Transformation of the Dead Sea by Rift Valley Expansion!
Supplement to Chapter 11 (36 Chapters) of Tectonic Chaos
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March 19, 2006
Thirty years ago, I indicated that when an acceleration of spreading and earthquake activity finally began in the Afar Triangle on the southern end of the Red Sea, then several years later the Revelation 6:12 would start to rip the Jordan Valley in a series of intermittent quakes that would culminate with the greatest of all in Revelation 16:18. I now believe the acceleration has begun and, most likely, between 2008 and 2012, the Revelation 6:12 earthquake will occur.
Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Revelation 16:18 – And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
When I wrote my first book in the seventies, “Tectonic Chaos,” I wrote of the coming transformation of the Dead Sea by the hand of God. The following article by Greer Fay Cashman in the Jerusalem Post outlines the current difficulties the Israelis face in deciding what to do about the constantly receding shoreline of the Dead Sea.
Cashman’s quote of an old adage in the article is quite appropriate: “where there are two Jews there are three opinions.” The Dead Sea will be transformed in short order by only one unique opinion, the Lord’s opinion, before Israel ever reaches a decision as to how to solve the problem.
That is my opinion based on Ezekiel 47:6-12. The first portion of Chapter 11 in “Tectonic Chaos” follows the JERUSALEM POST article.
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Katsav: Salvation of Dead Sea Must Become a National Priority
By Greer Fay Cashman, THE JERUSALEM POST
January 11, 2006
Salvation of the Dead Sea must become a national priority, President Moshe Katsav said on Wednesday to an interministerial and regional group convened by Shimon Hefetz, the President’s military adjutant to discuss the future of the Dead Sea.
The receding water level of the Dead Sea has had negative impacts on the environment; not the least of which is the erosion of the shoreline.
There has been awareness of the problem for more than a century, but most notably since the 1960s.
Over the years, various ministries, regional councils, institutes for Israel Studies, the Water Commissioner, the Geological Institute, the Israel Hotels Association and other bodies have attempted to find solutions to the problem – but to no avail.
It wasn’t a matter of hydro-engineers, geologists and other experts being short on ideas. It was simply that they couldn’t agree.
At the start of discussions at Beit Hanassi on Wednesday, Katsav stressed the urgency of consensus – “if not total at least by a large majority” – and said that he was not prepared to hear too many disagreements.
But the situation turned out to be symptomatic of the old adage that where there are two Jews there are three opinions.
Katsav could not even get each of the thirty or so participants to concur on the fact that the recession of the Dead Sea water levels is a natural disaster.
There were those who refused to see it in such a drastic light, because this would imply that there is no solution, whereas to label it a problem would be to acknowledge that there is a solution.
Several solutions have been proposed in the past – most notably the construction of a canal for the transportation of water from either the Mediterranean Sea or the Red
Sea to the Dead Sea. There has also been talk of importing water from Turkey. The introduction of pipeline could enhance tourism, revitalize industry and agriculture and provide thousands of new jobs.
However no solution can be implemented without proper feasibility studies on how it would affect the color and quality of the water, and what impact the new water levels would have on geology and on the tourist industry.
All the hotels in the area were built after significant declines in water levels. If the water is replenished, albeit at a slow rate, hotel foundations will be weakened and hotel lobbies will eventually be flooded.
Suggestions that hotels be moved back from the shoreline have been rebuffed by hoteliers on two counts: the first being the expense involved, and the second that the attraction to tourists is the very fact that they can go directly from the hotel into the sea that has so many curative properties.
Among the dangers of permitting the status quo is that as the Dead Sea continues to recede, fresh water can move through layers of the subsurface, the strength of which has been bolstered by the salt in the Dead Sea. Without the salt, the subsurface weakens and caves in. As a result, there are now several craters in the region, and there is increasing likelihood of earthquakes.
Whatever the nature of the solution, it will cost the tax-payer a great deal of money. Figures bandied about during the meeting were not in the millions but the billions.
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God, not man, is going to transform the Dead Sea into a fresh water lake.
In 1976, I indicated that when the spreading apart of the three tectonic plates, at the southernmost end of the Red Sea, began to spread apart at an accelerated rate, it would eventually put enough spreading force again the locked fault in the Gulf of Aqaba that it would split the Jordan Valley rift apart for about 185 miles north of Eilat. In mid-2005 the spreading of the Afar Triangle began to accelerate, and continues to do so at the present time.
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).
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