Though secular science dominated people will say there is a
scientific reason & solution for Tehran slowly being swallowed by a sinkhole,
the divine retribution thoughts in this WND article fits for me.
Iran constantly calls for Israel’s destruction which is a
curse.
Genesis 12: 1-3; Numbers
24: 5, 9 NKJV
12 Now the Lord had
said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Numbers 24
5 “How
lovely are your tents, O Jacob!
Your dwellings, O Israel!
Your dwellings, O Israel!
9 ‘He bows
down, he lies down as a lion;
And as a lion, who shall rouse him?’
And as a lion, who shall rouse him?’
“Blessed is he who blesses you,
And cursed is he who curses you.”
And cursed is he who curses you.”
JRH 12/9/18
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I’m a relatively small-time blogger but with a consistently
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SWALLOWED UP: IRAN
FACING DIVINE RETRIBUTION?
13 million people watch parts of Tehran sinking 10 inches per year
December 9, 2018
A
sinkhole in Iran (courtesy Building and Housing Research Center in
Tehran)
Iran’s capital of Tehran, a city of 13 million people, is
sinking – fast.
That’s the assessment of geo-scientists Mahdi Motagh and
Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi of the German Research Centre in Potsdam who used
satellite data images to monitor subsidence across the region between 20013 and
1017 that show the land sinking radically due to depletion of groundwater
aquifers, shows a recent report in Nature.com.
But, given the radical Shiite regime’s regular threats
against Israel, some rabbis see the possibility of divine retribution –
reminding them of the biblical challenge to Moses in Numbers 16 by Korah, who
was swallowed up by the earth along with his followers.
The collapse is spreading now to encompass the city’s
airport by up to 10 inches a year.
But an impending catastrophe is much more widespread across
the entire western Tehran Plain including the urban area, satellite cities and
the southwest Varamin Plain, an agricultural area that supports it.
“These are amongst some of the highest current rates of subsidence
in the world,” says Roberto Tomás, an engineer at the University of Alicante in
Spain.
Huge fissures – several miles in length and up to 12-feet
wide and deep – have opened up in the land to the southeast of Tehran, some of
which are threatening to topple power-transmission lines and buckle railways.
“When walking around these areas, we see uneven street
surfaces, shifted curbs, cracks in the walls and even tilted buildings, some of
which have had to be demolished,” reports Motagh.
The growth of underground cracks sometimes produces sudden
sinkholes.
“One farmer I met was locked up for hours when the ground
gave way beneath him and he fell into a six-meter-deep crack,” says Ali
Beitollahi, head of engineering seismology at the Building and Housing Research
Center in Tehran.
Such farmland is becoming unviable, because the cracks drain
irrigation water from the surface and leave crops parched.
The cracks and fissures threaten an area that hosts more
than 100 miles of railway, 2,000 miles of roads, 21 bridges, 30 miles of oil pipeline,
nearly 200 miles of gas pipeline, 60 miles of high-voltage electricity lines
and more than 250,000 buildings.
To make matters worse, Iran is one of the most seismically
active countries in the world, being crossed by several major faults that cover
at least 90 percent of the country. As a result, earthquakes in Iran occur
often and are destructive.
“We don’t always know why things happen but when we look
back, we can frequently see that some events we thought were insignificant were
actually small sparks that set off a large explosion,” Rabbi Pichas Winston
told Breaking Israel News about the report. “What is true is that anti-Semitism
is always followed by economic depression and frequently by disaster.”
Winston believes Tehran’s dilemma is clearly part of divine
intervention but added a strong disclaimer.
“Everything that happens in the world is divine
intervention,” he said. “But we absolutely cannot ascribe a specific meaning to
it. One day it could be Tehran sinking and the next it could be a city in
California. The judgments are for God to make.”
Winston reminds the public that Iran’s water shortage has
been well-documented. He notes in June, Prime Minister Netanyahu offered
Israeli water technology to Iran.
“But they wouldn’t take anything from ‘the Zionists,’” he
said. “This anti-Semitism clearly made their current problem worse.”
At the time, Netanyahu said: “The Iranian people are victims
of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water. Israel stands
with the people of Iran.”
Rabbi Ben Artzi told Breaking Israel News that God operates
in the world via nature.
“God is hidden in the world but operates through the natural
forces that He created,” he said. “Through fire, earthquakes, winds, volcanoes
– through every natural force. This is how God operates for countries, but for
the individual, he works through his body.”
This is particularly true of Iran, the rabbi said.
“Every time Iran rises up against Israel, it will get hit by
Hashem (God, literally ‘the name’) – hit hard,” Artzi said.
Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount
Zion, said he has mixed feelings about the crisis in Iran.
“It makes me happy to hear that Iran is having this
problem,” he said. “Not that I, God forbid, wish the people of Iran harm. There
are enough reasons for them to disappear into the ground but the way this is
coming into the world, as a gradual process, gives the people a chance to do
tshuva (repentance) in order to avert disaster.”
He sees a parallel between the news and the biblical story
of Korah and his followers who were swallowed up in the desert for challenging
Moses and Aaron.
“Since the Holocaust, there has not been any nation that has
declared their intention to destroy the Jewish people like Iran has,” he said.
“Anyone who speaks out this way, wanting to wipe out another nation, Hashem
will cause the earth to swallow them up. Everything they think that makes them
great as a nation will simply disappear.”
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