones measuring a foot eight inches." Then the sun should return April 23 147 BC: "In the third month (April 18 - May 17) a comet appeared in the northwest. In the fourth month the earth quaked." Thus the comet may have been the dragon. Thus perhaps a sun miracle 144 years before Jesus' birth in 4 BC or 6 BC. "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. Thunder in February was regarded as a sign. Thus again the planets, now all five in retrograde motion near T'ien-t'ing by the North Star. This is like the record of 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." The moon never goes near the handle of the Big Dipper, Benetnash. The sun when dimed may appear purple during a sun miracle. A French translation to English "the sun appeared crimson". The sun must be dimmed to leave the same daily coral line. Also, to avoid overheating one side of the earth and disturbing weather patterns. Thus this describes earth in a reverse orbit with the five planets moving backwards against the stars through the year. The last day of the twelfth month is a new moon in Israel. If this was rather March 12 then this might be the first day of Nissan, the beginning of the year. Even February 11 141 BC may be the first day of the lunar month Nissan if the Israelites let their calendar back up one month. Also there are 29.5 days in a lunar cycle. Thus the Chinese could have counted February 12 as the 30th day, the end of the month. Then this February 12 should be the new moon in Israel. The lunar calendar backs up 11 days a year. Then there must be a sun miracle on the day of Atonement 187 days later at the end of the year. This could be August 16 141 BC. The sun must return 186.6 days later on this August 16 141 BC the tenth lunar day of the seventh Hebrew month. If China saw the sun stand still at noon February 12 141 BC Israel should see the sun stand still, retreat, or suddenly set and rise in the east, at sunset August 16 141 BC.
A few months previous the sun and moon were recorded as red for five days. Thus a red sun can be normal. A crimson or purple sun is not normal. "This central palace is the projection of the imperial capital with the residence of the sovereign, or as Huai-nan-tzu writes: [The constellation] t'ai-wei is the court of the Great One, [the constellation] Purple Palace is the dwelling of the Great One. Polaris itself as the permanent residence of the Great One corresponds with the position of the emperor." The Great One is God. The Purple Palace may have been named after the colour purple of the sun in a sun miracle.
There may have been another sun miracle on June 11 139 BC: "Emperor Wu of Han, 2nd year of the Jianyuan period, summer, 4th month, day wushen 45. There was a bright light as if the sun appeared at night." East Asian Archaeology, p.189.

This is a picture taken in ultra-violet light of the sun by a NASA satellite. Note the moon transiting the sun. The satellite is 4 times farther from the moon as earth, thus the moon appears 4 time smaller. Still, this may be close to the purple colour the Chinese saw the sun look like the day of the sun miracle:


Almost all pictures of Chinese dragons show them playing with a flaming pearl. Pearls may look pink as below:

Textes Taoistes, C. Harlez 1891: - Wen-tze "Quand le ciel, hostile aux etres, veut leur causer du dommagge, il les brule, le soliel et la lune s'amincissant et s'eclipsent, les cinq planets quittent leur voie, les quatre saisons empientent l'une sur l'autre, le jour s'obscurcit,.." "When the sky, hostile to living things, wishes to harm them, it burns them, the sun and the moon grow thinner and are eclipsed, the five planets leave their course, the four seasons encroach one on another, the day grows dark,.." - If the sun moved 180° the planets must leave their course and reverse their orbits with the earth. Then the stars marking the seasons, the zodiac, must reverse the spring and fall orientation. The moon if full must thin to a new moon. Or rather the moon must move 180° also, perhaps when the moon is new, to stay in the same lunar phase. When the sun moved back the planets must move 180° back to where they normally would be. All in all a very smooth operation.
"..meteors observes en Chine apres le VIIe siecle" E. Biot: "Annees aveant JC 687. Enete, a la 4e lune, jour sin mao (23 mars), pendent la nuit, les etoiles fixes ne parurent pas, quoique la nuit fut claire. Au milieu de la nuit, les etoiles tomberent comme une pluie." "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." This about 15 years after Hezekiah's Sign in 705 BC is so obvious it is the same 15 years Hezekiah was promised by God. That is, 15 years after 705 BC is 790 BC and perhaps the sun returned in the third year 687 BC from a three year reverse orbit. Then just like in the Missing Day story, someone looking at astronomical records after finding the missing 40 minutes the year of Joshua's long day would find this record of the sun moving again about 15 years after Hezekiah's Sign. This record was already pointed out by Velikovsky in 1950. This was in the seventh year of the reign of the Duke Zhuang, Duke of Qi. Sounds much like Emperor Kwei's long night where also stars fell like rain.
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."
Isaiah 13:10 "For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine."
God caused the sky to be dark, without stars, though cloudless. If the sun is darkened the moon must be also. The day "sin mao" is the 28th of cycle. The first moon was December 20 688 BC, 2nd January 18, 3rd February 18 and 4th March 18. March 23 687 BC is the third day of the fourth moon. Perhaps earth flowed out of a reverse orbit. Then the sun must have moved across earth's path perhaps dragging meteorites into earth's path thus long streaks of light like "stars fell like rain". Perhaps the stars did not appear because the sun revolved around the earth 180° east keeping China in twilight, thus "the stars did not appear". Then they would appear 12 hours later when the sun completely set and China would start facing forward into earth's path at mid night perhaps as it passed through meteors. A date of 687 BC may correspond to the fulfillment of the 15 years God promised to Hezekiah. Then there must be a pair of sun miracles at the 15 year mark. In the second correcting sun miracle the sun would move back to Pisces, earth reorient and flow out of the reverse orbit and continue as if nothing had happened. See Job 9:7 - If the sun moved 180° near March 28, this destruction was on first day of the Passover according to the Talmud and Midrash, the earth would not need to turn to keep the same season on earth. If this was just before Hezekiah's Sign as indicated by the next verse:
Isaiah 38:1 "In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death,"
The Passover may have been March 20 705 BC and this Hezekiah's Sign March 20 705 BC "in those days". On March 23 687 BC possibly the sun moved 180° eastward to stay in the noon position on the Americas. Then China would be in morning twilight for 12 hours and the stars not visible. Or the sun moved 180° west and this describes a short night. The lunar month of Nisan that began the Passover began March 21 687 BC. The Chinese new year began 688 on Dec. 20. March 23 687 BC was the third day of the fourth lunar month.

Daniel 2:21 "And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding:
22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him."
God changes the times and the seasons; that is, when God moved the sun 180° earth must shift to keep in the same season and the sign the sun was then in be 180° away from what it would normally be in that season and progress in reverse against the zodiac. God removed kings and set up kings on the day of these sun miracles.
Thales predicted an eclipse, supposedly the one that took place in May 28 585 BC. However, he only predicted the year and there is no evidence he had the means to actually predict an eclipse at the time. There was also a total solar eclipse May 19 576 BC in the Middle East. See Five Millenium Canon of Solar Eclipses -1999 to +3000, by Jean Meeus and Fred Espanek, 2007. "While the Lydians and Medes were still struggling for the upper hand in this war, during a battle begun in the sixth year, it happened that when the fighting had been joined, day suddenly became night. When the Lydians and Medes alike saw that it had become night in place of day, they broke off the battle and hastened on both sides with even more speed to bring about peace for themselves."
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."
The sun may have fallen from the sky in May 19 575 BC or June 17 575 BC and this rather be a sun miracle than an eclipse and this battle rather be in 575 BC than 585 BC. Moreover there may have been an earlier sun miracle to start the series of 4 sun miracles.
2 Kings 25:1 "And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about."
The ninth year is 578 BC, the tenth month is November or December, the tenth day is November 16 or December 16. Thus one and a half orbits later is May 19 575 BC or June 17 575 BC. Thus there must be two sun miracles May 19 575 BC or June 17 575 BC. A long day and a short day. Thus also there must be one more sun miracle November 16 575 BC or December 16 575 BC. And thus also on this tenth month, the tenth day in the ninth year there must have been a sun miracle. Thus, the exact day Nebuchadnezzar came was recorded. Thus also, Nebuchadnezzar would know he had the support of heaven against Jerusalem. Also, thus the sun must have fallen from the sky shortly after noon time May 19 575 BC or June 17 575 BC. The sun fell from the sky at noon in Amos. The sun fell from the sky for Moses to begin the three days of darkness in Egypt in Exodus. The sun also fell from the sky in Phaethon, perhaps 2350 BC. The eclipse of May 28 585 BC was for 4PM hardly the time "when the fighting had been joined, day suddenly became night". Also the ninth day of the fourth month should be Sunday June 17 575 BC. Thus rather than May 28 585 BC the sun may have fallen from the sky at this battle and at the fall of Jerusalem, perhaps June 17 575 BC the ninth day of the fourth month. The ninth day of the fourth month is just a few days after the day of Pentecost. Thus, the Captivity of Jerusalem may rather have been from 575 BC.
2 Kings 25:3 "And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land."
Habakkuk 1:9 "They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand."
The word for sand can mean phoenix as in Job 29:18. Perhaps this indicates a sun miracle upon the fall of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 25:8 "And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burnt with fire."
Nebuchadnezzar wrote:
Daniel 4:2 "I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
4:3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders!"

Darius:
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."
Perhaps there was a sun miracle in Cyrus' time as well, Cyrus means "like the sun". Cyrus was born 576 BC perhaps the year Jerusalem was taken for which he would help them to return.
Isaiah 45:5 "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else."
Daniel, born about 612 BC, led from the captivity in 595 BC - to Darius 510 BC. The Darius the Mede in Daniel is a different person than the Darius the King of Persia in Ezra. Likewise, Cyrus in the Bible may not be the Cyrus the Great. This may be Cambyses the son of Cyrus also named Cyrus. He reigned the eight years previous Darius the King of Persia. Thus it might have been this Cyrus that made the decree for the return of the Jews. In 515 BC when Cambyses conquered Egypt a comet appeared. The Grand Scribes Records, Volume V.1, p.106 The 70 years of Israel's captivity were from 575 BC to 505 BC. However, Cyrus the Great may have wrote the decree of the return of the Jews 70 years after Josiah's death: 599 BC - 529 BC. In 532 BC, "13th year of King Jing of Zhou, in spring. A star emerged in Wunu." East Asian Archeaology, p.129. 70 years after Jeremiah warned of the captivity, Jeremiah 26:1. Cyrus the Great's first year was rather 529 BC, not 539 BC. In 524 BC five Chinese texts report a sparkling star in winter in Scorpius which then moved to the Milky Way. The dragon was bright, and if so many Chinese recorded this sparkling star, it may have been rather the glory of God.
II Chronicles 36:22 "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
36:23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
001:001 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra 1:2 "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah."
"Duke Hsuan, 8th year, 7th month, day chia-tzu. The Sun was eclipsed and it was total." Refers to a total solar eclipse of 20 September 601 BC. From: Ch'un-ch'iu, book VII (Chinese). The path of totality went through China and Europe, the sun was may have been 100% obscured by the moon when recorded from China according to the new eclipse maps by NASA for 2007. This was about the time of the captivity. However this eclipse record was for day 11 when the eclipse took place on day 60. Day 11 would be the Day of Atonement in Israel, the 10th day of the Hebrew lunar month October 1 601 BC. So perhaps this eclipse record is rather a record of a sun miracle. 601 BC was King Josiah's 28th year. He began his reign when he was 8. Thus in 601 BC he would be 36, the age of Jesus when he was crucified.
2 Kings 23:23 "But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem."
Josiah's 18th year would be 611 BC. "A broom star entered Pei Tou, the Big Dipper, during the month of 612 BC August 4 - September 2. The Ch'un Ch'ui says "Then as a broom sweeps away what is old to give place to something new, a comet is supposed to presage changes." James Legge says this was in 611 BC, Williams and Wen Shion Tsu say this was 610 BC." Cometography: a catalog of comets By Gary W. Kronk, p.1. This comet may rather be the dragon, the glory of God. Thus there may have been a sun miracle at this passover in 611 BC in March 4 or the first of Nisan February 19 then a sun miracle and this "comet" in September 1 on the day of Atonement.
"The original discovery (of the cause of eclipses) was made in Greece by Thales of Miletus, who in the fourth year of the 48th Olympiad (585 BC/584 BC) foretold the eclipse of the Sun that occurred in the reign of Alyattes, in the 170th year after the foundation of Rome (584/3 BC)" The solar eclipses of 585 BC and 583 BC were only visible in North America. Rather this eclipse must have been the one in 575 BC. This was the year Jerusalem and the temple at Jerusalem were completely destroyed. Then this record may be a sun miracle in the time of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar. There was also an eclipse recorded at the founding of Rome in spring 753 BC, or 743 BC, when there was no eclipse that year and may be rather:
Amos 8:9 "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth on the clear day:"
which would be visible everywhere. In 753 BC the Passover was Friday April 11. The sun miracle probably occurred when the king of Judah, Uzziah, died about 748 BC. This leaves 5 years of reverse orbit which is the maximum that can be inferred. When identifying the second sun miracle, when the sun moved 180° again and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit, the thing to look for is is it exactly on the same date a year or more later, or half an orbit multiples thereof later for earth to reorient. Separate sun miracles and their reverse orbits often occurred 7 years apart. There is the possibility of a succession of four sun miracles where the sun moved 180° four times and earth finally reoriented. Of course the sun must move 4 times to leave no missing time. Still the sun could move 4 times at different times of the year countering out the earth shift to let earth reorient. This could be earth shifting clockwise then counterclockise then clockwise and counter clockwise to finally orient to the polar axis earth would normally have in that year BC. Thus 70° Clockwise then 35° CounterClockwise then 70° CC and 35° C - earth shifts cancelling themselves out = February 24 1000 BC, March 13 1000 BC, May 4 1000 BC and September 13 1000 BC. The second reverse orbit that year must occur right after the first ended to leave no missing time. However, sun miracles part way through a reverse orbit appear to be rare. Only just after the Exodus is there a possibility of sun miracles part way through a reverse orbit. And then these possibly may rather be the sun moving 360° each time. The 24 hours + 24 hours of elapsed time countered by a later reverse orbit with no net elapsed time and 48 hours missing time. Or this could be a total of 360° of earth shift and earth is reoriented again - 90° C then 90° C then 90° C then 90° C = February 14 1000 BC, May 14 1000 BC, August 14 1000 BC, November 14 1000 BC. A possible example would be earth flowing into a reverse orbit about the equinox on the three days of darkness in Exodus. Then earth would not have to shift to keep in the same season. Then about a month later Moses raised his hands at Rephidim at battle with Amalek at sunset, perhaps a long sunset. Then earth must shift about 50° counter clockwise and flow into the present counter clockwise orbit of the sun. Then perhaps there was a sun miracle on the equinox again and earth would flow into a reverse orbit of the sun still 50° shifted. Then on the Day of Atonement perhaps the sun moved back and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit and shifted the 50° clockwise to the same pole position and continued unaffected. However, sun miracles during a reverse orbit may not be possible.

Here are some possible examples of the sun moving given in the Bible:

Isaiah

Isaiah 5:30 "And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
7:10 "Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; one as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven above."
8:17 "And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian."
The day of Midian must be the sun miracles September 1 1238 BC. There was dimmness then a great light. That is what the children of Israel would see in the pattern of four sun miracles that year, the year king Ahaz died.
8:22 "And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness."
38:8 "Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down."

Isaiah 45:5 "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness:"
Isaiah 58:8 "Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will spring up quickly...
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:"
If the sun traveled 180° west at midnight the day would suddenly dawn and the sun be at the noon position. Perhaps healing and sun miracles were connected. Such as when Hezekiah was healed.

59:9 "Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but see -- there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; among vigorous people we are like the dead."

60: 1 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings before, or to announce your dawn."
This must be in part the prophesy of the star in the east that the wisemen followed.
Numbers 24:17 "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth."
The wisemen may have been familiar with these verses. They may have been calculating the years between sun miracles and adding 144 years and hundreds even to come to the year of our Lord. They may have known Arcturus, the only star mentioned by name in the Bible, was possibly this star. They may have known Isaiah 60:1 and that this star Arcturus that rises just before dawn at the beginning of 4 BC to be the star that would lead them to the Christ. Nothing special had to happen to the star. They must have had revelation from God to be so convicted. And thus they would be led by the timing of 4 BC or 6 BC and everything else would fall into place. They may have come from the far east, even from China. Even more likely is the possiblility this star was God or the dragon to the Chinese. Then for these wisemen to see the dragon stand still over Israel may have caused them to seek the King Star. A Chinese proverb states: A long journey begins with one step. Even in Genesis 1:2 it states God hovered over the earth rather than moved.
Genesis 1:2 "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God movedH7363 upon the face of the waters."
Thus H7363 means to brood or hover. Thus like in the creation God must have hovered over the birth of his Son. The Chinese would see the glory of the Lord on the horizen. Thus also the Chinese may have normally seen the dragon near the horizen or the north or the east. Thus also the Egyptians named Horus the hawk the god of the horizen perhaps because that is where they usually saw him, perhaps the same as the Chinese dragon and the glory of the LORD.
James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Genesis 1:3 "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
This is thought of as the igniting of the sun. However, there was light with God before the sun.
The Chinese would realize the God of Judah was resposible for all these sun miracles. Thus they would come asking where is born the King of the Jews? And they would realize the 144 + 100's of years were pointing to the birth of the Son of God in 4 BC or 6 BC rather than an appointment of their emperor. Even there was an eclipse recorded for day 11 October 22 148 BC when there was no eclipse. Thus, October 22 148 BC must be a sun miracle 144 years before the birth of Jesus in 4 BC or 6 BC. The Chinese had the most ancient records of sun miracles that would point the wisemen to the date of 4 BC. We don't know what records of sun miracles existed in the Middle East. Some Chinese "cite anecdotal evidence about Liu Shang, the chief astrologer during the Han dynasty in China at the time that Jesus was born. Liu Shang discovered a new star the Chinese called the "king star" - which was associated with the birth of a new king. The disappearance of Liu Shang from China's imperial court for two years shortly after this star was discovered, they interpret as perhaps traveling the Silk Road to Bethlehem." Wikipedia The character for star in Chinese is white above King. All stars appear white. Every time someone saw the character for star they would see King star. The constellation Xing or star is next to the constellation Yih where there was a from whence a brilliant star issued out in 2287 BC when Shun was made emperor. Bethlehem is on the same latitude as most of China. Thus Arcturus would pass directly overhead in China. The emperor was said to have ascended to the pole star, thus their king star. Huang di was said to have returned to a star in Leo upon a sun miracle in 2598 BC also passing directly over Bethlehem. There was a sun miracle in 2698 BC when he became emperor and there was a sun miracle and earthquake at his death. The dragon was often seen when there was a sun miracle. The dragon may be the glory of God. Thus what was seen may have been God. There was a brilliant star that moved quickly from Yih, Crater, at the sun miracle in January 2287 BC. This brilliant star may also have been God, the dragon. This star of Huang di has been associated with Regulus the Monarch star in the Middle East passing directly over Bethlehem 2598 BC. You can see Leo takes in the same area as Castor and Pollux. The star that led the wisemen probably was the glory of God shining above Bethlehem. The Chinese would recognize the emerald green rainbow around the star. They would see it on the western horizen at night. The wisemen may very well have come from China, because that was "the east".
Matthew 2:2 "Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."
They might have known Abraham and Isaac were types of Christ. That there was a sun miracle the year of Abraham's birth 2648 BC. That Isaac was born 2548 BC. That Isaac was 36 when Abraham went to offer him up 2512 BC because Sarah died the next year. That there was a sun miracle the year Isaac died 2368 BC. That Isaac lived 144 years after Abraham went to offer him up. Then they might have discovered the key: Jesus would be born 144 + 2500 years after Abraham's birth, 144 + 2400 years after Isaac's birth. 144 years after Abraham went to offer up Isaac, Isaac died at 180. Jesus would be crucified at 36, 2400 years after Isaac died. Shem was 100 in 3634 BC 2 years after the flood when he begat Arphaxad, and lived 500 more years to 3234 BC.
Genesis 6:3 "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also, is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years."
This may have meant there were 120 years to the flood in 3637 BC or that man's generations would be 120 years. Noah was in year 500, 20 years later, perhaps when God spoke to Noah and Noah had 100 years to build the ark. From Arphaxad born 2 years after the flood man's generations were 130 years.
Counting from the Septuagint from Arphaxad in the second year after the flood 3634 BC and leaving out Cainan which is not in the Hebrew:
12 And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, 3499 BC
14 And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber. 3369 BC
16 And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg. 3235 BC
18 And Phaleg lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Regau. 3105 BC
20 And Ragau lived an hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch. 2973 BC
22 And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor. 2843 BC = 2837 BC
24 And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years, and begot Terah. 2724 BC, 2718 BC
26 And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor and Arran. 2648 BC
32 And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan. 2572 BC

You can see if Nachor lived 119 years in his generation as in the Hebrew rather than 179 years in the Septuagint we have his birth at 2837 BC about the same as 2843 BC, a difference of 6 years can be found in rounding errors in the 130 year generations. Then from the Septuagint Arphaxad lived 135 years when he begat Sala, about the 136 years Abraham was when he went to offer up Isaac.
Terah lived to Sothis year 205 from 2777 BC, 2572 BC, 144 years old.
Abraham was 75 in 2572 BC, thus born in 2648 BC. Thus Terah was 70 when be begat Abraham.
3233 BC - 5 X 144 = 2513 BC when Isaac was 36 the age of Jesus -144 years from Isaac's death at 180, 3233 BC - 6 X 144 = 2368 BC. 2400 years before Jesus crucifixion when he was 36 in 33 AD. Moses was born in 1359 BC = 3233 - 13 X 144. The Temple was finished in 1033 BC, 3233 BC - 2200 years after the death of Shem. Likewise the Temple was finished about 1300 years after Jacob died in 2331 BC. Arcturus is the only star mentioned by name in the Bible.
Psalm 147:4 "He telleth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names."
Jesus must have been born in lambing season, January/February/March, to be the Passover lamb. "The scholarly consensus, based on Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews is that Herod died at the end of March, or early April of 4 BC." - "As for the other Matthias who had stirred up the sedition, he (Herod) had him burned alive along with some of his companions. And on that same night there was an eclipse of the Moon. But Herod's illness became more and more severe." His sons began to reign in 4 BC - hardly likely if Herod was still alive. Then if Jesus was born late January when the wisemen came there would be time to flee into Egypt before Herod saw he was mocked of the wisemen and Herod must have killed all the boy's under two in Bethlehem almost immediately. The glory of the Lord may have stood above Jesus two years before the wisemen came. This would have led the wisemen to Jesus and given them time to make their journey. Herod never saw the child Jesus so he never knew he was but a babe. Jesus must have been born around January of 4 BC.
Luke 2:39 "And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth."
Herod died in 4 BC and Jesus' birth may have been 6 BC. Then Joseph and Mary may have lived in Bethlehem from 6 BC to 4 BC and Jesus may have been 2 years old when the wisemen came to Jesus to worship him. Arcturus was directly above Bethelehem 4AM end of January 4 BC and would rise about 10PM.
Isaiah 60:1 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings before, or to announce your dawn."
The glory of God may have been God hoovering above Bethlehem rather than any star. If God shifted earth on the vertical axis while earth continued to rotate as God must have done many times before when he moved the sun at the same time tilting the earth to keep Arcturus directly above, Arturus could be made to appear to stand still for an hour or more above Bethlehem. Then God would just have to shift earth back to it polar alignment.
There was no new star recorded in 4 BC that was directly overhead. There were however coins minted at this time showing a star. There may have been a nova, smaller than a supernova, that went largely unnoticed. However, the glory of God was probably the light that led the wisemen. Castor and Pollux pass directly over Bethlehem 10 PM in January. Castor and Pollux are just above Orion. If God's glory appeared there as a star it could be the constellation the star appeared to be in when it led the wisemen. Just the fact the sign of the ship was even mentioned in January may indicate more meaning behind it.
Act 28:11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux."
Spring comes early to Israel, thus lambs may have been born late January. Perhaps when they saw this star appear and stand over Israel they realized that it was the prophesy of the birth of the Christ and followed it, until it led them to stand over the stable where Joseph and Mary and the child Jesus lay. Nevertheless, God hoovering over Bethlehem is most likely the star that led the wisemen. John the Baptist may have been conceived on the evening of September 24 6 BC, the Jewish Sabbath, on the Day of Atonement and born about June. The day of Pentecost in 5 BC was Sunday June 11 and John the Baptist may have been born then. Then the day of Pentecost may have been the setting of Luke 1:57 - 1:80 when Zachariah named him John. Likewise Samuel may have been conceived on the day of Atonement when Hannah prayed for a child. And likewise Samuel may have been born on the day of Pentecost. 5 BC was the year after the fallow year of no sowing or reaping. Thus, in 5 BC they could sow and reap barley at the feast of Pentecost just as they could the day the Holy Spirit was given May 23 33 AD. Thus Jesus said "Blessed are they that hunger now for they shall be filled". Then the months must have counted from the civil new year, the sixth month being March when Mary went to see her cousin Elizabeth. Perhaps Gabriel appeared to Zacharias on the Day of Atonement on September 12 5BC or October 12 5BC. Zechariah and Eliziabeth were like Abraham and Sarah who also waited till old age to have a son. The sun miracle in Autumn of 2648 BC day 57 September 23 was near the Day of Atonement the year of Abraham's birth. Arcturus was rising before the sun in the morning then. Just like John the Baptist, rising before to announce the breaking of the day then disappearing above in the brightness of the rising Sun, Jesus. "The duty of offering incense twice daily fell upon the high priest, Ex. 30:7, but in the 2nd temple the privilege was extended to all the priests, and the lot was cast each day to decide who should offer, Luke 1:9." Cambridge Bible, Bible Dictionary, incense Gabriel may have blessed Zacharias the high priest in September 12 5 BC on the Day of Atonement.
Luke 1:13 "But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John."
Luke 1:26 "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary."
If Jesus was conceived in the sixth month counting from September he would be born in January. He must have been born before Herod died in late March. Jesus may have been born then in 4 BC or in 6 BC. Herod slew the babies two and under because he wanted to make sure he killed the King of the Jews. Please see The Birth of Jesus by Daniel B. Wallace, Th.M, Ph.D. Everything Herod did was overkill literally. Thus John the Baptist must have been conceived on the Day of Atonement and Jesus conceived half an orbit later, on the beginning of months in Spring. Thus all these sun miracles on the Day of Atonement, in Spring and in January/February. Jesus' ministry may have been the 3 1/2 years as we are often told because he probably proved the homeless ministry in the half a year, perhaps year and a half, previous calling Peter and Andrew and the apostles. Jesus may have started his ministry in the year of the Jubilee 31 AD and Jesus' ministry may have been for 2 1/2 years, from when he began to be 34 in February/March of 31 AD to when he was 36 at his crucifixion April 3 33 AD. However, there is no reason Jesus' ministry could not have been 3 1/2 years. For then the people would be free to hear John the Baptist and then Jesus because the Sabbath of the land began in September 30 AD, and the year following was the Jubilee, giving Jesus 3 1/2 years to preach the Gospel. The only single star I know mentioned in the Bible is Arcturus - one of the first stars to be given a name since ancient times, which rises in the east 10PM late January and passes directly above Bethlehem at 4AM in 4 BC, at exactly 90°. Arcturus has a magnitude of 0 from which all stars are measured. All other stars are either fainter and given their higher fainter magnitude or they are brighter, like Sirius and given a negative magnitude. Thus the star that may have marked Jesus' birthday is the standard for all stars today. However, the star probably was the glory of God above Bethlehem perhaps the dragon star of the Chinese. It would be noticeable because of the emerald green rainbow around it. The year of Jesus' birthday starts all dates today. Jesus' life and example is what all will be judged by.
Amos 7:8 "And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:"
The seven stars of the Big Dipper would point straight up to Arcturus when Jesus was born. Arcturus (click to enlarge image) is 25 times the diameter of the sun second in brightness only to Sirius. Also, Arcturus is only 37 light years away and thus moves quite a bit over thousands of years finding itself 90° up from Bethlehem 4AM January/February 4 BC. Thus God may have brightened Arcturus 37 years previous its appearing to the wisemen in 6 BC. Nevertheless, Jesus must have been born about January of 4 BC or 6 BC. The children two and under that were slain by Herod must have been from the time the star first appeared to the wisemen, perhaps in 6 BC. The wisemen probably saw the glory of God directly above and they looked up a plumb line to this "star" in January of 4 BC in Bethlehem to come to the stable where Jesus was born. See Jacob's cross. Jesus was began to be about 30 when he started his ministry. Perhaps Jesus was 36 in 31 AD and born in 6 BC. 3 X 12 = 36. Thus 30 in duodecimal is 36. Some estimates place the date of Jesus' Crucifixion at Friday April 7 30 AD. Then if Jesus was born in 4 BC he would be 33 in 30 AD. However, Jesus proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord the Jubilee in 31 AD.
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 brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
21 "And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
That is if we omit the 70 years of captivity the last Jubilee would be the tenth day of the moon in the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, Saturday September 15 31 AD perhaps when Jesus started his ministry making Friday April 3 33 AD his crucifixion. The 70 years captivity came because they were not keeping the Sabbath year and the Jubilee. This fiftieth year would be the last full year from the year end in September before Jesus' crucifixion, the height of his three short years of ministry, thus the acceptable year of the Lord. Moreover, now Jesus had preached the Gospel to them this was the acceptable time for them to accept Jesus as their Saviour. Come in God's accepted time, accept this invitation to hear the Gospel. Jesus would stand up to read in the synagogue on this day, Saturday, of the Sabbath. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus'_birth_and_death With the tomb of Herod being just found this May 2007, the date of this death has been determined to be late March in 4 BC the year of a lunar eclipse March 13 5:20 AM Israel, the lunar eclipse occurred as the moon was setting just before sunrise at 6 AM, From TheSky Software Bisque:

When they went to determine Jesus' birth to fix the beginning of the calendar they may have correctly determined it to be in 4 BC and his crucifixion in 33 AD. However, this makes Jesus 36 at his crucifixion and if Jesus was thirty at the beginning of his ministry his ministry how could his ministry last just three Passovers? So they may have rejected the 4 BC date to suit themselves. Jesus may have been born in the 12 lunar month of Adar 1 in February then the catholics made Jesus' birth in the 12th month December 25 to suit themselves. Jesus began to be about thirty years of age at the beginning of his ministry. So Jesus could have been 34 or 36 at the beginning of his ministry. Then Joseph must have left Egypt with Jesus when Jesus was 3 months old when he heard king Herod had died. Also, John the Baptist may have begun his ministry in 29 AD the 15th year of Caesar Tiberius, from August 19 14 AD:
Luke 3:1a "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar...
2b the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness."

