WEBVTT 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:12.000 Welcome to the Preaching the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W. 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:14.800 Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of DeLain, Florida. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:25.039 Our prayer is that these half-hour Bible study programs bring the lost to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and enable the saved to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Savior. 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.359 Now here's your host, Pastor James W. 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:28.079 Knox. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.840 All right, now thank you so much so very much for that kind word of introduction. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.719 I'm Brother James, and God has providentially ordered your steps. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:53.759 By his grace and mercy, he has so ordained that you would tune in to the preaching of the cross radio broadcast today. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:01:02.079 I greet you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is and was and always will be the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.959 We're so happy that you've tuned in to the program today. 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:06.079 We're excited. 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:07.599 I know preachers say that all the time. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.159 We're excited about what God's doing, but we really are. 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:17.920 We are just thrilled at the way God is working in our local assembly here at the Bible Baptist Church of Delane. 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:23.519 We're thrilled and excited about the way God is blessing the tape recordings and books that we're sending out all around the world. 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.760 We're excited about what God is doing through the radio ministry, and it's just a joy. 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:35.680 It's just really a joy to see the Holy Spirit of God at work in and through a little ministry such as ours. 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:47.120 God has been so very good to us, and we thank and praise his name for all of his benefits and all of his goodness and all the ways in which he works in our lives to make them happy and blessed and fruitful. 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:49.840 God is just so good, He's just so wonderful. 00:01:50.079 --> 00:02:01.760 Isn't it a marvelous thing to know that in spite of all the trouble and all the chaos and all the confusion in this world, that you can have perfect peace in and through the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:08.719 You can't get that peace from science, you can't get that peace from education, you can't get that peace from wealth or material prosperity. 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:16.479 The peace of God which passeth understanding comes in and through the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom to know is life eternal. 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.840 We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:20.639 And I hope you know him. 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:25.680 I hope you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior today. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:33.120 We are studying on our radio broadcasts, have been for the last several programs. 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:40.639 We are studying the Bible and its relationship to modern science. 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:49.199 We are studying the Bible and its uh its uh position in the eyes of those who claim to be scientific. 00:02:49.439 --> 00:03:00.879 We have been proving, and I use that word because that's the right word, we have been proving to our listeners that the Bible is accurate when it speaks scientifically, speaks of science and matters of science. 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:07.919 As a matter of fact, we are we have proven and continue to prove that the Bible is the only accurate book of science on the face of the earth. 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:19.360 The fact that it's never had to be changed or altered or thrown away and we've had to start all over again is is much more than than can be said for any science book on the face of the earth. 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:29.840 I dare say if you're a college student right now, there isn't one textbook being used in one of your science classes that was in use fifteen years ago. 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:31.199 You know why? 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:33.280 They were proven to be an error. 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:56.719 If you're listening to my voice right now and you have graduated from college, university, and your days of studying science in the classroom are over, I am certain that not one textbook that you used in those classrooms would be of any use to you today were you to go back to school or or begin to refresh your mind by reviewing those things that you learned and studied when you were in school. 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:00.080 You see, uh people are continually saying the Bible is outdated. 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.479 The Bible uh is old-fashioned. 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:10.080 The truth of the matter is science and science books are outdated almost as soon as they come off the press. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:25.040 They issue forth with their grand and bold declarations of being the latest truth, the latest advancement in the knowledge of the human race, and almost before the ink is dried on the pages, they've been proven to be just a bunch of poppycock. 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:27.040 So much for science. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:46.319 And yet, and yet, men fail to heed the Bible warning, but reject the truth of the Word of God, throw away their eternal and everlasting soul, in order to bring their intellect or their belief system or their faith in line with the ravings of modern science. 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:48.160 It's a sad thing, it really is. 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:49.680 It's a tragic thing. 00:04:49.920 --> 00:05:11.360 Here's poor old Charlie Darwin, dead and in hell, burning and bound for a lake of fire, and people are still following his theory, though in over a hundred years no one has yet found one bit of factual proof to support the things that Charlie Darwin dreamed about down there on the Galapagos Islands. 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:13.279 It's an amazing thing, isn't it? 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:22.720 Why, if I had as little proof for the Bible as you've got for your theory of evolution, I'd throw my Bible in a trash can and and forget all about it. 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:24.319 That's what I'd do. 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:30.240 But you see, I'm not using the Bible to replace my faith in evolution. 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:34.399 Now why do I say that? 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.920 Because many of you are using your faith in evolution to replace the Bible. 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:39.199 Now you know that. 