Hi sidelined,
ICANT writes:
So you are saying there would be people with a trained eye that would have been watching the night sky 3000 years ago.
sidelined writes:
The Egyptians were building the great pyramid of Giza as a result of rather extensive knowledge of the stars long before Isaiah was born so yes there were trained eyes that had been watching the night sky for quite sometime.
When did they move Egypt back to the middle east from the North American continent?
If it is where it has always been there is only one hour time difference in where Isaiah is and Egypt. We both went to sleep on that one.
So it would depend on what time of day it was as to where everybody would be. If it was around noon time in Egypt I don't know if anyone would have noticed anything or not, and since we are moving at such speed as we are anyway who would notice a little tilt. You do know that each year there is a large difference in where the sun is in relation to the equator If I remember correctly around 2 hours difference in the shortest day and the longest day. That is caused by the tilt of the earth on its axis. The angle of the earth to the sun is a 47 degrees change each year. How much change would it take to move a shadow on 10 steps in the sun dial of Ahaz? That would depend on a lot of things. Primarily the rise of each step.
All it would have taken is a big wobble that everybody would think was an earthquake or something of that nature. Hezekiah and Isaiah were the only ones there to see it so God should not have had any problem convincing a sick old man that the shadow did as he requested.
Shucks I saw a fellow make a semi-tractor and trailer disappear. and reappear.
Have fun,
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