GOD HAS THE ULTIMATE DEAD SEA PLAN
December 29, 2007
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Ever since the 1850’s different nations have discussed different types of plans to create a water passage from the southern tip of the Dead Sea to the northern extension of the Red Sea, which is called the Gulf of Eilat by Israel and the Gulf of Aqaba by the Arabs. However, God had the ultimate plan from the foundation of the world to create such a water channel by his own power. He will create it during the last three and one-half years before the final battle of Armageddon. During part of that period the greatest geological upheaval since the Genesis 1:2 period will be occurr ing, and the structural changes
in the Jordan River system will be fantastic.
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Ezekiel 38:18-23 – And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face. [19] For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. [21] And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. [22] And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. [23] Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
I have taught this for 35 years, and the details of this fantastic structural change in the Jordan River Valley Rift may be studied in Archive Prophecy Update Number 188B, which follows the Haaretz Article.
Begin Haaretz Article
When low-tech will do the trick
December 12, 2007
By David Orenstein
We humans love grandiose engineering projects. We marvel at our technological prowess, ancient and modern, when flocking as tourists to the ancient Mayan ruins and Egyptian pyramids or celebrate new skyscrapers and dams that break old records for height and mass. Israelis are no exception, and the draining of the Hula wetlands and the laying of the National Water Carrier remain a tribute to Zionist can-do determination. Yet, as we’ve learned from the Hula, and may yet learn from the Trans-Israel Highway, some of these projects may have been executed with excessive zeal and deficient environmental and social foresight.
It is with the benefit of this hindsight that we should consider the Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal with some healthy skepticism. Variations of this project have been proposed over the past 150 years. Its key selling point is that it can exploit the drop in altitude between
the Red Sea and the Dead Sea to allow water to generate hydroelectric energy. The modern version posits that the energy yielded will be sufficient to desalinate 850 million cubic meters of Red Sea water for much-needed drinking water in Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, with additional water filling up the Dead Sea. A reminder: The Dead Sea is shrinking because its Jordan River source waters have all been diverted for agriculture and household consumption by the countries upstream.
But environmental assessments reveal a veritable rogue’s gallery of potential negative impacts: The marine ecology of the Red Sea would be harmed; ground water in the Arava would be threatened with salinization; flash floods and seismic activity would threaten the canal; and the influx of sea water would make the Dead Sea turn milky white, while releasing odorous hydrogen sulfide.
For these reasons, the idea is opposed by many of Israel’s hydrologists, geologists, ecologists and environmental scientists. Its estimated $5-billion construction, plus $5 million-a-year operating cost, are additional deterrents. According to Technion professor of agricultural engineering and former Israeli water commissioner Dan Zaslavsky, the proposal for a canal (or pipeline) has been studied some eight times – and rejected each time on economic or environmental grounds.
So why does the proposal continue to rear its head? Perhaps this is a case of what Ben-Gurion University professor Yaakov Garb calls “constructing the inevitability” of a mega-project. In a 2004 article, Garb cogently outlines the decision-making process that led to another mega-project: the Trans-Israel Highway. For decades, while the project was still a proposal, advocates adapted their justification, based on what they thought would resonate most with potential funders, governments and the public. Like the canal, the road was presented, with selective data, as a project that Israel could not live without. Likewise, the Red-Dead Canal
has been touted as the answer to the region’s water shortage, as a new and clean energy source, a lifeline for the Dead Sea, a boon to tourism, and now, according to President Shimon Peres, a project vital to regional peace and stability. Whatever the season or the problem – the canal can be framed as the solution.
Certainly, both Jordan and the PA are in need of more drinking water. But these needs can be met through less romantic policies, which include restoration of their deteriorating water infrastructure, investment in waste-water treatment, and scaling back agriculture.
Israel could also provide a more generous and fair allotment of water to its neighbors. All of these solutions combined would be less expensive than the proposed canal, and their environmental impact would be mostly positive.