Phlegon Trallianus records in his history, Olympiades (41):
"In the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad [AD 32-33], a failure of the Sun took place greater than any previously known, and night came on at the sixth hour of the day [noon], so that stars actually appeared in the sky; and a great earthquake took place in Bithynia and overthrew the greater part of Niceaea." (42)
And there was a lunar eclipse that night 7:30 PM possibly visible from Jerusalem. Possibly this was the day was foretold in:
Zechariah 14:6 "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8a And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;"
Possibly the 36 hours from 3PM Friday to 3AM Sunday. That day Saturday and the resurrection morning before sunrise Sunday.
Zechariah 3:9 "For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day."
The moon often looks red like blood during a lunar eclipse. "Our computations show that the moon rose over Jerusalem, with 1/3 still in the umbra and the rest in penumbra. Holdover meteorological darkening with long absorption air mass could have help reddened the moon also."
Image from TheSky Software Bisque April 3 7:30PM Jerusalem 33 AD:


Lunar Eclipses: 0001 to 0100:

               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
0033 Apr 03  14:47   P   71  -0.679  1.671  0.586  86m   -   12.7  12.69  -5.2

Thus the moon was just rising on Jerusalem when the moon was eclipsed. NASA would have the moon rising at the last third of the lunar eclipse. Thus Jerusalem would see the eclipse. The moon just rising would more likely be blood red through the thicker atmosphere. See the August 28 2007 lunar eclipse and notice how red the moon was lower down. NASA's eclipse record for the lunar eclipse 6:20 PM Anyang China August 12 1269 BC may be an hour too early because of more variability going back 1300 more years. Because of variables in earth's rotation and the moon's orbit exact times cannot accurately be calculated. Even so, the Chinese may have been able to just see the last of the lunar eclipse August 12 1269 BC when the moon rose at sunset.
Acts 2:20 "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:"
About the time of the Passover:
John 1:36 "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!"
Luke 3:22 "And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
23a And Jesus began to be about thirty years of age,"
The Passover in 30 AD was April 7. Thus Jesus may have begun to be about 30 about the time of the Passover and may have been crucified about the time he was to become 36. If Jesus started his ministry when he was 30 his ministry must have lasted 6 years, or he began his ministry when he was 33 or 34 and his ministry lasted 2 or 3 years. John's gospel only records 3 Passovers, two years. The feast in John 7:2 looks more like the feast of tabernacles than another Passover so soon after the first. This means Jesus' ministry may have been just over two years because his ministry began with a Passover. Probably Jesus was born in 4 BC or 6 BC and crucified April 3 33 AD. This means Jesus must have been 36 or 38 when he was crucified. Then also his ministry must have been two years two months. Then Jesus must have begun to be about 34 or 36 when he started his ministry. A scribe may have ommitted the 4 or 6 years and just left 30 years. In the Codex Vaticanus from the fourth century, a scribe wrote in the margin: "Fool and knave, leave the old reading, don't change it." Most of the changes to the Bible I have seen are dates. The constellation of Arcturus looks like a Y much like the cross and perhaps God drew attention to the star at this time by making it brighter. Since ancient times the constellation Arcturus was pictured as the torso of a man.
Ezekiel 1:27 "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."
There must have been something very striking to "the star in the east" to lead the wisemen to Jesus. The barley harvest was in April/May perhaps the reason to tax the people at that time. Arcturus is moving at 90 miles per second passing the earth in a few thousand years having moved significantly in the last several thousand years. Also perhaps what was meant by "canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?". That is thousands of years before Jesus, God may have been guiding Arcturus to appear directly overhead at midnight to lead the wisemen to his Son Jesus at his birth.
Luke 3:21 "Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, "
Luke 4:1 "And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2 Being forty days tempted of the devil."
The forty days may have been counted from before the Passover. Then Jesus may have been born about the time of the lambs used in the Passover. Breeding began in August and gestation is 144 to 150 days to January to coincide with pasture growth. Thus December 25 would probably be too early for lambing season. There were no more sun miracles recorded that I know of in China after Jesus birth. Except Tacitus recorded the phoenix appeared in Egypt in 34 AD. Jesus was crucified in 33 AD so if this event occurred it occurred during the time of the book of The Acts of the Apostles. Similarily a Roman coin from 139 AD has a phoenix with a halo. This tetradrachma was issued in Alexandria in Egypt in the second year of the Roman emperor Antonius Pius, 139 BC. This may have been associated with the last sothis cycle which ended in 139 BC and thus a new age. Clement wrote of the Egyptians recorded the phoenix returned after 500 years. The Chinese recorded the Milky Way did not appear in 504 BC when the Temple was completed February 8. The angel at the sun would worship Jesus as the other angels did at Jesus' birth in 4 BC or 6 BC. Jesus may have been conceived in 6 BC and born in 5 BC.

Jeremiah

2:5 "Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12 Be ye astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water."

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."
13:16 "Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness."

Job

Job 3:1 "After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day."
2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:"

Perhaps Job's wish that his birthday be covered with darkness was fulfilled in the three days of darkness in Exodus. And Job's wish "let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months." may have been fulfilled in that that night was 36 hours and going backwards no planetarium program counts a night as 36 hours. Also, after hundreds of years of accumulated reverse orbits to the time of Christ that day would be about a year more recent than planetarium programs would give and not knowing all the sun miracles since then it is impossible to go back in time to exactly that moment. Then this record of Job may have occurred while he was with his three friends and be the three days of darkness of the Exodus. However, there probably were regular sun miracles then, a series of four every 7 or 10 years and this record in Job may be any one of them:
Job 9:6 "Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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.
17:12 "They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
17:13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness."
A short day after a long night. In a series of four sun miracles this would be the second and third. Then from chapter 9 to Chapter 17 must be this long night followed by a short day. This does not look like the three days of darkness in Exodus. In Exodus it appears a short day followed by a long night.
29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the "Hol".
In verse 18 in the Septuagint the foinikos is the phoenix.
18 eipa de h hlikia mou ghrasei wsper stelecos foinikos polun cronon biwsw.
The Hol or Chol sounds like the word for sand or whirling particles, same word used for phoenix in Japan. Then obviously sand was not the word intended. The Hol can only be the phoenix. The Egyptian palm tree had the same Egyptian pronounciation as the Bennu, the Egyptian phoenix. The Greek word for the Bennu used by Herodotus in 480 BC was phoenix. The Greeks imported the word for palm tree and the Bennu from the Egyptians to also mean phoenix, palm tree or the phoenix. The Septuagint was translated from Hebrew into Greek about 350 BC and this translation predates the Dead Sea Scrolls from about 100 BC.
Psalm 92:12 "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon."
May also read "The righteous shall fly like the phoenix:" The word for flourish means specifically to fly as extending the wings. This psalm was for the Sabbath and could have been written within a few hundred years of coming out of Egypt. The relation of the Bennu bird and the Bennu palm may have been the nest of the phoenix was at the top of the palm tree. And growth is upward at the top. A new species of palm tree has been discovered that flowers at the top and then dies. Thus this dual meaning of phoenix and palm tree may have been intended by the author.
As you can see in the Septuagint palm tree is written phoenix, foinix:
13 "dikaios ws foinix anqhsei wsei kedros h en tw libanw plhqunqhsetai"
You can see in verse 5 that great miracles are the subject of this psalm:
5 "How great are your deeds, O Lord!"
6 "The person who is senseless and knows nothing, and fools cannot understand this."
Job 37:5 "God thunders marvelously with his voice; he does great things which we cannot comprehend."
Psalm 92:10 "But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil."
Likewise the unicorn may be the Chinese qilin, a flaming deer - the angel of the sun. "A winged one-horned animal is found on some seals from the Indus Valley Civilization. Seals with such a design are thought to be a mark of high social rank." Wikipedia More about the top of the cedar tree likened to the top of the palm tree. The fowl of every wing may include the phoenix. The top of the tree is where the fertile seeds are. The Phoenix is often depicted carrying the sun in its beak:
Ezekiel 17:22 "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch, of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top, of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it."
The eagle may be likened to the phoenix and Edom may have thought they could be as the phoenix:
Obadiah 1:4 "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence, will I bring thee down, saith the LORD."
The sun is a star and the nest of the phoenix is the sun.
Job 39:27 "Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?"
All of Job 39 could be describing the phoenix. Joshua was the only one who commanded the sun.
"May I rise, even I, in the seshet chamber like a hawk of gold coming forth from his egg..being mother of emerald of the south...may I alight on the atet boat and be brought to me those who are in their cycles with bowings their. May I rise, even I, and may I gather myself together like a hawk beautiful of gold with the head of the phoenix, entering to Ra.." The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.154. "Chapter of making the transformation into the bennu (phoenix). Saith Osiris, the scribe Ani, triumphant in peace: I came into being from unformed matter, I came into existence as Khepera (the night sun), I grew in the form of plants, I am hidden in the Tortoise. I am of the atoms of god every. I am yesterday this of the four, and uraei seven these which came into existence in the East. I am the mighty one, illuminating the hamemet by his body; god he is as Set. Thoth decided concerning them by judgment that of the dweller in Sekhem together with the spirits of Annu. Sailing among them I have come, I am crowned, I am glorious, I am mighty, I am strong among the gods. I am Khensu repulsing all. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.176. This of the four may be this sun miracle of the series of four. "I have been to the borders of the Ram, lord of Tattu. He granted that I might come forth as a bennu bird, that I might speak." The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.191. 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 wings of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
The earth has wings because the earth orbits the sun. That God could bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, this means it is God that moved the sun 180° around the earth and the sign the sun then in was 180° away from the sign it would normally be in that season and the sun progress against the 12 signs of the zodiac in reverse. Mazzaroth is "apparently from H5140 in the sense of raining; a constellation, that is, Zodiacal sign". Perhaps this was spring and the time of rain, perhaps this was the time of the Exodus and after the three days of darkness when the sun riseth not the zodiacal sign that would normally mark the season of rain was 180° away.
Job 38:19 "Where, is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where, is the place thereof,
20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?"
The star led the wisemen to the house where Jesus lay. And they worshipped him in the house. Since the New Testament worship has always been in a home.

"Job may be based on an earlier drama and not Israelite in origin." "All the other books written in this script, paleo-Hebrew, are among the books of Moses." The Dead Sea Scroll Bible Job's reference to the phoenix suggests earth was in a reverse orbit at the time.
Isaiah 41:14 "Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel."
Clement in the first century AD: "There is a certain bird which is called a Phoenix. This is the only one of its kind and lives five hundred years. And when the time of its dissolution draws near that it must die, it builds itself a nest of frankincense, myrrh, and other spices, into which, when the time is fulfilled, it enters and dies. But as the flesh decays a certain kind of worm is produced, which, being nourished by the juices of the dead bird, brings forth feathers..." See The Phoenix symbolism. That is, the phoenix is reborn that sunrise. This Hebrew word, Strong's 8438 "towla", for worm or maggot (Arabic qirmiz from which we get crimson, the Hebrew kheh-res as in Judges 8:13 means sun or red tile used for scraping) is a bright fire red worm used to color cloth for the tabernacle. This worm may have been likened to the bright red phoenix, and its rebirth. This is a wonderful picture of metamorphosis, of the resurrection where we receive a new body, the caterpillar becomes a butterfly. See the Chinese yin worm. Then the sun would be brightened that day in Judges 8:13 when the sun suddenly ascended. Brightened to a bright red. Thus the reference to a bright red tile rather than Shemesh the sun.
The sun standing still over the Pacific would not rise in the Middle East for 12 hours or 36 hours:
Job 9:7 "Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars"
Perhaps this discourse between Job and his three friends was written during the three days of darkness in the ninth plague of Egypt. There are some records of the stars not appearing when the sky was cloudless on this page, perhaps 12 hours of twilight. Possibly Job was recorded from the three days of darkness in Egypt, not twilight, perhaps March 28 1279 BC and Job be one of the early Israelite settlers. Nevertheless, this may be a separate sun miracle. Job lived 140 years after:
Job 42:16 "And after this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and sons' sons, even four generations."
- some 180 years of age or so in total. Then 140 years from 1279 BC is 1139 BC meaning Job would then have lived to the second Jubilee 1140-1139 BC.
There are 142 years from when Abraham went to offer up Isaac in 2512 BC to when Joseph was sold into Egypt in 2370 BC - this could point to both 140 years and 144 years. 240 years from the Exodus out of Egypt in 1279 BC to the building of the temple in 1039 BC the year of the Jubilee. Then the temple was built 100 years after Job.
The Jubilee was a time to regain what you had lost such as God gave back to Job.
Job 14:14 "If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands."
Fittingly Job may have lived to the Jubilee in 1140 BC when lands were to be returned and when Job's soul would return to God. "the chambers of the south" includes the star Sirius which was used by the Egyptians for their calendar and also for many Bible dates here. Earth may not have needed to shift in Moses' three days of darkness because 36 hours after earth would be in its normal orbit and normal orientation. When earth shifted more stars would be visible in the south, such as the bird constellation now called the Phoenix. "wonders without number" may refer in part to these many sun miracles. The "dayspring" "taking hold of the ends of the earth" may be the sun moving around the earth and earth being shaken. Only God can move the sun around the earth. God's purpose in sun miracles may be "that the wicked might be shaken out of the earth". This may be the Egyptians and the Pharaoh of Exodus that would not let the children of Israel go. The ends of the earth literally means the "wings of the earth". See Job 37:3, 38:13, Psalm 139:9, Isaiah 11:12, 24:16, Ezekiel 7:2. This language means the Hebrews understood the earth revolved around the sun. "the day spring to know his place" May mean the sun still rises in the east each day, even in a reverse orbit. Or perhaps the constellation the sun is in spring, Taurus. Or even the rising of the sun from the east in a reverse orbit/reverse zodiac being like the rising of the sun each day in the east. Luke 1:78 likens Jesus' coming to the brightness of the rising sun.
Matanga, a Buddhist, stopped the sun from rising, at his command, and bisected the moon. That is Matanga observed the sun did not rise, he did not command the sun. He also noticed sudden spring weather and trees beginning to bud in winter. If the sun moved 180° east to stand over the Pacific in winter, the sun would not rise in India and Israel for 12 hours and the northern hemisphere would suddenly have longer days like summer until earth turned back to the winter inclination to the sun. The moon must move 180° also to keep in the same phase. If the moon did not move at the same rate as the sun a full moon would become a new moon. Also the hidden side of the moon would be visible until the moon turned 180° to keep the same side facing earth.
Job 17:11 "My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness."
This could be earth shifting the 70° into the day after the three days of darkness of Moses making the day 4.6 hours shorter, a 6 hour day. Or perhaps this is the sun moving 180° west:
Job 5:14 "They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in night."
This could be the sun dimmed on a day like Joshua's long day February 25 1238 BC. Job 9:7 "Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars."
May mean they could not see the stars, or Arcturus, till the three days, 3X12 hours - 36 hours, of darkness were accomplished. Perhaps the sun traveled 180° west at noon on February 21 1279 BC stopped on the opposite side of earth to Egypt and traveled 540° east staying on the opposite side of earth to Egypt. After the 36 hours the sun would still be on the opposite side of earth to Egypt, and perhaps the stars appeared, with Arcturus appearing and rising in the east at 12AM. Arcturus may be star the wisemen followed to find the child Jesus.
Job 28:32 "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
God must have guided Arcturus through the centuries to be directly above Bethlehem before dawn in lambing season for the wisemen to follow when they and the shepherds found Jesus born.
Luke 2:7 "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings, of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which, is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16 And they came with haste and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger."
The shepherds watched the sheep because this was lambing season beginning when the grass began to grow in late January. Lambs were born in stalls to keep them warm. Perhaps this was what people thought was the song of the Phoenix:
Job 38:7 "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

Psalms

Psalm 36:9 "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light."
The sun is the light of day. When God moved the sun there was light.
82:5b "they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course (shaken)."
Perhaps earth out of course - earth in a reverse orbit and earth shaken. Perhaps the sun moved 180° to set suddenly and earth was left in darkness.
65:8 "They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice."
Tokens are evidence, omen, mark, miracle. sign. Thus signs of the sun have to do with the morning and evening.
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."
Psalm 104:1 "Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away."
This psalm nicely illustrates how the Chinese associated the glory of God with clouds hiding the brightness of the dragon.
104:5 "Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever."
Describes earth that cannot be shaken except by God. When God moved the sun 180° around the earth it was evident it was the sun that was removed, not the earth.
113:3 "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised."
See also Psalm 18 and 19.
Psalm 139:9 "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee."
For the sun to have wings it must move. Then the writer must have understood the sun moved at times and appreciated the great circumference of the earth and the distance of the sun from the earth. The sun was depicted there in Israel with the wings of the scarab dung beetle the phoenix, Bennu bird, not just for the every day sunrise. At times when "night shineth as the day" could be when the sun moved and night would be turned to day such as for Deborah/Barak/Gideon when the sun rose in the west at midnight. "Golden of limbs, blue of head, emerald upon both of his sides. An million of years, extended of body, beautiful of face in Tasert! Give thou splendour in heaven, might on earth, triumph in Neter-khert, sailing down to Tettetu as a soul living, sailing up to Abydos as a phoenix, going in coming out without being repulsed at the pylons all of the Tuat,.."The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.10. "I am bennu that which is in Heliopolis. I am the keeper of the book of that which is, and that which shall be." .."His plumes upon his head are the going of Isis and Nephthys to place themselves on his head, they being in the form of protectresses, they provide that which lacks his head; otherwise said, the two uraei great exceedingly are they upon the head of their father.The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.31. The two plumes of the Bennu thus described. "Or as others say, His two eyes are the two plumes."

Amos 765 - 750 BC

1:1b "...in the days of Uzziah... two years before the earthquake."
4:13 "For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name."
5:5 "Saying, When will the new moon be gone,.."
A new moon required a doubling of the daily sacrifices.
5:8 "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:"
God asked the people to seek him, to seek the true God. Only God could turn the shadow of death into morning (the resurrection) and make the day dark with night, Amos 8:9, and he proved it.
Isaiah 16:3 "Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Also, when the sun was darkened for three hours:
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."
- at noon when Jesus was crucified the stars would come out, and to the sun's lower right would appear Orion and to the sun's upper right, Pleiades (the seven stars). - see image The Pleiades would appear directly above, at 75° almost 90°. Perhaps this was a picture of God pulling back the curtain to reveal a glimpse of the heavenly prize, the image of God's Son. Thus the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Job 38:31, is rather the sweet influence of Jesus' life unto eternal life than the sweet smell of spring flowers. The savour of Christ. Likewise, to "loose the bands of Orion" speaks of Jesus' resurrection when he loosed the bands of death. Arcturus rose in the east at sunset and would be in the night sky at Jesus' resurrection Saturday night/Sunday morning. The darkness could not have been from a solar eclipse as the Passover was on the 14th day of the moon, 15 days away from any possible eclipse. Some sources from this time describe a solar eclipse on a full moon when the stars came out.
5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
8:8 "Shall not the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast down and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."
8:9 "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth on the clear day:"
The day Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven in the plague of darkness in Egypt, Exodus 10:22, perhaps at noon also, about March 31 1279 BC the sun also went down, the sun suddenly setting at noon in Egypt for the three days of darkness of Exodus.
About 826 BC in the Chinese Classics there was probably a sun miracle. This is about when king Amaziah of Judah turned from God to worship the gods of Edom. This is also about the year king Joash of Israel died.
"Note: The great drought had continued so long, that all the huts were burnt up. When king Fun died, they consulted by the tortoise-shell the spirit of the sun, and were answered that Le had been done to death by some montrous thing." The Chinese Classics III. p.154
863 BC: "In his 7th year there were great rain and lightnings about the Keang and the Han; and oxen and horses died." The Chinese Classics III. p.152
854 BC: "In winter, there was a storm of hail as large as whetstones." The Chinese Classics III. p.152
363 BC: "In his 5th year, it rained peih stones in Ching. Some ground there suddenly became longer by 100 cubits and more, and higher by a cubit and a half." The Chinese Classics III. p.171

2 Chronicles 26:5 "And he (Uzziah) sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper."
This would include the period 803 BC - 780 BC of severe drought and other weather changes in China as the Chinese recorded in the Chinese Classics. Sun miracles often coincide with weather changes. Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign about 801 BC to 748 BC and Jeroboam II, king of Israel, from about 786 BC. (Differing dates may mean Uzziah and Jeroboam II began their reign 30 years earlier) Mount K'e, on which phoenixes collected about 50 years after Joshua's long day, collapsed in 781 BC when there was an eclipse of the sun June 4 - there is no year zero so the total eclipse that just missed China was in 781 BC. Eclipses do not cause earthquakes but sun miracles may. Qi is the same as K'e. Here is a large picture of a mountain in southwest China at the International Super House in Beijing, perhaps like this Mount K'e which collapsed. Emperors often changed on a sun miracle and Yew became the new emperor. This was in the time of Jonah. Perhaps the recorded eclipse was one of the series of four sun miracles of Jonah's long day, perhaps 781 BC. Rome in legend was founded on an eclipse April 21 753 BC. However, archaeologically Rome may have been founded about 775 BC. The eagle of Augustus depicted in the center of the ceiling of Romulus depicting the founding of Rome may depict the phoenix. The Western Chinese Zhou dynasty fell in 771 BC also a possible date of a sun miracle because upon the sign of a sun miracle the Chinese often changed emperors. This may have been about when Zechariah was made king of Israel and one of these may be the sun miracle of Amos when the sun went down at noon. "In first days of the next summer there was an eclipse of the sun at the time of new moon, and in the early part of the same month an earthquake." The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides written 431 B.C. This eclipse was not visible for most of Europe, only Portugal and Britain. The path of totality is only in the Atlantic Ocean. There is a possibility this eclipse record was rather a sun miracle that generated the earthquake also. 431 BC was in the time of Malachi when he wrote:
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 skip about as a calf of the stall."
If the sun moved 180° at just under the speed of light, the sun could fall from the noon position to the horizen in 10 minutes. Then there most likely would be an earthquake such as when the curtains of the Midianites trembled at the time of Joshua's long day or Gideon's western sunrise. The Hebrew word for noon is "dual double light". The sun is twice as bright at the zenith than at the horizen. Also, if the sun traveled east the sun must be dimmed considerably and set within half an hour perhaps travelling 1/3 the speed of light, 200 million miles per hour. The sun stood still at noon for Joshua a double meaning - "the sun stood still from the half of heaven": the sun stood still in the sky and the sun moved to the other half of heaven while earth continued to rotate. Then this depicts the sun setting suddenly in the east or west, probably the east, at noon. "the sun was brought down at noon" WIC If the sun moved 180° west from noon on Israel it would suddenly appear on the eastern horizen of China. Thus China would experience no night, sunset followed by sunrise. If this happened on the equinox earth would not need to turn to keep in the same season. Some suggest this new moon indicated an eclipse. However, the sun moving 180° with the moon is more hidden when the moon is not seen moving also. A year or 6 months, or multiples thereof, later on exactly the same day the sun must have moved 180° west or east to set suddenly in the west or east, to make "the day dark with night" then "to turn the shadow of death into the morning" and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. Perhaps Amos prophesied the sun would go down at noon two years later, about 748 BC, perhaps at the time of Uzziah's death, and earth flowed into or out of a reverse orbit.
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."
This earthquake may have been when Uzziah died. Then this sun miracle may have occurred in 748 BC. Chinese kings often fell when their was a sun miracle not even meant for them. However, this sun miracle was meant for Uzziah.
Rome is said to have been founded about 753 BC in spring on the day of an eclipse also recorded by the Greeks. Very likely this was a sun miracle, perhaps the sun going down suddenly at noon, notably in spring, perhaps April 21 - the end of the week of unleavened bread after the Passover. Isaiah began to prophesy just before Uzziah died about 748 BC and Jotham began to reign. The ancient record of an "eclipse 763 B.C. or 791 B.C." may have been mistaken for the sun setting suddenly in the west or the east for Amos, perhaps on the founding of Rome April 21 753 BC. The Hebrew word, "bow", for to go down means just that, to set. Notice the earthquake in Amos 8:8, perhaps a result of the sun moving around the earth on this day. And a flood, perhaps a change in weather from a reverse orbit.
Isaiah 5:30 "And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof."
Literally "the light is darkened dropping at the horizon." That is, the sun must have set at noon in the eastern or western horizon. If the sun moved 180° east to set suddenly at noon, the sun must be darkened to keep the same daily coral line, brightened if the sun travelled 180° west. This verse is just before Uzziah died Isaiah 6:1. A short day for Amos, Ahaz, then a very long morning for Hezekiah perhaps +12 hours or 3X10 hrs long , then a short day at Hezekiah's death and earth must have flowed into and out of and into and out of a reverse orbit and the zodiac must have been brought in line again. This March 23 687 BC was a clear day so the sudden sunset should have been visible. Perhaps the light from the stars was not visible even though it was clear such as would be necessary for Moses' three days of darkness. See also Zechariah 14:6 and this 687 BC Chinese description. Notice the rain in Amos 5:8 and 8:8 and the drought in Amos 1:2. God must intervene to give rain to the earth in a reverse orbit because the weather systems would be affected.

Micah

1:1b "Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah,"
3:6 "Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them."

Nahum

1:4 "He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein."
This could be the sun moving 180° and the earth shaking and the weather changed. ?640 BC.

Haggai

2:6 "For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts."
Zechariah 14:6 where there was a long sunset, long twilight, could be the sun moving 180° east, when the second temple was finished the third day of the moon about February 8 504 BC, and be the fulfillment of this verse. Thus the twilight could not have been the moon because the moon would set right after the sun. More reason for the Chinese to have expected to see the Milky Way on a new moon and if cloudless they should have seen it. We just don't see the Milky Way often because of all the light pollution they did not have. Haggai prophesied in the time of Zechariah, about 510 BC, when the second temple was being finished.

Zechariah 510 - 470 BC.

This could be accomplished if the sun moved 180° to stay in the twilight position on Israel for 12 hours. This earthquake of Uzziah is the same one as mentioned in Amos 1:1. See Amos 8:8, Exodus 15:15, Judges 5:4a, Habakkuk 3:7, 3:10a, Haggai 2:7, Psalm 18:7, Job 9:6. Also the earthquake recorded at the end of Hwang-te's 100 year reign possibly at the same time Che ascended there was an "auspicious omen of phoenixes", the beginning of the Shang dynasty Emperor T'ang's rise, and at the end of the Shang dynasty, Emperor Kwei. And Phaethon.
14:5b "ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah:
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light."

9 "And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one."
This verse 9 may depict the dedication of the second temple. Verse 7 may read "and there shall be for one day cold and frost" according to the Septuagint. A 12 hours long sunset, +12 hours if the sun moved 180° +4 hours if this was February and earth shifted that day or + 2 hours for an August twilight sunset that night in February. There is the possibility this was not a sun miracle but rather the Glory of God gave light that night so it was neither day nor night. Clear and no clouds and it would get cold by morning. Israel began their day with sunset, see Genesis 1. This earthquake of Uzziah must have been at the time of a sun miracle in his lifetime. Velikovsky wrote that Amos may have experienced the sun miracle and in Amos 8:9 prophesied of another one.
Amos 8:10 "And all the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up (ram) and inhabited in its place."
The shadows would be lengthened to level like a plain. From these same hills John straightly pointed people to Jesus.
This earthquake of Zechariah must also be the earthquake of Haggai:
Haggai 2:6 "For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts."
Nehemiah 4:21 "So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared."
Perhaps 60 years before Nehemiah in Haggai and Zechariah's day they worked on the temple from 525 BC to its dedication in 504 BC, 2000 years after Abraham went to offer Isaac on that very spot, till the stars appeared, only on this day the stars did not appear and the earth stayed in twilight. And perhaps the earth shook as the sun moved around the earth.
Ezra 6:15 "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king."
Darius began his reign in 519 BC when he ascended the throne of Persia. He became emperor in stages from 522 BC to 519 BC. However, this commonly accepted chronology is 10 years to far back. Then Darius began his reign rather in 509 BC. Then Darius died in 477 BC and Xerxes began to reign. Because the 20th year of Xerxes must be 458 BC. 490 years from 458 BC is Jesus' crucifixion on April 3 33 AD. Thus the second temple may have been finished February 8 504 BC. Perhaps this was the night in 504 BC the Chinese recorded that the Milky Way did not appear. The sky needs to be completely dark to see the Milky Way and after the moon set about 8PM February 8 504 BC the Chinese should have been able to see the Milky Way if the sky was clear. Unless the moon did not set. Such as would happen if the sun stood still after sunset on Israel, the first quarter moon still shining on China. However, on a new moon the sun standing still after sunset there would not be anything visible in the sky and is more likely. That is, if the sun and moon moved 180° east to stand still in the sky. The midnight sky in China may also have been light thus they could not see the milky way. Such would be the case if the sun moved 180° east to stand still below the western horizen of the Temple perhaps February 4 when the moon was not visible. China would see the glow of the sun as it moved up north as the sun moved 180° along the ecliptic plane - a February sky becoming a June summer solstice sky 8 hours later to an August sky 12 hours later while the sun stood still over the Atlantic. Till earth shifted on its axis to keep in the same season. Thus at this point at midnight the sky would be too bright to see the Milky Way. Some attribute Zechariah 9-14 to 480 BC. Perhaps the second sun miracle was about 480 BC and Zechariah 14 describes the second sun miracle. The prophesy of the sun miracle in Zechariah 14 may have been fulfilled when Israel was occupied by the Greeks in 312 BC the year the shadow of the gnomon lengthened 10 cubits and rose a cubit in China or the sun miracle in China in 165 BC just after the temple was taken over by the Greeks. Sun miracles come in pairs for earth to flow into and out of the reverse orbit. Like the sun retreated to the meridian in China in 163 BC when the temple was rededicated just after the sun miracle in China in 165 BC. There was a phoenix recorded in Amasis II time 569 BC - 525 BC, perhaps the unicorn of Confucius' mother in 551 BC although there was a partial solar eclipse visible from there that year.
Esther 8:16 may describe a long day February/March 469 BC giving the Jews 12 more hours of daylight in which to get the victory over their enemies:
Esther 8:9a "Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof;"
Esther 8:11a "Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life..
12 Upon one day in all the provinces of Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the same month, which is the month Adar."
Esther 8:16 "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour."
That they had light possibly means the sun moved 180° to stand still in the sky giving 12 hours more light. This was about the time the sun rose in the west in China for Lu Yang. The sun retreating to the eastern horizen in Persia would be rising in the western horizen in China and could also give 12 hours more daylight to Persia and several more hours to China. Perhaps on this day:
Esther 9:17 "On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness."
Esther 9:18 "But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof; and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness."
That God made light that day, perhaps a longer day, reflects the first thing God said in Genesis 1:3 "Let there be light".
Esther 8:9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof;"
This would be just after the feast of Pentecost. Esther may have been Amestris, a like Jewish name Estrin is believed to have come from this time. The sun perhaps moving 180° east to stand still in the Persian sky would be setting in China. The Persians called the phoenix the Simurgh.
Ezra 6:15 "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king."
The temple was finished in 504 BC. Thus, the month of Adar was important to the Jews some thirty years later in the time of Esther.
The unicorn Confucius recorded in his old age, perhaps 480 BC - he was born in 550 BC and died in 479 BC may have been one of the four beasts before God's throne, the ox or calf or unicorn with a crown. However, there was a solar eclipse in China in 480 BC. There are a number of sun miracles or eclipses recorded in 480 BC. The Jubilee must have been soon after in 470 BC:
Esther 10:3 "For Mordecai the Jew was next unto the king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed."
Mordecai may have preached the acceptable year of the Lord, Isaiah 61:1 on the jublile in September following their victory on the 13, 14, 15 of Adar in March. Isaiah 61:1 may have been spoken and written in the book of Isaiah on the Jubilee 690 BC. The Jubilee would be when Jesus would come and deliver, as Mordecai did. Jesus' life was the only acceptable life to God. The only one who can deliver us from death.

Matthew 23:35 "That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar."
II Chronicles 24:20 "And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done unto him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it."
This would be around 850 BC. "Yet the disturbances of nature recorded by various ancient traditions, and dated by virtually all of them to the 9th and 8th centuries BC". There was in King Le's 22nd year, 856 BC, a great drought to the 26th year. And in 827 BC, In King Seuen's 25th year there was a great drought also in China.

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 skip about as a calf of the stall."

