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."

Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."

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.

Jesus sent the twelve apostles into all the world to proclaim the light of Jesus' life.

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 10 hours 10 PM August 31. This is the same as the half orbit from our Spring equinox to our Fall equinox. Earth is nearest the Sun on January 3 2011, which is two weeks after the winter solstice. February 26 1238 BC is a quarter orbit plus two weeks after earth's nearest approach to the sun in 1239 BC November 15. Over the past 7000 years earth's nearest approach of the sun has shifted from September to January. Thus the half orbit from noon February 26 to 10 PM August 31 is the same 186 days 10 hours. Then the sun could move back and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. 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 10 hours of 365 days, 186.4166/365.2422 X 48, correlating to 24 hours and 30 minutes missing time, from which we can round up to 24 hours and 40 minutes. Realistically the shortest half orbit would also be the more sped up half. 365.24/178.8 X 48 / 4 = 24 hours 30 minutes missing time applied to the 179 days shorter half orbit. Then we may have found the 40 minutes in the Missing Day Story. 10 PM August 31 1238 BC may have been when Gideon attacked the Midianites at the beginning of the second watch that year, slew 120,000 men and travelled 60 miles before turning back in victory before sunrise. Not possible in the dark and not possible in just the few hours of the morning twilight.

John 9:4 "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work."

The sun could travel 540° east, the sun rise in the west and earth flow out of the reverse orbit. More likely, the sun brightened sevenfold and the moon reflected the light of the sun and appeared as bright as the sun. Then the sun and moon moved either 180° or 540° to stand still in the sky for 12 hours or 36 hours and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun. This was a full moon over Gideon and the sun on the other side of the earth at the beginning of the second watch. 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 still at sevenfold brightness. Then earth could flow into a reverse orbit of the sun for the winter half reverse orbit to take care of the 40 minutes.

Matthew 5:45 "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

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 = 23:30 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 - sun at sevenfold on the other side of the earth and full moon as bright as the sun - the night of August 31 1238 BC - 12 hours September 1 1238 BC and + 12 hours February 27 1237 BC. The beginning of the second watch may be the time the sun rose in the west and stood still in the sky for 24 hours. Then the sun set in the west and rose suddenly in the east in Judges 8:13 at sevenfold brightness like at Jesus' resurrection April 5 33 AD. When the sun travelled east 180° or 540° and stood still in the sky perhaps the sun was dimmed on earth, when the sun travelled west 180° perhaps the sun was brightened sevenfold. Then when earth flowed out of the second reverse orbit February 27 1237 BC eclipse paths on earth's surface would be exactly where we would predict them to be backwards in time and daily coral lines would be exactly as we would expect them to be each day. Yes, you can find if the sun set on February 26, 1238 BC in the daily growth on a coral. However, if the sun were dimmed the layer may appear as any other daily layer.

View the animation of the above model.
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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. Thus 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. Scientists measure how many tides = lunar orbits a year in sediment. They can then calculate the lenghth of the day. However, in this controled reverse orbit the number of lunar orbits a year is exactly the same as normal. The length of the year with long days is exactly the same as well. No evidence was 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. Simply finding a result that was an error could cause the red light to come up. Such a result could be that the sun was 180° away from where should be, like in king Wan's dream, would cause the program to halt. Joshua's rising moon in Israel was above in China, Joshua's noon sun was setting in China. King Wan's dream occurred just after sunset. The planets were in Fang/Libra, the sun in Virgo - a Fall constellation. However, the date was the first week of the first month of Spring when the sun must be in Pisces. There may have been a computer check that gave an error when the wrong season of the year was entered in regards to the position of the sun. Fall was the answer the computer was looking for. Spring was entered. Then the red light. Once they obtained the date the earth was nearest the sun in 1238 BC and the Assyrian Omen date of Adar, February - the same date as the Chinese Spring, for the sun standing still at noon, they could calculate the missing 40 minutes on a slide rule. The Assyrian Omen was for the battle of Merom when Joshua chased the Assyrians into Sidon a year after Joshua's long day when the sun must return. Both the Assyrian Omen and king Wan's dream and Joshua's long day were for about 1200 BC. Some of the talented people employed in the mission to the moon 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

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 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. That the sun ascended, perhaps it had descended. The sun might have gone backwards to rise in the west at 10PM August 31 1238 BC and then suddenly ascending 5AM September 1 1238 BC in the east 42 hours later. Or perhaps the sun was brightened to sevenfold and the moon became as the sun as the moon reflected the brightened sun - and the sun and moon moved 180° or 540° east for the full moon to stand still over Gideon for 12 or 36 hours. Then before the moon set, perhaps the sun still sevenfold in brightness, the sun suddenly rose at 5 AM September 1 1238 BC changing direction and traveling 180° west. Perhaps the sun travelled west 180° immediately after travelling 540° east. That is, perhaps after the moon had stood still at the 10 PM position for 36 hours, the sun travelled 180° west to suddenly and brilliantly ascend to the noon position on Israel.

Judges 5:20 "They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera."

The stars in their courses may be rapidly moving planets as the sun was about to rise, perhaps in the west.

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."

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:

Red light in NASA computer room from 50 years NASA.

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 as well as moving the 180° to keep in the same season, unless on the vernal or autumn equinox. Very likely the sun moved up or down after moving the 180° and the orbits of the planets tilted with the sun and no pole shift was necessary. If the sun moved 180° east February 26 1238 BC to stand still at noon in the sky for Joshua for 12 hours the sun must move down to keep the same inclination to earth. Then earth would keep in the same season. Even the sun would move along the exact same zodiac path, only in reverse. Orbital Variations and Insolation Database (search and read up on it under "orbital variations" or "insolation database") show the seasons and the sun's intensity did not change. This model leaves no evidence. If the sun moved up or down after moving 180° there would be no affect on the earth. 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. Other than moving the sun at near light speed, there is nothing about this present physics cannot accommodate or expect there to be physical evidence left. If the physics works and leaves no evidence and fits ancient observation, then beware if you be so inclined to mock what may very well be God's work. 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 180° around the earth and a little 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's temperature. 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 untouched. 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, it is. 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.

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 in Spring. Right away the computer would put up a red light that the sun cannot be in Leo in Spring! That this five planet conjunction in Fang/Libra 180° from the sun in Pisces in February could not be possible. The sun had passed Libra in November, the western sky after the setting sun from Pisces was in Taurus. That is 180° away from Libra! 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! 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 February 26, 1238 BC was King Wan's dream occuring at the same time. They may have connected king Wan's dream to 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. Then the sun must return on the same date one year later at the battle of Merom where there was siege and misery. This day could have lasted 12 hours longer or 60 hours longer at noon. Thus the sun may have stood still when it returned. And 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.

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Joshua's Long Day long version

In consideration of all these things, it reminds us of the spiritual truth that God will move heaven and earth to save one soul. How about you?

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You can see in this zodiac from the Beth Alpha Synagogue below, 600 AD. There are many zodiacs in ancient Israel synagogues, that the fish of Pisces face both directions perhaps from Old Testament tradition. This may indicate the Israelites were familiar with earth flowing into a reverse orbit of the sun. Thus for half a year or a year they would experience the zodiac progressing in reverse. This may have happened as often as every seven years. They would be very conscious this was connected to the sun miracles God performed for their benefit. You can see the chariot of the sun in the middle. The sun and chariot were not to be depicted in the synagogues of Israel.

Beit Alpha.jpg Picture credit: HAPPINESS SURROUNDS YOU: The Stamp Booklet Guide to Happiness. p.197

Just before Augustus Caesar's death in 14 AD, also about when the High Priest Annas was appointed:
"Thus, the sun suffered a total eclipse and most of the sky seemed to be on fire; glowing embers appeared to be falling from it and blood-red comets were seen."
Dio Cassius, Book LVI p.67
There was no solar eclipse visible then. If the sun was red, comets would appear red too. Or perhaps these were phoenixes.

The sudden and perhaps bright sunrise of Gideon may have been a type of the resurrection morning. Pilate is said to have wrote Caeasar Tiberius: "And at the third hour of the night the sun appeared more luminous than it had ever shone, lighting up the whole hemisphere." This could begin a second half reverse orbit at Jesus' resurrection in the same way as for Gideon.

There may have been a sun miracle to begin John the Baptist's ministry. In 29 AD "Empeor Guangwu of Han, 5th year of the Jianwu reign period. A guest star trespassed against YUZUO extremely closely." East Asian Archaeology, p.130. Yuzuo is the imperial throne near the Big Dipper. A sun miracle would mean the Big Dipper if pointing down at midnight in summer would point up at midnight the following summer night. A sun miracle then would be seen as a threat to the imperial throne, an occassion for a revolution. Guangwu became emperor in 25 AD and from 27 AD to 36 AD - the period looked at here - he waged war with various warlords. Sun miracles often triggered revolution in China. So he would be sensitive to a sign from heaven that could cause rebellion against him that could overthrow his kingdom. Such as this one very nearly did.

John 1:5 "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe."

Possibly there was a sun miracle on the first day of the civil year, Rosh Hashanah, the blowing of trumpets, August 17, 30 AD. This may be the sun miracle in China in 30 AD rather than 29 AD. Then there should be a sun miracle the following first day of the year, of Nisan, February 11, 31 AD the beginning of Jesus' ministry on the month of the passover. See alternative dates. There were three passovers in the Gospels. Then the first passover of Jesus' ministry was February 24 31 AD. A long night of 36 more hours the first night of Nisan and some may have understood this could be associated with the three days of darkness in Egypt before the Exodus, 3 X 12 hours. That is, the sun and moon may have revolved around the earth one and a half times. Howbeit the passover at the lunar eclipse the night Jesus' was crucified may have been +60 more hours long. Then the sun would flow out of the half reverse orbit on the passover of February 24 31 AD. Then we have one stand alone winter reverse orbit to account for one of two missing 30 minutes for the one hour of darkness when Jesus was on the cross.

John 2:18 "Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."
2:22 "When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did."

Then Jesus fasted three sets of 40 days for 120 days fasting like Moses from the third month seventh day, the feast of Pentecost April 17, 31 AD, to the day of Atonement, Saturday the sabbath - from Friday evening - August 17, 31 AD. The jubile may have been counted from 520 BC at the return of the Captivity. Thus August 17, 31 AD would be the jubile because there is no year 0. This could be when Jesus stood up to read from Isaiah 61 in Nazareth in Luke 4:

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,
4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."

Then a few days later he left for Capernaum just near the entrance of the River Jordan into the sea of Galilee. Thus in August 17 31 AD:

Matthew 4:14 "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

Isaiah 58:7 "Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward."

Isaiah 58:10 "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:"

Isaiah 62:1 "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth."

Possibly this is a sudden sunrise after a sudden sunset that Friday August 17, 31 AD. The sabbath started at sunset Friday. This was the 50 year jubile and day of Atonement, and perhaps there was sudden daylight at evening when Jesus read Isaiah 61 at Nazareth on the sabbath. That is the setting sun moved 180° and rose suddenly in the east from the natural sunset position to the sunrise position. Or the sun returned at midnight Friday night, and appeared suddenly at the noon position and stayed there for 12 or 36 hours starting a second reverse orbit.

Then a week later that following sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue at Capernaum. Then the sun would need to be sevenfold in brightness travelling west to leave the same daily coral line. Then this brilliant sudden sunrise could be very like the sun miracle of the sudden sunrise of Gideon September 1 1238 BC. These verses in Matthew 4:14 then would describe the sudden sunrise before Gideon returned in victory as prophesied in Isaiah 9. This could be the second of two half winter orbits. Two stand alone winter half orbits without summer reverse orbits would give 30 minutes and 30 minutes = 60 minutes missing time to be countered by the hour of darkness when Jesus was on the cross. However, this year appears to have both a summer and a winter reverse orbit. So one more stand alone winter half reverse orbit would need to occur before or after these years. This second stand alone winter half reverse orbit may be the return of the sun on the night after the end of the month of the passover in 34 AD.

The real light is Jesus' life and example. Sunday August 19 31 AD could be when Jesus called Andrew and Peter on a work day when they were fishing:

Matthew 4:18 "And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him."

Mark 1:21 "And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught."

2 Peter 1:19 "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

The next sun miracle may be on the feast of the passover possibly February 13 32 AD. Then this would be 179 days after a sun miracle at August 17 31 AD. Then the day of the jubile may have been Friday August 17 31 AD. Then this feast day of the passover could be February 13 32 AD. A few days before the passover is February 12, 179 days later, and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun. The sun could move to the other side of the earth and back. There could be a long day/night of 12 more hours then a short day/night of -12 hours. So if the earth flowed out of a reverse orbit of the sun after sunset, then 12 more hours of night, then a sudden sunrise in the east and no one would be the wiser. Perhaps there was healing in Old Testament times from sun miracles. John 5:4 that say an angel troubled the water were added by later scribes and do not appear in the codex sinaiticus. This feast could be the passover that was to be held February 13 32 AD and Jesus left the sabbath day February 9 for Galilee because of the Jews. Perhaps the blind and lame would be gathered by the pool of Bethesda waiting for February 12, the sun miracle and the passover February 13. February 12 would be when the sun must return and there be healing.

John 5:1 "After this there was the feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
John 5:8 "Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk."

Joh 5:14 "Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee."

Jesus may have healed the man on February 9 32 AD on the sabbath. The sun must return February 12 a day before the passover and there possibly be a long sunset +12 hours and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun. Then possibly Jesus left Jerusalem that February 9 because the Jews sought to kill him for healing on the sabbath. Also Herod sought to kill him. Then three days later he arrived in Galilee and fed the 5,000 the night of the passover February 12 32 AD. There is recorded that it was a three day journey from Jerusalem to Galilee.

Jonah 3:3 "So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."

Jonah may have had a long day of 72 hours to make the journey. Nevertheless, people could walk long distances in those days and this just underlines their ability to walk a like distance from Jerusalem to Galilee in three days, or even one day.

Then the sun again move to the other side of the earth perhaps right after the long sunset on the night before the passover February 12 32 AD and there be +12 hours sunset then a sudden and short night and the sun rise at 6 AM and earth flow into a reverse orbit of the sun. Most people would not even know the difference, the night lasted 12 hours, then there was day. This may be the context of the night Jesus came to the disciples walking on the water. Perhaps there was 12 hours of twilight from sunset. Then the sun suddenly rose in the east. From sunset there would be 10 hours to the fourth watch when there would be darkness as the sun moved around the other side of the earth. Thus it was written "And it was now dark" and "immediately they were at the land" because the sun had risen suddenly and brightly in the east.

Matthew 14:12 "And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
14:13 When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities."
Matthew 14:15 "And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals."

Mark 6:35 "And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed."

That hour was after sunset, soon to be dark. However, the sun must return the evening of February 12 32 AD. Then there would be a long twilight, perhaps this red sunset for 12 hours. Thus "the day was far spent" and "the time is now past". Then the sun suddenly set in the west and an hour or two later rose in the east. Thus the red sky in the morning when the great wind blew. The sun would be purple red at sunset and crimson red at sunrise. Red is the colour of the Chinese New Year. February 12, 32 AD would see a red sun and red moon in China on the 13th day of the 15 day new year celebration. The Chinese word auspicious is hung upside down during the Chinese New Year. That night on February 12 32 AD the Chinese would see Arcturus and the handle of the Big Dipper right side up, then pointing down, then pointing right side up again.

John 6:1 "After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.
6:4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
6:5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?"

John 6:16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
6:17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
6:18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
6:19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
6:20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
6:21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went."

Mark 6:48 "And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them."

The following verse precedes the same verses in Matthew 16:1. Dalmanutha may be from one of the two kings Gideon slew there, Zalmunna. Dal means blood. Thus the blood of Zalmanutha. This is where Gideon returned before the sun suddenly ascended in the sky September 1, 1238 BC. Thus the text may describe Gideon arriving in Galilee, perhaps even by Tiberias where he slew Zeba and Zalmunna. Gideon may have had from 36 to 60 hours of daylight to make his way back before the sun rose. Zera is the Hebrew word for sunrise. There may have been a copy error of a penstroke. Thus Zera may have been miscopied Zeba. The letter Resh converted to the letter Bet. Zalmunna in Hebrew likewise means "shade taken away". So these names "shade taken away" and "sunrise" may have been given to these kings at their death because the sun rose in the west at the second watch, 10 PM August 31, 1238 BC. "dam" in Hebrew means "his blood be upon his head". Thus perhaps the inhabitants of Dalmanutha were asking for a sun miracle like there was for Gideon when he returned and slew Zalmanna and Zeba for slaying his family, whereupon the sun suddenly rose in the east. Also, Jesus returned in victory over the Devil after fasting 40 days to Galilee August 17, 31 AD. He returned to Nazareth, then to Tiberius, probably even this Dalmanutha next door, to begin to preach the Gospel. Thus Jesus returned in victory to Dalmanutha even as Gideon did, even the same time of the year. Even Jesus walked the same distance from Jerusalem to Galilee February 11, 32 AD as Gideon did August 31, 1238 BC from Succoth to Galilee before the sun was up.

Mark 8:10 "And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha."

Matthew 16:1 "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed."

Matthew 16:2,3 are not included in the codex sinaiticus. However, the following verses in Luke are:

Luke 12:54 "And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
12:55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
12:56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?"

Rain often comes with sun miracles, and warm south winds can come from a very hot sun rising.

The wind comes from the west in winter, the rainy season. The wind comes from the south east in summer from the Saudi desert. There were sun miracles February 12, 32 AD and August 17, 31 AD and August 16, 32 AD. Rain clouds often appeared when there was a sun miracle, perhaps to hid the phoenix. Likewise, a sun miracle in August when the sun stood still would mean more heat.

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three 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.

This is three whole days of 72 hours when Jesus was in the grave. Perhaps the sun rose in the west Friday night, the night of the crucifixion, then set in the east - and that reverse sun day was not counted as a day in the week because the sun did not rise in the east. Perhaps the long night Friday night and the sun setting in the east took 7 X 12 hours, or 7 X 180°, a plus 84 hours longer to sunrise in the east Saturday morning. Or this was one long Friday night. This could be like the long night of 8 nights long of the first Hanakkah. There the sun set in the east on Israel and set in the east in China as well, December 13, 164 BC. Then the sun rose in the east like normal Saturday morning and set in the west at the end of the sabbath Saturday night. Then at 9 PM, at the beginning of the second watch the sun suddenly rose in the east. This would make for three days and three nights and the crucifixion still be Friday and the resurrection Sunday before sunrise.

Then the sun must return 186 days 10 hours later perhaps 6:30 PM Saturday August 16 32 AD just after sunset and still in twilight. Saturday evening August 16 32 AD one year later from Friday evening August 17 31 AD because 32 AD was leap year. Thus twilight after sunset Saturday August 16 32 AD was exactly one year, 365 days, after sunset Friday August 17 when the sun must return. Then even though the sun may have set there was twilight, therefore it was still the sabbath.

Zechariah 14:6 "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
14:7 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.
14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be."

Zechariah 14:16 "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles."

Some of these verses in Zechariah 14 refer to Jesus' coming again. See Isaiah 28:17-22. At twilight at sunset in Israel the sun is just rising between these mountains. The Okanagan is 10 hours behind Israel. Thus the setting sun on Israel is rising on the Okanagan and may have been depicted here. The red sun standing still at sunrise and moving to the winter sunrise position and back to the summer sunrise position as it traveled in a straight line around the earth for 60 hours. The sun would appear in British Columbia to move from the August 16 position in the north east to the winter position in the south east and back two and a half times. The Aztecs in Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana, BK. VII, Chapter 2: "And when the sun came to rise, when he burst forth, he appeared to be red; he kept swaying from side to side." Thus the sun would move sideways from the summer sunrise position to the winter sunrise position three times in that 60 hour twilight day as in this pictograph:

Okanagan Sunrise

The last day of the feast of tabernacles Saturday August 16 32 AD is called the great day of the feast, the 22nd of the lunar month, and is one year after the first sun miracle Friday night August 17 31 AD. Jesus spoke from Isaiah 55:1. A few verses previous is

Isaiah 54:12 "I shall make thy Suns rubies"

which may be misinterpreted in the King James "I shall make thy windows agates". The sun standing still in the sky may have been red like a ruby to leave the same daily coral line. Then also, the night Jesus was crucified, April 3 33 AD, the moon was like blood may have been from the sun standing still on the other side of the earth like a ruby reflected in the moon. Moreover, the next line of Isaiah 54:12 "I will make thy gates carbuncles". Carbuncle when held up to the sun loses its deep tinge and looks exactly like burning coal. Jesus was in the temple, like the heavenly temple in Isaiah 54:12, when he spoke these words. The flaming and sparkling gem may be Jesus the light of life.

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."

Perhaps August 16 32 AD:

John 7:37 "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.

Perhaps the same day:

John 8:12 "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 7:51 is followed immediately by John 8:12 in the codex sinaiticus. Perhaps the sun stood still from John 7 to John 9, and Jesus spoke these words while the sun stood still for 60 hours. Then perhaps on the same day on the sabbath August 16 32 AD:

John 9:1 "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
9:3 "Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

John 7 - 9 may have been one very long day, 60 extra hours of daylight. A 72 hour day. The parallel may be Joshua's long day in Joshua 10:12. Jesus is really the Hebrew name Joshua, meaning Salvation. If there was -12 hours August 16 31 AD, +12 hours February 12 32 AD and immediatley followed by -12 hours February 13 32 AD there should be 60 extra hours of daylight August 16 32 AD for the year to add up to a net of +48 hours of long days. If the second half reverse orbit started 6 AM February 13 32 AD the sun must flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun 186 days 10 hours later 6:30 PM August 16 on the sabbath in the twilight just after sunset. Perhaps the sun stood still for 60 hours at the 6:30 PM position, twilight position. The Koreans have a festival Chu Suk meaning big center from a book written in 32 AD by Kim Bu Sik. It is a festival of the night that lasts three days that falls about this August 15. The last quarter moon would be rising in China after sunset on Israel. This is a festival of the moon at night and this would be midnight in China. The moon would look blood red from China. The Chinese counted the days after the solstices and before the equinoxes. Also, August 15 cannot be mistaken because it is about the center of the Chinese year. We use the same Gregorian calendar from 1 AD on. So the Chinese matched their calendar with ours. The date is exact. Perhaps the 72 hours, 60 hours + 12 hours natural night, long night was written down at the time August 16 32 AD by this Kim Bu Sik. 72 hours of night is this same three whole days.

Isaiah 60:19 "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."

Perhaps the same day - still August 16, 32 AD, or soon after:

John 10:21 "Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?"

There would need to be a sun miracle also at the lunar eclipse at sunset on October 7 32 AD, perhaps a sunset followed by a sunrise. Then the sun must stand still for 36 hours at the lunar eclipse April 3 33 AD 179 days later. Then there would need to be a sun miracle on the fifteenth day of Kislew the lunar month at the lunar eclipse October 7 32 AD and earth flow into a reverse orbit of the sun to April 3 33 AD and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun. Perhaps Wednesday October 8 32 AD, after the sun had set, the sun rose in the east at sevenfold brightness immediately. The brightness with the sun at sevenfold at sunrise October 8 32 AD, best I can determine, may have blinded some if they stared at the sun. However, his disciples were looking to Jesus not the sun.

About 10 days later would be the dedication of the temple, Kislew 25. However, the dedication may have been from November 29 31 AD. In the Syrian church the name Kislew applied to the third and fourth month. Thus the Jews may have celebrated the dedication of the temple in the fourth month. The first month is the same as the seventh month. Thus there would be 490 days from the dedication of the temple in the second month of Kislew November 29 31 AD to Jesus' crucifixion April 3 33 AD. See E. J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936, p.727.

John 10:22 "And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
10:23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch."

Jesus was at the temple on the 25 day of Kislew. The temple was rededicated December 12 164 BC. The day in December 164 BC the sun perhaps never rose but retreated from the predawn position on Israel to night position for 7 X 12 hours plus there had already been 12 hours of night. Thus the eight nights of Hanukkah. Then the sun would return to the meridian in China, 7 X 12 hours later, twice that day. On the same day Saturday December 12 164 BC: After the sun had returned to the meridian once, Hsin-yuan P'ing 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. For this reason the emperor changed his 17th year to his first year. The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume II, p.176. The emperor was given a jade bird holding a red pearl in its beak.

There may have been two added months of Adar in 33 AD. Then there would be Adar I, Adar II, and Adar III. There was not an opportunity to add a month in 30 AD the sabbatical year 49 or 31 AD the 50th year the jubilee. So two months had to be added in February of 33 AD.

Just before the hour of darkness at the crucifixion and the 72 hour long night:

John 12:35 "Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them."

An example of how half orbits work may be seen in the 179 days between a lunar eclipse on the first day of the feast of tabernacles and the following passover. Two of these half orbits adds up to about one hour of net missing time. There were lunar eclipses October 19 31 AD and April 14 32 AD, October 7 32 AD and April 3 33 AD. It takes the sun 52 minutes to revolve around the earth at the speed of light. The sun would become dark. If it took one hour, the sun would travel at 80% of the speed of light and there would be a 60% time difference. 60% of 52 minutes is 30 minutes missing time. Then the sun would be darkened about 60%. I saw a 40% solar eclipse July 10, 6PM, 2002. I looked through a solar filter and saw the moon cover part of the sun - do not look directly at the sun. The daylight seemed 100% normal. 30 minutes missing time on earth against 30 minutes missing time on the sun. Thus there could be no net missing time. However, the sun would not become darkened at all. Far more likely, the sun travelled 99% the speed of light and the sun was totally darkened. CERN has accelerated neutrinos faster than the speed of light. Thus it is not impossible for God to move the sun at the speed of light without major consequences. Then this took 52 minutes. Then the difference between 30 minutes and 30 minutes, 60 minutes, missing time from the two half reverse orbits is 8 minutes. The sun must travel the speed of light for 60 minutes. Then if the sun travelled west 360° in 60 minutes, it must travel an additional 1/24 or 15° west to be in the 1PM position one hour later. Now, if the sun continued at the speed of light for 3/24, 45°, for three hours worth of earth's rotation, the sun could travel at the speed of light for 60 minutes. Then there would be no net missing time and there would only be three hours left till sunset. Thus the sun would be darkened from noon for one hour and appear at the 3PM position. Then an observer would say the darkness was so great it seemed like three hours and there also were only three hours left in the day as if the sun were darkened from noon till 3PM. The sixth hour is the sixth hour since sunrise, 12PM, and the ninth hour is the ninth hour since sinrise, 3PM.

Matthew 27:45 "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour."

This may describe one complete hour of darkness at noon April 3 33 AD. One hour of missing time to counter one hour of elapsed time in darkness. This leaves no net missing time. However, God may have darkened the sun for as long as he wanted without moving it. For example, the three days of darkness of Egypt could be the sun darkened from dawn to dusk for three days. "Three flames ate the sun" may mean three sunrises in China darkened by noon = darkness for three days in Egypt. However, the three days darkness in Egypt at the Exodus may be 7 X 12 hours darkness. Then the sun would have to stay on the other side of the earth while earth rotated for more than 3 X 24 hours. Thus the disciples rested a sabbaton, seventh day seven nights before the resurrection.

Moreover, at 6:20 PM when the moon rose that night there was a lunar eclipse of the moon. The sun must be ruby red while standing still. Therefore, the moon may not have appeared blood red from the lunar eclipse. The moon may have appeared blood red in reflection of the red sun. Either earth's shadow on the moon displayed some of this red glow or the moon was actually bright ruby blood red. Perhaps the sun moved with earth's rotation 180° and earth flowed out of the winter half reverse orbit at the time of the lunar eclipse. The moon was at the horizon, thus the moon may have been red like blood only hours after Jesus' crucifixion. Thus also the sun and moon should stand still in the sky for at least 12 hours. Probably the sun and moon stood still for 60 hours, a 72 hour night. -12 hours October 7, +60 hours April 3, -12 hours April 5, +12 hours October 9 33 AD = the 48 hours. The setting sun would be over the Americas where there were no written records. And records of the lunar eclipse to start and end the reverse orbit, exactly half an orbit apart, would not divulge the fact the lunar eclipse lasted more than 12 hours rather than one hour.

There is a Lantern Festival in China for the full moon on the vernal equinox March/April. One origin story is that a beautiful crane - phoenix - flew down from heaven to earth. The Jade Emperor burned the city that tried to kill the crane. The Chinese may have seen the angel God sent to move the sun - the phoenix. The Greek word phoenix means the color of purple red or crimson. Perhaps the sun was purple red like a ruby when standing still and crimson when it rose suddenly in the east. The Chinese also used these colors to describe the sun. That lanterns were used may be from this 72 hours of darkness - China would experience the same lunar eclipse April 3 33 AD. Lanterns would be for light, and after this long of a period, people would be coming out of their houses. There is a Pure Brightness festival Qingming Festival April 5, the same day the sun must travel 180° west over China and rise in the east at Jesus' resurrection April 5 33 AD. This is counted 104 days from the winter solstice on the full moon.

Then the sun must travel east. Then also, if the sun (and moon) travelled east the same 45° it travelled west past 360° the sun would be right back were it was originally. And there would be no net missing time. This would mean the sun and moon would stand still in the Americas and Israel for 15 hours instead of 12 hours, or rather 63 hours instead of 60 hours. This would also mean the night of the crucifixion there were 60 more hours to Jesus' resurrection. Then there had to be more than 60 hours from Jesus' crucifixion at noon Friday to early morning Sunday. Thus also in the proper way we speak of 24 hours in a day/night Jesus must have rose after about 90 hours since the crucifixion on the third day. Also, there is the possibility the sun and moon revolved around the earth two and a half times, 60 hours, and the lunar eclipse lasted 60 hours, and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun.

In a letter from Pontius Pilate to Tiberius he stated: "And the moon, which was like blood, did not shine all night long, although it was at the full, and the stars and Orion made lamentation over the Jews, because of the transgression committed by them."

Then Jesus' resurrection would be in the third sunrise at 9 PM Saturday April 4 33 AD. Three times 24 hours, 72 hours, - three whole days that Friday night, 12 hours that daylight day of Saturday till the sudden sunrise at the third hour after sunset.

Matthew 12:40 "For as Jonas was three 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."

Luk3 23:56 "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment."

The word for Sabbath was Sabbaton. This may mean by extensin a se'nnight = seven nights. Thus the sabbath night beginning the Friday night of Jesus' crucifixion may have lasted seven nights 7 X 12 hours, 84 hours, longer. Thus this sabbaton night may be like the first Hanakkuk where the sun did not rise for eight nights. That is, the sun did not rise for 7 nights plus the current normal eighth night. Then from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday should be 108 hours. Then Jesus resurrection and the sudden sunrise two hours later. Thus 110 hours from sunset Friday to sunrise Sunday. Joshua's long day appears to have been on a Friday. That day the five kings were hung on trees and taken down at sunset and buried in a cave. The significance of the long day may be to point to the sacrifice of Christ.

John 2:19 "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

Isaiah 59:7 "Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. "

Perhaps there was a long night of 36 or 60 more hours the night of Jesus' crucifixion. Thus when it should be noon 24 hours after they had crucified our Lord on the sixth hour of the day - noon, there was darkness.

Isaiah 59:19 "So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him."

Perhaps the sun rose in the west during Jesus' ministry. Perhaps the sun rose in the west for Gideon's long night, August 31, 1238 BC. Perhaps the sun rose in the west the night of the crucifixion. Then the sun rose in the east suddenly Saturday after the end of the Sabbath at sunset, to rise in the east at 9 PM and it suddenly became 10 AM. Gideon's war was won before the sun rose - brilliantly in the east. Jesus won the war over death and was resurrected before the sun rose. Thus the whole reverse orbit year from Joshua's long day has fulfilled scripture in Jesus.

Perhaps the sun set like normal the night of Jesus' crucifixion. Then at 6:30 there was a naturally occurring lunar eclipse. Perhaps the eclipsed moon stood still for 36 hours and the sun and moon moved 540° east as earth rotated, then the sun rose in the west where it still was, and passed west east through the sky to set in the east 12 hours later, the sun and moon moving 360°. Then the darkness at noon may be the dim sun passing over head, going east. Isaiah 59:10b "we stumble at noon day as in the night" may refer to both the darkness when Jesus was on the cross and the darkness of the dim day on the Sabbath when they should have been resting. Isaiah 59:9b "we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness". Then three hours after the sun set in the east, the sun naturally rose in the east at the beginning of the second watch. Or the sun brilliantly traveled east west and ascended suddenly from the 3 AM position to the 3 PM position, 180°. Then Saturday April 2, 33 AD may have been like the sun retreating to the horizon for Hezekiah. The sun descending from the west Saturday, then rising Sunday in the east.

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."

Then the sun rose in the east. Perhaps like Gideon Jesus returned from the dead before the sun suddenly ascended in the east.

Ecclesiastes 1:5 "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose."

This could mean the sun rose in the west and set in the east. That the law of God was brought back to as it was in the beginning with Adam and Eve.

The fast in Isaiah 58 may have been when Jesus was in the tomb and his disciples were fasting because he was taken away from them. Jesus rose from the dead Saturday night at the beginning of the second watch. Then the sun suddenly rose at 9 PM to the 10 AM noon position.

Isaiah 58:10b "then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:"

A resurrection life. A new birth.

Isaiah 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children."

Psalm 37:5 "Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday."

Isaiah 60:1 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
60:2 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.
60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising."

Acts 2:19 "And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Acts 2:37 "Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?"

The coming destruction came on the ninth day of the fourth month in 70 AD just as it had in 591 BC.

Acts 2:42 "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers."

Hoseah 6, Malachi 4:2 and Isaiah 30:26 connect the sun with healing. There was often rain at the time of a sun miracle, like there was rain and hail stones on Joshua's long day, Joshua 10:11 and the Chinese dragon thunder and American Native Thunderbird. There is the possibility the sun rose for a short bright day on the day of the resurrection Sunday, that being the "great and notable 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."

Hoseah 6:1 "Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."

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 springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain."

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.

The moon would be visible at the same time as the sun that Sunday morning. The model above of Joshua's long day and Gideon's night, then the moon stood still as bright as the sun for 36 hours because the sun was sevenfold on the other side of the earth, night then Gideon's sunrise are very similar. Particularily, the red sun that rose for a short day after Gideon returned could be like the resurrection morning.

The sabbath ended at sunset. Then perhaps the sun rose soon after sunset:

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 thereof.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined."

Matthew 28:1 "In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre."

That is was both sunset and dawn may mean the sun had just set in the east, and now was beginning to rise in the east.

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 but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands."

Matthew 28:1 "In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
28:2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
28:4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men."

"began to dawn" in the Greek means to begin to grow light from a root meaning to illuminate. That sunrise may not have been like a normal sunrise. The sun may have been bright, so that even though the sunrise may have been sudden, there would have been also a bright twilight before the sunrise. Moreover, the end of the sabbath was Saturday at sunset. Then the account in Pilate's letter to Tiberius may be correct in stating the sun came out at the third hour of the night. A short day may occur 12 hours early to fit earth's calendar. Also, Gideon's short day when the sun suddenly rose may occur after the sun set in the east. Then the sun would suddenly rise to the noon position from the midnight position. The sudden sunrise at 9 PM at the end of the sabbath would see the sun suddenly rise to the 3 PM position Sunday morning April 5 33 AD. Then the time of Jesus' resurrection may have occurred at the beginning of the second watch, just like Gideon attacked at the beginning of the second watch. The sun would appear to rise through the zodiac through the year in the reverse orbit. If the zodiac was pictured as the sky, the sun would rise in spring in the east like the sun rises each day that year. In our normal zodiac the sun does not rise but falls further and further back.

Isaiah 53:11 "Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light, and find satisfaction."

Mark 16:2 "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun."

The dead never see light. So this verse in Isaiah 53:11 speaks of Jesus' resurrection.

The Greek word for up-rising is alternatively used for the passover. The sun suddenly rising up would be very symbolic of up-rising = the resurrection. This month was called the beginning of months of the Exodus. This also was the beginning of the New Testament marked by the sun rising through the zodiac from this day. This was called Easter, the rising of the sun in the sky after the spring equinox. The vernal equinox began on the new moon March 21, 33 AD. Thus by the resurrection April 5 33 AD, the sun was rising higher and the days lengthening.

John 20:17 "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God."

Judges 8:13 "And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up (ascended)."

Luke 24:13 "And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs."

Luke 24:17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?"

Luke 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?"

Luke 24:29 "But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them."

Perhaps the day was already far spent after traveling only twelve kilometers because the resurrection Sunday was a short brilliant day. That is, the sun traveled 180° west in only a few hours. Sunday was a sabbath, the first day of the fifty after the passover. Thus, the two reasons the two from Emmaus went a sabbath days journey on the resurrection Sunday.

If the sun travelled west 180° 9 PM Saturday April 4 33 AD the sun would rise suddenly to the 9 AM position Sunday April 5 33 AD, completing the 180°. However, if the sun set in the east, the sun may have been in the 3 AM position before changing course and heading west to suddenly rise in the east at 9 PM Saturday. Then the sun would pass to the 3 PM position. Then there would be a normal afternoon of 3 hours till sunset at 6 PM. Then the sun must return 186 days 10 hours later - half an orbit later, the sun rose at 6 PM October 9 33 AD to the 6 AM position and stood still now at the 6 AM position for 12 hours. Thus the sun would travel 180° west at sunset and rise suddenly in the east. Then the sun would travel 180° with earth's rotation to stand still in the morning position for 12 hours.

The the morrow may be a sun miracle at 6 AM October 10 33 AD:

Acts 3:6 "Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
3:7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength."

Acts 4:3 "And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
4:4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
4:6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
4:7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
4:9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole."

The following may be a long sunrise, the sun standing still as it rose in the east, April 7 34 AD.:

Acts 5:19 "But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught."
Acts 5:29 "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him."

The following may be a sun miracle, the signs and wonders and perhaps part of the cause of the earthquake.

Acts 4:29 "And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
4:30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness."

Perhaps there were only two intercalenary months added from 34 AD to 46 AD. Then the passover may have been January 10, 46 AD. It is not impossible for the calendar to fall back two months.
Then 12 years later in 46 AD Herod had killed James and captured Peter. Perhaps the night just before the Hebrew new moon may have been 12 hours longer. If there was only two intercalenary months added since the passover April 3 33 AD, then the passover would have been January 10 46 AD. Then the passover month would end in January 26 45 AD. Then still in the Passover month on the 29th day, the last day of the lunar month, January 26 46 AD ended the passover month of Easter. Thus Herod expected to bring Peter out the day after Easter January 26, 46 AD. Perhaps that night the sun moved 180° east and stood still on the other side of the earth for 12 hours and earth flowed into a reverse orbit. Then Peter would have had 12 extra hours that night for the angel to help him escape.

Acts 12:1 "Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.
10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.
11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.
14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.
18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter."

Then August 1 46 AD at noon, 186 days 10 hours later, the sun should go down. The same time of day, the same date one year after a 40% solar eclipse at Rome August 1 45 AD.
"As there was going to be an eclipse on his birthday, through fear of a disturbance, as there had been other prodigies, he put forth a public notice, not only that the obscuration would take place, and about the time and magnitude of it, but also the causes that produce such an event."
Refers to solar eclipse of AD 45, on the birthday of the Roman Emperor, Claudius.
From: Dion Cassius.

The birthday of Claudius Caesar was August 1. There was a 40% solar eclipse in Rome August 1 45 AD. However, this statement may refer to August 1 46 AD. If Peter was saved the day after the month of Easter/passover, January 26 46 AD, the sun must return August 1 46 AD. The eclipse of August 1 45 AD probably was not even noticed being only about 40% in Rome. A solar eclipse of 40%, such as I observed July 10, 6PM, 2002, produces no noticeable shading or darkening of the sky. The emperor may have known the sun must return six months after the long night of January 26 46 AD. The people may have been aware of sun miracles just 12 years previous, then again that January 26. The passover sun miracle of February 12 32 AD would have been followed by the sun miracle of August 16, 32 AD. Thus Ceasar made the edict "through fear of a disturbance, as there had been other prodigies". Then the sun miracle of August 1 46 AD would have been explained to the people by this decree in fear of a disturbance. Then there would be no further Roman record of this sun miracle. There was recorded an island Hiera appeared during an eclipse of the moon in winter dated to the lunar eclipse December 31 46 AD. "Aurelius Victor notes moreover that the island emerged at night during an eclipse of the moon". The sun must return January 26 47 AD on the full moon. Perhaps what was noted was a sun miracle not a lunar eclipse. Perhaps the island Hiera formed from pressure triggered by the gravity pull of the sun being pulled around the earth. An island forming is like spiritual life forming.
Claudius was afraid of the result of sun miracles in 46 AD there being rebellion in the Roman Empire. He ordered a census in 46 AD and celebrated the 800th Roman year at the secular games that June 4. There was rebellion by Caratacus in Britain in 46 AD and again by Queen Boudicca in 61 AD - the years of sun miracles.

Acts 17:6 "And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;"

They probably were looking at the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper points straight up at midnight in summer and straight down at midnight in winter normally. Then a sun miracle in winter would mean the Big Dipper would point straight up to Arcturus at midnight.

The sign of Castor and Pollux may be the sign of the zodiac the sun was in in January. The sun moving from Capricornus to Gemini - Castor and Pollux - in January could be taken as a sign. Perhaps that was the sign that it was spring and safe to sail. A sign from God. The sun normally is in Castor and Pollux - Gemini, in July/August. Thus a sun miracle six months later and the sun would be in Castor and Pollux in January. Paul sailed from Malta to Rome either in February of 61 AD or February of 62 AD. February 5 61 AD may have been about when Paul sailed from Malta to Rome. There was a major earthquake in Pompeii on the Nones of February, February 5 of 62 AD. There was a major tsunami then and many ships that were not protected by harbours were destroyed in the Sicily vicinity. If this was just before Paul sailed for Rome from Malta it would be a wonder he found a ship. Perhaps the sign of Castor and Pollux in January/February was a sun miracle February 5 61 AD. Then the earthquake and tsunami that was on February 5 62 AD was when the sun returned one year later. The Nones of February was from the fifth to the 13th of the month when this earthquake was recorded, the afternoon of February 5 62 AD. There would be a short day/night or long day/night for the sun to appear in Gemini = Castor and Pollux February 5 61 AD and again February 5 62 AD and two sun miracles July 10 61 AD. For the sun to be in the sign of Castor and Pollux in January/February can only mean there was a sun miracle then and would be the sign it was fair sailing and this being February would be now spring. February 8 was the day ships sailed in the beginning of Spring. So if Paul sailed February 8 62 AD, it would be a few days after the tsunami of February 5 62 AD. The next port was in Syracuse Sicily then Rhegium and Puteoli which were hard hit by the tsunami. Therefore, Paul must have sailed from Malta a few days before the tsunami or a year before the tsunami. The word for sign means to mark at. Thus the sun at Castor and Pollux marked the time, January/February that it was safe to sail. Safe sailing was from about February 8 and the sun could only be in Castor and Pollux in January/February after moving 180° from Capricornus. Thus the sun just moving from Capricornus to Castor and Pollux would be a sign it was the beginning of February and winter was past and was now safe to sail.

Acts 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."

Thus earth would be in a reverse orbit of the sun. Paul was acquitted when he arrived in Rome. Then he sailed with Timothy to Crete. The sun must return six months later in July and move again. Thus earth would flow out of a reverse orbit of the sun July 10 and then the sun move again and earth flow into a reverse orbit of the sun July 11 till the afternoon of February 5 62 AD when the sun must move again and earth finally flow out of the reverse orbit and there be no missing time.

Titus 1:5 "For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:"

Titus 3:4 "But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,"

Appeared means to shine upon. Perhaps there was a sun miracle when Paul left Timothy in Crete after he was freed in Rome. Perhaps the sun returned 186 days later, about July 10, 61 AD, and suddenly and brilliantly rose in the sky as it did in the resurrection morning. Then returned on the Nones of the last month of the year in January and the earthquake and tsunami. The tsanami probably did not occurr just when Paul sailed. So Paul may have sailed about February 5, 61 AD. Then "But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared" may suggest a beneficial sun miracle six months after the destruction of the first sun miracle February 5, 62 AD. The following model shows how these sun miracles cover t,wo years. The first sun miracle may have been August 9, 60 AD, then February 5, 61 AD, then February 6, 62 AD, then August 10 62 AD:

The coming destruction came on the ninth day of the fourth month in 70 AD just as it had in 591 BC. Then perhaps a sun miracle in 70 AD - a sign of total destruction, as it had in 591 BC. The temple was set fire in darkness, perhaps the darkness of a sudden sunset. There was blood and fire. The 9 day moon would appear in the darkness blood red. Not the slight tinge of red in a lunar eclipse. A real blood red reflection of a red sun on the other side of the earth.