There is also a real alternative to the Red-Dead Canal. According to both Zaslavsky and Friends of the Earth Middle East, we can simply allow some of the water that formerly flowed through the Jordan River to the Dead Sea, which has since been diverted, to flow once again. The great peace project can be reframed as the international restoration of this historic and ecologically unique watershed, to the benefit of its wildlife, holy sites, tourists and residents, and of course, the return of the Dead Sea to its former level. As pointed out in Friends of the Earth’s critique of the World Bank’s most recent report, some canal advocates are simply ignoring this low-tech, but promising, option.
Unfortunately, donors are often less enamored of donating to projects that don’t have a plaque with their name on it. Fixing the underground pipes in Amman and helping farmers to stop using inefficient irrigation isn’t as sexy as building a 250-kilometer canal with pumps, generators and desalination factories.
Peres has recently made much ado about adopting a “green” persona. While this is a welcome announcement, many of our environmental problems will be exacerbated by projects he supports. We require a fundamental “re-visioning” of how we live on and manipulate the earth. In this case, the low-tech, less expensive solution may provide better economic, social and environmental value than
the proposed mega-project. We can hope he and the relevant ministers will listen to the many scientists and activists who have advised them as such.
Daniel Orenstein is a postdoctoral fellow at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning and a lecturer at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 188B
September 8, 2004
Tectonic Chaos – Chapter 11 – Salty Sea to a Fresh Water Lake!
Figure 47 is a general summarization in a pictorial format of what has been presented thus far by a narrative discourse.
It shows the area as I believe it will appear during the Millennium. Please note that the Dead Sea is forecast to become a living sea. At the present time, the Dead Sea is so saturated with salt and other solids that aquatic life forms cannot be supported. Fish that enter the Dead Sea from its tributaries perish shortly after their entrance. For centuries the elevated Arabah Fault to the south of the Dead Sea has prevented the waters of the Jordan River from reaching the Gulf of Aqaba (Eilat). Consequently, by a process of evaporation, more and more salt has been continuously added to the land-locked body of water Zechariah identifies as the former (eastern) Sea (See Archive Birth Pang Figure 47).
Zechariah 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.
When God splits the Arabah Fault, during the tribulation period, a natural graben river valley will be formed between the blocking section of the fault structure, and the Jordan’s waters will finally be able to flow from the Dead Sea into the Red Sea by way of the Gulf of Aqaba. This will eventually clean most of the salt out of the Dead Sea, but the shallow northeastern sections will continue to have salt in coastline marsh areas.
(See Archive Birth Pang Figures 47 and 48).
Ezekiel 47:6-12 – And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. [7] Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. [8] Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. [9] And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. [10] And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. [11] But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. [12] And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. (See Archive Birth Pang Figures 47 and 48).
As we begin with verse six, we have just walked eastward a little over a mile (4,000 cubits) from the utter gate of the Jerusalem Millennial Temple, and have arrived at the brink of the diverted Jordan River. During our walk, we passed directly through the graben valley created during the tribulation period when the Mount of Olives divided into two sections, one moving to the north, and one moving to the south. The stream along which we walked developed after the Israelites fled to the Negev by way of the valley of the mountains. The area, through which the entire stream and Jordan River Complex is prophesied to flow, is one of the most fertile soul profiles in Israel. But no matter how fertile and perfectly zoned a soil profile is, unless there is water, no vegetation will spring up. This has been the problem in this dry, arid region for centuries, but God is going to change all that.
Trees, and all types of vegetation, will flourish along the length of these two living water rivers as they flow toward the Mediterranean and Dead Seas, and the remnant of Israel will use this new source of water to irrigate the desert lands of Judah and most of southern Israel. I am convinced Israel will become the breadbasket of the Middle East.
When Judah’s water shed, to the west of the line from Geba to Rimmon, lifts up as a fault block ridge, it will increase subterranean water flow into the spring that still flows under Jerusalem. The lifting along the Tyropoean Valley fault, just behind the Temple Mount Complex, will cause the spring to surface on the Temple platform just north of the Dome of the Rock, and it will flow eastward as a stream for a thousand years. As westerly winds being the moist Mediterranean air up the gentle slope of the uplifted western Judean watershed block complex, adiabatic cooling of the moist sea air, coupled with convective heating of the plain, will produce frequent periods of orographic and convective precipitation.