Septuagint Malachi 4:2b "and ye shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds."
That is, you shall go forth as the sun goes forth. Being released from a "stall", reserved seat in a synagogue, to a seat under the sound of the Gospel. Perhaps as the sun moved out of its "stall". How can the sun have wings unless it moves? A seal from a young Israelite girl shows a bull and a winged symbol representing the sun. Bible Lands The sun may have wings because they understood God moved the sun to help his people. Perhaps they had seen the angel move the sun then at Joshua's long day. The dove may be a type of the phoenix, a small head, elegant, with a relatively large breast. Like the dove that returned to Noah the phoenix is a type of divine service and obedience to God. A type of the humility of Christ with a large heart of love. Malachi was written about the year of the Jubilee 420 BC, thus the significance of the calf being let loose from the stall both for sacrifice and for liberty. Also, one of the four beasts before God's throne was like a calf and seen when there was a sun miracle.
"In the spring of the 27th year (489 BC), Wu launched an expedition against Ch'en, and king Chao came to its rescue, camping his troops at Ch'eng-fu. In the tenth month, King Chao fell ill in the camp. There were red clouds resembling birds which flew on both sides of the sun. King Chao asked the Grand Scribe of Chou about it. "This presages harm to the King of Ch'u. However it can be shifted to the General and Prime Minister." King Chao consented not. The Ho (Yellow River) excercised evil influence on him. Confucious was in Ch'en. When he heard these words, he said, "King Chao of Ch'u understands the great way. It is appropriate that he does not lose his state." The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume V.1, p.416. That so much was made of some red clouds is significant. Probably these were not clouds. These may be the phoenixes moving the sun. Thus Malachi could write about the wings of the Sun. This occurred in 489 BC when perhaps there was a sun miracle countering the sun miracle of 491 BC. There probably were sun miracles in 480 BC, 470 BC and possibly in 442 BC. Thus Malachi may have seen the wings of the sun in 442 BC and wrote of it in 420 BC. Even there may have been a sun miracle at the jubile in 420 BC that inspired Malachi to write thus.
Matthew 23:37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"

Depictions of the Phoenix and Dragon

The sun depicted in the Dendera Zodiac in Pisces may have wings - meant to be viewed on its side - rather than a fish. In this solar disk: "An eclipse of the Sun is symbolized by a disk within which a goddess is pulling the tail of a baboon, which signifies that she is trying to liberate the Sun." - You can see the woman inside the sun behind the baboon depicted on the Dendera Zodiac: The Egyptian Bennu bird, the phoenix (click for full Dendera Zodiac) may have been visible, or at least imagined, carrying the sun in its talons to or from Pisces. This angel in the sun is a million miles tall! The woman depicted inside the sun may have looked like the legs of an Heron in the Egyptian Bennu Bird/phoenix. The body of the Heron likened to this phoenix or Bennu bird on top of the sun. The Heron flies with its head close to its chest. Perhaps the angel of the sun, or phoenix, looked like a fish. With so many sun miracles near the spring equinox in Pisces this may be where Pisces got its name. Perhaps Lu Yang was thus named after this event. Lu = fish, Yang = sun. The Native American Indians of the Pacific Northwest had many legends of the Thunderbird, the phoenix, and some also of Kolus. "Kolus, as depicted on totem poles, was another supernatural bird, which like the Thunderbird, also has tufts on its head, but instead of curling they are straight and horizontal. A Kwakiutl crest, Kulos is described as being covered with dazzling white down that causes him to become greatly overheated. To overcome this he can remove his coat of down, revealing his human image. Like the Thunderbird Kulos is endowed with great strength. He is credited with lifting into place house beams too heavy for humans to raise and with moving house frames into position." Looking at Totem Poles, Hilary Stewart, p.34 "It (the K'un/the roe fish) changes and makes himself into a bird: its name is called P'ung the roc. P'ung's back being so huge we do not know its measure, how many thousand li it is"; has (in its ideographic panorama) a simultaneous interplay with "niao" ("bird"). "At once its name is given, "P'ung, meaning a bird (niao, ALONE) -> WITH FRIENDS (p'ung). It is alone but not lonely, the Yang-correlate of the Yin- fish." roc means enormous bird of legend able to carry off large animals often depicted in Arabic legends such as in Sinbad. P'eng was a great mythical bird. There were ostriches in ancient China. Ostriches looked like baby birds. So you can imagine how big an adult ostrich would be. Ancient people knew the sun was far away. Further away than the moon. So they could imagine how big an angel the size of the sun must be when they saw this angel move the sun. You can see two characters for moon on the left of the bird that may have to do with celestial things. Yin fish may mean moon fish as in the fish above the moon in this Dendera Zodiac beside the sun also with a fish on top of it. Pan also was sometimes a fish. "The constellation Capricornus is often depicted as a sea-goat, a goat with a fish's tail: see Aigaion or Briareos, one of the Hecatonchires. One myth that would seem to be invented to justify a connection of Pan with Capricorn says that when Aigipan, that is Pan in his goat-god aspect, was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dove into the Nile; the parts above the water remained a goat, but those under the water transformed into a fish." Wikipedia Thus Pan may be like qilin, unicorn or deer or the E-goat. The phoenix was sometimes depicted by both the Chinese and the Egyptians to look like a fish on top of the sun. When in about 169 AD it was said Great Pan is dead some think this was Sirius as in Hamlet's Mill. Because Sirius had ceased to mark the last Sothis cycle about this time. However, the last phoenix recorded was the Bennu bird with a halo depicted on a Roman coin from Alexandria in 169 BC at the end of the last sothis cycle. However, the angel of the sun is very much alive.
The Chinese phoenix depicted in oracle bones - and the Chinese dragon - The dragon and phoenix in oracle bones are from pictographs depicting exactly what they saw. Note on the head it looks like a crown suggesting a deity: That character is "shen" in Mandarin, pronounced as the English word "shun", and means: to state/express/instruct,/surname, and if you combine it with the character "shi" it becomes "shen" (the same pronounciation "shun") for "god/deity". And judging from the picture, I should say, the meaning of the symbol "shen" is not a surname but an abbreviation of the word "shen" for "god/goddess/deity" Actually in the most ancient character found on the turtle shell, called Jia Gu Wen, around 3500 years old or during the time of Shang Dynasty, the second dynasty of China, the character is originally a pair of hands picking up one person represented by that vertical line in the middle. In other words, "the first person was made by God, who picked him up from the ground." The phoenix was likened to a rooster with its comb. The horn of the unicorn and the comb of the rooster may be the same thing, that is, that may be what they saw. The Egyptian phoenix the bennu bird is depicted with a crest of two feathers from the back of its head and a long beak. Sometimes the Egyptians depicted the phoenix as the eagle. In the Bible the eagle can be the phoenix. The Lord's prayer in Chinese Image from Wikipedia reads the kingdom, the power and the glory - where you can see the character "shi" on top of the character for you, that is deity thy - thy kingdom. The glory was symbolized by Joshua's long day when the sun stood still in the middle of the sky. The Egyptian Bennu bird was a Heron. What appears above the fish on the sun in Pisces in writing if I have this correct, says: Cot, fish, the congregation, or company of. Orion, Him who cometh (Arab. form, or formative of the noun), wayfaring men. Hori, of Horus, Him who cometh." Horus was like the Bennu bird the Creator. And if I can make out the picture it looks like a man on the throne to the right of the writing and above the fish on the sun. The Chinese character for God Shangdi is an emperor on the throne. Then this may be a partial view perhaps of God, the head of the Bennu bird like the long neck of the Heron. A Heron depicted on the back of a turtle in this bronze sculpture from the Hunan Provincial Museum means long life because the Phoenix/Heron never dies and the turtle together with the deer/unicorn mean long life. While in Hunan and Beijing our prayers were answered and we finalized our adoption and were refreshed. The Chinese writing that goes with it is all about the sun and moon; "Husband and wife love to permanent, Elegant The all and the one. The sign of the Turtle never gets old, lasts forever. Just like my love. That is the phoenix. The phoenix never dies. , emperor, is included in the Chinese character for phoenix. Picture one and picture two of the heron on turtle. "A beautiful woman in white dress in the morning" - could refer to an angel at the sun or moon:

The Luan was the king of birds, the phoenix.
The male and female phoenix, the Feng and Luan. "The feng and huang are in a cage, while fowl and pheasant soar freely about." "The times you met were inopportune, Luan and feng birds hunched down and hid away, While owls soared on high!""The feng whirls and mounts on high. He will surely retire and go far away..The feng and huang soar a thousand jen, When they observe virtue shining, they land there. Where they see the dangerous signs of little virtue They flap their wings faster and leave it." The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume VII, p.300 - p. 304.
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."
The phoenix: "Sovereign of all birds, it has the head of the golden pheasant, the beak of the parrot, the body of the mandarin duck, the wings of the roc, the feathers of the peacock and the legs of the crane; gloriously beautiful, it reigns over the feathered world." These Chinese characters for the mandarin duck, Yuanyang, were also for Man and Woman and marriage and were also for the phoenix. The phoenix symbolized the union of the Yin and Yang, the union of Man and Woman.
Just as depicted in this circle of life, a man from birth together with his umbilical cord and these same figures carried over from ancient China to North America. The head of the Heron in the Dendera Zodiac is visible like one on the throne:
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."
The Chinese may have seen this figure above the phoenix on the sun and correctly worshiped God, as they also depicted him on the throne - Shangdi. You can see the sun disk and phoenix on the upper left of this image. Thus the Egyptian Heron and the Chinese peacock were likened to the phoenix: "The Fenghuang, Feng = male and Huang = female, is said to be made up of the beak of a cock, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the back of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a fish. Its body symbolizes the six celestial bodies. The head is the sky, the eyes are the sun, the back is the moon, the wings are the wind, the feet are the earth, and the tail are the planets. Its feathers contain the five fundamental colors: black, white, red, blue and yellow." Wikipedia See the FengHuang. The Chinese phoenix was very colorful, as was the dragon. "The people paint the dragon's shape with a horse's head and a snake's tail. Further, there are expressions as 'three joints' and 'nine resemblances' (of the dragon), to wit: from head to shoulder, from shoulder to breast, from breast to tail. These are the joints; as to the nine resemblances, they are the following: his horns resemble those of a stag, his head that of a camel, his eyes those of a demon, his neck that of a snake, his belly that of a clam, his scales those of a carp, his claws those of an eagle, his soles those of a tiger, his ears those of a cow. Upon his head he has a thing like a broad eminence (a big lump), called [chimu]. If a dragon has no [chimu], he cannot ascend to the sky." Wikipedia You can see them change color with the heat in this hot Chinese tea cup in the Spring Tea Art House in Beijing - from Jing De Zhen "The China-ware Capital". You can see the eyes of the phoenix depicted in the denderah zodiac. Likewise the moon with the sun in Pisces is depicted with the other fish of Pisces on top of it. There is the possibility this is rocket propulsion propelling the sun around the earth, 10 E 45 Newtons worth of force. God moving the sun around the earth does not take rocket science to understand. Nevetheless, God moved the sun so skillfully He left no evidence for scientists to find. The fish constellation Pisces first appeared in Egypt in 2350 BC, perhaps depicting the large fish of the seven years of plenty of Joseph after the sun and moon moved 180° from Pisces to Virgo March 31 2357 BC. The moon was with the sun near Pisces on Joseph's/Yao's long day simularily depicted on the Dendera Zodiac. The sun must have moved 180° east from Aquarius/Pisces for Joshua's long day and probably moved from Aquarius/Pisces 186 days later. The phoenix that carried the sun 180° in king Wan's dream is readily visible as the Feng bird, note the long tail in this oracle bone character for phoenix - - same as the long tail of the dragon - , like the long tail of the unicorn/q'lin. The first character is bird, Feng, specifically the phoenix or green dragon. The phoenix was sometimes green. Then the many green jade phoenixes the Chinese carved since 5000 BC may represent this green phoenix. Sometimes they used a yellow/red jade to depict the phoenix. Nevertheless the rainbow of the dragon is depicted with a dragon at each end. This emerald green or azure rainbow may have been the origin of the green phoenix. Jade was the symbol of purity. Jade represents the real thing and seeing the phoenix is seeing the real thing. Perhaps why there are so many jade phoenixes. "Long ago, the Yellow Emperor governed all under Heaven with tender strength (2698 BC)...Male and female phoenixes swirled over the court-yard and the Unicorn wandered in the countryside. The green dragon took flight to where the yellow bend becomes Northern black..." Huai-nan tzu translated by Tom Jackson The second character looks like the white dragon over King, the divine phoenix. Together they mean phoenix. The character Huang means emperor or perhaps more often empress. Thus the two characters mean male and female phoenixes. "A many-colored and large mythologyical bird, the luan sometimes appear in early literature paired with the female huang, that is, in the place of the male feng; but it also appears in several compounds paired with the male feng (in the place of the female huang)." Gendered Persona And Poetic Voice: The Abandoned Woman In Early Chinese Song. You can see the depiction of the male and female phoenix from 2648 BC as the Feng phoenix and the Luan phoenix - The Chinese character for the Feng bird looks almost the same as the character for wind: Ancient characters for dragon depicted position of the moon with a dragon on the right with an open mouth . Lui Pang was said to exhibit the characteristics of a dragon which typified the emperor. There also may have been a sun miracle in November of 203 when Lui Pang defeated his opposition at the Xiang River and became emperor. Thus Lui Pang may have felt he descended from the dragon. When the sun moved the moon must move also. In a solar eclipse the Chinese depicted the dragon ate the moon. The dragon is also associated with sun miracles with the phoenix. "Chinese classics had mentioned two dragon-related clans, i.e., the Huan-long-shi clan during Lord Shun's reign and the Yu-long-shi clan during Xia Dynasty. Here, 'huan' meant for raising or husbandry, 'yu4' meant for driving or controlling, while 'long' meant for dragon. The dragon-totem Xia people were overthrown by the bird-totem [i.e., phoenix] Dong-yi people, i.e., the Shang people". You can see the dragon and phoenix totems respectively on the sides of the stairway to the the temple of heaven and a look inside the temple of heaven in Beijing. The dragon symbolized the male phoenix and the fenghuang the female phoenix:

In legend one was able to sometimes get a fleeting glimpse of the dragon in the sky. Perhaps what they saw was an angel moving the sun around the earth and they had to look away or get blinded by the sun. Ancient people looked right at the sun to record partial solar eclipses, sometimes through a chalcedony stone. The 28 lunar mansions are called the Fengshui. You can see the word for wind which looks like the Feng bird depicting the lunar zodiac - . Thus Yao's lunar zodiac from 2350 BC is named after the wind, the four winds, perhaps the Feng bird/phoenix, the raven that carried the sun in many ancient legends. Job 29:18 describes the phoenix as whirling particles, sand, possibly from the strong winds when there was a sun miracle or "Hol" was the sound for the name of the phoenix. King Wan's dream recounts the strong wind on a similar sun miracle to Joshua's long day from China. God must have an angel at the sun and perhaps one on the moon also, perhaps what the Egyptians tried to depict on the Denderah Zodiac. The sphinx faces the east, perhaps looking for the sun to finally rise after a long night such as Moses' three days of darkness in Egypt. Harmakhet, a variant of Horus, the god of the eastern sun is thought to have been represented by the sphinx. The sphinx with a human head and lion body may depict one of the four beasts before God's throne, Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4. All four of these beasts have been described in legends about sun miracles. A good study is to read about these four beasts in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4, then look up ancient mythological creatures and see the similarities. There are too many similarities. Some of these creatures must have been seen, perhaps when there was a sun miracle. The phoenix with the likeness of an eagle may depict another one. The Bennu bird and the Feng bird were similarly depicted as a Heron and the likeness of a Heron. The ancient Chinese phoenix looked like the ostrich which was plentiful in prehistoric China and looks similar to the heron today. Egyptians made carvings of the ostrich in the canal leading from the obelisk-sculpting quarry to the Nile River. Perhaps the ostrich was connected to the Bennu bird in the minds of these quarry workers. In the Hunan Provincial Museum gift shop in China there are bronze figurines of a heron on a turtle. The turtle means long life. The Heron may mean the phoenix. The Chinese phoenix never dies. Thus the connection with the Chinese heron and the Egyptian heron and the phoenix. Sometimes the Chinese phoenix is described as the fire crane. A heron is a crane. Some dispute the connection. Nevertheless, this sun bird is depicted both by the Chinese and Egyptians as carrying the sun when there was a sun miracle in the similtude of a heron. Howbeit, sometimes the Chinese phoenix looks like an eagle. The Bible describes the phoenix as an eagle. The Egyptians looked through amethyst (very dangerous, use double welder's glass) to study the sun. Rare Canaanite Purple Amethyst Scarab 4000 years old depicts the sun. Perhaps they saw something or imagined a bird carried the sun the 180°. In this direction the sun is travelling east, perhaps standing still in the sky and thus affording time to be viewed thus. The Chinese recorded the male and female phoenixes appearing when there was a sun miracle. The male stands for the sun, the female for the moon. The sun is Yang and the moon is Yin. Thus the famous Yin Yang may have a deeper meaning. "The sun's messenger and herald of peace that could always be seen flying high in the sky when a new Emperor ascended the thrown." Thus the phoenix must have been visible. Perhaps the other fish above the disc with the eye in Pisces is a phoenix on the moon. You can see the eye of the phoenix and his long tail at the temple of heaven in Beijing. Possibly they understood God moved the sun:
Psalm 19:4b "In them he has pitched a tent for the sun,
5 which is like a bridegroom coming from his wedding canopy, like a strong man to run his course." - The Dead Sea Scroll Bible
And Judges 5:31b "but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might."

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Chinese records of sun miracles

"In his 10th year, the five planets went out of their courses. In the night, stars fell like rain. The earth shook. The E and Loh became dry."
Another translation: "In the 10th year of Emperor Gui of Xia the five planets moved in criss-cross fashion; in the middle of the night stars fell like rain and the earth quaked."
- Chinese emperor Kwei's 10th year was 1807 BC: If the sun moved 180°,the planets must move with it to appear in the sky like normal. (5 stars are the 5 visible planets) Then each planet must have been individually moved, the outer planet Saturn at one third the speed of light. After the planets moved the 180° the planets must stop and reverse their orbits. For the planets to appear in the night sky at the time they normally would, the outer planets must move very fast - Saturn a 1.2 million mph and the inner planets the same speed as normal just in reverse. This because planets earth was catching up with in a normal orbit would be distancing from in earth's reverse orbit necessitating extreme speeds of the outer planets to maintain the semblance of normality. Likewise when the sun moved back half a year or a year or multiples thereof later, all the planets would be 180° away from where they should be and move 180° around the earth with the sun when it moved back, always staying in their same relative position to one another. Thus the planets would appear in their season the same distance from the sun as they would have had in the reverse orbit. Then the background stars would be totally different and the reverse action against the stars very quick and striking and the stars would not mark the normal movement of the planets. Thus, the planets would go out of course. A long night in China, a long day in the west, would make it possible to see a 360° night sky including all 5 visible planets. Half of the stars of the sky would repeat before the dawn. All planets must reverse their orbits against the stars. The visible planets must move 180°. If the planets did not reverse, did not move 180°, their appearing in the night sky would be very different. This observation of "the planets going the wrong way" and Wen-tze: "the five planets will lose their order" is evidence for these reverse orbits and perhaps evidence that at times the planets did not maintain their order. That is at times, after moving 180° with the sun they reversed so as to appear at the same O'clock time in their season. Yes, the Chinese would have noticed if the planets moved 180°. They did notice and they did record it. Just as they did on Joshua's long day as seen from China. The planets appeared to stand still in the long sunset as they moved 180° from Taurus to Scorpius. To them both nights the planets were going the wrong way. The E and Loh were rivers. That they dried up during earth's reverse orbit is to be expected. The weather change on earth could be from triggered solar activity as well as the 8 minute shorter day in the reverse orbit. "stars fell like rain" could be from meteors now in earth's path. The character for earth means "earth in correlation to heaven", that is, this was not a normal earthquake. The emperor Fah died in his seventh year and mount T'ae shook, just before Kwei became emperor in 1817 BC - suggests a sun miracle then. 1817 BC - 969 - 144 = 704 BC (705 BC) when the sun reversed for king Hezekiah, 700 years before the birth of Christ. The Egyptians believed when there was an earthquake their god smote both hands together striking the earth. That is, they believed in an outer force such as a sun miracle to cause an earthquake. The moon must move 180° also, who's gravity should cause earthquakes, flooding and volcanic activity. Like sun miracles can be associated with flooding in Yao's 73rd year, 2283 BC. Volcanic activity can be associated with volcanic Crete and its mount Ida in the story of Phaethon. The recent fires in Greece, August 2007, following drought and a heat wave may have been similar to the fires of Phaethon perhaps during the seven years famine in Egypt and region 2350 BC to 2345 BC. Drought sometimes followed a sun miracle such as followed the same set of sun miracles in China when Yao was made emperor. Even the day may appear normal and still earth flow out of or into a reverse orbit. If the sun moved 180° east near the summer or winter solstice, such as January 26 2287 BC, and earth shifted 180° counterclockwise at the same time the stars would appear to travel 2 times faster west on the night side of earth, yet the sun would appear to move like it normally does east to west with just a slight variation depending on where you the observer are on earth. Thus the sun can move 180° around the earth and earth flow into or out of a reverse orbit with very little noticeable difference from a normal day. Only, stars may seem "to fall".


"(In the 29th year of the emperor Kwei, 1788 BC) "the forces of Shang took Koo, 3 suns appeared together in the sky."
- Perhaps the sun moved 180° on Kwei's long night then 180° or 540° 19 years later and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. Sometimes there appear to be three suns in the sky when the sun is at the horizon, called sun dogs. I just saw sun dogs for the first time in the Okanagan, November 7 2005 at 1:45 PM -6° C. This picture by James Edgar in the Royal Canadian Astronomical Journal for February 2008 in winter at -19° C shows what appear to be three suns at sunset. Likewise, the sun standing still at the horizen could produce sun dogs for a long duration. Often sun dogs are seen in winter at -6° Celcius or so. Such as the two pictures of sun dogs in Jack Newton's book "A thin veil of high-altitude cirrus or cirrostratus clouds can provide the perfect conditions for solar halos and sun dogs. Sometimes brilliant enough to rival the Sun's brightness, sundogs are seen only near the horizon." Both these pictures were taken at a horizen of snow. This would be rare at the latitude that China is on.

"In his (emperor Kin's 1891 BC) 8th year, there was an inauspicious (unfortunate) portent in the sky -- 10 suns appeared together. That year emperor Kin died"
The word for inauspicious may also mean the season of Fall. However, the Chinese often changed emperors when there was a sun miracle. Meaning this could be the reason emperor Kin died that year. In 2357 BC the sun stood still so Yao had an archer shoot at it 9 times whereupon it moved again. There are 10 days to the Chinese 10 day week. Thus a day lasting some 12 hours more may be recorded as the sun stood still for a long time just as their 10 day week is a long time. 12 X 144 years later the sun returned to the meridian in China in 163 BC. 1400 years later in 491 BC a azure green rainbow appeared, the moon was eclipsed in Darius' 20th year when there was no lunar eclipse.
There is a tradition in the Fiji Islands of a long sunset. - Geocentricity Oceanic Mythology Roland B. Dixon 1916: (New Zealand Maori). A noon sun on China would be a setting sun on the New Zealand Maori.
Perhaps in 1872 BC: "You ought to know that the rising of Sothis takes place on the 16th of the 8th month. Announce it to the priests of the town of Sekhem-Usertasen and of Anubis on the mountain and of Suchos . . And have this letter filed in the temple records." Perhaps this priest noted the appearing of Sirius July 16 because earth had gone into and out of a reverse orbit in 1891 BC and now 19 years later he still marveled that earth had flowed out of a second reverse orbit into the regular earth orbit and Sirius was again visible July 16. (Schaefer calculates Sirius would appear rather July 17 2000 BC) See the Sothis Calendar. The sun must move back on exactly the same day of the year, and if this was 19 years later, on the same day of the lunar month, which is exactly the case in emperor Kwei's 10th year and 29th year. Earth rotated almost exactly 365.25 days a year and the Egyptian Sothis calendar backed up one day every four years - simply by having just 365 days in a year, as far as the first appearing of Sirius before dawn - a perfect match. This Sothis calendar is almost identical to the Julian calendar astronomers use for BC dates. From 4236 BC - 1320 BC Sirius first appeared before dawn July 16, every year. However, the Julian calendar fell back 1 day every 128 years from the tropical calendar. That is, the spring equinox fell back 1 day every 128 years. The Egyptians would know the sun had moved back on exactly the same day. The only way Sirius would appear before dawn July 16 in a reverse orbit is if the sun moved 180° on April 17 to the October 13 zodiac sign. Then the Sirius would last appear before dawn July 16 in the July 16 position. Sun miracles marked the beginning of Yao's reign 2357 BC, the end of the Hea dynasty 1765 BC, then the end of the Shang dynasty 1238 BC - Joshua's long day and the beginning of the Chow dynasty 1122 BC. The sun miracle in 1892 BC is rather 1888 years before Christ and is 144 + 144 + 1600 years before the birth of Christ. 1891 BC is 1728 years before the sun miracle in 163 BC. 1728 = 12 X 12 X 12.

"His people have all become idle in his service, and will not assist him. They are saying 'When will the sun expire? We shall all perish with thee.'" The Chinese Classics III, The Books of Shang, The speech of T'ang, p. 175. That is when shall there be a sun miracle and a change of dynasty?
T'ang (Shang dynasty) fought Kee (Hea dynasty): "At last, 1765 BC, after many misgivings T'ang took the field against his sovereign. There would be no doubt as to the result. Heaven and earth combined with men to show their detestation of the tyrant. Two suns fought in the sky. The earth shook. Mountains were moved from their strong foundations. Rivers were dried up. Kee was routed, and fled to the south to Ts'aou,.. Thus miserably ended the dynasty of Hea of 439 years." - 1765 BC. I have been told an early Egyptologist also found many references to two suns fighting and was at a loss to explain them. The 400 years of slavery of the Hebrews in Egypt was to begin 86 years later in 1679 BC. T'ang then wrote: "When will the sun expire? We will all perish with thee. Such is the course of the sovereign of Hea,"
Sun miracles: 1891 - 1807 - 1788 - 1765 BC times two or times four. They thought it was the end of the world, wouldn't you? "rivers dried up" - A weather change and an earth quake would be just what you would expect in a reverse orbit. Earth in a reverse orbit may be described as "Heaven and earth combined with men." "Such is the course" could be in reference to the falling zodiac, earth in a reverse orbit, previous 1765.The Chinese Classics vol. III, The Books of Hea, p.171.
The two suns in 1765 BC may refer to the sun moving 180° around the earth. The three suns in 1788 BC to the sun moving 540° around the earth. The two suns in 1126 BC may again refer to the sun moving 180° around the earth. It was written "how sun and moon were Wan and Woo" perhaps because of sun miracles in their lifetimes.
"Kaou-tsung was sacrificing to T'ang the Successful, when a pheasant flew up, and lighted on the ear of a tripod, and there crowed. Tsoo Ke lessoned the king on the subject, and made THE DAY OF THE SUPPLEMENTARY SACRIFICE OF KAOU TSUNG, and the INSTRUCTIONS TO KAOU-TSUNG." The Chinese Classics, Preface to the Shoo King, p.7 The pheasant probably was the phoenix. The fact such a big thing was made of the day seems likely it was a sun miracle. This could have been on the anniversary of the first sun miracle in 1765 BC when T'ang became emperor. Thus a sun miracle one day later when the sun returned.
"Oh! it is difficult to rely on Heaven;- its appointments are not constant." Chinese Classics, The Books of Shang, p.213 1750 BC. Perhaps a result of the recent sun miracles and earth reversals that had to do with God and Israel in Egypt. Nevertheless God's message in these sun miracles to the world was to point them to the sun of righteousness, the coming of Jesus.

"In his (emperor Te-sin's 1126 BC) 48th year, the E goat (spirit like animal - exciting wonder) - was seen. Two suns appeared together." The exciting E-goat could be the qilin the phoenix. Perhaps they looked directly at the sun to see the angel of the sun. Do not look at the sun or it will cause irreversible eye damage. Perhaps the sun moved 180° daylight lasting two days, 24 hours, like the sun when it stood still for Joshua. A similar sun miracle to Joshua's long day may have been associated with Woo (born about 1208 BC and became emperor 1121 BC). "How illustrious were Wan and Woo!" Literally: How Sun and Moon were Wan and Woo! There may have been a sun miracle June 1 1122 BC when Woo, Wu, was conquering China and was quoted by the Duke of Lu Yang when the setting sun reversed three solar mansions. There were no solar eclipses visible from China in 1126 BC for this to be a record of an eclipse. A solar eclipse may have been visible at sunset September 21 1122 BC. However, the bright appointment of Heaven was in the 4th month, May 1122 BC.

"In his 18th year, in the spring, in the 1st month, the king went to Loh, and settled the place of the tripods there. Phoenixes made their appearance, and a sacrifice was offered near the Ho." The first month of the year began December 12. The first month of spring January 11 or February 9. "When king Woo died, king Ching was still young..Spirit-like birds and phoenixes appeared; and the myterious bean grew up" - The mysterious bean may be the calendar bean named thus by emperor Shun a thousand years before when phoenixes also appeared in the first month: "A kind of grass, moreover, grew on each side of the palace stairs. On the 1st day of the month, it produced 1 pod, and so on, every day a pod, until the 15th; while on the 16th on pod fell off, and so on, every day a pod, to the last day of the month.." Then by the 16th day of the full moon the moon would be 180° away from the lunar mansion it was in the day before - still progressing forwards through the lunar mansions - only earth now falling backwards 1° a day in the reverse orbit. The grass growing on either side of the palace stairs may signify the moon moving 180° to the other side of heaven.

K'elins wandered in the parks; phoenixes flew in the courtyards; king Ching took a lute, and sang: --
'The phoenixes fly
All around my hall
What virtue have I
So spirits to call?

'From the former kings
This influence comes;
Theirs the joy that rings
In the peoples homes.'

This is an exact copy of the song recorded on Huangdi's sun miracle, perhaps September 22 - the beginning of Autumn - 2648 BC. Notice the same K'elin, unicorn of the sky, that Yao recorded in his 7th year. - First character top right - see lin - unicorn. The sun and moon phoenixes were birds who carried the sun and moon 180° around the earth. The K'elins may be flaming deer who carried the planets 180° around the earth. The K'elins were running because they must move the planets at hundreds of millions of miles per hour. Perhaps the sun moved 180° and earth flowed out of or went into a reverse orbit of the sun in king Ching's 18th year, 1096 BC. The first month in 1096 BC began December 12. The first month of spring January/February. Perhaps the sun moved 180° in February. David would be 16 in 1096 BC. Perhaps this is when he slew Goliath and gave the Israelites victory. There are four beasts before the throne of God. One like a calf. This could be the unicorn of the Chinese. One like an eagle. This could be the phoenix. One like a lion. This could be the Chinese White Tiger. See Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4.

Some More Chinese Sun Miracles

"In (King King's) 14nth year (504 BC) the milky way was not visible in the sky." Chinese Classics 504 BC was the year the second temple was finished and thus a sun miracle then is likely. The eclipse recorded in February 10 504 BC probably was not the eclipse February 16 505 BC. That eclipse was annular and hardly visible from China. February 10 504 BC was the day the second temple was completed on the third day of the month of Adar. Then what was recorded in 504 BC may have been a sudden sunset and the day of twilight prophesied in Zechariah 14:5 whereby the milky way would not be visible. Likewise when the sky was darkened in China in 1033 BC could have been a sun miracle when the Temple at Jerusalem was completed. The Chinese new year is in February and Adar is February. Thus if the sun moved 180° then, earth would have to shift 70° clockwise and the milky way may not be easily seen, certainly not when it normally was. Because for the Milky Way to be visible it must be directly overhead when it is completely dark. Also, the milky way and the stars may stand still, for 4 hours, when earth shifted the 70° clockwise. Thus the Chinese may see where the Milky Way should be above them on a clear night stars standing still but twilight like at the summer solstice, but in February, making it invisible. Most people today live in the city and have never seen the milky way because of the light pollution. Last year two people came from China to Merritt to see the Milky Way and were pleased to see it. In 504 BC in China there was no light pollution so we can see how profound this observation was because the milky way should be very clear. The day neither light nor dark for China also. The February night sky would become a August night sky and the zodiac progress in reverse through the months. And earth's axis would point to a 4000 AD Gamma Cepheus pole star position. Ezra 6:15 "And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. 16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house with joy," The third day of Adar would be February 8 or March 10 504 BC the day the temple was finished. When the second temple was dedicated there may have been a sun miracle just as there was the year the temple was dedicated in winter in 163 BC, also in February. 504 BC is 500 years before 4 BC when most believe the Christ Jesus was born. Many sun miracles point to Christ's coming. This was about the time of Zechariah the prophet and the sun miracle in the book of Zechariah, Zechariah 14:7, may have happened then. Mink and the Sun, Longhouse Legends by Emmett Matson: In his version, Mink tried to vault the Milky Way (a river of stars) without the walking stick given him by the Sun - "Mink, you are so "smart", you will figure out how to use it." - which he carelessly threw away. Jeremiah 33:25 "Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them." Thus a sun miracle in 504 BC when the temple was completed should be expected.

