Interesting how that video ties in with Jewish dates and scriptures. (Coincidentally, someone was telling me this week about some of the earlier historic dates.)
One thing that has been on my mind this week in prayer, has been the feeling of support or lack of support that citizens get from their leaders. In totalitarian regimes, people become dependent but there is always evidence that they can't fully trust that dependence. So then there is bitterness and spite, or despair.
It is hard for a people to sustain a country when they don't believe it will be sustained. What they put into it will not always be respected or valued, or preserved. There is heartache, and I think that God grieves over nations where the people are used, manipulated, dehumanized, devalued, and tortured.
That might seem to have nothing to do with clouds passing over, but when people speak of foreign influence casting a shadow over their land, they fear the difference in regimes. They fear that lack of voice, lack of respect, and inability to trust the new influence.
Of course there is also the fear that darkness overshadows so high up that they can't touch it, with clouds so vaporous that they can disperse or pour down unexpectedly. There's no control over the situation, when clouds come.
Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Psalm 91:15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.
This is true on any scale -- God delivers the individual and the nation, when they call upon Him in repentance.