Sixteen Hour Days?
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Shortened Days
I am neither a scientist nor a writer, which should become painfully obvious as you read my hypothesis for the coming of sixteen hour days. I am simply a layman who prayerfully studies the scriptures with a contemplative mind. This idea was developed several years ago but has gone heretofore unpublished. Now may be the time. I may or may not be the originator of this hypothesis but I have never heard it from any other source.
According to National Geographic,
Saturday’s Chile earthquake was so powerful that it likely shifted an Earth axis and shortened the length of a day, NASA announced Monday. …[t]he story is quite similar to the December 26, 2004, magnitude 9.0 Sumatra earthquake…
With each of these earthquakes the earth has been shaken on its axis and the days have become shorter as a result. Though this shortening has been minuscule, to say the least, I accept these shorter days as proof that my 16 hour day hypothesis could someday pass into the realm of theory…someday.
My first conception of this hypothesis came to me while studying the scriptures. Firstly:
The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night. (Rev 8:12 NIV)
A day minus one third of the night and one third of the day would be 8 hours shorter than our current 24 hour day, or 16 hours. You don’t buy it? Why any need for shorter days? Here is one very good reason…