"In his (King Yin's) second year (312 BC), in the country of Ts'e, the ground where they measured the length of the sun's shadow lengthened more than ten cubits, and was elevated a cubit." James Legge stated "we have seen this before". That is the character for lengthened repeated means really lengthened or suddenly lengthened. The Chinese Classics III, p.175 Ch'in defeated Ch'u at Tan Yang in 312 BC. The Grand Scribes Records, volume 7, p.149 Tan Yang means spread out sun. King Hui of Ch'in died in 311 BC. Perhaps he was dethroned at the sign of this sun miracle. If the sun moved 180° west at sunrise about the autumn equinox to set suddenly in the west the shadow would lengthen more than 10 cubits before the shadow of the surrounding hills overtook the sundial and be elevated to the summer solstice position at the noon position. This is because the sun must travel along the plane of the ecliptic. Then the sun would rise to the highest position of the year at noon in the summer solstice position, thus the sun would rise a cubit upon a 2 cubit gnomon. And thus the sun would suddenly set in the west, the shadow lengthened 10 cubits, soon after also. Or if the sun traveled 180° east from sunset about the winter solstice towards the eastern horizen and stop at the noon position perhaps in 6 hours, the sun would rise 46° from the winter solstice position to the summer solstice noon position, and this in winter. The sun traveling very fast east could make them exclaim thus, the shadow lengthen lengthen. Likewise if the sun stood still in spring at noon the sun would rise to the summer solstice position in 6 hours then back to the equinox position 6 more hours later because the sun must travel in a strait line along the ecliptic, thus appearing to move up and down. If this was on the autumn equinox at noon the sun would appear to move down - lenghthened shadow to the winter solstice position then up to the spring equinox position. Then earth would have to shift 180° east or west to keep in the same season. Then if earth shifted 180° east the noon sun would soon set and the shadow of the gnomon suddenly lengthen this 10 cubits. Also if the gnomon was one cubit high to begin with it would have to be more than two cubits high at noon that day to cast the same shadow because the sun would be 46° higher than the 40° it is at the winter solstice. To get double the inclination you have to more than double the height of the gnomon. Then, if the sun was elevated one cubit this could possibly be autumn or winter. If the sun moved 180° the sun must be at the other end of earth's tilted axis. This means the sun was in the winter position now is in the summer position. Until earth turned its tilt back to the winter season the next day. This means earth probably did not turn back immediately in sync to the sun but probably did by the next day. Also, the sun probably did not move up and down when it moved 180° around the earth. Probably the sun moved straight on a level plane. The fact the shadow was elevated a cubit may mean the gnomen was elevated a cubit to cast the shadow in the right place to tell time. Then this must describe the sun moving 180° around the earth and the shadow moving up and down with earth's axial tilt. That is, earth's axial tilt did not move yet, the sun had moved around earth's axial tilt. If this was 45 days after the fall equinox or 45 days before the spring equinox, the gnomon must double in height that next day at noon to cast the same length of shadow that it had the previous day. Then if the gnomon was 1 cubit high it must be raised 1 cubit to cast the same shadow at noon. Earth must turn back very soon after to the same winter angle of sun in order to leave no noticeable change in seasons. Also, if the sun stood still at noon at the summer solstice the sun should follow the plane of the ecliptic and drop down 12 hours later to the noon winter solstice inclination. Thus a 45° drop, possibly enough to lengthen the shadow from the gnomon 10 cubits. There was no change in the tree ring growth that year, nor in coral beds, no biological trace at all. The sun setting on China in the east is rising in the west on the American Indian. For which there are many legends. The sun setting on China in the west must be rising in Israel. Ptolemy took many prisoners from Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and settled them in Egypt in 312 BC. The Greeks set up their cities in Palestine in 312 BC. 312 BC + 144 years + 200 years to Jesus' crucifixion 33 AD. 312 BC - 144 years is 168 BC when the Greeks took over the temple. 168 BC is 200 years before Jesus' crucifixion in 33 AD. Enc. Britannica - "August 15, 310 BC is the date of a Total Eclipse of the Sun that is said to have been seen at sea by Agathocles and his men after they had escaped from Syracuse and were on their way to Africa. Diuodorus, a historian of the first century BC, reports that, 'On the next day [after the escape] there occurred such an eclipse of the Sun that utter darkness set in and the stars were seen everywhere.' Modern computations of the eclipse track render it probable that Agathocles' ships passed along the north of Sicily during the course of the journey; the Sun would have only been partially obscured on the south side of the island." If the sun suddenly set the shadow would suddenly lengthen to the horizon, 10 cubits, and the Mediterranean be in sudden darkness just as this eclipse perhaps the same day as this Chinese record for 312 BC. There would be complete darkness not just the sun partially obscured. 312 BC is 2200 years after Abraham went to offer up Isaac perhaps on April 19 2512 BC also 144 + 2400 years before Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. 312 BC is 7 X 144 years after Moses fled from pharaoh Ramses II when he was 40 at the beginning of a new Sothis cycle in 1320 BC. The Temple was desecrated 144 years after 312 BC in 168 BC. 168 BC is 200 years before Jesus crucifixion and resurrection and no further need of the Temple. Malachi prophesied about 430 BC, possibly on the Jubilee in 420 BC, Malachi 4:2b "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;"

Wen-tze wrote in 500 BC:
Translation I
A good man would have the constitutions of a strong mind and a bright deed. A mind as strong as heaven and earth. A deed as bright as sun and moon. Heaven and earth bear all things. Sun and moon shine all things. Great man shows his mercy to all people steadily and continuously. Change not and cease not. Therefore, all nations follow his order as grasses bend to wind. A ruler's impolicy in Spring, as Jupiter alters its appearance abnormally. His impolicy in Summer as Mars slides out of it's course; impolicy in autumn likes Venus slip out of it's place. Impolicy in Winter as Mercury shows no light. An year round impolicy likes shaking Saturn, fading Sun and Moon. The out of orbit five planets and the coming Comet.

• A right Spring policy grows millet.
• A right Summer policy assures rainfall.
• A right Autumn policy makes people prosper.
• A right Winter policy ensured a strong and peaceful nation.

Wen-tze
Translation II
"A strongman is strong inside and bright outside. Strong inside like heaven and earth, and bright outside like sun and moon. Heaven and earth will continue to go their round, and sun and moon will continue to shine. Great man shows goodness to people, never changes his causes, never changes his routines, then the whole nation will obey his order like grass goes along with the blowing of the wind. When policy goes bad in spring, stars shrink (if the earth orbited the sun in reverse the stars would rise later every evening), and will not abide as usual. Policy goes bad in summer, temptations go against people, policy goes bad in autumn, the sun will not rise and set down as usual. When policy goes bad in winter, stars will not serve their country. When policy goes bad in four seasons, all stars shake, sun and moon will drop down, five stars will lose their order, and the comet will come out. When policy goes well in spring, the corns get nourished, policy goes well in summer, rain falls in due time, policy goes well in autumn, people will be diligent, and prosper, when policy goes well the whole nation will be peaceful and rich. (Policy or method)" Wen-tze
"sun and moon drop down" could be the sun moving 180° in summer. Then the sun and moon would appear lower like winter till earth turned to keep in the same season. Or this could be the sun in winter droping down even further to keep in the same season without earth shifting. That is, the sun dropping down against the stars of the zodiac. "all stars shake" could refer to the shifting of the earth to keep in the same season when the sun had moved to the other side of the earth. See King Yin 5 stars are the 5 visible planets. The planets must move 180° very fast to appear at the same time of night and reverse their orbits around the sun also at extreme speeds. "A ruler's impolicy in Spring, as Jupiter alters its appearance abnormally...An year round impolicy likes shaking Saturn, fading Sun and Moon. The out of orbit five planets and the coming Comet." Jupiter and Saturn must orbit the sun twice in one earth reverse year. The appearing of the comet with sun miracles may be the gory of God appearing.

Translation I
"When the sky, hostile to living things, wishes to harm them, it burns them, the sun and the moon grow thinner and are eclipsed, the five planets leave their course, the four seasons encroach one on another, the day grows dark," Wen-tze 2
Translation II
"(If one goes) against the heaven and is brutal to (living) things, the sun and moon will not be bright and will be eclipsed, the five planets will miss their courses, the four seasons will encroach one on another, the day will grow dark and night bright, mountains will collapse and rivers dry, and there will be thunder in winter and frost in summer." Wen-tze 2
"against the heaven" may refer to earth in a reverse orbit against the normal zodiac. The five visible planets must move 180° with the sun and orbit the sun in reverse also, so would "miss their courses". The day growing dark may refer to the sun moving 180° against earth's rotation to set suddenly in the west. Or also, the sun moved 180° in summer and then earth would be at winter's incline until earth shifted to keep in the same season - thus that day the sun would set at 4PM instead of 9PM. The "night bright" may refer to the sun standing still in the west, such as Zechariah 14:7 and there being 24 hours of night, a 360° view of the stars, from China. The "rivers dry" may refer to the weather change in a reverse orbit. If the sun moved 180° in summer, earth would have a winter sun inclination. Likewise if the sun moved 180° in winter, earth would have a summer inclination till earth turned back. Also a long day or long night would also make for warm or cold weather.

More Chinese Sun Miracles

"King Wan was like the sun or the moon. He lightened with his shining the four quarters, -- the western regions." King Wan was Chinese emperor Woo's father. If the sun stood still for Joshua at noon in 1238 BC, the sun would be standing still at sunset on western China. As the sun disappears you see 4 seconds of a green image. The setting or rising sun standing still on China would appear green along the edge of sunset or sunrise on earth in a strip 1 mile wide perhaps for 12 hours moving up and down. However, the sun must rise or fall some 40° depending on the day of the year as the sun travelled along the ecliptic as it stood still in the sky. Thus 15° of longitude, several hundred miles, would be exposed to the green flash. Perhaps as depicted in the sunset on emperor Shun's 14th year. However, this description of the green quarter in Huang di's 20th year (about 2678 BC) may be the emerald green rainbow about God's throne against felicitous clouds during a sun miracle: "In his 20th year, brilliant clouds appeared; and he arranged his officers by names taken from the colors of the clouds..The vapours of the red quarter extended so as to join the those of the green [the east]. In the red quarter were two stars, and in the green, one; all of a yellow color, which appeared, when the heavens were clear and bright, in She-te, and were named the brilliant stars. The emperor in yellow robes fasted in the Middle palace. When he was sitting in a boat on the Yuen-hoo, above its junction with the Lo, there came together phoenixes, male and female. They would not eat any living insect, nor tread on the living grass. Some of them abode in the emperor's eastern garden; some built their nests about the corniced galleries of the palace; and some sang in the courtyard, the females gamboling to the notes of the males. K'elins also appeared in the parks; and other spirit-like birds came with their measured movements. Four-horned low were produced as large as a goat, and the yin worms like rainbows. The emperor, considering that the influence of earth was thus predominant, reigned by virtue of the earth." The Chinese Classics, part III, the Annals of the Bamboo Books p.108. p.109. The constellation of the azure dragon in the east with the fire star may depict the fire colour and brightness of God in Ezekiel 1. And the azure green colour may depict this green vapour or emerald green rainbow around God's throne. Likewise the bright yellow colour of the other two stars may depict the brightness of some of the four beasts before the throne that were as fast as lightning. The phoenix and dragon are also as fast as lightning. There are no green stars, only the 2 second green flash just after the sun sets. The Chinese dragon is green. Clouds were often seen when the green dragon appeared. The other two stars may be the male and female phoenix or two of the four beasts before God's throne. The Bennu bird is often referred to in Egyptian writings as 'the Morning Star'. That is, the phoenix appeared with the sun. Their brilliance may be the glory of angels. (In the red sky of the morning in the west it may have still been twilight enough to see two planets. However, this does not fit the context.) The green and red clouds could be not be the northern lights because the sky must be completely dark to see the northern lights. The extreme forces of a sun miracle may cause the northern lights to appear. The Chinese would not have recorded a typical 3 second green flash as a green vapour. "the yin worms like rainbows" may refer to a very rare lunar rainbow. The word for moon in Chinese is yin. The word yin is implied. A lunar rainbow would last just minutes normally. If the sun and moon stood still the lunar rainbow could last long enough to record it. However, the rainbow referred to may be the azure emerald green rainbow around God's throne. (The zodiacal light, a huge softly radiant pyramid - its axis centered on the zodiac, visible an hour after the end of evening twilight and an hour before first light of dawn, would also stay visible for a much longer time than normal and is more visible than the milky way. It is the glow of sun light refracted from dust left over from the solar system's creation. It is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere for the two weeks around the spring equinox, when most sun miracles were recorded. Centuries ago called the phantom of false morning, dawn's left hand. Thus China could have been expecting the day to dawn for some time.) The goat could be the E-goat an exciting wonder - the unicorn. Seeing the E-goat is an eye-witness account of seeing the phoenix by looking directly at the sun during a sun miracle. Do not look at the sun as the sun will cause irreversable eye damage. "K'elins (unicorns) also appeared in the parks". Likewise the goat could be the unicorn, the same thing. At the sun miracle in 1096 BC king Ching took the throne and wrote:
"K'elins (unicorns) wandered in the parks; phoenixes flew in the courtyards; king Ching took a lute, and sang: --
'The phoenixes fly
All around my hall
What virtue have I
So spirits to call?

'From the former kings
This influence comes;
Theirs the joy that rings
In the peoples homes.'

Psalm 29:6 "He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn."
Deuteronomy 33:17 "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."
The Hebrew for God is El. Which is the characters Aleph and Lamed signifying a bull with a shepherd's staff. The Chinese unicorn meant the sun angel. The unicorn of the Bible probably is the qilin, unicorn, of the Chinese.
The "yin worms like rainbows" could be the yin the moon and the moon's rainbow which is rarely seen. However, if the sun and moon moved 180° with earth's rotation the moon could stay just above the horizen to create a long lasting lunar rainbow. The reference to rainbow could again be the emerald green rainbow around the throne possibly as also recorded on an oracle bone where a dragon stepped out of a pit and took the form of a rainbow. Huang di was still fasting from the first sun miracle when he witnessed the second, probably the correcting sun miracle half a year later. Then possibly this was half an orbit after the first for earth to make the first possible correction. In the first sun miracle the sun must have moved 180° east to stand still at sunrise. Thus "some (of the birds) abode in the eastern garden". In the second the sun and moon came together, perhaps they were close together and moved 180° east faster than earth's rotation for the sun at sunset to return to the noon position, or the sun and moon traveled 180° west to suddenly rise in the east. "the females gamboling to the notes of the males", perhaps the moon moved with the sun and planets. Or perhaps these are God's angels. "other spirit-like birds came with their measured movements", they could be the four beasts before the throne as in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4. The Mountain Huangshan was named after Huang di by legend. From this mountain one could see a green flash on the horizon. Also, there are five peaks, one in the east, one in the west, one in the north and one in the south and one in the middle. Thus the four peaks point north east west and south, the directions for winter, spring, autumn and summer in Yao's Canon. Huangdi may have been waiting for the sun to return on the anniversary of the sun standing still at sunrise: "The emperor in yellow robes fasted in the Middle palace. When he was sitting in a boat on the Yuen-hoo, above its junction with the Lo, there came together phoenixes, male and female." Thus, he may have had a Bi to sacrifice in the river Lo in 2678 BC just as Shun did in 2284 BC. Thus, sacrifice to God, Shangdi, may have predated even Huangdi. See the archaeological evidence that supports Huangdi's existance - Jade-Bear Dragons Corroborate Yellow Emperor Legend. The dragon-bears were probably offered to the sun dragon when there was a sun miracle. Huangdi returned to his home star in 2598 BC, "ascended the heavens, and became the ruler of the Great Infinite, again turning into the star Syuan Yuan." The same star that his "tripods" had pointed at. An ancient Chinese drawing of the Syuan Yuan constellation has been identified by modern astronomers as that of the Leo constellation. This could signify the sun moving 180° from Pisces to Leo in March. Perhaps foretelling the crucifixion of Jesus. Also, the fire star of the green dragon must be in the constellation of Leo. Also, strait up as in Yao's Canon where he determined the seasons with the star directly overhead at dusk following a sun miracle and reverse orbit.
The sun and Moon were likened to Wan and Woo

"King Woo, 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." Chinese Classics The sign of the zodiac the sun was in the month before the winter solstice was Scorpius. However, in a reverse orbit without the turn the sun would be in Aquarius February moving into Capricornus January. The Chinese would get used to the sun being in Aquarius in November the month before the winter solstice. The first snow came about November 22 when the Yao and others started the lunar new year. Then when the sun moved 180° back and earth's forward momentum carried it into its former direction of orbit. Aquarius would mark the lunar month after the winter solstice and this January 20 - February 20, Spring. The first day of the new moon in Aquarius and the last day in Capricornus. Perhaps the reason the new year was calculated the month after the winter solstice instead of the month before. Emperor Chuen-heuh, Zhuan Xu, Gao Yang Shi, began his reign 2513 BC (2512 BC) and may have began the year in spring. Because possibly on Friday the 14th day of the moon April 23 2515 BC or Friday the 14th day of the moon April 19 2512 BC Abraham went to offer up Isaac. Isaac would then be the same age Jesus was when he was crucified, 33 or 36. Reason for God to invoke a sun miracle, the sign for a new emperor and a good time to change the Chinese calendar. This was custom to change emperors when there was a sun miracle by the Shang dynasty recorded in oracle bones 1400 BC and in earliest China from 2900 BC. If Scorpius was still visible in the west in the 12th month, November, then the sun must have been in Aquarius in the spring - 500 BC. However the 12th month in the Yin calendar was Augugst when Scorpius would still be visible at sunset in the west. In the Yao's seventh year there was a "Lin", depicted by a deer sounds like the Chinese word for rice together interpreted "unicorn". This 2350 BC could mark the sun and moon moving 180° again and earth flowing into a reverse orbit. A legend grew that a dragon went about eating people until a wise old man persuaded him to eat wild animals. To remember him the people celebrated this spring festival when the sun was in Aquarius. If the sun moved 180° on Friday September 22 2648 BC, as recorded by emperor Huang di, the sun must move from Virgo to Pisces moving in reverse into Aquarius. Huang di ended his reign in 2598 BC with a sun miracle where the Yellow Dragon took him. Sun miracles may have frequently caused a new emperor to take the throne: 2515 BC, 2437 BC, 2367 BC, 2357 BC, 2287 BC, 2274 BC, 2158 BC. The Shang dynasty: 1765 BC, the beginning of the Chow dynasty: 1238 BC and 1126 BC. Later sun miracles perhaps February 23 1279 BC for Moses and February 25 1238 BC - August 31 1238 BC for Joshua and Debra, Barak respectively, probably confused the calendar further. The February Aquarius sun becoming a February Leo sun progressing in reverse. Such as for the 186 days after Joshua's long day. '"In the seventh month Ho passes on" (Scorpius) - must have counted from January. However, Ho, Antares does not pass on till November. That is, Antares disappears in the west at sunset in November as the sun appears to move into Antares as earth continues in orbit. In a reverse orbit Scorpius must pass on to the east at sunrise! In no Chinese calendar I am aware of is November the seventh month. "Divined: (Charge:) Ay Dun. We should perform a sacrifice and see off the Fire star (huo, Antares), 6th month" East Asian Archaeology, p.23. The 6th month in Yin calendar in the oracle bones was March when Antares was visible before dawn and becoming more visible. In a reverse orbit Antares would be disappearing in the early dawn glow as the sun appeared to pass east west through the zodiac through the year. This would require a sun miracle in October the second month for Antares to be disappearing into the dawn sun in the sixth monnth of March. "The fact is, the months of the year fell into this great disorder afterwards, through neglect, and not on account of an imperial decree. It is probable, however, that even in Chow-kung's time the first month of the year was the last of the winter season, the error of one month passing down from the previous dynasty." The new Chow dynasty began 1122 BC. Several years after the new year began on the lunar month before the winter solstice, December 21, in earth's current counter clockwise orbit: Following is a list of these dates in a book published by Hong Kong University Press in 1960.
1122 BC on Dec. 29
1121 BC on Jan. 17
1120 BC on Jan. 6
1119 BC on Jan. 24
1118 BC on Jan. 14
1117 BC on Jan. 3
1116 BC on Jan. 21
1115 BC on Jan 10
1114 BC on Jan. 29
1113 BC on Jan. 19
1112 BC on Jan. 7
1111 BC on Dec. 28
1110 BC on Dec. 17
For dates 1122 BC to 150 BC
"775 BC (776 BC) is the earliest which astronomical calculation really confirms. The tenth month of that year commenced on 29th of August (new style) - the 28th day of the cycle of 60 - with an eclipse of the sun.." "in the days of Yen-Yang, 776 BC, the sun was obscured" September 6, 776 BC was day 28 of the cycle 60. This was day 28 and partial solar eclipses were noted by Native Americans, so the Chinese may have noted this partial eclipse. See You can see the NASA depiction of the path of this eclipse in the Arctic. However: "was not observable in ancient China and reached totality in the arctic". ASTRO-HISTORIOGRAPHIC CHRONOLOGIES OF EARLY CHINA ARE UNFOUNDED: "that eclipse, in 776 BC, did not occur. The Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu ) is an ancient text with records of many solar eclipses (both total and partial).
It records solar eclipses on 3 April 645 BC (648 BC April 6? Or sun miracle April 645 BC - King Manassah would be 43 having reigned from when he was 12 and if this is when he turned to the Lord he would have 12 more years to serve the Lord.),
15 May 592 BC (591 BC April 17.) Or this is a sun miracle at the fortieth day towards the fiftieth day of Pentecost, May 15 592 BC in Jehoiakim's eighth year, in the fifth year of captivity. This may be a sun miracle in the beginning of the book of Daniel. One of the wonders spoken about:
Daniel 4:1 "Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
4:2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
4:3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation."
This is 144 + 144 + 300 years before 4 BC when the wisemen worshiped Jesus. Jesus ascended on the fortieth day Wedesday May 13 33 AD. Jehoiakim was about 33 in 592 BC and he died at 36 as did Jotham and Ahaz. Jesus was crucified when he was 36 and began his ministry when he was 33 or 34. The eclipse of April 17 591 BC was visible in Australia, hardly visible even in Thailand. Native North Americans depicted partial solar eclipses in pictographs and Thailand was once part of China. However, China at that time was mostly in the north.
19 September 552 BC (552 BC August 20),
and 18 July 549 BC (548 BC April 19);
yet there were no eclipses on those dates. (However, the dates in () are the corrected dates when there was an eclipse. However, none of these eclipses can be right either because they are not on the recorded day of 60.) This text also records many other solar eclipses that did occur. Thus, although the text seems to be a valuable historical document, no single record from it should be assumed to be accurate. The Song shu is an ancient text that contains the sole record of a five-planet conjunction during 841-221 BC. This tells of a five-planet conjunction shortly before 679 BC; yet there was not such a conjunction then (here defining the maximum span as 30°)." 679 BC was king Manassah's 12th year. The planets may "lose their order" when the sun moved the 180° with earth in the reverse orbit, such as in 687 BC, the planets going different directions: "five stars will lose their order" or "the five planets will miss their courses", "the five planets went out of their courses". The planets may have appeared in their seasons as normal, their rapid movement against the stars, Saturn and Jupiter must orbit the sun twice a year to appear normal, and that Jupiter would be in one sign of the zodiac in the sun backwards each year instead of forwards, likewise the strange movement of the inner planets to appear normal would not be normal. This may have been what called the attention of the Chinese to them that year rather than their close association to each other. If the planets were not moved thus, they would form conjunctions when they normally would not. Moreover, eclipses were reported when none occurred. Some suggest they were made up. Possibly some of these were sun miracles. Certainly possible in dates BC.

'The passage in the Tso Chuen in which Confucius is made to say that in the 12th month of the year, Scorpio was still visible in the west, is not intelligible, for the sun must have passed through Scorpio in October, and the 12th month was certainly not our September.' If the sun moved 180° at almost any time, Scorpius would be visible in the west in September in the reverse orbit. The Tso Chuen was written about 500 BC.

"According to the obvious interpretation of the text, Yahou (2356 BC) had reason to expect the stars he mentioned to be in the equinoctial and solstice co lures. But what his reason was we are left to conjecture." The Chinese Classics (translated and annotated by J. Legge, Hong Kong ed., 1860), III, Astronomy of the Ancient Chinese, p.92 Both Legge and Wilhelm/Baynes used the 1715 Kangxi edition.

Greek Legends of Sun Miracles

A case can also be made for changing the direction of earth's course in its orbit of the sun: "When policy goes bad in spring, stars shrink, and will not abide as usual" Wen-tze. This could mean stars rose later each night instead of earlier. Zeus, the king of the gods, is requested that the sun set not for the battle: Iliad 3.331 "Father Zeus! Ruling over us all from Ida, god of greatness, god of glory! Helios, Sun above us, you who see all, hear all things! .. be witness here, protect our binding pacts." "Zues, however, favoured Atreus, and sent Hermes to him, saying 'Call Thyestes, and ask him whether, if the sun goes backward on the dial, he will resign his claim to the throne in your favour?' Atreus did as he was told, and Thyestes agreed to abdicate should such a portent occur. Thereupon Zues, aided by Eris, reversed the laws of Nature, which hitherto had been immutable. Helius, already in mid career, wrested his chariot about and turned his horses' heads towards the dawn. The seven Pleiades, and all the other stars, retraced their courses in sympathy; and that evening, for the first and last time, the sun set in the east. Thyestes's deceit and greed being thus plainly attested, Atreus succeeded to the throne of Mycenae, and banished him." "The Greek Myths" by Robert Graves, volume 2, page 45 That all the stars retraced their courses can only mean a reverse orbit. "In Apollodorus (Epitome 2.10-14) Thyestes claims the kingship on the basis of his ownership of a golden lamb, but Zues declares his displeasure at this by reversing the sun and making it set in the east." GVS "Then in his anger arose Zues, turning the star's feet back on the fire-fretted way; yea, and the sun's car splendor-burning, and the misty eyes of morning grey. And the flash of his chariot-wheels back-flying flushed crimson the face of the fading sky...the sun...turned backward...with the surge of his wrath in affliction repaying mortals." Euripedes, Electra, (transl. A.S. Way), ll. 727 ff. Note the Mycenae civilization fell 1100 BC. The sun heading for the dawn for Atreus could be any of a number of sun miracles recorded by the Chinese. Homeric Hymn to Athene: "The bright son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while" VS Possibly a reference to the sun standing still for Joshua. Another reference to a reverse orbit/zodiac can be found in Philo's section 109, VS. "For just as the annual seasons circle round and round, each making room for its successor as the years ceaselessly revolve, ..yet the strangest of contradictions, are made immortal as they ever run their race backwards and forwards and continually pass along the same road up and down."

A Clear Description of Frequent Reverse Orbits by Socretes

Politicus, Plato, 431 - 351 BC
"Str. No, not that; but another part of the story, which tells how the sun and the stars once rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus...
Str. Listen, then. There is a time when God himself guides and helps to roll the world in its course; and there is a time, on the completion of a certain cycle, when he lets go, and the world being a living creature, and having originally received intelligence from its author and creator turns about and by an inherent necessity revolves in the opposite direction.
Y. Soc. Why is that?
Str. Why, because only the most divine things of all remain ever unchanged and the same, and body is not included in this class. Heaven and the universe, as we have termed them, although they have been endowed by the Creator with many glories, partake of a bodily nature, and therefore cannot be entirely free from perturbation. But their motion is, as far as possible, single and in the same place, and of the same kind; and is therefore only subject to a reversal, which is the least alteration possible. For the lord of all moving things is alone able to move of himself; and to think that he moves them at one time in one direction and at another time in another is blasphemy. Hence we must not say that the world is either self-moved always, or all made to go round by God in two opposite courses; or that two Gods, having opposite purposes, make it move round. But as I have already said (and this is the only remaining alternative) the world is guided at one time by an external power which is divine and receives fresh life and immortality from the renewing hand of the Creator, and again, when let go, moves spontaneously, being set free at such a time as to have, during infinite cycles of years, a reverse movement: this is due to its perfect balance, to its vast size, and to the fact that it turns on the smallest pivot.
Y. Soc. Your account of the world seems to be very reasonable indeed.
Str. Let us now reflect and try to gather from what has been said the nature of the phenomenon which we affirmed to be the cause of all these wonders. It is this.
Y. Soc. What?
Str. The reversal which takes place from time to time of the motion of the universe.
Y. Soc. How is that the cause?
Str. Of all changes of the heavenly motions, we may consider this to be the greatest and most complete.
Y. Soc. I should imagine so.
Str. And it may be supposed to result in the greatest changes to the human beings who are the inhabitants of the world at the time.
Y. Soc. Such changes would naturally occur.
Str. And animals, as we know, survive with difficulty great and serious changes of many different kinds when they come upon them at once.
Y. Soc. Very true.
Str. Hence there necessarily occurs a great destruction of them, which extends also to-the life of man; few survivors of the race are left, and those who remain become the subjects of several novel and remarkable phenomena, and of one in particular, which takes place at the time when the transition is made to the cycle opposite to that in which we are now living.
Y. Soc. What is it?
Str. The life of all animals first came to a standstill, and the mortal nature ceased to be or look older, and was then reversed and grew young and delicate; the white locks of the aged darkened again, and the cheeks the bearded man became smooth, and recovered their former bloom; the bodies of youths in their prime grew softer and smaller, continually by day and night returning and becoming assimilated to the nature of a newly-born child in mind as well as body; in the succeeding stage they wasted away and wholly disappeared. And the bodies of those who died by violence at that time quickly passed through the like changes, and in a few days were no more seen.
Y. Soc. Then how, Stranger, were the animals created in those days; and in what way were they begotten of one another?
Str. It is evident, Socrates, that there was no such thing in then order of nature as the procreation of animals from one another; the earth-born race, of which we hear in story, was the one which existed in those days-they rose again from the ground; and of this tradition, which is now-a-days often unduly discredited, our ancestors, who were nearest in point of time to the end of the last period and came into being at the beginning of this, are to us the heralds. And mark how consistent the sequel of the tale is; after the return of age to youth, follows the return of the dead, who are lying in the earth, to life; simultaneously with the reversal of the world the wheel of their generation has been turned back, and they are put together and rise and live in the opposite order, unless God has carried any of them away to some other lot. According to this tradition they of necessity sprang from the earth and have the name of earth-born, and so the above legend clings to them."
"The early Christians used as their symbol for Pisces the 2 fishes going in opposite directions." Perhaps meaning the zodiac going forward or in reverse. Pisces was named about 2350 BC when Joseph became governor over Egypt when the sun was in Pisces and the two fishes may have meant two messengers. You cannot follow people going in opposite directions. Perhaps these early "christians" had broke away from following the ministry of the apostles already. Perhaps to determine March 21 and the spring equinox rather with Pisces than with Aries because of precession because the equinox had just slipped from Aquarius to Pisces. Perhaps in symbolism of the two fishes and five loaves Jesus fed the multitude. Perhaps to signify Spring with the Christ with Aries the Ram, with the resurrection and the Lamb. Perhaps also they were aware of the many early records of a reverse zodiac/orbit. If the sun moved 180°, the stars that rose with the sun must now set at the break of day. In a reverse orbit the sun would appear to travel from east to west against the stars through the year and the stars would appear to travel west to east through the year. Rather than earth reversing its rotation. Plato noted that this reversal is the greatest and most complete of all changes. Only an eye-witness account of a reverse orbit could be so descriptive. This is a very explicit and direct description of a reverse orbit. That sometimes earth's orbit was natural and sometimes guided by God is evident and true in comparing a normal orbit with a reverse orbit. In a reverse orbit the earth must orbit the sun 48 hours faster a year to keep the 365 days in a year because rotations are against orbit. Then people living during a reverse orbit of two and a half years would have a long day of 9 X 12 hours to make up for the accummulated missing time. Most reverse orbits seem to be for half a year at a time. And all may have been less than 5 years at a time. Perhaps three reverse orbits in a lifetime. Thus there would be no net missing time after factoring in the long days of the sun miracles themselves. Nevertheless, a sped up earth may have still been noticeable to the ancients. They may have noticed the long days corresponded to the missing time and thus knew how much time they were missing. Phoenixes in China were believed to be good omens that brought prosperity, rain, and made men younger.
"The thickened air concealed the heaven from view, and the stars were confused with a disorderly huddle of fire and moisture and violent fluxions of winds. The sun was not fixed to an unwandering and certain course, so as to distinguish orient and occident, nor did he bring back the seasons in order." Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, p.49 Winds were affected, however, winds leave no trace. "So all the gods who ruled over the regions together with the greatest parts of the cosmos that belonged to their charge; and as it turned about the one that was beginning and the one that was now ending, it produced a great tremor in itself, which in its turn brought about another destruction of all sorts of living things. After this, when sufficient time had elapsed, it began to cease from the noise and confusion and attained calm from its tremors; it set itself in order, into the accustomed course that belongs to it.." Plato, Complete Works, p.315 the Statesman 273 This may be the volcanic eruption of the Santorini volcano of Thera Minoan Crete, commonly called the Minoan eruption. Dated 1630- 1600 BC geologically or 1500 archaeologically. Thus the Egyptian archaeology is still 76 years too recent. This may have been about the beginning of the 400 years the children of Israel were to be enslaved in Egypt, 1679 BC - 1279 BC. Then there may have been a sun miracle then, that perhaps by design triggered this eruption. The zodiac was affected, the sun moving 180°. When they saw the sun move 180° sometimes four times in a lifetime they would come to realize the sun was not fixed but on occasion moved 180° around the earth. Thus the psalmist said the earth is fixed it cannot move. Also the seasons, that is, the signs of the zodiac progressed in reverse as well.
"The inhabitants of this country say that they have seen it from their ancestors that the sun now sets where it formerly rose." Solinus, Polyhistor, xxxii. The sun appears to move west to east through the stars through the year. Thus the zodiac progresses clockwise. In a reverse orbit the sun would appear to rise from which it formerly rose, that is the sun would appear to travel east to west through the year. That is, at noon in summer one may look to the eastern horizen to the constellation the sun was in that spring.
Plutarch: "The sun, moon and five planets came into being to define as well as preserve the measure of time." Then the planets must show up at the same time of night the night after the sun moves 180°. Then the planets must move 180° and reverse their orbits against the sun also to continue to show up at the same time each night as they would have.

