Not sure if I am barking up the wrong tree or even off on a limb. But here it goes... In 2013 there was a massive solar flair up that caused a huge electrical pulse that narrowly missed the Earth. Had it hit, it could have wiped out electrical grids and destroyed computer systems around the world. We were spared. On September 1, 1859, astronomer, Richard Carrington observed a sudden flash over a large area of sunspots on the sun. Within 60 seconds the flash had already started to disappear, but early the next morning, there were reports that the northern lights were so bright that people could read the newspaper as if it were daylight. At the same time strange things began happening worldwide telegraph systems. Telegraph operators were being shocked unconscious and the flying sparks were setting their machines on fire. When the telegraph operators disconnected their machines from the batteries, there were still sparks flying. This is because the power of solar flares induce
Although this video is a lead up to a book about surviving an EMP, there is interesting documentation about the Biblical prediction of an EMP.+ https://youtu.be/xWspv83lSm8