A satellite view of Hurricane Irma in
the tropical Atlantic Ocean. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
When the solar eclipse crossed over the
continental United States two weeks ago, it was immediately followed by a
hurricane of epic proportions in a manner that conformed precisely to prophetic
sources. Two weeks ago, a rare solar eclipse transversed the US, the first time
in 99 years such an event had occurred. Four days later, Hurricane Harvey hit
Texas. The connection between the eclipse and the hurricane was implicit in how
events unfolded.
When the eclipse’s path of totality
passed out to sea over the Atlantic Ocean, it crossed over three storm systems.
At the time, meteorologists stated
that “the odds for development of those systems is very low”, but one of the
systems revealed itself to be far more than the scientists
anticipated. One of the systems touched by the dark path of the eclipse
was the now infamous Hurricane Harvey,
currently the second-most costly natural disaster in US history.
The path of the eclipse met the embryo
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. (Weather Channel)
The connection was explicitly
prophetic. One week before the solar eclipse, Breaking Israel News presented
an article describing a prophecy in the Yalkut Moshe, written
by Rabbi Moshe ben Yisrael Benyamin in Safed in 1894. Rabbi Benyamin predicted
that when a solar eclipse occurs at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul,
as this one did, “It is a bad sign for the other nations, bringing great damage
to the kings of the East, and bringing great storms.”
But the Yalkut Moshe promised
“storms”, and now the second storm system over which the eclipse passed is
poised to inflict more damage. Irma is now a category three hurricane lingering
off the coast, gaining strength and threatening to wreak havoc in an already
devastated region. “Prophecy is meant to reinforce that God is behind all these
events. If God says that he is going to do something, and then it happens right
in front of your eyes, you should believe the entire message,” Rabbi Yosef Berger, rabbi of
King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, told Breaking Israel News of
the storms.
“If a person sees totally unanticipated
events, wonders of nature arriving in unexpected fashion, if that person still
refuses to believe the prophecy that predicted them, then there is nothing you
can say to such a person.” At the time of the eclipse, Rabbi Berger explained
that the prophecy concerning “kings of the east” referred to Kim Jong Un, the
despotic leader of North Korea. In the wake
of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey, less attention has been focused
on the conflict with North Korea, but that political situation has also
progressed in its prophesied manner.
One week after the eclipse, North Korea
fired a missile over
Japanese airspace. The American response, live-fire runs by heavy bombers,
contained an unmistakable threat any sane leader would heed. But in the most
illogical manner that seemed intended to lead the rogue Asian nation to
destruction, North Korea exploded a hydrogen bomb in their most powerful
nuclear test to date. The underground test generated a 6.3 magnitude tremor
under the earth and perhaps even greater tremors in international relations. Rabbi Daniel Asore, a member
of the nascent Sanhedrin, also understood current events as part of a prophetic
process.
Kim Jong Un, Supreme Leader of North
Korea (Traineek/Wikimedia Commons)
“The eclipse transversed the entire US
so it was clearly a message for that nation,” Rabbi Asore told Breaking
Israel News. Rabbi Asore quoted the Talmud (Sukkot 29a), which stated that
a solar eclipse was a bad sign for the non-Jewish nations, who are represented
by the sun and figure their calendar according to the solar year.
“It comes as a natural phenomenon, but
it is really meant to affect the people,” Rabbi Asore told Breaking
Israel News. “Natural disasters are meant as a warning, like a father
slapping the table in order to warn his children that they are doing something
that angers him.”
The rabbi noted that the prophecy had
two parts: storms, which are entirely natural disasters, and wars, which are
entirely man-made.
“Man is the connecting point, made up
of body and soul,” the rabbi said. “The two are connected and play off of each
other. If you look at America, they are seeing these extreme natural
phenomena, but at the same time, there has been rise in Nazism on the right and
the extreme left, both sides united by a hatred for Israel.”
The rabbi explained that by emphasizing
the physical and denying the spiritual, man gives himself over to nature and is
at the mercy of natural disasters. He cited this as the basis of the verse in
Jeremiah.
Thus said Hashem: Do not learn to go the way of the nations, And do
not be dismayed by portents in the sky; Let the nations be dismayed by
them! Jeremiah 10:2
“By accepting God’s rule and his
commandments, man can transcend nature and offset disaster,” Rabbi Asore
explained.
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