The Movement of the Sun and Earth Shift

Above you see the normal position of the sun at left in winter in the northern hemisphere. The earth does not wobble to produce the seasons. The change of seasons is due to the change in the angle of the sun as the earth orbits while earth's axis points to the pole star. Note: the earth is closest to the sun in winter, farthest in summer. The Milankovich cycles change earth's orbit. So in the last ice age the earth was farthest away from the sun in winter.

Above you see the result if the sun moved around the earth 180° in winter in the northern hemisphere and earth is shifted to keep in the same season. Notice earth's northern hemisphere is angled away from the sun. The earth must pivot 180° also to keep the same season on earth. This pivot of 180° is like twisting earth's globe 180° on a table. Then earth's northern hemisphere is effectively shifted 47° away from its former pole position. 23.5° + 23.5° = 47°. Thus you can see the effect of this 180° twist is to shift earth 47° left from earth's normal tilt above to earth's shifted tilt just below it to keep earth in the same season. Or the sun must move up or down to keep at the same angle to earth. Thus you see the right earth angled toward the right sun. Also the right earth's axis now points 45° from the former pole star accomplished by the 180° pivot on a vertical axis. This example zodiac depicts just such a turn. Earth would appear to be "upside down" because north points 180° away. However, if the sun moved up or down earth would not need to shift to keep in the same season. The plane of earth's orbit would shift instead. If the sun moved 180° in the equinox, March 21 or September 21, earth would not need to turn. Spring would continue into summer, fall into winter, just as before. The sun in the Dendera Zodiac is depicted in Libra, the Scales. Then if the sun moved 180° to or from Libra, the sign of September, earth would not need to turn. Possibly a March miracle is depicted, the spring sun now 180° in Libra. That east and west are depicted in reverse can only be true if there were a December or June miracle and earth turned 180° and east and west are reversed. The season the miracle happens in greatly determines the amount that God must turn the earth to keep it in the same season. Therefore there are many possible combinations. Arcturus, Ursa Major and Sagittarius were named pole regions by the ancients. Sagittarius can only be a pole region when Vega is the pole star, 14000 BC or 14000 AD. Chinese history begins 3000 BC. Thus this suggests a pole shift to Vega. Pole fixing devices, star dials, by the ancient Chinese do not work with precession. Either they were not intended for use or the pole star was not where we expect it was. The star dial I have has a hole for the pole star, around which are the 12 months of the year. On top are the hours of the night. And on top of that is a copper handle. Simply point the hours to the month it is, center the pole star and line up the handle with the lip of the big dipper to tell the hour of the night.

There was a Mediterranean belief "the earth turned upside down". Rather earth shifted on the vertical, not literally upside down.
Isaiah 24:1 "Behold, the LORDH maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof."
This verse is connected with Jesus coming again in Revelation. Earth did not need to shift every time there was a sun miracle. Only the sun needed to move up or down. However, there is quite a bit of evidence for earth shifting.

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Past climate is closely studied. God left no evidence of sun miracles in climate. This discussion on seasons and the last ice age will help you understand why we cannot find any evidence of long and short days, with notes by Ken Tapping in red:

Jeff Suzuki wrote:
: Okay, so we have the earth's axial turn making the seasons milder in
: the northern hemisphere. But it wasn't always so!
: Due to the action of the moon (mainly) and the other planets, the
: direction of the earth's axis changes over a period of 26,000 years
: (this is the precession of the equinoxes).
YES
Right now, winter occurs
: when the earth is closest to the sun --- but in 13,000 years, the
: opposite situation will arise, winters will be colder and summers
: hotter.
YES
: On top of that, the other planets cause variations in the earth's
: eccentricity and aphelion/perihelion position. These conspire to form
: the various Milankovich cycles, often viewed as the main culprits in
: forming ice ages.
This is a theory only. Long-term calculations of orbital stabilities in a
multi-planet system show chaotic behaviour. This is not(?) consistent with
the assumed stability of the Solar System. In short, we don't know the
whole story yet; there are important components that don't really work. I
wouldn't assume too much.
The correlation is *really* rough, and does not seem to explain the
entire series of glacial events documented by glaciologists. For
example, 13,000 years ago, the coldest point for northern hemisphere
winters (ideally), we were already dropping out of the last large ice age
(which peaked at around, what? -- 18,000 years or so). In fact, temps
were approaching modern levels some 13,000 years ago (demonstrating the
rapid variations in climate during the last ice age). Plus there was
another extension at around 11,000 years ago which didn't quite reach as
far as the 18,000 year peak. This last extension did die away quickly,
so that by 10,000 years ago few, if any, of the large continental glaciers
remained.
There are probably a number of complicating issues. Firstly we don't
really know the behaviour of the atmosphere and climate system in response
to changing patterns and intensity of solar energy input. For example, we do not know how
the degree of cloud cover (albedo) responds to these changes. Clouds
could provide a buffering mechanism against temperature change. However,
there will be a range of control only, and when for some reason we drop
outside that range, change could be rapid. Then of course, when snow cover
increases, the albedo process starts to work the other way, making the
earth cooler.
It all comes down to its being relatively easy to predict the mean energy
input to the earth at the top of the atmosphere. However, from there on
things get much more difficult.
Cheers
Wolf Read; seismic@rahul.net
There are three factors: 21,000 year cycle: Earth's combined tilt and elliptical orbit around the Sun and the precession of the equinoxes - 25,800 years, shift in earth's axial tilt - 41,000 years, eccentricity of earth's orbit - 100,000 years.

Stephen R Gould srgould@worldnet.att.net has updated us as follows:
"I think that meteorology has come a long way since then. Without hunting through for references, let me put you on the right track. As i understand it, if one solves the differential equations that describe the earth's weather, there are two stable solutions, ice age and current climate.
Anything that perturbs the current climate sufficiently may cause a non-linear feedback (chaotic) effect such that the weather pattern may then move to an ice age equilibrium. A huge volcanic eruption cause the equivalent of a nuclear winter may be sufficient, or very volatile weather from other causes. Merely moving away to the farthest point in an elliptical orbit won't do it.
Once one has an ice age, a perturbation is needed to move it out again as the albedo - the surface reflectivity - of the earth is sufficiently high that much of the sun's radiation is reflected off, hence no warming takes place even when the earth is closer. But that could come from some other geological activity.
There's no need to invent theories that violate the laws of celestial mechanics."
My response to this last comment is God is not bound by these laws of celestial mechanics.

Michael Newman michael_newman@my-deja.com has updated us:
These "scientists" are correct (orbits and glaciation are still unexplained). The elliptical period for the earth's rotation around the sun is approximately 1 year. This is a fairly simple application of Kepler's laws and Newtonian mechanics. First order corrections were first derived by Einstein and applied to the perihelion of certain planets such as Mercury. There are no other first order effects with the required periodicity of the ice ages (~10000 years).
Other orbital parameters however may have a periodicity consistent with these time scales. There is some controversy surrounding this issue. The following web pages may be helpful:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2320crac.html
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/why_4_cool_periods.html
http://culter.colorado.edu:1030/~saelias/glacier.html
Global Warming, Ice Ages, and Sea Level Changes
Most recent studies suggest the last ice age 10,000 years ago was caused by earth being furthest away from the sun in winter in its elliptical orbit. And that the mini ice age of the middle ages was just regional. And that variantions of kinds of light, such as may happen during a sun miracle, are hard to detect. Sun spot activity is associated with influenza epidemics. Thus the sun light reaching the earth during a sun miracle must have been controled to leave no trace. Visible light is resposible for the heat we receive. Therefore, when the sun stood still in the sky sun light reaching the earth must be dimmed or else heat to that half of the planet would be increased. Then again if you have ever seen the sun covered 40% by the moon you would know you could not tell there was anything different, the amount of sunlight would seem exactly the same.
There is also a 1.2 million year wobble and a 2.4 million year wobble, variations in earth's eccentric orbit and tilt. However, it is believed the sun had a lower output during the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Thus the cause of the ice age may not have been orbits and tilt it may have been a variation in the intensity of solar radiation from the sun.
The fact that the solar system appears undisturbed only means God has infinite power.
2 Corinthians 4:18 "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
This is reality.

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Fire and drought are connected beginning with Yao's Long Day March 31 2357 BC + Phaethon March 31 2350 BC.

- "Sometimes Phaethon, his rash, inexperienced son, would take the reins and drive the solar chariot too near the earth, causing fruits to perish, and the grass to wither, and the wells to dry up" Classic Myths "There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Phaethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals;" Timaeus, by Plato The seven years of famine prophesied of Joseph must have begun in 2350 BC when Yao saw a Unicorn, probably the sun moving 180° back and there was no rain on the Nile for seven years and very likely devastating forest fires in the region. "Herodotus and Diodorus reported that the ancient Egyptians priests attempted to mathematically calculate the time of the return of the Egyptian Phoenix bird." The Egyptians were not calculating solar eclipses as is supposed. They were calculating solar reversals and earth's shift to a new pole star. They would know the sun must move back on the same date or 178 - 187 days later and the days before or after the equinox determine the earth shift in forward or backward precession. They were calculating the date of the next sun miracle when earth would flow out of the reverse orbit. "The flood of Deucalion is described by Greek authors as being simultaneous with the conflagration of Phaethon." WIC The seven years of plenty (flood) 2357 BC - 2350 BC were followed by seven years of famine (drought) 2350 BC - 2344 BC, perhaps this connection. In Phaethon, every river in the known world dries up. This must be the seven years of famine of Joseph in Egypt. A weather change in a reverse orbit would be expected and is most obvious in these references to rivers: The Loh River runs dry in Kwei's Long Night. The Chinese sacrificed at the Loh River when phoenixes appeared: "In Hwang-te's (Huang di) 50th year (September 11 2648 BC on what would have been about the Day of Atonement), in autumn, in the 7th month, on the day Kang-shin (57), phoenixes, male and female arrived...offered sacrifice at the Loh". "Yao's 70th year (2287 BC)..phoenixes appeared..built altars near the Ho and Loh." In emperor Ching's 18th year (1096 BC): "Phoenixes made their appearance, and a sacrifice was offered near the Ho."
Isaiah 24:4 "The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away together with the earth."
Isaiah 24:7 "the new wine dries up, the oil decays.."
If the earth began a new orbit around the sun a temporary change in weather is something to look for and we find it in these records. "The heaven fades away" may refer to the sun moving 180° and that part that was the night sky fading away. Also with earth in a reverse orbit stars would progress in reverse, 1° west to east instead of east to west each night, and the stars fade in the east instead of in the west.

Egyptologists claim ancient Egyptians had a 365 day year

They, like the rest of the world at the time, had had a 360 day year. They just added five days in the dog days of summer at the end of the year when Sirius was first visible before dawn. Sirius does not appear on the exact same date every year. Sirius is a binary star with an elliptical orbit of 15 arc seconds, covering a 20 earth to sun distance, taking 50.9 years to complete. Sirius while the brightest star in the sky - see image - is the less massive as its elusive companion so it moves the most. So 25 years later Sirius would first appear a day before or after it had appeared 25 years previous, July 16 or 17. The 15 second difference can mean the difference of a day. Earth moves 4 minutes worth a day. The new Sothis cycle began July 17 1320 BC - that year my calculations show Sirius appeared later, thus July 17 as expected. Thus no affect on this important date. However, Sirius's elliptical orbit of 15 arc seconds down and 15 arc seconds east can make the difference whether its first appearing was July 16 or July 17. I saw Sirius B just beside Sirius A with my telescope, February 20 2008. It was one width of Sirius A away. An Egyptian scribe wrote in 1872 BC: "You ought to know that the rising of Sothis takes place on the 16th of the 8th month." On this date also my calculations show Sirius appearing as expected but earlier, thus July 16. These five days left over days from July 16 represent the first appearing of Sirius. The Egyptians had clear skys all the time with only 5 inches of rain a year, the driest deserts in the world. So they hardly ever missed seeing Sirius in the July 16 Julian morning sky in order to date the year of the Sothis cycle. Schaefer (2000) calculated the appearing of Sirius 30° N: July 16.4 3500 BC, July 16.9 3000 BC, July 16.6 2500 BC, July 17.3 2000 BC, July 17.8 1500 BC, July 17.2 1000 BC, July 18.2 500 BC, July 18.3 AD 1, July 20.3 AD 500. (Iliad Note: 22.35 "late summer is a period of intense heat in Mediterranean countries and a sickly season for their inhabitants" - The appearing of Sirius marked the beginning of the flood season in Egypt and was an early warning to flee to higher ground. It was noted the Nile up to the building of the Aswan Dam began to flood on this July 16 Julian date.) Orion's Dog appears close to the side of the great hunter,..a fatal sign..brings such killing. Iliad 22.35. An example is the battles of Gideon/Deborah/Barak August 31 1238 BC. There is war in Lebanon now August 30 2006. They both feasted on these days and considered them unlucky. They named, but not numbered, these five days. They numbered, but not named, their months. They divided their year into winter, 180 days beginning September 22 or the autumn equinox, and summer, 180 days beginning March 21 or from the spring equinox. Much as the Children of Israel did from Exodus. March 21 1279 BC began the 120 days of summer and the first lunar month of Nisan. So the Egyptians had three major seasons of 120 days yet kept track of the equinoxes for farming. According to Dance of the Planets, TheSky etc, Sirius should rise/appear just before dawn July 16 2356 BC. An Egyptian priest in 1872 BC, perhaps just after earth flowed out of a reverse orbit, stated that Sirius would again appear on July 16. The only way this Egyptian priest could count on Sirius to rise July 16 in a reverse orbit is if the sun moved 180° April 17. Then the sun would move against the zodiac in reverse to the July 16 position on July 16 and Sirius last rise just before dawn that day. During a reverse orbit Sirius could last appear in the east briefly before sunrise in March when the sun was between Leo and Cancer. The Egyptian calendar cannot disprove this "Since the Egyptians did not take leap years into account, their calendar got further and further away from the seasons." About the time of Exodus 1279 BC: 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."Erman, Egyptian literature, p.309 If this was Moses' three days darkness, after 36 hours of no sun it would have gotten cold like winter. Also the Egyptians had two seasons. Summer beginning on the spring equinox - our March 21 and winter on the fall equinox - our September 21. Summer would be just about to begin that February 23 (the spring equinox began April 2 1279 BC), instead it was cold and dark. The Egyptians were not confused by their Sothis calendar - its various aspects were easily understood. This was a sun miracle. See Job 9:7
Herodotus wrote: "No reversal of sunrise and sunset takes place in a Sothis period." He may be saying there cannot be a reversal of the sun in a Sothis period because all days are accounted for in a Sothis period or that there was only one sun miracle and that on a new Sothis period where the sun traveled from west to east. Obviously the sun continued to rise in the east and set in the west. He may be suggesting all 1461 Egyptian years, and therefore every day in 1460 years, in a Sothis period are accounted for. However, what he may rather be saying is in year of a new Sothis cycle of 1460 years on July 16 Sirius appeared before dawn. Thus, that year could not have been a reverse orbit for Sirius to appear before dawn July 16 exactly when expected. In the Sothis period from July 16 4236 BC to July 16 2777 BC to July 17 1320 BC, the days of the year - according to the appearing of Sirius - were exactly 365.25 days, evidenced by Sirius first appearing again every year (except during reverse orbits) 4AM July 16. In a reverse orbit Sirius would not first appear in the morning of July 16. Nevertheless the number of "days" and "dates" would correspond. The Papyrus Ebers Calendar seems to give a date in May for the appearing of Sirius which is impossible. If the sun moved 180° in January or June earth must shift 180° on the vertical and Sirius could appear before the sun about May 24. "New Years Festival, month III of Shemu, day 9, the going forth of Sopdet" Pharaohs and Kings, a Biblical Quest, p 134 If the seasons were not tied to the solstices and equinoxes like they were in 2777 BC when the Sothis calendar matched their seasonal calendar perfectly, then yes, the new year may be September 6 1517 BC and day 9 of Shemu III would be the day Sirius first appeared before dawn. And this would be year 9 of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. However, the Egyptian date for the volcanic eruption of Thera of the Minoans is this 1500 BC when geologically it should be 1630 - 1600 BC. According to legend a phoenix bird appeared at the end of the Sothis cycle. The land was divided in the days of Peleg, Genesis 11, lived between 3235 BC to 3105 BC, perhaps when God confused men's language and they left off building the tower of Babel. There was a complete Sothis cycle of 1460 years in 2777 BC and Serug was born just after in 2773 BC. From 3500 BC there were many ziggurats built. The Chinese emperor Huang di recorded a detailed report of phoenixes 100 years later in 2678 BC in keeping with the legend of the phoenix appearing every 100 years. Also if the fall of Adam and Eve was marked by a sun miracle (see the Phoenix Bird) and was seven generations back from Enoch, the sun miracle may have been in 4236 BC - see From Adam, or about 4500 BC. There could be seven generations from Adam from year 800 in duodecimal, 1152 which is 4544 BC. Thus perhaps Adam lived after year 800 duodecimal 1152 years after the beginning of the Sothis cycle in 5670 BC.
Genesis 5:3 "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
4a And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years:"
Perhaps Adam lived after Sothis duodecimal year 800, 4548 BC. That is, perhaps Adam was born in 4548 BC and lived 130 years. If each generation was 85 years which is in keeping with the generations of the patriarchs Adam may have been born on the beginning of the Sothis cycle 4236 BC. However, if we count the generations back from Sothis year 300 and Enoch at 3936 BC we come to Adam's birth in 4558 BC. More likely Adam's birth was 144 years plus 4400 years before the birth of Christ in 4 BC, thus 4548 BC. Abraham was 100 when he had Isaac, Isaac was 69 when he had Jacob, Jacob was 91 when he had Joseph. Jacob was 108 when Joseph was sold into Egypt and Joseph lived to 110 years. There may have been a sun miracle at the next start of the Sothis cycle in 1320 BC which might have prompted Moses to think this was the time to lead Israel out of Egypt. These could be what Herodotus noted. However, there were many other sun miracles up to the time of Herodotus and I have no records for sun miracles on 4236 BC or 2777 BC or 1320 BC. Hezekiah's Sign is one notable one because the sun must have set in the east, a reversal of sunrise or sunset just a few hundred years previous, in 705 BC.
In a reverse orbit the stars marking spring and fall are interchanged and the zodiac progresses in reverse. That is, if the sun moved on the vernal or autumn equinox the stars marking spring and fall would be interchanged. If at any other time earth must shift and accordingly other stars would mark the seasons, likewise the zodiac.

The ancient Chinese had a 366 day year instituted by Yao.

This may have been passed down from the leap year every 4 years in the Egyptian Sothis calendar from 4236 BC. The new Sothis cycle began 2777 BC, thus this 2357 BC of Yao was leap year. The reverse direction of the Chinese zodiac in Yao's Canon suggests the direction of earth's orbit was in reverse to ours. Notes: "Yaou does not speak scientifically, by says that the round year consists of 366 days. We intercalate one day every four years. But there is nothing in the text to indicate that every fourth year was reckoned 366 days. If it had been so, Yaou's calendar would have been the same as the Julian, and there would have been no necessity for the intercalation of a month at certain regular periods which is indicated." Although this 366 days may have been sidereal time, this count was taken of suns, days, and right after Yao's long day (an extra day the following year would even out with the long day). If there were 366 sidereal days in a reverse orbit there must be 367 days and nights in a year. However daily coral lines would show that. Also the Egyptian Sothis period of 1460 years is based on 365 solar day years. The 366 days may refer to the number of days between sun miracles. That is, the sun must move back on the same date a year later. Or two years later and the number of days divided by 2. If the sun stood still for 9 X 12 hours and less 12 hours two years later when the sun returned travelling 180° west there would be no missing time. 108 hours - 12 hours = 96 hours. 2 X 48 hours = 96 hours.
In a reverse orbit the Egyptians would have to rely on the 365 day calendar until earth orbited in the current direction of orbit, counterclockwise, and they could add the years, divide by four and subtract the days back from July 16, when Sirius first appeared, to the new year. Because Sirius would not first appear before dawn on July 16 during the reverse orbit. Egypt's Sothis calendar may have originally been in duodecimal. Then they would only have to change one character to write 365 days in a year, just one more character for 100 in the decimal number system. Thus the change from a duodecimal 365 day calendar to a decimal 365 day calendar was very simple. In a reverse orbit rotation is against orbit. To get the same number of 365.24 days a year earth must slow its rotation. However, if earth's rotation were slowed to 364 rotations a year the ocean would be 800 feet lower at the equator. If earth's orbit was sped up by 48 hours there would be 364 rotations a year no problem. Then there would be 365 days a year in the reverse orbit. Earth's orbit is elliptical meaning earth travels a few days faster in winter than in summer. So a speeding up in earth's orbit by a few more days would not affect earth either. See www.analemma.com Then the year would end 48 hours earlier in a reverse orbit. Plato: "Time itself reverses and the old grow young again". Earth may have gone the reverse way around the sun perhaps a hundred times in recorded history. The half year sped up reverse orbits were countered by the sun moving 180° back and earth flowing out of the reverse orbit. Sometimes the sun may have stood still in the sky for upto 9 X 12 hour days. This would counter a reverse orbit of a few years. Thus all odd combinations are possible at both ends of a reverse orbit. The sun may move west 180° also countered by odd numbers of 12 hour long days at the other end of the reverse orbit. Thus you could pick any time in history and the date would be exactly correct going back in time. Except for a date during a reverse orbit. That missing time being countered by a long day may have been what the ancients thought made them younger. That is the bonus of the long days was like bonus time on life to them. The period the sun revolved around the earth while earth was free falling does not mean that time is unaccounted for. It just means more time for earth to shift to keep in the same season. Earth continued in its regular rotation. The cause of death can rarely be determined from mummies. Even the age at death cannot be determined with any accuracy and we now know that evidence from bones probably underestimates the age of the bodies. There is no missing time anyhow. Days correspond to dates on our calendar and to positions of the sun, moon and planets. Then daily coral lines would correspond to dates on our calendar as well. The coral lines may have been the same if daylight was 24 hours or 4 hours. That is, if the sun traveled east perhaps its intensity was lessened or if it traveled west its intensity greatened to make the same mark. Heat from the sun's core takes millions of years to reach the surface, therefore this adjustment in the sun's intensity must take place externally. "Phaethon beheld the world on fire and felt the heat intolerable. Then, too, it is said, the people of Ethiopia became black because the blood was called by the heat so suddenly to the surface;" Perhaps a full days worth of radiation was emmitted from the sun, 12 hours worth in 3 hours, when the sun travelled west 180° in three hours, rather than this being a long day. The ancients knew the sun did not pass through the constellations of the ecliptic each day, but each year. Then the sun rising in the east in Scorpius must move 180° west past the Crab to Eridanus to set suddenly, perhaps a two hour day. Thus the ancients knew the sun moved, fell, 180° that day. The earth must move 370 mph faster to keep in sync with the days and dates in the reverse orbit. The moon must move 4 days 6 hours slower a lunar orbit of 27 days to a lunar orbit of 23 days when earth was in a reverse orbit to keep the same number of days in a lunar cycle. There would still be 29.5 days a lunar month. There must have been 364 rotations in a year in a reverse orbit. The Book of Enoch may give us the 364 sidereal day (365 solar day) years.

More Evidence of Pole Shift

Joseph Needham on an ancient Chinese planispheric astrolabe: "The apparent exactness of this passage(noon) has long offered to scholars an irresistible invitation to determine its date by the precession of the equinoxes". The ancient Chinese had a pole star fixing device you held up to the sky. The circle had notches in it for orienting with the stars and the middle was large hole. The center was the pole star or pole position. The pole star was symbolic of the emperor who never moved or changed. The god of the north star was named after emperor Yao. With the possible exception of one, none of these devices work. These could have been star dials and should have worked. This planispheric astrolabe (Joseph Needham) shows a 2400 BC pole star.

It was only since Han (700 - 500 BC) that the Chinese began to use the Great Bear to point to 12 divisions of the sky. (A star dial also uses the Great Bear, Ursa Major, to tell the time. The handle of the Big Dipper rotates clockwise telling the time. My star dial centers on the pole star, the hours set to the month, the handle lines up with the lip of the dipper and the dial to tell the hour.) Seneca writes: "And the Great Bear which was never bathed in the sea, shall be plunged beneath the waves". Therefore, the earth may have turned away from the Great Bear (Ursa Major). In the Iliad 18.569 Notes: The Great Bear was originally the nympth Callisto, who ranged the woods as one of the virgin companions of the goddess Artemis. Zeus made her pregnant, and when this could no longer be concealed, Artemis changed her into a bear and killed her. Zeus in turn changed her into the constellation. The Great Bear was also known as the Wagon or Ox. Bootes - the Herdsman (Arcturus) was known as the Herdsman dating back to Babylon times. He is often depicted as the Hunter chasing the Great Bear. Homer writes (400 years before Herodotus 480 BC therefore ~ 880 BC): "It was their own transgression that brought them to their doom, for in their folly they devoured the oxen of the Sun-god and he saw to it that they would never return." Seneca's Thyestes: "the Wain (Ursa Major), which was never washed by the sea, the swathing whirlpool shall engulf." Also Ursa Major must progress counterclockwise as the year advances in a reverse orbit.

"A very ancient and characteristic method of determining the seasons and months of the year, to which the Chinese are fond of alluding, was by the revolution of Ursa Major. One of its names, of which it has several, is "Northern Bushel." Under this name it is often confounded with the North Pole, and with one of the 28 mansions in Sagittarius, which has the same name.." The pole region migrated through Ursa Major (the Great Bear) 3000 BC. However, that Sagittarius (Vega) could have been a previous pole star position is interesting. If the sun moved 180° in December (Scorpius/Sagittarius) or June earth must turn 180° to Vega above Sagittarius. The Dendera Zodiac depicts west and east reversed just as they would be if earth turned this 180° south. However, the flying sun disc is depicted in Libra, the sign for September. Earth does not need to turn if the sun moves 180° on the spring or fall equinox. Senmut's celestial ceiling may figure Bootes the Herdsman, Muphrid is the solitary star of the lance bearer, spearing the Bull of the pole star.
Job 38:31 "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"
Geneva Bible: Which starres arise when the sonne is in Taurus. Which is the spring time and bring flowers. Which starre brings in winter.
Job 28:32 "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
Geneva Bible: Certaine starres so called: some thinke they were the twelve signes (zodiac). The North starre with those that are about him? -- The night constellations, the zodiac, must have been shifted (earth shifted) each time the sun moved 180° to keep earth in the same season. Likewise the planets must move 180° and keep their relative distance from the sun in the sky as they normally would in their season. Arcturus was the name given, not to an individual star but to the whole constellation Bootes. However, Arcturus may be the star in the east the wisemen saw being directly overhead 4 AM in spring 4 BC. Thus the connection with the star Arcturus and the Son of God. The seven Pleiades, and all the other stars, retraced their courses in sympathy" A reverse orbit. Perhaps the sun moved 180° from Taurus to Scorpius March 31 2357 BC perhaps as depicted in Yao's Canon and Senmut's celestial ceiling. Or perhaps the sun moved to or from Sagittarius to Gemini in November or May, earth flowed into a reverse orbit and the zodiac progressed in reverse. Then about March, Spring, Pleiades would be overhead at sunset. That is, Orion and Pleiades would first appear in the west briefly in January, winter, and set. Then each night appear 1° higher in the sky before rotating west and out of sight. And by March appear overhead at sunset, to appear 1° more eastward each sunset in the reverse orbit.
Job 38:33 "Knowest thou the course of heaven, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?"
Geneva Bible: Canst thou cause the heavenly bodies to have any power over the earthly bodies?

Some of these miracles may have happened in September.

If the miracle happened in the equinox earth's axis would not need to turn toward the sun if the sun moved exactly 180°. Otherwise the earth must turn [the turn must have been about a vertical axis in the on the ecliptic pole, in Draco, earth is 23° off vertical] to adjust: "no more shall the stars mark off the winter and spring times" Seneca "On the first day of the last month of autumn..." "policy goes bad in autumn, the sun will not rise and set down as usual" Wen-tze Gerardus D. Bouw, Ph.D. gives March or September for Hezekiah's Sign after reading the many legends from around the world - Geocentricity. Many such as Cottontail refer to snow: "At night the Sun caused snow to fall," "The first man (in China) who took notice of the precession of the equinoxes lived 400 AD." Therefore, argument against this theory cannot be proven. Examples: September 2648 BC, October 31 2154 BC, September 1 1238 BC.

