Is God trying to tell the Isrealis that the 'Promised Land' only extends so far?

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EIN GEDI, Israel – Eli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him. Fearing he would never be found alive in the 30-foot- deep pit, he scribbled his will on an old postcard.

After 14 hours a search party pulled him from the hole unhurt, and five years later the 69-year-old geologist is working to save others from a similar fate, leading an effort to map the sinkholes that are spreading on the banks of the fabled saltwater lake.

These underground craters can open up in an instant, sucking in whatever lies above and leaving the surrounding area looking like an earthquake zone.

The phenomenon, Raz said, stems from a dire water shortage, compounded in recent years by tourism and chemical industries as well as a growing population. "This is the most remarkable evidence of the brutal interference of humans in the Dead Sea," he said.

The parched moonscape, famous as the site of biblical Sodom and Gomorra, is the lowest point on earth and runs more than 60 miles through Israel and the West Bank.

Large sections of the coast are fenced off and signposted in Hebrew and English: "danger, open pits" and "sinkhole area ahead." But it's too expensive to inspect every place for danger. Just two months ago an Israeli hiker wandered into an area that had no warning signs and was critically injured when he fell into a sinkhole.

While such accidents are rare, Raz says there are up to 3,000 open sinkholes along the coast and likely just as many that haven't burst open yet. And they're having a big impact on Israeli development plans.

The collapsing terrain has forced authorities to close a campground, date groves and a small naval base, and to scrap plans for 5,000 new hotel rooms, said Galit Cohen, director of environmental planning at the Ministry of the Environment.

The holes, also found on the Jordanian side of the sea, are the result of the Dead Sea having shrunk by a third since the 1960s when Israel and Jordan built plants to divert water flowing through its main tributary, the Jordan River.


The holes form when a subterranean salt layer that once bordered the sea is dissolved by underground fresh water that follows the receding Dead Sea waters.

The main road along the shore has been torn apart by streams whose energy is increased because they are flowing farther to reach the receding sea, and all construction along the strip between sea and highway is banned, Cohen said.

Both Israel and Jordan evaporate Dead Sea water to extract its phosphates and have built hotels along the coasts for the thousands of tourists who come in search of the curative powers of Dead Sea mud, or simply for the experience of floating unsinkably in its salt-saturated waters.

Answer 1

I would assume that if there were a god, he would make himself heard on the subject if he found it to be important.



Apparently, there is no god.



Taoist/Atheist

Answer 2

i do no longer understand. it extremely is not something Jews communicate approximately or are taught on a huge-unfold foundation. the assumption is that sometime this could come to bypass. it extremely isn't any longer what Israel is consistent with in any respect. Israel is consistent with being a secure place for Jews, and place of beginning. it extremely is set interior the placement we got here on account that replaced into organic. An orthodox Jew who's studied Torah will understand what the Torah says relating to the unique bountries in extra component, alongside with information of each final element in there on each sort of subjects. regardless of the undeniable fact that, i'm effective there is a brilliant number of confrontation amoungst them approximately precisely what they have been because of the fact each little thing gets interpreted. (There are a minimum of 5 distinctive manufacturers of seals of kosher certification i will think of of off the wonderful of my head, because of the fact of disagreements on the interpretations.) there is not any purpose to escalate Israel to those borders from the previous. while you're non secular and have confidence God promised it to the Jews, then you definately suspect...that sometime it is going to come to bypass - no longer that we want nor ought to do something to make it take place. era. it extremely is superb how lots this has been taken out of context over the years to slot the political angles of Israel's protractors. it is likewise unsettling to appreciate how lots it resembles the older anti-semitic concepts that "Jews are overly formidable and certainly to administration and take over each little thing." Even amoungst non secular Jews, that's so no longer an important area of the religion. Judaism is a pair of coaching for residing day after day existence now. no longer the furturist aims that fill Christian spirituality, and to a pair volume Islamic.

Answer 3

God would be doing the world a service if that area sunk below ground.

Every religion comes from there from Muslims to Christians to Jews.

If the one spot they are all waiting for the messiah to return to goes down under in one giant earth quake so it is from God.

Maybe they will stop fighting over there. also include madena and mecca in that.

Answer 4

I heard the Promised Land is located at a crater in the northern part of the globe, and it's rich in Mako and protected by the WEAPONs.

Answer 5

when God said a place such Sodom was never to be inhabited, He wasn't kidding.



When He said The Temple will be trodden by 'Gentiles' until their hour is past, He meant it



my brother, if i were you i wil take it seriously when He says He wil destroy those who reject His Love and Mercy.



Get down on your knees and ask Jesus into your life as your God and Saviour and you shall be saved.

Shalom.

Answer 6

Oh great, I'm sure religion will solve all our Middle-eastern problems.

Answer 7

first, there is no god so there is no one telling anyone this.

second, they're gonna believe wht they're gonna believe regardless,

third, the whole place is a pit.

Answer 8

the explanation sounds completely normal to me, what does it have to do with god?