Why is the 'holy land' so desert-like? Is this a glimpse of heaven?

Question

THM: Yes, exactly. Such profound powers of reason you possess.

GEG: In all fairness I have not. I have only seen it in the news and on maps. I had more of a desert-like impression from looking at their cities.

Answer 1

Yes heaven is dry and hot. When you die I suggest you take lots of lotion or you will be ashy for all of eternity.

Answer 2

NO.
The degradation is caused by man.
Not so much now, but thousands of years ago when warfare and the building of many wooden warships caused the destruction of the cedar forests of Lebanon..." the Cedars of Lebanon".
Cut down all the trees and the land goes to desert.
When the Jews were promised the 'Good Land" and the spies led by Joshua and Caleb went into the land to check it out, they reported bunches of grapes so big that it took two men to carry them.
modern Jews have been doing their best to get israel back to that productivity. They grow oranges uses drip feed alt water.

And the Bible promises that in God's new system, the whole world will be productive.
(PSALM 72:16) There will come to be plenty of grain on the earth; On the top of the mountains there will be an overflow. His fruit will be as in Leb′a·non, And those who are from the city will blossom like the vegetation of the earth.

Answer 3

So you've never spent time in Israel? 'Cause if you had, you would know she has also mountains, covered with snow much of the time, and lakes, and beautiful flowers and plants. Israel was just desert until the Jews irrigated the land, starting back in the early 1900s.

Answer 4

The Holy Land wasn't always a desert.

It used to be called the fertile cresent because tons of plantlife was grown there.

Answer 5

actually it's karma.... and an omen in natural understanding... a desert is void of life... religions are void of truth...

Answer 6

Pretty vacant you mean? Yes

Answer 7

just a dry area...things will change someday..

Answer 8

Israel fluorishes