An analysis of Vahe Gurzadyan on Astronomy and the fall of Babylon in July 2000 Sky and Telescope:

About 1954 BC a lunar eclipse foretold the death of the great Babylonian king Sulgi. A lunar eclipse would have happened about nightfall, 7 PM, on June 27, 1954 BC. Similarly a lunar eclipse about 8:30 PM, March 16, 1912 BC foretold the fall of Ur. Ur was inhabited from 4000 BC onward. The first dynasty of Ur began 2900 BC and was a very rich city.
Not to be mistaken for the Ur of the Chaldeans of Abraham just below Mount Ararat. Noah's flood must have been in 3637 BC and his descendents must have settled in Nineveh and Ur of the Chaldeans any time after that. Terah and Abraham left Ur some time before Terah died 2572 BC, Sothis year 205 from 2777 BC, in Haran.
The Venus tablet recorded a precise 8 year cycle of morning and evening visibility. 8 X 365 = 2922 days. Venus returns again to the same point in the sky every 584 days. 5 X 584 = 2920 days. Together with lunar eclipses, he determined "The year (no date) that the Moon was eclipsed" May 16, 6 PM, 1459 BC in "year 38 of rebuilt Babylon." However, the month and day are not given. Also, there is an error margin of two hours due to the irregularity of the slowing of earth's rotation. A lunar eclipse may only occur on the 14th day of the new moon. Babylonian astrologers kept careful records about celestial happenings including the motions of Mercury, Venus, the Sun, and the Moon on tablets dating from 1700 to 1681 BC. It is possible that after each miracle of the sun, God reset the moon's and venus' orbit to match its previous orbit. That is, the moon and venus pivoted 180° around the earth with the sun to appear at the same time in the same phase after dark as they did the day before and continued with earth in a reverse orbit of the sun to continue to appear at the same time as they would have in the night sky. Only the moon would not need to reverse its orbit to pass through its phases. Because the moon's orbit is against earth's reverse orbit the moon's orbit would have to be slowed down when earth's orbit was sped up the 48 hours a reverse year. The eclipse record of day 56 August 12, 1269 BC was possibly during a reverse orbit. Yet the eclipse was just barely visible in Anyang China according to NASA. Another 40 minutes would be nice. Then lunar eclipses may have occurred just when we would predict them to be, even in a reverse orbit. I am not sure if solar eclipses were where we would predict them to be in a reverse orbit. Some Chinese lunar eclipse records are not believed to be actual eclipses, such as "eclipse is untimely" in king Wan's 35th year. Then these records could be records of sun miracles. These dates of Vahe Gurzadyan are still true according to NASA's Five Millenium Canon of Lunar Eclipses. These lunar eclipses were studied by NASA prior to the Missing Day Story. Wen-tze: "the sun and the moon grow thinner and are eclipsed, the five planets leave their course, the four seasons encroach one on another, the day grows dark,"

Above you see how the sun could have moved 360 million miles if the sun moved back 186 days later

This means the outer planets like the recently discovered almost planet "Quaoar" in the Kuiper Belt which is 30 to 100 Astronomical Units from the sun may have been moved the 360 million miles, 4 astronomical units. Likewise the 2004 XR 190 - an object with a circular orbit that cannot yet be explained. Likewise earth and the sun must free fall for the 12 hours it usually takes the sun to complete the 180° revolution around earth. Earth must be held on course so as not to be drawn in by the sun's gravity. Half of the 40 or more sun miracles indicated happened about spring. Joshua's long day for example made for 4 sun miracles of 2 astronomical units each in the same direction. Thus 8 astronomical units away from Sirius. Then earth and the sun must free fall a net accummulation of all these sun miracles of about 20 astronomical units towards Sagittarius and away from Sirius. Thus Sirius would still appear just before dawn July 16 100% as usual. Even so 20 astronomical units drift sideways should not affect it. The day Sirius first appears just before dawn varies by one day depending on it position in its 50 year orbit of its binary partner, every 25 years. This distance is equal to 20 astronomical units - an astronomical unit is the distance from earth to the sun. Thus if the sun moves the 180° half an orbit, half a year, after the first time the sun has moved 4 astromomical units. An example of four sun miracles is Joshua's long day February 25 1238 BC. There the sun moved back after moving 4 AU. Most of the 100 or more sun miracles were a series of 4. Some of them may have moved 8 AU in one direction. Close enough to the 20 astronomical units of distance Sirius A moves in its orbit of Sirius B. Thus Sirius may appear a day earlier, July 15 instead of July 16, about five years before or five years after the 50 year cycle. Then the sun must move back 180° rather in fall then in spring in the opposite order for Sirius to appear July 16 after earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. The sun would make this lateral move from Sirius if it moved the 180° in spring and back again in fall or in fall and back again in spring. The four sun miracles of Joshua's long day moved the sun back to where it had been. So sun miracles may have behaved in a specific way so the sun would move back. Then the sun must sometimes move west for a sudden sunrise in the east for the sun to move back in this series of 4. Then also some sun miracles must be for 36 hours and not always 12 hours. July 16 is a crucial date point for the Egyptian Sothis calendar. Schaefer (2000) calculated the appearing of Sirius 30° N: July 16.4 3500 BC, July 16.9 3000 BC, July 16.6 2500 BC, July 17.3 2000 BC, July 17.8 1500 BC, July 17.2 1000 BC, July 18.2 500 BC, July 18.3 AD 1, July 20.3 AD 500. An accumulated lateral move like this could affect the accuracy of his calculations. Galileo tried to measure earth's movement around the sun by finding a change in the position of nearby stars, called a parallax, and could not. Bessel, Friedrich (1784-1846), was the first to do so and measured the parallax of 61 Cygni, at a distance of 10.1 light-years. That the stars could not be observed to move as earth moves around the sun was a major obstacle in accepting the earth orbited the sun. That the stars were so very far away was unacceptable at the time. If earth's parallax were measured before and after the sun moved this 360 million miles the parallax would be three times as great as produced only by earth's orbit. However, the ancients did not have telescopes or any means to observe this shift in star position. People did not believe Galileo because of a lack of tangible proof in that day. Just as people do not believe me now. Hipparchus of Nicaea used the Sothis Egyptian calendar and the appearing of Sirius and its Azimuth to calculate precession in 150 BC. In this diagram you see the months would continue regardless if the sun moved 180° back six months later or 1 year later. 1 Kings 18:1 "And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth."
Jesus said: Luke 4:25 "But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;"
Ahab must have reigned from 945 BC. The Jubilee was in 940 BC. Then this drought must have been fairly soon after Ahab began his reign. Perhaps the sun moved 180° to mark this drought and earth continue in a reverse orbit till 3 1/2 years and the sun move back and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. The clouds that gathered and the rain would hide the glory of God the dragon or the phoenix moving the sun. There is the possibility in the future God may move the sun 7 X 180° east and earth flow into a reverse orbit then 3 1/2 years later move the sun 7 X 180° east and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. Then the sun could move 7 X 180° again to start a second reverse orbit to make up for the 30 minutes or so of missing time. Then 3 1/2 years later the sun could move 7 X 180° and earth flow out of the second reverse orbit leaving no missing time. There are many possible combinations of sun miracles. Earth must speed up its orbit of the sun 48 hours a year in a reverse orbit. Technicians get very concerned when to add a leap second because international time is closely tied to earth's rotation. There were some 23 leap seconds added since 1950 and after several years of no leap seconds there was one added last December 31 2005. The day the sun moved everyone would have to reset their clocks by at least 12 hours. Then + or - a few hours after earth completely shifted a few days later. Then every day would be 8 minutes short, so everyone on the planet would have to reset their watches and clocks and computers ahead 8 minutes every day. The half an orbit would be 178 days from the fall and 187 days from the spring. Plus seven days if earth's orbit was not sped up. There would need to be a second correcting half reverse orbit to counter the missing minutes from the first one. This second reverse orbit could begin the day the first one ended.
One sun miracle from this period is: "During the first year of King Yi (?1100 BC - 840 BC), the day dawned twice at Zheng" There was a phoenix recorded in the time of Sesostris about 866 BC. However, the Bible does not say. This scripture is only an example of 3 1/2 years. (The Hebrew reads from the third year, that is, after three years. Perhaps beginning in March before harvest and ending in September before sowing.) If the sun moved 180° back 3 1/2 years after, earth would flow out of the reverse orbit, reorient to what it had been before and continue as if nothing had happened. Then if the sun moves back on the half year the sun must travel a total of 360 million miles east as in the above diagram.

Joshua's long day appears to be an exception to sun miracles that happen on the same day whole years later. Because Joshua's long day had to have happened February 25 followed by a long day or long night half a year, half an orbit, later August 31 1238 BC. Possibly Moses' three days of darkness was March 21 1279 BC and the sun returned half an orbit later on the Day of Atonement September 24 1279 BC. Hezekiah's Sign and perhaps a sign marking Hezekiah's death, appear March 23 when it follows there must have been a second miracle on the same date and the sun must move back where it was originally. That is, there must have been a second sun miracle half a year after Hezekiah's sign and again there must have been a sun miracle half a year before or after the sun moved probably on his death 15 years later. The months of the year would be in reverse against the zodiac.
Emperor Kwei recorded sun miracles 19 years apart. The phases of the moon occur on exactly the same dates 19 years later. Then sun miracles may have happened on the same Sothis Egyptian date and same lunar date. Howebeit, there must be two sun miracles half a year a part each time.

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Egyptian Legends

Some quotes from: S.I.S. Review Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Vol. II No. 1 AUTUMN 1977 (c) 1977 Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Senmut and Phaethon by M G READE D.S.C.,:
"It may also be noted that Ursa Major is variously known to moderns as the plough, the great bear and the dipper; to the ancient Egyptians of the Middle Kingdom and subsequently, however, it was always "the foreleg of the bull" - Meskheti (Mshtyw, or abbr. Ms) - their explanation being that Horus had chopped off one leg of the bull and transferred it to another part of the sky where it could be properly guarded and prevented from ever again running amok. Amongst the precautions they enviceged was chaining of the severed leg to a mooring post situated close to the feet of the hippopotamus (now also in the northern celestial hemisphere), which suggests that there may have been more than one tradition as to how Ursa major acquired its present position in the northern sky. That it and Bootes - the Herdsman (Arcturus) would get there in a single step if the earth became inverted (i.e. turned to at least substantially its present day orientation) during or shortly after the striking of the celestial bull by Horus seems much the simplest and the most direct explanation." The most direct explanation is the sun moving 180° before or after the equinoxes and earth shifting to keep in the same season to a new pole star, thus the legend of the severed leg of the celestial bull. Horus the falcon was the god of the horizen connected with the winged solar disk and the phoenix. The Egyptians may have seen one of the four beasts in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4 look like an eagle when there was a sun miracle and named their god Horus after the beast. "In the story of Isis and Horus, Horus is stung by Set. When Isis finds Her son unresponsive, She stops the sun and calls down Thoth to help Her revive him." And engraved at Edfu: "Horus of Behut-t flew up into the horizen in the form of a great Winged Sun-Disk, for which reason he is called 'Great God, LORD of Heaven', to this day. And when he saw the enemies in the heights of heaven he set out to chase them in the form of a great Winged Sun-Disk." Precession took the pole down the line from Horus' head, Bootes, from 8000 BC. The legend may originate with a sun miracle in May or November and this spear mark the path of earth's shift to keep in the same season. To the Egyptians the greatest event must have been the long day when Joseph was 30 and was made governor March 31 2357 BC. Earth must have only turned 22° in forward precession then. China records a sun miracle 70 years later when Joseph was 100 perhaps January 26 2287 BC. The Pharaoh of Egypt then must have been Pepi I a contemporary of emperor Shun. Then earth must turn 150° in forward precession. Then also this spear may depict earth turning to Alderamin keeping with the Joseph theme. Then Senmut may have known of Joseph in 1468 BC, or rather Senmut should be dated 76 years earlier to 1544 BC. By 1370 BC pharaoh Seti I did not know Joseph, Exodus 1:8. Then the pieces of this legend begin to fit. Phaethon: "Bootes (Arcturus), they say, fled away, though encumbered with his plow and unused to rapid motion." You can see Senmut's celestial ceiling here. Mouse over the image, when a box appears on lower right click for the enlargement. There are 12 circles; 8 to the right, 4 to the left, feast days on the twelve months of the zodiac. There were 4 months to a season. Thus this sun miracle may mark the beginning of a season, perhaps March 22. A notable event, Joseph's long day, must have been March 31 2357 BC, 13 days later. The rays from the new pole star dividing the 12 months thus may have marked this beginning of the season Shemu. Moreover, this zodiac progresses in reverse. You may compare to my interpretation of the ceiling here. The cone from below the Bull may lead from the pole star to the new pole star, the severed leg of the bull. Perhaps the bull is being speared to accomplish a pole shift. Perhaps a small shift as in Joseph's/Yao's long day probably March 31 2357 BC. Or perhaps a large shift perhaps in November or May, the line of the spear depicting the path of earth's axis in backwards precession of thousands of years to an old pole star. Only this shift was accomplished in a day in order to keep earth in the same season.
Gilgamesh was a Sumerian king of Uruk during the Early Dynastic II period (c. 2700 B.C.). This epic is attributed to 2300 BC, just after these miracles for Joseph:
The Gilgamesh Epic Tablet VI: with the missing lines filled in from The Epic of Gilgamesh, A New Translation, Andrew George, ©1999.
"'If you desire from the Bull of Heaven, There there will be seven years Of barren husks in the land of Uruk. Have you gathered enough grain for the people? Have you grown enough fodder for the beasts?' Inanna spoke, said to her father An: 'I have stored enough grain for the people I have provided enough fodder for the animals. If there should be seven years of no crops I have gathered grain for the people I have grown fodder for the beasts.' With the wrath of the Bull I shall have vengeance. When An heard this speech of Inanna He gave her the tether of the Bull of Heaven, So that Inanna might lead it to Uruk. When she came to the gates of Uruk it dried up the woods, the reed beds and marshes, He went down to the river, lowered the level by seven full cubits. With the snort of the Bull of Heaven, pits were opened And a hundred men of Uruk fell into them. With his second snort, pits were opened And two hundred young men of Uruk fell into them. With his third snort, pits were opened And Enkidu fell in one of them as far as his waist. Enkidu leapt out of it and seized the Bull by the horns The Bull of Heaven retreated before him And brushed him with the hairy tip of its tail, As it spewed foam from its mouth. Enkidu spoke, said to Gilgamesh: 'My friend, we boasted our selves in our city: how shall we answer the thronging people? 'My friend, I have tested the might of the Bull..., so learning its strength, and knowing its purpose. Let me test again the might of the Bull, I shall get myself behind the Bull of Heaven. I will seize it the by the tuft of the tail. 'I will set my foot on the back of its leg, in...it. Then you like a butcher, brave and skillful, between the yoke of the horns and the slaughter-spot thrust in your knife!' Enkidu rushed around to the rear of the Bull, He seized him by the thick hairy tip of his tail. He set his foot on the back of its leg, in...it. He thrust his sword between the nape of his neck And the horns of his head. When they had killed the Bull, they tore out his heart And placed it before Shamash the Sun. They stepped back and fell down before Shamash in homage. Then the two brothers sat down. Then Inanna mounted up upon the wall of the city There at ramparted Uruk and Springing on to the battlements she uttered a curse: 'Woe be unto you, Gilgamesh, who has insulted me By slaying the Bull of Heaven!' When Enkidu heard the curse of Inanna, He tore loose the right thigh of the Bull of Heaven, Flung it skywards up into her face: ...Enkidu rose to relate the dream, saying to his friend: "
Here we see "The Bull of Heaven retreated", that is Ursa Major reversed its circuit through the year just as it would after Joseph's/Yao's long day probably March 31 2357 BC. The right thigh normally rotated clockwise as the year progressed around the pole star. Later it appeared the leg had been flung out of its circum polar circuit, probably describing Yao's/Joseph's long day 2357 BC and the reference to "seven years Of barren husks" probably refers to Pharaoh's dream that Joseph interpreted. That is, Joseph's dream of the sun and moon bowing down to him probably was fulfilled when the sun stood still over China March 31 2357 BC. "Shamash" is the Hebrew word for sun, Shemesh, and probably a sun miracle is recorded here. "If there should be seven years of no crops I have gathered grain for the people" may relate to Joseph and have been inscribed thus that century, 2300 BC.
Psalm 18:15 "Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast, of the breath of thy nostrils."
Thus, the sun may have moved back to begin the seven years of drought and all the rivers dried up as in Phaethon. Possibly this psalm of David was passed down from Joseph, and perhaps also David experienced a sun miracle of God standing up for David. A sun miracle was also written of 70 years later by Yao.

Senmut's celestial ceiling may depict the sun moving 180° on November or May and earth turning back - the old pole star at "the hairy tip of its tail" shifting to a new pole star near Arcturus, referred to by Job, and then years later the sun must move 180° back again and earth shift about 75° back to "the mooring post". The bull being pierced by Horus in Senmut's celestial ceiling may depict the pole star shifting up the spear in backwards precession.

In Greek legend the Gods all ran to one side of heaven during the war with the Gods and the Titans. The heavens would have fallen had not Atlas and Hercules supported it, and Hercules was placed in the sky in commemoration. Hercules got Atlas to slay Draco the dragon depicted above Hercules. This may have been a description of the sun moving to one side of heaven and earth shifting its pole to point to Hercules. This shift would be temporary, a number of years, and then the sun would move back and earth shift back. Thus perhaps the legend of how Hercules tricked Atlas to take back the burden of the heavens. Hercules is now kneeling, almost upsidedown, Rasalgethi the Kneeler's Head and Kornephorus the Club Bearer. Hercules was connected to sun worship by the Assyrians in 3000 BC. 8000 BC the pole star was at Hercules' feet. Perhaps the sun moved 180° in more recent times, 3000 BC - 2000 BC, and the pole star was again at Hercules' feet. There were many sun miracles in May/June on Pentecost meaning earth must shift its axis to point to the feet of Hercules often. As Hercules rotated around this pole star he would at times be upright, at times upside down kneeling. The consellation then may rather depict a more recent theme, the sun moving 180° in late fall or late spring and earth turning its axis to Hercules to keep in the same season. Also earth's axis would shift north to south and east become west keeping in this northern hemisphere of stars. Land maps would not be changed, only the celestial map of north, east, west and south. So, to them earth would be "upside down". "Zues came by night and prolonging the one night three-fold he assumed the likeness of Amphitryon and bedded with Alcmena" from thence came Hercules. Perhaps Emperor Kwei's three suns, Moses' three days darkness or Lu Yang's sun reversed three stalls.

From the tomb of Horemheb VS or In the inscription of the Speos Artemidos during Hatshepsut's reign with Senmut. (The Sanktuar was only decorated under Seti I. with own inscriptions finished or "restored". ): "Harakhte, only god, king of the gods; he rises in the west, he sends his beauty.." Harakhte is the Egyptian name for the western sun. A more recent translation is "he shines in life" VS - Then there is the possibility the sun stood still in the west to shine in life, as it may have done March 20 705 BC on China. The sun appears to move west to east through the zodiac through the year as we orbit the sun counterclockwise. Then this may mean earth in a normal orbit of the sun in this period. However, see Weitere Bauwerke der Hatschepsut / Fragmente: "The sun disk on the head straightens up" That is, the sun is depicted in the west moving back to the noon position. Pyramid textes added 'the west which is at the sun-setting.' Was not mere tautology, as Velikovsky contended. The more things change the more they remain the same.

Some quotes from: S.I.S. Review Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Vol. II No. 1 AUTUMN 1977 (c) 1977 Society for Interdisciplinary Studies Senmut and Phaethon by M G READE D.S.C.,:

• "All (or almost all) the ceiling designers appear to have known that a bull crossed the heavens, moving from right to left, but none of them appears adequately to have understood (or been able to depict) a bull which actually travelled tail first" The night sky today travels towards the east - both as earth rotates and as earth orbits. That is stars rise earlier every night. What I am saying is stars rose later every night - earth orbited the sun in the other direction. Therefore the reverse advance of the stars was what was indicated not a reverse rotation of the earth. Thus this Big Dipper would progress in reverse through the seasons. From TheSky Software Bisque:
  The span from the bull's tail to the severed leg of the bull is being measured - from the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I. You have read the legend of the severed leg. There is only one conclusion: that earth shifted on its axis to keep in the same season after the sun moved 180° in summer or winter. Perhaps the sun moved 180° and swung to the other side of earth for earth's forward momentum to carry it into the reverse orbit. The hand grasping the tail is where the pole star would be before and after. Earth need not turn to keep in the same season on the equinox. Then this was other than on the equinox. The man below the bull measuring the amount the pole star moved to and from the mooring post may symbolize a 75° pole shift. Likewise the cone leads from the bull's tail to the mooring post, new pole star, on Senmut's celestial ceiling.
• "the Egyptian season of "Growth" fell (in the pharaonic calendar, and effectively until the building of the Aswan dam) during our winter, beginning four months after the start of the Inundation around the summer solstice" The harvest beginning March 31 2357 BC on Joseph's/Yao's long day. At the beginning of the Sothis cycle July 16 2777 BC the summer solstice was July 18. Thus the agricultural and civil calendars were the same that year. Because the new year began with the summer solstice and the civil new year began with the first appearing of Sirius before dawn, the same day. In Abraham's day 2648 BC to 2473 BC the summer solstice was on New Year's day July 16. The Chinese recorded sun miracles then, perhaps there was one on July 16. So a sun miracle on the solstices, or equinoxes, would not need a second correcting reverse orbit. Even in Joseph's day, 2357 BC, the summer solstice was July 14. See The Pierce Festivals Calendar. The 120 day season of the inundation was Akhet.
• The Dendera Zodiac: "The zodiac and the heavenly bodies, including Phaethon, rotate anti-clockwise on this diagram as the day advances. The earth and the direction of south, which is tied to the longitude of Thebes, remain stationary. The presentation is a mirror image of normality because the world is upside down and contra-rotating." "But this still leaves us with Osiris who is facing the wrong way by this criterion as much as any other". The world probably is not upside down. The east west reverse is probably a result of the sun moving 180° to the other side of earth. Thus the sun is in Leo in March to the east of the zodiac instead of in Pisces in March to the west of the zodiac. If the sun moved 180° in December or June earth must turn 180° to Vega to keep in the same season, still keeping mostly to the stars of the northern hemisphere. North would be south, however, not upside down. If the world were upside down these constellations of the pole star and zodiac would not be visible.
• "The charts of Senmut show the sky over Egypt at two different epochs: one of them depicts the sky of Egypt before the poles were interchanged probably in the catastrophe that terminated the Middle Kingdom; the other represents the sky of Egypt in the lifetime of Senmut. The first chart startled the investigators because in it west and east are reversed." East and west are reversed in Yao's zodiac also. Perhaps this was Joseph's long day and the years of plenty and then famine was the "catastrophe" that terminated the Old Kingdom. Then this may be the sky after Joseph's long day. Egyptologists think the Old Kingdom ended after several low Niles recorded by Pharaoh Unas in 2345 BC. A pyramid was just discovered November 2008 in Egypt. "It was a time of conflict in Egypt's royal family that eventually led the country into an era of famine and social upheaval." The era of famine was the 7 lean years from 2350 BC during Unas' reign. Probably, though, this was "in the 29th year of the emperor Kwei, 1788 BC, 3 suns appeared together in the sky." 1788 matches the conventional chronology for the end of the Middle Kingdom.
• "For Senmut the significance of the scene depicted was less the destruction of Phaethon than the marking of the start of a new era, or "Great Year"; he could well have deemed the subsequent catastrophes of this era to be trivial by comparison with this one. The present author certainly supposes that the Phaethon incident marks the most recent inversion of the earth though not, probably, the only one."
  "There are repeated references in the (Pharaoh) Unas Funerary (commonly known as Pyramid) Texts of the Fifth Dynasty kings (2350 BC), referring to a prior inauguration of the New Year." Possibly this is the Pharaoh of Joseph. Many, such as Plato, also wrote of this Great Year. (The legend has it as that year the five planets formed a conjunction) The Pharaoh of Joseph, Unas, was known as the star god in Orion. From the pyramid textes: "O Atum, the Creator, you became high in the sky, you rose up from the Ben-Ben Stone, in the Temple of the Bennu in the City of Annu." The Bennu is the Phoenix. This is perhaps a reference to the sun miracles in 2357 BC and 2350 BC and to the God of Joseph. Perhaps there is a parallel to king Hezekiah. Unas also reigned 30 years (Hezekiah 29). If Unas became pharaoh in 2358 BC he would live 15 more years after the end of the famine.
• "Neugebauer & Parker list approximately 50 monuments containing at least partial representations of the me depicted on Senmut's northern panel. Of these, 23 show the hippo to the right of the bull as on Senmut's ceiling, and 16 show it to the left of the bull."
  If the hippo is to the left of the bull, the end of the bull's tail must still be the pole star and mirror their former positions.
• "On the ceiling of Seti I - which reflects another tradition - 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."
  The sun passes east through the constellations normally. In a reverse orbit the zodiac progresses westward. Then Orion could be depicted moving west and looking back at Sirius in a reverse orbit. Of course the stars travel west each night also.
• The Shadow Clock of Seti I works only on the solstice at the 26° latitude. Marks register the shadow at 1/12th day before and after noon, 2/12, 3/12 and 4/12 in precise intervals to the ratio of 1:2:3:4. A bob casts a shadow on the board as the clock is turned into the sun.V.S. There is a subtle east west shift of the Sun's position called the equation of time. This is explained at www.analemma.com. Read the explanation to "With a Java enabled browser, click here to create your own analemma." You will notice the less eccentric, more circular, the orbit the more symmetrical the analemma. Notice a very different pattern depending on the month you make the equinox. This analemma has the same shape on the ground from a sundial. Earth must maintain the sun's same intensity throughout the year, therefore the analemma in a reverse orbit should be identical to what it would have been. Also, because earth must shift on the same perpendicular to the sun as precession the analemma must be the same.

Criticism of Velikovsky countered below:
"But if Velikovsky took the trouble to glance at a modern horoscope diagram, especially the rectangular variety he, too, would find the orientation astronomically objectionable, for it is identical with that of Senmut's astronomical ceiling which is nothing else but a copy of a horoscope (as the legends, indeed, state) for the heliacal rising of Sirius on New Year's Day of the common Egyptian calendar: an event which can only recur for a tetraeteris (4 year period) about 1456 years!
Additional copies of the same horoscope were found in the two temples of Ramses II at Abydos and at Madinat Habu (1289 BC); in the tombs of Ramses VI (1154-1148 BC), VII (1136-1129 BC, Jephthah's victory must have been 1139 BC See Woo's two suns 1126 BC.), IX (1126-1108 BC. See king Ching 1096 BC) at Thebes, in the sarcophagus of Prince Nectanebo (380-342 BC), and in the coffin of Hor-nef-tef of the Saite period (663-420 B.C. See Daniel 4:2, 6:27, Haggai 2:6, Zechariah 14:7, Malachi 4:2) and in the two tombs at Alfih of the Ptolemaic period (305-30 B.C. See "the sun's shadow lengthened more than ten cubits, and was elevated a cubit." 312 BC) where they acted as talismans promising longevity in the Elysian Fields.
Sidereal Campanus: OLDEST HOROSCOPE July 16 O.S., 2767 B.C. M.C. 10ARI37, llth 9TAU00, 12th 18GEM41, ASC 28CAN52, 2nd 26LEO59, 3rd 19VIR00, MARS 19CAN01, JUP 21CAN35, SAT 24CAN53, VEN 25CAN42, SUN 10LEO34, MER 28LEO54, MOON 19AQU02
These copies show a very rare quadruple conjunction of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus (as Mars was identified with the evil god Seth, for superstitious reasons in a few copies it was omitted), with Venus, under its Pyramidic name of the Bennu-bird or Bird of the Inundation risen in the east just above the Ascendant. Retrospective calculation discloses that such a conjunction actually took place on July 16 (O.S.) 2767 B.C. which happened to be New Year's Day of the common Egyptian calendar, and incidentally midsummer day. On this date Sirius rose heliacally at Heliopolis the Greenwich of Egypt! Note the accompanying chart which is a copy of the oldest extant horoscope in existence!"

• Yes, this ancient horoscope/zodiac/orbit progresses counterclockwise, in reverse, perhaps recalling the reverse orbit of Joseph's/Yao's long day. However the man with the spear is not Orion but Bootes and the star at the bull's tail is not Sirius but the pole star. Thus the pole star is to the right of Bootes as depicted whereas Sirius would be to the left of Orion. The Bennu bird depicted = the phoenix and suggests there was a sun miracle. Dead Sea Scrolls Horoscopes 4Q186, 4QMessAr read left to right, the reverse of Hebrew writing. The Hellenistic Jewish writer Eupolemus credited the invention of the horoscope with Abraham. I do not believe he or anyone else in the Bible followed astrology. However, a reverse orbit/zodiac appears to have started the year of Abraham's birth, 2648 BC when "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...the heavens were wrapped in mist for three days and three nights...now the phoenixes fly about in your eastern borders." in the Chinese emperor Huang di's 50th year September 22 2648 BC, or 57th year as some copies read. The Horoscope from the Tomb of Unas also describes the appearing of Sirius July 16 and the five lucky or unlucky days. Then this celestial ceiling of Senmut may recall Joseph's long day. A clockwise zodiac depicts earth orbiting the sun counterclockwise. There are 12 circles depicting 12 feast days of the year possibly progressing in reverse, a reverse zodiac and a reverse orbit. A counterclockwise zodiac depicts earth orbiting the sun in reverse, clockwise. The three dots on the bull's tail may depict three pole shifts. There were often two pole shifts in a century.
• These zodiacs were painted on the inside top of the coffin lid. Then the reverse zodiac painted there to be viewed from the inside must indeed be a reverse zodiac. The Egyptians took the mummification process seriously, they would not accidently flip a transfer to depict a reverse zodiac.
• These themes may have been repeated on the occasion of reverse orbits, some of which are indicated on this page for these periods.
• Yes, the Phaethon legend suggests the sun moved from Scorpius to Eridanus - Gemini/Taurus, probably the sun miracle of March 31 2350 that marked the beginning of drought in Egypt as per Joseph's interpretation. BC. The first quarter moon is in Aquarius on the right. The sun then must be in Scorpius but is depicted 180° away in Aries to Leo (the July 16 position).
• The tomb of Pharaoh Unas who began to reign probably 2357 BC, or 2381 BC, is "the oldest known royal tomb to have contained religious texts" such as these, and may be the Pharaoh, Unas, whose dreams Joseph interpreted and these inscriptions may pertain to Joseph's long day. "Unas (2381-2345 BC - according to The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, ©2000) was the last king of the fifth dynasty. Depictions along his causeway at Saqqara show the effects of famine." The end of this fifth dynasty was assumed to be at the end of the years of famine. Therefore archaeologists gave the end of Unas reign as 2345, to accommodate the famine in 2350 BC - 2344 BC. What is true is the famine was from 2350 BC - 2344 BC. The term the "bull of Ra" or the "bull of the sun" began then. "[7] Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences at Ohio State found a layer containing dust in a 4000 year old ice core taken from Mount Kilimandjaro." at the head waters of the Nile. This year, 2005, is the only year in history there has been no snow layer on Mount Kilimandjaro because of the green house effect. Meaning, every year going back to the famine in Egypt and before left a snow layer to be measured. This famine very likely was the seven years predicted by Joseph. There may have been no rain at all, and the secondary source of large glaciers to the Nile may have been the primary source 2350 BC - 2344 BC. Then the famine had nothing to do with El Niño. Joseph must have appeared before Pharaoh 2357 BC perhaps March 31, and Unas appears to be this pharaoh. The conflagration of Phaethon may have been fires started by the dry forest in the seven years drought God promised following the sun moving back the 180° March 31 2350 BC.
• The world conflagration was to occur when the planets were in alignment in Cancer and a deluge when the planets were in alignment in Capricornus according to Berosus, 275 BC. Capricornus is 180° from Cancer. The Phaethon legend, Ovid (Metamorphosis 2.114-5) "The stars were fled, for Lucifer had chased The stars away, and fled himself at last." Then Phaethon has Venus appearing early that morning. Phaethon looses control at the sight of Scorpius. Perhaps this day starts out with the sun in Scorpius, now in the noon position, then falls 180° to Eridanus. Noah's flood may have been Saturday, April 12, 3637 BC when the sun was in Taurus (when Sumerian writing in picture symbols were in use and when cuneiform began and thus probably written down and thus the Bible account of Noah's flood is still very accurate). If the sun moved 180° on April 12 3637 BC it would then be in Scorpius. Then the sun may have moved back to Taurus one year later, April 12 3636 BC, 9 days before the spring equinox April 21 3636 BC and earth must turn 18° in 1200 years worth of forward precession, to the 2400 BC pole orientation, and back again. Piscis Austrinus, an ancient constellation, appears gulping the water flowing from Aquarius' water jar. That is interpreted as swallowing up the flood waters of the Great Flood. SkyNews, Nov/Dec 2003, p.26 This constellation would appear after sunset at the time of the flood, and before sunrise one year later at the end of the flood. "The flood of Deucalion is described by Greek authors as being simultaneous with the conflagration of Phaethon." when summer is turned into winter.
• Yes, there was a five planetary conjunction in Cancer July 16, 2767 BC. However, the beginning of the Sothis period has been more accurately dated to July 16 2777 BC. Planetary alignments were associated with the falling zodiac in Seneca's Thyestes and in the extended sunset of king Wan's dream (Joshua's long day). The planets must have moved the 180° with the sun and standing still in the sky their alignment would be all the more noticed that night. Then the thing would be to look for such an alignment 180 degrees away from what would have been that day.

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Yao's/Joseph's Long Day

Tao the Great Luminant page 88 "Coming to the times of Yao, ten suns once appeared together, scorching the crops, killing trees and plants, so that the people had nothing to eat. Ferocious dragon like beasts, baboons with long teeth, monsters of the deep, gorillas or bears, great boars and pythons are hurtful to people. So Yao employed I to slay the baboons in the wastes of Ch'ou Hua and killed the monsters on the shore of the evil waters (of the barbarian north); be bound the evil beast that creates hurricanes in the marshes of Ch'ing Chiu; he shot the ten suns above and destroyed the dragon-like beast below; he cut down the python in T'ung Ting lake and captured the wild boars in the Mulberry forest. The people were delighted and placed Yao on the pedestal of the Son of Heaven (made him emperor, Yao means important like emperor.)."
This may describe the change of weather after the sun moved 180° and earth flowed into a reverse orbit. The drought and resulting fire would force out snakes and wild animals. The sun must move back half a year or up to two years later depending on the length of time the sun stood still. The sun could have dimmed and stood still in the sky for 108 hours or 9 X 12 hours. Time enough to start forest fires. Then the sun likely traveled 180° west when it returned two years later and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. Then the sun would brighten seven times and the day be only about 2 hours. Then to leave the same daily coral line in the sun's brief travel through the sky the sun's intensity must have been increased sevenfold.
Isaiah 30:26 "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound."
Thus the scorching heat. Likewise the tale of Phaethon describes intense heat. And likewise the tale by the Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia: He had come to visit his father the Sun and desired to carry the Sun's torches in his stead. To light them slowly increasing in number to noon, then to put them out little by little. The next morning, "Phaethon" climbed the path of the sun and not only kindled all the torches he had, he did so much too early, so that the earth became red hot: the woods began to burn.." That is, perhaps the sun both traveled west much too quickly and became much too hot.

