Israel 365 News - A prophetic dichotomy appeared in Saudi Arabi as a heavy hailstorm blanketed the desert sands in white on Saturday, sending camels to wander unfamiliar ice-covered dunes.
Heavy thunderstorms and hailstorms, accompanied by snowfall, hit several cities in Asir, including Abha, Khamis Mushait, Tanuma and Al Namas. With temperatures around 28 °C (82.4 °F), the ice and snow quickly turned to flooding.
The hail that hit Saudi Arabia on Saturday was distinctly unlike the hail that hit Egypt so many years ago in that it lacked the elemental opposite of ice, namely the fire the Bible described as accompanied the hail. But this is at least the second time the arid nation of Saudi Arabia was covered in hail, making one wonder if the ever-increasing phenomenon bears prophetic significance.
Hail was, of course, the seventh plague that hit Egypt before the Exodus. Jewish sources predict that all of the plagues will reappear in the final Redemption but in even more powerful forms. It is written in Midrash Tanchuma, homiletic teachings collected around the fifth century, that “just as God struck the Egyptians with........ CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEOS AND READ MORE
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