Nation of Israel is planning to make Sea Change!
Hurry Israel, Or God Will Make His Sea Change First!
I Expect His First Shaking Efforts between 2010 & 2015,
And completion of the Project 3 and ½ years after It Begins!
July 23, 2008
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Begin Archive Special Prophecy Update 188B
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 ha s pre
vented 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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Environment: Making a sea change
July 10, 2008
Ehud Zion Waldoks , THE JERUSALEM POST
Water Authority head Uri Shani sat beneath an ominous black-and-red banner at a press conference on Tuesday morning and outlined what he called the “worst water crisis since records started being kept 80 years ago.”
Shani is a short, trim man, with a deadpan face and delivery, which only serves to emphasize the seriousness of his message.
Describing natural water sources having reached or about to reach their black lines – lines beyond which irreparable damage could rapidly occur, later this year – he provided alarming statistics and numbers which the reporters busily wrote down.
During the course of the special press conference to unveil the authority’s emergency plan, Shani placed the blame for the crisis squarely on Heaven. Four straight years of far lower-than-average rainfall, combined with global warming and climate change, had led us to this point of crisis, according to Shani.
But while there is little doubt that rainfall shortage and climate change play a big part in our current predicament, there is another element, not addressed, that deserves at least as much blame: the human factor.
Rather than being solely dependent on rainfall, Israel could have been “making” its own water – mostly through desalination of sea water, but also through conservation and better management – years ago.
David Ben-Gurion mentioned the potential as long ago as 1956: “If our science and technology people will devote their best research, and receive for this purpose all the assistance from the state, it will not be beyond them to find a cheap process for desalinating seawater. Irrigating the desert with purified seawater might seem to many today a delusion, but Israel should be the last state to be afraid of ‘delusions’ that could change the primal order by force of the power of vision, science, and pioneering capability.”
Prophetic words, but ones which went unheeded for many years. To a large degree, the country is paying the price in this decade for four previous decades of neglect.
From mid-2001 to mid-2002, the Knesset Inquiry Committee on the Issue of Water met to review a situation very similar to today’s: after roughly three years of meager rainfall, the Kinneret had reached its black line. The committee was formed because there were suspicions that the causes of the crisis were not solely natural in origin.
What did it find? That from the 1960s until the beginning of this century, our water economy suffered from severe mismanagement, implementation and legislative failures.
The committee’s final report is fascinating in its historical summary and in its mostly succinct explanation of an issue never dealt with properly because authority was too diffuse. Many government ministries, several government corporations and various other entities were involved in cobbling together a water policy in line with laws which were strewn all through the body of legislation, rather than in one coherent code, according to the report.
(Although much of the bureaucratic snarl has been overcome since then, that is mainly due to the establishment of the Water Authority in 2007, a full five years after the committee urgently recommended it.)
The committee also found that the government had consistently adopted a policy of overpumping the three main natural sources of water – Lake Kinneret, the Coastal Aquifer and the Mountain Aquifer. Apparently content to rely on God for sufficient water, the government gambled that there would always be enough wet years to compensate for the deficit brought about by the dry ones. That policy led the country very badly astray, the committee found, and resulted in an ever-growing deficit.
Desalination was an option that the government only belatedly took seriously. It was first suggested in the 1980s, as it became more economically feasible. The government did not decide to approve tenders and begin the arduous process of building desalination plants for another 20 years, however.
Armed with the new government decisions, then-water commissioner Shimon Tal should have been able to proceed apace with conservation campaigns, desalination plant construction, sewage reclamation and contamination prevention and purification. But this was not to be, Tal told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
“The goal was to be desalinating 315 million cubic meters per year by halfway through the decade,” said Tal, now an independent c onsulting engineer
on issues of water and energy.
Currently, only 230 million cubic meters will be desalinated each year at three plants by decade’s end.
Shani said the government had approved increasing that rate to 600 million cubic meters per year by 2013, and to 750 million cu.m. per year by 2020. The latter figure represents roughly the entire country’s present household water needs, although by 2020 those needs are expected to be higher. Nevertheless, if the contracting companies can adhere to the construction schedule and actually desalinate that much water, experts say, then even several dry years should not be the crisis-producing factor they are now.
Considering that desalination plant construction has fallen woefully behind, however, that’s a big “if.”
Tal admitted that, during his tenure, he and his team were not be able to meet the schedule.
“We didn’t manage to implement decisions on time.
Mekorot couldn’t build a 45 million cu.m. plant, and two more plants for which contracts were signed with private companies were never built because they became too expensive for the companies to build at the agreed upon price,” he said.
Tal also noted that the Treasury had opposed desalination, noting that the Finance Ministry “continued to claim that we didn’t need desalination plants. It also refused to fund a conservation campaign,” he said.
There were also ongoing statutory and regulatory issues to be resolved, Tal continued. “[At one point] I turned to the attorney-general to help resolve a dispute with the Environmental Protection Ministry over who had jurisdiction. To the best of my knowledge, he still hasn’t resolved the issue.”
As the current water crisis shows, the government has not yet managed to cope with the vagaries of nature and Israelis’ rising demand for water. Having allowed one water shortage in this decade to turn into a second, even worse one, the question is: Where do we go from here?
Another former water commissioner, Meir Ben-Meir, told The Post earlier this week that if Israel could retrieve “100 million cu.m. of brackish water beneath our soil that could be purified, [utilize] the 100 million cu.m. of sewage that could be recycled annually, and of course take more conservation measures, then our water needs could be met.”
However, according to Tal, “most of the brackish water is already being used.”
Instead, Tal said, “desalinating sea water is the main solution.
Not just here, but all over the region, which is parched for water. The PA and Jordan are in much worse shape. We cannot live in this region without desalination of sea water.”
Regarding sewage reclamation, Shani recently told the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee that much of the country’s sewage was being recycled for agriculture and that he hoped to bring the overall percentage to above 90 percent shortly.
According to Tal, there are three steps to be taken. “The main problem continues to be development. The next step is to take the Water Authority to the subsequent phase of its evolution, [which is] to be made independent from the Treasury budget. The water economy is pretty balanced now in terms of income and expense and the authority could support itself. With an independent budget, it could take care of the projects that need to be implemented,” he said.
In addition, “there are still bureaucratic problems, and enforcement against pollution is problematic, for example. There are also statutory problems. For instance, the Israel Lands Administration refused for many years to give farmers permission to build reservoirs,” he said.
Shani said part of the emergency plan includes purifying contaminated wells.
“The government’s role is to remove the statutory and regulatory hurdles that still block progress. If we manage to remove the obstructions, then the water crisis will become a problem of water quality, not quantity,” Tal said.
While Israel must still look to Heaven for bountiful rain, water experts agree that the difference between crisis and sufficiency lies in human hands.
The price of water and its allocation to the various sectors (agriculture, industry and households), sewage reclamation, conservation and purification are all part of this equation.
Clearly, water “production” is the most significant factor – and, despite environmental concerns about the impact of desalination plants on the ocean and their potential for pollution, desalination is no longer an issue of whether, but how much.
As for the question of when this must be done, of course, we already know the answer: soon, before it’s too late.
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