August 4 70 AD is day 9 of the lunar month Av. One year earlier there is recorded "the moon became blood-red and black and received the other red colours" and there was a comet sighting at the same time as the eclipse. According to Dio Cassius this was on the 4th or 7th of the month. One year earlier is August 4, 69 AD near the new moon. Perhaps more than a sliver of the moon was visible as the sun and moon moved 180° and the comet was rather God's angel the phoenix moving the sun. Thus the sun could have moved August 4, 69 BC and earth flowed into a reverse orbit of the sun. Perhaps half an orbit later in February the sun returned, then moved again to the other side of earth. Thus Titus was impelled to say "I have lost a day" in his campaign to conquer Jerusalem for the Romans. Also, the accumulated missing time for half a reverse orbit is 24 hours. Then half an orbit later, January 29, 70 AD: "Even darkness did not terminate the struggle." Tacitus - may have signified a long night and sudden sunrise. Then the sun moved back August 4, 70 AD one year later and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun. August 4, 70 AD was Saturday, a Sabbath. Probably Jerusalem fell on a Sabbath. Then the sun would fall from the sky and it be dark at noon and the moon would be ashamed because it would be the red colour of blushing. The solar eclipse in China on lunar day 40, May 17, 591 BC. Then in this darkness a torch was tossed into the temple, and the temple and Jerusalem were destroyed - August 4, 70 AD.

My ancestor may have been at Jerusalem about this time.

How King Wan's experience of a long sunset felt like a dream and was Joshua's Long Day from China.

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. The noon sun in Israel would be a setting sun in China. This must be the year he became king when he fought emperor Wending in 1238 BC. King Wan's dream appears to be from when he was king in 1238 BC. However, to start a new dynasty in China you needed a sun miracle to give you the divine right to be emperor. Also, sun miracles were a sign to the Chinese for a revolution. Thus king Wan needed the people to be stired up to overturn the Shang dynasty. Only February 26, 1238 BC fits all planetary and lunar alignments. The planetary alignment in Fang/Libra may just be where the planets were put during the sun miracle. The Chinese looked for a sun miracle for a sign for a new emperor. There were a series of sun miracles over the hundred years previous leading up to king Wan's confidence in a sign from heaven. Joshua was not the only one who was victorious February 26, 1238 BC. For king Wan this was a sign of a new age, a new epoch. The date of 1122 BC for King Wan's son Wu to become emperor of China was derived by matching the appearing of Jupiter with the stars. This is best November 13, 1194 BC rather than October 3, 1142 BC. Then the date of the Chow or Zhou dynasty of 1122 BC is 1174 BC. Lunar dates match the calendar every 19 years. The Chinese cycle of 60 years works with the cycle of 60 days. To move king Wan's first year as king back from 1186 BC to 1238 BC, you have to move the Chow dynasty and Wu back 52 years to 1174 BC. Then you must move King K'ang back 2 X 60 years from 1006 BC to 1126 BC. Then only 4 years are missing from the Chow dynasty and Wu in 1174 BC to King K'ang in 1126 BC. 7 years for Wu, 37 years for Ching, leaves only these 4 years. Likewise, 3 years more for Wending from 1238 BC, 9 for Wu Yi and 52 for Xin is exactly what the Bamboo Books record in the Chinese Classics to 1174 BC. the Joshua's long day February 26 1238 BC was King Wending's 12th year when phoenixes appeared on mount K'e and king Wan defeated him, king Wan's first year as king and the same day as his dream:

"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 fifteenth 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! The 6 day moon must set before Scorpius rises, they cannot be seen together. Scorpius/Fang/Libra must appear in the west at sunset to fit the picture. The sun was 180° from Scorpius in February 1238 BC. Indeed, the sun was 180° away from Fang in the first month of Chinese spring for thousands of years!

How could Mercury, which is very close to the sun, be 180° away from the sun in Scorpius/Fang to form a 5 planet conjunction? 5 planet conjunctions were associated with sun miracles. Perhaps this was a noteable sun miracle to the Chinese. 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. The chinese 6th day of the new moon could have been Thursday February 25 from the Chinese counting of the new moon passing the sun on Saturday the 20th. However, the moon had just past the sun at sunset February 20 and the day was counted from sunset on. Thus Friday February 26 would be the end of lunar day 6 when the sun set and stood still on the horizon in China.

Thus probably Joshua's long day was noon February 26 Israel time. Noon Israel time is sunset, the end of the day in China. Thus February 26 is day 50. Some oracle bones stating the sun had a blemish were from King Wending 1250 BC - 1235 BC. Then the long sunset and the sacrifice the next day, day 51. January 7 1500 BC was day 5. 1500 - 1238 = 262, X 365.25 = 95695, / 60 = 1594.9166; .9166 X 60 = 55; Then day 55 is January 2 1238 BC. + 29 + 26 = February 26 1238 BC = 110, - 60 = 50.

"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.

"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.

Inscription No. 33703 states: Inquiry made on day ren-ji (49th day of cycle) "Will the Sun have Zhi on day jia-yin (51)?" Mechanics problems in geodynamics, Part 1, p. 472

King Wan's dream February 26, 1238 BC probably was when he was middle aged and in battle against King Wending. Then from Wending's 12th year 1238 BC would be king Wan's first year when phoenixes appeared on mount K'e on Joshua's long day.

"35th year of king Wen of Zhou, 1st month, day bingzi 13, during worship of the full moon the king announced, 'The many...eclipses are untimely, you should begin planning for the succession.'" Yi Zhou shu. Xiao kai jie. ch.17 This must be the lunar eclipse visible just after sunset in China September 23, 1205 BC on day 13 of cycle 60.
"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
Te-sin's first year was 1226 BC. Then his 23rd year was in this 1205 BC when king Wan was imprisoned, perhaps just after his declaration, "eclipse is untimely". Imprisonment would be likely upon king Wan's statement.

Then the chonology before Wending 1250 BC - 1235 BC must be Wu Ding in 1402 BC - 1343 BC if the chronology of the Bamboo Books is followed. The best test of this would be the following lunar eclipse: Oracle bone eclipse V.

On the seventh day jiwei (day 56), [when the night] cut the gengshen day (day 57), the moon was eclipsed.
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. Yingcang 886.

Day 22 was the 10th day of the lunar month, Yom Kippur before the Exodus.

This record was for the 12th month in August/September during King Wuding's reign. There was a lunar eclipse visible from China day 56 August 29, 1352 BC during this King Wuding's reign.

The same lunar eclipse:
(Prognostication) Crack-making on day [gui]chou [50], Bin divined. (Charge:) on the coming yi[mao] [52] we should offer steamed millet to [ancestor] Zu Yi. (Prognostication:) [The King] read the cracks and said: "There will be disasters...it may not rain." (Verification) [After] 6 days on the night of day [wu]wu [55], the Moon was eclipsed.. Heji. 11484

This record of the lunar eclipse in 1352 BC was in King Wuding's 50th year when he led an expedition against Ch'u-wei, and subdued it. Thus the incoming trouble that year. Then lived 9 more years to 1343 BC. 1343 BC + the reigns of 8 kings = + 11 + 33 + 4 + 8 + 35 + 15 + 9 + 52 = 1176 BC. Thus all the reigns in the Bamboo Books add up to the Zhou or Chow dyansty beginning in 1174 BC. Xueshun Liu wrote a paper showing there were at least 140 years in the reigns of the eight kings from the death of Wuding to the Chow or Zhou dynasty. Here we see 169 years. Some oracle bones were from King Wending 1250 BC - 1235 BC. These oracle bone records for day 56 are dated to King Wuding. However, many oracle bones were made during King Wending's reign also. There is the probability the record of the sun being blemished on day 50 is from King Wending's reign. If Joshua's long day was day 50 at sunset in China (noon in Israel) February 26, 1238 BC, then one year later is a sun miracle at midnight February 27, 1237 BC.

Gideon's moon rose at the second watch 10 PM August 31, 1238 BC in Israel when Gideon was instructed by God to attack. The red moon reflecting the red sun standing still in the sky would appear like the crimson moon in a total lunar eclipse. 365 days 5 hours plus noon February 26 1238 BC is sunset February 26 1237 BC in Israel. Then the battle of Merom may be one year after Joshua's long day. Then the sun could set when Joshua looked over the enemy camp in Joshua 11:6 and rise suddenly in the east for a surprise attack. Then to make 48 hours of long days that year, there would be two sun miracles totaling 72 hours because of two short days of -12 hours. Then Joshua's long day could have been 60 hours and Gideon's long night 12 hours.

Joshua 11:6 "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them."

"On the 7th day of the month, a chi-szu day (last quarter moon when the moon was beside Antares), a great new star appeared in company with Antares."

Crack making on day gengwu [7], in the evening: on day xinwei [8] we should bi-sacrifice to the Big Dipper. Heji 21341.

The great new star may be the sun. February 26 1237 BC is the last quarter moon. February 26 1237 BC is day six. Then night is day seven. The word month is not given. This could also be day 6 from day 50. February 26 1238 BC was day 50 and February 26 1237 BC day 56. The sun must return to Sagittarius beside Antares. Thus the brilliant crimson sun that appeared in the east just after sunset February 26 1237 BC, would appear after Antares, and beside Antares, the following morning. The sun appearing 180° from where it was in Virgo could be this great new star beside Antares. Joshua may have asked for the sun to stand still at noon again that day February 27 1238 BC. Then in a series of four sun miracles over two years the sun could return February 27 1235 BC on day 7 of the 60 day cycle. Then this "great new star" may have appeared the night of February 27 1235 BC and the Assyrian Omen of the sun standing still at noon in Adar be a long day February 27 1237 BC. And Joshua chased the Midianites into nearby Syria on a long day of +12 more hours. Thus it became an Assyrian omen. Nevertheless, this would apply well to the seventh day of the moon, March 28, 1279 BC and be the three days of darkness in Egypt. Antares is Huou the fire star. The sun then would appear in Aquarius, and rise just after Scorpio - Antares.

"If in Adar (February 20 - March 20) the sun stands still in the middle of noontime: the land will experience siege (and) misery."

Then at midnight in China February 26 1237 BC the 18 day moon would be rising and suddenly race across the sky reflecting the bright crimson sun. So again the night would be cut by a bright red moon racing across the sky followed by this brilliant sun to the noon position in China. This sudden sunrise just after sunset February 26, 1237 BC would begin Sunday February 27 1237 BC and be very like the resurrection morning. Then all the sun miracles from Friday, February 26, 1238 BC where the five kings were hung on trees like the Friday crucifixion, to the 10 PM August 31 sun and moon miracle, followed by the sudden sunrise, to the sudden sunrise Sunday February 27 1237 BC were all like the sun miracles of the crucifixion Friday and resurrection Sunday. Perhaps this was part of the reason Joshua was heard that day.

Then both half an orbit later on day 2 and one year later on day 2; 56 + 186 days = day 242, less 4 X 60, 240 = day 2.:

"Crack-making on day jiazi [1]; divined: (Charge:) the sun was blemished on day jiayin [51]...
East Asian Archaeology, p. 19.

The sun was blemished perhaps two years earlier on Joshua's Long Day. Thus divined for day 2 when the sun should return after a second reverse orbit year after the sun stood still at the battle of Merom February 27 1237 BC and be day 2 February 27 1236 BC:

(Preface) Divined on day yichou [2]: (Charge:) The Sun has a blemish, this should perhaps be reported to ancestor Shang Jia, do not use one ox; five oxen should not perhaps be used, six oxen should not perhaps be used. Heji 33697.

(Preface) Divined on day yichou [2]: (Charge:) The Sun will have a blemish. (Verification) Indeed there was a blemish. Heji 33700.

Joshua commanded the moon to stand still in the valley of Ajalon. The valley of Ajalon would seem to be to the west. However, the ravine of the going down of Bethoron is east west. Thus the sun may have been above Gibeon on Joshua's right and the sixth day moon in the east in the upper Ajalon valley on Joshua's left hand. Ajalon may mean deer or ram field or pillars. Perhaps the moon held in the pillars of the valley of upper Ajalon by Gibeon.

Givat Zeev is built on this location and you can see the first quarter moon about where Joshua saw the moon that day. I passed through Old Gibeon, then headed down and southwest from Givat Zeev down the going down of Bethoron. You can see the cliffs like pillars with the moon in between. The rising 6 day moon would be midsky in the west in China. Then the moon and planets must move 180° with earth's rotation standing still in the sky to appear 12 hours later in Scorpius where they stayed. Thus the five planet conjunction in Fang/Scorpius when the sun finally set 12 hours later. The moon was rising in the east at noon in Israel that day. For king Wan's dream to be possible the sun must have moved 180° from Pisces to Virgo and the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury and the moon moved 180° from Taurus to Scorpius February 26 1238 BC 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. 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 to give Joshua six more hours of moonlight after the sun set.

Job 3:6 "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."

Isaiah 13:8 "And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
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.
13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger."

The night of Jesus' crucifixion was a dark lunar eclipse. The lunar eclipse may have lasted 60 hours. Thus the night was not joined by the day. Thus the regular time of the night and day had long elapsed before there was morning. Also, earth flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun that Friday night April 3 33 AD. Then Saturday night about 9 PM earth flowed into a reverse orbit of the sun. So this day Saturday April 4 33 AD is not really joined with the rest of the reverse orbit year. Moreover, when the earth flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun, the earth went backwards one day in a regular orbit. Thus, as far as the movement of the earth in orbit around the sun there is no trace of that Saturday or Friday.

Isaiah 60:1 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee."

The same may be of Jesus' birth. Job uttered these words in Job 3:6 of the day of his birth for the suffering he went through. How much more Jesus suffered. There is record of a lunar eclipse the night after the fast when the High Priest Matthias asked his kinsman to stand in for him at the temple because of an unholy dream. For which Herod had Matthias' wife's brother made High Priest. There is a slim possibility this may be my ancestor because my Y-DNA was R1b1 Cohen possibly High Priest at least 60 generations ago with 30 years to a generation. This suggests the lunar eclipse was a night after the day of Atonement - the only time the High Priest went into the Holiest of Holies. Herod was so disgusted he had this High Priest executed. Another Matthias had the Roman gold eagle removed from the temple. He too was executed. There is the possibility this eclipse was at the same time a sun miracle. A sun miracle like the one the night of the crucifixion. Perhaps this was the reason the day was not regarded. One year earlier from this date is September 14, 6 BC, Rosh Hashanah - the blowing of trumpets and new year. Perhaps the shepherds watching their sheep found Jesus in the manger on the long night of blowing of trumpets and singing of angels September 14, 6 BC. This night may have been 12 hours or 36 hours longer. Understanding comes by Jesus Christ.

Exodus 40:1 "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
40:2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
40:3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail."

Nehemiah 8:2 "And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month."

Then perhaps the wise men came from the east possibly June of 5 BC. Then Arcturus would pass directly above Bethlehem at midnight. In September normaly Arcturus is setting just after the sunset. However, with earth now in a reverse orbit, Arcturus would be rising in the east at midnight in September, then at sunset in June of 5 BC. Thus in June Arcturus would appear briefly in the same month and position as it normally did in this reverse orbit. Perhaps Herod slew the children Bethlehem two and under in 5 BC when it had already been a year since the sun miracle September 14, 6 BC. Herod died March 30, 4 BC, almost one and a half years after September 14, 6 BC. The sun may move to the other side of earth and back March 12, 5 BC. Then the sun move back and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun - September 15, 5 BC; at the time of the lunar eclipse when Herod killed the High Priest Matthias just a day after the day of Atonement. Thus the lunar eclipse September 15, 5 BC, was recorded because it lasted so long. If this was the date of Jesus' birth one year earlier, what happened to the High Priest one year later may be reason the day was not regarded.

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?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

38:31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the seven stars, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"

The seven stars may be the Big Dipper, with Arcturus at the end of the handle.

Crack-making on day 32: on this day we should perform the you-ritual to dou the Big Dipper and to fa Orion. Use this. Heji 32253.

A sun miracle in May and the sun would move from Orion to Virgo and the Big Dipper point straight down to Virgo at midnight instead of straight up from Orion.
Arcturus points to the seasons in its night time appearing. The handle of the Big Dipper points to Arcturus and Virgo. Arcturus would pass directly over Bethlehem at midnight in this reverse orbit in June of 5 BC, the month it normally passes above Bethlehem in summer. Then the wise men may have followed Arcturus to Jerusalem and to Bethelehem and to Jesus in June of 5 BC. Perhaps the sweet influences are the sweet influences of fruit in summer. Perhaps the sweet influences are the sweet influences of the life of Christ. Moreover, the sun was in Orion in April. And earth was in a reverse orbit the night of Gethsemane. Thus the night sky when Jesus prayed in the garden would be the Pleiades and Orion. Thus the sweet influences of Jesus' prayer.

Mark 14:36 "And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt."

There are the sweet influences of Jesus' life as well as his death.

Jeremiah 6:17 "Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken."

The sign stating to listen for the Trumpeter in the Temple.

Luke 2:8 "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 Saviour, 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.
17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child."

The civil new year began with the day of Atonement in August/September.
If Elizabeth conceived just after her husband performed the temple services on the day of Atonement on Friday September 4, 7 BC, then her fifth month may have been December. Then Mary may have conceived Jesus of the Holy Ghost in the sixth month January. Then Jesus would be born 9 months later in September. Then Zechariah could have performed the duties of the High Priest Friday September 4, 7 BC on the sabbath on the day of Atonement, when the angel Gabriel spoke to him. Then the sixth month, Adar, would start January 20, 6 BC nine months to September 14, 6 BC with a second month of Adar the lunar month beginning March 20, 6 BC. Thus, Jesus may have been born on Rosh Hashanah in 6 BC.

Matthew 21:42 "Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."

Better to be ground as fine flour for the LORD now than to be ground to powder when he returns. My forefathers became Jewish priests about the time of Christ. So I can be very thankful for God's mercy. This research has not been presented to scholars. I do not know how it will be taken. I am serious, although I do not claim to be somebody. Abraham interceded for Lot before God when he was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah:

Genesis 18:27 "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:"

Job 42:5 "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

Matthew 21:23 "And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him."

The door is closed to those that do not accept Jesus' authority.

Mark 11:9 "And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
11:10 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest."

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. Simply, God must move the solar system around the earth. 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 irregular movement of Mars and Jupiter, ancient people thought this was normal. So for the space scientist this model explained everything he needed to know.

After Joshua's long day Joshua conquered Jabin and Hazor in Joshua 11 perhaps a year later. Judges 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 must have occurred at the same time, perhaps between Joshua 10 and Joshua 11. Jabin appears to be still at Hazor in Judges 4 & 5. The sun must have moved back half an orbit or 186 days 10 hours after 12 PM, noon, February 26 1238 BC at 10 PM August 31 1238 BC. This could be at the beginning of the second watch when Gideon attacked Midian. Probably the sun in Judges 5:31 marked the sun miracle to begin the second reverse orbit that sunrise. Then either the sun moved with earth's rotation to stand still at noon in the battle of Merom for Joshua in Joshua 11 or the sun suddenly rose in the east just after sunset February 26 1237 BC for Joshua's surprise attack. This describes the setting for the sun to move back February 27 1237 BC and earth flow out of the reverse orbit without a trace and even start a second reverse orbit.

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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 10 PM August 31 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 10 PM August 31 when it rose in the west to give light to fight the battle. Then the sun may have suddenly rose in the east the day following, technically that same September 1 5AM, to begin the second reverse orbit. Then this may have been September 1 and 178.82 days later the sun returned February 27 1237 BC. Or perhaps at 10PM August 31 the sun and moon moved with earth's rotation 540° to stand still in the sky. The moon would rise on Israel at 9PM, so be very visible as a full moon high in the sky by the beginning of the second watch. Then if the sun was to brighten sevenfold the moon would be as bright as the sun. Thus Gideon could fight in the moonlight that night. Then the sun would not appear till Gideon had returned, then to rise suddenly in the east in this sevenfold brightness to start the second half reverse orbit. 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 August 31 1279 BC.

There may be a search for evidence of sun miracles in the daily coral layers. True wisdom costs us our all. The price of wisdom is not money. It is our will and beyond ruby like suns.

Job 28:18 "No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies."

Perhaps the sun appeared purple as a ruby as the Chinese recorded at the sun miracle in 141 BC when the sun may have been dimmed. "On the last day of the twelfth month (11 February 141 BC) it thundered. The sun appeared purple. Five planets moved in retrograde and guarded the constellation T'ai-wei. The moon passed through the center of the constellation T'ien-t'ing." The Grand Scribes Records, Volume II, p.213.

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. The moon is the dark spot infront of the sun:

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. This is "heres". Joshua renamed the city he dwelt in Timnath- heres = portion of the sun. This may be a fitting name after the sun miracle he successfully requested before God.
That is, perhaps the sun was purple when it rose in the west at 10 PM to the noon position where it stayed for 36 hours, and then perhaps the sun was crimson like red tile when it rose suddenly in the east 18 hours later at 5AM. Thus, the writer of Judges would say Gideon returned before the crimson sun suddenly ascended in the east. It has been assumed Gideon started back before the sun rose. However with the extra 36 hours Gideon could have arrived back before the sun rose.

Psalm 37:5 "Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday."

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."

Hosea 6:2 "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."

Luke 1:78 "Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

Matthew 17:2 "And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light."

2 Corithians 4:6 "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

Galatians 3:5 "He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?"

2 Co 3:9 "For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory."

- The sun is often associated with healing. The sun provides most of our vitamin D, which is very important to health and healing. The third day may mark a sudden sunrise in the east like there must have been 5 AM September 1 1238 BC. Likewise, the "dayspring" means sunrise and refers to Isaiah 9 and its description of the battle of Gideon. Thus "dayspring" may refer to a likeness and brightness of the sudden sunrise 5 AM September 1 1238 BC. The dayspring may also refer to a sun miracle on the day of Jesus' resurrection Sunday April 5 33 AD. Thus the sudden and brilliant sunrise of Judges 8:13 may have occurred in the resurrection morning.

The sun at noon in the Golan Heights Israel September 18, 2010.

Of course, Gideon started back before the sun was up. Still, there is no way he could have fought that battle from midnight to sunrise in six hours in the dark. Moreover, this was September because he was threshing the wheat behind the wine press. Wheat is harvested in June, left to cure in July, and threshed in August as Gideon did. Wheat has to be left to cure so the kernals will separate from the chaff. Then a few weeks later was Gideon's battle 10 PM August 31.

Judges 6:11 "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites."

Moreover, this must be the first year of conquest because the land had rest 40 years.

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."

There are only about 100 years to the book of Judges. The only place this 40 years can fit is at the beginning.
The second reverse orbit may have begun 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. However, the sun may return 365 days 5 hours after the first sun miracle noon February 26 1238 BC. Joshua 11 and the battle of Merom may have occurred at the sudden sunrise Sunday morning after sunset Saturday February 26 1237 BC. Sunset is at 5 PM and 5 hours plus noon one year later is 5 PM. Then Joshua would have the advantage of surprise.

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:

The second reverse orbit might have begun 18 hours after the first reverse orbit ended. Then the sun should return about 12PM Sunday February 27. The sun must stand still at noon February 27 1237 BC again in the month of Adar. Then the sun standing still at noon in the month of Adar may be a sun miracle at noon February 27 1237 BC beginning a second year of reverse orbit, and earth had just flowed out of the reverse orbit at the sudden sunrise just six hours before. 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. Thus February 26 1237 BC was the twelfth month Adar as was February 26 1238 BC - Joshua's long day.
Joshua's long day was 14 days after 92 days after earth's nearest approach to the sun. Thus half an orbit from February 26 1238 BC is 186 days 10 hours. The perihelion of the sun when earth is nearest the sun is January 3 2011. This is two weeks after the winter solstice December 20. From the spring equinox this year to the fall equinox, exactly half an orbit, is 186 days 10 hours. 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 (30) 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 perhaps about sunrise, 5 AM September 1, the sun might 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 travelled 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. 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 30 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 that year necessitating these 4 sun miracles.
The exact time of battle must have meant the sun was returning at these exact times, 10 PM August 31 1238 BC and 6 AM and or 12 PM February 27 1237 BC:

10 PM August 31 1238 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."

Either immediately after sunset the sun rose in the east, or at noon the next day the sun stood still in the sky for 12 hours, or both on February 27 1237 BC:

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."

Mount Tabor

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 10 PM August 31 1238 BC. Jesus' resurrection may have been at the second watch, 10 PM Saturday or rather early 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. Merom may have been near the hill of Moreh near mount Tabor. Moreh can mean early rain, such as would be February 27 1237 BC at the waters of Merom. I do not know. The thought occurred to me when I saw the lakes. A little beyond this point is the sea side of the Mediterranean.

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 10 PM at the beginning of the second watch. 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.
"While Bhagavan Aditya [the sun] illumines the god's mountain, continuously going around, he heats only half the land up to Lokaloka Mountain, and he covers half [with darkness]. Not approving of this, Priyavrata, having accumulated super human power the the worship of the Lord, [thought] 'I shall make night into day'. With a chariot built of light of the same speed, he went seven times around following the movement of the sun like a second sun." Bhagavatam verse 5.1.30, Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, p.58

Probably the sun rose in the east just after sunset. Thus what they saw was not a second sun, but the sun moving 180°.

Psalm 74:15 "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day is thine, the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter."

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, 164 BC, 165 BC. Then Gideon may have experienced the same thing. The sun could suddenly reach the noon position, 180° from 10 PM is 12 PM if the sun only moved 180° in one hour. The second hour is earth's rotation. This would make about 7 hours of daylight that day on Israel. However, the sun possibly travelled 540° east to rise in the west and stand still at the noon position.

Judges 8:13 "And Gideon the son of Joash, returned from battle before the sun (ascended)."

Perhaps after the sun rose in the west for a long day of 24 hours, 12 hours also gained from the sun moving from the 10 PM position to the 12 PM position - a total of 36 hours, for Gideon to chase the Midianites and capture Zebah and Zalmunna, there should be a sudden sunrise in the east. Then Gideon had 24 extra hours of sunlight to capture Zebah and Zalmunna, walk back when night fell again and have returned before the sun suddenly ascended in the east at 5 AM. The sun rising in the east suddenly must be brightened several times to leave the same daily coral line. Perhaps when the full moon rose at 10 PM the moon and sun stood still in their sky for 36 hours revolving 540° with earth's rotation. Perhaps the sun brightened to sevenfold and the full moon reflected a bright red sun and shone as the sun that long night. Then the sun still at sevenfold brightness, moved 180° to suddenly rise in the east to the noon position. 10 PM to 10 AM plus two hours of earth's rotation to noon. 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 February 27, 1237 BC 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 10 PM August 31 and produce a long enough day, 36 more hours. Then Gideon could chase the Midianites 60 miles plus and return before the sun. The second reverse orbit was needed to give Gideon 24 hours extra sunlight to get complete victory over the Midianites. That is, the total amount of long days can only add up to 48 hours a year. The sun rising in the west must be dimmed to not leave a daily coral line. Perhaps the dimness mentioned in Isaiah 9. 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 travelled 180° west 5AM September 1, half a year after Joshua's long day, this would counter the missing 40 minutes. The sun probably moved up or down, shifting the plane of the solar system, rather than earth shifting. Perhaps for the day, the 18 hours normal orbit between reverse orbits, the sun would not need to move up or down, only around the earth. Then: "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. For only 18 hours perhaps the sun did not need to move up or down to keep the same inclination to earth as it would normally have had that day. 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 10 PM August 31 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. 25 hours later the sun would stop moving with earth's rotation. One hour to move 180° from the 10 PM position to the 12 PM position and 24 hours to move another 360° with earth's rotation to stand still at noon for 24 hours. Probably the sun moved 180° from the west to the noon position where it stayed for 24 hours. Actually the sun would stand still at the noon postition for 24 hours, 12 hours were gained from the 10 PM position to the 12 PM position to a total of 36 hours gained. Probably the sun stopped moving in the noon position and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit. Then we would have 18 hours to the sudden sunrise about 5 AM September 1 - counted as the same day till the sun rose in the east. Then the 6 hours plus 365 days would be plus 18 hours of regular orbit. This is plus 24 hours and because the sun was on the otherside of earth the sun must return noon February 27 1237 BC. That is the sun must move 180° with earth's rotation at noon February 27 1237 BC and stand still in the sky 12 hours just as it had done on Joshua's long day. This time for Joshua's battle at Merom for northern Israel. Then the sun must start moving at 5AM September 1 1238 BC to suddenly ascend in the east. 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. This final battle would be 6 months after Gideon's victory. Then that day would be 12 hours longer for Joshua to get complete victory 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 1237 BC was a 19 day moon and the moon was not visible at noon. Nevertheless in the battle of Merom probably February 27 1237 BC Joshua chased the Midianites north into Syria. Perhaps this omen of the second time the sun stood still at noon time in Adar, February, would be an Assyrian omen. However, if this was a sudden sunrise, Joshua would have the advantage of surprise at the beginning of a full day.

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."

The waters of Merom may be these lakes between Mount Carmel and Nazareth. A place a little to the north is commonly thought to be Merom. However, no place has been identified as Merom. These lakes would be waters in the time of Joshua. There would be room for troops here. Thus they could be the waters of Merom. The reflection of the red sun in the morning during a sun miracle would look like blood. Perhaps the sun had the same effect of leading the Midianites into the hand of Joshua as the sun did for Elisha and Jehoshaphat:

2 Kings 3:22 "And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
3:23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil."

This route is more than 60 miles long north to Zidon and Mizpeh. Joshua needed 12 more hours of daylight to chase them 60 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 from battle. 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, before returning, 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."

The fire is also mentioned in Isaiah 9, "fuel of fire," in connection with this battle of Gideon against Midian. The battle of Deborah and Barak, and Gideon are connected in these psalms as the same battle. In the night is hiding. In the daylight we are exposed. Thus their shame in the battle of Gideon. Isaiah 28 also connects the battle of David and the Philistines in 2 Samuel 5 at Gibeon with the battle of Gideon in Judges and the battle of Joshua in Joshua 10 at Gibeon. Sun miracles were involved in all of them to give them the victory.

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.

Judges 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."

Deborah would know from Ramah overlooking Gibeon, the power of the sun miracle that Joshua requested there in Joshua 10:12 just six months before. Then she may have been aware the sun would return that night. She called Barak to be Up and attack Sisera. Probably this was the same night God told Gideon:

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 into thine hand."

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. All the tribes of Northern Israel joined in the chase. This is not possible in the few hours before the dawn. Also it is not possible to complete the narrative of Judges 7 to Juges 8:13 from midnight to sunrise. Who can run 60 miles in 6 hours? I have been down this route from the Jezreel Valley to Jericho. They crossed the River Jordan halfway to Jericho. Our tour bus could barely do it at 60 mph! Although the hills were very dry, there were thickets in the Canaan Valley along the Jordan River. In the psalms a grass fire is suggested that perhaps burned a portion of the deep, the thickets of Jordan. Although the ground was fairly level, this was too far to run in 6 hours, and also account for all the stopping points in the narrative as well! Also Sisera was weary when he fled. Perhaps weary fighting and fleeing 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."

Sudden down pours and flash floods often occur in summer. September 1 would be when rain clouds would first appear. Also, rain clouds often appeared when there was a sun miracle - the early and latter rain - to hide the glory of God.

Isaiah 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.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."

The great light at night may be this day of Midian. Perhaps this was a sign of Jesus' coming. The "burning and fuel of fire" may have been a forest/grass fire that helped Gideon route the Midianites going down to the dry Jordan Valley. The thickets at the Jordan River could burn more than a grass fire.

Amos 7:4 "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part."

The origin of the chase, both for Deborah and Barak and for Gideon was the region of Nazareth. Both battles occurred on Mount Tabor, probably at the same time.

Judges 8:13 "Gideon returned before the sun was up."

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.

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. 10 PM Israel time at the beginning of the second watch is 4 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 10 PM August 31 in order for there to be no net missing time when the sun returned February 27 1237 BC. There would be 54 hours from 10 PM August 31 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 10 PM August 31, to the 12 PM noon position, 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 186.4 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."

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."

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 travelled 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 travelled 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°. 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." - May be connected to Hezekiah's Sign.
(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.

Judges 5:20 "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. Probably the sun moving 180° east February 26 1238 BC and earth's orbit shifting 18° was countered by the sun moving 180° east August 31 1238 BC and earth's orbit shifting 18° back. This would mean the path of the zodiac would need to shift. This would be hard to judge because the sun's glow in the morning and at sunset obscures the path of the the sun across the stars. Although the ancient people did notice, not an earth shift, rather a zodiac shift. There was 12 hours of Joshua's long day of elapsed time, and there either was 36 hours more of elapsed time 10 PM August 31 if the sun moved 540° east and 12 hours less time when the sun moved 180° west 5 AM September 1 1238 BC.
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 30 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 14 not January 3 as it is now in 2008. From February 26 12 PM 186 days 10 hours to August 31 10 PM. 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 days 10 hours 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 14. Then starting February 26 1238 BC would begin the slower half of earth's orbit thus the most days, 186 days and 10 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 10 PM August 31 to keep ahead of earth's rotation. If the sun moved 180° in an hour the sun would end up at the 3 PM 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.

Jeremiah 12:5 "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?"

This may refer to Revelation. We are weak in ourselves but strong in Christ. We cannot fight against Christ.

"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 Valley of Gibeon refers to the head waters of Gibeon down the valley of Ajalon. This was the battle of David against the Philistines soon after he became king of Israel 1076 BC.
"In King Ching's 34th year, 1129 BC, it rained gold in Heen-yang." The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p. 148.
This may be a second sun miracle to the first when David became king of Judah in Psalm 18. There may have been a sun miracle again 7 years later about 1076 BC when David became king over all of Israel. Sun miracles often occurred every 7 years. In any case a sun miracle at that time may be suggested by the language of "strange work" and "strange act" and also the reference to the bed being too short, short or long night. Also, 2 Samuel 5 is clear the LORD fought for Israel. This battle was similar to the day the sun stood still for Joshua, same location.
Then the LORD rising up in mount Perazim may refer to a sudden sunrise.

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."

Perhaps Joshua's long day was Friday February 26 1238 BC and the next day the Sabbath Joshua continued to fight. The sabbath started at sunset Friday. Then if the sun did not set at 6PM Friday and the children of Israel continued to fight then it could be said Joshua did not give them rest. That day that should have been the sabbath Joshua continued to fight.Then Joshua did not give them rest on the Sabbath as stated in Hebrews. The sun returned to stand still at noon again Saturday February 26 1237 BC for the battle of Merom a year later. Perhaps Joshua fought into the twilight of the setting 6 day old moon February 26 1238 BC. Then Joshua's battle could have continued till midnight. The Sabbath began at sunset. So either way Joshua can be said to have fought on the Sabbath. Joshua did not give them rest in serving the Lord or in driving out their enemies either. Thus Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua. There was no rest from all the service of the Old Testament Law. "the bed shorter for people to stretch themselves on it" may refer to 12 or 36 more hours of daylight to battle and no rest. How do you sleep in the day and how do you rise in a long night? The low thorny bushes in the going down of Bethoron, most common the prickly burnet, can be made into a bed. "gather a mass of the plants, arrange them lengthwise to the height of a man, give them a thorough stomping with boots to break most of the thorns" and spread a blanket over for a bed. "He shall be wroth in the valley of Gibeon" probably refers to David's battles in 2 Samuel 5 as well as Joshua's long day. Then the first battle in 2 Samuel 5 may be "his strange work" and the second battle of 2 Samuel 5 be "his strange act" possibly six months apart. In first battle there were breaches as by water and in Isaiah 28 there was hail just as there was for Joshua:

2 Samuel 5:20 "And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breaches of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim."

Isa 28:2 "Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand."

Isaiah 28:17 "Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place."

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?
24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;"

- 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'.. "
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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".

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 the progress of the stars be normal for the night following the sun rising in the west at 10 PM August 31. After the sun had moved 540° to rise in the west to the noon position, earth would flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun. The sun rising in the west should not be counted as a day. 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 because the sun was on the normal side of earth for 18 hours. That night would be a typical August 31 night sky. That was short lived and when the sun rose 5 AM September 1 and set just 2 hours later at 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 5 AM September 1 to sunset 6PM September 1 must be only 2 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."

Mark 5:19 "Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
5:20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel."

The steep hill of the Gadarenes where when the devils entered the swine, 2,000 swine ran into the water and were choked. Swine gone and devils gone. Legion in his right mind.

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, October 1 1278 BC, the first time the feast was instituted in the second year of Exodus. 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. The feast of Tabernacles was the feast of Booths to commemorate the 40 years in the wilderness.

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 perhaps Wuding's 50th year, the lunar eclipse August 29, 1352 BC. Nevertheless, the incoming trouble on day 23 following the lunar eclipse on day 56/57 was on the Day of Atonement. 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.
"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.
This ancester could be Wu Ding. Thus this may be March 28, 1280 BC in Wu Yi's second year. 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 29, 1352 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." - which is blatantly false.

"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 up to 147 years before the fall of the Shang dynasty in 1122 BC in the traditional chronology.
There are only 44 years from this 1166 BC to 1122 BC when Wu became emperor in the common chronology.

Gideon's long night August 31, 1238 BC is also day 56, would see the full moon near its setting in the west turn bright red as it reflected the bright crimson sun. Thus the red moon would be described as eclipsed. The moon often looks slightly red during a total lunar eclipse. Then a sun miracle could be mistaken for a lunar eclipse. The moon would be rising on Gideon at 10 PM, at the beginning of the second watch, when the moon must brighten to give light like daylight to give Gideon the victory. The moon would stand still over the west in China and over the east in Israel for 36 hours. The sun must brighten, perhaps sevenfold, in crimson red and the reflection of the sun in the moon be as bright as the sun normally is. China would not see the sun till day 57. Then the sun would pass swiftly by, bright crimson red, to rise to the 10 AM position in Israel, the 4 PM position in China. The rest of the day would be normal. That day 57 in China would be very short and bright. Thus the moon would suddenly set and the sun suddenly rise. Thus although this record of day 56 was in King Wuding's reign, these sun miracles on the same days of 60 and the same lunar phases, would reinforce king Wan's belief he had a mandate from heaven to become emperor.

There was Wuding's lunar eclipse day 56, August 29, 1352 BC. Then on day 23 there was incoming trouble, 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 many years before the Exodus. "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. 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. Xueshun has reason to believe Wuding died more than 140 years before the Chow dynasty to make room for eight kings. Here we find Wuding's lunar eclipse day 56 August 29, 1352 BC. He lived 9 more years to 1343 BC - 168 years before the Chow or Zhou dynasty.

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.

This may be the lunar eclipse day 21 (night 22) April 18, 1356 BC.

"In his, Wuding's, 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 to 1343 BC. Thus his 29th year must be 1373 BC. Also, there was incoming trouble in 1352 BC which may be a sun miracle about the death of pharaoh Seti in 1356 BC, perhaps ending the genocide of the Jewish boy children. Also, in Tsoo-Keah's 12th year, in 1319 BC, he led a punitive expedition against the hordes of the west. Perhaps there was a sun miracle in 1319 BC leading to rebellion. Moses was 40 in 1319 BC and may have expected to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt at the new 1460 sothis cycle that year. This all fits the chronology of Wending's 12th year and the phoenixes appearing at battle with king Wan to be February 26, 1238 BC.

Moses' three days of darkness was possibly day 26 of 60, 6AM Sunday March 9 1279 BC.

Divined on day wuzi [25]: The Sun has a blemish. this should perhaps be reported to the Lord of the Yellow River. Heji 33699.

There must have been a sun/moon miracle half an orbit after Joshua's long day February 26, 1238 BC that give the same day 57 of 60.

"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. Also, this oracle bone was found in Anyang from Wu Ding 1401 BC- 1342 BC. Thus the eclipse date for this record of 1302 BC is wrong. This may be a sun miracle of King Tut or Seti I or the beginning of Ramses II. This could simply be the day of the lunar month, day 6, February 26, 1238 BC and thus be king Wan's dream. 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 March 9 1279 BC. The rising sun in Egypt at 6 AM would be a noon sun in China. Perhaps the sun retreated to the Chinese dawn position, the midnight position from Egypt where darkness would be the greatest. Thus the sacrifice because the men were hungry and the sun did not rise on China for three days. However, this could also be the new moon March 23, 1279 BC or the six day moon March 28, 1279 BC.

Here are some oracle bone records:
Bin divined in the reign of King Wuding:

Crack-making on [ji]chou (day 26), Bin divined: "On the next yi[wei] (day 32), [the king will] perform the you-cutting sacrifice and offer broomcorn millet to Zuyi." [The king] read the crack and declared: "There will be a curse. It may not rain." On the night of the sixth day jiawu (day 31), the moon was eclipsed. On yiwei [the king] performed the you-cutting sacrifice to many ancestors.

For the following oracle bone inscription:
"This was the 12th month was the month of the Yin calendar. It was several months slower than our current calendar." Xueshun Liu August was the 12th month.
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)" August 29 1352 BC. 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. This may be the cause of rebellion in Wuding's 50th year.

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 must be the 10th day of the 7th Hebrew lunar month Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement, the Hebrew new year 72 years before the Exodus. Perhaps Pharaoh Seti died in 1356 BC.

The original patter of the jubilee may be 1320 BC as the jubile to be fulfilled 50 years after the jubile in 20 BC, thus August 16, 31 AD.
This is 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. Legend has it 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 jubile was reckoned to be at 50 year intervals till Jesus fulfilled the jubile in 31 AD. When also, 2368 BC, there was new emperor in China possibly due to a sun miracle. Because Isaac was a type of Christ and he could look ahead to the day Jesus would come and preach the Gospel just a year and half before they would crucify him.

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 26 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 10 PM August 31 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° 10 PM August 31 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 30 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. Also, earth was already in a reverse orbit and a sun miracle may not be possible at any other time than the half orbit. Jesus said there would be the sign of Jonah. The sun miracle soon after this at the half orbit when Jesus fed the 5,000 in 12 hours of sunset February 12, 32 AD, the day before the passover, was like the sign of Jonah. 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 about where the descendents of Noah settled and is beside Ur of the Chaldeans of Abraham. Azerbaijani is just beside Armenia which is just beside Mount Ararat. J1 is represented in 30% of the poplulation of Azerbaijani. Aaron is proven beyond reasonable doubt to be J1c. Most likely, Adam lived near Mount Ararat. Nineveh; Kerek Ur - round lord, and Egeto Ur - scorching lord, are Sumerian for Sun. Thus it was a city of God. Jonah was in the whale's belly three days then travelled to Nineveh from the Mediterranean and arrived in one day. People could travel to Nineveh in those days in three days. People walked everywhere and could travel long distances very fast. If the sun stood still in the sky for 60 hours, a 72 hour day, Jonah would have the 3 X 24 hours to travel to Nineveh. Jonah's message was that God delivered him out of the whale's belly and sent him to Nineveh. Jonah's message was that he was sent. Jonah was in the whale's belly the same days Jesus was in the heart of the earth.

Jonah 3:4b: "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown".

The same forty days of Noah's flood from Saturday April 12 3637 BC. The same forty days the 12 spied out the promised land from Sunday March 29, 1278 BC to May 11, 1278 BC. Mount Horeb means glowing heat with reference to the sun. The same forty days, in the third month that is, June - the month of the summer solstice, 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. Moses went up three times 120 days in all, to come down on the day of Atonement, the tenth day of the seventh month. The same forty days Elijah went on to go to the same mount Horeb. The same forty days, 120 days, Jesus was tempted April 17 31 AD - August 16 31 AD.
The same forty days Jesus appeared after his resurrection from Sunday April 5 33 AD. The 50 days of Pentecost were numbered from the morrow after the Sabbath of the Passover also a Sabbath - 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.

Leviticus 23:5 "In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread."
23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Leviticus 23:15 "And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD."

Jonah may have preached on the 50 year jubile:

II Kings 14: "He (Jeroboam II) restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher."

This may have been on the jubile at 790 BC, the time to restore lost land.