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:51.360 You know the only reason you cling to that theory of evolution is because if you reject it, you'll have to turn to the biblical statements regarding God and creation and faith in a creator, and you're not about to do that. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:55.040 So you hide behind a profession of science. 00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:10.720 By faith, you cling to your belief in evolution, and then make fun of Christians for having no facts to support what they believe, and we've got more facts in two pages of a Bible than you've got in twenty-five books on evolution. 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.079 There's never been a missing link found, and there never will be. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:17.040 You know that, and I know that. 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.319 So do the professors that taught you. 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:23.279 You say, then why didn't they tell us that? 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:25.040 Because it's a religion. 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:34.560 They wouldn't want to be uh thought uh heretics, they wouldn't want to blaspheme their god of knowledge, and so they didn't dare tell you the truth about that evolution business. 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:43.040 Now, we started last time preparing for a discussion of the long day of Joshua. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:50.639 We were discussing the Gibeonites who had come to make a league with the people of Israel. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:07:00.720 I made the statement at the close of last broadcast that these people were probably the shrewdest people that ever lived, because they beat all the Jews in a bargain at the same time. 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:08.720 Now, when these ambassadors from Gibeon, and I can't, there is no way to go over all this material again. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.600 We've just got to take up where we left off last time. 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:20.160 I'm sorry if you weren't with us, but if we went over the material from a previous broadcast every single day, we'd just play one broadcast over and over again, and we can't do that. 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.120 So we just have to go on. 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:30.800 When the ambassadors were rested, the journey of the horde was resumed until they came before the walls of Gibeon. 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:40.079 When the princes of Israel prepared the horde for the battle, they said to these mock ambassadors, Stand thou by and see how we overcome this city. 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:49.040 The ambassadors replied, Not this city, this is our city, protected by your oath of friendship and peace. 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:55.839 The princes of Israel raved with indignation, but they were securely trapped, and they saw no way out. 00:07:56.079 --> 00:08:00.879 So, characteristically they made the best of a bad bargain, and got what they could out of the deal. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:07.279 They bound the Gibeonites to themselves by an oath and said, Thou shalt be the slaves of our God forever. 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:18.079 The Gibbeanites retorted that it was better to be living slaves of a mighty god than dead rejectors of a pact, and the covenant of mutual defense and protection was consummated. 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:29.199 There being no further use for the army at the moment, Joshua marched the horde up to Gilgal, where they went in arrest camp to recover from the ravages of their hard campaigns. 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:40.720 Now when Adonai Zedak, the genius and head of this League of Nations, heard of the defection of the Hivites from the New World Order, he was alarmed as well as angered. 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:49.200 He reasoned justly that if Israel added to their own army the thirty thousand fighting Hivites, the United Nations was hopeless. 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:53.679 Not only was the League weakened, but Israel was strengthened by this number. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:09:00.320 So he did the only logical thing under the circumstances, and called upon the rest of the heads of the nations to join him. 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:06.960 He informed them of the defection of the Hivites, and bitterly railed against their lack of faith and fidelity to the pact. 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:20.080 He went on all the newscasts, he had articles printed in all the newspapers, and he he prepared lectures to be printed in all the scholarly journals, and he just uh ramm these Hivites right into the ground. 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:37.440 He informed the uh people uh that uh what these Hivites had done, and it seems to have been alright in his estimation for the League to betray a member, as he had done to the Hivites, but uh the uh member must not betray the League. 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:46.320 That is, it's all right for America to sell out her sovereignty to the United Nations now that's wrong. 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:48.159 That'd be a terrible wrong thing. 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:56.480 You see, the UN, they don't they don't care if if America is sacrificed for the good of the third world. 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:03.919 But how dare, how dare America exert her sovereignty and her uh nationalistic rights? 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:09.759 That would be a violation of the peaceful aims of the global community, you understand. 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:21.679 Now gathering together the army of the five remaining nations, Adonai Zedak planned to fall upon Gibeon and exterminate the Hivites himself. 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:28.480 Thus he would not only punish their treachery to the United Nations, but would at the same time destroy an added menace. 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:38.559 He seems to have reasoned that they might successfully resist Joshua or overcome the Gibeonites separately, but that together the combination would be too strong. 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:48.000 The king of the Hivites, however, seems to have kept a close watch upon the movements of the League, and his spies at once informed him of the coming of the punitive column. 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:55.679 Fearing for the safety of his nation, he sent to Joshua, who was camped with the horde at Gilgal, and he called for help. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:05.759 Joshua immediately answered, and after one of the most remarkable forced marches of history, Joshua's company flanked the army of the United Nations. 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:16.240 Thus, when the host under Adonai Zedek fell upon Gibeon, Joshua smote their rear and right flank with a tremendous assault. 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:21.440 The Gibeonites made a sortie and attacked the head and the left flank of the column. 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:28.000 Caught between the jaws of a pincer movement, the army of the League retreated across the plains of Beth Horon. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:38.399 The retreat soon turned into a rout, until the Gibeonites pressing on one side and the Israelites on the other, the army of the five kings was utterly destroyed. 