Some of this rain will drift off the higher central watershed and fall on what are now arid sections of eastern and southern Judea. I also believe that more frontal activity will affect all Israel by increasing precipitation totals. Increased precipitation will not only water the soil profile directly, but increased occurrence to the west of Jerusalem will keep the water table supplied with ample water to feed Ezekiel’s temple spring continuously through the entire 1000 year reign of Christ. God will so structure the land and the climate that lack of water will no longer be a problem to the east of the line from Geba to Rimmon.
As verse 8 indicates, a part of this fresh water flows into “the east country” (east of the Mount of Olives), then “down (southward) into the desert” (desert of Judah and Arabah), then finally “into the sea” (Dead Sea). Once they are brought forth into the Dead Sea they cause water now there “to be healed” (the salt content is reduced sufficiently to start supporting aquatic life). This is all made possible by the opening of the Arabah Fault into a channel that will allow the Dead Sea to drain most of its salt content into the Red Sea via the Gulf of Aqaba.
Verse 9 gives a clear prophecy that the Jordan River system, from its northern tip to its entry into the Gulf of Aqaba, will be filled with all sorts of aquatic life, this being made possible because the Dead Sea has been healed from its extremely high, life taking, salt content.
Verse 10 reveals that fishermen will fish for a great, exceeding variety of fish along the Dead Sea western shoreline from Engedi to Eneglaim (See Archive Birth Pang Figure 48). This entire shoreline is now barren of all aquatic life forms.
Verse 11 tells us that the northeastern zone of the Dead Sea will exist as a salt marsh because it will be out of the direct fresh water trajectory flowing into the western shoreline (See Archive Birth Pang Figure 48).
Verse 12 is a picture of a vast aggregate of all types of fruit producing trees. The fruit of the trees will be a part of the “meat” supply of the nation of Israel, and various extracts from the trees will be used for medicinal purposes. Ezekiel’s vision of great fertility in the wilderness of Judea is echoed by many of
the prophets, in terms similar to those put forward by Isaiah, as he describes the effects the new hydrological changes will produce in the desolate zones of Israel.
Isaiah 35:1,2,6,7 –The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. [2] It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the Excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the Excellency of our God. [6] Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. [7] And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons (jackals), where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
The day is soon coming when God will so geologically reconstruct the topography of his Holy Land by a massive shifting of his tectonic plates, that the deserts and wildernesses of Judah shall be thoroughly irrigated with waters from a reorganized Jordan River tributary system. Where only jackals (dragons) now dwell, men and women will leap for joy like a hart, and Jewish tongues will sing praise to God for his great blessings of fertility. A vast green paradise will exist where only arid wasteland once appeared. One of these changes involved in the many that will be wrought by God, is the opening of a valley in the Arabah Fault block, which will allow the contents of the present Dead Sea to flush through it on the way to the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba.
At the present time there are convective currents of magma that flow upward into the lower sections on both sides of the Red Sea, which is causing the sea floor to spread apart at the rate of several centimeters per year. This same lake of magma underlies the entire length of the Jordan Valley, but, at the present time, the faults on both sides of it are locked, or “frozen” in place above the magma, and its upward convective currents are much more passive here than under the Red Sea (See Archive Birth Pang Figures, 23, 24, 25, 27, and 38). However, when the present Red Sea floor spreading of the fault finally reaches its critical limits, at that time the northern, or “locked” portion, of the fault will suddenly burst open on both sides for a distance of about 185 miles from the Port of Aqaba (Eilat) northward, to become a raging inferno of volcanic smoke, pitch, and brimstone. The greatest restructuring will occur in that section or the fault block between the southern tip of the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. That section was known as Edom or Idumea during the time of most of the prophets (See Archive Birth Pang Figure 23). Isaiah writes of this catastrophic tribulation period ripping transformation of that land, which will form a new river channel to drain the Dead Sea.
Isaiah 34:4-10 – And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. [5] For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. [6] The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
[7] And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. [8] For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. [9] And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. [10] It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and
ever.
This is a classic description of what geologists label as a “flood basalt plain,” and verse 10 indicates that some degree of volcanic activity will occur there off and on throughout the Millennium. The activity would appear to be such that only wild animals would live there during that period.
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