More about Joshua's long day:

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. Here a few other possibilites. However, most likely earth did not shift at all, only the sun moved and orbits shifted.
You can move and tilt these planets just as the sun would tilt the orbits of the planets when it moved up or down to keep earth in the same season in this java applet.
Try the example in this 3D PDF. Works only in version 9.
By the sun moving up or down at the same time it moved 180° earth could be kept in the same seasonal inclination of the sun. If you twist the base of the globe of the earth 18° earth would be kept in the same inclination of the sun. Instead the sun must have moved 18° down after moving 180° around the earth to keep the same inclination to the earth.
This 3D PDF document
will show the earth in 3D. Click the + button to enlarge to full screen, then click the MOVE button to twist the earth.
You can see the pole angled away from the sun in the upper right in
this java applet.
You can picture the sun now on the otherside of the earth. Shifting earth's orbit is the same as shifting earth's axis to keep the sun's same inclination to the earth. Only, the sun moved, the earth did not shift.
You can turn or move the sun to the otherside of the earth moving it down 18° in
this java applet
as on Joshua's long day February 26 1238 BC to keep earth in this same February 26 season.
Select turn and you can move the sun around the earth, a tiny speck in comparison in
this 3D PDF. Works only in version 9.
Download the most recent free PDF reader from adobe.com and download the most recent Java version at www.java.com

Here you see the solar systems flat plane of orbit:

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

If you picture the sun on the other side of the earth on Joshua's long day you will see either earth must pivot 18° 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°. What actually happenen must have been the sun moved down 18° and orbits tilted. Then earth would not even need to be moved or touched. There is no physical trace because none was left:

Here is an animation of the sun moving down while moving to the other side of the earth and the earth tilting to keep earth in the same season. However, I am almost positive there was no earth shift. The sun most likely was moved up or down after moving 180° to the other side of the earth in order to keep earth in the same season. No scientist would believe he or she could detect anything in earth's wobble of a few centimeters a year if this was the case. No scientist would have a problem with what would happen to the earth if the sun was moved around the earth with great skill and care.

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 of Beth-hor-on")

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. A website using Google Earth depicts this battle in a steep descent going south a few miles west from Gibeon down from the plain opposite the town of Bethoron.
Looking north from Ramot, at Samuel's tomb, to Gibeon, a very small town, in the center just below. To the left you can see the plateau just to the northwest where Joshua chased the Amorites to the descent, just out of view, and would be facing southwest in the going down of Bethoron. This all happened in the small area nearest Gibeon. In a barren field to the right of the road to Gibeon (between roads) is where Israeli archeaologists are digging up traces of Joshua's campaign that day. To the upper left is Timna-Heres of Joshua. This may also be mount Heres where the Amorites dwelt. Heres means the sun.

Here you will see the going down of Bethoron. It was down this steep hill facing southwest at the end of the plateau that Joshua made his request to God. The modern town of Bethoron is on the upper left, in the west facing north. Then Joshua descended against Bethoron depicted here on the north of the ravine.

The valley opens up below. The Aijalon valley connecting south to the Elah valley of David and Goliath. Joshua must have been travelling south when he made his request to God that the sun and moon would stand still.

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 may have passed over, as in Habakkuk 3:10 and Joshua 10:11. However, the hail may be connected to the sun miracle:

Jeremiah 10:12 "He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures."

Perhaps 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.

From Bethshemesh looking northeast. You can see the red tower. :

From Ramot, above Bethoron, you can see the same red tower looking south. Thus you can see the descent is very simular to the going down of Bethoron into the Aijalon valley. Moreover, although Jerusalem is not too far away, this may be too far for David to reasonably walk there with Goliath's head in the remaining hours of the day. This picture was taken from Bethshemesh. So David would have to travel several miles north from the Elah valley to Bethshemesh, then up towards this red tower, then over to Jerusalem. This picture was taken with a 300mm lens, so distances are further than they appear. There may have been a sun miracle recorded in China in 1096 BC when David was 17. If the sun stood still that day, this would give David the time to walk to Jerusalem and provide the setting for the saying "Saul has slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands."

"In his 26th year, in the autumn, in the ninth month, on the day ke-wei (56th of cycle), the king died."
The Chinese Classics, p.149 - King Kang

This would be about when David was 16, in 1096 BC, best I can determine. There may have been a sun miracle then. Notice it was on day 56, the same day 56 of Gideon on August 31, 1238 BC, and perhaps the same day 56 of King Wuding's oracle bone, September 16, 1321 BC - Moses was 40 that year. Thus, all the more reason for the Chinese to regard this day, perhaps the new moon day 56 October 4, 1096 BC. Then this 26th year must be his 66th year. 40 years are thought to be missing because King Kang had such a peaceful reign nothing of interest was recorded. However, for there to be water in the brook where David took his five smooth stones to slay Goliath, this must be the beginning of the rainy season in October. When I was there about the same date, September 16, 2010, there was no water in the creek bed and all was very dry.

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 can form very rapidly and be pushed up, staying stationary while more particles are being blown into it, until becoming very large before falling. A Hail storm may last 8 hours. The hail, clouds, came from the west. Joshua would have been able to see the sun through the clouds but not the moon in the east. Thus the hail storm may have occurred at the same time as Joshua's prayer. Often thick clouds appeared when there was a sun miracle to hide God's glory.
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 in January in China. 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. The lowest temperatures and highest rainfall in Israel is from the middle of January to the end of February. 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 May 1278 BC when the sun must return from the reverse orbit of Moses' long sunset. With frequent sun miracles the timing of the return of the sun must have been known. That May 1278 BC would be when the grapes were first ripe. Then Joshua and Caleb said to go up at once that night in May one year after the sun stood still at sunset in May for a long sunset when Moses' hands were heavy. 365 days 5 hours after sunset is midnight. Some harvest dates: Harvest in Bible times. Thus when Israel did not go up, they would have rose early that midnight/morning, only to be too late.

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 24 more hours daylight that day to get complete victory. 36 hours, only the sun must move 12 hours east from midnight to the noon position leaving 24 hours to stand still in the noon position.

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 May 13, 1278 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 sun fell from the sky at noon in Egypt for the three days of darkness which was the same day as this dragon in China. Perhaps this was one year after an earlier sun miracle and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit that day. Then in May Moses' hands were held up while the sun was setting. Then perhaps a long sunset, the sun moved 180° east to stand still at sunset for 12 hours. Then a year of reverse orbit to the same day in May when Joshua said to go up at once, for we are well able.. their shade is departed from them.. Then Joshua may have known the sun would stand still that next day. If the sun stood still for 12 hours for Moses May 13, 1279 BC, then the sun could retreat from midnight to stand still at noon for 24 hours for Joshua. 48 missing hours in the reverse orbit countered by Moses' long sunset of 12 hours and Joshua's battle to be fought a year later of 36 hours - 12 hours to move from midnight to noon and 24 hours for the sun to stand still. 48 hours long days - 48 hours missing time = no net missing time.

Exodus 17:10 "So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
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."

Exodus 17:16 "For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."

Joshua may have known about sun miracles from Egyptian records. Thus he may have known God would make the sun rise and stand still a year later to the day, that night May 1278 BC. "from generation to generation" really means from the revolution of time. This could be one year. The sun must return one year later when Joshua would request to go up at once that night and fight the Amalekites. Then perhaps the sun rose at midnight and the Israelites climbed the mountain early in the morning. Only they had disobeyed and God was not with them. The children of Israel would know about sun miracles while they were down in Egypt. In Chinese records there was one in 2287 BC, about 2274 BC, 2154 BC, 1891 BC, 1807 BC, 1788 BC, 1765 BC. So, similar records in Egypt must have existed. 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. All other sun miracles may have been of God's own timing.

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 perhaps the battle would be on September 22 1278 BC. Thus Joshua and Caleb may have stood up on the day before the first day of the feast of tabernacles, September 22 1278 BC, 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 for Joshua to finish them off. Whether the sun stood still for Joshnua February 25 or 26 1238 BC, 40 years later, 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 Pisces 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. Seleucus was a successor to Alexander the Great. He won the battle of Gaza in 312 BC. The Greeks maintained control of Jeruslam to December 13, 164 BC when the Maccabees defeated the Greeks, Lysias, in the going down of Ajalon during a sun miracle. A fulfillment of Isaiah 28. 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 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. There is archeaological evidence Joshua destroyed Lachish. Joshua does not say they rested Saturday.

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. Jesus was crucified with the two thieves on noon Friday. 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 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. 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. They did not claim to actually see the dragon. They said they saw the dragon move very fast through the clouds, and by the hole it left determined a dragon had gone through. The dragon was at times bright or dark, long or short, minute or gigantic and appeared at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. March 23 1279 BC - day 42 - is only a week before the vernal equinox. A sun miracle on the equinox meant earth's orbit did not need to shift nor the sun move up or down to keep in the same season. On day 47, perhaps the lunar eclipse March 18, 1345 BC as per the oracle bone record in China when thick clouds appeared as they often did when there was a sun miracle. However, the oracle bone from Anyang may be from the third year of Wu Yi in 1279 BC just before he moved from Yin to north of the Ho.

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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 travelled 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 - stayed in the same position of the sky as it moved with earth's rotation around the earth, and made ashamed = the colour purple red, 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. This may be the same 48 hours earth would orbit the sun faster in the same period. Therefore, the moon may not have to slow in its orbit of the earth when earth was in a reverse orbit of the sun. The moon must move 180° with the sun east or west on the day of the sun miracle. Thus the moon standing still in the sky with the sun for a total of 48 hours a reverse orbit year may make the necessary correction in itself. Lunar eclipses should appear at the same times and visibility as normal. Only the lunar eclipse may be +30 minutes or -30 minutes depending on the time of year. However, there may be absolutely no difference in eclipse times, even solar eclipses during a reverse orbit of the sun. The lunar eclipse of 6 PM March 9 1279 BC occurring at 6 AM March 9 1279 BC comes to mind. The 12 hour difference was in the sun miracle yet no net missing time. 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 started again after a 15 year lapse, see Zechariah 14:5-9. However, the jubile was counted from 520 BC. And the professies of eating of that which groweth of itself the second and third years must mean a sabbath year 49 followed by a jubile year 50. Then the assurance that God would not take them into captivity yet at the jubile in 690 BC. Then when Jerusalem was beseiged again the captivity came in May 15, 591 BC, the people were carried away and did not eat of the land in the third year. When Jesus came with the gospel it was the 49th and 50th year of no sowing also. Only the people ate in the third year of the land for this was the resurrection year April 5, 33 AD and Pentecost May 25, 33 AD when they ate of the first crop of Barley when the Holy Ghost was given. 520 BC is a common date for the laying of the foundation of the temple and probably is correct. They then left off building the temple for 15 years. There was a tunnel around the perimeter of the wall of the temple for drainage just discovered in 2011. Thus there was a lot of work even to lay the foundation. It is commonly believed the temple was finished about 15 years after Cyrus made his decree in 530 BC. This would be 515 BC.

However, if the accepted chronology is wrong, this could be about 504 BC. That is, the battle of Salamis may have been in 470 BC. There may have been a sun miracle in 480 BC, at the battle of Marathon in 480 BC. The battle of Salamis is commonly dated 480 BC and the battle of Marathon 490 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 probably was in September of 480 BC and the sun miracle of September 470 BC be in Xerxes' fifth year.

There was an eclipse in 480 BC. There was a total eclipse visible from Greece on February 17 478 BC. A sun miracle in September of 480 BC must be followed by a sun miracle half an orbit later in March 479 BC. Likewise, two winter half reverse orbits add up to one hour net missing time. Then in March or April of 479 BC it would seem likely the sun could revolve around the earth for one hour at the speed of light. Thus not only would the sun be darkened like an eclipse, it would be darkened and suddenly set in the east or west. Thus the sun would "disappear". Likewise in the spring of 471 BC, or 469 BC, when Xerxes departed from Susa: "for the sun disappeared in a cloudless and clear sky, and day became night."

There was a total eclipse October 2, 480 BC. However it was only 50% covered in Greece and would hardly be noticable unless one starred at the sun. The Bible Companion dates the battle of Salamis to October 22 on the 20th day of the lunar month. If so, this could not have been an eclipse.

Xerxes could have come to rule in 478 BC and the battle of Salamis be seven years later in 470 BC. Then the battle of Marathon be in 480 BC.

Darius reigned 30 years. Thus perhaps from 509 BC to 479 BC. The second temple may have been started in 520 BC, 70 years after it had been destroyed. Then was left from building for 15 years. Then the temple may have been finished on February 10, 504 BC. There was an eclipse recorded that day in China which could only be a sun miracle. Then also, the Milky Way was not visible in 504 BC, perhaps the same sun miracle. There is the possibility in May, the month of Zif, in 504 BC, the temple building was started again. And that year the Milky Way was not visible in China to give the priests light to build the temple.

"In (King King's) 14nth year (504 BC) the milky way was not visible in the sky."

This may have been a continual twilight that the temple could be built day and night. Likewise, in 1039 BC in May the month of Zif, the first temple was started. There is the possibility this was the twilight in China also.

"In his (Chao's) 14th year, in the summer, in the 4th month, the regular stars were invisible."

Perhaps there being twilight to build day and night. However, 504 BC looks more like the finishing of the second temple and Chao's 14th year adds up to the 40 years of Saul and thus a sun miracle on David at Ziklag when Saul in a separate battle fell. Thus a sun miracle on the month of Zif when Saul became King of Israel in 1126 BC and K'ang became King in China +26 years to Chao's 14th year to 1186 BC when Saul died and David became King of Judah.

The twilight in Zechariah 14 speaks of God's Spirit in the temple. Jesus was in the temple August 16, 32 AD, on the last great day of the feast of tabernacles when was twilight.

Then Xerxes may have reigned from 478 BC and his twentieth year when the walls of Jerusalam were built be in 458 BC, which is 490 years from Jesus' crucifixion on April 3, 33 AD.

A sun miracle could be taken as an omen for a new leader or an omen to go to battle. Xerxes was moved to attack Greece, officially dated in 480 BC. Possibly this Battle of Salamis was 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". 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.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."

Seven weeks can mean again seventy weeks. "weeks" seven days or seven years, thus 70 X 7 = 490 years or days. Nehemiah began and finished the wall around Jerusalem in the 20th year in Shushan. Which then must be 458 BC. This could make all dates 7 years more recent than the commonly accepted chronology.
The 20th year may have counted from 478 BC.
The Bible text in Nehemiah states the wall of Jerusalem was finished in the 20th year at Shushan. And there is some evidence for 478 BC being Xerxes' first year. Then his third year would be 476 BC when he had the 180 day feast. There were lunar eclipses 180 days apart and both visible in Persia on February 6, 477 BC and August 1, 477 BC. There could have been sun miracles on those dates. Then Xerxes' seventh year would be the year before the jubile in 470 BC when possessions were to be restored. Esther appeared before Xerxes in the seventh year perhaps the jubile year of 470 BC. The 14th of Adar in 470 BC was the lunar eclipse visible from Persia on March 20 470 BC in the seventh year. Perhaps this is where Haman obtained his date. There was also a September 23 471 BC lunar eclipse visible from Persia as well. The 12th year 12th month may have been February 466 BC. If the months were left to fall back, the lunar eclipse Dec 26 466 BC could be the 14th of Adar the 12th month and the 12th year.
There are exactly 490 days from the dedication of the temple in the 25th day of Kislew to the second passover 490 days later no matter what year. From November 29, 31 AD, the 25th day of Kislew, to April 3, 33 AD when Jesus was crucified are exactly 490 days.

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."

"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

Perhaps the eight nights of Hanukkah were one long night that lasted 8 nights. Then the sun retreated from the noon position in Israel to the morning position in China and stood still in the morning position in China for 8 X 12 hours. Then that long night in Israel would last 8 X 12 hours, 96 hours. Then the other three sun miracles that year would be the sun travelling 180° west, or -12 hours. 9 X 12 - 3 X 12 = 60 hours. Then there had to have been a reverse orbit just previous that had three + 12 hour days and one -12 hour day. So the two reverse orbits long days would add up to 96 hours or 2 X 48 hours. Thus the -48 hour earth was sped up that year would be countered by +48 hours in net time of long day/night.

The feast for 180 days in Esther 1:4 may have symbolized the 180 degrees or 180 days between two sun miracles: in the fall winter half orbit when earth is closest to the sun; from September to March. Xerxes' first year from 479 BC; the lunar eclipse at midnight October 2 480 BC and March 29 479 BC. Thus a sun miracle at the in gathering of the year, feast of tabernacles = 15th day of the lunar month and time of lunar eclipses at the full moon, on October 2 to the 14 day of the lunar month the Passover March 29 479 BC. There are 180 days from the feast of tabernacles in September to the following passover in March in any year. 474 BC could be the third year in Shushan. Mordecai may have fulfilled the last verse of Esther in seeking the wealth of his people by securing Esther in the first jubile since the foundation of the second temple in the seventh year of Xerxes 470 BC. Then the 12th year of Xerxes could be 465 BC.

Esther 2:16 "So Esther was taken unto king Ahasueus into his house royal in the tenth month which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign."

The keeping of the 50 year jubile must have counted from the first year the foundation of the temple was laid in 520 BC. The fall of Jerusalem, if in 591 BC would be May 15, 591 BC, the ninth day of the lunar month as the Bible states, rather than the solar eclipse in May 28 585 BC. There can be no solar eclipse on the ninth day of the lunar month. Then the captivity counted from 585 BC is suspect. The solar eclipse May 28 585 BC cannot be the sun darkening when Jerusalem was taken. These are totally different events. The sun was darkened for three hours when Jesus was on the cross. The sun must have been darkened in the same way when Jerusalem was taken. A sun miracle, not an eclipse. On the ninth day of the lunar month, not the first. The sun may have been moved around the earth at the speed of light, thus the sun would be darkened. Then the sun would give no light to earth - time is standing still at the sun - and take one hour to complete a circuit around the earth. Thus, the May 15 591 BC solar eclipse in China on day 40 may have counted from the previous lunar month. 30 days plus the 9th day plus one day adjustment to the Hebrew lunar month = 40 days. Moreover, the 30th year at the beginning of Ezekiel must be the 30th year of 50 of the jubile and be 610 BC. Then the reigns of the kings of Judah from then come to 591 BC as described in Ezekiel. Then the eclipse Thales predicted must rather be May 15 591 BC at the battle of Halys. Then the May 28 585 BC eclipse may not have been recorded and the May 15 591 BC one hour darkness very much more likely recorded as Thale's eclipse.

It would take the sun about one hour to move 360° around the earth at the speed of light. The sun travelling at the speed of light would be darkened so much the stars could come out. Then there would be one hour of elapsed time that must be countered or it would be detectable. Two half reverse orbits covering the spring and summer months would be 179 days. 179/365.25 X 48 = 23:30 hours. Thus these two half reverse orbits would add up to one hour net elapsed time. A good way to hid the sun standing still, would be to have it revolve with the moon to the other side of the earth for 12 hours, 180°, with earth's rotation at night at the time of a lunar eclipse. Then all that would be recorded would the the lunar eclipse. There were lunar eclipses on October 19 31 AD and April 14 32 AD, 179 days apart. Even the second eclipse would happen a few hours later at night. Half of the 5 hours left over from 365 days in the year is this 2.5 hours. The half odd 365 day of 12 hours would just be because earth is 180° on the other side of the sun six months later. Then the second half reverse orbit from the lunar eclipse October 7 32 AD to April 3 33 AD the night of Jesus' crucifixion would leave no net missing time. Even that night could be 12 hours longer. Then the sun and moon must stand still in the sky for 12 hours to begin and finish each reverse orbit. The moon standing still at night at the time of a lunar eclipse would not seem that unusual. Then all missing time could be countered that night of April 3 33 AD. Moreover, earth is an average of 93,000,000 miles from the sun. Then the sun travelling 360° around the earth at the speed of light would take 52 minutes. If the sun travelled around the earth instantly at the speed of light there would still be about 8 minutes left for necessary adjustments like travelling just under the speed of light because nothing can really go the speed of light or the universe would implode.

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, 440 years before the birth of Christ in 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.

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 30 706 BC or March 23 687 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 23 1279 BC 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.
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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 between Scorpius and 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 18° 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 1179 BC just before the fall of the Shang dynasty in 1174 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 1174 BC.
"In the first month, the day jin-shin immediately followed the end of the moon's waning."
- the year Woo became emperor.
March 1, 1174 BC is day 29 and is the last waning of the moon. Importantly this day 29 of cycle 60 March 1, 1174 is when the moon was just becoming invisible a few days before it passed the sun. The other date of day 29 January 27, 1122 BC the moon is appearing a a new moon. If it is now visible as a new moon how is it the last waning of the moon? Likewise 60 days later, March 26, 1122 BC, the moon is visible as a new moon also. So 1122 BC cannot be the first year of the Zhou dynasty. Then Emperor woo may have become emperor of China in 1174 BC. Then Wuding's lunar eclipse on the full moon day 57 may be September 16, 1321 BC and be a sun miracle 187 days after March 14, 1321 BC.
Then the sun was blemished on day 51 may be the starting sun miracle. Then king Wan's dream of Joshua's long day may have been very similar also on day 50 February 26 1238 BC. Thus king Wan's dream would be taken as an omen that he should be king. January 27 1122 BC is a 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 this date of 1122 for emperor Wu may be wrong. There may have been a sun miracle in Wu's first year as emperor helping his campaign in 1174 BC. Thus it was written "How sun and moon were Wan and Wu!"

"In his 12th year 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 bright appointment of Heaven may mean the sun rising in the west. Bright is the character for sun and moon together.

52 years later Saul was made king at the beginning of wheat harvest in Gilgal also in May. Wheat was sown in the fall in the Jordan valley.

May 3, 1122 BC would be the day of Pentecost. May 2 would be considered summer. Day 2 would be May 3, 1122 BC. Then this record of King Ching's death that appears to be for 1131 BC may be for 1122 BC. Or May 1126 BC. King Kang's first year is styled 1006 BC. The 24th book of Chow in the notes of the Chinese Classics states this is too late. The notes state this should be the eleventh of cycle 60, 60 years earlier 1066 BC. Even this is too late. King K'ang's first year should be 60 years earlier, 1126 BC. Then the year King Ching died may have been on the sun miracle Saul became king, perhaps May 1126 BC. Saul reigned 40 years, perhaps 44 years to 1082 BC. Then David reigned 40 years to 1042 BC. Then the temple was begun in May of 1039 BC 240 years after the Exodus in 1279 BC. Then a few years before Saul became King:

"In King Ching's 34th year, 1129 BC, it rained gold in Heen-yang."
The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p. 148.
The Golden Fleece of the Argonauts to the Black Sea is considered to commence the begining of the Age of Aries the Ram - when the sun was in Aries on the vernal equinox 1000 BC. Perhaps a sun miracle then also rained gold in the Black Sea region. Then on the sun miracle when Saul was made King of Israel in May of 1126 BC King Ching died in his 37th year.

Acts 13:21 "And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years."

The king was often deposed on a sun miracle.

"In his 34th year it rained gold in Heen-yang. In his 37th year, in summer, in the 4th month, on the day yih-ch'ow (2d of cycle), the king died."
The Chinese Classics, p.148.

Wheat harvest came early in the Jordan Valley of Gilgal. Wheat harvest occurs at the end of April, beginning of May.

1 Samuel 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."

A sun miracle as well may have occurred at the same time. Perhaps sudden darkness as the noon sun set suddenly in the west or the east. A sign of Jesus' 3 hours of darkness on the cross. 1122 BC to Jesus' crucifixion in 33 AD is 1155 years. The 800th year Adam was born is 1152 years in duodecimal (base 12). Thus from the first king of Israel to the crucifixion of the King of the Jews is the same time at from the beginning of the first calendar, a sothis calendar, 5700 BC to the birth of Adam. Adam was the first man God blessed.
Saul reigned 40 years from 1122 BC 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. 500 years of the reign of the line of David when he was annointed King by Samuel in about 1096 BC, less seven years the queen ruled, to 590 BC, 70 years captivity; then 500 years from the completion of the temple in 515 BC to the birth of Jesus in 6 BC. 500 plus 500 plus 70 = 1070 years is the same as the sojourn in Egypt 1069 years. 1460 years, a sothis cycle, to Jesus crucifixion and resurrection in 33 AD is 1492 AD when all Jews had to convert to Christianity. And all did, if but for a short time for some.

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 lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years."

Joshua's long day from China would appear as a long sunset. Wan means evening, Wen means writing. King Wan may have been named Wan named after the sun miracle in the evening on February 26, 1238 BC and later named king Wen in 1196 BC 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 of the reason he was named Wan. Then when he was imprisoned and further developed the Chinese language he may have changed his name to Wen for writing. Even if named Wen, for writing, he would have been aware of the phonetic similarity to wan - evening. Very possibly the same sun miracle when he was king in 1238 BC of a long sunset on Joshua's long day seen from China gave him the encouragement that this was a divine mandate he should be emperor. There was recorded a sun miracle in king Wan's first year. This is written as king Wan's first year as king when he supposedly defeated emperor Wending:

In Wending's 12th year, phoenixes collected on mount K'e. The Chinese Classics. p.138.

All the pieces fit. If this is Joshua's long day and king Wan's dream, February 26 1238 BC, then Wending reigned 3 more years to 1235 BC. Then Te-yih reigned 9 years to 1226 BC. Then Te-sin reigned 52 years to emperor Wu 1174 BC.
King Wan's first year was supposed to be 64 years before the fall of the Shang dynasty. If Wu reigned 52 years earlier than 1122 BC, then he reigned from 1174 BC. Then 64 years earlier than 1174 BC is 1238 BC.

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 1194 BC and copied this record of the sun miracle in February 26 1238 BC when he was victorious against Wending to show he should be emperor. There very likely was a sun miracle also then on November 13, 1194 BC that king Wan took as his appointment from heaven. This would be the end of the 40 years of rest of Judges 3:11 and Judges 5:31 and Judges 8:28 in Israel.

"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, witnessed a sun miracle from the Exodus out of Egypt in 1279 BC. Chang would be about 20 in 1279 BC and could hardly not have noticed the three days of darkness of Exodus. In his third year the king Woo-yih conferred the dignity of T'an-foo as duke of Chow, and conferred on him the city of K'e."
The Chinese Classics III, p.137

This third year of Woo-yih would be about 1279 BC if Wending's 12th year was 1238 BC.

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."
The Chinese Classics, III.
This could be the rainbow of glory around God's throne as the dragon that appeared like a rainbow on day 47 perhaps March 18 1345 BC. However the year is not given. Only that it was in Anyang to 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 1178 BC when he took over from his father Wan. Perhaps the sun stood still in Judges in 1143 BC for Jephthah. 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. The coriolis force causes winds to veer to the right in circles in the northern hemisphere.

See image A long day and warm air would cause high winds. Thus there could be the high winds as recorded in Wan's dream in China the day/night of Joshua's long day. The sun standing still in the sky would make some places warmer than others creating differences in air pressure which push the air around in winds.
"spirits..whistled away"
describe the oncoming strong winds.
"brightens all within the four seas",
may refer to the long twilight in China and the geostationary postions of the planets in the western sky. "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. In Hebrew this would sound like the word for here, here. 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 in Native North America, 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.Hol in Hebrew means swirling sand. Thus perhaps a double meaning, both referring to the phoenix. God promised to bless Abraham's seed as the sand in number. However, the Hol, the phoenix, is blessed in years without number. Thus the blessing may rather have been for eternal life for many. The rooster was associated with the phoenix possibly because whenever the sun rose the rooster cried.

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. There could have also have been a loud noise, the 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." Note: Which was the first year of king Wan. The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.139.
Mount K'e was given to the Chow king about 1300 BC. Perhaps sun miracles were observed when the sun set on Mount K'e.
Woo-Yih became emperor about 1282 BC. "In his third year, the king removed from Yin to the north of the Ho. He confirmed the dignity of T'an-foo as duke of Chow, and conferred on him the city of K'e."
The Chinese Classics III, The Annals of the Bamboo Books, p.137.
This would be about the year of the Exodus. Even China would have seen some of the signs to the Egyptians such as the three days of darkness.

Wen Ding. King Wan reigned 51 years to 1187 BC from 1238 BC.
In Di Xin's third year 1223 BC "a sparrow produced a hawk".
Perhaps this is a description of the phoenix. "There was a shower of earth in Poh" in the fifth year, perhaps caused by asteroids 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."

The week previous Moses hands were held up at the time of the setting sun. This may have been a long sunset of 12 hours and earth flowed into a reverse orbit of the sun for Joshua to get the victory over the Amalekites May 13 1279 BC. The 50th day since the passover should be Pentecost Sunday May 25 1279 BC in the Hebrew lunar calendar. Often sun miracles may have begun about Pentecost. 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 on the day of the week to remember Jesus' resurrection. You cannot get any more right than that. Then a sun miracle two weeks previous the perihelion of the sun may leave only a few minutes missing time. However, a full year was needed to put everything back to normal. And thus God bore them on eagle's wings perhaps likened to God guiding earth's reverse orbit after or before 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 the same sun miracle. Sun and moon phoenixes collected on mount K'e suggests the same 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 1187 BC. "King Wen is on high, In glory in heaven. His comings and his goings Are to and from the presence of God."
"the E goat was seen. Two suns appeared together" in 1178 BC. Likewise the planetary conjunction in Fang in 1194 BC together with a red crow (phoenix) that lighted on the altar of the spirits, could only be if there was a sun miracle then. Thus Woo became king 12 years after his father died upon the sign from heaven of this sun miracle in the fourth month of May of 1174 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 first year as king in Wending's 12th year, the year of Joshua's long day, 1238 BC Also, Yao's long day in 2357 BC works using this common chronology.

The Revised Chronology is 76 years 4 X 19 years more recent than the common chronology dating the Chow dynasty to 1122 BC. The Chow or Zhou dyansty is dated to 1050 BC. About two cycles of 60 years, 120 years, more recent than what I believe is the actual date of the Zhou dynasty beginning with Emperor Wu in 1174 BC. Thus scholars are deceived because the days of 60 match this 5 X 26 years more recent in 1044 BC. 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 travelled 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 75 days before the perihelion of the sun November 14 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.
78 years, 3 X 26, to the Revised Chronology of the beginning of emperor Wu of the Chow dynasty to 1044 BC is the common chronology 1122 BC. Even 1122 BC is wrong. The Chow or Zhou dynasty began in 1174 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: Two suns appeared together, the E goat was seen in 1178 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."

Joshua's long day may have been on the Sabbath, February 27, 1238 BC. 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. The date of 1122 BC was determined partly with this conjunction in Fang nine years before Wan died supposedly in 1135 BC. This would make it about 1142 BC when Jupiter was in Leo near Fang. However, the planets are hardly in conjunction. Perhaps this conjunction 9 years before king Wan died in 1186 BC was a sun miracle in 1194 BC, just as perhaps the two suns appeared in 1179 BC was a sun miracle, the sun moving 180° east or west. There were two years of reverse orbits in 1279 BC and 1278 BC that this could be a record of:

"In his (emperor Te-sin's 1179 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 king Wan had died and Woo became emperor over all of China. The E goat may be like the qilin the unicorn.

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

Joshua 10:12b Real Audio

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" "the eternal mountains were shattered" As God moved the sun 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 Kang's 66th 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. Timnaserah is only 5 miles north of Bethoron, the scene of Joshua 10:12. 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. However, the three days of darkness most likely was at the same time as the lunar eclipse, 6AM for 6PM, Sunday March 9 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 14 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.

Joshua 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. Half an orbit then would be 180 days. Thus these events may be exactly six lunar months apart.

"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 or rather 1194 BC. This could be day 1, Friday November 13, 1194 BC. when all five planets are visible in Fang/Libra at sunset:

October 9 1142 BC is day 1 of the last lunar month of autumn beginning October 2 1142 BC. However, the planets are not in alignment in Fang/Libra and this 1142 BC cannot be the right date. Ch'ang is king Wan. King Wan died in 1186 BC so was still alive in 1194 BC. Thus a sun miracle November 13, 1194 BC would explain this record of the red bird, undoubtedly from the context the phoenix.
In Te-sin's 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 November 13 1194 BC.
"On day jiazi, 1, the sun and moon were like linked jade annuluses and the five planets were like linked pearls. In the morning twilight at dawn King Wu reached Muye on the outskirts of Shang and followed Heaven's command in punishing king Zhou of Shang. Hence the blades of the weapons were not bloodied and all under Heaven was pacified."
East Asian Archeaology, p.241.
This is written as 1135 BC but must be 1194 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. If in 1142 BC 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. Most likely this was the naturally occurring alignment November 13, 1194 BC when the sun returned 180° to Fang/Libra. Seven years later in 1186 BC upon king Wan's death:
"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 1194 BC, Day 1 of 60 - November 13, 1194 BC. 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
The Big Dipper normally points straight down at midnight in November. The day previous it pointed straight up at midnight. Perhaps this day one was the same day as the sun miracle. The big dipper would point to the four seasons in reverse in a reverse orbit. The seasons would progress as normal. The stars would progress in reverse, the zodiac in reverse, through the year. Earth continued to rotate untouched. The stars made the same east west movement at night as normal.
Note by Yo "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 king Wan received the appointment for nine years from when he was released from prisoned in 1144 BC to 1135 BC or rather 1196 BC to 1187 BC. Thus this series of four sun miracles from November 13, 1194 BC may have given king Wan and the people reason to believe he was appointed by Heaven at this time. The first jubile in Isreal would have been in 1190 BC.

There was a sun miracle in 1179 BC when Two suns appeared together and the E goat was seen. This was four years before Wu became emperor. This was 100 years after the Exodus. Possibly this was the 100 years Jephthah spoke of:
October was near the time of year of the eleventh month January/February 1240 BC when Moses took the land. Thus at this time of year in 1179 BC 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 one hundred years.

Perhaps at 100 years from Moses, Jephthah was inspired to say "within one hundred years".

To be 100 years Jephthah's battle may have been in 1179 BC. There was a sun miracle in 1179 BC when Two Suns appeared together and the E goat was seen in China. Neverthless, phoenixes appeared to King Ching in China about 1150 BC. 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 could be a series of four sun miracles just as there were from Joshua's long day.

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. However, Ron Wyatt may have discovered chariot wheels at the bottom of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea. Egypt forbids anyone to bring up any artefacts, so this cannot be disproven either. I do no know how the Red Sea could be called the Reed Sea since reeds only grow in fresh water.

Isaiah 63:13 "That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
63:14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name."

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. Like Arnon is a river the Reed Sea may be a fork of 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 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.

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."

Moses appeared before Pharoah early in the morning. Perhaps just as the sun was about to rise in the twilight of morning Moses appeared before Pharaoh and the sky became dark for 36 or 72 hours.
"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 March 28 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. Then there would only need to be two sun miracles with this reverse orbit. The sun standing still on the otherside of the earth, +12 hours, and earth flowed into a reverse orbit. Then one year later to the day, the sun retreating from the noon position to set in the east moving 540° east. Thus the sun would move backwards 36 hours. 540° is 36 hours which is the same as three 12 hour daylight days in Bible times. The missing time of one reverse orbit is 48 hours. 12 + 36 hours = 48 hours longer days. There would be no missing minutes either because the reverse orbit was one complete orbit year.
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 almost rising at 6AM March 9, then retreating for Moses for the three days of darkness, the ninth plague of the Exodus:

Mars was above the setting sun March 9 1279 BC - even unto the Exodus. Thus Mars would be in attendance when the sun went down for Moses in the three days of darkness. You can picture Mars rising in the east after the sun set in the east before sunrise. Mars would be far enough from the sun to brighten in the darkened sky when the sun went down suddenly. When the sun moved, that would leave the rising Mars bright in the sky. However, the Egyptian sky was so dark, it was darkness that could be felt.
"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 may be Mars or the red phoenix and the bright new star the glory of God.

This could be day 7 of the 10 day week. There was a solar eclipse visible at dawn in China on day 6 February 22 720 BC. This record could be the lunar eclipse day 47 March 18 1345 BC or day 26 on March 9 1279 BC perhaps at the beginning of the three days of darkness. The sun could have been darkened on a Friday at noon at the time of the Exodus perhaps Friday April 4 1279 BC. Perhaps there was darkness for an hour at noon Friday April 4 when the children of Israel left Egpyt after the passover. The Egyptians could have experienced the same hour of darkness as Jerusalem did when Jesus was crucified. That is, perhaps the sun revolved around the earth 360° at the speed of light for one hour and earth was in darkness. Thus Mars would appear in the now night sky 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 a sun miracle at sunset in China. This is noon Israel time. 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. 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 set in the east 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 earth would flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun. Possibly the three days of darkness was at 6 AM March 9 1279 BC, a whole month before the passover. Or the new moon day 42 March 23, 1279 BC. Pharaoh Merneptah would have sought Moses' life as would Pharaoh Ramses II and probably was dead too, just died, 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 and Seti II became pharaoh. 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. If the Chinese only counted a day when the sun rose in the east they would be right every time.

"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. 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 March 23 1280 BC - a year before the three days of darkness:

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 have flowed into a reverse orbit and the Hebrews conscious of this sign from God about when God called Moses. 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 recorded of Yao. 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 these two days may represent second and third sun miracles of a series of four in a reverse orbit year. Thus perhaps two sun miracles right after each other in the middle of a reverse orbit year. There are many possible combinations.

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.

King Tut and Horemheb may be Haplogroup R1b1a2, which is the root of my haplogroup R1b1a2a1a1a4. Even I match a surname Kha from Egypt 1700 years ago or +500 years more on my Y-dna. Kha in Egyptian meant king. This may explain how Rameses II has red hair. Some Egyptian tombs carry people with red hair. It is thought they were some kind of royalty though not native to the region.

"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:

Dragon Drinks, Large

Dragon Drinks, whole oracle bone

"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. This may be to ancestor Wu Ding, now Fu Ding ancestor. Moreover, The King may be King Wu Yi rather than Wuding. Also the dragon appearing in the north. Then this may be the reason Wu Yi left Anyang (Yin) for a place north of the Ho, the Yellow River. See

Woo-Yih

Job 40:23 "Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth."

There was a lunar eclipse day 47 March 18, 1345 BC during King Wuding's reign.

There may have been a sun miracle one year earlier on day 42:
Divined on day yisi 42: "In performing the you-ritual we should perhaps invoke ancestor Xiao Yi. Use this one. The Sun has a blemish. We should report it in the evening to ancestor Shang Jia using nine oxen."
Heji, 33696
If so, there would be a start reverse orbit day 42 March 28, 1280 BC and the three days of darkness March 28, 1279 BC and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun. This would be near the beginning of Wu Yi's reign. Moreover, the three days darkness may be the sun travelling 180° west at noon in Israel. Then standing still there for 3 X 24 hours, 72 hours. This could be a type of the 72 hours, three days Jesus was in the tomb. Thus, Friday night April 3, 33 AD may have been 72 hours long. Then this Friday night, March 28, 1279 BC may have fallen at noon and lasted 72 hours. The sun would stand still over the pacific in the just before dawn position in China. Thus the Chinese would sacrifice with the long night/morning and be hungry. Thus three flames ate the sun. Then the dragon at sunset in China may be the angel of God the Chinese saw. Thus King Wu Yi's reason to find the place the dragon appeared north by the Ho River. Not only because of seeing the dragon, but also because of the three days darkness afterwards. Thus these two records for day 47 and day 7 may be the same event. Day 7 of the lunar month. Day 7 of the 10 day week. Thus one year earlier on day 42 the sun may set at noon in China, 365.25 days earlier, thus the blemish of the sun at evening, sudden sunset. However, there may be two fall/winter half orbits to make an hour of missing time for the sun to revolve around the earth in blackness at the speed of light for one hour as in Jesus' crucifixion. Day 42 September 30, 1281 BC to Day 42 March 28, 1280 BC, and Day 47 September 30, 1280 BC to Day 47 March 28, 1279 BC. Then the one hour of darkness perhaps noon Friday April 4 1279 BC at the Exodus out of Egypt.

Then day 47 could be either September 30, 1280 BC or March 29, 1279 BC. Day 6 could be day 6 of the ten day cycle, 6 of 46. Perhaps both records are for March 28 1279 BC and the sixth day is also the sixth day of the lunar month.

Or perhaps there was a start sun miracle on day 37 March 28, 1281 BC at the beginning of Wu Yi's reign:
the next day, jihai 36, it will perhaps not be fine during the day..Heji, 11483 recto. That evening the Moon was eclipsed. Heji, 1183 verso.

On day gengzi 37: we should perform a yi-sacrifice to the Bird Star (niao xing) 7th month.
The seventh month is the end of March/April. Then the sun may return on day 42, March 23, 1279 BC - on the new moon.

Perhaps immediately after the three days of darkness a new lunar month, March 23, 1279 BC:

Exodus 12:1 "And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you."

"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.

This record may be of David's battle at Ziklag the same day as the defeat of Saul on Mount Gilboa, perhaps May 1086 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.

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?"

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 at the finish line.

Lord Nelson from Flying Horse Farm

Psalm 18:10b "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.
Psalm 18:12b "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 North American Natives believed red was the colour of God as did the Chinese.

"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 Xia Yi. 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"
Que may have divined during Wu Yi's reign from 1281 BC. If he lived to 80 he may have divined since Wu Ding's reign to 1340 BC.
This could have been a prediction of rain the day the sun was expected to return during a reverse orbit. It often rained during a sun miracle to hide the phoenix/dragon. There could have been a year of a reverse orbit before the three days of darkness in Egypt in Exodus. 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 1279 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 of three days of darkness earth would flow out of the reverse orbit. 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. Also, the Bird Star may simply refer to the phoenix. There could be two half fall/winter orbits ending in the three days of darkness of Exodus, perhaps March 28, 1279 BC. Day 42 may be Day 42 September 30, 1281 BC to Day 42 March 28, 1280 BC. Then Day 47 September 30, 1280 BC to March 28, 1279 BC.
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(1174 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. (Could this be Luh Ching made viscount in the eleventh month Kow-te'een?) 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 600 BC, the fifth day of the fourth month in the fifth year counting from Zedekiah's first of 11 years to 590 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 could be June 6 585 BC. However, it probably was May 15, 591 BC. The ninth day of the month cannot be a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
The significance of day 47 may be more than the lunar eclipse day 47 March 18, 1345 BC. The rainbow may refer to the glory of an angel of God.

- 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. 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 only found one lunar eclipse in Wuding's reign. The pit may be the darkness of night from a sun miracle. King Wuding reigned 59 years to 1343 BC. 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."'
This is the upper left part of the oracle bone describing the dragon on day 47.
Perhaps the prince went to this place north of the Ho where the dragon appeared, the Yellow River, where Wu Yi went that year in 1279 BC. See Woo-Yih" in the Chinese Classics. Perhaps day 5 is day 55 April 2, 1279 BC about the night of the passover in Egypt or day 5, April 12, 1279 BC about when Israel crossed the Reed Sea, Red Sea.
Perhaps this dragon was a sun miracle, the sign to the Hebrew slaves when pharaoh Seti I died in 1356 BC. 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. Or the dragon may be an angel. Or perhaps the sun stood still for 36 hours in the morning position for three days darkness in Egypt. Then there could be a rainbow for hours in China. Or perhaps this was a sun miracle 180 days before the three days darkness in Egypt. Only if this was King Wu Yi and not Wu Ding.

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 is Wuding. A possible date is about 1350 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. Or this 12th month may be a sun miracle September 30, 1280 BC.
Likewise you can see the word Feng in the inscription on your below -

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.
Perhaps in 1033 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's orbit 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, 1226 BC to 1174 BC. 1238 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 was King Dixin. There were two sun miracles recorded at the end of his reign in 1178 BC and 1174 BC. So a short day in the series of four sun miracles would be expected then. Thus the sudden darkness. Also, there probably was a sun miracle in 1178 BC when Jephthah conquered the Amorites about 100 years after Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt.

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.

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 or at sunrise in China. A likely time would be the new moon on day 42 March 23, 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.
quot;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 at Seti's death in 1355 BC was a forewarning of the Exodus to come upon Egypt. 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. Or perhaps Messuwy was Merneptah's eldest son and died on the passover night.
Probably Messuwy's death in 1279 BC was not natural and not expected.
("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 seems to depict an earth shift for February or August. However, rather this must be a zodiac shift. 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. It only appears the man is measuring the distance between the pole to the severed leg of the bull.

However, he may be rather measuring a shift in the zodiac. Then the zodiac must shift to the 4000 AD position (70°/ precession per century (360/258) = 5300 years) or 13,000 years backward or forward in precession of the zodiac.
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." 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 may be Pleiades, the brightest star cluster in the sky, just to the upper right of Orion. Or they may be the seven stars in the Big Dipper. 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. If Jesus was born on a sun miracle September 14, 6 BC, Orion would be visible in the night sky with Arcturus and the Big Dipper. 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. If the sun moved around the earth at the speed of light for one hour, pleiades may have been very visible overhead if the stars were visible. Galaxies from the beginning of the creation as seen by the Hubble are seen just south of Orion. Also, when earth's orbit 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. God commanded the sun, he did not touch the earth as far as I know. Arcturus and the chambers of the south appear in the winter midnight sky. If the sun moved 180° around the earth in summer, The winter night sky would appear in summer.

