Biblical Evidence for the Flat Earth | Part 3

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The Earth is flat:

In the book of Job, we find a most fascinating and insightful monologue.  In chapter 38, Yahuwah appears to Job and begins questioning Him.  One of the questions is especially pertinent to this study:

Hast thou perceived the breadth [H7338 - rachab] of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. (Job 38:18, KJV)

The word, breadth, here is rachab (H7338), which means "breadth, broad or wide expanse."  (BDB Lexicon)  This seems like a perfectly legitimate question on a flat Earth.  It makes no sense at all, though, in the context of a spherical Earth.

In the Book of Daniel, the details of Nebuchadnezzar's prophetic dream indicate that the Earth is flat:

These were the visions of my head while on my bed: I was looking, and behold, A tree in the midst of the earth, And its height was great. The tree grew and became strong; Its height reached to the heavens, And it could be seen to the ends of all the earth. (Daniel 4:10-11, KJV)

Nebuchadnezzar said that he dreamed of a tree that grew so tall that it could "be seen to the ends of all the earth."  While this was just a dream, it is still indicative of a flat Earth, for only on a flat Earth would this be possible.  This concept would be an utter impossibility on a globe.

It is the heavenly bodies that move, not the Earth.

Then spake Joshua to Yahuwah in the day when Yahuwah 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.

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. (See Joshua 10:12-13.)

The text could not be any clearer: The "sun stood still in the midst of heaven."  Joshua commands the sun and moon to stand still in the heavens.  He does not command the Earth to stop spinning.  As honest Bible students, we must acknowledge the clarity of this passage.  Yahuwah forbid that we twist the Scriptures to agree with man's pseudo-scientific Copernicun (sun-centered) theory, which contradicts Scripture from the very outset of Genesis.  True science (testable and observable) vindicates the reality of the stationary Earth: Experiments, The Alleged Coriolis Effect. 

In the book of Isaiah, we have an inspired record of how Yahuwah caused the sun to regress in the sky, causing the shadow of the sundial to move backwards:

Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. (Isaiah 38:8, KJV)

Isaiah tells us in plain language that "the sun returned ten degrees."  There is no question about it; Isaiah believed that it was the sun that moved, not the Earth.

King David also believed that it was the sun that moved:

The heavens declare the glory of El; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 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, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. (See Psalm 19:1-6.)

Solomon, more than 25 times in the book of Ecclesiastes, uses the phrase "under the sun" when referring to Earthly activities.  Solomon clearly believed that the sun was moving above the Earth.

Yahuwah forbid that we make the testimony of the prophets subservient to the theories of erring and deceitful men.