OK, this is something that just popped into my pea brain out of the blue. There's a Bible verse (within Revelation 16, I think) that says: "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared".
How far is the Suez Canal from the Euphrates?
quite a ways - there’s that whole darn Arabian peninsula in the middle there
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Quite a ways, we are not there yet, scripturaly speaking.