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 deceased pharaoh was imagined to become the pole star, thus its importance in this celestial ceiling. However, the earth did not shift, only the sun moved up or down relative to earth. Thus the permanence of the pole star in a changing zodiac was noted rather than a pole shift. Then there was not a pole shift, only a reverse orbit. The sun likely moved back 180° and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit one year later. Perhaps the sun moved back to Aquarius from Leo. Then perhaps this is 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

Perhaps there was a short day of only a few hours. 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 half a year later is exactly the day of Atonement the 10th day of the seventh lunar month. 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;
Or this could be half an orbit on Yom Kippur 72 years before the Exodus the 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's orbit 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 Yom Kippur September 1279 BC, 1000 years after Joseph died in 2277 BC. Joseph's bones may have been present in or near the tabernacle. Some take March 15 1278 BC a Sunday the first day of the lunar month and the beginning of the Hebrew year. However, only on Yom Kippur was the first day of the Jewish civil calendar and was the only day the high priest allowed to enter the holiest of holies. Yom Kippur may have been counted from September 8 1280 BC. Then the feast of Tabernacles may have been counted five days later September 13 1280 BC. Then there may have been a sun miracle at midnight September 13 1280 at the time of a lunar eclipse. A reverse orbit for the 179 days from September 13 1280 BC to the second lunar eclipse half an orbit later, 6AM for 6PM, March 9 1279 BC. Then the three days of darkness may have begun at the lunar eclipse 6AM March 9 1279 BC. Then Yom Kippur Sunday September 28 1279 BC would be one year later and mark the second year. This would mean an intercalenary month added, as had to be every three years. Because the new moon was counted now counted from its first visibility rather than the Egyptian month from the moon's last visibility there must have been a few days added to get the new dates. Then the new year the tabernacle was reared up was on a Sunday, the first day of the week and the fist day of the civil year. Perhaps Exodus begins with Moses seeing the burning bush about the time of Yom Kippur, or what would become Yom Kippur, September 8 1280 BC. Likewise a sun miracle on the first day of the feast of tabernacles is 179 days from the following passover, when there could be a second sun miracle and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun. The three days of darkness probably was at the same time as a lunar eclipse, 6AM for 6PM, March 9 1279 BC - a whole month before the passover because of an intercalenary month being added.

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 591 BC to 520 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 jubile 70 years forward and enabled Jesus to stand and speak and fulfill the words of release and forgiveness of the jubile on the last jubile, Leviticus 23, Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18 = Saturday October 13 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."

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 jubile on Yom Kippur which means Day of Atonement, from Saturday October 13 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 jubile. 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 jubile, this whole year, from October September 13 31 AD to September 1 32 AD plus half a year before and half a year after, two years. Moses went up to the mount of God for 40 days three times in a row = 120 days, to come down on the day of atonement. Thus Jesus' first passover in March 27 31 AD then from May 7 to September 13 31 AD is the same 120 days. 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.
Then if we start with John the Baptist's ministry a year earlier, there may have been 3 1/2 years to Jesus' crucifixion.

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 or the dedication of the temple, or the feast of Purim. Most likely this was the feast of the passover also in John 6:5. Perhaps Jesus left Jerusalem before the passover.

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 seventh month, August 17 31 AD, Leviticus 23 in Nazareth. Then travelled to Jerusalem for the feast of tabernacles to be there in the middle of the 8 day feast. Or this feast was the feast of passover on February 13 32 AD, John 6:4. Next the feast of tabernacles, perhaps August 16 32 AD, 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 Mary conceiving Jesus' by the Holy Ghost in January 6 BC possibly born September 14 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 1096 BC to the jubile in 590 BC if 7 years are omitted for the queen Athaliah. There were to be no more kings after Zedekiah was taken in 591 BC. Hezekiah may have reigned 29 years from 720 BC to 691 BC instead of from 726 BC. The captivity was from May 591 BC to the beginning of the temple in 520 BC. Work on the temple ceased then and was not started till 15 years later in 504 BC. A sun miracle in 504 BC, the milky way was not visible in China at least one night that year, could be a sign of Jesus' birth 500 years later. This could have something to do with the temple that day. 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 China probably at the time of a sun miracle 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 on Yom Kippur the first day of the civil year, Sunday, September 28, 1279 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 the two Hebrew calendar year ends.
An ancient bird constellation now called the Phoenix is just below Pisces. 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 night sky of stars revealed six months early. Thus the head of the river of the zodiac was revealed. 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. This Merneptah died about April/May - the time of the Exodus.

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, 1294 years, 9 X 144 years, before the birth of Christ in 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. 6AM March 9 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 9 1279 BC it would be just at 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's orbit 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.

Therefore Moses' three days of darkness may be solved.

More about Moses' three days darkness

The three days darkness may have been on the new moon before the Exodus out of Egypt. Thus day 42 March 23, 1279 BC. Perhaps the sun was visible or rising in China. Or this may be the earlier half orbit from Day 42 September 30, 1281 BC to Day 42 March 28 1280 BC. You see here many records for day 42. This may be the record:

Divined on day 42: In performing the you-ritual we should perhaps invoke ancestor Xiao Yi. Use this one. The Sun ha a blemish. We should report it in the evening to ancestor Shang Jia using nine oxen. Heji, 33696

If the sun stood still on the Pacific Ocean for 36 hours, 3 days, it would have to move 540° with earth's rotation during a 36 hour total lunar eclipse in order to keep Egypt in complete darkness for three days. "Sea-surface heights are a measure of how much heat is stored in the ocean below. This heat influences both present weather and future planetary climate events." The ocean absorbs heat much more slowly than land. Even so, earth would then warm up in the north pacific and weather would be affected. The sun would have moved 180° west from Egypt at noon to the north pacific. Then the sun standing still on the Pacific would be: 180° later in the south pacific, 360° later in the north pacific, then 540° later in the south pacific again (over 36 hours). Earth's orbit would not need to shift to keep in the same season because the sun would have moved back to the March 9 season, just before the vernal equinox.
Perhaps there is a connection between the sun that came out at night in Shun's 14th year 2273 BC and the three days it rained blood and the three days of darkness. The three days it rained blood may have been a miracle it itself. The word shiri, which was understood as "to eat the sun," is a time word, perhaps signifying a long night. The modern translation reads:
"after finishing the jian-sacrifice, at the time of morning meal, the weather became really clear."
They would get hungry after a long night and be moved to sacrifice. Scholars do not agree that the new translations should replace the old translations because the characters are so hard to interpret from such early Chinese writing. Dated from 1230 BC - 1160 BC according to the Revised Chronology must rather be King Wu Ding's reign 1401 BC - 1342 BC. "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. 1550-1174 BC). The three days of darkness could be March 9 1279 BC. The vernal equinox in 1279 BC was March 31, thus earth's orbit would not have to shift to keep in the same season. Joseph/Yao's long day about March 31 2357 BC also was about the same number of days before the vernal equinox April 11 2357 BC. If the sun stood still on the other side of the earth to Egypt and the full moon stood still over Egypt, the moon would have to be darkened for the three days of darkness, else the moon stood still on the other side of the earth also. This makes perfect sense. The near total lunar eclipse then would last 36 hours keeping Egypt in darknees.
The sun would be at the 6AM position on Egypt where it appears it was at the time of the second last plague of Egypt when Moses appeared before Pharaoh. The sky was darkened as the sun moved 540° east to stand still on the other side of earth - in the China dawn position.

"The sun has perished out of heaven and an evil mist hovers over all"

Homer's Odyssey
about this 13th century BC. A solar eclipse viewed near sunset is not total. Thus for this eclipse at evening to be total more likely there was a sudden sunset in the east before sunrise in Egypt and Egypt to be plunged suddenly into 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 about three days after the Exodus 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? Probably there was a sun miracle in May 11, 1279 BC and earth flowed into a reverse orbit of the sun. Then exactly one year later May 11, 1278 BC at midnight when the children of Israel were to go up at once that night and conquer Palestine; the sun must return by moving 540°. Thus this would make the sun suddenly travel 180° to the noon position and stay there while the sun travelled an extra 360°, stopped and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit.

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 1279 BC 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."

The following seems unlikely:

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. Far more likely 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. 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.
There is the third possibility this was the crossing of Aqaba on the Red Sea as Ron Wyatt claimed, and the original stated hurrican sea, Vaheb in Suphah. Thus the name Reed Sea, when it may have originally been named Hurricane Sea.

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 LORD 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 17:5 "And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go."

"Smotest the River" must mean the Reed Sea of the Nile River rather than the Red 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 186 days later. 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).
This may be of a sun miracle at February 26 1237 BC and a sudden sunrise just after sunset for Joshua in the battle of Merom, see Joshua 11.

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 month is about April/May - the eighth month from the civil new year in September. There is the possibility this is a sudden sunset when Joshua said to the people Let us go up at once! Then a sudden sunrise early in the morning.
This could be the new moon Monday May 13 1278 BC. The Manna may have fallen Sunday May 4 1279 BC on the 15th day of the Egyptian lunar month beginning at the last visibility of the moon before dawn April 20 1279 BC. Exodus 17 may be on the Sunday following the sabbath in the last verses of Exodus 16 where some went searching for Manna and found none because they were to rest on the sabbath. Exodus 16 starts on the 15th day of the second month, the first day of the week, Sunday May 4, 1279 BC to Saturday May 10, 1279 BC. Then this battle in Exodus 17 may be the next day Sunday May 11, 1279 BC or the first visibility of the new moon May 13, 1279 BC. Then the sun must return one year later May 13, 1278 BC when Joshua confidently declared, "Let us go up at once". A sudden sunrise after a sudden sunset would give Joshua the advantage of a surprise attack. Then Moses' hands may have been held up at sunset Sunday May 11, 1279 BC or Tuesday May 13, 1279 BC. Perhaps exactly one year later the people were gathered May 13, 1278 BC when the 12 spies returned to give account of the good land. The day before on the first day of the second month, God spoke with Moses in the tabernacle to number the children of Israel 20 and over to go to war.Then the last chapter of Exodus Moses raised the tabernacle on the first day of the first month, may have been in September, perhaps the day Jesus was to be born. Then Aaron would be ready to go into the Holiest of Holies on the ninth day, Yom Kippur.Then seven months later on the first day of the second month the Children of Israel were being prepared to conquer the promised land. Whereupon Joshua said let us go up at once..their shade is departed from them. Then that Tuesday May 13, 1278 BC perhaps the sun suddenly set in the west in daytime and suddenly rose a few hours later in the east. Probably Moses sent the 12 spies Friday April 3 on the 22nd day of the month after the seven days of unleavened bread of the passover week. Thus the spies would be sent out the same day of the year, April 3, 1279 BC as they kept the passover and God sent them out of Egypt. There are 40 days from Friday April 3, 1278 BC to Wednesday May 13, 1278 BC. The people would be free to fight because Tuesday May 13, 1279 BC and Wednesday May 13, 1278 BC were not on the sabbath. May 13 1278 BC Mars set 6 hours before the sun. Thus Mars would travel 180° with the sun and 90° ahead of the sun passing overhead before the sudden sunrise in the east. Sunset at the new moon Monday May 13, 1278 BC:

Crack making on day bingshen 33, in the evening: on the next ding 34 day would should perform a bi-sacrifice to the Big Dipper. Heji, 21348
May 11, 1278 BC is day 34. The Big Dipper would point have pointed straight down at midnight the night of May 10 1278 BC, then straight up at midight May 11, 1278 BC. Moreover, this day may be day 36:
"Crack making on day guiwei 20, Zheng divined: the next day, jiashen 21, it will be fine during the day. That evening, the Moon was eclipsed. the next day was foggy; it did not rain. The next day jiashen 21, it will perhaps not be fine during the day. The next day, jihai 36, it will perhaps not be fine during the day..Heji, 1183 recto. That evening, the Moon was eclipsed."
Heji, 1183 verso.
There was a lunar eclipse centered on China on day 21 February 27 1278 BC. Then the following days of 60 to day 36 is May 13, 1278 BC.

On day gengzi 37 we should perform an yi-sacrifice to the Bird Star naio xing. 7th month. Heji 11500.

The seventh month from September/October could be this May 13 1279 BC.

Crack-making on day guihai 60, Bin divined we should perform a you-ritual to dou fa and to ancestor Zu Yi,..9th month. Heji 326.

If May 13, 1278 BC was day 36, and began the eighth month on the Chinese lunar month May 10, 1278 BC, then day 60 would be 27 days later and begin the next lunar month, the ninth month. The Big Dipper is dou and Orion is fa. Orion would be setting at sunset in May 13 1278 BC when the sun returned.

May 13, 1278 BC might be the day the sun returned one year after the long sunset of Moses when Joshua fought Amelek. Then both eclipse records on the same tortoise shell can be accounted for. May 13, 1279 BC would be day 31:

"Crack-making on day bingshen 33, in the evening: on the next day ding 34 we should perform a bi sacrifice to the Big Dipper."
Heji 21348.

The Big Dipper the day before on night beginning day 31 would point straight up at midnight May 13 1279 BC. Then the next night beginning day 33 the Big Dipper would point straight down at midnight.
"On day gengzi 37: we should perform a yi-sacrifice to the Bird Star (niao xing) 7th month."
the seventh month is the end of April and the beginning of May. However, these oracle bones may be from Anyang from Wu Ding's reign 1401 BC - 1343 BC. The emperor moved the capitol from Anyang about 1278 BC.

If an eclipse this might 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. However, if the sun was the red color of a sun miracle the sun could be thought to blush. Thus the sun going down suddenly in the west may be this bright red, the colour of shame and blushing. 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."

Ecclesiastes 1:9 "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. Amos 8:9 may rather be identical to the three hours of darkness while Jesus was on the cross.

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, 3 X 12, 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 earlier a few days after what would become the Day of Atonement at the time of the Feast of Tabernacles.
This miracle of darkness for 3 days was the ninth plague before the Passover the night of April 4 1279 BC, perhaps a month before.

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 rises before dawn in March. 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." Thus the interpretation of Antares or Mars may be wrong. The moon is not mentioned. Nevertheless this may be the first quarter moon, March 28, 1279 BC and the 7th day of the 10 day week, day 47. Then the sun would move 540° from Virgo to Aquarius to be beside Antares. Thus there would be a long night, long morning twilight and darkness in Egypt 3 X 12 hours. This long darkness may be like the long darkness the night of Jesus' crucifixion.

"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

The Sun is a star. If the sun moved 180° it may be the bright new star, seen beside the phoenix after three days of darkness.

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 7th 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. This oracle bone from Anyang may be of the three days of darkness in Egypt in 1279 BC before emperor Wu Yih moved from Yin (Anyang) to the north of Ho in his third year about this same year, 1279 BC. Sun miracles that year of Exodus may have been a sign the emperor took to move. Day 6 of the lunar month was March 29, 1279 BC which could be the three days of darkness before the Exodus April 4 1278 BC. This would be day 47 of days of 60 which could be the sun miracle on day 47 in the oracle bone from Anyang. Even 180 days earlier, half an orbit earlier, there must be a sun miracle then also on day 47 perhaps to begin the plagues of Egypt.

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:
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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. The sun moving to the other side of the earth by itself reverses east and west. Moreover, the sun would appear to pass through the stars through the year from the east to the west instead of the way it does now. The sun appears to move from the west to the east through the stars now in earth's normal orbit. Then in the reverse orbit spring would be in the east like the rising of the sun in the day. 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. Shifting earth's orbit rather than earth is what really works. People eventually noticed the gradual precession over thousands of years. However, they immediately noticed the zodiac shift at the time of sun miracles. Two different things.

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's orbit 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. However, the sun probably moved a little down or up after moving 180° to keep earth in the same season. We rotate on an axis 23° / off vertical. The path of the sun through the constellations through the year is still through the zodiac all the while earth's axis points to the pole star. Rather than earth shifting, the sun must move up or down after moving the 180° and earth's orbit shift. Much the same thing, same effect. Only earth would not need to be touched. The zodiac would progress in reverse, constellations marking spring and fall would reverse and the shift in earth's orbit would shift the zodiac. Stars would be visible through the year that were not normally visible. Yao's zodiac appears to represent a 26800 BC or a 800 BC precession 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 orbit shifts. Thus constellations disappearing, shifting into the ocean with the sun moving 180° and earth flowing into a revers orbit of the sun, 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's orbit must shift forward or backward in precession. However, every day before or after means 2° earth must shift to keep in the same season. However, rather, the sun must have moved up or down after moving the 180° shifting earth's orbit. The sun must move up or down half a degree for every day before or after the equinox. 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's orbit shifted 6° immediately to keep in the same season, that is the same as earth shifting 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 shift 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. Shifting earth's orbit may do exactly the same thing. Earth must keep in the same season and seasons continue as if nothing had happened. The equinox 800 BC was March 29. Then earth would be in a March 18 800 BC season in our calendar. Even so the zodiac would be back to front and in reverse. Then the celestial ceiling of Pharaoh Seti I perhaps depicting theme from Joseph/Yao's long day from Pharaoh Unas, that is, the severed leg of the bull, may also depict this orbit shift.

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's orbit must shift to keep in the same season. This shift in orbit only shifts the seasons up and down the zodiac. See Yao's Canon and Yao's zodiac below. Thus Yao's four stars would appear in their season in the reverse zodiac. Perhaps Yao's zodiac below was drawn from the astronomers Yao sent out when he became emperor. Thus they rather must depict a reverse orbit, reverse zodiac. Just the same as earth shifting to produce these stars in their seasons, earth's orbit shifting would do exactly the same thing. 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 an earth orbit 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. The sun cannot move 360° around without being in a reverse orbit to counter missing time. Unless the sun moves 360° in one hour. 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. This seems hard to hid from earth scientists. However, this may have happened. 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 jubiles 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."

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 or four for Yao's long day. The sun must move to the other side of earth and earth flow into a reverse orbit one day. Then one year later to the day the sun move back and earth flow out of the reverse orbit.
http://www.nasa.gov/improve/HP_ILP_Feature_030210.html: "When the pressure difference between the Azores Islands and Iceland is large, they .. cause droughts in the Middle East. When the pressure difference between the two systems is small, they push wet weather toward those countries surrounding the Mediterranean.."

"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 jubile 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 rather 509 BC - 477 BC
"In (King King's) 14nth year (504 BC) the milky way was not visible in the sky."
Darius the Mede who was 62 in Daniel is a different person than Darius king of Persia. There may have been a sun miracle around 539 BC:

Daniel 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 jubile 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 18° counterclockwise. Ho, Antares, is 99° from Neaou, Alphard. A possibility then is the sun moved 180° on March 31 and earth's orbit 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. Perhaps a sun miracle with the sun in Aquarius - water - would beging a rainy season in the years of plenty of Joseph, 2357 BC. 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 orbit shift to keep in the same season.

Nevertheless, earth's 22° shift, or rather 6° orbit 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's orbit may 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's orbit 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 jubile.

"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 in its orbit, the sun move up or down after moving the 180°, to keep in the same season. This phoenix bell would be rung when there was a sun miracle, a phoenix. The ceiling of Pharaoh Seti I depicts the man below pointing to the position of the pole which was where the Egyptians imagined the deceased pharaoh had gone in 1355 BC and where the pole star was at that time. Earth did not shift, this still was the pole star. Only the zodiac and the night time stars would be 180° away from where they were the day before the sun miracle the sun appearing to move in reverse against the stars through the reverse orbit year. 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, [

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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).
"The god of the north pole was named Yaou pi p'tou after the emperor Yao."
The pole star did not shift when the zodiac shifted. Thus the emperor desired the permanence of the pole star.
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". - may describe a long night.

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 6 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. See Why there are 60 minutes in an hour, Sumarian Counting 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 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 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 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 6 BC. Aaron was J1e. 30 % of Azerbaijani beside Armenia by Mount Ararat are J1. J1e came from Anatolia Turkey. This must be where Noah was from. Thus this must be where Adam was from also in 4548 BC. Perhaps an extra 10 years was added to the generations from Adam.

4548 BC Adam born 144 + 4400 before Jesus' birth in 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 6 BC. 4418 BC - 969 years to 3448 BC - 144 - 3300 years to Jesus' birth in 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, when Noah was 20.
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.
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 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.
1363 BC Aaron was born
1359 BC Moses was born
1279 BC The Exodus
1238 BC Joshua's long day
1190 BC was the first jubile.
1122 BC Saul became king.
1082 BC David became king.
1042 BC Solomon became king.
1039 BC The temple was begun.
720 BC Ahaz died, there was an eclipse recorded in China that could not have been an eclipse on that date day 42, eclipse day 26 therefore a sun miracle.
705 BC the sun reversed 10 steps for Hezekiah. Or this was March 23 687 BC.
687 BC There was a sun miracle recorded in China. This may be Hezekiah's Sign.
591 BC Jerusalem was taken on day 40 from previous month, the ninth day.
586 BC Popular eclipse date for when Jerusalem was taken. Was not an eclipse.
539 BC Cyrus
520 BC The temple foundation was laid. The 50 year jubile was counted.
504 BC the second temple was finished.
470 BC was the next jubile.
167 BC the Greeks took the temple. 164 BC the temple was rededicated and there was a sun miracle.
4 BC Jesus was born.
31 AD was the last jubile when Jesus stood up to speak.
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 to Jesus.

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 perhaps 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 1096 BC, less 7 for the queen, to the carrying away of king Zedekiah and the destruction of the temple perhaps in 591 BC and perhaps 500 years from a sun miracle in 504 BC - the Milky Way was not visible suggesting 12 or 36 hours of twilight - perhaps having to do with the temple to Jesus' birth in 6 BC. The foundation of the second temple may have been laid in 520 BC, the jubile in 590 BC and the counting of 50 year jubiles from 520 BC to 31 AD. Thus no years should have been missed from the first year of the crossing of Jordan by Joshua in 1039 BC to the jubile in 590 BC, 70 years captivity, then the counting of the 50 year jubile from 520 BC to the jubile in the year of Jesus' ministry in 31 AD.

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 6 BC. Then the sun must have moved a few years after Hezekiah's death in 690 BC, on March 23 687 BC - the sun miracle recorded in China. 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 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. 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. Thus his fascination with the sun. 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.

There was a sun miracle 144 years after Joshua's long day in 1238 BC, 1096 BC, perhaps when David slew Goliath. David must have been about 17 then, the same age as Joseph when he was sold into Egypt. David reigned over Judah when he was 30 and over Israel when he was 37. He reigned 40 years from Judah and 33 years from Israel and lived to be 70 years old. Jesus may have been born in 6 BC and started his ministry in 31 AD when he was 36. The flood 3637 BC is 31 + 3600 years before the birth of Christ in 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 6 BC. Thus 144 + 144 + 144 + 3200 years before Jesus' birth.

Abraham's birth in 2648 BC is 2500 + 144 years before Jesus in 6 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. Or he may have been born in 5 BC and the wisemen worshipped him when he was six months old. Once you passed your first birthday you were considered to be two. Thus the children may have been slain when they were 1 years old or younger. Though possibly Jesus was born September 14 6 BC. Also, the star may have appeared when Mary conceived him by the Holy Ghost. 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 1174 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. Rather earth's orbit was shifted, and the path of the zodiac was shifted. 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.
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. This would probably be 2549 BC, one year before Isaac was born:

Genesis 19:22 "Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar."

This "risen upon" may indicate a sun miracle where the sun suddenly ascended in the east. Risen means gone forth, upon means above. Thus the sun would suddenly move above Sodom. Part of the process of moving the sun may have been to rain fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

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 from 1122 BC and 40 years of king David, 3 years of king Solomon to 1039 BC.

If Wu became emperor in 1174 BC and his son King Ching died in 1122 BC, and King Kang had 40 more years in which nothing was recorded because he had peace. Then King Ch'aou's 14th year would be about 1039 BC.

"In his 14th year, in the summer, in the 4th month, the regular stars were invisible."

The 4th month was May, the second Hebrew month when the temple was began was May 240 years from the Exodus in 1279 BC. A sun miracle in Zechariah 14 where the day is neither light nor dark speaking of the temple, may be a long sunset of twilight. Perhaps even China experienced this temple twilight of Zechariah in the beginning of the first temple. The sun standing still at noon would produce twilight at sunset in China and the stars would not be visible.

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's orbit 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.

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's orbit would not have to shift to keep in the same season, nor need a second correcting reverse orbit.
There probably was a sun miracle on the Day of Atonement October 7 1033 BC when the first temple was being finished. 200 + 36 years later, perhaps likened to Jesus' perfect life of 36 years. Jesus fulfilled the jubile 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. However, the Zhou dynasty began in 1174 BC not 1122 BC. The temple was finished in 1033 BC in October and also this king Zhao died about then too perhaps in battle during sudden darkness that day. Perhaps king Zhao was deposed at a sun miracle. More likely he was caught crossing a river and perished. And thus may be a sun miracle to do with the completing of Solomon's temple. There was a record of an eclipse rather sun miracle in 1033 BC when the temple was finished in the seventh year from 1039 BC - the jubile 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 of the Exodus in 1279 BC. This could be the sun miracle of 1179 BC and be the red bird, fire bird, or phoenix written of in the Chinese Classics. 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, after 10 X 25 years. For a Moabite shall not enter the congregation till the tenth generation. Rather Ruth must have entered the congregation on the feast day of barley and wheat, Pentecost, in the year of the jubile, the first jublile.
Thus king Wan was king for a little more than 50 years till he died in 1187 BC about the time of the jubile when there may have been a sun miracle when his son Wu went to battle. This was the first jubile in Israel in 1190 BC just 50 years after Joshua's conquest. Perhaps the same 50 years for king Wan.

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 jubile."

Leviticus 27:24 "In the year of the jubile 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 jubile in the 50th year. Thus, Boaz would redeem Ruth that next year, the jubile. 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 jubile 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 jubile 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 30 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 jubile 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 may 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 jubile 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 jubile 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 jubile 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 jubile the next 50 years. jubiles 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 jubile 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 jubile. 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 perhaps 1179 BC. Thus the land had rest 40 years from 1238 BC to 1198 BC and were oppressed 18 years to 1179 BC. However at the same time the Philistines oppressed Israel 40 years perhaps from 1175 BC to 1135 BC.

Ching came to reign in his 18th year because he was a child in 1169 BC. "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.

1 Samuel 7:9 "And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.
7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel."

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 1190 BC and Boaz may have redeemed her on the day of Pentecost that jubile year. The jubile 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 jubile was part of the jubile.

Jesus read Isaiah 61:2

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 the beginning of the sabbath at sunset Friday August 17, 31 BC and possibly written on the jubile 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 jubile in Leviticus 23. That is, the jubile 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 jubile 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 over all Israel from when he was 38, about the same age Jesus was when he was asked by Pilate "Art thou the King of the Jews?". David reigned 40 years, 33 years from Jerusalem. David must have reigned from 1083 - 1043 BC:
Perhaps in emperor Ching's 18th year about February 1150 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 Chinese Classics. p.146.
This would be about 100 years after Moses conquered Ammon in 1240 BC. Thus, Jephthah asked why had'nt they taken the land back within that 100 years, (not 300 years). Thus this sun miracle of emperor Ching could be the sun miracle of Jephthah when he vowed to the Lord and the Lord provided deliverance for Israel. There probably was a sun miracle for Jephthah. This sun miracle recorded by Ching appears to have been in 1150 BC when he came to reign - the sun miracle a sign of the mandate of heaven, because he was a young child when his father Wu left him the empire of China in 1169 BC.

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 1100 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 Chao became emperor in the first month of spring perhaps 1100 BC. Perhaps there was a sun miracle in Spring when Chao became emperor of China in 1100 BC. David was about 16 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 138 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.

Zephaniah 2:4 "For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up."

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, the first month of the Chinese spring.

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. The narrative of I Samuel 17 was added to. The Dead Sea Scrolls is missing a fragment from the sixth verse and the Septuagint has only 17 verses. However, the words "Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands" seem to be uttered the same day. Especially in context with the change in relationship between Saul and David from that point. 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18 may have been inspired by a sun miracle that day. Perhaps there was a sun miracle also in 2 Samuel 22. A likely inspiration for this Psalm is David's battle with Goliath. 2 Samuel 21 describes more victory over Goliath's brothers. A likely time for this sun miracle may have been David's battle at Ziklag about the day Saul died in 1083 BC:

1 Samuel 30:17 "And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled."

"In his (King Chao's) 14th year, in the summer, in the 4th month, the regular stars were invisible."

How could David fight in the dark? Perhaps there was a sun miracle that evening in Israel. The same day Saul fell in battle, 40 years to the day he became King of Israel.

Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22, could describe a sun miracle.

There may have been twilight both in Israel and in China that day. If Saul reigned from King Ching's death in May of 1126, +26 years of King K'ang to Chao's 14th year in 1086 BC, that would add up to the 40 years Paul spoke of Saul's reign.

Acts 13:21 "And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years."

Then David must reign 40 years to 1142 BC. Then there may be a space of a few years before David became King of Judah, perhaps in 1183 BC. Then Psalm 18 may describe this same day in 1186 BC, perhaps Saul's death, the stars were not visible in China and God granted deliverence to David.

The most crucial battle may have been in 2 Samuel 5 when David was made King over all Israel and Isaiah 28 describes a sun miracle in connection to that day in 1078 BC - 1076 BC. King K'ang, "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 may have been October 18 1053 BC the day of Atonement if there were 40+ more years to King K'ang's reign. 1100 BC +47 years is 1053 BC. Most likely King K'ang's first year was 1100 BC and David's battle with Goliath and the sun miracle that day. Perhaps king K'ang was executed at a sun miracle on the day of Atonement in the ninth month in September. 100 years earlier in 1152 BC king Wan declared "eclipse is untimely" rather a sun miracle when he was taken prisoner. On the day of Atonement, or what would become the day of Atonement in Moses' law, together with a lunar eclipse on day 56 August 29 1352 BC, "there was incoming trouble". Likewise there may have been a sun miracle on this earlier version of the day of Atonement and an attempt to assassinate king Wuding. There often was rebellion when there was a sign from heaven like a sun miracle. However, using the years given, King K'ang died in 1100 BC when David slew Goliath.
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 96 years after Joshua's long day in 1238 BC. The phoenixes in King Ching's 18th year would be 1143 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 begun again 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;"

Ezra 3:8 "Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD."

Ezra 3:10 "And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel."

Then perhaps this day was in May of 520 BC, the second month. 504 BC seems to be the date the temple was begun again. God spoke to Moses on the first day of the second month of the second year in the tabernacle, May 1278 BC. In the second month, May of 1039 BC, the building of the first temple began.

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. There may have been sun miracles every seven years. There may not have been sun miracles when Israel turned from God, except the sun miracle of darkness.
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 jubile 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, September 28, 1279 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's orbit 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 to do with the second temple, 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 6 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 perhaps 705 BC. This is 7 years later than this Bible chronology at the back of my Bible. There is a likewise 6 year difference from the fall of Jerusalem May 17 591 BC and May 585 BC. Then the sun miracle of Hezekiah in 705 BC, the sun miracle of Ahaz in 720 BC and the fall of Jerusalem in 591 BC add up just fine. The so called record of an eclipse in 585 BC was rather the sun falling from the sky in the ninth day of the lunar month probably May 17 591 BC, and not 585 BC, when the temple was taken. So the eclipse probably was not even noticed or recorded. Only the sun miracle was noticed and recorded as an eclipse by the Chinese. So dates by the solar eclipse of 585 BC may not work at all. Then there needs to be 22 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 591 BC is 114 years. So there may be a co-reign of 10 years or a digit is missing from one of those reigns. These may have been overlapping reigns, counting the same year twice. So there may have been co-reigns. One co-reign may be Hezekiah and Manasseh. Hezekiah may have had a co-reign with Manasseh for 12 years. Then Manasseh may have died in 645 BC. There was a record of a solar eclipse in 645 BC in China that does not match any solar eclipses. Then there is the possibility there was a sun miracle when Manasseh died perhaps in 645 BC. Counting reigns from then on we come to Zedekiah's 12th year in 591 BC when Jerusalem fell. Then Hezekiah may have fathered Manasseh in 712 BC. Going back 337 years to the beginning of Solomon's reign in 1042 BC from this 705 BC we are missing 32 more years. Thus a reign or reigns of 32 years must have been omitted from the records that went into the Bible.

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, which was taken from Shilo the day Eli died, may have been about 1198 BC. Shechem was where Jacob burried the gods of Laban and sacrificed and called the place "God, the God of Israel". Shechem is where Joshua protested:

Joshua 24:14a "Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth:"

Shechem is where Jotham protested:

Judges 9:19 "If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech."

Shechem is where Jesus said to the woman at Jacob's well:

John 4:23 "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

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 jubile 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 a sabbatical year, a first fallow year; 1190 BC perhaps the first 50th year jubile 70 year captivity and 170 BC a jubile less 7 years to the seventh year September 163-162 BC. This works when omitting the 70 years of captivity, from the jubile 590 BC and 520 BC. A jubile in 170 BC and the seventh year in 162 BC. Thus also, if Jesus was born in September 14 6 BC, the people would have bread that year because the fallow year began just then and the people had bread from the last few months previous. Thus, this was a reasonable time to tax the people in September of 6 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 jubile.

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 jubile. Reckoning the 70 years captivity this means 31 AD was the last jubile, probably on the Day of Atonement Saturday October 13 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 yet to come. After 40 years in the wilderness there must be 20 or 70 years of captivity yet to come as there was from 591 BC to 520 BC. The Jewish people had to leave building the temple for almost 15 years. Possibly the temple was started in 520 BC in Cyrus reign and finished in 504 BC being 500 years before the birth of Christ in 6 BC. However, the temple probably was finished in 515 BC. The jubile 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 jubile 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 jubile 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 jubile 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 jubile and the people also would be free that year too to hear the Gospel of Jesus. Thus Jesus said

Luke 4:19 "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 jubile 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 jubiles 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 590 BC because the land kept Sabbath 70 years = 490 years of omission. 1080 BC to 590 BC. 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 jubiles. Leaving only 159 years from 1239 BC to 1080 BC they kept Sabbath. Or from king David's reign. 590 BC was the jubile. They kept 11 jubiles from 470 BC on to 31 AD. There also be a Sabbath on the 15th day of the month after the 14th day of the Passover as in Leviticus 23. Thus this 15 day, Sunday - the day of Jesus' resurrection, was also a Sabbath. 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:

2 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."

2 Kings 3:21 "And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
3:22 "And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:
3:23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country."

Numbers 23:24 "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain."

God filled the ditches with water. Perhaps the sun stood still at sunrise for twelve hours and was ruby red as blood. Then the reflection of the ruby red sun on the water was the colour of blood.

Perhaps there was a short reign of one of the kings before Ahab. Then Elijah's three and a half years famine could have been before 950 BC. Elisha's seven year famine may even have been before it became cooler and wetter and before the Sea of Galilee stayed full.

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.

Likely each year of a sun miracles was accompanied by a second several years after.
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 the seasons likewise shifted up the zodiac. The path of the zodiac would be exactly the same as in a normal orbit, only the seasons would not be in the same zodiacal spaces. 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. The seasons shifted up the zodiac. Perhaps Yao's canon depicts a zodiac shift, the stars marking the solstices and equinoxes shifting up the zodiac as if the pole had shifted 22°. The stars seem to be from an 800 BC pole position. However, rather that an axis shift there was an orbit shift. And yet the path of the zodiac was the same, only different stars marked the seasons.

"TheSky" is a good program to accurately go back in time.

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's orbit 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 earth's orbit would need to 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°. If when the sun moved the 180° it moved up or down to keep the same inclination to earth, earth's orbit would immediately shift. There would be no time lag. 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. All the more reason the shift has to be an orbit shift. "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. Rather than earth's axis shifting, this must have been the path of the zodiac shifting - into new stars. Thus the seasons the big dipper normally pointed to at night would be completely different. And the stars that appeared in the path of the zodiac would be slightly different as well. If the sun moved 180° near the winter (or summer) solstice, as recorded by the Chinese - such as January 26 2287 BC, earth's orbit must shift 45° the same as earth's axis shifting nearly 180° to Vega to keep in the same season. The summer season of the night sky of the "Wain" the wagon of the Big Dipper, would appear as the winter season. Thus that night the wagon was plunged down in the night sky. That is, the wagon instead of pointing up at night would point down to the ocean that night.
"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 star marking winter appeared when it was summer. The The Gilgamesh Epic Tablet VI, theme of the celestial ceiling of Senmut, Yao's/Joseph's Long day and Yao's Canon seems to describe the same orbit shift as if earth shifted 22° and may be one event. However, there were a great many other sun miracles requiring 18° or 156° or more of pole shift. The sun must dropped down after moving the 180° and the plane of the orbits of the planets tilted. This keep earth in the same season without a pole shift, only a shift up the zodiac. Then the celestial north became south according to the zodiac now revolving in reverse. Sailors used the night stars in each season to guide them. Imagine their confusion when the day sky appeared as night sky and they did not see the stars normally seen in that season! 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.

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 a fixed zodiac. 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, 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 not 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, the solar system axis, only orbit shift - not earth shift, must shift (2° X 8 days) 16° to keep earth 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 travelled 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. Some of my Spanish relatives that were distantly Jewish took the Basque name for crow. It might have had something to do with the Jewish priesthood. And perhaps sun miracles. 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. The sudden sunrise of Gideon 5 AM September 1 may have been a sevenfold sun. This sun would have to travel 180° west to set suddenly in one or two hours. This intense heat from the sun traveling suddenly east west could also be what was described here. There are other native legends of a very hot sun. 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
In a story told me of the Thunderbird from Bella Coola BC: The people could not tell the seasons. The chief shot arrow after arrow in the sky till he had a pole to climb to slay the Thunderbird.. - The people could not tell the seasons because the zodiac was progressing in reverse. 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.

The red bird was seen flying to, from, and with the sun as in this pictograph from south western B.C.:

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. The wings of the morning may imply the sun was retreating from west to east. 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 even the fulfillment of Zechariah 14 at when the sun may have stood still at the horizon for 60 hours for Jesus at the last great day of the feast of tabernacles August 16, 32 AD.

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° 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 sun must sometimes move 540° with earth's rotation. Thus the sun must sometimes stand still in the sky for 36 hours. It is hard to picture the sun standing still in the sky for 9 X 180°. However, then the earth could be in a reverse orbit for 3 years. 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 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. J1 is common in Azerbaijan, perhaps where Adam is from. This is next to Turkey and Mount Ararat of Noah. Also, Aaron is proven to be J1c. Then Abraham must be J1 also.

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.

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

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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 30 706 BC is 14 years from the sun miracle at the death of Ahaz March 29 720 BC in the Chinese Classics. Hezekiah would be 39 about the age of Jesus at his crucifixion in 705 BC 700 years before Jesus' birth in September 14 6 BC, 38 years and six months. Fifteen years added to 705 AD is the jubile in 690 BC when was foretold to let grow of itself the second year and eat thereof in the third. This promise to Hezekiah and this prophesy may refer to the jubile in 690 BC. Then Hezekiah's Sign may very well have been in 705 BC. Moreover, Sennecherib began his reign in 705 BC. This was the time to send the ambassadors. Possibly Sennecherib's campaign was in 690 BC, as per the clay tablet found at Nineveh dated to 690 BC. Then perhaps the professy in Isaiah of sowing in the third year meant Sennecherib would be driven back in 690 BC in the second year of fallow ground. If Ahaz helped the Assyrians in 732 BC this would mean Ahaz was 12 when he had Hezekiah. Then perhaps Hezekiah's Sign was March 23 687 BC.
However, more likely Hezekiah's sign was about March 30 706 BC. The third year they were to sow. This must mean the Sabbath 49 and 50th year in 691 BC and 690 BC and sowing in 689 BC. Perhaps Hezekian's sign on March 28 688 BC or March 23 687 BC as per the Chinese record. Morelikely the sun miracle on March 23 687 BC was a separate sun miracle to Hezekiah and a few years after Hezekiah had died. March 23 687 BC is 9 days before the Passover. Then this separate sun miracle would have been Friday March 23 687 BC. March 30 706 BC is the best fit to Hezekiah's Sign. Hezekiah was 25 when he began to reign and he had reigned to his 14th year just before the sun miracle 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. Ahaz may have made this dial to help calculate when sun miracles would occur, in patterns of two or four. He was asked of a sign in heaven above. He would be very aware of sun miracles and want to calculate how many days he had. David was 37, almost 38, when he was made King over all Israel. Joseph was 38 in the second year of famine in 2348 BC when he met his father Jacob and his father came to sojourn into Egypt.

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. Also, they believed the Messiah would come to Jerusalem as an old man. 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 29 720 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 39 when the sun retreated to the dawn for him, perhaps 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 jubile of March 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. Perhaps Hezekiah went up to the temple to partake of the Passover 36 hours later the same day of the sun miracle. 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 possibly was March 30 706 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 740 BC was a jubile. Thus 35, 5 X 7, years later is 705 BC, a sabbath of the land, a time to make peace.

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 30 706 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 jubile and Hezekiah could feel free to give back land to the original owners at the beginning of the year of jubile March 23 690 BC. Thus Hezekiah may have died the year beginning the jubile and Jesus was crucified the same time of year the year after the jubile. 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 30 706 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 day 42 March 29 720 BC when there was no solar eclipse visible from China. Neither the year before or after. This eclipse was February 22 720 BC day 6 not day 42! February 22 - March 23 720 BC was the first month. March 23 - March 29 720 BC the second month. Then the sun miracle March 30 began the third month with the sun miracle. The end of the second month of Chinese spring, day 42 March 29 720 BC.
"In his 51st year (718 BC, rather 720 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.

Then April 4 day 47 would be the fifth day of this third month when the king of China died.
Then Hezekiah offered the Passover in the second month to give time to keep the Passover. March 22 would begin the passover month, and March 30 left only six days to prepare the Passover. Thus the Passover would have to be kept May 4 720 BC. March 30 719 BC may have been the 20th day of the second month of Adar added that year rather than the month of Nissan. Unless the Jews and Assyrians kept separate calendars. Then for the sun to stand still at noon in Adar, this must probably be March 30 719 BC. Then Ahaz' death and the sudden sunset in China be 6 AM March 29 720 BC. Solar eclipses only happen on the day of the new moon. This was day 6 February 22 720 BC. For the eclipse to be day 42 this must be March 29 720 BC. 722 is when Shalmaneser the king of Assyria died and 719 when Ahaz the king of Judah died. Thus the land was forsaken of both her kings. Then this eclipse record may have been the sun traveling 180° west to suddenly set in China and for a short day in Israel. 720 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 Hezekiah's first year must be 720 BC and the sun miracle when Hezekiah was near death March 30 the Passover 706 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 30 706 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 6 BC.

Micah prophesied during king Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah's reign.

Micah 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."

This could be the sudden sunset on Ahaz's death and the fall of Samaria.

Micah 7:9 "I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness."

Perhaps this was a type of Peter when he denied Jesus. Then the bright sudden resurrection morning when Peter met with Jesus and was restored. There must be other sun miracles that reverse orbit year. Some would bring forth light, perhaps a type of Jesus' resurrection.

Then the sun must have moved 180° previous or after for earth to flow out of the reverse orbit. Thus if the sun travelled 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 travelled 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:

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 travelled 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.

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?"

In a recent book on Jerusalem there are four pictures of the seals of Ahaz, Hezekiah and two of Jehoahaz. The seal of Hezekiah depicts wings spread out, like those of a Golden Eagle, like the beautiful Egyptian wings of Ra, the sun. However, the middle is not the disk of the sun. The middle is an eagle or owl in likeness. Also the seal of Jehoahaz depicts a large bird. A large bird depicted in Israel can only mean an angel. Like the likeness of the phoenix, or the cherubims over the mercy seat. This may signify a sun miracle seen in Jehoahaz's short reign. Early Jewish writings say Habakkuk wrote during Jehoiakim's short three month reign right after Jehoahaz's short three month reign. The sun miracle in Habakkuk appears to refer to Joshua's long day. However, the detail of Habakkuk 2 may come from a more recent sun miracle perhaps at the death of Josiah or in Jehoahaz's short reign. All Israel would have seen the sun miracle for Hezekiah. A good reason to depict the wings of an eagle like the Egyptian wings of the sun in Hezekiah's seal.

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 travelled 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 travelled 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. And may be during Elijah's three and a half years of famine.

The reign of the king of the record of the day with two dawns is dated 899 BC. The eclipse then does not work and was hardly even visible in China. However, these dates may be 120 years to recent. Then this record may be during Elijah's lifetime.

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. About the same time as the passover was the eclipse at the founding of Rome about April 753 BC. Amos prophesy could be the sun darkened while travelling at the speed of light - time stopped, no light - around the earth for one hour. This would be a sign to the Jews of the eternal darkness without Christ. The noon sun in Israel would be an afternoon sun in Rome, Italy. Then, the sun would stop the one hour movement at the sun position 3PM Israel time or at sunset in Rome Italy.

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. Also Chinese dates for this time are about 120 years too recent.