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.600 Well, so much for the setting of the battle. 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:46.080 Now, now we want to look at the incidence of the battle itself. 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:58.720 It's evident that the historical significance of the battle is usually forgotten, and the event is now remembered almost solely because of the miracle of the long day that occurred in connection with that battle. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:14.960 The higher critic, and we use higher in the scholarly term, they ought to be called lower critics, in fact they ought to be called the lowest critics, but um the higher critic still thinks that this is a weak spot in the Bible's claim to inspiration and infallibility. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:19.440 But then, if it were not for scholarly ignorance, there would be no higher criticism. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:26.399 So we'll meet their objections and show once more that the so-called weak points of the Bible are its strongest defense. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:28.960 Now this is what's under attack. 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.159 This is where the assault is made. 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:42.879 It came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth Horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Ezekiel, and they died. 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:48.240 There were more which died from hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with a sword. 00:12:48.559 --> 00:13:02.960 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, Son, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajilon. 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:08.559 Now, if you read that thing carefully, Joshua is speaking of the Lord. 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:20.559 And then there's a comma, and he said, In the sight of Israel, now this could be Joshua speaking and the people beholding, or this could be God Himself speaking and commanding. 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:26.799 He'd already appeared in bodily form once to Joshua early in his campaign, and so it's possible he did so again. 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.799 We'll not be dogmatic either way on that. 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.120 But he said, Son, stand thou still upon Gibeon and thou moon in the valley of Agilon. 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:39.360 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.080 Is not this written in the book of Jasher? 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:56.159 So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day, and there was no day like it before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened to the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel. 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.879 Now, I don't have any problem believing that at all. 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:11.759 It's no problem to me to believe that the God who said let there be light and there was light, the God said who said sun and there was a sun, the God who said moon and there was a moon, the God who said stars and there were stars. 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:18.879 I I have no problem believing that the God who created the heavenly bodies is able to control them. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:21.120 I don't have any trouble with that at all. 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:27.919 But see, once you've rejected God and placed your brain on the throne of the universe, you've got a problem with something like this. 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:33.919 I understand if you're if you're a science-worshiping infidel, I understand that this could be a problem for you. 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:44.559 Now, in these present days, long after all the witnesses are dead, the modernistic schools say that this is an impossible myth, and that such a thing never happened. 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:50.639 To prove their case against this account, they advance three general objections. 00:14:51.200 --> 00:15:00.399 The first one is that this account was not written by Joshua or any of his company, but was an interpolation by later writers. 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:12.080 That is, the critics seek to have us believe that some nameless scribe, more than a thousand years later than Joshua, added this story to the record that he was copying. 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:22.799 As in all the modernistic efforts to simplify the Bible by removing its supposed mistakes and ruling out the miraculous, the explanation is worse than the so-called error. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:33.360 Not one iota of proof has ever been advanced by anyone to show that this account was not in Joshua's original manuscript. 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:35.120 No proof whatsoever. 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:40.080 It's it's just another pipe dream, like Charlie Darwin's theory of evolution. 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:53.919 The account itself, however, contains uh absolute and scientific evidence that this event was recorded by an eyewitness. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:55.840 Let me show you. 00:15:55.919 --> 00:16:00.639 Let me let me show you certain statements that prove just exactly what I just said. 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.960 First, the sun was in the midst of the heavens. 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:14.000 Now, if you want to mess around with the Hebrew, the word translated midst in the Hebrew here is chatsi, C-H-A-T-S-I. 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:17.440 Appears in the Old Testament 118 times. 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:21.919 Of this number, it's translated 105 times by the English word half. 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.960 Its literal meaning could be a bisection. 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.000 The sun was at its zenith. 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:29.759 In other words, it was high noon. 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:30.960 Midst is the right word. 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:31.759 It's the perfect word. 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.159 You never have to mess with the Greek and the Hebrew. 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:40.240 If you picked a midpoint in the sky, that's where the sun was. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:42.159 That's why your Bible says midst. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:43.440 Second. 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:51.840 We note that while the sun was in the in the midst, in the bisection of the heavens, it stood over Gibeon. 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:59.919 The sun was directly overhead in the center of the heaven, right above the city of Gibeon. 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:08.319 Now, in the Palestinian summer, the sun is between eight and twelve degrees of absolute zenith at noon. 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:12.880 It then rises at five o'clock in the morning and sets at seven o'clock in the evening. 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:20.720 Third, the city of Gibeon is in latitude thirty-one degrees and fifty-one minutes north. 