"...it is reported, that in the time of their seventh emperor, Yao, the sun did not set for ten days, and that men were afraid the earth would be burnt.."Gill 1810, Hubner 1733. However, this ancient text no longer exists. "Yao" Universal Lexicon(1732-1754) Volume LX. Also Kurze Fragen aus der politischen Historie(1729) by J. Hubner

"Once there were seven suns in the sky. It was too hot. People found a good archer and asked him to shoot some of the suns. The archer was a daring man. He said, 'Tomorrow morning when the seven suns come out I'll shoot six of them with six arrows. If I fail, I'll be a marmot, cut off my thumb, drink blood instead of water, eat dry grass and live underground.' Well, he shot five. When he shot his last arrow, a sparrow flew in front of him. The arrow cut the sparrow's tail, which is why the sparrow has a forked tail. He did as he promised, and became a marmot. That is why the marmot has human meat on him." Ghengis Khan, Life, Death and Resurrection. By John Man. p.27. On the subject how tales originated among the Mongol people.

TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY OF THE CH'U SILK MANUSCRIPT found in 1934, from 500 BC: Text A: Yao assigns Kung Kung to manage the Ho? "After one thousand and one hundred years, the Sun and the Moon .... born" 1119 years between Yao's long day, 2357 BC, and Joshua's long day, about 1238 BC. Many irregularities of the sun and moon follow in Text B: "the sun, the moon thence will gain and retreat, and will not obtain its .... . Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter .... (= not?) have .... (= their?) regularity." In a reverse orbit the stars marking spring and fall are reversed. "the [process of] gaining and retreating .... (= becomes muddled?)" The zodiac retreats in a reverse orbit. "Sun and the Moon have already become confused" Both the sun and moon must move 180°. "The [movements of the] Sun and the Moon .... (= verb?) in confusion, the Stars and the Constellations will not be in harmony." In a reverse orbit the stars rise later each evening instead of earlier but the moon would rise later each evening as usual. "the seasonal rainfall will come and go, and there will be no regularity" a change in weather patterns in a reverse orbit would be expected. "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" People are the same today.

Was Yao's Long Day 12 hours longer accomplished by the sun moving 180° east and appearing to stand still in the sky? "he shot the ten suns above and destroyed the dragon-like beast below" The dragon-like beast could be the moon which must move 180° also to stay in the same lunar phase. The dragon, the moon, often ate the sun in an eclipse. The Chinese symbol for moon, or darkness, was Yin, - female, princess. The Chinese symbol for sun was Yang, male. The moon's hidden side must shine, either from sun shine or earth shine, on earth till the moon rotated 180°. Perhaps the toad look of princess Chang E in the moon was the moon's hidden side lighted by the sun shining on earth. The far side of the moon is rough and battered like the bumps on a toad. There would be this empty moon disc on the new moon this March 31 2357 BC and this toad look visible in the full moon perhaps the night after the sun moved again in Yao's 7th year possibly October 4 2351 BC in order to counter the missing 40 minutes of the two and a half years of the reverse orbit of 2357 BC. That is, in a reverse orbit year earth must be sped up 48 hours to keep 365 days to the year because orbit is against rotation. Then if the reverse orbit was for half a year more than a full year we must compute the number of days of that half orbit. From March 31 it would be 187 more days. 187/365 X 48 = 24:40 hours. That is a net loss of 40 missing minutes. Then there must be a second reverse orbit starting about the autumn equinox 178 days. That is, 178/365 X 48 = 23:20. Thus a net of no missing time assuming the sun traveled east enough times 180°. Then when earth flowed out of the second reverse orbit solar eclipse paths on the earth would be exactly as we would predict them to be. The far side of the moon gets just as much sun as the side facing the earth. There may be no way to physically detect these sun miracles. Nevertheless, the Chinese may have seen an angel at the moon that looked like a princess. A Heron depicted on the back of a turtle in this bronze sculpture from the Hunan Provincial Museum means long life because the Phoenix/Heron never dies and the turtle together with the deer/unicorn mean long life. The Chinese writing that goes with it is all about the sun and moon; "Husband and wife love to permanent, Elegant The all and the one." That is the phoenix. "A beautiful woman in white dress in the morning" - could refer to an angel at the sun or moon. The sun may have moved again for a second reverse orbit on the full moon October 4 2351 BC and be both the unicorn in Yao's seventh year and the sun and moon miracle that marked the Chinese Autumn festival and the next seven years of famine in Egypt. The second correcting sun miracle must happen half an orbit or a full orbit or multiples thereof later. Thus the second correcting sun miracle must be about the same day of 60 whether 186 days later or 365 days later because 186 days is 6 days over 60 and 365 days plus leap year is also 6 days over 60. March 31 2357 BC is day 28. October 4 2351 BC is day 8 and March 31 2350 BC is day 5. Also, the lunar phase October 4 2351 BC is the same as the lunar phase March 31 2350 BC, the full moon either date. Thus the sun must have returned on day 6 October 4 2351 BC or day 6 March 31 2357 BC. Earth only ever sees this one side of the moon which is mostly smooth. In this rough cratered image taken by a Russian satellite in the 1960's for the first time, you see the far side of the moon on the right half of this image. On the left you see the smooth dark Sea of Crisis, Border Sea - border of what we can see on earth, and the Sea of fertility. The whole far side of the moon is filled with craters with just the small Moscow Sea and small Sea of Ingenuity, which cannot be seen in these photos:

Moon's far side: Pictures of the Moon

Moon's eastern edge: Two sides of the Moon

This image of the moon shows the rough far side on the left half. In the middle you see the Eastern Sea on the border. The moon always shows the same side to earth because the moon rotates exactly 29.5 days the exact orbit of the moon. Thus earth has never seen the other side of the moon, even in ancient times. Except perhaps during a sun miracle. That is, the other side of the moon never faces the earth, not even on a new moon when the same side as faces the earth on a full moon is lit by earth shine.
Moon Animation
3D Moon PDF - turn the moon as you like.
3D Java applet of the Moon - turn the moon and see the far side.
Notice the far side of the moon coming into view. If the moon could not be immediately rotated during a sun miracle, earth would see the far side of the moon.

The Shuswap people may have recorded seeing the far side of the moon on the night of a sun miracle. You can see the rough edges to the far rough side of the moon in my detailed picture. In the Yin Yang the yin is the female the moon and the yang is the male the sun. Or this could be the sun moving 180° from Taurus to Scorpius, the green dragon. The reason Scorpius was named the green dragon could be that is where the green dragon was most often seen. There were 10 suns in the 10 day week. The Chinese symbol for day and sun are the same. When the 10 suns appeared together and would not move Yao shot down the 9 suns leaving the one sun to continue. That is, when the sun would not move Yao employed an archer to shot at the sun nine times. Then he refrained him and the sun moved again. Emperor Kin, 1891 BC, also recorded 10 suns appeared together in the sky. The total amount of missing time from a few years of reverse orbits must be countered by the sun standing still or moving east. That is, a reverse orbit has 48 less hours a year. Now, if the sun stood still 108 hours or 9 X 12 hours for Yao/Joseph then there could be a reverse orbit of two and a half years if the sun also moved 180° east when it returned and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. Thus Yao's 9 suns may be literally true and yes the day would get hot and burn the grass even if the sun was dimmed. Likewise if the sun traveled west when the sun returned and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit the sun must be several times brighter to leave the same daily coral line.

Joseph's Dreams

Genesis 36:

3 "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying."

Genesis 43:

26 "And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?
28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance."

We do not know when the second dream was fulfilled:

9 "And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me."
Joseph is central in both the first and second dream. Perhaps earth is central and the sun and planets revolved around the earth the day Joseph was made governor over Egypt at the beginning of harvest. That day Joseph's brethern would see the sun stand still and perhaps wonder at Joseph's dream not knowing he was being made governor over Egypt. The planets must turn around and face the sun at the same inclination as before. More likely the eleven stars refer to eleven of the twelve signs of the zodiac. That the sun had moved 180° from the Pleiades to Virgo, Virgo not visible because the sun was in that "star". Thus, the other eleven stars/zodiac appear to bow to the sun, the zodiac now progressing in reverse. That is, the sons of Jacob would bow to the Son of God, Jesus, with the glory of the Sun.
Matthew 17:1 "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a 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."
Pharaoh called Joseph first thing in the morning to interpret his dream, whereupon:
Genesis 41:43 "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."
Perhaps the morning sun stood still in the sky for Joseph as Pharaoh made him governor and he went out into Egypt. The morning sun in Egypt is an afternoon sun in China. Then perhaps that afternoon the sun stood still in China, the people were in commotion and almost 12 hours later Yao appeared to employ Yi to shoot at the sun. There is a Chinese constellation of a bow aimed at Sirius/Taurus, just where the sun would be in Spring just before the sun moved the 180°, the emperor pulling the string. At exactly 12 hours and at the 9th arrow, Yao refrained Yi and the sun moved, whereupon they made Yao emperor. Yao's previous name was Fang, he was named Son of Heaven that day. This bow aimed at Taurus may have been first named when the sun was in Taurus April 12 3637 BC and perhaps moved 180° the day of Noah's flood. Noah's flood April 12 3637 BC was 10 days before the spring equinox just as Joseph's long day April 1 2357 BC was 10 days before the spring equinox.

Yao's Long day must have been October 5 2358 BC or March 31 2357 BC for these stars to mark the seasons.

The Canon of Yaou

Thereupon Yaou commanded the He and Ho, in reverent accordance with their observations on the wide heavens, to calculate and delineate the movements and appearances of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the zodiacal spaces; and so to deliver respectfully the seasons to the people.

He separately commanded the second brother He to reside at Yu-e, in what was called the Bright Valley, and there respectfully to receive as a guest the rising sun, and to adjust and arrange the labours of the spring. "The day," he said, "is of medium length, and the star is in Neaou; you may thus exactly determine mid-spring. The people begin to disperse; and the birds and beasts breed and copulate."

He further commanded the third brother He to reside at Nankeaou, and arrange the transformations of the summer, and respectfully to observe the extreme limit of the shadow. "The day," said he, "is at its longest, and the star is Ho; you may thus exactly determine mid-summer. The people are more dispersed; and birds and beasts have their feathers and hair thin, and change their coats."

He separately commanded the second brother Ho to reside at the west, in what was called the Dark Valley, and there respectfully to convoy the setting sun, and to adjust and arrange the completing labours of autumn. "The night," he said, "is of the medium length, and the star is Heu; you may thus exactly determine mid-autumn. The people begin to feel at ease; and birds and beasts have their coats in good condition."

He further commanded the third brother Ho to reside in the northern region, in what was called the Sombre Capital, and there to adjust and examine the changes of the winter. "The day," said he, "is at its shortest, and the star is Maou; thus you may exactly determine mid-winter. The people keep their cosy corners; and the coats of birds and beasts are downy and thick."

The Mao said, "Ah! you, He and Ho, a round year consists of three hundred, sixty, and six days. By means of an intercalanary month do you fix the four seasons, and complete the determination of the year. Thereafter, in exact accordance with this, regulating the various officers, all the works of the year will be fully performed."

James Legge, The Chinese Classics: "But the vernal mansions go to the west and the autumnal ones to the east, reversing the previous directions of these two seasons, and in opposition to the prevailing notion of the Chinese that the spring belongs to the east, etc." The Chinese Classics III p.94 Notes, The Shoo King p.18: "The special object of his observation was to ascertain that mid spring, the vernal equinox, was correctly fixed; and that the final end was that the 'labours of the east' might be adjusted. Those labours of the east are the labours of spring; and in the other parr. the south stands for summer and the west for autumn and the north for winter." Of course the sun rises in the east, noon is south and west is sunset. However, the sun appears to move west to east through the year against the stars. Moreover, the sun can only be to the east of the zodiac in spring in a reverse orbit. The only explanation is earth in a clockwise, reverse, orbit. "the prevailing notion of the Chinese that the spring belongs to the east" - only in a reverse orbit. Lets have a look at this sentence of Yao: "He separately commanded the second brother He to reside at Yu-e, in what was called the Bright Valley, and there respectfully to receive as a guest the rising sun, and to adjust and arrange the labours of the spring." The sun only rises in the east as it does each day in a reverse orbit. Moreover, this sun miracle in 2357 BC was the year Joseph became governor over Egypt, about April 1 2357 BC 10 days before the vernal equinox. Thus one would expect a sun miracle the day Joseph became governor. Yao may have known something about sun miracles. Yao's long day may have been October 5 2358 BC. Then half an orbit later, April 1 2357 BC, near the vernal equinox there should be a sun miracle and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. Then the next day another sun miracle and earth flow into a reverse orbit. One of those two sun miracles should be a short day with the sun suddenly rising in the east. Half the time when there was a short day China would see the sun suddenly rise in the east. Then this sun miracle would be on the vernal equinox. Thus perhaps Yao's command "and there respectfully to receive as a guest the rising sun". That night a star in the Bird Constellation would appear above just after dark. Then there would be a second sun miracle the next day to start the second reverse orbit. This Bird Star, Neaou, means phoenix. There was a phoenix often seen when there was a sun miracle. Thus, Yao could estimate the constellations that would appear above that year just after dark perhaps because earth was already in a reverse orbit that October 5 2358 BC just in time to start the year in November. Nevertheless, Yao's long day could just as easily have been April 1 2357 BC and the reference to the rising sun be earth's reverse orbit. Thus the need to determine spring immediately because the stars would not appear in the seasons they normally did. These stars would not disappear into the west as the year progressed. They would appear more and more to the east each night when the stars came out.
There are many possible reverse orbits in the Bible. Also in Egyptian, Babylonian and Chinese records - See Joshua's long day. That the Chinese thought a reverse orbit was normal was only natural. That Yao started with the vernal equinox may have been because Yao's long day was April 1 2357 BC, thus Yao sent He and Ho immediately to determine the new star to mark spring April 11 2357 BC. Some believe this was the first time the solstices and equinoxes were determined. However, more likely earth suddenly in a reverse orbit and earth shift necessitated finding new stars to begin each season. That this was done so soon must mean the Chinese had already determined the solstices and equinoxes.

"ten suns once appeared together, scorching the crops" - Here are some implications: the day may have been long and hot, and the weather currents changed - the seven years of plenty in Egypt means rain on the headwaters of the Nile and which may have taken rain from other areas of earth - and TEXT B "the seasonal rainfall will come and go, there will be no regularity" - irregular weather would be expected in a reverse orbit. If the sun moved 180° near the equinox, earth would not need to turn to keep in the same season. Then earth's orientation to the north would be about the same as before. And the seasons would be unaffected. However, if the sun moved 180° on April 1 2357 BC earth must turn 20° clockwise to keep in the same season. "Thereupon Yaou commanded the He and Ho" perhaps immediately after being made emperor on the long day. Then He and Ho would have 10 days to get to the bright valley and make their observations on the spring equinox.

Horus is spearing the Bull in Ursa Major - his spear lines up with his head, 8000 BC the pole star was in Horus' head near Arcturus. The constellation of Arcturus has been depicted as the torso of a man from very ancient times. A. Pogo suggested this was a horoscope commemorating the appearing of Sirius in the Great Year July 16 2777 BC. Perhaps he believed the figure with the spear was Orion and the bull Taurus. However, the bull is definitely the bull of the north pole, the Big Dipper. If the sun moved 180° in November or May earth's axis must turn up this spear in backward precession to point to an 8000 BC pole star at Horus's head. Perhaps on earlier sun miracles earth had done just that. The cone from the tail of the Bull may represent a small pole shift to the new pole star, the severed leg of the bull. The pole star was imagined to be at the hairy tip of the Bull's tail, the Big Dipper rather than Taurus. Then this may just as well depict the sun moving 180° April 1 2357 BC and a pole shift of 22°. The other two dots on the bull's tail may depict two earlier pole shifts. The moon is in the Friday April 7 2357 BC position with the sun 180° away in Scorpius shining on a first quarter moon. Jesus is believed to have been crucified on the same Sothis date Friday April 7 30 AD, or more likely Friday April 3 33 AD on the same Sothis date as the Sojourn and Exodus. The horoscope may pertain to the first Egyptian religious writings of Pharaoh Unas at the time of Joseph. Probably, though, this catastophe pertains to the end of the Middle Kingdom, 1788 according to the conventional chronology, and the Chinese three suns in 1788 BC. Aquarius is pouring water into Pisces, perhaps Piscis Austrinus, an ancient constellation which appears gulping the water flowing from Aquarius' water jar. SkyNews, Nov/Dec 2003, p.26 That is interpreted as swallowing up the flood waters of the Great Flood, April 12 3637 BC and the drying of the earth by April 12 3636 BC. In a reverse orbit the sun appears to travel from the east to the west against the stars as earth orbits the sun. Sirius would appear first in the west, appearing later each evening instead of appearing first in the east and earlier each evening. In a reverse orbit the stars appear to travel west to east as the year progresses. If the sun moved the planets must also move. You can see Senmut's celestial ceiling here. You can see the pole star at the tail of the celestial bull of Ursa Major. The star is inside a circle. Thus, this may not be the pole star that is depicted. It may be the brilliant star of God's throne inside the emerald green rainbow. Moreover, the Egyptian description of Osirus with bright green light at its sides may rather be God's throne with an emerald rainbow. "Golden of limbs, blue of head, emerald upon both of his sides." The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.10. The azure rainbow of the Chinese. There are 12 circles; 6 more to the right, 4 to the left, perhaps feast days on the twelve months of the zodiac. April 1 is 4 months from the Sothis year end July 16. Perhaps the months are grouped for the three Egyptian seasons. The 4 may depict the 4 months of inundation when the Nile flooded after July 16. These 12 months are all 30 day months beginning July 16 and the feast days begin each month. Each circle depicts 12 bisecting lines depicting 12 half circles, the 12 mundane (relating to the world) houses. That is the 12 phases of the sky pertaining to the 12 constellations of the zodiac. However, this zodiac - probably the sequence of the 12 feast days - progresses in reverse. Here you see the sky on March 31 2357 BC:

All the planets are visible March 31 2357 BC, for some reason Mars was omitted from the celestial ceiling of Senmut. Mars rose at 6:40 and the sun at 6:10. Thus Mars was not visible then. Mars set at 6:46PM and the sun at 6:00PM, so Mars would be only briefly visible at sunset. Saturn was on the far side of the sun and must pivot 180° around the earth meaning Saturn must travel 2800 million miles instead of 2700 million miles if earth was closer. "the end of two full years" may refer to the end of the Sothis year, which in 2357 BC had backed up to Saturday, the seventh day of the week, April 1, which was also the time of reaping and Pharaoh's birthday. The third day of the 10 day Egyptian week was March 31 and the third day of the Hebrew week was March 31. Moses three days of darkness may have been just before the Exodus April 4 1279 BC and thus be also on this April 1 date. Thus the Chinese may have seen the sun stand still again in the early morning position while Egypt was kept in darkness. See The Pierce Festivals Calendar - the agricultural and sothis calendar matched at that time. Thus Pharaoh's feast on his birthday celebrating the harvest.
Genesis 40:20a "And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday,"
This is March 31/April 1, the third day of the Egyptian ten day week. On the Egyptians 12 fixed 30 day months this would be day 13 April 1. This fixed calendar still had to add a leap day every 4 years, so this discrepancy could be this leap day. "full" years is "yome" meaning hot as in the warm hours of the day - as an adverb meaning full. Perhaps there was also a long hot day the day Saturday April 1 2357 BC when the sun stood still when Yao became emperor of China. Two years later the new year had backed up to begin on Sunday April 2 2357 BC, 421/4 days less July 16, perhaps the end of this two full years was April 1 2357 BC. Perhaps then Joseph/Yao's long day was Saturday April 1 2357 BC. The Sojourn into Egypt was from the 430th year, beginning Tuesday, March 31 2348 BC entering Egypt Friday April 3 2348 BC. The new year was Sunday April 2 2357 BC when the first quarter moon should be in Gemini. Perhaps this Senmut's celestial ceiling depicts the sky in the new year just 2 days after the sun moved 180° and the first quarter moon in Aquarius and this first year of abundance identified with the water carrier Aquarius. If the sun moved on April 1 2357 BC we have the stars needed for Yao's Canon depicting a 20° shift in forward precession. "The hieroglyphic triangle which represents Sothis also appears to represent the zodiacal light, and the Egyptians apparently knew both an Isis-Sothis and a Horus-Sothis. The term 'wp rnpt' which refers to the rising of Sothis, also refers to the beginning of the civil year and the birthday of the king." The zodiacal light is best observed just before the vernal equinox, thus April 1. If April 1 was pharaoh's birthday the pharaoh of the Exodus, Mernpetah, would have celebrated his birthday with his family the day before the death angel passed over and killed his first born the night of April 3 1279 BC. The moon must move 180° from Gemini to Capricornus and the sun 180° from Taurus to Scorpius. Then this spear may mark the path of earth shifts at other times. If the sun moved 180° November 18 or May 19, earth's axis must shift in backwards precession to point to this constellation of Arcturus. If the sun moved the 180° April 1 the first quarter moon in new years day April 2 and in the 5 days of new year would be in Aquarius as depicted. "He (Aquarius) is usually protrayed as pouring water from his jar into the mouth of the Southern Fish" perhaps depicting the Nile River. Thus the sun is rather in Scorpius. Perhaps the sun moved 180° from Taurus to Scorpius. The sun was in Taurus April 1 2357 BC when the sun must have moved 180° 11 days before the spring equinox April 11, meaning earth must turn 22° clockwise in 700 years of precession. The Egyptians took particular note of the sign the sun rose in the east with, the ascendant, Pisces. In the Dendera Zodiac, 100 BC, the sun is in Pisces perhaps depicting the sun moving 180° either on the spring or autumn equinox. If the sun moved 180° on April 1, just previous the sun would have been in Taurus that morning and Pisces would rise in the east just before daybreak. Chaucer: "Taurus was my ascendant, with Mars therin." As a coincidence the sun and Mars were in Taurus April 1 2357 BC. The Egyptians named the constellation Pisces, fish, after the abundance of fish in the Nile River 2300 BC. The Nile fish grew large, as long as a person's arm. Perhaps the connection was to the seven years of plenty of Joseph when they were born. Jacob said of Joseph's sons
Genesis 48:16b "and let them grow as fishes do increase in the midst of the earth."
The summer solstice in 2358 BC was July 14. The summer solstice in 2777 BC was July 17. Sirius first appeared before dawn and the people fled to higher ground as the Nile began to flood July 16.

AN HISTORIC BACKGROUND OF RICE ORIGIN concludes with some background information to Yao's Canon: "rock paintings are >20,000 years old" "While the Tang Yao ruler announced it, the second step is finding who defined the four seasons." "The first step is confirming that “X” represents sun-related scenery of time and season." The sun rise in Scorpius April 11 2356 BC marked spring for Yao. 20,000 years ago the sun rose in Scorpius in spring also because of precession. Probably Yao's Canon depicts earth in this reverse orbit of the sun. A like study is a North American pictograph of the sun rising over the eastern mountains:

When the sun appeared wedged between two far away hills in the east, this marked spring, rather than sunset in the west. The position of the sun in the mountains at sunrise in spring 20,000 years ago was different because the north pole moved and is moving a few feet a year. However, monuments marking the solstice 5,000 years ago are still accurate today because precession, not the physical north pole but the direction of the axis of the north pole, keeps the sun in sync with the seasons over its 26,000 year cycle. The sun rises in the east perhaps symbolic of the new beginning of spring. However the sun can only be in the east of the zodiac in spring in a reverse orbit. That is, if the sun moved 180° to the east for Yao's long day earth would flow into a reverse orbit of the sun. Then when spring came around the sun would be to the east of the zodiac. That is, in summer the sun would be in Leo at noon and Scorpius would be rising in the east where the sun had just been that spring. "Spring is in the east" must have been Yao's observation of the sun in the east in spring on the anniversary of Joseph/Yao's long day.
Yao's zodiac if the sun moved 180° April 1 2357 BC.

Joseph in Egypt

Yao became emperor of China 2357 BC. Unas is thought to have reigned from 2356 BC to 2323 BC. 900 years later there was a sun miracle when Akhu En Aten became Pharaoh in 1423 BC. (The revised chronology has Unas reign to 2345 BC to the end of the 7 year famine. Teti from 2345 BC to 2323 BC when he was mysteriously murdered and Pepi I from 2323 BC to 2287 BC, possibly Pepi I's death had something to do with the sun miracle in Yao's 70th year when Joseph was 100.) Pharaoh Djedkare reigned just before Unas and may perhaps be this pharaoh:
Genesis 40:20 "And on the third day which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast and lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the chief baker among his servants."
As stated above, this third day must have been April 1 2359 BC. Unas wrote of his birth: "The gifts of Unas are in heaven, and he hath become might in the horizen like unto Tmu, the father who gave him birth, and after Tmu gave him birth, Unas became stronger than his father." Birthdays seem to have been in fashion at the time.
Genesis 41:1 "And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river..."
Egypt was flooded from July through October. Then the flood plain was ploughed and sowed. Reaping began in April. Probably Joseph was made governor over Egypt before the end of the Sothis year April 1 2357 BC. Perhaps then Joseph/Yao's long day was April 1 2357 BC.
Genesis 41: b "And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt."
Perhaps this was April and the time of harvest, Joseph saving seed for bread and for sowing.
Perhaps there was a new Pharaoh, Unas, at the end of these two years. Pharaoh is spoken of in the third person:
Genesis 41:13 "And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged."
Perhaps this previous pharaoh was Djedkare meaning "The Soul of Ra (the sun) Endures". Thus Pharaoh Unas may have reigned from 2357 BC as some chronologies depict. Perhaps when the sun stood still for Joseph there was a profound affect on the Egyptians and they bowed to him in reverence. Pharaoh probably was fatherless when he came to the throne. He must have been younger than Joseph who was about 30 in 2357 BC:
Genesis 45:8 "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt."
Jacob may have blessed Pharaoh with a long reign:
Genesis 47:7 "And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh."
Unas had a long reign of 33 years.
See Genesis 41 for the context:
Genesis 41:53 "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;"

Can Phaethon be connected to an Egyptian drought? "The springs turned into steam; the rivers shrank. It is said that it was then the Nile fled..." Fire and drought were also connected with Yao's Long Day and in Emperor Kwei's Long Night the E and Loh became dry. A drought in China 2357 BC to 2350 BC may have corresponded to the years of plenty in Egypt. The rain has to go somewhere.
"Unas (2381-2345 BC) was the last king of the fifth dynasty. Depictions along his causeway at Saqqara show the effects of famine." This famine very likely was the seven years predicted by Joseph. Then the famine had nothing to do with El Nino. Joseph must have appeared before Pharaoh 2357 BC perhaps April 1, and Unas appears to be this pharaoh.

Was the sojourn of Israel in Egypt from the four hundred and thirtieth year of the Sothis cycle? Friday April 3 2348 BC?

The 365 day calendar "must have been introduced some time early in the 3rd millennium BC" They, like the rest of the world at the time had a 360 day year. Just they added five days in summer when Sirius was first visible before dawn July 16 which became the Great Era. Calculating backwards with Dance of the Planets Astronomy program Sirius rose just before dawn at 4:00 AM, July 16, 2777 BC, Cairo. However, from this reckoning of the Great Era they did not count leap years. So every year was simply 365 days and fell further behind. So that by 2348 BC the new year began Friday, April 3 the 14th day of the Egyptian lunar month that year. The Egyptian lunar month was counted from the last visibility of the moon March 20 2348 BC, 14 days later was April 3. 2777 BC - 2348 BC = 430 years. 2357 BC perhaps when the years of plenty began and Yao witnessed a long day. In Egypt in 2357 BC the new year would have backed up to Sunday April 1 2350 BC perhaps when the 7 years of famine began and Yao witnessed the unicorn of the sky. The sun must move back from Scorpius to Taurus April 1 perhaps 2350 BC. That is the seven years of plenty may have ended on the seventh day, Saturday March 31 2350. The next day Sunday April 1, the day of the harvest, would begin the seven years famine and no harvest. Then 2348 BC was perhaps when Jacob entered Egypt in the second year of famine. Then these April 3 and March 31 dates are doubly important. 430/4 = 107 days. The calendar had backed up 107 days after 430 years from July 16 2777 BC to March 31 2348 BC. Perhaps the Egyptians also counted 5 days of new year from this March 31. Jacob and his children stepped into a new year literaly when they entered Egypt April 3 2348 BC. The first new moon began the festival of harvest - from April 3. April 3rd was the 14th day of the Egyptian lunar month that year. The Egyptians began their month at the end of the lunar month when the moon was last visible. Thus April 3 2348 BC is the 14 day of the Egyptian lunar month.

Exodus 12:

2 "This month shall be the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you."
40 "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt."
Jacob entered Egypt April 3 2348 BC, 8 days before the vernal equinox. Noah entered the ark April 12 3637 BC, also 8 days before the vernal equinox. The Great Era marked the beginning of the Sothis Period of 1460 years - July 16 2777 BC, 365/4 = 1460, actually 1457 ending a day early at the first appearing of Sirius in the morning on July 17 1320 BC. That is this 365 day calendar fell back 1 complete year in 1457 years. This because the Sothis year had backed up 365 days in 139 AD going 1460 years backwards is 1320 BC. Going 1457 years forwards from July 16 2777 BC is the first appearing of Sirius before dawn at exactly 4AM July 17 1320 BC. This because Sirius appeared at exactly 4 AM July 16 2777 BC and even July 16 4236 BC, so when Sirius rose a day earlier, rather on July 17 because the Sothis calendar went backwards and came to July 17 before July 16, in 1320 BC at the 4AM the new sothis cycle had to start at that time. Because they simply used a 365 day calendar without a leap year every four years to keep up with the 365.25 days in a year. The Sothis cycle was the point at which the Sothis calendar had backed up all the way to July 16 and Sirius again first appeared before dawn on the new year. Then the calendar matched the positions of the stars - Sirius exactly. However there still was the precession of the equinoxes. Precession is 1.4° per century. Spring then backed up one day every 128 years on the Julian and Sothis calendar. In 3637 BC spring was April 21 and in 1238 BC spring was April 2. The Hebrew word/letter Bet is thought to originally mean from instead of for. Thirty can also mean thirtieth. Then "was four hundred and thirty years." may have been intended to mean "from the four hundred and thirtieth year." perhaps of this Great Era July 16/17 2777 BC:

Galatians 3:17 "This I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after.." Literally: "This now I say, [the] covenant confirmed beforehand by God to Christ, ||the after years four hundred and thirty||" Is a quotation and not an interpretation of the sojourn in Egypt being four hundred and thirty years. The figures here suggest the period of the Sojourn in Egypt was 1069 years. After that the law. The beginning of months meant spring was to mark the beginning of the year, as it did in most of the ancient world. The Exodus April 4 1279 BC was on the vernal equinox marking the beginning of spring. Moreover, the Exodus began at sunrise on the vernal equinox Friday morning April 4 1279 BC. Yao began his Canon with the vernal equinox also, then April 11 2357 BC, because Joseph's long day was just days previous April 1 2357 BC and necessitated new stars to mark the seasons.