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 Milky Way was not visible in China in 504 BC. Perhaps the sun stood still at noon one day in 504 BC and in the long twilight the milky way was not visible in China. 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 the common date for the end of the captivity. Nevertheless, China must have seen the same thing perhaps in 705 BC perhaps when the sun retreated to the dawn for Hezekiah and to the meridian in China. The Duke of Lu Yang quoted King Wu in 1174 BC when he conquered China. This being the same Chow dynasty. King Wu began his campaign on January 27 and completed his conquest of China in the fourth month in May. Saul also was chosen king 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, 1122 BC 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 LORD 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. However, the dates appear to be 52 years apart.

The sun may have reversed on Israel when Jephthah vowed in 1178 BC about when king Wu went to battle with the Shang emperor. 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 1178 BC may be the context of king Wu when he "grasps a golden yue". However, in 1174 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 of West Kelowna

For a full translation try: Huai Nan Zi.doc Huai Nan Zi in html Translation by Heun He

"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.

The first year of Ching-Ying was in 469 BC. The first year of Xerxes may be 478 BC. And thus Esther's deliverance for the Jews on the thirteenth day of Adar, the 12th month, in the 12th year of Xerxes may be the 11th Chinese month and the same day. Adar may be January and the 11th month in China may be January. Or Adar may be December and the 11th month in China December. Then Purim may have been Friday December 11, Saturday December 12 and the fifteenth day Sunday December 13 466 BC. Then in 465/466 BC Luh-ch'ing succeeded Tan'chih in the 11th month fourth year. Lu Yang may have fought this battle in winter, the time of battle. Thus the "happy time". You can see the Character for Luh is very like the Character for Lu in Lu Yang. Three words from top to bottom: Luh - Ch'ing succeeded.

Next look at the bottom character, then the top character. Read from top to bottom, right column then left column:
In the fourth year, eleventh month Kow
-te'een, the viscount of Yu-yueh..

Here you see the entire page including the english.

Here you see the characters for Scorpio Sagittarius - the same as for Kow - compare - the eleventh month. When the first month was February, the eleventh month was December. Then the sun was exactly in Scorpio Sagittarius.

Kow means Scorpius, the constellation the sun was in December 11, 466 BC. Actually Sagittarius/Scorpius. -te'een has to do with the constellations also. This may be the constellation Tshui in Taurus. The words Scorpius/Taurus only make sense if the sun moved 180° from Scorpius December 11, 466 BC to Taurus. Likewise the full moon moved 180° from Taurus to Scorpius. The father of Luh-ching was Duke Ching of Sung. He witnessed Mars in the heart constellation, where it would not normally be then in 480 BC in October. See Mars

Then the first Purim of Esther may be Friday December 11 466 BC, the 13th day of the lunar month Adar. Then the 14th day would be a Sabbath and the 15th day a Sunday. Then the Chinese new year in 465 BC would begin January 26, 465 BC. The date given for the new year from the Hong Kong university was December 26, 466 BC. Then there would be a second month of Adar, Adar II. Then the Jewish passover would be February 10, 465 BC the same time as the passover in 32 AD.

- 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 8:14 "So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace."

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 travelled 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."

Luh-Ching succeeded his father in 465 BC, Xerxes's twelfth year. Even Xerxes' 12th month may be Luh-Ching's eleventh month. Then Luh-Ching may be Lu Yang. And he may have succeeded his father at this battle when the sun after setting, rose in the west. Then if this was the day of Purim for Esther, the Jews would have 12 or 36 more hours of daylight. The sun would retreat from the noon position to the dawn position in Persia. This may be the thirteenth day of the month, Friday, December 10, 466 BC.
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 travelled 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 travelled 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 Lun-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 Cliin 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 Cliin, 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.
PHILOSOPHICAL 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 travelled 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:

Jade phoenix with two sets of wings

Note from the bottom the talons that grasped the sun:

Jade phoenix with talons

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."
This may have been a sun miracle in May of 166 BC, perhaps one year after the sun miracle of May 31, 167 BC.

"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. In May 17 166 BC there was a solar eclipse visible from China, total in the far south. Sometimes sun miracles happened at the same time as eclipses.
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, Volume II, p.176, 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 - Pentecost - Sunday May 11 165 BC or June 10, 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, December 12, 164 BC.The Grand Scribes Records Vol.II, p.176

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.
Perhaps the sun retreated to the dawn position in China. Perhaps this was the beginning of Hanukkah and the sun stayed at the dawn position for 84 hours, 7 X 12 hours. Thus the long night in Israel that lasted eight nights. 7 X 12 hours plus the current night of 12 hours.
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 December 12, 164 BC. This could have been Sunday June 9 165 BC and Saturday December 12 164 BC. If sun miracles were over two years, one and a half orbits after June 9 the sun must move back about December 12. On the 25th day of the month was Saturday December 12. The May 11 date seems possible 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. Possibly, 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. Friday at sunset would be the sabbath. Jesus' crucifixion was on Friday April 3 33 AD. The sun had to return about November 11, the more likely 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.

However, Pentecost Sunday June 9, 165 BC to December 12, 164 BC - is the probable date. And each of the four sun miracles be for 12 hour longer days. Just like the sun returned 10 PM August 31 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. Sun miracles at the half way point of a complete year 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.

See the diagram below to see how sun miracles could cover two years:

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 and aphelion and perihelion mean the sped up reverse orbit over that time will match the missing time of the sped up reverse orbit within minutes.

However, the sun was at the perihelion in winter solstice in 1250 AD when sun miracles had long ceased. Joshua's long day February 26 1238 BC left 30 minutes of missing time which had to be countered by an autumn sun miracle and reverse orbit leaving 30 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's orbit must shift almost 45°to keep in the same season 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 Friday December 10, 465 BC, the time the Jews were delivered by Esther on the thirteenth of Adar in Xerxes' 12th year from 477 BC.

The Syrian king Antiochus IV desecrated the temple in 168 BC, 200 years before Jesus' crucifixion.

In China on the new moon in Israel, May 31, 167 BC, just a few days before the feast of Barley harvest, Pentecost, the beginning of the third month:

The Prefect of the Grand Granary of Ch'i, Master Ch'un-yu, committed an offence and deserved to be punished. This had to do with agriculture and the seasons, perhaps the stars not appearing in their seasons. This is 1290 days to Hanukkah December 12, 164 BC.

Daniel 12:11 "And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of days."

The 1305 days would be Purim, January 25, 163 BC. After Kislew (Kislew II), Shebat, then Adar. And Adar 15 be the last day of the three days of Purim. Thus the children of Israel were delivered by God in Esther on the same day of the year, 15th of Adar, December 13, 466 BC. Then the Israelites would be fully delivered January 25, 163 BC keeping the same 1335 days.

"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 - therefore Saturday December 12, 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 jubile of 1040 BC and after the temple was started in 1039 BC. This Saturday December 12, 164 BC could be the sun returning to the meridian one and a half orbits after the sun miracle on June 13, 165 BC. Or that miracle was on May 31, 165 BC, two years after the sun miracle May 31, 167 BC. The day of Pentecost could have been in then on June 10 165 BC. 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.

This battle at the going down of Bethoron is the same place as Joshua 10:12 and also 2 Samuel 5. Then there may have been three sun miracles in February 26 1238 BC, 1076 BC when David was made king over all Israel and defeated the Philistines at this same location and in 164 BC when the Maccabees defeated Lysias in this very same location. Just after David defeated the Philistines in 1076 BC the ark was brought from Judah to the city of David, carried by two priests by poles. And likewise, this sacrifice in 164 BC was offered when the temple was cleansed just days after the battle and sun miracle.

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 led 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 their orbit. 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 jubile. 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 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:

Pink Pearls in China.

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 30 706 BC and this Hezekiah's Sign March 30 706 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.

If the sun stood still in the sky for 60 hours, the sun should appear to move south and north two and a half times to the winter position then to the summer position. This is a great amount of sideways movement. Depending on time of day the sun stood still and for how long, the sun would appear to spiral.

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's orbit 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. Jerusalem fell on the ninth day of the fourth month. This is when the sun would be ashamed as professied in Jeremiah rather than on the beginning of the lunar month. The eclipse of May 28 585 BC lasted only a few minutes. The sun darkened in Israel at noon on the ninth day of the lunar month would last one hour as the sun revolved around the earth at the speed of light. Noon Israel time is about 12:30 PM in the afternoon at Halys Turkey where battle was joined in the afternoon. Far more effective in frightening the soldiers to abandon battle is the hour of darkness May 15 591 BC. Thus a poplular date of scholars has fallen. 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."

The sun may have fallen from the sky in May 15, 591 BC on the ninth day of the lunar month rather than on the first day when there was an eclipse. Moreover, this may be May 15 591 BC the date of a solar eclipse in China that was no eclipse yet was the 9th day of the fourth month. Then what was recorded as an eclipse at a Greek battle may rather have been several days later the ninth day and be when the sun went down on Jerusalem, and even the year be rather 591 BC.

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 tenth month is November or December, the tenth day. Thus one and a half orbits later is May 15, 591 BC. Thus there may have been two sun miracles, November 17, 592 BC and May 15, 591 BC. A long day and a short day. Thus also there were probably a series of four sun miracles that reverse orbit year. The long days must add up to 50 hours, the short day -12 hours. Then 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 if the Babylonians could calculate sun miracles and reverse orbits like they could other astronomical things, Nebuchadnezzar would know he had the support of heaven against Jerusalem.
Also, thus the sun must have fallen from the sky at noon time May 17 591 BC. Thus the Chinese would see the setting sun suddenly set and no sunset twilight but sudden darkness and recorded a solar eclipse on day 40. This would be lunar day 40 counting from the previous month. Because of the difference of one day in the beginning of the lunar month, this would be the Hebrew lunar day 9 of the second lunar month. 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 dating from many sun miracles starting from a sun miracle about 2350 BC and the low Nile. 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 could not be a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse. Thus rather than May 28 585 BC the sun may have fallen from the sky at this battle and at the fall of Jerusalem May 17 591 BC on 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 May 17 591 BC on the ninth day of the lunar month as recorded in the Bible. A sun miracle and not a solar eclipse.

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 wrote:

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 in 576 BC.

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 may have been from 590 BC to 520 BC. 515 BC may have been the sixth year of Darius. Cyrus the Great may have wrote the decree of the return of the Jews, after 70 years of captivity, 70 years after Josiah's death: 589 BC - 519 BC. Thus the second temple period began in 520 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 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 eclipse of 585 BC on the new moon is not the same day the sun fell from the sky on the ninth day of the lunar month on Jerusalem. This eclipse record may describe an eclipse but not the fall of Jerusalem. Ahaz may have died in 720 BC rather than 726 BC. The destruction of Jerusalem in 591 BC. Darius' first year in 507 BC. The restart of building of the second temple in 504 BC. Darius' 31st year in 480 BC. 591 BC may have been the year Jerusalem and the temple at Jerusalem were completely destroyed. This record of an eclipse may rather be a record of a sun miracle on May 17, 591 BC, rather than an eclipse May 28 585 BC that does not really work with the lunar day 9 when eclipses only occur on the lunar day 29.

There was also an eclipse recorded at the founding of Rome in spring 753 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. 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. 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.

Isaiah 8:22 "And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to 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 travelled 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. Such as Malachi 4:2. Perhaps "thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am" refers to when Jesus appeared to the 10 apostles on his resurrection.

Isaiah 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."

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."
5 "Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee."
"The LORD is risen upon thee" may mean the glory of the LORD was a great light, perhaps the light, the star, the wisemen saw that led them to Jesus. Nevertheless a sudden sunrise may be very bright.

Habakkuk 3:4 "And his brightness was as the light; he had bright beams out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power."

God's hand may have led the wisemen to Jesus.

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 Isaiah 60:1 and that this star And thus the wisemen would be led by the timing of 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 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 6 BC. The Chinese had the most ancient records of sun miracles that would point the wisemen to the date of 6 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 September 14 6 BC, then when the wisemen came in 5 BC 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 September of 6 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 almost one year old when the wisemen came to Jesus to worship him. Although Arcturus may have been the star of the east of Bethlehem, Arcturus pointed like a handle on the Big Dipper to the seasons of the year. Then the sun miracle in September 14 6 BC would mean earth was still on the other side of the sun and seasons opposite from the normal September night sky in 5 BC. The sun would move from Virgo in September to Pisces that night September 14, 6 BC. Then in June 5 BC Arcturus would rise in the east at sunset and pass above Bethlehem at midnight. Then the wise men may have read Job 38 and followed Arcturus. They may have observed a sun miracle perhaps on Jesus' birth September 15 6 BC. The sun would move to Pisces, then backwards to Virgo in March where it was September 14, 6 BC, then to Taurus in June, to Pisces in September 15 and back that night to Virgo, September 15, 5 BC. Then in June Arcturus would rise in the east at sunset and point straight up at midnight. Then Arcturus could be the star in the east. Perhaps they followed Daniel's prophesy and knew the year Jesus would be born and the sign. Then they arrived at Jerusalem following Arcturus. Then the wisemen may have found Jesus in Joseph's home in Bethlehem.

Matthew 2:9 "When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
2:10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.

Thus Jesus may have been three months old.
Thus in

Job 38 "Canst thou make mazzaroth appear in its season" and "Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons."

Arcturus would point straight up in its season of June that it normally points straight up at midnight while the zodiac progressed in reverse in the reverse orbit. In a reverse orbit the sun has moved 180° from the zodiac stars of September to the zodiac stars of March. Then three months later the sun is in the zodiac sign of June - Taurus, briefly, - just as it normally would be in June.

The seasons of Mazzaroth, the zodiac, would appear in different signs of the zodiac when there was a sun miracle. Arcturus, the handle of the Big Dipper, would point to the new signs of the zodiac in the seasons. Nevertheless, there may have been a sun miracle in the year of Jesus' birth. The eclipse record before Herod's death in 4 BC may have been a record of a sun miracle at the lunar eclipse of September 15 5 BC. The September 15 5 BC fits the accounts better than the lunar eclipse in the morning of March 13 4 BC. The Sign of Ahaz may have been the sudden sunset March 29 720 BC recorded in China on his death. Perhaps there is a parallel between Ahaz and Herod. Perhaps there was a sun miracle at the lunar eclipse March 13 4 BC as well.
Before Immanuel would say My Father or My Mother the land would be forsaken of both her kings:

Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings."

A sign of Jesus' birth in 720 BC. In February/March of 720 BC earth, till March 9 720 BC, the sun would be in a reverse orbit and the sun in the sign Virgo the Virgin. Then the sun and moon must move 180° March 720 BC to Pisces. Then perhaps the wisemen sought the star of Jesus' birth while the sun was in Virgo in February/March of 5 BC and perhaps again if earth was still in a reverse orbit, March 14 4 BC when likewise the sun must return at the lunar eclipse in that morning before sunrise. There is a record of a phoenix in the year of Jesus's crucifixion, the last phoenix. Nevertheless, the last Sothis Cycle ended about 163 AD. A coin of the phoenix was minted in Alexandria that year.

The glory of God may have been God hoovering above Bethlehem rather than any star. The sun miracle may have been a sudden sunrise at midnight at Jesus' birth.

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. It may mean a sun miracle then in January/February and the sun moved 180° to Castor and Pollux. That is, perhaps there was a sun miracle in September and the sun moved to out of Castor and Pollux. Then before the sun returned in January, Castor and Pollux were above at midnight. Then in January the sun moved back to Castor and Pollux for one night and back again. Then earth flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun for one night in January and flowed back into a reverse orbit of the sun when the sun moved the next day. Paul sailed from Malta about the end of January / beginning of February:

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. However, the sheep were grazing in late August, early September. September may be when Jesus was born. God hoovering over Bethlehem is possibly the star that led the wisemen. John the Baptist may have been conceived on the evening of September 6, 7 BC, just after the Day of Atonement and born about June, about Pentecost. 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. Samuel's home was just 10 miles in Ramah. 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 6 BC they could reap barley at the feast of Pentecost just as they could the day the Holy Spirit was given May 23 33 AD. Then from year 49 in 30 AD to the jubilee year 50 in 31 AD they did not sow crops. Thus Jesus said

Matthew 5:6 "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 5, 7 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. However, the context of Luke suggests Jesus was conceived in the sixth month of the civil year beginning in September being January, thus born the following September. He must have been born before Herod died in late March of 4 BC. Jesus may have been born then in 4 BC or perhaps more likely 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 early spring/late winter. Thus all these sun miracles on the Day of Atonement, in Spring and in January/February. Perhaps they were signs of Jesus' birth. 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 jubile 31 AD and Jesus' ministry may have been for 2 years, from the first passover in 31 AD in the gospels. From September 14 6 BC to when he was 38 years six months at his crucifixion April 3 33 AD. However, there is no reason Jesus' ministry could not have been 3 1/2 years if counted from John the Baptist ministry. 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, the sabbath of rest of the land in the 49th year, and the year following was the jubile, 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°. Arturus would rise in the east at sunset in June in a reverse orbit beginning September 14 6 BC. Perhaps the wise men came in June 5 BC. Then the handle of the Big Dipper and Arcturus would point straight up at midnight. 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 and be directly above Bethlehem when Jesus in June of 5 BC perhaps when the wisemen came to worship him. 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 as it appears above Bethlehem at night in the winter. Arcturus could not have been the Star of the wisemen because it could not stand still above Bethlehem. Nevertheless it should have been in the sky passing overhead when Jesus was born. Jesus must have been born about September 6 BC. The children two and under that were slain by Herod perhaps in 5 BC must have been from the time the star first appeared to the wisemen, perhaps in September 6 BC.
The wisemen probably saw the glory of God directly above and they looked up a plumb line to this "star" above 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. Jesus proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord the jubile August 16 31 AD.

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 jubile would be the tenth day of the moon in the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, Saturday October 13 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 jubile. 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:

However, what was recorded as an eclipse may have been rather a sudden sunset, like there must have been on king Ahaz's death March 29 720 BC. Herod must have died before April 4 BC. Thus perhaps the sun rose a bit about March 13, then sunk down suddenly in the east - Thus the record at sunrise. Moreover, there could be a sun miracle 179 days previous. There was a total eclipse of the moon 179 days previous on September 15 5 BC. A lunar eclipse was recorded in the Babylon Talmud a day after Yom Kippur - September 15 5 BC on midnight on the full moon on the feast of tabernacles September 15 5 BC. Then there should be a sun miracle half an orbit later the following 5 AM March 13 4 BC, also a lunar eclipse. Half an orbit from the fall equinox to the spring equinox should be 178 days 20 hours. However, this date is more than a month over the optimum longest half orbit. Then half an orbit from September 15 5 BC to March 13 4 BC is 179 days 4 hours, exactly at the time of the lunar eclipses. A record of a sun miracle March 13 4 BC may be mistaken for the lunar eclipse of March 13 4 BC. Then both the record of a lunar eclipse just after the day of Atonement September 15 5 BC in the Talmud and Josephus' record of a lunar eclipse the day of Purim can both be true. Moreover, Herod's death was 34 years to the day after the beginning of his reign, which is March 29 4 BC. March 29 leaves two weeks for Herod to travel to the River Jordan and back and for recovery attempts to fail. The discovery of Herod's tomb also backs up this March 29 4 BC date of Herod's death. Then Herod's death and associated sun miracles match Ahaz's death and associated sun miracles. And the birth of Emmanuel in 720 BC matches the birth of Jesus in 6 BC. Then the sun miracle for Hezekiah in 706 BC would be 700 years before the birth of Christ. For before Emmanuel could say My father or My mother the land was forsaken of both her kings.

When they went to determine Jesus' birth to fix the beginning of the calendar they may have correctly determined it to be in 6 BC and his crucifixion in 33 AD. However, this makes Jesus 38 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 6 BC date to suit themselves. Jesus may have been born in the first lunar month of the civil year in September. Then the catholics made Jesus' birth in the 12th month December 25 near the beginning of our calendar to suit themselves. Jesus began to be about thirty years of age at the beginning of his ministry. So Jesus could have been 36 at the beginning of his ministry. Then Joseph must have left Egypt with Jesus when Jesus was 1 year old and returned 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:

This could be the sudden resurrection sunrise at about 9 PM Saturday April 4 33 AD.

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."

However many people have said the moon does not look red at all during a lunar eclipse. More likely, the blood red moon the night of Jesus' crucifixion was not from the lunar eclipse, but because the sun standing still on the other side of the earth was dimmed purple-red and reflected in the moon while it stood still in the sky for 36, or 60 hours.

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.

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 5:1 looks more like the feast of tabernacles than another passover feast followed immediately by another passover feast in John 6:5 - so soon (Or both John 5 and John 6 refer to the same passover feast). This means Jesus' ministry may have been just over two years because his ministry began with a Passover. Probably Jesus was born in 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. Years were written "thirty years and four years". So ommitting "and four years" is easy to do. 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. Since ancient times the constellation Arcturus was pictured as the torso of a man.

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. Perhaps that is what was meant by "canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?".

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. However, the September 14, 6 BC is a more likely date. 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. Nevertheless, September is a better time of year to bring in the fruits of the year to pay taxes and 6 BC was a growing year. 5 BC was a sabbath of the land. Also, September is better for travelling than winter. There were many more sun miracles recorded after Jesus birth during the first century New Testatment times. 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. There must have been a sun miracle about February 5 61 AD the sign of Pollux and Castor for the ship to sail that carried Paul to Rome.
Clement wrote of the Egyptians recorded the phoenix returned after 500 years.

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

Job 3:6b "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. A sun miracle at that time and a day was skipped so that the day of Job's birth was not counted in the numbering of days. Such as the cycle of 60 days of the Chinese. The Chinese were out one day from about that time. 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."

Job 17:12 "They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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. There is more:

Job 23:16 "For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my eyes."

Job 25:5 "Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight."

Job 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:

Psalm 92:13 "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:

Psalm 92:5 "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 38:31 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. Even people in Bible days knew this. The earth is turned as clay to the seal because earth rotates. People in Bible days knew that too. Canst thou 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 as earth now orbits the sun 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. Moreover, Arcturus points to the nighttime positions on the handle of the Big Dipper. The position at a certain time of night will tell the season we are in and was used for calendar purposes in ancient times. In a reverse orbit Arcturus would point progressively east instead of progressively west as the months went by. Thus Arcturus could correctly identify the season if only the user knew the date on the calendar the reverse orbit began. Thus the verse:

Job 38:32b "Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"

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 28:18 "No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. "

Coral leaves a daily coral line that may be the only physical trace I can think of of sun miracles. There should be a coral line for February 26 1238 BC. Evenso, the line should appear like any line for the sun would be dimmed for the duration of the sun miracle. Thus the coral line should show the sun set on February 26 1238 BC even though it did not. The Chinese often described the sun as a pink perl that was carried in the beak of a crow. Rubies sometimes were associated with the sun. In the next chapter months are mentioned. There may have been six months between the sun miracle in Job 9:8 and Job 17:12, and perhaps a full year to the last chapter of Job 42.

Job 29:2 "Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;"

"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 jubile 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 jubile. Then the temple was built 100 years after Job.

The jubile 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 jubile 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's orbit 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's orbit 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:

Luke 1:78 "Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

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."

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 Gideon's August 31 1238 BC. See Isaiah 9.

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 travelled 180° west at noon on February 21 1279 BC stopped on the opposite side of earth to Egypt and travelled 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, or any actual star, could not be the star the wisemen followed to find the child Jesus for the star moved to stand still over the home of Joseph and Mary and Jesus. However, Arcturus would pass directly over Bethlehem.

Job 28:32 "Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"

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 mating season and the last of the pasture season in late August early September. 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?"

Because the sun miracles of the phoenix were associated with the sun miracle at his birth.

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.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 113:3 "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised."

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 like 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. However, the sun may have set in the east at 6AM March 9 1279 BC at the same time as the lunar eclipse. 6AM was when Moses appeared before Pharaoh. The lunar eclipse was for 6PM March 9 1279 BC, however the sun was 180° away in a reverse orbit, moved 180° to the 6PM position perhaps for the 3 days, 36 hours, of darkness and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun.
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 travelled 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 3 X 12 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. Hezekiah may have died just before or just a few years before this 687 BC. 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.

Ezekiel

In China there was a solar eclipse recorded for the new moon May 15 592 BC when there was no eclipse. The beginning of Ezekiel starts with the 30th year. This would be 610 BC and the 30th year of the 50 year jubile counting from 1240 BC just before Joshua entered the promised land in 1239 BC.

Ezekiel 1:1 "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God."

The first captivity was in 603 BC. Then the 11th year would be this 592 BC. The first day of the third month could not be May 15 592 BC. The first lunar month would start March 18 592 BC and the passover April 1 on the vernal equinox. Possibly the record is really May 15 591 BC, the ninth day of the fourth lunar month. The record was for the 40th day kuei-mao. This is supposed to be day of 60. However, this may the the 40th day from the previous month. Often days were counted from the beginning of the lunar month. Thus a solar eclipse on the 40th day of the previous lunar month would seem impossible. Then 29 days in a lunar month, the Hebrews started their month when the new moon appeared a day after the Chinese when the moon passed by the sun +1 day, plus 9 days = 40 days. The Chinese dates given were often out by one year. So 592 BC may very well be 591 BC. The first lunar month could have begun February 7 591 BC because a lunar month is only 29.5 days and the year was constantly backing up. This may date the fall of Jerusalem and the true eclipse record of Thales to May 15 591 BC. This would be noon in Israel and 12:30 PM in Halys Turkey where Thales is said to have predicted a solar eclipse. Thus the solar eclipse record when battle was joined in the afternoon. Then the fall of Jerusalem could very well have been May 15 591 BC. Then perhaps the sun revolved around the earth at noon May 15 591 BC at the speed of light for one hour. Thus the setting sun in China and the noon sun in Israel would suddenly darken at the same time. The jubile began in 590 BC. Thus the captivity may have been counted 70 years to 520 BC and the last jublile would have been from September 31 AD. There is no 0 BC. Thus 50 years from 20 BC is 31 AD.

Ezekiel 26:1 "And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the third month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people; she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:"

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."

For the sun to travel the speed of light around the earth for one hour, there must be one hour missing time from two half orbits. Eclipses are the best times to have sun miracles because when the miracle is recorded it is hidden in the eclipse record. The beginning of the third month as in Ezekiel 26:1 the previous year is one example. Then six lunar months before there was a solar eclipse too. Then sun miracle may have occurred October 21 593 and April 17 592 for the second half reverse orbit. Then also, from this same third month the next year was counted 40 days to May 15 591 BC. Then from the solar eclipse November 2 594 BC to the solar eclipse April 28 593 BC would be the first half reverse orbit. A half reverse orbit over earth's nearest approach to the sun means it is the most sped up half by 30 minutes. Two half orbits add up to one hour of net missing time that can be countered by the sun revolving around the earth for one hour. This hour of darkness May 15 591 BC at the fall of Jerusalem may be like the darkness of rejecting Christ.

King Zhuang of Chu reigned from 613 BC to 591 BC. This solar eclipse was recorded May 15 592 or May 15 591 in China. Often the King was put down when there was a sun miracle. Sun miracles were a sign for a new King in China.

A chronology might be: Perhaps Jehoiakim became king in 615 BC. The 30th year in 610 BC Jehoiakim's fifth year. Then eleven years of Jehoiakim from 615 BC to 604 BC. Perhaps Jehoichin was carried away in the fifth year of Jehoikim in the year 30, 610 BC. Then Jehoikim was taken away in 604 BC. Then Zedekiah was installed as King in 602 BC to 591 BC. Scribes may have mixed up the fifth year. The fifth day of the sixth month of the sixth year may be September 12, 597 BC - the fifth day Thursday and the fifth day of the sixth lunar month. In China in 597 BC a general was facing execution: "His defeat is like the eclipse of the sun or the moon, does it harm the brightness of those bodies?" He was reinstated.

After 40 years captivity:
Then there is a solar eclipse record for day 17 of 60 September 19 552 BC. Only there was no eclipse then. A year later day 17 is September 14 551 BC the end of 40 years before the new year on lunar day nine September 9 551 BC in Israel.

Ezekiel 4:6 "And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year."

Ezekiel 29:11 "No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
13 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:"

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 520 BC - 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, perhaps 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.

Zechariah 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."

8 "And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be."
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 have been fulfilled by Jesus in John 7 August 16 32 AD. Perhaps there was a long sunset of 60 hours that day. And that day lasted from John 7 to John 9.

Verse 7 may read "and there shall be for one day cold and frost" according to the Septuagint. 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. I have been there. You will have seen my picture of Gibeon above. There are so few trees - desert - it is 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 520 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 may be 10 years to far back. Then Darius may have began his reign rather in 509 BC. Then Darius may have 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. Or this was Darius' second year when the temple foundation was laid in May - the second month (second day) of the second year - 520 BC. Then the temple was finished 15 years later in 504 BC, as is commonly believed. 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 God moved the sun up or down shift in the plane of the solar system to keep earth 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 May of 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 on December 12 164 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 Adar, February. 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 jubile 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 jubile 690 BC. The jubile 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". I work on a horse farm. We clean stalls and put in fresh bedding and turn the horses out for one hour each. Far better for a horse to live in a clean stall and warm barn than out in the wild. How can the sun have wings unless it moves?
A seal from a young Israelite girl's tomb 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 jubile 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.
My email to Xueshun:
Can you tell us if the 27th year could be 492 BC or if the 10th month could end November 14? (The only eclipse that could work) With the sun only covered 50% in China, and maybe less if Ch'eng-fu is in north China.
Andrew Bennett

Xueshun replied:

Since 841 BC, the chronology of China is very accurate. I have not seen any reference that assigns the 27th year of King Zhao of Chu to 492 BC. It just is a fact.
As for the notation "10th month" you cited, I think it is a mistake. In the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Zuo Zhuan, King Zhao died on gengyin day of the 7th month. Please see relevant part attached.
Xueshun

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.

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."

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's orbit shifted 40° 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". Nevertheless, the most reliable records of sun miracles depict the sun and moon moving up or down to keep earth in the same season, rather than earth shifting.

"(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 1174 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 1178 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 1178 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 1174 BC when Woo, Wu, was conquering China and was quoted by the Duke of Lu Yang when the setting sun reversed three solar mansions. The bright appointment of Heaven was in the 4th month, May 1174 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 the third month February 10, 504 BC in the Chinese Classics could have been the eclipse February 16 505 BC. Day 48 February 16, 505 BC on year later is day 48 February 10 504 BC. Moreover, the eclipse/sudden sunset may have been on lunar day 3. The moon passed the sun February 4, 504 BC. The moon was not visible as a new moon in Israel till February 6, 504 BC. Or even may have been obscured by February clouds till February 7, 504 BC. Then three days later is February 10, 504 BC. Thus the Chinese Classics may have it exactly right. The eclipse/sun miracle may have been on the third day of the new moon counted from its first visibility in Israel. Perhaps this was the half orbit return of the sun. A sudden sunset followed by 12 hours of twilight in China. Thus the Milky Way would not be visible if a clear night February 10, 504 BC in China as was recorded. Then Darius may have reigned from 509 BC 30 years to 579 BC. Thus Xerxes' 20th year in 558 BC. The eclipse was visible from China, the sun would be covered by about 40% in the capitol. The solar eclipse of February 16, 505 BC would not shade the sun noticeably. Also, an eclipse would not cause the milky way to not be visible. A sun miracle near an eclipse is a good way to hide the sun miracle. In 504 BC there may have been an important day in the Second temple just rebuilt. Then what was recorded in 504 BC may have been a sudden sunset and the day of twilight prophesied in Zechariah 14:5 for a still yet in the future, 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. Perhaps the sun moved up so far to keep earth in the same season the Milky Way was washed out in the sun's twilight. Most people today live in the city and have never seen the milky way because of the light pollution. In 2000 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.

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,"

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. The Milky Way was not visible in China in 504 BC perhaps because the sun stood at twilight in China for 12 or 36 hours. 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 may have been dedicated, 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 travelled 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. 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 the sun moved up or down to shift the plane of the solar system to keep earth in the same season. 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, then up or down. 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. If this was 45 days after the fall equinox or 45 days before the spring equinox, the gnomon must double in height that day at noon to cast the same length of shadow that it had the previously. Then if the gnomon was 1 cubit high it must be raised 1 cubit to cast the same shadow at noon. 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 jubile 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 by Xueshun a worker in Taiwan
"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 bobbing of the earth while the sun moved around 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 God shifted the sun and the plane of the solar system to keep earth in the same season. 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.
page 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 travelled 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, 1178 BC and 1174 BC. Later sun miracles perhaps March 9 1279 BC for Moses and February 26 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 1174 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: The fifteenth year the fifth month of emperor Hsi is all that is given. - King Manassah may have been 43 in 645 BC. However, if Hezekiah had 12 years of co-reign with Manasseh, 645 BC could have been the year of Manasseh's death about the time of the passover. Then all the following reigns add up to 591 BC in Zedekiah's 12th year when Jerusalem fell. Then there could have been a sun miracle in April 645 BC at the new moon April 3 645 BC or at the time of the passover April 18. An hour of darkness would symbolize the darkness of Manasseh's reign.
15 May 592 BC: About 5AM May 17 the moon passed by the sun. Sometimes sun miracles were recorded on new moons. There was to be a jubile in Israel on September of 590 BC. Then the eclipse recorded may have been in the year of the jubile in 591 BC.
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 52 X 12 years before Jesus' crucifixion. Jesus ascended on the fortieth day Wedesday May 13 33 AD. Jehoiakim was about 33 in 592 BC and he died at 36 years of age, as did Jotham and Ahaz. Jesus was crucified when he was 38 if he was born in 6 BC and crucified in 33 AD. The solar 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),
The fall of Jerusalem may have been in 591 BC. The fall of Jerusalem is popularly dated with the eclipse of Thales 585 BC. However, the battle of Thales and the fall of Jerusalem may be dated by the eclipse record for day 40 in the fourth month, May 15 591 BC. The legend of King Croesus being snatched up by Apollo, the chariot of the sun, may have been a sun miracle that day in 552 BC. The battle was before winter. This is supposed to be 546 BC with a ? 591 BC - 585 BC = 6. 546 BC + 6 = 552 BC. Cyrus the Persian won the battle that day. Or we may date Darius to 507 BC instead of 517 BC. Then Cyrus' first year may be 549 BC instead of 559 BC. Cyrus means Sun. Perhaps he was named after a sun miracle.

And the eclipse record for 18 June 549 BC (548 BC April 19?);
Likewise Cyrus put down the resulting rebellion three years later in 549 BC. 591 BC - 40 years = 552 BC. This may be the new moon in the beginning of the seventh month, the beginning of the Jewish civil year. Ezekiel was to lie on his side for 40 days, a year for a day. Then 40 years from the captivity on May 15 591 BC is the beginning of the 40th year on the seventh lunar month.

Ezekiel 29:13 "Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:"

This may be the beginning of the seventh month, September 19 552 BC or the new year the eve of the ninth day of the lunar month September 14, 551 BC - day 17 of 60 when the eclipse was recorded. Then very likely there was a sun miracle because no eclipse matches.
Herodotus writes of Harpagus' campaign like the legend of Thyestes. In the Thyestes legend the sun moved backwards in the sky.

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 may experience long days of +60 hours in one day. 48 hours to make up for the year and +12 hours to make up for an 180° westward movement without a countering 180° eastward movement of the sun. An example of the way people at the time thought of time slowing during a reverse orbit is given, translated by Robert Fitzgerald:
Aeneid Virgil 849 "Our life is work away with iron. A spear reversed will goad an ox. And a slow old age Enfeebles no mans bravery or vigor.
855 You people dress in yellow and glowing red,"
The ox is the bull of the northern pole star that is goaded rather then speared. Thus, there is a shift in the zodiac and a reverse orbit and days are 8 minutes shorter. Then the sun stands still for 12 hours or 60 hours and is ruby red rather than yellow.
Most reverse orbits seem to be for one year at a time. 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's Orbit 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 shifted to keep in the same season. Rather the sun must move up or down to produce the same effect. - To keep earth in the same season instead of earth shifting. Nevertheless, the solar system shifting or the earth shifting is the same model. Notice earth's northern hemisphere is angled away from the sun. If the earth shifted, 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. This model of earth shifting is good in that it demonstrates the opportunity at half an orbit, for the sun to move back and earth reorient as if nothing happened. This is the same as if earth's orbit shifted. At half an orbit, earth's orbit can shift back and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun as if it never was in a reverse orbit of the sun. No trace would be left. You would think this is easy to do moving things around. However, this is the only way.

If the sun moved 180° in the equinox, March 21 or September 21, earth's orbit would not need to shift. 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, the sun would not need to move up or down after moving 180° around the earth. Possibly a March miracle is depicted, the spring sun now 180° in Libra. Arcturus, Ursa Major and Sagittarius were named pole regions by the ancients. When ancient records record sun miracles they appear to record the sun moving up or down after moving 180° around the earth, rather than earth shifting to point to a new pole star. 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.
Earth did not need to shift. The sun could be moved up or down to keep earth in the same season. Therefore, earth could have remained untouched for billions of years. Only the sun needed to move when there was a sun miracle.

There was a Mediterranean belief "the earth turned upside down". My thought at first was put a globe on the table and twist the base to produce an earth shift to keep earth in the same season. Never was this literally upside down. However, the sun can be moved up or down with no affect on the earth. No oceans swamping continents. Only very slight earth quakes triggered as the sun moved.

Isaiah 24:1 "Behold, the LORD 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 when there was a sun miracle. Only the sun needed to move up or down after it had moved 180° around the earth along the ecliptic. Ancient people thought earth had been turned upside down when there was a sun miracle. The Big Dipper would point straight up at midnight in June. If the sun moved then, the Big Dipper would point straight down at midnight. Thus earth would appear to be been turned upside down.

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.

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. They would know the sun must move back on the same date or 178 - 187 days later. They were calculating the date of the next sun miracle when earth would flow out of the reverse orbit. Joshua may have been familiar with these calculations in Egypt and predicted the sun would stand still at noon the next day when they where to go up at once into the promised land. He said their defence is departed from them. The word for defence is shadow. The sun standing still at noon for 12 hours would leave no shadow.
"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" I was at Masada in September 2010. It was 48° C.

- 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 travelled 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 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 6 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. Likewise the zodiac would be 180° away from what it would normally be and progressing in reverse.

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. However, this is extreme. Nevertheless, the sun must stand still for 36 hours in one of the four or two sun miracles to a reverse orbit year inorder to leave no net missing time.

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 or more times in recorded history. 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 travelled east perhaps its intensity was lessened or if it travelled 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.

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 the sun must move 23° up or down after moving 180° around the earth. 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? -- Arcturus was the name given, not to an individual star but to the whole constellation Bootes. "The seven Pleiades, and all the other stars, retraced their courses in sympathy" A reverse orbit. Perhaps a reverse zodiac is depicted in Senmut's celestial ceiling.

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. 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 recorded happened about spring. Joshua's long day for example made for 4 sun miracles of 2 astronomical units. Thus the sun would be 4 astronomical units away from Sirius for several hours at the half way point, half a year. 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. The Universe is moving toward Aquarius. 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. Of course during a short reverse orbit Sirius could not appear July 16.

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. This is depicted at the top of the page. 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;"

There was a shortage of bread recorded in 29 AD. The three and a half years may describe the time from the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry to Jesus' crucifixion.
Ahab must have reigned from 945 BC. The jubile 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. Possibly these are two sets of sun miracles of one half year each. The two halfs corresponding to all 12 months of the year. Thus there would be no missing time because the seasons of earth's elliptical orbit in reverse would cover both the half when earth was near to the sun and when earth was furthest from the sun. Thus there would not even be 30 minutes of net missing time. The clouds that gathered and the rain would hide the glory of God the dragon or the phoenix moving the sun.

Joshua's long day appears to be an exception to sun miracles that happen on the same day whole years later. Nevertheless, a whole year's sun miracles must add up to the sun standing still in the sky for 48 hours. Joshua's long day had to be the first in a series of sun miracles. Because Joshua's long day had to have happened February 26 followed by a long day or long night half a year, half an orbit, later September 1 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. However, these were separate sun miracles and reverse orbits. Also sun miracles often occurred on lunar eclipses in Autumn to 179 days later in Spring. This is the exact period of half an orbit and matches the feast of tabernacles followed by the passover.

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." 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."

To the Egyptians a great event must have been the long day of Yao in China when Joseph was 30 and was made governor March 31 2357 BC. 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. 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 this was a the sun moving to the other side of the earth, not a pole shift. The sun moving would be dramatic enough.
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.

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. This reverse orbit would be temporary. 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.
"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 30 706 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.

"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.
"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 the sun must move 23° up or down as well to keep earth in the same season.
"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.

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 1178 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 sun miracles.
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.

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. That possibly may be the 9 suns referred to in the legend. Time enough to start forest fires. Then the sun may have travelled 180° west when it returned two years later, to counter the missing time, 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. 108 hours seems long. Nevertheless, the sun must stand still in the sky for 36 hours often.

Thus the scorching heat.
Yao's long day may be the sun dimmed standing still in the sky for 12 hours and a short day of the sun brightened travelling east west in the pattern of sun miracles as outlined above for the year of Joshua's long day. 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 travelled 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 travelled 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 Far Side

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. Works only in version 9.

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.

This could be a sun miracle in 2348 BC rather than 2357 BC, when Jacob and his children entered Egypt in the sothis year 430. Then, the the sun may have stood still for about 3 X 24 hours in China and Egypt like the three days darkness in the Exodus. Perhaps the sun stood still for 7 X 12 hours in China like it may have for the three days darkness in Egypt in 1279 BC and the sabbaton night the disciples rested before Jesus' resurrection.

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 years if the sun moved 180° west when it returned in two years 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 travelled 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 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. "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. The bull is definitely the bull of the north pole, the Big Dipper. The pole star was imagined to be at the hairy tip of the Bull's tail, the Big Dipper. The slaying of the Bull of Heaven may be the sun revolving to the other side of the earth and moving up or down to keep the earth in the same season. Earth did not need to shift and the pole position, pole star, did not need to move. That day earth would flow into a reverse orbit of the sun and the stars of the zodiac would progress in reverse according to the months of the year. 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.

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 reverse orbit.
"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.
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 September 28 1279 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:

Genesis 11:12 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 jubile, 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 jubilee was kept 40 years after the Exodus then 70 years again after the Captivity. Thereafter from 470 BC the jubile 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 travelled 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 next new moon was March 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.

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, 1178 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, December 12, 164 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.

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 1178 BC.), IX (1178-1108 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.

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. In 103 BC the barbarous Alexander Jannaeus became king of the Jewish realm.

(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. 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 might have moved 9 X 180° east in May in 105 BC and again 9 X 180° east in 100 BC.

(3) The other way, an even better way, is if from 103 BC, these were 3 half reverse orbits covering spring. Then Jupiter could appear in Aquarius in the spring half of the year, falling behind to Capricorn the next year then to Sagittarius the third year. Then the sun would have to move 180° east December 104 BC, 180° east June 103 BC normal orbit to, sun moved again December 103 BC and June 102 BC normal orbit to sun moved December 102 BC and June 101 BC and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit of the sun. That is three half year, half orbits. The sun can move 180° east for +12 hour longer nights/days six times. 6 X 12 = 72 hours. The missing time in three half reverse orbits is 3 X 24 hours = 72 hours. To counter the missing minutes, there would likewise need to be a corresponding three half reverse orbits to cover the autumn half orbit. Then there would be no net missing minutes. Moreover, Jupiter moves ahead one sign a year. Then 180° from that sign is one sign back each year. The month is given, not the sign. If each year Jupiter appeared in the sun in the March month, the February month and the January month could mean the sun moved 180° in 103 BC the March month, in 102 BC in the April month and in 101 BC in the May month. Then in 102 BC in May Jupiter would be in the sun one sign backwards from where it was in April 103 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 was a total eclipse but he has it as 197 BC.) Jupiter would orbit the earth twice an earth year to keep in the same position of the night sky in the same season it normally would have. Thus Jupiter's speed past the night stars would be very apparent. Thus it would look like Jupiter entered the moon rather than the moon moved by Jupiter. Jupiter may start in a full moon. Then .6 the way into the next moon the moon would pass Jupiter. Then .8 the way into the next moon the moon would pass Jupiter. Then .6 the way into the next moon the moon would again pass Jupiter. Thus for three moons it would appear that Jupiter entered the moon three times. The moon normally passes through Jupiter. However, what was significant enough to write about is that Jupiter is obviously moving very fast against the background stars so it is not the moon passing through Jupiter but Jupiter entering the moon. This indicates a reverse orbit because of a five planet conjunction in 679 BC that could not naturally be and perhaps earth still in this reverse orbit by 675 BC.

"The Sun was eclipsed; drums were beaten and oxen were sacrificed at the temple."

