Sandstorms and Earthquakes in Iran

Sandstorms and Earthquakes in Iran

Within days of threatening to destroy Israel, a massive sandstorm turns daylight into darkness as it sweeps through city in Iran

(Residents in Iran capture video of an intense sandstorm as it sweeps through Yazd Province: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSo9kzaJ3Po)

A massive sandstorm that tore across parts of Iran on Monday, blocking out the sun and sending residents in search of cover, left at least 10 people injured.
The sandstorm swept through Yazd Province in the centre of Iran, according to the
Footage of the incident shared on social media showed a wall of sand and dust as it approached a city. Another video captured a man taking cover as day quickly turned dark. “Everything is becoming brown. It’s like misty and brownish,” a man is heard saying in the video.

Yazd Province’s meteorological organization said the storm had a wind speed of up to 102 kilometres per hour, IFP News reported on Tuesday.

As if the sandstorm accompanying the threats made earlier in the week were not a clear enough indication of divine displeasure with Iran, another natural disaster hit the rogue nation on Thursday. In what seemed like a divine double-down response, at precisely the same time Israelis were joyously barbecuing on their Independence Day, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Iran just a few miles from the country’s only operating nuclear power plant.

These natural phenomena in Iran did not go unnoticed by Jewish spiritual leaders. Rabbi Amnon Yitzchak, a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Israeli rabbi known for his massive outreach efforts, made a post on his Facebook page that the Iranians would do well to heed. Rabbi Yitzchak wrote:
“The Iranians threatened to explode Israel with an atomic bomb on Independence Day, and within 48 hours they got hit by an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale in the area of their atomic reactor and an unprecedented sandstorm that turned Iran into a sandbox. Now tell me that we do not have Divine Providence.”

Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, noted that natural manifestations of divine intervention serve a specific purpose in connection to Israel.

“It is the function of Israel to show the world that God is still active in the world,” Rabbi Berger told Breaking Israel News.“Many people believe in God and even believe that God created the world. But most of them don’t believe that God acts directly in the world in relation to our actions.”

“The prophets describe a new reality that will be evident in the time of the geula (redemption),” Rabbi Berger said. “Of course, nothing happens in the world without God’s intervention. But in the end-of-days, this connection between natural events and God’s purpose will be so clear as to be undeniable.”
Rabbi Pinchas Winston, an end-of-days expert, believes that as times go on, such events indicating divine intervention in mundane events will become more prevalent.

“In the later stages of the geula (redemption) the mixture of miracle and nature will increase to the point where it will become so clear it will be undeniable,” Rabbi Winston said. “You can’t conclusively say anything is hashgacha pratit (divine intervention). But the people who are prepared to look at the big picture will be able to connect the dots in a way that makes more sense than trying to explain everything in strictly natural terms.”