TRIBULATION SHAKING MAKES DEAD SEA A FRESH WATER LAKE
NORTHEAST SECTION OF MILLENNIAL DEAD SEA REMAINS SALTY
AS I SAID IN 1976 ‘TECTONIC CHAOS’ AND TAUGHT IN LECTURES
MAKES THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS COME ALIVE IN EZEKIEL 47:11
July 22, 2011
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Ezekiel 47:10,11 – 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.
TAKE A LOOK AT SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 188B WHICH FOLLOWS THE TWO EXCERPTS FROM YNET NEWS.
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Gov’t backs salt harvest to prevent Dead Sea flooding
Environmental Protection, Tourism ministries come together to foil threat looming over hotels on Dead Sea’s south bank. Eco groups laud ‘environmentally responsible’ solution
Yael Darel
Published 05.31.11, 18:20 / Israel News
The solution to the flooding looming over the south banks of the Dead Sea will be to harvest the salt which is causing water levels to rise, Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan and Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov announced recently.
The solution was formulated by a government committee tasked with outlining a perennial development plan for the Dead Sea area, which includes preserving the area’s unique environment while boosting its economic standing.
The decision coincides with a report by the Dead Sea Preservation Government Company (HELI), which has been trying to devise a solution to the rising water level, which threatens the area’s booming hotel industry.
Water levels on the Dead Sea’s south shore, where the hotel strip is located, rise about 20cm a year; while remaining relatively stable on the north shore, as a result of their use by Dead Sea Works industries.
HELI’s environmental report concluded that the salt accumulated on the south basin of the Dead Sea must be harvested in order to foil the threat of flooding.
This recommendation is a significant achievement for various environmental groups, including the Society for Protection of Nature in Israel and Israel’s Nature and National Parks Service, as well as for the Dead Sea Hotels Association, all of which backed the possibility of a salt harvest.
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‘A brave decision’
The various environmental groups rooting for the salt harvest hailed the recommendation, saying that the salt harvest was the preferable solution, as it is “environmentally responsible.”
A salt harvest, they said in a statement, is “the only solution that allows for the continuous, unhindered operation of both the hotels and salt industries; while leaving the area’s environmental balance unharmed.”
Minister Erdan added that ” while salt harvest also has an environmental impact, eventually there is no other way.
In the long run we would have had to pursue it anyway. It is also the only reversible solution – if a better solution presents itself in the future we can always stop the harvest.”
Attorney Amit Bracha, CEO of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, called on the Environmental Protection Ministry to further explore ways to minimize the effects Dead Sea Works operations have on the northern basin, saying investing government funds in rehabilitating the area should take precedent to investing in tourist attractions.
MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), who heads the Dead Sea Lobby in the Knesset, welcomed the decision as well: “From day one we stresses that a salt harvest is the only way to solve the south basin crisis. The government has to implement its decision sooner rather than later.
We have no more time to waste.”
Begin Excerpt 2 Selected Paragraphs from Associated Press via YNet News
Dead Sea faces shrinking, flooding
While water level of fabled salty lake dropping nearly 4 feet a year, part of it is actually overflowing – threatening one of Israel’s key tourism destinations
Associated Press
Published 07.03.11, 08:01 / Israel Activism
The Dead Sea is dying, goes the conventional wisdom: The water level of the fabled salty lake is dropping nearly 1.2 meters (4 feet) a year. Less well known: Part of the lake is actually overflowing, threatening one of Israel’s key tourism destinations.
Israel is feverishly campaigning to have the Dead Sea – the lowest point on earth and repository of precious minerals – named one of the natural wonders of the world. At the same time, it’s racing to stabilize what it calls “the world’s largest natural spa” so hotels on its southern end aren’t swamped and tourists can continue to soak in the lake’s therapeutic waters.
Without intervention, “in five to 10 years, (the water) would flood the hotel lobbies, no question,” said Alon Tal, one of the researchers the government has commissioned to find a solution.