May "the end of the four hundred and thirty years," refer to the Exodus in April 4 1279 BC?
Acts 7:23 "And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel."
Perhaps Moses thought the new Sothis cycle starting July 17 1320 BC was a sign it was time to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. Stephen in Acts said Moses was a full 40 years old. Moses was 40 in 1319 BC. Herodotus wrote that no reversal of sunrise or sunset occurs in a Sothis period, perhaps because of sun miracles at the end of the Sothis cycles, 4236 BC, 2777 BC, and 1320 BC.
Acts 7:30 "And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him (Moses) in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush."
Exodus 12:6a "And ye shall keep it up to the 14th day of the same month.."
Egypt counted the beginning of the lunar month with the moon's last visibility at sunrise, March 21 1279 BC. Counting 14 days from the moon's last visibility at sunrise is April 4 1279 BC, a Friday. That is, Thursday night at evening was counted Friday, the evening and the morning were the first day Genesis 1:5, and they left Egypt early Friday morning in haste after the Passover.
Exodus 12:22 "And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning."
That Friday morning was 15 days after the Egyptian lunar month beginning at 6AM March 21 1279 BC. However the Passover ended by 6 AM so was kept on the 14th day just as described in Exodus. Counting back from the appearing of Sirius July 16 to this April 3 2348 BC is 104 days, the number of days counting back from the appearing of Sirius in 1279 BC July 17 to April 4 is 104 days. To the Egyptians this is the same Sothis date. Pharaoh's birthday was April 1, the 14th day of the ninth 30 day Egyptian month, meaning Pharaoh's house hold would have gathered then and thus Pharaoh's anguish when his first born died the night of the Passover the 14th day of the lunar month. April 3 2348 BC was 7 days before the vernal equinox April 10 2348 BC and April 4 1279 BC was 2 days after the vernal equinox April 2 1279 BC. The Gregorian calendar has leap year every 4 years except when the year is divisible by 100 except when the year is divisible by 400. However, we are using the Julian calendar here which is the same as the Sothis which has leap year every four years. The Sothis calendar effectively has leap year every four years also. Then the Gregorian calendar has 9 less leap years as the Egyptian over the same period 2348 BC - 1279 BC. 365242 days in 1000 years, 365250 days if there is a leap year every four years. The Gregorian calendar matches the 365.2422 day year we use today. 4000 years ago there would be 8 more days, 365250 - 365242 = 8 days, in the Gregorian calendar over 1000 years than there would be in the Sothis calendar. Thus the Julian/Sothis Calendar equinox falls behind one day every 128 years. The first appearing of the star Sirius July 16 was not affected by precession in those years. Earth was gradually shifting but Sirius continued to first appear at 4AM July 16. Precession of the equinoxes means stars shift 1.4° clockwise every 100 years. The Egyptians noted that the first appearing of Sirius before dawn coincided with their 365.25 calendar to appear again on the 365th day 1460 years later. Earth's rotation is gradually slowing. We added 23 seconds in the last 33 years and this slowing has been over the millennia. "The speed of the Earth's rotation is continually changing, mostly due to friction caused by tides raised by the Sun and Moon. Weather patterns and geological disturbances also affect the rate of rotation." - This makes it hard to identify eclipses thousands of years ago to within an hour. Joseph died at 110 in 2277 BC. 1000 years later was the Exodus on the spring equinox in 1279 BC. The Julian/Sothis calendar had fallen behind 1 day every 128 years from the tropical calendar. Nevertheless, this was the same 14th day of the lunar month and the same day of the week - Friday, the "selfsame day" that Jacob entered Egypt. See Julian Date Converter for the day of the week. See Our seven-day week "Unlike most people who used a lunar calendar, the Egyptians began their day with sunrise instead of sunset because they began their month, and consequently their day, by the disappearance of the old Moon just before dawn." Likewise the Egyptians began their Sothis period at the appearing of Sirius just before dawn. Later the Israelites began their day at sunset and began their month on the first appearing of the new moon.
Psalm 81:3 "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day."
The Septuagint Exodus 12:40 "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel and of their fathers, which they sojourned in the land of Canaan AND in the land of Egypt was from the 430 (Sothis) year."
(Both the Dead Sea Scroll 4QExodc and the Masoretic Text give only Egypt. Both the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch give both Egypt and Canaan.)
Perhaps Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan are included in the 430 year period from 2777 BC to 2348 BC. Abraham left Haran for Canaan 2572 BC. Perhaps there were some Israelites already in the land that Barak and Debra led with Joshua to defeat Jabin and Sisera in Judges 4 and 5. See the Book of Jasher

The day of the week the Israelites gathered manna may have been the 1st day, Sunday:
Exodus 16: 1 "And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt."
Counting from the last visibility of the moon April 19, the 15th day is Saturday May 3 1279 BC, and the next day the manna appeared:
Exodus 16:12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground."
Then counting from the first visibility of the moon:
Exodus 40:17 "And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up."
This must be Sunday March 15 1278 BC. The Israelites must have changed their lunar calendar back this day according to Genesis 1 now they were no longer in Egypt.

Noah's Flood may have been April 12 3637 BC. See Flood Genesis 8:14 "In the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried."
Lunar cycles matching the Sothis new year February 16 3636 BC mean the first lunar month began February 16 the second March 15 and earth was dried 27 days later, Sunday - the first day of the week, April 12 3636 BC exactly one year after the flood. The vernal equinox 3636 BC was April 21. Then April 12 3637 BC is the March 12 2003 season today. Up until the building of the Aswan Dam, March was the season of the low Nile, hardly a time for rain.
I Corinthians 10:2 "And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea."
I Peter 3:21b "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us"

Genesis 5:30 "And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters"
If Lamech lived to the Sothis year 595, 3642 BC, he might have died just before the flood.
Noah named his eldest son Shem. Shem is from an unused root "shameh" meaning to be lofty - Strong's 8064, like shemesh - sun. Perhaps Shem was named after sun miracles even in Noah's day.

The 365 day Sothis year may have been intended in calculating Bible dates:
Genesis 5:23 "And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years."
Perhaps 4236 - 3872 BC. 365 years are a tetracycle, a quarter Sothis cycle. In year 365 the Sothis year began April 16 and the spring equinox was April 22. Perhaps we may attempt a genealogy, Genesis 5:21-32 :

3936 BC	Year 300	Perhaps when Enoch was born
3892 BC	Year 345	Perhaps 20 years before God took Enoch Methuselah was born
3872 BC	Year 365	Perhaps God took Enoch in the Sothis year 365
3823 BC	Year 413	Perhaps Methuselah was 68 when Lamech was born
3737 BC	Year 500	Perhaps Lamech was 87 when Shem was born to Noah
3705 BC	Year 532	Perhaps Methuselah was 187 when he died
3642 BC	Year 595	Perhaps Lamech was 182 when he died
3637 BC	Year 600	Perhaps Noah was 100+ at the time of the flood

Perhaps Noah's children settled along the banks of the Euphrates River with the Sumerian people in 3500 BC, eventually settling in Ur from which Terah left with Abraham.
We can continue the genealogy and chronology from Genesis 11:
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Perhaps Shem was born in the Sothis year 500 being 100 in the Sothis year 600, 3636 BC, the year of the flood.
Counting from the Septuagint from Arphaxad in the second year after the flood 3634 BC and leaving out Cainan which is not in the Hebrew:
12 And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, 3499 BC
14 And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber. 3369 BC
16 And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg. 3235 BC
18 And Phaleg lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Regau. 3105 BC
20 And Ragau lived an hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch. 2973 BC
22 And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor. 2843 BC = 2837 BC
24 And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years, and begot Terah. 2724 BC, 2718 BC
26 And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor and Arran. 2648 BC
32 And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan. 2572 BC

You can see if Nahor lived 119 years in his generation as in the Hebrew rather than 179 in the Septuagint we have his birth at 2837 BC about the same as 2843 BC, a difference of 6 years can be found in rounding errors in the 130 year generations.
Terah lived to Sothis year 205 from 2777 BC, 2572 BC, 105 years old.
Peleg means to split or divide, when the earth was divided. Perhaps this was the division when the Lord confounded their language when they went about to build the tower of Babel, between 3235 BC to 3105 BC, in this 11th chapter of Genesis. Many Ziggurats were built from 3500 BC in Eridu on.
Deuteronomy 32:8 "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance."
1 Chronicles 1:19 "the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan."
Joktan was named "he will be made little", perhaps because the people of God were few in number. And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years. And Reu lived two hundred and seven years. And Serug lived two hundred years. Since Abraham, Isaac and others lived to 175, 180 plus, perhaps these are their ages. Terah begat Abram when he was 70 and lived to be 145.
Then we may attempt a genealogy. Abraham was 75, 2572 BC, when he left Hara. He was 100, 2548 BC, when he had Isaac. Isaac was 40 when he married Rebecca. Isaac is the connecting link. According to these Sothis dates Isaac was 69 when he had Jacob, perhaps 2478 BC. However, Genesis 25:26 states Isaac was 60 when he had Jacob. Perhaps Abraham left Haran 9 years after his father Terah's death. However, the time of his father's death would be the time to leave Haran. Then Isaac had Jacob when he was 69 rather than 60, the 9 omitted in subsequent copies. Then Jacob would be 15 or more likely 6 when Abraham died at 175.
Hebrews 11:9a "By faith he (Abraham) sojourned in the land of the promise, as in a strange country, in tents having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob,"
Jacob must have been 91 when he had Joseph, 2387 BC. Joseph must have had his dreams when he was 17 just before his brothers sold him into Egypt. Perhaps there was a sun miracle then in 2370 BC; 2370 BC could be a prelude to the 50 year Jubilee, Day of Atonement - Leviticus 23 and Isaiah 61 and Luke 4:18, that would begin Jesus ministry Septeber 15 31 AD. 50 year cycles from 2370 BC end in 31 AD, thus predicting Jesus ministry. Even though the Jubileee was kept 40 years after the Exodus then 70 years again after the Captivity. Thereafter from 470 BC the Jubilee 50 year cycle would end 31 AD. Isaac must have died shortly after Joseph was sold into Egypt in 2367 BC, perhaps when Joseph was 20, thus Jacob said:
Genesis 43:14b "And as for me, if I be bereaved I am bereaved."
In 2367 BC perhaps when Isaac died Kuh became emperor of China - Chinese emperors often took the throne when there was a sun miracle. Joseph was 30 in 2357 BC when he stood before pharaoh, and Jacob 130 when he stood before pharaoh in 2348 BC. Jacob lived to be 147, Abraham 175 and Isaac 180.
Genesis 5:28 "And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:"
Then Lamech logically must have lived to be 182, about the same age as Abraham and Isaac.

Year	Reference	Event
2572 BC	Gen 12:4	Abram leaves Haran
2561 BC	Gen 16:16	Birth of Ishmael
2548 BC	Gen 17:17, 21:5	Birth of Isaac
2510 BC	Gen 23:1	Death of Sarah
2507 BC	Gen 25:20	Marriage of Isaac
2478 BC	Gen 25:26	Birth of Jacob
2474 BC	Gen 25:7	Death of Abraham
2424 BC	Gen 25:17	Death of Ishmael
2401 BC	Gen 28:10	Jacob flees from Beersheba
2396 BC	Gen 29:20	Jacob marries Rachel/Leah
2389 BC	Gen 29:30	Jacob serves 7 more years
2387 BC	Gen 30:25	Joseph born
2381 BC	Gen 31:38	Jacob returns to Canaan
2370 BC	Gen 37:2	Joseph is sold into slavery
2368 BC	Gen 35:28	The death of Isaac
2359 BC	Gen 40, 41:1	The dream of the cupbearer and baker
2357 BC	Gen 41:46	Joseph enters Pharaoh's service
2350 BC	Gen 41:47	Seven years of abundance pass
2348 BC	Gen 45:6,11, 47:9	Jacob enters Egypt after two years of famine
2331 BC	Gen 47:28	The death of Jacob
2277 BC	Gen 50:26	The death of Joseph

Days must equal dates on the calendar. However, these dates must be 180 days, or more, more recent than their date would suggest. If the sun moved 180° counterclockwise there would be a long day (long night on the other side of earth). Then if the sun moved 180° clockwise there would be a short day of a few hours (short night on the other side of earth). Therefore the sun moving with earth's rotation is countered by the sun moving against earth's rotation. Try applet However, earth must speed up in its reverse orbit 48 hours a year to keep the same number of days in a year. The accumulation over several years cannot be countered by the sun revolving that many more times around the earth. The tract Sanhedrin 96a says that God only allowed two hours of daylight on king Ahaz's death so as not to give any time to bury or mourn him. And that the hours lost then were regained when the sun retreated (to the beginning) for Hezekiah. The Babylonians kept track of the seven days of the week by counting hours by sevens. They should have been able to tell when the hours lined up with the day perhaps then fourteen years later. The second sun miracle may cancel the first in accumulated time. However, the 48 hours less each year cannot be canceled. Earth rotates 366 times a year. (We loose a day in the 365 day year because rotations go with earth's orbit) Then in a reverse orbit we would have 367 days and nights in the same orbital path and speed because rotations would go against orbit. If earth's rotation slowed to 365 days and nights in a reverse orbit the ocean at the equator would drop 800 feet. If earth sped up in the same orbit path of the sun 48 hours there would be 365 days and nights in a reverse orbit no problem. Earth's orbit is elliptical meaning earth travels a few days faster in winter than in summer. So a speeding up in earth's orbit a few more days would not affect earth either. See www.analemma.com This would keep the 365 solar days in a year and the 1460 years in the Egyptian Sothis period (a continuous calendar). Then all days, including week days of 7 or the Chinese 10, may be accounted for. Yao's long day may have been countered by the sun going down suddenly, or perhaps rather the sun standing still on the horizen producing a long green flash, perhaps the horn of the unicorn in Yao's seventh year. However, the unicorn was a celestial being. There are four beasts around God's throne and one is like a calf. This could be the unicorn or q'lin of the Chinese. That is, when the sun moved 180° back - east or west - earth would flow out of the reverse orbit and reorient and continue as if nothing had happened. All days in a counterclockwise orbit, earth's normal orbit, going back several thousand years may line up exactly with dates on our calendar. Planetary orbits may also line up. Orbit simulations going back several thousand years may be accurate to the date, that is, to the day. Most reverse orbits seem to be for only half a year. Thus, there should be no net missing time going back in time. The missing time of a sped up reverse orbit would be countered by the long day at either end of the orbit. Thus, earth must speed up 48 hours a year, 24 hours in half a year. The sun must move 180° at the beginning of the reverse orbit and 180° at the end of it. When the sun moved 180° east to stand still or set in the east there would be +12 hours of elapsed time. +12 hours - 24 hours + 12 hours leaves no net missing time. Even if the sun stood still for Joseph/Yao 9 X 12 hours the reverse orbit must have been for two and a half years if the sun traveled 180° east perhaps standing still for 12 hours when it returned and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. Thus long days must be countered by an equal amount of missing time from reverse orbits. Even a second reverse orbit may be needed to counter the 40 minutes or so left over from a half orbit reverse orbit. Only half orbits from the solstices may not leave any left over missing time. Such as sun miracles on Pentecost would only leave about 8 minutes of left over missing time.

If the sun set suddenly at noon in Egypt the sun must move 180° west. Then if the sun revolved over the Pacific for 3X12 hours, 540° east, to make three days of darkness in Egypt, the sun would be back to where it was before and there would not be a reverse orbit. This second last miracle happened just before the month of the Passover. That new moon is February 23, 1279 BC. The moon must move with the sun to stay in its new moon phase for the 36 hours of the three days of darkness. There would be no moon light in the three days of darkness because the moon was with the sun.

The 300 years in
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?"
may have originally said "one hundred years" and it had been 98 years. Later scribes may have added 200 years to make the judges in Judges serve one after another instead of concurrently from different regions of Israel. Likewise scribes must have added 240 years to the original 240 years in the following verse to make judges serve in succession.
1 Kings 6:1 "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD."
The Septuagint reads "440 etel", years. The Hebrew word for year is Shanah, Strong's 8138, also means two or double. Thus 480 doubled years is 240 years. Taking the Hebrew as more reliable; then 1279 - (480/2) 240 = 1039 BC to Solomon's 4th year. Most likely this was originally written 240 years. Then a later scribe added 200 years to 440 years and a still later scribe added 40 years to 480 years. Modern Scholarship has cut off 60 years from 1020 BC to 960 BC for Solomon's death for no apparent reason. If we can agree Jephthah lived about 1142 BC, the Exodus can be brought to April 4, 1279 BC and the conquest of Palestine to February 26, 1238 BC:
Debra and Barak in Judges 4 and 5 appear to be with Israelites already in the land on the day of Joshua's conquest. Then Debra, Barak and Joshua also appear with Jabin and Sisera on this day. "In 1992, the joint Israeli/Spanish mission were digging at the ruins of Hazor, the largest city of Palestine in the Middle Bronze Age. They found a tablet on which was recorded the name of the powerful king of the city (p.317, fig.338). That name was Jabin, the same as the king of Hazor who Joshua defeated as recorded in Joshua 11:1,10!" Hazor burned towards the end of the 13th century BC: 1300 - 1200 BC. Ramses II who reigned with his father Seti I may be the Ramses of the Bible. Two references to the land of Ramses are given in the Bible:
Genesis 47:11 "And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Ramses , as Pharaoh had commanded."
Exodus 12:37 "And the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children."
However, this reference to the treasure city, known as Per Ramesses, which has been found, to the Egyptians at least since 600 BC, is directly linked to the Pharaoh Ramses II:
Exodus 1:11 "Therefore they did set over them task masters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses ."
Ramses II built Pi-Ramses "The Domain of Ramses" probably during his co-reign with his father Seti I. Rather Merneptah must be the pharaoh of the Exodus that drowned in the Red Sea, perhaps 1279 BC. Joshua entered Palestine forty years later, perhaps 1239 BC. In this chronology we may go back 80 years from 1279 BC to 1359 BC and to Moses' birth and Pharaoh Seti I possibly the king of Egypt that did not know Joseph. We may go back forty years to 1320 BC and the beginning of the new Sothis period and Moses' attempt to help the children of Israel in the time of the general/pharaoh Horemheb. Moses may have thought the time was right to lead the Israelites into a new era.
Genesis 15:16 "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
This may have originally read "in the fortieth" generation. Moses would be this 40th generation if 25 years were counted per generation. The Sojourn into Egypt began 2348 BC and Moses was born 1359 BC. 40 X 25 = 1000 years. Then Moses may have correctly reckoned him and his generation would leave Egypt for the promised land. Also Moses' father in law, Jethro, would only be distantly related through Abraham's son Midian of Keturah, being more than 40 generations from Abraham.

References to the Hapiru in the Middle and Late Bronze Age literature are numberous...Hapiru who are carrying stones for the temple Ramses Miamum. Perhaps the Hapiru were Hebrews.

Here is a brief history of sun miracles:
In China: 2697 BC in Huangdi's first year phoenixes appeared, 2678 BC in Huangdi's 20th year there was a prolonged green flash described as the sun stood still at sunrise, "In Hwang-te's (Huangdi) 50th year (2648 BC), in autumn, in the 7th month, on the day Kang-shin (September 22), phoenixes, male and female arrived." "When Che ascended the throne there was the auspicious omen of phoenixes." (2597 BC), 2512 BC a yellow dragon served as the omen for Chuen-heuh to become emperor, Yao's long day 2357 BC, possibly 2350 BC "In Yao's 7th year there was a unicorn", 2287 BC phoenixes appeared, about 2240 BC in Shun's 14th year a yellow dragon appeared. 2158 BC He and Ho punished when Chung-k'ang became emperor - sun and moon did not meet harmoniously in Scorpius, 1891 BC 10 suns appeared, 1807 BC "stars fell like rain..", 1788 BC three suns appeared, 1765 BC two suns fought, a sun miracle, likely Joshua's long day, 1238 BC predicted the rise of the Chow dynasty of king Wan, 1188 BC in king Wan's first year phoenixes appeared, 1126 BC 2 suns appeared, 1096 BC phoenixes appeared, about 950 BC (day dawned twice), 705 BC Hezekiah's sign, 687 BC "stars fell like rain", 515-450 BC Lu Yang sun rose in west, 312 BC shadow lengthened 10 cubits, 230 BC sun returned to the meridian, 165 BC a yellow dragon appeared in Ch-eng-Chi, 163 BC sun returned to the meridian, 103 BC Jupiter is depicted in a reverse orbit, 100 BC phoenixes appeared.
And in Egypt: 2357 BC Pharaoh promoted Joseph to be governor - the years of plenty began - probably marked by the sun standing still in China, 2350 BC marked the beginning of drought as recorded in Kilimanjaro ice cores - Yao's unicorn could be the second correcting sun miracle and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit, about 1460 BC - Senmut's celestial ceiling depicting the feast days of the zodiac in reverse and the bull of heaven being slain, about 1395 BC sinister sign of the sun, 1355 BC Seti I's celestial ceiling, 1279 BC three days darkness, and the Dendera Zodiac with the severed leg of the bull in the center about 100 BC.
1807 BC looks like the start of a reverse orbit and 1788 BC three suns - the end of a reverse orbit. The dates of the lunar cycles in 1807 BC match the moon phases 19 year later in 1788 BC. Then the second miracle needed at the same time of year would also be in the same lunar phase. Likewise the flood ended exactly one year after it began. If the sun moved 180° on that day April 12 3637 BC earth must turn 18° clockwise and earth flow into a reverse orbit, then one year later April 12 3636 BC the sun move 180° back and earth turn 18° counterclockwise and earth flow out of the reverse orbit keeping in the same season. The vernal equinox in 3637 BC was April 21. Earth must shift 2° each day the sun miracle was before the equinox. Therefore, 21 - 12 = 9, 9 X 2 = 18°. Then this April 12 3637 BC is the March 12 2003 season on our calendar. The zodiac must shift six months and progress in reverse. Perhaps on this seventh day April 12 3637 BC the sun moved 180° westward setting suddenly or the sun stood still that night on the far side of the earth and there was 12 hours more darkness, a 24 hour night. "In Tractate Sanhedrin of the Talmud it is said: 'Seven days before the deluge, the Holy One changed the primeval order and the sun rose in the west and set in the east. [ Worlds in Collision, p.126 ]"
Genesis 6: 4 "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth."
If the sun moved 180° 7 days before the flood, April 5 3637 BC, earth must turn 32°, 2300 years, in forward precession and earth's axis point to the 1300 BC pole position. The sun must move from Taurus to Scorpius, Aquarius setting just after sunset that night. The bible began the day with evening -
Genesis 1:5b "the evening and the morning were the first day."
Then the sun appearing to move in reverse against the zodiac till it passed Aquarius January 15 moving up the pouring water instead of down, to get to Scorpius, perhaps signifying the drying of the earth as depicted in legend.
Genesis 8:11 "And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth."
The dove returned about January 15 3636 BC when olive leaves appear. By April 12 3636 BC Aquarius would then be visible overhead again at sunset. Then perhaps the sun moved 180° back to Taurus April 12 3636 BC and that Sunday perhaps the sun stood still for 12 hours as everyone left the ark. The rainbow lasting a long time because the sun was standing still.
Genesis 9:13 "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."
Habakkuk 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."

Reverse zodiacs/orbits were depicted inside coffin lids in Egypt. "Additional copies of the same horoscope (as on Senmut's celestial ceiling 1560 BC) were found in the two temples of Ramses II at Abydos and at Madinat Habu (1213 BC, the reverse orbit of Joshua perhaps 1238 BC - 1233 BC); in the tombs of Ramses VI (1154-1148 BC), VII (1136-1129 BC, See Woo's two suns 1126 BC.), IX (1126-1108 BC. See king Ching) at Thebes, in the sarcophagus of Prince Nectanebo (380-342 BC), and in the coffin of Hor-nef-tef of the Saite period (663-420 B.C. See Daniel 4:2, 6:27, Haggai 2:6, Zechariah 14:7, Malachi 4:2) and in the two tombs at Alfih of the Ptolemaic period (305-30 B.C.) where they acted as talismans promising longevity in the Elysian Fields."

According to the famed Egyptologist J.H. Breasted the earliest Sothis period began 4236 BC. The Egyptians probably had an even earlier Sothis cycle from about 5700 BC. Sirius rises at 4AM exactly July 16 4236 BC and July 16 2777 BC. If Noah's Flood began in the 600th year instead of after 600 years - Noah's Flood may be determined to have happened April 12, 3637 BC, in the Julian calendar. Nevertheless the 430th year of the second Sothis cycle must begin March 31, 2348 BC. The Egyptian Sothis calendar was simply a 365 day year with no leap year. And when the calendar had backed up to the first appearing of Sirius before dawn a new Sothis cycle was started. Earth's rotation was exactly 365.25 days a year according to Sirius. Sirius first appeared before dawn July 16 every year for 3000 years. Sirius first appeared before dawn July 16 4236 BC to July 16 2777 BC, the 365 day Sothis calendar had backed up to July 16 after 1460 Egyptian years, 1459 of our years. Thus the calendar backed up one day every 4 years to begin the new calendar on a new day July 16 2777 BC. The 430th year from July 16 2777 BC began March 31, 2348 BC. This cycle started over on the first appearing of Sirius before dawn at exactly 4AM July 17 1320 BC.

"In his (Yao's) 70th year, in the spring, in the first month.." "A brilliant star issued from the constellation Yih, and phoenixes appeared..." More over the appearing of a brilliant star and phoenixes signified a sun miracle, a sign for the emperor to resign. Emperor Kuh appointed Yao to be his successor when the sun stood still and would not move in 2357 BC and now Yao may see in this portent of the sun 70 years later an omen for him to resign the throne to Shun.
Joseph is a type of Christ. He became governor when he was 30 in 2357 BC. Jesus started his ministry when he began to be about thirty.
Genesis 41:46 "And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt."
Then he would have been 100 in Yao's 70th year in 2287 BC.
Genesis 50:26a "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old".
Then sun miracles mark the sunrise of Joseph's life and the sunset of Joseph's life.

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Other Legends and Calendar Changes

Hamlet's Mill makes the claim that about 4500 BC there was "an untuning of the sky", a "breaking asunder". When the sun in Gemini on the vernal equinox precessed to Taurus in 4000 BC. Georgeo de Santillana supposes this was when the line between the sign of the spring and autumn equinox, Gemini and Sagittarius, was even with the milky way, thereafter breaking away with precession. More likely the event calling for this strong language was the sun moving 180°, possibly for the first time. Marduk to Gilgamesh: "When I stood up from my seat and let the flood break in, then the judgment of Earth and Heaven went out of joint...The gods, which trembled, the stars of heaven - their position changed, and I did not bring them back." The earth would tremble under the real stress of the sun revolving around it. The night sky marking the seasons would change in a reverse orbit/zodiac. The Chinese have made figurines of the phoenix, Fenghuang, since 5000 BC. Likewise the pole star position and the position of the planets to the stars. Rather than precession. Aesop's fable depicts a sun miracle at the fall of Adam, perhaps 4500 BC:

In the Garden of Paradise, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, bloomed a rose bush. Here, in the first rose, a bird was born. His flight was like the flashing of light, his plumage was beauteous, and his song ravishing. But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith. The bird perished in the flames; but from the red egg in the nest there fluttered aloft a new one- the one solitary Phoenix bird. The fable tells that he dwells in Arabia, and that every hundred years, he burns himself to death in his nest; but each time a new Phoenix, the only one in the world, rises up from the red egg.

Psalm 103:5 "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's."
The phoenix was renewed after each sun miracle. Perhaps the eagle is the phoenix. The eagle flies higher and higher and who flies higher than the phoenix?

The Roman calendar may have also gone into confusion on account of these reverse orbits: Roman Civilization "Roman priests would days to the end of February to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons [similar to Numa's system"]. In periods of crisis (Punic wars), the pontiffs appeared very attentive and the calendar stayed in tune with the solar year. In less troubled times they appear to have been sloppy or political (prolonging the year would keep a consul in office). By 190 BC, the calendar was ahead of the seasons by 119 days (e.g., spring planting festivals were falling in early winter)." Lunar months may not have been added consistently for lack of a starting point during reverse orbits.

The Chaco complex built by the Anasazi in 1200 AD, perhaps beginning 400 AD, in New Mexico was designed to tell the seasons. Sunrise on the solstice could be seen as a beam of light on a certain part of the wall where it appeared for several days. Sunrise on the equinox in a notch in the hills in line along the wall appeared only on a set day or two. A beam hits the center of a spiral only on the day of the equinox. The solstices were more easy to spot because that was the point where the sun stopped rising in the east further north or further south. On the equinoxes the sun is moving rapidly more south or more north each sun rise. The timing of the solstices and equinoxes was especially important in planting crops.
Monuments made to tell the seasons using the sun many thousands of years ago are just as accurate today. 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. This is the model used here. Earth must turn on this perpendicular axis to keep in the same season when the sun moves to the other side. This is the same axis of precession. Obviously however, precession does affect where the stars are in their seasons. Much more, when the sun moves to the other side of the earth. You have seen how the four stars Yao used to mark the four seasons are so affected.

Did the planets move with the sun?

"They then tell us that, in the year B.C. 103, Jupiter rose in the morning on the first month, this is Yin (Aquarius), the third of the 12 branches. This ought therefore to be the cyclical character for 103. But future chronologists make it Chow, the second. Probably they did this because the History says that Jupiter was in Chow. But if this was their reason, they overlooked the fact that on the following year the planet is said to be in Tsze, and again after another year has elapsed, he is in Hae, going backwards over the characters. The word Yin here..means anything which is the reverse of the star." The Chinese Classics III, Astronomy of the Ancient Chinese, p.98 Jupiter would be in Aquarius in 103 BC in any modern planetarium program. However, the next year, 102 BC, Jupiter should be in Pisces but rather was recorded in Capricorn, then the next year, 101 BC, in Sagittarius, and the next, 100 BC, in Scorpius.
(1) Thus Jupiter is in a reverse orbit going backwards over the constellations at the same rate it normally goes forward. Then this being a reverse orbit the sun must have moved 180° 2 or 3 years previous for Jupiter to be in Yin Aquarius in 103 BC, thus 106 BC - about the time of the siege of Samaria in 109 BC. Likewise for the other planets, in one quarter of an orbit the planet will be in the sign it would have been that year, half an orbit later again the planet will be in the sign it normally would have been 180° away and half an orbit later the planet of course will be back and be in the sign it normally would have been that year. Jupiter and the planets may have orbited the sun in reverse at their normal orbit speed. For a planet to go backwards over the characters of the zodiac means the planet must be in a reverse orbit and likewise earth in a reverse orbit. Jupiter takes 12 years to orbit the sun matching a sign of the zodiac each year. Jupiter does not have a apparent retrograde motion as earth passes by, such as the 10° retrograde motion of Mars as earth passes by over 30 days, because Jupiter is much further away. Perhaps this 103 BC marks earth in a reverse orbit of the sun from 106 BC - possibly the most recent record of a reverse orbit. Saturn's 29.5 year orbit matches the 28 lunar mansions of the 29.5 day lunar month. Only the lunar mansions are not evenly spaced because stars are not evenly spaced thus it would take several years to determine that slow moving Saturn was in a reverse orbit. A mechanical astrolabe would work in reverse to show this reverse movement of the planets and zodiac through the years.
(2) In order for the planets to appear in their season in a reverse orbit Jupiter and Saturn would orbit the sun twice in reverse in a reverse earth year. See diagram. The planets rapid movement past the stars be very noticeable. Yet this does work to make the planets appear in the same O'clock time in their season and be 180° away from where they would have been half an orbit half a year or 365 days or multiples thereof later. Thus the planets would appear normal at all times, even when the sun moved the 180° back, except the background stars. Jupiter would appear in a constellation of one of the twelve months a month earlier instead of a month later each year just as the Chinese recorded. The months would progress as normal just the constellation normally identified with that month would be different. Thus (2) is the most complete explanation. Then the sun miracle could have happened at any time of the year. Nevertheless for Jupiter to be in Aquarius in the normal month of February, it follows the sun must have moved 180° on May 106 BC. May was the month of Pentecost and a sun miracle about 100 years before John the Baptist was born about June 10 5 BC to make a people ready for their Lord, perhaps on the day of Pentecost, may have been a sign of Jesus' coming. Thus a sun miracle on the day of Pentecost June 6 105 BC or May 7 105 BC would work. So close to April this means Jupiter would be in Aquarius in the sun in 103 BC. Counting 30 day months from the fourth month May 180° to November backwards to the first month in China Spring in February when the sun and Jupiter would be in Aquarius as normal in 103 BC, this does indeed work. That is, the Chinese must have counted their months by the constellations the sun was in rather than the forward order of time. Thus the sign Jupiter was in with the sun went backwards one sign a year as the months went forward in time. What was noticed was Jupiter in the sun one month later each year as normal, only in one sign backward each year. 105 BC was the year following the fallow year of no sowing or reaping. Thus, they would be able to reap barley and eat at the feast of Pentecost in 105 BC just as they would at the feast of Pentecost when John was born in 5 BC. Roughly the sun must have moved 9 X 180° east in May in 105 BC and again 9 X 180° east in 100 BC. "The eclipse of the Moon which took place in Marchesvan (month VIII) began [in the east]. That is bad for Subartu. What [is wrong]? After it, Jupiter ent[ered] the Moon three times. What is being done to (make) its evil pass? . . ." From The Egyptian Book of the Dead, p.235. p.240.: "I have set him under thy feet forever, twice, everlastingly twice, O Osiris Ani, triumphant in peace." "Hail, ye gods, above the earth, pilots of the underworld. Hail ye gods, mothers who are in the underworld, and in the house of Osiris, twice." This may refer to Jupiter and Saturn passing the star Sirius twice a year. The Egyptian calendar was marked with the appearing of Sirius before dawn July 16 every year. That in a reverse orbit Sirius would not appear July 16 may mean vengeance was taken on Jupiter and Saturn as they passed by Sirius twice. Refers to a lunar eclipse of 675 BC. Bel-suma-iskun (Babylonian scribe). Quoted in Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation, by F Richard Stephenson, Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 125. (Stephenson's eclipses are given in dates BC from year 0, such as August 7 198 BC