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:22.240 Now remember this location. 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.400 If you want to, you can find Gibeon on an old map and take a look, and you'll see this is so. 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:30.240 31 degrees latitude, 51 minutes north. 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:32.480 Number four. 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.000 The moon was in the valley of Agilon. 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:43.599 Now the account does not say over the valley, but distinctly says in the valley. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.839 Now this valley was a low pass or cleft in the hills. 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.759 In the modern American West, it would be called a gun sight pass. 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:58.319 It was not a distinct valley, but a depression or canyon in the hills. 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:06.960 As the declining moon touched the horizon, it would appear literally to be framed in the valley. 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:13.759 This valley of Adilon lies 17 degrees north of west from the city of Gibeon. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:36.799 So, if the moon was directly above Gibeon, I'm sorry, if the sun, if the sun was directly above Gibeon, and the moon was in the valley of Adilon, the moon was in the third quarter on this day of battle, and was setting at the time of the cry of Joshua. 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:45.119 The moon then rose at 11 o'clock the night before the battle and set at 1 o'clock on the battle day. 00:18:45.920 --> 00:19:02.960 At noon, when Joshua spoke his petition and cried out to God, the moon, which would disappear at an altitude of five degrees, was just at 7 degrees altitude, or almost touching the horizon. 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:07.039 Now the day of battle is thus established. 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:11.440 The day of battle is established by these facts. 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:20.400 It was July 22nd by our calendar, or the 21st day of the fourth month of the Hebrew calendar. 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:26.240 This month was called Tammuz, and was composed of parts of our months June and July. 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:34.480 The sun's declinion then was about 21 degrees north, and thus about eleven degrees from the absolute zenith. 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:44.000 No unaided eye could tell this from the exact middle, half, or bisection of the heavens. 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:54.720 Now this date's not given, of course, in the text, but it's a simple problem in chronology to figure it out from the data unconsciously given in this account of the battle. 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:14.559 In the interesting study of this event, which was made by Professor Totten, he sought to show that this day covered the 24th and 25th days of the fourth civil month on the Hebrew calendar and were the 113th and 114th calendar days. 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:30.000 He sought to show that the 23rd day of that month was the winter solstice, and reckoning back from the autumnal equinox of 1896, he showed that the battle day was 3370 solar years ago. 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:40.559 Now, a factor of error entered into his calculations when he placed the moon over the city of Agilon instead of in the valley that bore the same name. 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:42.480 That messed him up a little bit. 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:48.559 The ancients kept astronomical records as far back as the third century before Christ. 00:20:48.799 --> 00:21:01.599 The Egyptians seem to have kept records only of the solstices, but the Chaldeans and other ancient people recorded cycles of eclipses, both lunar and solar, many of which records have been recovered by various expeditions. 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:13.039 Disregarding calendar changes and dealing only with a chronology based upon solar motion, we go back to the earliest available records of the ancients and use them for a starting point. 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:25.119 Carefully tracing up to Joshua's day of battle from the first and most accurate of those astronomical records, we arrive at the conclusion that the day of battle was Tuesday. 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:35.519 Then, starting with the latest eclipse data of our year, and reckoning our way back to that day of battle, we arrive at Wednesday. 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:41.680 Deciding that we have made some sort of error in our conclusions, we can go back and start again. 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:43.680 We find that our first conclusion was right. 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:51.039 When we check up from the early data and arrive at this day of battle, it is what we would now call Tuesday, July 22nd. 00:21:51.279 --> 00:22:03.519 Then we check over our records from the present year and go backward to the time of Joshua's conquest, and once more we arrive at Wednesday, the 22nd day of July. 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:12.880 That is to say, the day of the month seems to be the same, but the day of the week is different. 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:26.559 Now you can figure that thing out any way that you can conceive, and you can use all the information in the records of chronology, which a scientist will never do because he doesn't want the proof, and you'll find that there's a day missing in that week. 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:39.839 In the record, the exact relationships of the various solar factors are carefully noted, and by correlating these given positions, we are able to state the time and date of this battle. 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:52.160 Now, since this account does contain these solar factors, we have the confidence to maintain that it must have been written by an eyewitness. 00:22:52.480 --> 00:23:03.039 No later writer could have known the scientifically accurate combination of relative positions until the modern science of astronomy was born. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:08.640 No later interpolator could have guessed this. 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:11.119 No interpolator could have got it. 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:12.400 There in any way. 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:28.240 So the sick feeble theory of interpolation breaks down. 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:35.920 It was at best only a poor crutch to support infidelity, but now even that even that pitiful crutch is gone. 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:38.960 And we're not through yet. 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.720 That's the first argument, carefully and easily dismissed. 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:48.880 On the next broadcast, we'll look at the second, and we'll lay it aside just as easily as we laid that one aside. 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:52.799 And we're going to continue this look at the long day of Joshua. 00:23:52.960 --> 00:24:00.960 And as we do so, we will continue to debunk all the so-called scientific arguments against faith in the Word of God. 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:07.599 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