Record of several eclipses. Szu-ma Ch'ien, Shih-chi (Chinese 'Historical Record'), 104 to 87 BC. Quoted in Historical Eclipses and Earth's Rotation, by F Richard Stephenson, Cambridge University Press, 1997, page 223.
This eclipse of 104 BC may have been during the reverse orbit of 103 BC. 105 BC April 4 - May 2: "Emperor Wu of Han, 6th year of the Yuanfeng reign period, 3rd month. The Emperor went on a tour of inspection to the east of the Yellow River and offered sacrifice to the Lord of the Earth...A divine light appeared three times [in the night]." This must be the sun miracle that started the reverse orbit of Jupiter in reverse orbit of 103, 102 and 101 BC.

(4) The months Yin, Chow, Tsze and Hae are not necessarily tied to the zodiac. Then if the months progressed in reverse Jupiter must be in a normal orbit moving against the months, howbeit Jupiter must move, probably 180° when the sun moved 180°. In earth's reverse orbit of the sun and Jupiter's normal orbit, Jupiter would appear a month earlier each year instead of a month later. Thus these Chinese months must continue probably unabated when the sun moved the 180°. Then the months would not be when the sun was in their normal zodiac constellation. But the months would continue and when the sun and Jupiter met it would be one month earlier each year.

(5) Possibly Jupiter orbited the sun in reverse at the same speed it normally orbits forward. Then the planets may have orbited the sun in reverse at their same speed when the sun moved the 180° and earth flowed into a reverse orbit. Thus the planets may have left their paths not appearing in their season. In Egypt Jupiter would pass through the 12 signs exactly every 12 years according to their Sothis calendar. Jupiter's orbit is 11.86 years 5 days earlier than 365 days and the Sothis calendar backed up 3 days earlier in 12 years. That is Jupiter's orbit is 12 X 361 day years.

"Finding the people were opposed to this doctrine, he beheaded many of them who denied the existence of divine and spiritual beings. After he had cast the brazen tripods at the foot of the King mountain in Hunan, a troop of dragons-came down with long beards and whiskers, and on these the emperor, with more than seventy of his suite, rode up to heaven in the presence of his court. This account, written about B.C. 100, shews how the Yellow Emperor had become popularly connected with Lau Tsze as co-founder of the Tauist philosophy and religion." THE TAU TEH KING REMAINS Likely this is the sun returning and earth flowing out of the reverse orbit in 100 BC, the last of the three years where Jupiter was recorded in a reverse orbit in 103 BC, 102 BC and 101 BC. Thus the reason to recount the legend of Huang di the yellow emperor who died in 2598 BC at a sun miracle. There would have to be some very long days for there to be a reverse orbit of two or three years. The sun must move back in May for earth to reorient and flow out of the reverse orbit. Jupiter would regain its orbit position and move 180° with the sun because Jupiter was orbiting the sun twice a year. Thus on the same date or half year the sun would move 180° for earth to reorient and flow out of the reverse orbit and Jupiter would move 180° also to its normal position in the sky by any planetarium program.

"Sima Tan and later his son, Sima Qian (145 BC - 90 BC) were both court astrologers(taishi)?? in the Former Han Dynasty. At that time, astrologer was an important post, responsible for interpreting and predicting the course of government according to the influence of the Sun, Moon, stars, as well as other phenomena like sun eclipses, earthquakes, etc. Before compiling Shiji, in 104 BC, with the help of his colleagues, Sima Qian created 'Taichuli' (which can be translated 'The first calendar') on the basis of Qin calendar. Taichuli was one of the most advanced calendars of the time as it stated that there were 365.25 days in a year and 29.53 days in a month." definition-info.com/Sima_Qian.html Thus, Sima Qian must have experienced a reverse orbit of the sun and still proved there were 365.25 days and 29.53 months in a year. Just as the Chinese determined there were exactly 548 days for 1.5 years from winter solstice to summer solstice about 1250 BC and still true during the reverse orbit of 1238 BC and including Joshua's long day. 1.5 X 365.25 = 548 days. That is from equinox to equinox the spring/summer days are 187 days and the autumn winter days 178 days. Only from the solstice to the solstice the days were exactly 365.2422 and 548 to the next solstice.

Was this supernova part of a sun miracle in 134 BC?

John Hyrcanus became high priest and prince (ruler) of Judea in 134 BC until 104 BC.

"In the sixth lunar month of the first year of the Yuanguang reign period - June 22 - July 21 134 BC - "A guest star was seen at Fang"

Genesis 5:3a "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years,"

Romans 5:17 "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ."

This guest star appeared 130 years before Jesus' birth in 6 BC. Not a planet because planets appear round. Perhaps a supernova meant as a sign of Jesus' coming.
"Is the famous nova of Hipparcus (134 BC) depicted on a Judean Coin?"
by Jean-Philippe Fontanille.
You can see this star at the top. Of John Hyrcanus I 135 BC - 104 BC. The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, February 2007. The star appears above and between the two horns of plenty, perhaps prophetic of the star of Jesus' birth - Numbers 24:17, and the New Testament ministry sent two and two.

Zechariah 4:11 "Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?"

14 "Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth."

Coin of Hipparcus

This star appears to be directly above. A supernova appeared about June 22, possibly first appearing on the feast of Pentecost. Perhaps thus the identification with the horns of plenty, the plenty of harvest. However, the horns of plenty are the horns of Capricorn when the sun is in Capricorn, January. Thus, this coin rather may have foretold the star of Jesus' birth in January.
Likewise this Roman coin depicts a star in Capricorn, perhaps a star when the sun was in Capricorn. Augustus Caesar 27 BC - 14 AD. Likewise this Roman coin, also from Augustus, point to the horns of plenty being when the sun was in Capricorn. Augustus set up Ara Pacis the Egyptian sun dial on January 30 9 BC, when the sun was in Capricorn. This was comemorated in a coin with the horns of plenty.

The sun, moon and planets must "pivot" around the earth 180° in unison as earth rotated. The outer most planet, Saturn must travel one third the speed of light for Joshua perhaps two thirds the speed of light for Hezekiah. Then the 5 visible planets continue to appear at the same time they would have in the night sky that year. They must also turn around to face the sun at the same inclination as before. They must appear in the night sky as they normally would through the seasons and through the year. Then they must reverse and continue setting earlier each year as normal. Then when the sun moved 180° back years later to the day, the planets must move 180° back also then appearing in the night sky that night as they normally would and as any computer astronomy program would have them appear now with the "correct" background stars. Thus ancient astronomical records will match the appearing of the sun, moon and planets with modern planetarium software even during the reverse orbit. True, astronomy software only tells us where the sun moon and planets should have been, but this model demonstrates that they were where they should have been except for the background stars during earth's reverse orbits. When the sun moved 180° back the planets move 180° back also. Then the planets would continue to appear as they would have now back in exactly the same orbit as any modern planetarium program would have them. Thus earth would flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun and the planets seamlessly continue as if nothing had happened.

90 bright or new stars recorded before Christ are thought to be supernoavas. However, this one may very well be the sun moving 180° and one has to wonder if some of the rest are as well:
"In his (Yao's) 70th year, in the spring, in the first month.." "A brilliant star issued from the constellation Yih, and phoenixes appeared..." "Among the islets of Ho, there were five old men, walking about, who were the spirits of the five planets. The five old men flew away like flowing stars and ascended into the constellation Maou (Taurus)." Yih is Crater (Corvus) rises at 7:30PM and sets at 8AM and the sun rises at 7:47AM and sets at 5:15PM Sunday January 26 on the full moon. The sun must move 180° from Aquarius to very near Crater. Therefore, Crater is the best identification with the sun moving 180° in middle of the first month about December 25, 2288 BC or on this ceremony day in the second month January 31 2287 BC. God may be this "brilliant star". In Ezekiel God is fiery bright and as per Chinese legend the dragon moved across the sky very quickly, sometimes like lightning. Arcturus is near Corvus and Regulus is in the same lunar sign. Thus, if the sun was in Corvus a bright star in Corvus would probably not be visible. Corvus would appear now in the evening sky in the reverse orbit about a month after the sun had moved there.

"It should be emphasized that records which describe the locations of guest stars do not always clearly distinguish between a lunar lodge and the star formation of the same name. In principle, unless an actual measurement is preserved or the term xiu is specifically mentioned, either alternative is possible. If the lodge was intended, only an estimate of the RA of the appropriate guest star can be made; unless further information is available, the declination might have been anywhere from -55° to +90°. However, if the constellation itself was meant, a much smaller area of the sky is defined."
Historical Supernovae and their Remnants, p.17.

The next page records this brilliant star next to Corvus in Fang. This probably was not a supernova. Supernovae seen from earth by the unaided eye are rare. There has not been one since 1604 AD, the Kepler Supernova. This brilliant star would be regarded as the King star which made Shun emperor. For this star to pass over Bethlehem like it did for the wisemen this star would have to be near Arcturus which Corvus is. Also Acturus is only some 40 light years away and is moving relatively fast for a star. So in 2287 BC Arcturus did not pass directly above Bethlehem by 10° but perhaps the glory of God did. This Chinese lunar division of Yih included the area vertically above Bethlehem. The constellation Yih

the triangle of Crater at the top.

Yih comprises a large area of 22 stars down from Crater. However, the lunar division Yih is also the region about Leo that the tripods of Huang di pointed at, where Huang di is said to have returned to the star Syuan Yuan, Regulus or the Chinese dragon the glory of God, at the sun miracle in 2598 BC.

Many people still do not know the sun is a star. The day star is a star that is seen during the day. The dragon was so bright he could be seen during the day, even casting shadows at night. The dragon was the glory of God. This brilliant star probably was the glory of God.

Matthew 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

The bright star that rises before the sun is called a morning star, disappearing above when the sun is risen. The day star can still be seen during the day. There are 22 stars in Yih. However, this brilliant star may not be a star or a meteor.

Isaiah 60:1 "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and 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 to the brightness of thy rising."

Thus God's glory may be the star of the wisemen.

Genesis 1:16 "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also."

Jesus is this greater light, the sun.

John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."

The sun unexpectedly rising was written in Hebrew much the same as it was written in Chinese.

Luke 1:78 "Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

The coming of Jesus Christ was compared to the sudden rising of the sun. Yao probably began his reign March 31 2357 BC. Then this Sunday January 26 (in cycles of 60 days backwards from day 60 January 2 1500 BC) 2287 BC is just before the end of Yao's 70th year. 2287 also begins a new cycle of 60 years, from 2637 BC or 2697 BC, perhaps making this sun miracle more an omen for a new emperor. In Yao's 70th year, 2287 BC, Saturn would be in Scorpius and Jupiter in Sagittarius (three years later in Jupiter's reverse orbit, Jupiter would be in Pisces where it would have been anyway). 180° away is Maou. Following
"On the 2nd month, on the sin chow day, between dark and light, when the ceremonies were all prepared, and when the day began to decline a glorious light came forth from the Ho, and beautiful vapors filled all the horizon, white clouds rose up and returning winds blew all about. Then a dragon-horse appeared, bearing in his mouth a scally cuirass, with red lines on a green ground, ascended the altar, laid down the scheme, and went away. The cuirass was like a tortoise shell nine cubits broad. The scheme contained a tally of a white gem in a casket of a red gem covered with yellow gold, and bound with a green string... "
The green string may be the emerald green rainbow around God's throne. Or it may be the green beryl colour of the wheels of the creatures about God's thone. Green beryl is emerald. Likewise sapphire is this blue/green. Likewise, the red gem may be the colour of God, amber.

Ezekiel 1:16 "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."
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."

This may be the same day as the record of phoenixes in Yao's 70th year. Then the first sun miracle or at least ceremony day could be January 31 2287 BC and the second January 31 2285 BC. Just two years. Perhaps just two years of the reverse orbit. Vapors were seen just before the dragon. Clouds appeared before the dragon often. The Chinese reads "dragon scally horse". This could be the yellow dragon horse recorded earlier. This could be in reference to God or one of his angels. Red lines on green ground speaks of a long day, time enough to prepare the ceremonies. Or a vision of the green dragon. "Two years afterwards, in the 2nd month, ON THE 2ND XIN DAY, he led out all his ministers and dropped a peih

in the Lo (River) and waited for the decline of the day." - continued on next page -
"In late afternoon a red light appeared; a big tortoise rose from the waters with a writing of red lines on its back and rested on the altar. The writing said that he should resign the throne to Shun. Thereupon, he resigned the throne to Shun."
Chinese Classics III, Emperor Yaou, p.113 notes

A Native American pictograph of tortoises with red pictograph paint from an early black and white photo may rather depict the red lines of this sun tortoise. Likewise

a nearby pictograph of solar eclipses depicted in red paint on the sun may be the red lines on the tortoises' back. Also the shell of a tortoise was used to record these sun miracles.

The peih or bi was a round flat piece of jade with a hole in the middle. Jade dragons and phoenixes. A circle with a dot in the center depicted the sun from earliest history, from which the Chinese character for sun was derived and is the universal symbol for the sun. Then perhaps the sacrifice of the peih after a sun miracle goes back many thousands of years perhaps to when man began to migrate to Asia and Europe. Certainly sun worship goes back that far. Then the Chinese worship of Shangdi -

, the Creator or the ascended God, may have originated from the fathers of the children of the Bible. Its first mention is in this same record from 2285 BC, "the chief of the four mountains"

. "The Shu-ching, a classic of traditional history compiled around the fifth century B.C., mentions how the ruler Shun (2255-2206BC) went every five years on a pilgrimage to the four mountains that defined the limits of his realm. Offering a sacrifice on the summit of each mountain, he began a tradition that has lasted to the present age."

You can see our forefathers went east west north and south into all the world from about mount Ararat in Turkey 50,000 years ago. However, R1b1 into Europe almost dates from Noah's Flood of 3637 BC. Men started to speak and wear clothing 100,000 to 50,000 years ago. Father in Hebrew is Abba, father in Chinese is Ba. God in Latin is Deos, God and king in Chinese is Di. The usual word for God in Chinese is

Shen, with the character used for

ancestor and originator with the character used for to

state, express, explain.

The Black Tortoise represented the quarter of the sky of which Aquarius was the center. The sun must move 180° back to this quarter on the same day of the year as the first sun miracle. These two years from January 31 2287 BC to January 31 2285 BC may be symbolic of Jesus' two year ministry. Really 2 1/2 years because Jesus would have tried out the homeless ministry first before calling Peter and Andrew. Jesus may have been 37 and a half years old when he was crucified. David was 37 years old when he was made King over all Israel. Joseph would be 100 in 2287 BC and 102 in 2285 BC. This 2nd xin day looks like the anniversary of the sin chow day. Sin Chow must be a day in the second month. Likewise, the "2nd xin day" must refer to a day in the second month. This may refer to the second anniversary of the sun miracle in Yao's 70th year, perhaps the ceremony was symbolic of the second correcting sun miracle. The fact the emperor Yao resigned the throne on this day may signify that there was a sun miracle, perhaps a long sunset, on this day. This Xin Hai, 48 of cycle, day was January 31, 2285 BC and must be this 2nd Xin day.

See Notes on the Chinese Calendar. Counting cycles of 60 days backwards from January 2 1500 BC (day 60) we get January 31 as the 38th of cycle in 2287 BC. Then two years later the same date is the 48th of cycle ((365.25 +365.25)/60=remainder 10.5 days. 38 plus 10 = 48 the second xin day) For interest Yao/Joseph's long day must have been on day 28, 70 years earlier on March 31 2357 BC. The sun miracle of Huang di in 2598 BC was in year 40 and the sun miracle of Yao/Joseph in March 31 2357 BC was also in year 40. The first month of spring was in January/February after the winter solstice January 9 2287 BC also the date of the new moon that year. However, Yao counted the first month of the year as the month before the winter solstice. The first month of spring began after the winter solstice, after January 8 2287 BC. This sun miracle must have been about the time of the winter solstice. If the sun moved on the day the sun was closest to earth in earth's elliptical orbit around the sun, then there would be no need for a second correcting reverse orbit because there would be no net missing time. The sun was closest to earth, the perihelion, November 15 2288 BC. If the sun moved then there would not need to be a second correcting sun miracle. The sun was almost 180° from Corvus November 15 2287 BC. If the sun miracle was on day 38 it could have been December 2, 2287 BC. Perhaps the sun moved 180° on the 15th day from the new moon, a full moon, told in the tale of the calendar bean, December 25, 2288 BC: "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 next 15 days were in reverse depicted by the calendar bean. Stars would disappear into the east through the year rather than into the west while earth's rotation was unaffected. The grass growing on either side of the palace stairs may signifiy the moon moving 180° to the other side of heaven.

The full moon on December 25, 2288 BC must move 180°, with the sun, from the red Corvus to the blue Pisces.
The sun must move 180° from Pisces/Aquarius to Corvus. The Chinese counted their lunar mansions from the day the moon was in that part of the sky starting number 1 with Corvus to 16 with Pisces. Thus their lunar dates matched the dates for and after this December 25, 2288 BC. The moon still must move with earth's rotation the same way from west to east in earth's reverse orbit as it does in earth's normal orbit. Just as this lunar "zodiac" progresses. However, we normally depict the sun and moon moving clockwise. Nevertheless, the characters depicting the lunar mansions move with earth's rotation. Then you can see in this lunar zodiac perhaps what the Chinese were trying to depict with their calendar bean.

The moon moving 180°. The sun miracle looks like it was in the first month with the supernova, then the ceremony on the second month and two years later a ceremony on the same day of the year. Then was the sun miracle in the first month or was the supernova in the first month or both? Then the ceremony day in the second month? Then was the supernova in the first month and also the sun miracle in the first month at the same time, same day? If the sun moved 180° on the winter solstice January 8 2287 BC earth must pivot 180° and earth's axis point to Vega to keep in the same January 8 season. Rather, after moving 180° the sun must move down to keep earth in the same season. Perhaps there was some significance in the January 8 season the Julian calendar, the 9th day of the seventh Egyptian month - at even began the 10th day of the seventh Hebrew lunar month in September was the Day of Atonement and the new year. Then also the celestial north would become south and likewise east west. See earth upside down. The same picture if the sun moved 180° about this January 8 2287 BC. On both observances, January 31 2287 BC and January 31 2285 BC, they waited between dark and light, all day for the decline of the day. Perhaps there was 12 hours more night as the sun moved 180° east or perhaps there was some 12 hours less daylight as the sun moved 180° west - the phoenixes - on this first month of the year and likewise the sun must move back on the anniversary of the day and earth flow out of the reverse orbit as if nothing had happened.

Perhaps they expected the sun to move 180° back on the same date. The sun must move 180° back exactly half an orbit or on exactly a full orbit on the same date for earth to reorient and flow out of the reverse orbit and continue as if nothing had happened. China would see the lunar division of Yih, that is of Crater. Perhaps if the sun moved up or down to keep earth in the same season that made stars more visible than they would have been. Like Yih. Perhaps next China saw the sun move to the constellation Yih, from the west or the east, then possibly the sun may have been the brilliant star they recorded. The moon would suddenly set in the west from midsky in China. Likewise in Egypt the moon would suddenly rise in the east to midsky. Thus Yih would be bright because of the sudden sunset. Some legends recall the stars stood still and the rivers flowed upstream. Such as the Nile in the Papyrus Emeritus - the Milky Way was like the Nile and when the sun moved to the other side of the earth the Milky Way would look like it did six months earlier and progress in reverse as earth revolved around the sun in reverse. The Milky Way was known as a river in many parts of the world. Earth would continue to rotate as usual. The children of Israel in Egypt would likely see the sun suddenly rise in the east just after it had set. If the sun moved 180° earth should experience a change in weather: "In the kitchen there appeared of itself a piece of flesh, as thin as a fan, which when shaken, raised such a wind that all eatables were kept cool and did not spoil." A change in weather currents would be expected. 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. "When the flooded waters were assauged (of the Ho river), the emperor attributing the merit of that to Shun, wished to resign in his favour." A five years later: "In his (Yao's) 75th year (2283 BC) Yu, the superintendent of Works, regulated the Ho." According to http://www.Chineseliterature.com.cn/traditionChineseculture/Chinesepattern/Chineseauspiciouspatterns6.htm "Chinese Auspicious Pattern" where after three years a yellow dragon appears and stops the flooding. More over even another sun miracle would be a further 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.
"In his first year, he came to the throne, he dwelt in K'e; and made the music Ta-shaou" "Note: On his accession, the felicitous bean grew about the stairs, and phoenixes nested in the courts. When they beat and tapped the musical stones, to accompany the nine performances of the Shaou, all the beasts came after one another gamboling. A brilliant star came out in Fang.." - A little more information given of the sun miracle. Mars was very bright red in Taurus January 2287 BC and perhaps moved 180° to Scorpius, Fang. Nevertheless, the brilliant star sounds more like God or an angel. The felicitous bean means the blessed bean, something looked for in a sun miracle.

Genesis 41:46 "And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt."

Joseph was 30 when he became governor over Egypt, perhaps 2357 BC, then he would have been 100 in Yao's 70th year. Then he would have lived 70 years after the Sojourn into Egypt in 2348 BC. The children of Israel went into captivity 70 years from 586 BC to 515 BC. Then 1000 years after Joseph's death in 2277 BC the children of Israel left Egypt in the Exodus in 1279 BC.

Genesis 50:26a "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old".

Yao's 70th year, 2287 BC, was the Egyptian Sothis year 491 beginning March 17 and may have marked the beginning of Pharaoh Pepi I's reign. Although the Chinese must have been ignorant of the God of Abraham, emperor Shun sacrificed to Shangdi, the Creator. And in that only God can do a sun miracle they were correct in worshipping him as the Creator.

In Greek legend according to Ovid Corvus the crow was dispatched by Apollo to obtain water for an offering to Jupiter. But the Crow spotted unripe figs on a tree near the spring. The Crow put down the Cup and waited for the figs to ripen. For this Apollo sentenced the Crow to thirst throughout the time it takes the figs to ripen. The rainy season ceases in July/August in Asia Minor. Thus E.C. Krupp in Sky and Telescope, March 2006, reasons Corvus the Crow cannot drink while the figs ripen. However, perhaps the sun had moved from Aquarius to Corvus, the February figs appearing on the trees. The sun in Corvus but no ripe figs. Thus the wait for the season of ripe figs in July/August. Fig trees bear fruit twice a year. First a small crop about April then the full crop in July/August.

In Shun's 14th year: "A violent wind tore up houses..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 red and green intermingled, the words of which were that he should resign in favour of Yu." The Chinese Classics, p 115 Very likely the record of a sun miracle. A violent wind was also recorded in king Wan's dream of a sun miracle. The character for the Feng bird seen in oracle bones is thought to be the phoenix, perhaps because so many sun miracle were accompanied with high winds. The third lunar month in Scorpius is the dragon, the sun was in Scorpius in October 2000 BC. High winds would be expected. The sun is sometimes depicted as the yellow dragon, a spiraling day. The Aztec's related:
"And when the sun came to rise..he kept swaying from side to side.."
The sun must have swayed from side to side, to the north in a summer solstice sunrise then to the south in a late August sunrise as it moved the 180° east on the level plane of the ecliptic to appear to stand still in the middle of the sky for Joshua.
The sun moving 180° to stand still in the sky should cast a figure 8 analemma shadow on a sundial as it normally does through the year. That is, the sun standing still at noon on Israel for Joshua February 26 1238 BC would rise in the sky as it went around the earth on a level plane, the plane of the ecliptic. Then, the sun would slowly rise on Mexico while travelling north by the eighth hour of the miracle then decline to the south while staying at the horizon. Thus the sun must appear to sway north then south from Mexico as it stood still at noon on Israel for Joshua. God may have moved the sun further away from the earth as it travelled east to stand still in the sky or dimmed the sun to lessen the sun's intensity. Thus the daily coral line for that day would be equal to a normal day. Therefore, the sun at times should follow a figure 8 or like analemma pattern because of varying speed and elliptical revolution; perhaps the spiraling sun of the yellow dragon. Dragons possess the best features of all animals of the zodiac - describing the movement of the sun. The red lines may represent red light from a long sunset or sunrise, the green lines the green flash at sunset or sunrise prolonged by a long sunset or sunrise just like the long sunrise depicted in Huang di's 20th year: "The vapours of the red quarter extended so as to join the those of the green [the east]." The green flash is compressed to a thin line at the horizen when seen from considerable height as perhaps this green flash was observed to the west at sunset in China, perhaps the sun reversed and rose in the west to come out at night. Perhaps the sun stood still at sunset on China as recorded in king Wan's dream, setting in the west and reappearing in the west before setting again - at the same time the sun stood still for Joshua at noon rising from 45° to 80° as the sun travelled 180° on the plane of the ecliptic around the earth. Also, the green flash is seen as

a green star widening in yellow then red underneath, perhaps this 32 cubits by 9 cubits. Both this long sunset in Shun's 14th year either in 2274 BC or 2241 BC and the long sunset in 2285 BC would mean the sun must stand still at noon over Egypt and Palestine and these days were like Joshua's long day 1000 years earlier. Attributed to the same time, this 14th year of Shun:

"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. Ice formed in summertime, the earth split open until springs gushed forth, the [cereal crops] grew differently, and the people were filled with a great terror. Kao Yang gave the command in the Dark Palace, and Yu grasped the jade staff of authority and set out to subdue the ruler of the Miao. Amidst the din of thunder and lightning, a spirit with the face of a man and the body of a bird came bearing a jade baton (beih) to wait upon Yu. The general of the Miao was felled by an arrow."
Adapted from B. Watson, trans., Basic writings of Mo Tzu, Hsün Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967), Mo Tzu at sect.19, with assistance from E. W. Maeder. A spirit with the face of a man and the body of a bird must be one of the four beasts before God's throne in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4.
In King Seuen's 32nd year, 796 BC, "a horse changed into a man."
The Chinese Classics III, p.156.
The qilin was likened to a horse. Also, one of the four beasts before God's throne had the face of a man.
This baton in the hand of the angel may have been the origin of the Bi, perhaps a thousand years before in an earlier event. One jade baton, Bi, has two dragons facing away from each other. This may depict sun miracles in pairs. Likewise other Bi's depict dragons on opposite sides of the Bi facing away from each other. You can see most antique jade was made on this theme, 7 pages - at the Jade Center. Typically they are a single disk. There is a double Bi from the tomb of king Zhao Mo of Nanyue 122 BC, and rare, perhaps depicting the sun moving and moving back. You can see the pictures in the book Ancient China, Chinese civilizations from the origins to the Tang Dynasty, p.182. Such as the sun returning to the meridian on December 12, 164 BC and just one and a half years after a sun miracle in 165 BC. Or the sun returning to the meridian in 230 BC its counterpart half an orbit before or after. Or the sun miracle of 203 BC or 210 BC and its counterpart. The Chinese pictograph for sun is a dot with a circle around it going back 12,000 years ago. The North American Natives brought with them from China this universal symbol of the sun. As depicted in their

sun and zodiac, sunrise and zodiac and

sun and zodiac with partial eclipses.
Thus this double Bi may depict the two sun miracles, the reverse zodiac then the normal zodiac. "According to the old Chinese legend, the Shang ancestor was born from a phoenix which was sent from heaven. As a result, phoenix becomes the major motif of Shang jade artifacts. The Seal of Shang Dynasty of our collections is seen dual phoenix motifs on the base." You can see a picture of this phoenix in the link

here. The Shang Dynasty 1766 BC - 1122 BC began with a sun miracle in 1766 BC.

Here is a selection of jade and wood Bi in the Museum at Changsha. All from the Western Han period from 200 BC. Ancient China, Chinese civilization from the origins to the Tang dynasty The Bi meant here is -

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- Thus this Bi was a sacrificial offering to Shangdi the Creator when there was a sun miracle. The hole in the middle meant union. And during the warring states period of 500 BC the kings fought to obtain the biggest and best quality jade Bi, about 3 feet wide, proving this king was worthy of the kingdom, union, of them all. In the Hunan Provincial Museum in Changsha I saw some wooden replica Bi 15 inches wide and a jade Bi 8 inches wide. In 2285 BC Shun dropped a Bi in the river Lo on the anniversary of the sun miracle two years previous to Shangdi when the sun returned. Likewise jade is also called a Bi

- You can see the character for sun on upper right. The Bi has a jot at the top like the dragon

and like the character for God, Zhu,

- only the emperor was allowed to have jade, thus the depiction of jade like that of king:

The Grand Scribe's Records, volume 7, p.338 from 247 BC Thus the similarity between the jade baton and the sun and sacrifice. However, no one else has proposed a special connection. Jade and Jasper are sometimes together in one stone and the Chinese characters for each are almost identical as you can see. The Chinese character for Jasper contains the character for God. I have a type of chalcedony artifact found on our farm that ancient Chinese might have called jasper. The red part may be jasper. You can see the sunshine on the smooth polished surface - jasper shine. Bloodstone or Heliotrope was used by ancient people to see the reflection of a solar eclipse according to Pliny. This chalcedony stone may be like a Heliotrope of chalcedony and jasper.

And obsidian, or dark glass, may be used to view the sun. You can see this smooth green and red chalcedony and this green nephrite Native jade. Jasper was prized by the Native Indians because it was red, the color of God. The Chinese word for jade is yu and the word for day and moon is yue.

"Pliny records that partially transparent

chalcedony was used for observing eclipses of the sun."

1 Corithians 13:12 "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."
Thus ancient people looked at the sun, and when there was a sun miracle it appears they saw the angel of the sun, perhaps even our Lord depicted above.

Isaiah 54:12 "And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones."

Literally: I will make thy suns rubies. The sun may have looked red when the sun moved east in order to leave no coral line or intense heat with daylight being 24 hours or 72 hours. Often day light was extended 36 hours, then the sun must have been dimmed even more to the red pearl likeness of the Chinese. Then also because missing time was countered by long days, each sun miracle must have been followed by a second one within a few years in a series of four. Then there must have been many sun miracles. Moreover, this verse describes heaven. In Isaiah it reads thy sun shall no more go down. Perhaps these verses describe God and Jesus the light of heaven, because sun is plural, likened unto a fiery brightness.

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."

Isaiah 60:19 "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."

This polished chalcedony stone from the farm glistens in the sun, perhaps why the Chinese associated jade/jasper with the sun. You can see small crystals sparkling on the smooth surface of the polished chalcedony stone. In jade you need a microscope to see the crystal structure.

2 Corinthians 4:6 "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

- You can see the Chinese characters for God. This sun miracle of Yu may refer to a like miracle to then one in Shun's 14th year when Yu became co-regent, where the sun came out at night, perhaps the summer (July) of 2274 BC. Or Shun's 14th year from 2255 BC = 2242 BC and it rained gold (meteor shower-sun miracle) in Yu's 8th year, either his 8th year with Shun 2234 BC or his 8th year as emperor 2198 BC his last year perhaps marked by a sun miracle accompanying the meteor shower - a sign to the Chinese they should have a new emperor, Yao reigned from 2357 BC to 2255 BC, Shun from 2287 BC - 2205 BC, Yu from 2222 BC to 2198 BC. Thus Yu was sole emperor from 2205 BC to 2198 BC. There was a sun miracle in Shun's 14th year about 2240 BC - 2236 years before the birth of Christ. Then Shun died 36 years later perhaps also on a sun miracle.
Thus the 36 years left of Shun's life marked by sun miracles may have marked the 36 years of Jesus' life. There are 144 years from the sun miracle and beginning of the seven years famine in 2350 BC to Yu becoming emperor in 2205 BC, three years after Shun died, perhaps also on a sun miracle and the Chinese record two sun miracles in regards to Shun abdicating to Yu. Perhaps seven years of reverse orbit just as for Joseph in the seven years of plenty. And perhaps as there would be seven years of famine for Elisha. The Egyptian new year had backed up 144 days to February 22 2201 BC from July 16 and 144 years after the Sojourn into Egypt 2348 BC is 2204 BC. Perhaps there was a sun miracle to mark the beginning and ending of the reign of emperor Yu. Two suns appeared in the sky in China in 1179 BC. 2205 BC is 2200 years before Jesus was born in 6 BC. Thus there may have been a sun miracle in 2198 BC when the new year was still February 22 and necessitating a new emperor.

76 years earlier from 2350 BC the unicorn of Yao perhaps when the sun returned for Joseph and the seven years drought began in Egypt. Every 19 years the lunar cycles match the Egyptian fixed months to July 16. Thus a sun miracle in 2274 BC on the same day as a sun miracle in 2250 BC would be on the same day of the moon. Shun's 14th year may have counted from this 2222 BC and be 2209 BC. Ice in summer must be the result of the change in weather caused by the sun miracle. "The sun came out at night and for three days it rained blood." - may mean the sun moving changed weather patterns to create such a heavy rainfall that in turn caused slides and reddish flood waters. The sun must have been darkened, perhaps red in color, while it travelled east to rise suddenly in the west or brightened to travel west to rise suddenly in the east, to leave the same daily coral line and also maintain an even temperature, even winds. - "rained blood" may refer to a meteor shower sometimes associated with a sun miracle. "In Yu's 8th year, in summer, it rained gold in the capital city of Hea."
Chinese Classics III, Bamboo Books, p.118.
Likewise "it rained gold" may refer to a meteor shower also about this time. In legend the Chinese Monkey fetched his irresistible weapon from the Sun, from "the navel of the deep" to get hold of a new first day, perhaps a sudden sunrise like this one, perhaps beginning the Chinese calendar. Sun miracles are associated with the dragon, phoenix, unicorn and tortoise, the four spirit animals of ancient China. Like the phoenix the dragon also lays an egg that takes 1000 years to hatch.

Mercury was named after Hermes. Hermes was the fastest messenger. The planet Mercury is the fastest planet and was named for the winged one. When God moved the sun he must have moved Mercury also. Perhaps this angel moving Mercury looked like Mercury had wings.

Mars moved 21 li (7 miles) for the Duke Ching of Sung.

"A wonderful portent appeared in the sky. Castor writes that in the well-known star Venus, called Vesperugo by Plautus, and Hesperus by Homer (who speaks of it as 'most beautiful'), a remarkable portent appeared. The star actually changed its color, size, shape, course; a thing which never happened before and has never happened again. This occurred in the reign of King Ogygus, according to the famous mathematicians Adrastus of Cyzicus and Dion of Neapolis." Ref: City of God, Book XXI, ch 8 - Augustine quoting On the Race of the Roman People by Marcus Varro If Venus moved in a circular orbit of earth it would look the same. When the sun moved 180° back for earth to flow out of the reverse orbit the planets must move 180° back to where they should be on that date. Being closer to the sun, Venus goes through phases like the moon, changing from full disk to crescent. Then if the sun moved 180° and Venus with it, the phase of its brightness could vary greatly as it moved back into place towards or away from the earth. Also travelling near the speed of light toward or away from the earth, which Venus must to move with the sun, Venus' color would change - red shifted away from the earth or blue shifted if towards the earth. Venus when a morning star was called Lucifer, when an evening star was called Vesper.

Then if Venus moved towards earth it would appear bigger, brighter, and bluer (green), if away from the earth smaller, dimmer and redder (yellow). There is no such thing as perpendicular red shift. When a star or planet approaches the speed of light time slows down. However the star/planet does not appear squished because time dilation is made up for by length contraction. Some galaxies are travelling away from us their light is red shifted into ultraviolet, invisible light. However, even though these planets must travel even faster, they are visible and look normal at the perpendicular to earth. Such as they would at all times when the sun moved the 180° forward and back. However, there may have been exceptions when a planet did not stay at the perpendicular to earth and thus appear red or blue and change phases in brightness. Also, Venus may cause a green flash. See the video of the Venus green flash. Ken Hewitt-White recorded seeing a Venus green flash for two successive night at the Mt Kobau star party August 2005 - see Mt Kobau and the Green Venus, SkyNews December 2005. At the horizen the sun Jupiter and Venus etc. appear squished - 1.3 times fatter.

See Jupiter squished at the horizon. Therefore Venus standing still at the eastern or western horizen would look green and change size and shape.

"The coat of the unicorn was of the five sacred colors of the Chinese; red, yellow, blue, white, and black." - like the colors of their phoenix. Perhaps the unicorns were the planets moving the 180° and their changing color these colors of the unicorn. Or perhaps they were two layers of green flash at the horizon. The mother of Che "witnessed a star like a rainbow come floating down the stream to the islet of Hwa." Perhaps one of the visible planets moving the 180° to stand still on the horizon. The mother of Chuen Heuh "witnessed the Yaou-Kwang star (Benetnasch - Alkaid handle of the Big Dipper - the only constellation that is the same in Chinese) go through the moon like a rainbow when it moved herself in the palace of Yew-fang.." The rainbow may be the glory of God's brightness, as in Ezekiel 1. Chinese Classics Part III. If the sun stood still at 20° above the horizen the rainbow, perhaps this rainbow, would last as long as the rain and the sun. The full moon can produce a rainbow - a very rare and brief event. If the moon stood still the lunar rainbow would last as long as the rain and the moon - which seems most likely. The rainbow must have been in the west opposite the moon in the east. Likewise for a morning rainbow. Also this lunar rainbow must have been at about 8 or 9 PM because the moon must be about 20° above the horizen in a dark sky. Likewise rainbows never occur at noon. The sun must be 20° above the horizen and the rainbow in the east ending as the sun passes below the 20° above the horizon.

the "planets piled together in a pit" Seneca's Thyestes, written 60 AD. This Mycenae civilization fell 1100 BC, just 100 years after Joshua's long day and the planetary conjunction in Scorpius seen from China - king Wan's dream.

"(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

The five planets must move 180° with the sun and reverse their orbits against the stars, thus they would "miss their courses".

Wen-Tze:
"... 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."

That is when there was a sun miracle the glory of God appeared, the bright Chinese dragon. Comets were associated with sun miracles in 155 BC, 149 BC and 141 BC. Stars will not serve their country - in a reverse orbit the stars will not tell the seasons.
The annals of the Bamboo Books; Legge, The Chinese Classics (translated and annotated by J. Legge, Hong Kong ed., 1860), III, Pt. 1, 125,: "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." attributed to 1807 BC. The Song shu records a planetary conjunction just before 679 BC and the Shoo King records a planetary conjunction in Fang in 1131 BC and in Fang in 1238 BC and at the start of the Shang dynasty 1765 BC according to the common chronology when there were no such conjunctions according to planetary simulations.

The sun rotates every 25 days at its equator. There are exactly two more solar rotations a year in a reverse orbit viewed from earth because rotation is against orbit. Thus there are 14.6 rotations normally in 365 days, and 16.6 rotations in a reverse orbit in 365 days. Or more accurately, there are 13.39 rotations a year normally from earth and 15.39 rotations in a reverse orbit from earth. There is 48 hours less a year in a reverse orbit. So then there would be 16.5 solar rotations a year in a reverse orbit, where the sun rotated every 22 days maintaining the same speed of rotation. The position of the sun's equator changes through the year due to the sun's "nodding" motion as earth orbits it totally due to earth's orbit. That is, the sun is not moving but the relation of the equator of the sun changes as earth moves around the sun because the sun's axis is on a tilt. When the sun moved to the other side of earth on the vernal equinox the sun's axis must also pivot 180° to still be tipped away from the earth. By June the sun's axis would be perpendicular to earth just as it would be in a normal orbit. And by September the sun would be tipped toward earth as normal, and by December the sun's axis would be perpendicular to earth like normal also. Thus, the sun would also have to shift on the vertical for its equator to keep the same inclination to earth with earth in a reverse orbit of the sun. However, if the sun moved up or down after moving 180° around the earth, the sun would not have to shift to keep its axis equal to earth's. It takes 170,000 years for radiation from the sun's core to reach the surface and then we see its light 8 minutes later. Then if the sun was dimmed when the sun stood still in the sky, the sun's light must be filtered before it reached earth or there would be massive wind storms and intense heat. Wind storms associated with sun miracles were recorded by Yao and king Wan also. Nevertheless, to leave no trace the sun's light probably had to be dimmed. Thus also there must be more than 200 years of accumulated reverse orbits from 3000 BC. This means there must be 400 more solar rotations as seen from earth in the same period.

Conclusion

We can be very grateful for the meticulous Chinese astronomer. The pieces have fallen together perfectly and perhaps we now have the big picture. The Chinese were not crazy their records are sane and true. Carl Sagan vehemently challenged Velikovsky and protested the impossibility of the atmosphere, the ocean and the earth's crust being in a still state. The poles would be flooded and dry land would ring the equator. Stopping the earth's rotation in much less than a year would turn earth into molten rock and require more energy than the sun puts out in a year. Take earth's mass for example: (5.976x10E27 Grams) = 5.4 x 10E41 Joules = 42.6 Million Sunyrs. It would take 42 million years for the sun to burn the mass of the earth.
"When an electric charge is added to a rotating body, the rotation slows down as a consequence of conservation of angular momentum. The amount of electric charge required to slow Earth's rotation one millisecond per day (the so-called "Danjon effect") is about 10,000 times more electric charge than Earth can possibly hold." Earth in a reverse orbit should not seem so incredible, "Triton was captured into a reverse orbit by Neptune's strong gravitational pull." "In summation,when viewed from above, a planet will curve to the left when orbiting in the direction of the sun's rotation. This causes a spin of the planet of a like rotation as outlined and proven by using orbital data to calculate the spin of the Earth. However, if a planet or particle is caused to spin, such as by collision, a reverse orbit would occur with the arc curving to the right in the absence of other forces."
Mel Winfield.

Reverse orbits are common in nature. A exo planet was observed to orbit in reverse to its star's rotation. This was thought to be from a high inclination of orbit and a near pass of an object caused the planet to cross the boundary and thus orbit the star in reverse. A collision would destroy earth. Then the reverse orbits described here must have been carefully managed by God moving the sun to the other side of earth. Then if the sun moved to the other side of the earth, earth must have been carefully controlled by other forces. Astronomers tell us the universe is made up of 5% matter, 25% dark matter and 70% dark energy. Dark matter has been observed to travel through gravity unaffected. Dark energy is what is driving matter - perhaps gravity in reverse, galaxies - the universe, apart at an accelerated rate. Dark energy may be anti-matter. We are travelling from a galaxy cluster in Virgo to empty space in Aquarius.

In the Tennessee vs John Scopes the "Monkey Trial" 1925 William Bryan was asked: "If the day was lengthened by stopping either the earth or the sun, it must have been the earth?" And died of a heart attack six days later. He was also asked "When was that Flood?" for which calculations are given here.

The creationist's win that day now has supporting evidence, 77 years later. William Bryan need not have died of a broken heart, faith in Joshua 10:12 is earnestly contended for here. There is no reason the Bible cannot be taught as religious truth. The reason the courts have not permitted Creation to be taught in school, not that school is the place, is because of the lack of proof. This page not only proves the Bible accurate, it proves God is our Creator and has power that leaves little to the imagination. There is an ongoing attack on the truth of the Bible and they often start with Joshua 10:12. I hope I have reassured those who read this page of the truth of the Bible. One planetarium director told me that the only way these legends could be true is if the sun was moved around the earth and was very vehement that earth would have been destroyed. Nevertheless, if the sun simply moved around the earth there should be no noticeable affect. The tidal bulge of the sun and moon would be the same, no difference. Even so, these events could trigger an earthquake and earthquakes were often recorded with sun miracles.

NASA states there are only two possibilities: (1) the earth stopped rotating or (2) the sun moved. I asked NASA if there was (3) earth could have been pulled around the sun to produce the same effect. However, they said earth would have seen something very different - they did not say what would be different. Their answer seemed to suggest they knew something, like the reverse orbit also, that they were confident earth was not moved around the sun to make the sun appear to stand still in the sky. They may have simply meant astronomically we would have seen something different to do with light or something catastrophic. Even gravity increases as you approach the speed of light. However, the object travelling the speed of light does not feel any heavier.

Psalm 93:1 "The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved."

Earth was left untouched, only the sun moved. Thus in that God must not have moved the earth at millions of miles per hour, earth did not "fall", this verse is true. Just the same, the planets must have been pulled around earth with the sun at exceedingly high speeds to appear in the same position, at the same time of night, of the evening sky and continue to stay in the same night time position as they would have. If the earth were pulled around the sun very fast on Joshua's long day China would see Scorpius rise in the east and blue shifted just after sunset then Scorpius travel westward and red shifted and set in 6 hours and China see the other 180° of stars of the night sky cross in 6 hours. Light from the planets and stars could be red shifted and blue shifted out of the visible spectrum to infra red and to ultra violet. Hardly what king Wan recorded in a very similar sun miracle not very many years after Joshua's long day. Also, with earth at a velocity of 24 million miles per hour, 1/30 the speed of light, people on earth would noticeably weigh more. This study suggests God moved the sun at exceedingly high speeds with very great skill around the earth - to the other side, so that earth's forward momentum carried it into a reverse orbit and that He moved the sun up or down so that the seasons continued. Energy that entered the system must have been taken out. The torque must have been applied equally to the oceans as to the solids. Earth's angular momentum must have been transferred to something else, that acted on everything in and around earth. Therefore, the law of conservation of orbital energy and angular momentum was taken care of. Thus completely hiding the miracles from science.

