Posted on 11/26/2019 1:41:02 PM PST by Perseverando
President Nixon, in his last official address, left a cryptic warning of the Middle East "...so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave."
The "cradle of civilization" is the Mesopotamian Valley, also called "the fertile crescent."
The Fertile Crescent begins south of Mount Ararat, the traditional resting site of Noah's Ark, and continues south to the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
This area later became the lands of: Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Syria, and Assyria.
Assyria is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, where it describes the location of the Garden of Eden, states (2:4):
"And the name of the third river is Hiddekel (Tigris): that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria."
The first documented language in Assyria was "Akkadian," written in Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform characters.
In this language was the world's first great work of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, around 2,500 BC.
The Epic gives the account of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, going on a long journey to meet his ancient ancestor who had survived a global flood by building a large boat and covering it with tar. He boarded it with his family and animals.
In the flood, all life on land drowned.
When the flood waters receded, they repopulated the world.
Over a hundred ancient civilizations have accounts tracing back to a flood in the distant past.
Gilgamesh is credited with being the first to defend his city using a novel innovation - he built a wall.
Around the year 2,371 BC, Sargon of Akkad conquered a number of walled cities to create "the first empire."
It was called Assyria.
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It was called Assyria."
M.A.G.A said Sargon. (Make Assyria Great Again.)
Interesting. I went to Israel for the first time just a couple of months ago, and I wish I’d gone before. I didn’t go with a pilgrimage, but just with a good Israeli tour company, and our guide (an archaeologist who then went into the military) was great. He was a Jewish Israeli, and one of the things we saw was the sad state of Arab Christians on the West Bank (Bethlehem) who have declined from 90% of the population to 15%. But they were the only functional Arabs there, because once the PA and the Muslims took over, their whole project was the destruction of Israel and prosperity (because prosperity makes you think there might be a life out there). That’s why they destroyed all the greenhouses the Israelíes had left them.
But aside from that modern observation, going there convinced me that the final conflict will begin there.
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