EARTH IN DISTRESS: 6.10.16 - Thousands Hit by Extreme Global Flooding, Lightning, and Tornadoes. What Does It Mean?

Thousands Hit by Extreme Global Flooding, Lightning, and Tornadoes. What Does It Mean? - By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz - http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/69533/rabbi-recent-extreme-global-flooding-portends-great-change-jewish-people/#fegdVuptE5LgV9uR.97

 

"And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.' Genesis 9:16 (The Israel Bibleâ„¢)

 

The world is undergoing a global plague of flooding that many are trying to shrug off as a passing  anomaly. However, one rabbi thinks the widespread meteorological disasters hold a clear message to the Jewish people.

 

Last Thursday, politicians in Paris packed up their briefcases and left a conference that was a prelude to forcing Israel to accept an internationally imposed two-state solution. Just a few hours after the conference ended, the Seine river rose over 6 meters, levels that have not been seen in over 100 years. Sections of the Metro shut down and workers scrambled to save over 250,000 priceless pieces of art stored in the basement of the Louvre, the world's largest museum. Thousands were forced from the homes into shelters.

 

The storm in Paris was only the beginning. The rains that hit Paris spread across Europe over the weekend, causing massive flooding throughout the continent. Southern and Central Germany were hit with heavy storms, raising river less by as much as four meters within minutes, killing 14 people.

 

Perhaps the strangest aspect of this natural disaster was the human element. Despite meteorology being an advanced science, scientists were caught off guard. Inexplicably, there were virtually no preemptive warnings from the government and scientific institutions constantly on the watch to protect people from these natural disasters.

 

Two people were killed by flooding in Romania and hundreds were made homeless as rising waters flooded roadways, cutting off thousands more people.

 

Rain and flooding were not the only strange weather to manifest. Over 70 people were injured by lightning at the Rock am Ring music festival in Germany on Saturday, forcing officials to cancel the last day, sending over 90,000 wet and disappointed fans home.

 

The flooding was not a local meteorological phenomenon limited to Europe. Last Friday, while Parisians were swimming home, Krasnodar, Russia got hit in three hours with almost 3.5 inches of precipitation, what is normally a full month of rain.

 

No populated continent was spared. In America, extreme flooding hit the Gulf Coast of Texas, threatening 31 counties. Tragedy struck in Fort Hood when a military vehicle was swept away during a training exercise. Nine soldiers were killed in the accident. Nine more people were killed as at least six tornadoes struck in the state and record levels of precipitation fell in some areas. Water levels are still rising in South Texas.

 

Right across the border, Iztapalapa, one of the most densely populated areas of Mexico, was hit by flooding that forced hundreds of families from their homes.

 

In Asia, heavy floods hit  the east and central provinces of China, rendering thousands homeless. Parts of that storm flooded India as well

 

The Eastern Australia coast was pounded by storms on Sunday while flooding hit the southeastern side of the continent, killing three.

 

In Biblical times, the flooding would likely have been seen as an expression of God's anger, as nature was understood to be God's aspect of judgement. When the Egyptians drowned in the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21), the sea was considered to be acting on God's behalf. Joshua went to battle and the sun stood still for him (Joshua 10:13) as an expression of God's will. Most of the ten plagues (Exodus 7:14) could be explained by geological, climate or weather-related causes, yet they were divinely directed.

 

What connection, if any, is there between today's weather events and divine will? One rabbi has an answer.

 

"It's beyond our ability to ascribe any direct connection between these natural events and any human cause," Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf, a Jewish educator and author of many books on Torah, told Breaking Israel News. "But my teacher, Rabbi Noach Weinberg, used to say, 'The battle for life is the battle for sanity'."

 

Rabbi Apisdorf explained that the unusual weather patterns were not mere freaks of nature, but held a vital message which no one can afford to ignore. "The greatest insanity is to sleepwalk through reality and completely miss what is right in front of us," he said.

 

"Whether it is a tsunami, earthquake, flood, or hurricane, when these things happen they grab our attention and force us to look, shaking us from the slumber of our everyday lives."

 

The connection to Israel and the Jewish people is clear, he continued. "One underlying message they are saying is 'wake-up'. If there is a connection to the process that is affecting the Jewish people, then these events are telling us to wake up to what is happening to the Jewish people and the  land of Israel."

 

"This point in Jewish history is nothing less than a shift in the entire direction of the Jewish people that surpasses any shift that could ever take place in the tectonic plates shifting under the earth."

 

For now, the world can rest assured, knowing that as bad as the flooding gets, God promised Noah that he would not destroy the world by flooding again (Genesis 9:16).

 

Why Is the Weather So Crazy All of a Sudden? - By Michael Snyder -

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/why-is-the-weather-so-crazy-all-of-a-sudden

 

All over the planet, global weather patterns have gone completely nuts.  Just over the past few days we have seen "life threatening" heatwaves, extremely dangerous wildfires, vicious tornadoes and unprecedented flooding - and that is just in the United States.  And of course this is just the continuation of a trend that stretches back to last year, when extremely weird weather created "apocalyptic-like conditions" in many areas around the world.  So why is this happening?  For decades, we could count on weather patterns falling within fairly predictable parameters, but now that is completely changing all of a sudden.  All over the globe we are seeing things happen that we have never seen happen before, and the weather just seems to get even more crazy with each passing month.

