Yechezkel 47, and the sweetening of the Dead Sea
I often learn some interesting stuff from Dutchsinse videos that are not directly connected to earthquakes.
I took a look at the video where he is forecasting a possible massive 7.5+ quake, centered around Israel / Lebanon – the rift that leads up from the Red Sea, by Eilat, on the east side of Eretz Yisrael, via the Dead Sea plain, and up to Tiberias and the Kinneret.
It could actually strike anywhere between Spain in the West, and Saudi Arabia in the East – or nowhere.
So, nothing is a 100% prediction, and that’s not how Dutchsinse works. But still, he’s correct enough of the times that the possibility is at the least, very possible.
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So now, in one of his throwaway comments, he was talking about how a massive earthquake centred on that plate boundary with the Dead Sea could potentially lead to the sea water flooding into the plain of the Dead Sea.
That was an idea that some of his xtian followers went a little nuts over, in the comments section, and started going on about Ezekiel 47, where it talks about the waters of the Dead Sea being ‘sweetened’.
It’s a shame to admit, but I don’t remember reading this. I had to go back and double-check, and sure enough, this is what it says:
“He said to me, ‘Have you seen, O son of man?’ He then led me and returned me to the bank of the stream. Upon my return, behold, along the bank of the stream were very many trees on one side and on the other. He said to me: ‘These waters go out to the eastern region; they descend to the Arava and go to the Sea, to the spreading sea [i.e. the Dead Sea] – and the water will be sweetened.”
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Go read the passukim yourself, Yehezkel 47: 1-13.
Point is, there is a clear prophesy that some massive floodwaters are going to reach the Dead Sea, somehow, in Yehezkel they are coming down from the West, from the Temple, via the Judean plains.
So, Dutchsinse is maybe not a million miles off.
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So then, this got me thinking, about how the last 30-40 years, and the concerted effort by the State of Israel to dry up the Dead Sea, one way and another.
Was it really just economics, or was there also more of a hidden religious motive operating, too?
I ask this question, as I have come to the conclusion the whole State was basically conceived, planned, organised – and eventually, set up – by Xtian Zionists, with a few Jewish puppets found to head the enterprise up and fool the masses.
I could be wrong, but this is where I am currently holding.
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So, just sharing this here with you folks, do with it whatever you will.
If the Rav says anything interesting about earthquakes, I will try and translate and share it, if I hear anything.
But, we for sure live in interesting times.
Can you confirm whether Zionists actually planted pine trees—which are not native to the region—to make the environment look more like Europe? Some anti-Zionists claim this. They even allege that these pine trees are one of the reasons for the intense forest fires in Israel, as they catch fire quickly and the flames spread very easily.
That’s such a strange detail to focus on. I’ve never looked into the subject myself, but why would ‘anti-Zionists’ be making a big deal about that, specifically?
UPDATE: I found something online, that sounds like what you are referring to, here:
https://truthout.org/articles/the-story-of-palestines-colonization-and-resistance-is-embodied-in-the-trees/
The half-truths in all this drive me absolutely nuts. You have to go back at least 200 years to get at any inkling of what was really going on in Eretz Yisrael. Yes, Arabs lived here then, but not very many of them, many of them were bedouin with flocks, who basically acted like bandits and warred with other bedouin tribes all the time, while the Turkish authorities just tried to maximise their tax revenues without investing a penny in ‘Syria-Palestine’ as the whole place was then known. IT’s only Muhammad Ali’s revolution against the Ottomans in the 1830s-1840s that began the ‘renaissance’ of Palestine, as many of the feuding tribal leaders were dispossessed, and something approaching a civic code and laws were introduced. The Bedouin literally wrecked any infrastructure they came into contact with – eg, destroying the water acqueduct from Solomon’s Pools, so their flocks could drink from it by breaking into the acqueduct’s walls.
So, it’s totally disengenuous to talk about the ruins of Palestinian villages, without also acknowledging that many of these places FAILED ALL BY THEMSELVES before the Jews were here as a governing body, for a whole bunch of reasons. Also, many of the Palestinian villages themselves often contained Jews – and some, like Ain Zetoun, were actually Jewish settlements originally in the 1850s, that failed – not least, because the Arabs kept violently attacking the Jewish occupants.
My understanding is that pine was planted because it grows quickly. Not all pines are imports. There is a native pine.
About 10 years ago I was walking with my friend through a forest in Gush Etzion. There were many fully grown pines, but what was interesting were the hundreds of oak saplings we saw all over. These are also native but very slow growers. My friend said this was the intent all along. Plant fast growing pine, and enable the slow growing oak to take root, and eventually dominate the entire area, as in ancient times.