Isaiah 40:12 "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?"

Habakkuk 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."

God knows the mass of the earth. There were small earthquakes recorded by the Chinese when God moved the sun around the earth. He knows how to hide his power:

Habakkuk 3:4 "And his brightness was as the light; he had bright beams out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power."

Science does not give God the credit for his Creation. That the universe behaves in an orderly manner only means God's power is hidden. "there are various scientific challenges to the Young-Earth Creationist position" That the solar system must have been so totally reorganized there is nothing old about it. NASA does not need to find ways to divert a comet from earth's path, such as its experiment on comet Tempel 1, because if God wanted to, God's power is so great there is nothing they could do. God's power in moving the sun around the earth may be the power God used in creating the universe. Something that has eluded scientists. God spared no effort in moving the solar system around the earth.

2 Peter 3:3 "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

1 Timothy 6:20 "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen."

Science teaches that the earth has orbited the sun, and continued without exception, the same way for billions of years. This is false science. The sun has been there for billions of years. However, the sun has moved many times in Old Testament times. Scientists will adamantly deny the sun moved, but I know God moved the sun many times. "Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure." Charles Darwin. Science today excludes God completely. Science says the sun has never moved. This is misrepresentation. False science opposes the Bible. True science supports the truth, the Bible. Some will say this is not science. However, this is what I honestly believe. NASA suggests science has falsified this miracle. Science can be tested, to be falsified or verified. This is science, this is the scientific method, and the hypothesis is abundantly verified here with all my calculations shown. Verifiable because the model works and fits observation. This is not starting with the conclusion and deducing from there, it is much easier to find something you are looking for when you know it is there, and I found it.

The Scientific Method is:

A. First think of a question or a problem. An event is observerd or implied.
B. Then try to guess what the answer is. The Hypothesis.
C. Then do an experiment to test the Hypothesis.
D. Then look at the results and form a conclusion. If the hypothesis conforms it is accepted as probably correct and becomes a Theory.

A. Observation: Joshua's long day was observed by Israel, the Assyrians and China.
B. Hypothesis: God moving the sun half way around the earth with earth's rotation for 12 hours, earth's orbit shifting on its ecliptic axis to keep in the same season, earth flowing into a reverse orbit of the sun. The sun moved back exactly half an orbit later as recorded by the Bible, earth flowing out of the reverse orbit; then the sun moved to the other side of the earth and earth flowed back into the reverse orbit, then the sun moved back exactly one year after the first sun movement and earth flowed out of the reverse orbit, earth's inclination of orbit shifting back to its previous orientation and earth continued as if nothing had happened.
C. This Hypothesis conforms to the available data on this sun miracle and others in Chinese astronomical records and in the Bible on exact dates using a professional program TheSky and leaves no physical trace and no net missing time. Earth is not even touched. This model also answers more questions than it creates.
D. God moved the sun around the earth. This is not a fanciful idea. These are not half truths, this is the big picture and the whole truth. This is fact, this is history and this is science both provable and proven here. Supernatural intervention uncovered is science. Faith is spiritual science.

John 8:43 "Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not."

Only the spirit of Christ in you can tell the truth.

Only God could move the sun around the earth, thus faith in God is verified and atheism is falsified. God must have planned to move the sun around the earth before the creation of the solar system 5 billion years ago. He probably tried moving a star before he moved the sun. He may even have moved a star around a planet soon after stars and planets formed 12 billion years ago. He may have planned to move a star around a planet from before creation. Thus God inhabits eternity.

Ephesians 4:14 "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:"

Light and darkness are worlds apart. False science that teaches against the Bible is worlds apart from the truth. The weakest part of this theory is how God did it. It is possible that a gravitational field could appear and disappear. This would cause an equal force on every atom - acceleration and deceleration would not be felt. However if the sun was pulled around the earth the sun should be pulled apart. Likewise within minutes the gravity wave should tear the planets apart and the solar system collapse. Black holes tear apart stars and the force to move the sun at these speeds would be the same if pulled by a black hole. If hollow spheres, perhaps the hollow of God's hand, of gravity were placed around the sun and planets they could move them at any speed with a uniform gradient of gravity so they would not be torn apart. That is one theory. That God did it there is no doubt. Gravity travels at the speed of light, so gravity may have been used. The planets must move very fast to appear at the same time the following night. The outermost visible planet, Saturn, must have moved at one third the speed of light to appear with the other planets to Scorpius that night as per king Wan's dream. The moons of the planets maintained an unaffected inner circular orbit. Likewise all asteroids in the solar system must pivot around the earth.

"Since close encounters drastically increase inclination, the small inclinations of the orbits of Venus & Mars belie the multiple near-collisions outlined by Velikovsky."

"if God were going to use His miraculous power to produce the long day, it would certainly not be necessary to invoke Venus or some other astral body to do it for Him." "

The axis of Mars wobbles slowly. Over the course of 100,000 to 1 million years, its tilt can change by more than 20 degrees." Mars almost certainly kept its inclination to the sun. The polar spirals are a result of this natural axis tilt. Therefore there should be no trace of sun miracles on Mars. However, change in the sun is affecting us now: Global warming on Mars: may not be unique to just Earth perhaps because the sun is partially responsible - May 8, 2007 Neptune is getting brighter because the sun is getting hotter - June 28 2007 the Hubble discovered Jupiter is changing color perhaps because the sun is getting hotter - Study says sun getting hotter - The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, Germany has determined that the sun is more active now than it has been in over 8,000 years. "The sun has been brighter for the last 60 years than it has been at any time in the last 1,150 years."

God is in control. Global warming and Climate Change is not a problem to God. God will restore everything when Jesus comes again. All these scientists raving about Global Warming and waving their hands in the air are just full of hot air. Science gets a lot of money by scaring people. And they know they would loose their funding if everyone understood God is in control. This research proves what most scientists are doing today to study climate change, and some how get man to control it, is a waste of time and money. Atheists protest Christian profession of a Heaven and Hell as scare tactics. Salvation is eternal and something you can do something about, just follow Jesus like I do. Climate Change is something you cannot really do anything about.

The five visible planets were recorded to have appeared in ancient times as they normally would have appeared. In a reverse orbit the zodiac is in reverse and the background stars to the planets are in reverse, otherwise, no change. The planets rise and set at the same time of night in their seasons - then half a year later and a year later or multiples thereof later when earth can reorient to normal the planets would be 180° away from where they should be. One smooth easy movement. Saturn and Jupiter would orbit the sun twice a year when earth was in the reverse orbit. "Redistribution of matter within or on the earth would alter precession, but an enormous redistribution would be required to produce an appreciable change." The Path of the Pole, p.362 The miracle must have included keeping earth from spiraling into the sun or out of the solar system or going into a tumble. "The Earth is like a huge gyroscope. Try moving the axes of a spinning gyro, they resist the move. In the case of the Earth the inner molten core is a separate independent gyro that would resist the change even while the outer crust, also a gyro was being forced to change. Thus the two would slip by each other, one changing more than the other." The inner core slips one rotation ahead of the outer crust once every 700 to 1400 years. Any simulation would show the sun should be torn apart and the gravitational constant does not work. However, only small earthquakes were recorded at the time of these sun miracles. Only God could do that. The Bible is true to reality, associated earth quakes are evidence of real life events. Earth does shift with precession 360° over 26,000 years. This is now called the solar geodetic effect. The popular theory of a close pass by of a planet would tear earth apart because of the uneven gradient of gravity and would not and could not bring about the desired result. The 49th parallel is actually 100 feet south of the border due to polar wander. There was no trace of a close pass by of electromagnetism. "There is not even any direct evidence that the orbits of Earth or any other object were altered." That said, an orbit is an easy thing for God to set and control. No physical evidence was left. Science cannot explain the power and the skill at work. Science claims this is impossible. The aim of this article is to point out that with God all things are possible.

Jeremiah 32:27 "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?"

Every angle has been explored by experts: Only a new state of laws of physics could accomplish these miracles. Current science cannot explain the physics of these sun miracles just as current science cannot explain the physics of the exact moment of Creation. Science claims to have the bigger picture of the cosmos. The cosmos without God is nothing. The experts do not say this is impossible. An expert, astrophysicist, confessed to me that if God moved the sun and moved it back again smart like there could be no trace. Einstein's Theory of Relativity does not work. Stephen Hawking, in A Brief History of Time, concludes "The sun and moon might still be gods, but they were gods who obeyed strict laws, apparently without any exceptions, if we discount stories like that of the sun stopping for Joshua." Science cannot discount the history and the model that fits it. Science cannot explain the sun standing still or setting/rising suddenly or yet moving backwards even backwards suddenly or earth in a reverse orbit and 48 hours less a year or Jupiter and Saturn orbiting the earth twice a year in earth's reverse orbit! Two Saturn and Jupiter orbits a year to appear normal because orbit is against rotation. Science cannot explain the abundant independent history of long days and long nights, short days and short nights from around the world. You do not need to be or ask a scientist to understand the model here. You do not have to be an amateur astronomer. You just have to understand the mechanics of the solar system. Science teaches that earth has always orbited in the same direction around the sun since a thin swirling cloud of gas and dust happened to condense forming the sun and planets. Just the reverse is true. Earth has gone into a reverse orbit of the sun many times. The sun has not always remained still. The sun revolved around the earth dozens of times and man cannot find a trace. Probably more than 100 times.

Man argues such a cosmological disturbance must have left evidence, yet God left none. My wish is that there not be money spent on scientific studies to test this theory mostly because I believe God has left no evidence to find. Even though the sun must have moved 180° perhaps 50 or 100 times as the records indicate because sun miracles are in fours and potentially many more before 4000 BC. There may have been a series of four sun miracles often in Old Testament days and on into the New Testament. Rare enough to not be very often recorded. And often enough when they did happen most people took them to be normal. Even so, the simulation of this model of the earth and the solar system will demonstrate the greatness of God's power and care. And many concurrent histories to the dates of these sun miracles may be connected thus verifying these dates much as I have done here.

Deuteronomy 32:11 "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, flutterth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings;
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him."

Earth was guided into reverse orbits, kept in reverse as if in normal orbits, and guided out of the reverse orbits without a trace. Earth was 100% safe every time. Science deceives when it says the sun has always been there in the same place for billions of years and will be there in the same place billions of years from now. Who says the sun can't move? God did not create the sun and leave it there. He used the sun to influence the whole world, to shake them up and point them to Jesus. The creation was no joke and no accident. This page answers the basic question we all need to know: "Was life preordained or were we just an accident?" We already know why we are here. How can we fear the future when God has planned the way? God may choose to move the sun again and like in Joshua's day:

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."

Jesus' coming may not be a day change but a revealing. No one will disbelieve God's power. Almost everyone today knows the sun is a million times larger than the earth - see Sun 1 and

Sun 2

Sun 3, and without the sun earth is lost. The world is so high tech that the sun moving around the earth would completely baffle and alarm scientists.

The sun and planets did not just happen into existence, they were created. They were created and managed by the God of the Bible:

Isaiah 45:12 "I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded."

Some ask "What does this have to do with Evolution and Creation?" Everything. If God moved the sun around the earth he has to be the Creator of the Universe. And that his hand is hidden in these sun miracles his hand is also hidden in evolution. This is not blindly following a received tradition of how scripture is to be used. Rather, this analysis is reality, the truth to the best of my ability. Some have suggested in the recent court case over intelligent design that a Christian does not have to believe God is our Creator. Jesus is the image of God, therefore a Christian must believe God is our Creator, that God created man in his image. Scientists are the ones with misconceptions of evolution and the history of our solar system. The Bible says God created individual species:

Genesis 1:25 "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."

To me that means God guided evolution to produce the species we now have. The reason scientists are so opposed to intelligent design is they want to give the glory to man and do not want to give God the glory. These atheist scientists want to take the place of God, to be looked up to as God.

Gen 6:4 "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

I like the book "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants". However, God needs to get the credit for Creation. Jesus had no reputation, just the opposite. There is nothing wrong with having a reputation of helping others. The Vatican's chief astronomer George Coyne wrote: "If they respect the results of modern science, and indeed the best of modern biblical research, religious believers must move away from the notion of a dictator God or a designer God, a Newtonian God who made the universe as a watch that ticks along regularly," God did not leave the earth to spin out.

What Coyne is saying is God is just an uninvolved onlooker. God moved the solar system around the earth so many times he cannot be said to be uninvolved. False religion leads to a lost eternity because God is not involved. Don't be fooled. Popular scientific theory can fail us. Just as Ptolemy and Aristotle's did. The people at the time thought that everything was already known about the sun and the motion of the stars. People are the same today. Darwin wrote: "When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, (the voice of the people = the voice of God) as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science." On the Origin of the Species, Chapter IV "Organs of Extreme Perfection and Complication" Neither can Darwin be trusted.

Judge John Jones in his decision against intelligent design said scientific experts testified that Darwin's theory "in no way conflicts with, nor does it deny, the existence of a divine creator." Evolution without intelligent design directly denies the existence of a divine creator. Intelligent Design just states that everything did not happen by chance. How can there be a God if everything happened by chance? Judge John Jones confessed intelligent design "may be true, a proposition on which the court takes no position, ID is not science". "But about 2.2 billion years ago, a remarkable transformation took place. Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, learned how to do oxygenic photosynthesis using sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce sugar and other carbohydrates, and giving off oxygen as a byproduct." "The bacterium was probably intended as prey but instead it became incorporated into its attacker’s body turning it into the ancestor of every tree, flowering plant and seaweed on Earth. The encounter meant life on the planet could evolve from bacterial slime into the more complex forms we see today..."It is an astonishing thought that a single random encounter between two tiny cells so long ago could have had such huge consequences," said Falkowski. Sounds unlikely these two tiny cells would fuse by chance. Unlikely evolution was by chance. Nevertheless, this study of sun miracles is science because the model fits observation. And because divine intervention is uncovered.

Pythagoras, who proposed earth revolved around the sun, moved to Croton Southern Italy in 530 BC. Philolaus of Croton held that earth was a planet and revolved around the sun with the other five visible planets. Plato and Socretes were their contemporaries. You will have read above of Socretes' description of earth's reverse orbit. Other great mathmeticians from Syracuse Sicily also held that earth revolved around the sun. They would have experienced reverse orbits also and made calculations for them, perhaps similar to the Missing Day calculations.

I will tell you a little of my background. Not because I am somebody. That is far from the truth.

Perhaps you will see this revelation is by Jesus and not of me. I am not ashamed to say my forefather's put Jesus first. And that after coming out of the Jewish religion.

My ancestors probably were Jewish when they emmigrated to Scotland with William the Conquerer in 1066. And became christian when Waldeve de Coeuran took land in Scotland in 1262. You cannot possess land and be a Cohen. I match about a dozen Cochrans in the Cochran surname project at Family Tree DNA from 500 years ago. See Ev Cochrane of the Velikovsky Encyclopedia. All Jews were expelled from New Berry, Berkshire, England in 1242 and from all of England in 1290. Henry Bennett, born 1621 in the UK was a very devout christian, a Puritan. Samuel Bennett was the first Bennett to emmigrate to Massechusetts in 1635. They were foremost christians. Many christians had recently died in England trying to serve God. He probably did the best he could. Henry Bennett landed in Lyme Connecticut about 1645 with is wife. His son Henry Bennett Jr. was born there in 1647. From Henry to Zadock Bennett who left for Canada in 1760, they were Puritans.

My father's mother's father's mother's father may have been a direct descendent of King Roger II of Sicily, from Emanuel Roger, probably just from Sicily or Spain. And in 1542 he surnamed his sons Manuel. The most recent common ancestor of my I2b1 Manuel cousins is 930 years ago with a 50% probability. This is about 1100 AD when Roger II was born. If this was not Roger II, then the other Roger surname I match with a common ancestor on my Y-dna 900 AD should be an ancestor to Roger II. His grandson Frederick II negotiated the same religious freedoms for pilgrims to Israel as I enjoyed in 2010. Roger II's motto was that Christ conquers. Roger II first wife's grandmother was princess Zaida who converted from Islam or Judaism to Christianity. I also share a common ancestor with a Roger from Sicily on my Y-dna probably 1100 years ago. This R1b1 Roger would have been Cohen Jewish. The reason he took the name of Roger may have been because of the favour of Roger II towards the Jews. Either way, I am probably descended from Roger II from Emanuel Roger I2b1, or are distantly related to him on my Y-dna from before these Jewish cousins became royalty R1b1. I match a Rogers perhaps descended from Tancred and Zaida in Family Finder on a large segment. The Manuels were tin miners in Cornwall for 10 generations. They may have married into Jewish tin miners from 1290 AD. The Richards worked in the tin mines probably from time of Richard Earl of Cornwall and intermarried with the Manuels. He took possession of all the Jews of England and all the royalties from the tin mines. I share a common ancestor on my Y-dna with Richards about 1200 and 1050 years ago. Thus these Richards I match might have been Cohens. They may have been Jewish tin miners. The Richards name comes from Lanlivery where a tin ingot from 1290 AD was found with the Hebrew letters R C R D, Richard in the form of a king. At that time Richard earl of Cornwall lived nearby at Bodmin and perhaps was paid taxes in tin ingots. Then also, some of the Jewish tin miners may have emmigrated to Scotland in 1290 when all Jews were ordered out of England. Some of my Scottish ancestors, perhaps where my father's mother's X chromosome H1e comes from, worked in the mines. H1e is often Moroccan Jewish.

My grandmother used to quote this verse:

Zechariah 4:10 "For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet (stone of tin) in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth."

The stone of tin is the weight of Jesus' perfect life. The temple is the temple of our body.

2 Chronicles 16:9a For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him."

Psalm 14:2 "The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God."

She was a teacher in Edmonton when a fellow teacher, Annie Prat, left teaching to become a minister in Jesus' lowly way. They all gave her gifts on her last day. Prat is one of the 36 names given in my R1b1 Levite/Cohen family tree from the time of Christ. Some of the Prats were Pruett before becoming Prat. Prat is from priest. Likewise Price is from priest.

My Bennett line may have had a part in this second temple in the rebuilding of Herod. Some date the R1b1 admixture to after the temple. However, my common ancestor may have been about the time of Christ.
My cousin, R.B. Bennett, the Prime Minister of Canada from 1930 - 1935, was a very devout christian. He could not have heard of the Gospel till late in life and was probably spiritually blind. He quoted the verse:

Psalm 127:1 "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it:"

Only priests were allowed to build Herod's temple. R.B. Bennett's mother was Henrietta Stiles. Bennett is related to Stiles in Ydna. So, R.B. Bennett may have inherited some distant Jewish genes both on his father and mother's side making these recessive genes enabled. My grandfather asked us grandchildren if we could put our fingers together and apart. This is what the cohen was supposed to do to make the letter W - the first letter of the word Jehovah is great in Hebrew. He cheerfully told me there was a model of the temple in Jerusalem. I am a part of the Cohen Project You can see this sign on the front page of the R1b Cohane project. I do not know if there were two separate lines of R1b1 Cohens. The R1b1 Cohanes have a common ancestor 1600 years ago. My common ancestor with them according to a dna comparison program is 1600 years ago. If I understand haplogroups, is that their beginning is based on a piece of dna this is an upper limit on the most recent common ancestor. Thus Sean Silver's R1b1a2a1a begins about 3,000 years ago. And my R1b1a2a1a1a4 begins about 1,800 years ago. The actual most recent common ancestor may be 1,800 years ago. Thus there may only be one line of R1b1 Cohanim from the time of Christ.

Our ancestor Henry Bennett was born in the UK in 1621 and emmigrated to Connecticut in about 1645. Please see TheBennettStory.pdf. All Jews were expelled out of England in 1290 AD. All Jews from Newberry Berkshire were expelled in 1242 AD. Waldeve de Coueran is recorded in Scotland in 1262 AD from whom descended the Cochranes. My common ancestor with the Cochranes is about this 700 years ago. Then my ancestors may have embraced Christianity in about 1290 AD. I do not know if in this time they embraced the Christianity I follow and profess to follow. Then 300 years, or 10 generations of 30 years, to 1621 when Henry Bennett was born.

Deuteronomy 23:3 "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee."

His son Henry Bennett Jr. was a Puritan, Congregationalist, born in Old Lyme Connecticut 1647. Married there in 1673 where the church was the government. His brother in law Henry Champion jr., son of Sarah Bennett, lived at at Meeting House Hill, Lyme, Connecticut. Henry Champion Sr. came from Norwich in 1647 near Ipswich to land in Old Lyme Connecticut. The Champions were said to have been of Huguenot ancestry. Some Champions are 19 genetic distances from me and share a distant jewish ancestor. There was no separation of church and state. Henry Bennett Sr came from the Reformist Movement, the puritans. There were other Bennetts from Newbury Berkshire. Jews were expelled from Newberry in 1242 AD and I match the Newberry and Berry surname about 400 AD and it is a common ancestor on my Family Finder indicating shared autosomal DNA. However, I am descended from a Christian from Chieveley four miles from Newberry from 1552. Perhaps she took the name Christian to counter a distant Jewish heritage there. Or perhaps she was even was from a Reformist background from that time there. For this match to show up as fourth cousin when she left there 14 generations ago may mean Jewish DNA. I am very distantly related to these Bennetts who were part of the Reformist Movement in Newberry from 1500. Some in Newberry were martyrd when they started to preach the Gospel in 1530. There is a 50% probability I share a common ancestor with one Bennett 1650 years ago with a genetic distance of 30. He too is R-L48. With another Bennett, our most recent common ancestor, at a 95% probabiliy, lived within 1830 years ago with a genetic distance of 27 out of 111. They were just as religious as my Bennett line.

As in the missing day story; "40 minutes had to be found because you are still in trouble 1000 years from now." How we line up with Christ in the Christian Era is important. Jesus' forgiveness for my forefathers may have made the difference for me 2000 years later. They were Jewish for about 1000 years, then christian for about 1000 years. They were christian for at least the last 12 generations. The spiritual Ammonite or Moabite was not allowed into the congregation to the tenth generation. This was counted on the father's side. Only Jesus could forgive the past and make the difference.

Philippians 1:9 "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
1:10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God."

Philippians 1:10a "That ye may try the things that differ."

Jesus makes the difference.

The little Scottish Cluster I am descended from matches a small percentage of many surnames. So there is the possibility I could share this direct ancestry with just about anyone. The puritan Cromwell government of England began to let in Jewish people again in 1650 partly because some puritans believed the 144,000 redeemed in Revelation were the Jewish people yet to hear the Gospel. They believed the Jewish people will make a profession to serve Christ. Perhaps this belief was strengthened by knowlege of distant Jewish ancestry from about 1066 AD. From the 1600's the puritans began to take Bible names. The uncanny part is some of these puritans did have distant Jewish ancestry and these names were natural. Cohanim were thought to be descended from Zadok. One of my ancestors is Zadock Bennett. There also was a Free Church movement in Scotland from 1773 and 1843. I believe the Free Church meant they did not pay mandatory taxes for the Scottish National Church. About 8% of Scotland and about 21% of Northern Ireland match my Jewish Y-dna. These were the people the Gospel first came to in the twentieth century.

Matthew 10:5 "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

There is a R1b Cohane Project - Background I share a common ancestor with some of them within about a 95% probability 2010 years ago, within a 50% probability 1000 years ago. However, the members of the R1b1 Cohane group have dys value 393 = 12 and are ht35, whereas I am dys 393 = 13 and ht15. There is speculation ht35 and ht15 split 7,000 years ago. Nevertheless in the R1b1 Cohen group where I am listed there are many ht15. Even the Egyptian surname I match Kha 1700 years ago + or - 700 years is dys 393 = 13 like me. Perhaps an ancestor came from Turkey to become pharaoh in Egypt. The oldest surname is Khan meaning king from Turkey. I have a few distant matches in Turkey. However, the Netherlands is where I am told R1b1a2a1 is from. Nevertheless, there is the possibility an ancestor came from Egypt to the Netherlands as well. Caiaphas may have had a son who was high priest, Elionaeus. One of the 36 names in my Y-dna family tree from the time of Christ is Elliot below, perhaps from this Elionaeus. Elionaeus in the Midrash was the son of Qaph, perhaps Caiaphas. He was made High Priest about 44 AD. He was still High Priest in January 46 AD when Herod killed James, John's brother. He may have been deposed with the death of Herod in February 46 AD. Then there may have been sun miracles January 26, 46 AD, August 1, 46 AD and January 26, 47 AD. There may have been a long night when Peter was in chains to be brought before Herod after Easter, January 26, 46 AD. Thus the soldiers were sleeping when the Angel awoke Peter and delivered him. Thus the sun must move half an orbit later, August 1, 46 AD and this rather being the eclipse on Claudius Caesar's birthday, rather than August 1, 45 AD. Then the island Hiera rose on the full moon of January 26 47 BC may be caused by the sun returning.

With some R1b1 Cohens I share a common ancestor within 2520 years, 500 BC, with a 95% probability. However, the common ancestor probably is at the 50% range at 100 AD with a 50% possibility before and after that time. Likewise I share a common ancestor with some Jewish L21, R1b1a2a1a1b4, within a 50 % probability 1700 years ago and within a 95% probability 2300 years ago. Many R1b1 Cohens are L23. From L23 to L21, including L48 and L47 between, comprises a lot of the R1b1 population. Some R1b1 may have come from Egypt to the Netherlands. King Tut was R1b1a2. So my ancestor, and 50% of Europe's ancestors, and King Tut's ancestor, must be a man from about 2800 BC. There is the possibility there was back migration from Egypt to the Netherlands, perhaps as royalty. I am related to at about 1% of Western Europe from about 500 BC. Many of these are Jewish R1b1 cousins. This would explain why I am related to 2% of Spain where most Jews lived till 1492. Perhaps there is one Jewish R1b1 common ancestor about the time of Christ for much of the Jewish R1b1 descent, certainly the L48 and L47. Waldeve de Coueran in 1262 was recorded in Scotland. The Cochran surname is said to have come from him. The family Cochrane crest has three hearts. However, Coueran may not have come from the French word for heart, couer, but from the word cohren, Cohen. I often thought there was a significance in the word coeur. The word for priest means sacrificer.

Psalm 51:17 "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."

Coelum is an important Latin word and means heaven. Cepheus is a constellation in the heavens meaning the crowned king from the word for branch in Hebrew. Cepheus was supposed to be the son of the Phoenix. Caiaphas in Egyptian is Kha, King. Among Cohanim Khan is Cohen. In Aramaic Caiaphas may mean a hollowed out rock.

A hollowed out empty cistern in the High Priest's palace where they may have let Jesus down the night of his capture:

Jeremiah 2:13 "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."

John 2:7 "Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
2:8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.

Perhaps the name Caiaphas has an origin with the crowned king constellation of Cepheus. That was Caiaphas' mistake. Only Jesus can be King. We have to step down and let Jesus fill us.

2 Corithians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

Luke 5:38 "But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved."

One surname match among R1b1 Cohanim is Cunha in Spain. This name seems to be the origin of the name Collas in Ireland from 200 AD. The origin may be Qapha, Caiaphas. Likewise one surname match is Peterson. Peter, or stone, is Qapha in Aramaic.

I share a common ancestor with these Cochrans within 700 years ago, even 500 years ago. Cohane may have been changed to Cochran. Bill Cochran came with his companion to bring the Gospel for the first time to my district in 1910. Cohen means worker as well as priest. The common ancestor between me and the Cohanes, R1b1 Cohens, is probably from the first century AD. Please see A Little Scottish Cluster. The Little Scottish Cluster is Haplogroup L21. My cluster of L48 is below. The tree given in the link covers all people in Scotland. L21 is a slightly different Haplogroup than my R-L48. Nevertheless, Holden in green below is group 15 of the Little Scottish Cluster. I match a Patterson 60 generations ago on the Y-dna and he is third on family finder. You can see Holden next to Patterson. There are some Jewish names and many variations of Cohen in the tree, so I feel pretty sure of jewish origin. That would explain how 60 generations could appear as about five or six in the amount of DNA inherited. That is how someone like Patterson could appear as third cousin when they were in fact 60th. I find myself in the tree at Cochran/Massey/Wilson/Carter/Spicer. I have met Cochran, Massey and Wilson in my Faith. I match an Irvine 1100 years ago, a Jamieson 1600 years ago and a Carroll 1900 years ago. This is just to point out my ancestry is not any better or any worse than any one else. A quote from Willie Jamieson, prisoner of war, in 1943 in the Philipines:

"We had a plant in Manila that if you would go outside any time during the night and look at it you could tell just in what direction the sun was. We must needs keep facing towards the Son of God at all times also, in order to receive as much nourishment as we can."

Ezra 8:1 "These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
8:4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males."

Elihoenai means My eyes are towards Jehovah.

The first Jewish R1b1 must have been a Roman about 100 BC.

There must have been early Christians in Ireland for there to be so many, that by 431 AD the Pope sent a Bishop there. There is the possibility these early Christians had a connection with the original Apostles Jesus sent.

Isaiah 26:3 "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."

I match the dna group Nash 1440 years ago. Perhaps I match John Nash 1440 years ago when my ancestors were R1b1 Cohanim. You will notice Draghici which is Jewish from Romania. The time from me to a common ancestor with Copernicus may be 1700 years ago according to the Rogers surname project. Moreover, I may be related to 10% of Ireland. The common ancestor between me and the Naill of the nine hostages, King of Ireland in 500 AD is a person in about 400 AD. Perhaps the R1b1 Jewish Cohanim became royalty in Europe. Eochaid Mugmadon High King of Ireland may be from Elionaeus High Priest of Israel. His first wife Crimtham may be from Cohen, his second wife Cairenn may be from Cohen as well.

Matthew 27:46 "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Magdon is Italian for My God. So Eochaid Mugmadon may mean: Eli - My God. The missing hour of darkness 2000 years ago when Jesus was on the cross needed to be countered by two half reverse orbits. This hour is observed every Sunday. Jesus sent the Holy Ghost to those that should believe on him. Jesus sent the angel to deliver Peter when Elionaeus was High Priest in January 46 AD. That year both Elionaeus was deposed from being High Priest and Caiaphas may have been 60, the estimated age of his bones at his death. Perhaps there was a sun miracle to give a long night when the angel delivered Peter when he was to appear before Herod Agrippa and delivered him from the expectation of the Jews. The Gospel was delivered to Northern Ireland where perhaps were the descendents of this Elionaeus. Perhaps the first true Apostles came to Ireland then before Patrick. If we are descendants of Caiaphas, we need the forgiveness of Jesus. Jesus makes the difference.

I am also related to the Three Collas of Ireland. My common ancestor with them may be about 200 AD. Also, Carroll and Collins may share a common ancestor about 200 AD. The surnames and Y-dna may be from the name Cohen.

The descendents of this King, Naill of the nine hostages - Eochaid Mugmadon, make up 10% of the population of Ireland, 20% of northern Ireland and 10% of western and central Scotland. Thus, the statement that 10% of Scottish men have Jewish ancestry by one of the co-authors to When Scotland was Jewish, may be mostly from this King of Ireland in 500 AD. My great great grandmother Catheryn Jane Foster was from Donegal, Ireland and my great great great grandfather Michael Burns was from Northern Ireland as well.

Romans 11:25 "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."

You will notice Holden in green highlight. This indicates this person is a member of the L21 Little Scottish Cluster group 15. This group you see here is quite different from all the other groups in Scotland.

So, if we count 30 years to a generation the common ancestor to Bennett/Cochran and Patterson lived about 100 AD. There is a Palmisano from Sicily connected to Roger royalty. They were possibly Jews with the Roger royalty in Palermo in 1100 AD. Or the original Roger I and Roger II's Y-dna was very similar to mine. Even I share a common ancestor 1100 years ago with one person who claims descent from Tancred, son of Roger II. This would mean many royalty were originally Jewish from about this 900 AD that I match this Roger. My common ancestor with Palmisano is about 700 AD. If Palmisano was royalty, the connection may be from the Khazars. I match a Parisini exactly on the first 12 markers. Parisini is not from Paris. It is a name for someone in Italy from Persia. I match Faux about 700 AD also. Faux could come from Falk or Fulk, King of Jerusalem during the crusades. He then may have had distant Jewish ancestry from the Khazars. He was very religious. Faux is from Vaux which is from De Vaux. (Devaux is similar to the Jewish name Deborah.) Then Palmisano may be Jewish from the Khazars as well. A direct descendant of Christopher II is my haplogroup L48. There is the possibility this distant Jewish royalty is from King Herod and thus made its way into European royalty. I match a Harwood from Herod 1100 years ago. I match a Howard exactly on the first 12 markers. Many of the names above are variations of Cohen and Herod. There are some matches in Armenia where there was a royal connection to Israel. However, many Jews were deported to Armenia. Herald de Vaux in 1065 AD was named nicknamed Herod by Gentiles. His Frankish name was Hunfroi de Vaux. I also match a Roger from Sicily and a Sephardic Gambino from Palermo Sicily. My common ancestor with Gambino is about 900 AD, with Gamble about 1000 AD. They could have come from Roger II's raid of the Jewish silk workers of Thebes Greece in 1147 AD. Thus most Gambino's are from Palermo the Royal capitol. Unless the Gambino were Roger who intermarried with the local Jewish population of Palermo. Palmisano may be Jewish from the time of the Moslems in southern Italy The name is from the territory of Palma in Naples in southern Italy which the Roger kings possessed for a time in 1100 AD. Patterson may be from Peterson.

I am also related to Dickers, Dix, about 1000 years ago, possibly from Newberry, Berkshire, England. I match a Berry exactly on the first 12 markers. I match a Dickinson exactly on the first 12 markers. I even match a Dixon out of about 100 others in Family Tree DNA's family finder. Then I may be related to the current NDP leader in BC, Adrian Dix. My Y-dna may have come from the Netherlands to Greece into France and then to Scotland. Another branch may have gone from Greece and have been captured by Roger II into Sicily. The common ancestor seems to date from 1000 to 1500 years ago. This is about the range I match Jewish R1b1. If we count 25 years to a generation in 60 generations we get 1500 years. However, a generation may be 30 years. Then the most recent common ancestor may have lived 1850 years ago, about the time of Christ. Then a Jewish person from Thessalonica that matches my R1b1 claiming descent from a Jewish community there since 100 BC may be correct. There is the remote possibility this ancestor was Demas who forsook Paul and went to Thessalonica. The Scottish cluster L21 appears to have migrated to Scotland about 970 AD. My L48 seems similar with Holden appearing to be L21 with the rest L48. There is speculation on the internet the common ancestor of L48 and L21 was about 2000 years ago. That leaves about 30 generations that may have been Jewish from 100 AD to 1000 AD. There was a wave of Jewish conversions in the first century AD. Probably sometime before Christ an ancestor from the Netherlands became Jewish and moved to Greece or possibly Israel. The Romans invaded the Netherlands in about 100 BC. Jews coming with the Romans may have made converts then. Then many people in Ireland and the UK may be descended from these first Jews.

Perhaps L48 was an ancient line of pilgrims that became Jewish. 970 AD may signify an immigration of a Jewish man to Ireland and Scotland from Lithuania or France. 1066 AD may signify a large migration of Jews from France and the Netherlands. However, the common R1b1 ancestor may have lived about the time of Christ. In over 2,000 years since 100 BC many people with distant R1b1 Jewish ancestors may have settled Ireland and the UK. This may explain some interesting relationships to people of Jewish descent from Ireland and Scotland in Family Finder. However, William the Conquerer employed Jews from France in 1066 because they were both proficient in writing and numeracy. Money was very important to government. Then in 1290 Jews were expelled from England and many went to Scotland. Possibly Bennett was not changed from Cochrane but from Baruch, the Jewish name for Blessed. The surname Bennett is from Benedict, meaning blessed. Or possibly the Bennett surname came from the Karaites from the Benei Sedeq of the Second Temple. This would mean a Cohen connection. The Karaites held that Moses' teaching did not require the Talmud and Midrash to interpret it. They held that God's words were to be received as God's words. They were expelled by the other Jews. However, I do not know anything about these ancestors, other than they were Cohen. One exact match on the first 12 markers is Benham from Berkshire, England. Even my ancestor Henry Bennett Jr was two years old when his father died in 1650. I don't know how many generations before him it was Bennett. R1b1 Jews may have originated about 80 generations ago in Europe with early Jewish settlements. Flemish R1b1 may share the same ancestor as the Jewish R1b1 80 generations ago. If you apply 30 years to a generation this is 400 BC. If you apply 25 years to a generation this is 100 BC. See Proceedings of the Russian Academy of DNA Genealogy My haplogroup L48 is estimated to have originated between 1100 BC and 500 BC. Then the question, Did L48 originate among the Jews? Jewish L47 is descended from L48 from 600-900 AD and 130,000 Jews share this L47 Y-dna. In this group is also included L48 even R1b1a2a1a1. Then the question, is my L48 a different lineage of R1b1 Cohens than the R1b1 Cohanes? My Y-dna fits in with other R1b1 Jewish Cohens with a common ancestor probably between 100 AD and 400 AD.

The origin of the R1b1 Cowan surname, perhaps like the Cochrane surname, is one ancestor about 700 AD according to the book When Scotland was Jewish. Also, some of the brilliant mathmeticians from Scotland may have descended from Jewish immigrants in about 1000 AD from Lithuania. There was speculated admixture from R1b1a2a1a1 men from the Netherlands significant enough to add to the autosomal dna of Jews from that area. The admixture in autosomal dna is reckoned to be about 55%. So, I do not know if my ancestor became Jewish in 700 AD or if there is a common ancestor with the other R1b1 Jewish groups who became Jewish at the time of Christ. I may match people who became Jewish in the early centuries in Western Europe with a common ancestor in the Netherlands before the time of Christ. A co-author Donald Yates of the book When Scotland was Jewish stated in an interview by Jewish Voice that one in eight Scotsmen have Jewish ancestry. The family tree of the little Scottish Cluster may take in about 10% of Scottish men. Then this 10% may share a distant Jewish ancestor about the time of Christ. If you look at the PDF document on the Little Scottish Cluster, you will see many surnames above Cochrane and Wilson. The next one is Jewett. Then all those above me must also share a common ancestor with a Jewish priest. This may be the 10% of Scottish men who share Jewish ancestry. Or the 10% Jewish R1b1 be from 10 men in the Netherlands that became Jewish about the time of Christ and moved to Scotland and came to make up 10% of the Scottish population. 70% of Scotland is R1b1. Then the other 60% that are R1b1 may be descended from Gentile ancestors before the time of Christ that were never Jewish. Thus I may share a common jewish ancestor with 10% of Scottish men, certainly a shared common heritage.

Most R1b1 has a common ancestor about 3,000 years ago. It is just that R1b1 men have had more children that they now make up 70% of the population of western Europe. Then was this common ancestor before the time of Christ Jewish? Or was he Christian before becoming Jewish? The statement the common ancestor to the Banks surname project R1b1a2a1a1a4 was before the Christian Era, seems to possibly mean my common ancestor with Jewish Cohen Banks from Scotland was just before Christ. This is what the dna comparison suggests as well. Then there is the possibility my ancestor was descended from Caiaphas in the Bible. Caiaphas may not have been in the lineage of Aaron. He married the daughter of Annas the High Priest. Thus his position may have been through marriage. He was appointed High Priest by Rome. He may have had Roman ancestry. R1b1 is common in Italy. Thus perhaps his strong allegiance to Rome. He was High Priest from 18 AD to 37 AD. Y-dna surname matches in the Middle East hint at this possibility. One match from Egypt is surnamed Kha for king, perhaps phonetically after Caiaphas. Another is for Joachin perhaps a Cohen. Most matches hint at a common Jewish ancestor within a 50% confidence about 400 AD. With 50% before and after this date, this would seem to be a good approximation. However, with at least one R1b1 Cohen, Joseph Cohen, the 50% confidence is about the time of Caiaphas. His name was Joseph ben Caiaphas, with Caiaphas perhaps meaning a searcher. Perhaps Joseph ben Caiaphas' father Caiaphas was a gentile that became Jewish. Nevertheless, his granddaughter's tomb names the 24th priestly division Ma'aziah with Caiaphas. This priestly division is named by David and Nehemiah. They did not have DNA back then to check for proper descent. A Cohen Gadol was pelted with lemons on Yom Kippur about the time of the Hasmonean Roman appointed priesthood. If a Jewish priest is my ancestor, the least I can do is to love Christ with all my heart.

Annas had five sons who became high priests. They would be brothers-in-law to Caiaphas. This may be the setting of parable of the rich man in hell:

Luke 16:28 "For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment."

Joshua 3:17 "And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan."

The ark of the covenant was carried by two levite priests. The walk of the priests carried the ark. The lives of the priests were backed up by their walk.

Bill Cochran and Stanley Watchorne were the first to bring the Gospel to the Okanagan in 1910.

Jesus is the bridge to Heaven.

Some of my Y-dna surname matches are Briggs and Travers for bridge.

The W.R. Bennett Bridge.

Bridge to the Temple. All that is left is the beginning of the arch.

Even if Caiaphas was an ancestor, he did not knowingly crucify Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:7 "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."

2 Chronicles 26:16 "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
26:19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land."

John 11:49 "And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
11:50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
11:51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
11:52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad."

Matthew 26:59 "Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death."

Mark 12:6 "Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
8 And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?"

Mark 12:35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?
36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly."

Who do you hear? Do you hear Jesus? Or do you hear another Jesus that the world preaches? Are your ministers true Apostles or are they ministers of Satan?

There are three or four groups of R1b1 Bennetts with common ancestry, perhaps Jewish ancestry, in the early centuries AD. The R1b1 Jewish men in my lineage must have a common ancestor about the time of Christ or before. Then perhaps this ancestor went from the Netherlands to Israel or Greece about the time of Christ, intermarried with the Cohen for 40 generations after Christ, till they emmigrated to Scotland from Lithuania about 1000 AD. Then 40 generations for the last 1000 years to the present. Although, more accurately this may be 30 generations from the time of Christ to 1000 AD and 30 generations after becoming Scottish to the present. Even I may be the first generation in my line to be Christian. There were 40 generations of Israel from Joseph to Joshua in the sojourn in Egypt of 1069 years. If a generation in Israel was 30 years, there may likewise be 40 generations from Joshua to Jesus. Likewise, Moses was 40 years Pharaoh's son, 40 years in exile in Midian and for 40 years he lead the children of Israel out of Egypt and through the wilderness till Joshua lead them into the promised land. Then I match a Fingerhut Ashkenazi name at 30 genetic distances roughly suggesting a common ancestor in 500 BC. This may mean a shared common Jewish ancestor before Christ. The most recent common ancestor with Fingerhut may be 500 BC or more likely 100 BC. I share a common ancestor with some R1b1 Cohens within 2520 years ago at a 95% probability. R1b1 must have appeared among the Jews at least by the time of Christ, or perhaps by Malachi in 430 BC:

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;"

Malachi was all about the cohen priesthood and Christ's coming.

Joshua 9:23 "Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God."

The Gibeonites were employed in the temple and may have married into the Cohen priesthood. Whether they passed on their Y-dna I do not know. Saul killed many Gibeonites. Some of them employed in the temple may have married into the Cohen priesthood. Then if the Cohen connection is correct, some of these genes may have been passed down.

Judges 21:18 "Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. "

My Y-dna is 19 genetic distances from Gambino, 15 from Gambrel. I share a common ancestor 1050 years ago at a 50% probability with the Gambino's. The Gambino name is most common in Palermo Sicily (Roger II's capital). The Gambino family crest is a leg. The name is thought to have been given to an ancestor that was a good runner. Here in Judges the Benjamites married the daughters of the Levites from Shiloh where the Ark of the Covenant was. Perhaps there was intermarriage between Benjamin and the Cohen priesthood.

Judges 20:46 "So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months."

2 Samuel 18:27 "And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings."

Mark 10:17 "And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

This young rich man may have been a Levite, the reason he was rich. Then Jesus asked him to follow him into the ministry. One reason may have been that the New Testament was about to begin and to have eternal life the young man would have to leave the Levitical service anyway. He came running perhaps because of an inherited ability to run. Even my ancestor Zadok Bennett may have passed on these running genes. Perhaps the genes of these fast running Benjamites were passed on to the Cohens. My grandfather, W.A.C. Bennett ran the 100 yard dash in 10 and 2/5 seconds. For myself, I won many ribbons in cross country running.

Jesus may have also inherited these running genes. He is named the forerunner in Hebrews 12. Jesus mother's sister Elizebeth was married to Zecharias the High Priest.

Hebrews 6:19 "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."

Hebrews 12:1 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."

2 Samuel 8:18 "And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers."

Chief rulers is really acting priests. Thus there may have been intermarriage between the David's sons and Aaron's sons.