The Dead Sea is divided into a northern and southern basin, which are located at different elevations, largely disconnected and miles (kilometers) apart. That means the rising waters of the southern basin cannot simply pour into the shrinking basin in the north.
Heavy industrialization is what’s causing the waters on the southern basin to rise. Chemical companies have built evaporation pools there to extract lucrative minerals from the lake.
Millions of tons of salt are left annually on the floor of these pools, causing the water to rise 20 centimeters (8 inches) a year.
Israel’s tourism and environmental protection ministers are endorsing Tal’s most expensive proposal: A complex $2 billion plan to chip off the salt buildup on the part of the lake that’s rising and send it by conveyor belt to the northern end that’s dropping.
They’re also demanding that Dead Sea Works Ltd.
– the multibillion-dollar Israeli industry that mines the mineral-rich waters – foot the bill.
“As the polluters, they should pay,” said Roee Elisha, associate director of the Dead Sea Preservation Government Company Ltd., a branch of Israel’s Tourism Ministry.
One of Israel’s top tourism draws
The Dead Sea, which is linked to the sites of the biblical Sodom and Gomorra, runs more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) through Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. Its minerals have been sought after since ancient times: The pharaohs were embalmed with the lake’s natural asphalt lumps, and Cleopatra is said to have used its skin-rejuvenating salts and mud.
Today, the lake is one of Israel’s top tourism draws. Half of the 3.45 million tourists to Israel paid a stop there in 2010. Almost 200,000 stayed in the 4,000 hotel rooms along the lake. Locals flock there too, with more than 630,000 – or almost one in 10 Israelis – spending time at Dead Sea hotels last year.
Dead Sea tourism revenue totaled some $300 million last year, propping up an industry that accounts for thousands of jobs in a part of the country that otherwise offers limited employment opportunities.
Current efforts to preserve the Dead Sea as a natural treasure shine a spotlight on how extensively the lake has been exploited by modern industry — and how it paradoxically also depends on industry for its survival.
Israel’s Dead Sea Works and Jordan’s Arab Potash mine Dead Sea waters for potash and other minerals, exporting them worldwide for use in fertilizers, cosmetics, cars and laptops.
The southern basin now in danger of flooding nearly dried up before the chemical companies intervened. In the 1960s, Dead Sea Works dug a 16-kilometer (10-mile) canal to pump saltwater from the lake’s northern basin into its nearly parched southern end, turning it into a network of evaporation pools.
That pool is where the bulk of the Israeli hotels lie, and where tourists bob in filmy water so heavy with salt and minerals that they float.
But as the water rises, it encroaches on hotel beaches, where blobs of salt stick out near the shores and the salty floor sparkles in the turquoise waters. At one beach, stairs leading to the lake have become half-submerged, and a sun umbrella permanently affixed to the edge is now deep in the water.
‘Winning contest could help revive lake’
Dead Sea Works says it will foot some of the bill to dredge the salt from the evaporation pools and send it north, but is negotiating its share with the government, said Noam Goldstein, the company’s vice president of infrastructure.
Environmentalists accuse the company of profiting at the expense of the ecology. Its factory of smokestacks, pipes and levers looms at the tip of the lake, and its tractors sit high atop snow-white piles of potash.
The company counters that without it, tourists in Israeli hotels would have nothing to swim in – the hotels sit on the banks of their evaporation pools.
The salt dredging proposal still awaits a final government approval.
It’s the exact opposite problem at the Dead Sea’s northern basin, where the water level is dropping and a barren, pockmarked moonscape has replaced sandy beaches.
Old boardwalks that once led into the lake now stand in the middle of empty land. At one beach, bathers must ride a trolley to the lake’s edge.
Israel, Jordan and Syria are responsible for the northern Dead Sea’s dramatic shrinkage: They have redirected the Jordan River and its tributaries for drinking water, drastically reducing the amount that used to flow into the Dead Sea. The Israeli and Jordanian industries also pump out water from the sea for their evaporation pools.
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END 2 EXCERPTS FROM YNET NEWS
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 188B
September 8, 2004
Tectonic Chaos was my first book published in the late seventies
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 h ath
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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