Scientists: Rain stopped when Jews left Mideast - Findings confirm
rabbi's reading of Bible prophecy

Posted: December 05, 2008

Prophecies for Era of Muslim Terror

Confirming a rabbi's reading of Bible prophecy, scientists reported
yesterday that an analysis of rings on stalagmite from a cave near
Jerusalem reveals the climate of the region got drier shortly after
the Roman dispersion of the Jews in A.D. 70.

University of Wisconsin geologists analyzed the chemical composition
of individual rings that formed the stalagmite growing up from the
floor of the Soreq Cave near Jerusalem between 200 B.C. and 1100 A.D.
Geologists John Valley and Ian Orland concluded the climate was drier
in the eastern Mediterranean between 100 A.D. and 700 A.D., with steep
drops in rainfall around 100 A.D. and 400 A.D. – a period of waning
Roman and Byzantine power in the region.

Rabbi Menachem Kohen of Brooklyn, in his book, "Prophecies for the Era
of Muslim Terror: A Torah Perspective on World Events," made just such
a case last year – based on entirely different evidence.

Rabbi Kohen points out the land suffered an unprecedented, severe and
inexplicable (by anything other than supernatural explanations)
drought that lasted from the first century until the 20th – a period
of 1,800 years coinciding with the forced dispersion of the Jews.

Kohen saw the cataclysm 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."

Researchers from the Geological Survey of Israel and Hebrew University
in Jerusalem helped with the study, which was to appear in an upcoming
issue of the journal Quaternary Research. The latest scientific study
was tied to research into global warming

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