 

Just consider what has been going on the past few days.  Let's start with the "life threatening" heatwave that is currently hammering the west coast...

 

The West Coast is in the grip of a 'life threatening' triple-digit heatwave that is set to continue well into next week, raising the risk of wildfires.

 

The National Weather Service has issued excessive heat warnings for southeastern California, southern Nevada, western and southern Arizona, western Oregon and far southwest Washington.

 

From Oregon to Nevada temperatures are set to top 100F tomorrow and into Monday, with Phoenix, Arizona, predicted to top out at 116F.

 

These are temperatures that you might expect to see in July or August, but right now summer has not even officially begun yet.

 

And as the article quoted above noted, these extremely high temperatures bring with them a much higher risk of wildfires.  In fact, firefighters in southern California are currently fighting a horrible fire that is raging wildly out of control and that has already forced thousands of people (including Kim Kardashian and Kanye West) out of their homes...

 

A massive brush fire Saturday in the Calabasas area forced mandatory evacuations as rapid flames consumed 516 acres and threatened 3,000 homes, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

 

"This is a fast-moving, dangerous fire," Los Angeles County Fire Chief Dennis Cross said. "It's hard for people to see where this fire is because of the dense canopy and the canyons."

 

If you follow my work closely, you already know that 2015 was the worst year for wildfires in all of U.S. history.

 

More acres burned in the U.S. last year than we had ever seen before.

 

And so far this year, we are more than a million acres ahead of the pace set last year.

 

Meanwhile, CNN is reporting that this "is the second year in a row that Texas has been hit by 500-year floods"...

 

"It could just be really bad luck," said CNN Senior Meteorologist Brandon Miller. "A 500-year flood doesn't mean you will go 500 years between them. It just means it is such an extreme event that the odds of it happening are very low, therefore it only happens on average every 500 years.

 

"It just so happens that parts of Texas have seen them now in back-to-back years, and maybe even twice this year. The odds of that happening are infinitesimally small."

 

In a recent article, I noted that the United States has now been hit by 10 major flooding events since the end of last September.

 

Never before in U.S. history have we ever seen so many major floods in such a compressed period of time.

 

And the hits just keep on coming.  On Sunday, the east coast was bracing for a series of storms which appeared poised to produce very high winds, severe thunderstorms and even possibly some tornadoes.  The following comes from the Daily Mail...

 

The East Coast is braced for an incoming storm that could see up to seventeen million people hit with tropical rain, thunderstorms and even tornadoes.

 

People from New York through North Carolina could be affected, as thunderstorms were expected to blast winds up to 55 miles per hour later on Sunday.

 

The Governors Ball in New York City was cancelled for safety reasons after organizers saw the forecast for lightning.

 

And on top of everything else, Florida is about to be hit by tropical storm Colin.

 

But don't worry, because all of this is perfectly "normal", right?

 

Across the Atlantic, Europe is also dealing with some extremely crazy weather.  Major flooding is being reported all over the continent, and the French just experienced their wettest month since 1886...

 

Segments of France's border with Belgium received six-week's worth of rain in under 24 hours earlier this week, causing widespread flooding across the country. May has been the country's rainiest month since 1886, Radio France Internationale says.

 

As a result of that rain, French meteorologists expect the already-swollen Seine in Paris to peak at 6.5 meters (21 feet) above its usual level on Friday. The Louvre is closed due to flooding concerns, and workers have been busy moving priceless works of art as a precautionary measure.

 

On the other side of the planet, many areas of India have been dealing with an unprecedented heatwave.  On Thursday, May 19th, the all-time record for the highest temperature ever recorded in India was broken.  And this was part of a crippling heatwave that pushed temperatures in northern India "above 104 degrees for weeks"...

 

A severe heat wave warning is in place for much of India through Saturday. Temperatures in northern India have risen above 104 degrees for weeks, the BBC reported. The weather has killed hundreds of people and destroyed crops in more than 13 states, the Associated Press reported.

 

If this happened where you live, you could just go inside and turn on the air conditioning.

 

But most of those people do not have air conditioning, and that is why hundreds of them have been dying.

 

At the exact same time when the crust of our planet is becoming increasingly unstable, our weather is starting to become really crazy too.

 

Some people are going to dismiss all of this as just a bizarre series of coincidences, others will want to blame "global warming", and yet others will see all of this as a sign that Jesus is coming back soon.

 

But what is truly frightening to consider is this...

 

What if our weather just keeps getting crazier and crazier?

 

If our weather continues to spiral out of control, it is inevitable that there will be major famines, widespread riots and tremendous political unrest all over the planet.

 

Is our world equipped to be able to handle seven billion people going absolutely nuts all at once?

 

Let us hope and pray for weather patterns to begin to return to normal, because I don't think that we are.