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Stephen_BostonMA · 11-21-2007, 05:41 AM

Hi all,

I was surfing through some of the kooky sites out there, and came across this piece on Wingnut Daily (oops...I meant WorldNetDaily):

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=58795

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Have you ever wondered by the Holy Land was a wasteland during the 1,800-year dispersion of the Jews that lasted until they returned in significant numbers beginning in the early 20th century?

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Kohen sees this as a miraculous fulfillment of prophecy found in the book of Deuteronomy – especially chapter 28:23-24.

"And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

"The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed."

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Sometimes I've wondered what happened to Israel to turn it into the dusty, arid land it was when the Jews came back in the 20th century. Until I read that prophecy in Deuteronomy, brought to my attention by Rabbi Kohen, I had no clue.

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Beginning in A.D. 70 and lasting until the early 1900s – about 660,000 days – no rain.

I decided to check this out as best I could and examined the rainfall data for 150 years in Israel beginning in the early 1800s and leading up to the 1960s. What I found was astonishing – increasing rainfall almost every single year – with the heaviest rainfall coming in and around 1948 and 1967.

I am sure this (or some version of it) has been covered here before, but I couldn't find it in the archives. Any comments?

dog-on · 11-21-2007, 05:48 AM

Maybe the diversion of the Jordan river by Israel, in the 1960's has a little to do with it...

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