The Apostle Paul was descended from King Saul of Benjamin. Thus, perhaps Paul was a runner also. The common ancestor between Nathaniel Jordan and the Zerdanowski's is about 1140 years ago at a 50% probability and within 1650 years ago with a 95% probability. There is some Jewish cohen J1 in Scotland that came with the Jewish R1b1 cohen about a thousand years ago - J1 in Scotland Also, many with the Graham surname in Scotland are J1c. Cohen J2 and Eb3 are also in Scotland. All the Jewish cohen haplogroups are represented in Scotland.

Isaiah 60:9 "Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee."

There are two sources of metal, Tharshish India and Tarshish Spain and a third Tusa of Sicily. There are some R1b1 Chochin Cohen in India. Tarshish was a city in Spain also.

Ezekiel 27:12 "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs."

Tin especially came from Spain.

The third place is Tusa, Sicily. Some of my distant Y-dna cousins the Palmisano come from Tusa, Sicily. My common ancestor with them is about 60 generations ago, or about the time of Christ. There is the possibility they were descendents of Jewish slaves from Jerusalem. There is also the possibility they descend from a Jewish community in Tusa, that was the Jewish port Tarshish in Bible times.

Ezekiel 27:7 "Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elisha was that which covered thee."

Ezekiel 27:16 "Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate."

The Island of Elisha is thought to be Sicily. Coral is found in abundance around Sicily. The type of coral that could give the daily layer of Joshua's long day February 26, 1238 BC may be found here. The price of coral is about $170,000 a kilo.

Some Jewish R1b1 probably came from Spain. 10% of Jews are R1b1. About 3% are of Netherland origin. Some of this is admixture from medieval times to the Jewish population in the Netherlands where they were accepted. Some of this Netherland R1b1 is present in people with Sephardic ancestry. 20% of the population of Spain is directly descended from the Jews on their Y-dna. All Jewish people had to convert to Catholism in 1492 or be killed. Many chose to convert and stayed in Spain and Portugal. 10% of the world's ancient Jewish descendents live in Spain. At one point, about 150 AD, 10% of the Roman Empire was Jewish. My ancestors may have been originally from the Netherlands who travelled east to Greece and perhaps Israel possibly before the time of Christ and thence back to Lithuania, the Netherlands and Scotland. One distant relative from Salonica, Thessalonia, has a legend of descent from Jewish people there from 130 BC. One Jewish surname I match in my Y-dna 2700 years ago. Then there is the possibility my R1b1 Jewish ancestor may have become Jewish 700 BC. There may not be a trace of the first several generations. Although, most estimates seem to be about the time of Christ. Tarshish was a Phonecian, Carthaginian, city from the time of Solomon, and may have been where Solomon obtained some of the gold for the temple, certainly the tin. My ancestor Emanuel Roger the tin miner may have joined with Jewish people. Jewish people often lived close to nobility for protection. Thus there are some people that are I2b1 like the Manuels from Cornwall who claim Sephardic ancestry from Spain. Velikovsky wrote about the Sea People. Many of my R1b1a2a1a1a4 matches are from the Azores.

The R1b1 Cohanes were Cohen priests with the J1 Cohens perhaps in the temple at the time of Christ:

Acts 6:7 "And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

My prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sukkot, the first day of the feast of tabernacles, in September 2010, was that Christ would be magnified.

There was trade between Scotland and Poland and Lithuania. Jewish traders from Lithuania could have settled in Scotland a thousand years ago. Probably though they arrived as Jews from France employed in Scotland by William the Conquerer in 1066. Jewishness is considered from the mother since 100 AD. My mother's X chromosome I3 has one match in Palestine out of 300 tested with several matches to Mizrahi Jews in Iraq and Uzbekistan. One match is Ishaq Al-Sulaimani who is y-dna J1, Cohen and mtdna I. There is the possibility her mtdna was anciently Jewish. There may not be an Israelite X chromosome among the Jews today. When the Jewish people left Israel in 70 AD their wives were ravished. Hebrew law stated the men could not retain their wives. Thus, the female line may have been lost. The female line to seek is Laban's daughter Leah and Dinah. My mother's father's Y-dna may be the same as George Underhill 1865 R1b1a2a1a1a4 - the same as my father's. Her grandfather was George Hawking Underhill born in 1865. The common ancestor between George Underhill and Andrew Bennett is about 800 AD. Then the same part of chromosome 19 shared by my father and mother may have been inherited from distant Cohen R1b1. A Cohen can only marry the daughter of a Cohen. My father's X chromosome H1e is rare and probably was Morrocan Jewish. Dr Doron Behar reported that the Moroccan Jews were the closest to the original Jews in autosomal dna. There seems to have been a connection from matches in Greece to Morocco to matches in Spain, and to matches in Finland, to matches in the Azores to Scotland. Some of the surnames of matches are Jewish, like Winkler and Abrahamsdaughter. Likewise my Y-dna has close matches in the Azores as well, and matches back to Finland to Greece. Thus both my father's mtdna and Y-dna may have come from Jews in Greece about the time of Christ.

Acts 17:6 "And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;"

The upside down is Christ at the top and we at the bottom. The word may also mean uprising, as when the sun suddenly rose brilliantly in the east at 9 PM at Jesus' resurrection. Probably they were looking at the Big Dipper. A sun miracle in January when the Big Dipper points straight down at midnight would mean the Big Dipper would then point straight up at midnight. Thus earth would appear upside down. In that these Jews, perhaps very distant relatives to me, associated reverse orbits with earth being turned upside down. Christ may have been born in September on a sun miracle. Then the Big Dipper would point straight down at night - moreso in the next few months in the reverse orbit. The least I can do is put earth rightside up with Christ at the top.

My Y-dna also has matches in China (muslim), Uzbekistan, Algeria and Benin which may be because of an R1b1 ancestor in Israel at the time of Christ. There were Jewish immigrants to Hunan China about 1000 AD. Some converted to Islam. Now by DNA we know there were Jewish immigrants to China. There is reported a R1b1 Chochin in India and a J2 Chochin that is Cohen.

R.B. Bennett did not drink, neither did my grandfather W.A.C. Bennett. Probably my ancestor Henry Bennett born 1621 did not drink either. And probably my ancestors from 100 AD to 1000 AD did not drink as they were Cohen priests. Even from 1500 to my birth they probably did not drink because they were Puritans. And I have never drank either.

Leviticus 10:9 "Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses."

Hebrews 5:1 "For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron."

One example of how the Reformation movement got underway is at Ipswich, Suffolk, England. There beginning in 1538 nine people were martyrd. Thomas Bilney was first and in 1527 he drew a crowd of Lollards to hear him at Ipswich. Christopher Shoemaker was among the first martyrs in England in 1518 in Newbury. William Bennett, with whom I am very distantly related 1800 years ago, was with new christians in Newbury Berkshire in 1556 when many were martyrd. William Bennett was in the cloth business and in fellowship with Julins Palmer who was martyred in 1556. Newbury had a cloth business from early times when that was the employment of Jewish people there before 1242. Lollardry spread to Norwich and Ipswich and Somerset in the 15th century. The Congregationalists/Reformists/Puritans (same thing) came from the Lollards who were martyred in the 1400's. Before the Lollards of Wycliff some Christians met in homes like they did in early New Testament days. Wycliff wrote that the sun did not stand still for Joshua. Only that the sun was dimmed. That is a major mistake in doctrine. The sun also stood still in the sky as the Bible states. The Lollards, they did not take a name, also met in homes but suffered intense persecution.

R.B. Bennett was Prime Minister of Canada during the Great Depression, 1930 - 1935. He read the Bible every day, which I also do. He enacted Roosevelt's New Deal, which although struck down by the Supreme Court as provincial jurisdiction was later adopted by the provinces. The New Deal was due in a large part to Thomas Gardiner Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen who were advisors to Roosevelt. R.B Bennett made a $1,000,000,000 loan to China in 1931. He started the Bank of Canada and the U.S. government could learn from his conservative fiscal management. Because of banking legislation brought in by R.B. Bennett, Canadian banks are among the largest in the world today. The U.S. government should cut spending like my uncle Bill, W.R. Bennett, did in British Columbia in 1983. That means immediately cut pay and lay off the civil service. The deficit is that bad. Debt per capita in the U.S is the same as in Greece which is bankrupt. Too bad your president is not tough enough. The U.S. government spending is 100% of gross domestic product. Canadian government spending is 84% of GDP. China government spending is 17% of GDP. Believe it or not, massive cutbacks are coming and massive tax increases. The Canadian federal government is already making deep cuts now they have a majority.

In 1982 Bill Bennett was the chair person to the formulation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada. From the government website, what it means: "The Charter protects your freedom to follow your religion, to have your beliefs and opinions, to express yourself, to gather in peaceful groups and to associate with others. It also protects the freedom of the press." Thus this webpage is protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If the U.S. government keeps running up its debt the end result could be worse than the Great Depression. Our freedoms are already being taken away.

But that is not why I pray for Christ to come. The world with its drug culture is just plain dangerous. You might lose something. Keep your spirit. The Lord will come before things actually become impossible.

Canada today, Monday, April 16, 2012 passed Bill C-10 for a final vote. This is the drug bill in response to so many Canadians, families in normal work environments, who have been drugged while at work or at home. Even autoinsurance companies are supporting roadside drug tests.

R.B. Bennett banned hand guns in Canada in 1932. Today there are about 10 times more murders by hand guns per capita in the U.S. than in Canada.

The stimulus spending starting in 2010 the U.S. (and Canadian) government will have us believe is for our own good. Of course the Presidential election in 2012 has no part in the motivation behind this massive overspending. Many people believe NASA's statement of the missing day story. Most of the time I have come to believe the government is trying to cover up when it makes a statement for anything. My grandfather was proud of his medicare plan: "The Medical Services Plan of British Columbia established July 1, 1968, has fulfilled successfully my Government's expectations by extending to all residents of the Province comprehensive prepaid medical coverage at a reasonable cost. The Provincial Plan provides additional benefits and assured services beyond that required of participating Provinces under the Federal Medical Care Act." Thus W.A.C. Bennett went further than other provinces in adopting R.B. Bennett's New Deal.

Here is a painting of W.A.C. Bennett on the cover of Time Magazine, September 30 1966, notice the sun in the beak of the Thunderbird.

Here is a photograph of W.A.C. Bennett with President Linden Johnson and Prime Minister Lester Pearson at the signing of the Columbia River Treaty: W.A.C. Bennett is walking beside President Linden Johnson.

W.A.C. Bennett rising to speak at this historic event.

W.A.C. met Ronald Reagan when he was governor of California. And in Reagan's first run at the presidency he predicted Reagan would be president. President Jimmy Carter may be a Y-dna relative. Carter arranged for the Camp David Peace Treaty. President Woodrow Wilson may also be a Y-dna relative. His famous quote: "If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now." Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams share a common Y-dna ancestor with me about 1100 years ago according to the Rogers surname project. President Millard Fillmore was a cousin of my grandfather's. There is a Fillmore from Pennsylvania haplogroup G. G is considered to be from the middle east and is often Jewish. His cousin Reuben Fillmore, my ancestor, has an ancestor Margery Jordan, who may have been descended from the Jordans at ftdna.com who are descended from the Biblical Aaron. Just look up ftdna.com (Family Tree DNA) for Jordan and in the Y-dna you will see Nathaniel Jordan of Wenhasten Suffolk 1753 who if you look up the map was descended from Aaron of the Bible. Phil Jordan informed me when he did his dna he became the cornerstone to Aaron of the Bible. Family Tree DNA has spent years defining the Biblical Aaron, is confident of its results. Margery Jordan was born in Brundish Suffolk in 1572 and Nathaniel Jordan of ftdna.com was born 20 km east in Wenhasten Suffolk in 1753. The common ancestor between Nathaniel Jordan and the Zerdanowski's from the Jewish community of Skvira may have been about the time of Christ, at least from about 300 AD. Probably this Jordan line has been Christian for a thousand years. Even if Margery's father Henry was not J1, he may have been R1b1 cohen. I match an R1b1 Y-dna Jordan on my Y-dna. Nevertheless, I match a Jordan from Ireland that is probably this J1 Jordan. Also I match a Feinstein as fifth cousin in the amount of dna shared in Family Tree DNA family finder. He is from the Ukraine. The J1 Jordans are from Skvira Ukraine and Feinstein is J1 also, probably descended from Aaron of the Bible. In these matches, one segment is shared with Feinstein and a person with a Jordan ancestor. Margery Jordan's sister was Christian Jordan 1569 and John Jordan's son was Christian Jordan 1435 Brittany France. This proves a good affirmation of faith. Our forefathers called themselves Christians, but really they were not. Infant baptism is not scriptural. If they were Christians there would be no record of them.

One researcher from Family Tree DNA wrote me:

"Thank you for your email. It is difficult for us to comment on the conclusions of genealogical research into paper records as we specialize in analysis of the DNA testing. I see that under kit Joel Czekaj is listed as 4th-distant cousin based on the amount of DNA you share. This indicates a match in a little as 125 years with the possibility of sharing a common ancestor around the range of a the same great-great-great grandparent, though it is likely you could be more distantly related given that you are from a Jewish background. Those with Jewish ancestry sometimes show matches that are predicted to be more closely related than they actually turn out be due to extensive intermarriage within the same population."

This is common in Jewish ancestry perhaps even distant Jewish ancestry from the time of Christ. Czekaj probably was the same as Y-dna as Zane whose great great grandfather Zajenkauskas, who married Leva (Levite - Cohen) about 1820 in Lithuania, shows a genetic distance of 19 over 67 markers on the Y-dna. The genetic distance over 67 markers is 16 and in green, indicating definitely related. The most common ancestor is 50% probability 1160 years ago, 850 AD, a 95% probability within 1600 years ago. Czekaj means to wait and Zdanowski means to wait. Cohen Chazakah is the term for all Cohens. Since 70 AD all papers of pedigrees were lost. Since then a Cohen was known because his father or grandfather was Cohen or by a gravestone or other reliable evidence. Thus the name Czekaj. Both must have been R1b1 admixture Cohens and J1 Aaron Cohens. Even Zane is in my haplogroup R1b1a2a1a1a4. Then a clear case can be made of Cohen R1b1 descent. I also match a Patterson from Scotland on Family Finder as third cousin. I am related to him on my Y-dna 60 generations ago! Some of his ancestry is Polish, and Scottish surnames I match on my Y-dna.

Then probably these 10 segments on chromosome 19 are Jewish genes that have been inherited from about a thousand years ago. Surnames that share this segment of chromosome 19 are also distant Y-dna relatives from the time of William the Conquerer. In 2010 one person reported two fourth cousins to family finder. One a Cahill from Scotland and another a Draghici from Romania with Jewish ancestry. Both are very distant cousins on my Y-dna. Another match is Dot or Dodds. This may be from "dek" meaning "this one". Thus also the Jewish surname match 1300 years ago Dicker and Dickenson. Several surnames from England I match at 19 genetic distances also appear as descendents of Margery Jordan. These same names appear as matches to this segment of chromosome 19. Perhaps they appear as matches because they are doubly inherited from the R1b1 Cohen line and from the J1 Cohen Jordan line as well. Perhaps some of these 23 matches come from New England with Margery Jordan where they immigrated as puritans because of a like desire to be true Christians. However, at least a connection with the Cohen R1b1 Ydna is almost certain. A Dawkins is just as near to my Y-dna as the Cochrans, seven genetic step distances over 67 markers. Dawkins is Gaelic for David's son. Then I may be distantly related to Richard Dawkins. The clan of the Davidsons were almost entirely wiped out because they were such fierce fighters. I am 20 genetic distances from a Scully, perhaps Sean Scully of Nasa, and I am even descended from a Scully. Darwin was R1b1, as was King Tut. I even match a Ramesey on my Y-dna. I cringe to think of where my ancestors may have been at the time of Christ.

Numbers 20:11 "And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them."

Ashkenazi Cohen: E3b 4%, H 1½%, J 88% (J1 Aaron 46%), K 2½%, R1a1 1½%, R1b1 2½%.

Of the 46% J1, there are two clusters. Perhaps there is a lineage of David added to the Cohens after the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. Jesus' father, God was Jesus' true father, Joseph, married Mary of the house of Aaron. There may have been intermarriage between the house of David and the house of Aaron even in Bible times. There are two J1 clusters, one younger about 3300 years ago and one older about 4200 years ago. The younger probably is Aaron in 1300 BC. The older J1 may be from the sons of Jacob, Judah or Levi, in 2300 BC. Korah was a grandson of Levi and Kohath was a son of Levi. There are some psalms sung by their children in the Psalms. Korah rebelled and was swallowed up by the earth. His children sided with Moses and some of the Psalms are written by them. This would support, not four generations, but 40 generations in Egypt. David was of the lineage of Judah, Aaron the lineage of Levi. The R1b1 Y-dna line and the Henery Jordan J1 ancestor may have carried these chromosome segments, that make me fourth cousin to Joel Czekaj, from when they were Cohens. Aaron or Moses may be a distant ancestor. About 1% of Western Europe match my Y-dna. Some of that went through the Cohen priesthood. About 1% of Israelis tested match my Y-dna. About 1% of Jewish people are L47 from my L48. About 20% of Northern Ireland and 10% of Scotland share a common Y-dna Jewish ancestor with me from 500 AD. King Tut is supposedly R1b1a2. This may even mean descent from the Pharaoh of Exodus, Merneptah to Caiaphas. An Egyptian king is called Kha, and I match a surname Kha in Egypt about 1700 years ago + or - 700 years. His haplogroup is P310 or R1b1a2a1a. This is my parent haplogroup.

Are we L47 Within L48 similar to King Tut - we can dream

Romans 9:17 "For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth."

Jesus sacrifice was a type of the passover when the children of Israel left Egypt. A High Priest that was related to the Pharaoh of Exodus, R1b1, would be a true type of the passover.

King Tut's common ancestor with European R1b1 may be from 4800 years ago. This would be about the time of the first pharoah of Egypt. Thus the R1b1 Pharaoh line to King Tut and possibly to Pharaoh Merneptah of the Exodus. Then also, the possibility Caiaphas was the R1b1 descendant related to Pharaoh of the Exodus. Then may be Caiaphas is the R1b1 ancestor of my R1b1 Cohen line.

Some of the sun miracles here were commanded by Moses and Aaron. For example; Moses' three days of darkness and Moses' long sunset. See moses.ppt. Even if my Y-dna ancestors did not go to Israel, the ancestors of the Cohen wives they married were there to witness these sun miracles. Even the family crest for the Cohen surname is predominately the Sun.

Psalm 77:13 "Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron."

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My grandfather, W.A.C. Bennett, was often confronted by atheists in his 20 years as premier of British Columbia. While in government he promoted the reading of the Lord's prayer in schools. He said, "Things don't just happen". He knew by experience in government things don't just happen. Just read the Time cover feature September 30, 1966. He put together the Columbia River Treaty. According to the book "Barbarians in the Garden City" published in 2000 AD, total BC debt in 1972 in 2000 AD dollars was $2 Billion. W.A.C. Bennett was in government from 1952 - 1972. W.A.C. Bennett paid off all direct B.C. debt in 1959. To signify B.C. was debt free he burned the goverment bonds on a barge in Okanagan Lake. Two years after my uncle Bill stepped down as premier after three years of cutting down the civil service Bill Vander Zalm had hundreds of millions in surplus in 1988 and 1989. When the recession hit B.C. in 2008 Gordon Campbell said he would do things differently. Now in 2011 AD the B.C. debt is over $47 Billion. Governments around the world are going broke, and its no joke. I asked my grandfather about God and he gave me a book, Man Does Not Stand Alone.

"I looked always at the broad sphere of the universe. And as it unfolded to me and became more wonderful to me, I realized how small this earth was, how great the universe was. This little earth isn't a billionth part of the universe. And I realized as a young boy that man does not stand alone. There is another force." - A quote from W.A.C. Bennett. I asked him about going to church when visiting him in Victoria and he said I had to go myself. About that time he issued a telegram to Fort Nelson: "Fort Nelson, you are not forgotten". Ernest Nelson was the elder worker in B.C. then. He has been in our home. He is not forgotten either. I wrote to him about my research on the Missing Day. He wrote back that he liked my version of it and that the Bible verses in Joshua were enough. Still I was interested in finding the model to understand it better.

1 Timothy 2:1 "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."

In that visit in Victoria my grandfather told me to come home to Kelowna to go to public school. He did not think private school was the place to find God. He also gave the same advice to my father. So I stayed at my grandparents to go to school there. That year 1979 in February W.A.C. Bennett died. Then in April our house keeper, we affectionately called Aunt Winnie, was going to retire but thought she might stay on if I came to Gospel Meetings. Though at the time she did not tell me that. She asked me to Gospel Meetings in April and I came when they started again in September and professed five months later in January. Little did she know this Way was exactly what I was searching for. She did not believe things just happened either. She stayed on another 10 years, 60 years in all, to help me get a foundation. A friend stated his belief in the Missing Day Story in 1987 and in about 1994 I asked my Aunt Winnie for a copy. In 1999 I discovered earth's reverse orbit. Only in 2007 did my research uncover similar calculations to the Missing Day Story. When my grandfather was in hospital in 1977 some of our friends, Charlie and Edna Geall came to visit him. They said we know Winnie Earle. He replied "She is a true Christian" and cried. His son Bill Bennett was premier till August 6 1986. I was there when he stepped down at Expo 86. Bill Bennett said of her in an interview in 1981 after being premier of BC for five years:

"I was a skinny, underweight, jaundiced baby. Winnie Earle came to help my mother when I was being born, and Winnie never left. She's still there in the big old house in Kelowna, BC. Outside of my parents, she probably had the greatest influence on me in my formative years. She's a very good, honest woman - a Christian in the noblest definition of the term. She was such a good example because she was so generous and unselfish. And a good companion, too."
"I used to be a pretty fair runner and I got it all from running away from my grandfather (James Ambrose Richards)."

When she died our family was called. When leaving the nursing home, one of the nurses - on smoke break, called out: "Fifty years from now no one will remember, Dena!"

Malachi 3:16 "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name."

Her last testimony was read from:

Joshua 24:15 "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

She entered into rest October 1999 with white garments. No one just happens to make it to Heaven.

Mark 5:18 "And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
5:19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
5:20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel."

What may seem absurd to men of a given time is not rendered, thereby, absurd in truth. Notions of a flat earth and the sun circling around the earth have been ridiculed for centuries. Our educational institutions boast that they can tell you the sun does not circle the earth. Yet this page proves the sun did circle the earth on many occasions.

Exodus 18:11 "Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them."

Martin Luther is recorded to have said: "This fellow (Copernicus) wishes to reverse (turn upside down) the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." On this point Luther was right, it was the sun Joshua commanded to stand still in the sky. The sun moving at 24 million miles per hour to stand still in the sky or 200 million miles per hour to rise in the west is like

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,
19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race."

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."

Force = Mass X Acceleration; 2000000000000000000000000000000 kg X 33400000000 mh/.1 hour = 6.68 E 41 Newtons, perhaps five times the force if the sun were to go supernova. That is, two trillion trillion kg X 33.4 billion meters an hour divided by one tenth of an hour. "For a typical supernova explosion the star’s matter expands outward at a speed of about (5)106 meters/second, which is only 1/166 the speed of light." Then the force to move the sun at 1/30 the speed of light, the speed for the sun to stand still in the sky, must be 5 times greater than if the sun were to go supernova. 50 times greater if the sun approached the speed of light, such as it may have September 1 1238 BC. Nevertheless a typical supernova is about 10 E 45 Newtons. The planets would amount to 1% of this. Because Saturn is 1/3500 the mass of the sun and Jupiter is 1/1000 the mass of the sun. Saturn is 10 times the distance from the sun as the earth is and must go 10 times faster than the sun to appear at the same night time in relation to the sun. Thus the planets would take 1% of the force needed to move the sun. The question is asked what affect this would have on our galaxy and the planets. It depends on how fast the sun is accelerated. Infinite acceleration, immediate, would require infinite energy. And that amount of energy released in a small area of our Milky Way galaxy could cause great destruction like a supernova.

However, a supernova is not infinite energy, thus infinite energy is not required to move the sun. Supernovas in other galaxies happen all the time. More impressive than the force of a supernova to move the sun around the earth is the skill and the fact no physical evidence was left behind and the fact that that energy was not natural but came from God. Energy takes many forms. The Grand Coule Dam produces controlled energy in electricity from the kinetic energy in the water of the Columbia River that would otherwise dissipate on the rocks below. Science with all their expensive telescopes, has never witnessed energy that came from God. We know God created the universe but all we can detect is the natural side. Yet we know God was behind the moment of Creation and created the universe with forces unseen and still not understood by man. Even though billions of dollars have been spent on researching the Big Bang. God created the Universe with the Big Bang with a force greater than all the matter, dark matter and dark energy of our universe put together. The moment of the Big Bang had to be set just right.

Psalm 33:6 "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth."

The possibility that it happened by chance has been likened to the chance of shooting a bird on Pluto from Earth. See Y-Origins.com Science and the Origin of Life, the odds To quote Wikipedia, Big Bang nucleosynthesis: "Deuterium is in some ways the opposite of helium-4 in that while helium-4 is very stable and very difficult to destroy, deuterium is only marginally stable and easy to destroy. Because helium-4 is very stable, there is a strong tendency on the part of two deuterium nuclei to combine to form helium-4. The only reason BBN does not convert all of the deuterium in the universe to helium-4 is that the expansion of the universe cooled the universe and cut this conversion short before it could be completed. One consequence of this is that unlike helium-4, the amount of deuterium is very sensitive to initial conditions. The denser the universe is, the more deuterium gets converted to helium-4 before time runs out, and the less deuterium remains." This means that conditions had to be just right at the moment of the Big Bang to produce just the right amount of deuterium or stars would burn out long before life could develop in the universe. That is the mass of the universe had to be exactly right. Many who work with the data of the Big Bang take the highly unlikely chance it just happened as a confirmation of their faith. Please see Rebuttal to "Ten Problems Against the Big Bang" Thus moving the sun around the earth is not hard for God. The fact that much energy was used so skillfully so as to not disturb or leave a trace confirms my faith in an all powerful God.

Ecclessiastics 8:17 "Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun, because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it, yea further, though a wise man think to know it, yet he shall not be able to find it."

Ask and you shall receive. If you want revelation from God you need to ask him and let him ask of you. Atheists say there is a slight problem, the force needed to move the sun is too great. This all just means God's power is that great. The fact that God has the power to move the sun at will, at near the speed of light, and can do this and leave no trace, reaffirms my faith in God and completely disproves atheism. The atheist only believes what he sees. "In one study, two groups of people, either believers in the supernatural or skeptics, looked at quickly displayed images of faces and scrambled faces, real words and nonwords. The goal was to pick out the real ones. Skeptics called more real faces nonfaces, and real words nonwords, than did believers, who happily saw faces and words even in gibberish. But after the skeptics were given L-dopa, a drug that increases dopamine, their skeptical threshold fell, and they ID'd more faces and words as real." Newsweek Reality is not just what may be seen to be obviously true.
Yes, God is all powerful, and rather this should have atheists shaking in their boots. Some suggest stopping earth's rotation would be more efficient or bending light waves. God is interested in being effective, not efficient.

Matthew 22:37 "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."

Some ask where the energy and means came from to move the sun:

Hebrews 11:3 "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."

John Calvin wrote: "Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?" These leaders of churchianity, catholic and protestant, wrongly feared Copernicus had proven the Bible wrong. However, they rightly believed the Bible said God made earth the center and everything revolved around it, howbeit on certain days and earth's reverse orbit carefully managed for certain years after. Read Joseph's second dream:

Genesis 37:9 "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."

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. The 120 day season Shemu started March 19. This 13 days later is Friday March 31 2357 BC, pharaoh's birthday.

Joseph married the daughter of the priest of Egypt. Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh. Moses married the daughter of the priest of Midian. Judah married Tamar, perhaps also the daughter of a priest. Judah's father-in-law was Hiram meaning Splendor. Splendor may be the name of a priest. Tamar bore Pharez and Zerah, breach and sunrising. Sunrising also may be associated with splendor and priest. Pharez was the line of David. Thus Christ, who is descended from David, though actually the Son of God, is associated with sunrising - the resurrection, and splendor.

Earth is central again on Hezekiah's Sign, perhaps March 20, 705 BC:

2 Kings 20:11 "And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow (of the sun) ten degrees (10 decans = 100°) backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz."

The sun went backwards around the earth rather than earth instantly stopping its rotation, immediately reversing, then stopping its reverse rotation and then rotating earth again like normal. Time cannot reverse. God made the sun, moon and planets go around the earth 180° on the many days recorded here and on many more days besides. This thus describes the concern of God for the affairs of mankind to point them to his Son, rather than Aristotle's earth centered universe. The heavens may not have revolved around the earth but the solar system certainly did. The Barry Center for the sun and planets during a sun miracle must have been earth. God's response to Joshua and Isaiah's prayer was instant. A scientific study of patients prayed for this year showed no noticeable benefit. God will answer honest prayer, we can be sure of it. I know prayer works. I prayed earnestly to find the true way of God when I was 14-16 and a few years later at 18 I was taking part in very special home meetings. That said, prayer requires faith. True salvation requires your whole life. There is a cost to get to the truth.

"Many church leaders allowed themselves to be persuaded by the Aristotelians at the universities that the geocentric (Earth-centered) system was taught in Scripture and that Galileo was contradicting the Bible." They opposed Galileo because they thought Joshua 10:12 did not make sense if earth orbits the sun. If the sun stood still "from the half of heaven", revolving around the earth to the other half to appear to stand still in the sky from our spinning earth, Joshua 10:13 does make sense and is not an error. The Bible description of this event is 100% correct. A science textbook could not have been more plain. God is not the author of confusion and the Hebrew could not be more clear.

If you were on the earth and it looked like the earth was rotating and yet the sun was standing still in the sky, wouldn't you think the sun had been revolving when you saw stars that night from the other half of heaven rotating into view? Another example is, If you feel God is becoming more distant, who moved? God does not change. Joshua who wrote this would realize the sun had moved to the other half of heaven while earth was rotating for stars from the other half of heaven to appear that night. Most people know earth orbits the sun. Most people know the sun rises because the earth rotates. The belief the sun will rise in the morning is based on empirical evidence: It rose today, yesterday and every day before. However, not every day before. There were many sun miracles before Christ. Looking back those that thought the sun revolved around the earth each day look foolish. Just as we now can see those who believe earth has always orbited the sun in the same way for billions of years without interruption look foolish. Just as foolish as those who believe the sun cannot move. In the millennium everyone will know the Bible did not teach the sun revolved around the earth each day. They will know how foolish the science of today was. Johannes Kepler, and likewise Galileo, was mistaken when he said that it "only appeared that the sun stood still, but it would actually have been the earth." And many since have gone down the same wrong road.

Cardinal Bellarmine disagreed with Galileo: "I say that if a real proof be found that the sun is fixed and does not revolve round the earth, but the earth round the sun, then it will be necessary, very carefully, to proceed to the explanation of the passages of Scripture which appear to be contrary, and we should rather say that we have misunderstood these than pronounce that to be false which is demonstrated." He quoted Augustine 354-430 AD: "That if it happens that the authority of sacred scripture is set in opposition to clear and certain reasoning, this must mean that the person who interprets Scripture does not understand it correctly. It is not the meaning of Scripture that is opposed to the truth but the meaning that the interpreter has tried to give it" Epistula 143, N7, PL33, col. 588 "Augustine, argued that the passage of time was independent of the motion of the heavenly bodies; if the sun and moon stood still in the heavens, a potter's wheel would still whirl around, unabated." - Earth still whirled around, the sun moved around the earth to appear to stand still in the sky. The trial of Galileo has often been hailed as the beginning of the separation of science and religion, church and state and the beginnings of a better world. However, nothing could be further from the truth. To wholly follow the teachings of Jesus does make for a better world now and in the time to come. Even so, our constitution guarantees freedom of religion not freedom from religion.

The late pope John Paul II 's pardoning of Galileo on October 31 1992 needs to be reconsidered considering the evidence presented here. In Galileo's trial the catholic church upheld the Bible as the infallible word of God. The thing is to follow the word of God, and none of the churches you think of as churches do. However, we who meet in the home and follow Jesus' homeless ministry do.

"After the publication of Galileo' s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, in 1632, the patronage relationship was broken. It appears that the Pope never forgave Galileo for putting the argument of God's omnipotence (the argument he himself had put to Galileo in 1623) in the mouth of Simplicio, the staunch Aristotelian whose arguments had been systematically destroyed in the previous 400-odd pages." This page mends the damage Galileo did to the Faith. After centuries of bible bashing here we see the Bible truly is the Infallible Word of God. Galileo cited cardinal Baronius (1598) for the statement: "Spiritui Sancto mentem fuisse nos docere quomodo ad coelum eatur, non quomodo coelum gradiatur. - The Holy Spirit tells us how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go." And ended with an explanation of how the miracle could not possibly have taken place if the sun went around the earth. We can appreciate the sun is already standing still. That was Galileo's problem, he claimed the sun stood still despite Joshua. The solution was glaringly obvious. Galileo should have realized God must have moved the sun around the earth to make it appear to stand still in the sky and testified of the greatness of God's power witnessed in Joshua 10:12. Man would have discovered earth orbits the sun in any case. More important is the revelation of God's power presented here and the invitation to Eternal Life with Jesus.

I Chronicles 29:11
"Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all."

This is the only place you will see earth orbit the sun clockwise! This is very likely the direction of earth's orbit on perhaps more than 100 occasions for short periods, mostly half years. Also you can see earth's rotation is against earth's orbit. Earth must rotate 364 times a year in a reverse orbit to have the 365 solar days instead of the present 366 rotations giving us 365 days. Perhaps earth sped up by 48 hours its orbit around the sun. Then there would be 364 rotations and 365 days in a year in a reverse orbit.

This history suggests it was the sun that moved, not earth that stopped from rotating.

Important links on this site:

Jasher and Judges
Joseph's Long Day
King Wan's dream
Sun and Moon did not meet harmoniously in Scorpius
Earth turned upside down
Earth turn calculations
Sothis dates in the Bible presented to RASC Okanagan Centre
Noah's Flood
Phaethon
Seneca
The Phoenix
The Phoenix Rising presented to RASC Okanagan Centre
Joshua's Long Day presented to OAS
Diagrams of the planets in a reverse orbit

Also try these off site links:
The Immanuel Velikovsky Page
The Velikovskian
NASA replies to the Missing Day story
Christian Evidences
The Tel Hazor Excavation Project
The Day the Sun Stood Still
The historical evidence in folk stories
Historical Evidence for the Bible
Selections from Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision (1950)
The Phoenix is a legend found all over the world
More about the Phoenix
The Phoenix in Ancient Biblical Legend
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada General Assembly in Kelowna May 2005

My Poster Display mouse over and click on the box at the bottom right to enlarge.
The Okanagan Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada "Solar Phenomena" presentation, September 1, 2009. The following power point presentations were used: earthsift.ppt joshua.ppt KingWansDream.ppt moses.ppt Orbits.ppt Reverse.ppt SolarPhenomena.ppt YaosCanon.ppt Someone asked what part the phoenix played. I replied the phoenix was the angel that flew to the sun and moved the sun to the other side of the earth. The acting president was very impressed both by the presentation and the poster boards. He acknowledged I was a man of faith. He thought the case was made very well. He hit the nail on the head, we cannot explain the physics - that is where faith comes in.
Julian Date Converter gives week dates.
The Fivefold Challenge Countered: What about "The Fivefold Challenge"?

"Did a NASA computer scientist discover a 'missing day' in a program used to calculate the positions of the planets, as forecast in the Bible?" NASA's answer: "a flat NO!!" But I did. Because I did NASA could have. The computer and planet positions helped but it was the simple mechanics of the sun moving not 360° but 180° and earth flowing into a reverse orbit. Which was then backed up by Yao's reverse zodiac and king Wan's dream and the many other evidences on this page. - "You cannot uncover an interfering event with a mathematical model based on things behaving the same way back then as they do right now vis a vis celestial mechanics." - This I have done with simple celestial mechanics: The sun is in Pisces in the Chinese Spring and Scorpius rises at 10PM and sets in the west just before dawn. Two of the five planets are always near the sun, Venus and Mercury. How then did China at the time of king Wan's dream view a five planet conjunction in Scorpius? Unless the sun and Mercury moved 180° to Virgo. Was this not rather a long sunset, the sun and planets stood still in the sky, and when the stars finally appeared there was Scorpius and the planets setting in the west that night? Because the sun had moved 180° with earth's rotation from Pisces to Virgo and the planets 180° from Taurus to Scorpius. This long sunset on China was the sun standing still in the middle of the sky in Israel - Joshua's long day noon February 26 1238 BC.

The Assyrian Omen: "If in Adar the sun stands still at noon time there will be seige and misery" must date from the battle of Merom when Joshua chased the Amorites into Syria February 27 1238 BC, when also the sun stood still at noon when the sun moved back one year after Joshua's long day and earth reoriented and flowed out of the reverse orbit. Adar was February. This does not take a computer to figure out. Astronomical dates before this are not senseless, they were just as any planetarium program would have them, except the background stars during reverse orbits. The sun, moon and planets appeared in their times and position in the sky as they normally would. Only the outer planets must orbit the sun about twice in one reverse earth year to appear in the sky as they normally would.

NASA's conclusion: "We tend to believe things that sound plausible, and since virtually no one except scientists understand astronomy..it is easy to see how farfetched ideas can take root so easily" Most people with a little time and effort can understand the model here. Something that has eluded scientists. NASA says on their website that there is no evidence of the sun being moved around the earth. There is no geological evidence but there is plenty of direct evidence from ancient astronomical records that God moved the sun around the earth many times. When records state the sun stood still, or the sun returned to the meridian twice in one day, or retreated from noon to the eastern horizon, these are statements of fact. These are not allegories, and are not to be merely dismissed. If they cannot be dismissed they must be explained. This I have done here. This is not something that just makes enough sense to believe like spinning an egg only on the equinox, which is not true. Or Mars appearing as large as the moon, which again is not true. However feeble my effort may be, I know this is the real thing. This is not truthiness/proofiness: "the art of using bogus mathematical arguments to prove something that you know in your heart is true -- even when it’s not." There is no way out. Out of necessity these events must be true and are true.

In Dispute: There was a "missing day" that was discovered by a NASA scientist.
Documented, True according to the evidence: NASA may not have discovered the missing time of Joshua's long day, but I certainly have. Because I have, they could have. It is too easy to believe what we want to believe. We cannot please everyone anyway. So why not seek to please God only? This web page has never been debunked and never honestly will be. Probably the calculations for Joshua's long day have been discovered here for the first time. NASA denies they discovered it, so this may very well be.

If we use Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is the best, we see the sun moved 180° with earth's rotation to stand still in the sky and earth flowed into a reverse orbit of the sun. This is science and this is simple.

NASA's new policy: "Scientific and technical information from or about (space) agency programs and projects will be accurate and unfiltered,"

NASA has already stated the possibility God moved the sun around the earth, March 25, 1997: "(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."

From the research on this page which started taking shape in 1998 we now know God did move the sun around the earth many times. You can continue in your delusions, or you can believe the truth.

Jesus said:
Mark 4:21 "And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad."

Bible references:

Genesis 37 Dead Sea Scroll 4QGen(+Exod)a + 4QGene chapter 37
Exodus 34:10 Dead Sea Scroll 4QpaleoExodm 34:10-13, 2QExodb 34:10
Joshua 10:12 Dead Sea Scroll 4QJosha 10:3-11
Judges 4 and 5
II Kings 20:8
Job 38:31,32 Dead Sea Scroll 11QtgJob 38:23-34
Psalm 18 Dead Sea Scroll 4QPsc 18:3-14, 11QPsc 18:1-12
Psalm 19 Dead Sea Scroll 11QPsa
Isaiah 24:1, 24:23 Dead Sea Scroll 4QIsac 24 1-15, 19-23, 1QIsaa 24:1-23
Isaiah 28 Dead Sea Scroll 1QIsaa 11-44 complete, 1QIsab 28:15-20
Isaiah 38:1-22 Dead Sea Scroll 1QIsaa 11-44 complete, 1QIsaa 38:1-22, 1QIsab 38:12-22, 39:1-8, 4QIsab 39:1-8
Isaiah 60:1-3 Dead Sea Scroll 1QIsaa, 1QIsab
Amos 4:13, 8:9
Micah 3:6 Dead Sea Scroll 8Hev gkXII 3:6-10, (2)MurXII 3:1-12
Habakkuk 3:10 Dead Sea Scroll 2Mur XII Hab 3:1-19
Zechariah 14:7
Malachi 4:2 Dead Sea Scroll 4QXIIa
Read the Bible in a day

The evidence presented in this research backs up the Missing Day Story. NASA's response to the Missing Day Story from the NASA Public Affairs office in Washington: "There is no truth to the recurring story that NASA uncovered a lost day in the movement of the Earth." NASA may not have discovered Joshua's long day, but I certainly have. The truth is obvious. Earth has gone into and out of reverse orbits at least 50 times, perhaps even 1000 times. There may have been sun miracles every 7 years. Then there may be about 1000 sun miracles since 2700 BC. All directly involving the orbit of the Earth and directly contradicting NASA's statement. Possibly NASA can't find the paperwork or perhaps these sun movements have been discovered here for the first time. NASA just ordered a purge of plane data that would scare you October 30 2007. If they won't even tell you about near misses, 1266, they sure won't tell you the Sun went around the Earth. Joshua's long day February 25 or February 26 1238 BC may be no near miss. NASA just released the report to the public today, January 31 2007 only because they were forced to by Congress. NASA's press office misled the public about Global Warming between 2004 and 2006. NASA in a recent interview with CNN, I watched from CNN's website, about crashing satellite UARS, stated ancient people thought celestial events were divine intervention. Here we see the ancients were right and NASA is wrong to ridicule the Divine. Science likes to tell us the Sun is the center of our world and there is no God. In my humble opinion NASA would never admit God moved the Sun around the Earth without being dragged along kicking and screaming all the way. They would never admit to discovering the missing day in the Missing Day Story. Perhaps these calculations have been uncovered for the first time.

See Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed.

NASA's conclusion: "In general, trying to prove events that are said to have occurred in the Bible, using scientific principles, doesn't work." However, this model does work to prove many biblical events and give their exact dates and provides the material evidence NASA is looking for. This is not metaphysics because these sun movements are provable and proven here. Science deals with things we can see and touch, Christianity deals with things we can see and handle and feel spiritually, a Christian life lived, and prepares people for a saved eternity in Heaven. Christianity deals with the later, science with the former. NASA states at the bottom of their page "Questions on this topic are no longer responded to by the "Ask an Astrophysicist" service." If you have any questions ask me, Andrew Bennett: sunnyokanagan@telus.net I will respect any wish for privacy. This analysis is not intended as dogma. Dates before Christ cannot be certain. They are intended to show that most miracles of the sun may be found in and explained by the Bible and all may only be explained by God's power. Prove it for yourself.

SunnyOkanagan.com

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

Joshua's Long Day

Joshua 10

How King Wan's experience of a long sunset felt like a dream and was Joshua's Long Day from China.

More about Joshua's long day:

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

More About Joshua's Long Day

The battle at Heshbon

The brooks of Arnon

Moses' Three Days of Darkness

More about Moses' three days darkness

Some Eclipses that have not been Located:

Joseph/Yao's sun miracle

More about Joseph/Yao's long day

Adjustments to Bible Dates

Other Legends of Sun Miracles

Background

One Seed, Jesus

Hezekiah's Sign

II Kings 20

More Records of Hezekiah's Sign

Some Eclipse Records May Rather Be Sun Miracles, The day of two dawns may be similar to Hezekiah's Sign. And may be during Elijah's three and a half years of famine.

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

Huai-nan tzu VI iv

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

Amos 765 - 750 BC

Ezekiel

Nahum

Haggai

Zechariah 510 - 470 BC.

Depictions of the Phoenix and Dragon

Chinese records of sun miracles

Some More Chinese Sun Miracles

More Chinese Sun Miracles

Greek Legends of Sun Miracles

A Clear Description of Frequent Reverse Orbits by Socretes

The Movement of the Sun and Earth's Orbit Shift

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:

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

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

Some of these miracles may have happened in September.

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

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

Egyptian Legends

Moon's far side: Pictures of the Moon

Moon's eastern edge: Two sides of the Moon

Joseph's Dreams

Genesis 36:

Genesis 43:

We do not know when the second dream was fulfilled:

The Canon of Yaou

Joseph in Egypt

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

Exodus 12:

Other Legends and Calendar Changes

Did the planets move with the sun?

Was this supernova part of a sun miracle in 134 BC?

Mars moved 21 li (7 miles) for the Duke Ching of Sung.

Conclusion

Some Eclipse Records May Rather Be Sun Miracles,
The day of two dawns may be similar to Hezekiah's Sign. And may be during Elijah's three and a half years of famine.

The ancient Chinese had a

366 day year instituted by Yao.