Death – The Destroyer of Worlds
The explosion that shook Bierut on August 4, 2020, was catastrophic!
That explosion killed 160 individuals, injured another 6,000, and sent destructive shockwaves through the city.
You can blame Israeli missile attacks but in the end, the circus of events leading up to the explosion belies any supposed intent by state and/or any other actors to intentionally start any kind of conflict in the region!
In a Reuters article by Samia Nakhoul and Laila Bassam titled: Exclusive: Lebanon’s leaders were warned in July about explosives at port. is was reported that:
Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital if it exploded, according to documents seen by Reuters and senior security sources.
Even though this destruction was more than likely caused by a calamity of poor decision-making, the fear of warring peoples in the region remains a real threat in the lives of people living in the Middle East.
Israel and Hezbollah probably have in their arsenals much more powerful and terrible weapons of destruction.
These powerful weapons of destruction play upon the minds of their inventors
After two atomic bombs were used against Japan in World War 2, J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the wartime Los Alamos Laboratory remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Have things changed?
How do you contain such power?
Containment has always been problematic.
Ark of the Covenant
The first such weapon, although not man-made, was the Ark of the Covenant.
When it was brought onto the battel field it was said to have “paranormal lambency” and both the ancient Hebrews and their enemies were equally afraid of its power.
It was said to radiate a solar power so much so that when Moses came down Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments, his face was red with radiation of some kind.
“He did not know that the skin on his face was radiant… And when Aron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, the skin on his face shone so much that they would not venture near him.”
The Ark could only be held by the priests of the Levis tribe, those who were clean and not bloodied by the stain of war.
Those who were not priests from that tribe would be burned if they touched the Ark.
Death was not far behind.
Beirut 2020: The Explosion
If you think back to that damaged Russian cargo vessel in 2013 and how the cargo of ammonium nitrate was offloaded and then so poorly stored for all those years, the story begins to read like a cold war spy novel and reeks of something unholy.
These powerful ingredients that could be easily used as weapons of war were not properly looked after or contained.
Bierut and its citizens were burned.
The Judges nor the Priests could have saved the city!
Robert
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