REVELATION: 16-12. The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.Posted on 08/10/2009 10:08:48 PM PDT by TaraP
Syria is experiencing an economic holocaust. There is no other way to describe what the Syrian regime is so much trying to hide.
The country is drying up, and no less than 250,000 farmers were forced in the past three years to abandon their land and migrate to the large cities. They live in tents there, completely neglected by the regime. These figures appeared in a special study undertaken by the United Nations and published on the al-Arabiya website.
The immense Euphrates River, Syria’s main source of water, is drying up.
The Turks are stopping its water in their territory, so that Syria and Iraq are receiving a declining portion of the water. Within about 10 years, the river is expected to dry up completely outside Turkish territory. Today already, it reaches Syria with contaminated water and therefore its fish, an important source of livelihood, is becoming extinct.
As result of the drought that had been plaguing Syria for several years now, another important Syrian water source, the Aasi (Orontes) River, is drying up as well. Its water is becoming saltier and increasingly contaminated, and its fish are dying off. And without fish, there is no livelihood. Entire villages fed by its waters for hundreds of years are simply being deserted.
Ground water in the country had reached such nadir that it is no longer possible to use the roughly 420,000 illegal wells dug by residents over the years. If there is no water, there is no agriculture; people proceed to leave the village and move to the city. As there is no work there either, the distress is terrible and political pressures builds up.
Many of the farmers leaving their villages are Kurd, which makes the problem an ethnic one. The Kurdish refugees accuse the regime of doing nothing for them. For several years now they have been living in thousands of tents near the big cities without being addressed. REVELATION: 16-12. The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.
Remember, the people who live in Ankara now have power 24/7.
BTTT
It was his bicycle tire. Don’t know if Fix-A-Flat is suitable or not.
Things have changed since my childhood. I’d guess cell phones are behind it. I’d have had to walk my bike home.
Going back to the decline of ancient Sumer, it’s my understanding that persistent drought is only one of several possible scenarios, with persistent drought being one of the more speculative. Dry summers and dependence upon floodwaters due to snow melt running down out of Turkey has always been the case. The shift from wheat to barley that is evident in archaelogical research and in cuneiform tablets, would seem to indicate salinization of soil over time, due to heavy reliance upon flooding and/or irrigation.
Actually, it goes back much, much further than that. Between 11,000 to 10,000 years ago in that area, there was a drought that lasted 1000 years.
From about 13,ooo years ago there had been warming, with acorn-rich oak forests spreading, surface water in the form or lakes and springs appearing, and hunting bands from the southeast migrated into the area of present day Syria. They eventually established communities based on gathering nuts from the oak and pistachio forests that stretched from the Euphrates River basin through Damascus and down into the Jordan River valley. After a couple thousand years communities had been established and populations had grown.
The drought hit these people very hard.
(The area of today’s Persian Gulf was dry land between 18,000 to 14,800 years ago. It did not flood with sea water completely until about 5,500 years ago, after which it subsided a bit. Pre-flood it was a low lying valley with a river running through it to below the present Strait of Hormuz. The Euprhrates and Tigris rivers join together before entering the present day Gulf waters, but underwater mapping has shown where two other rivers, now extinct, once joined with the ancient single river. This fits with the ancient Hebrew description of the Garden of Eden being located on a river below the congruence of four rivers.)
Sources for this information can be found in UNDERWORLD, by Graham Hancock (chapters 2 & 3); and THE LONG SUMMER: How Climate Changed Civilization, by Brian Fagan (chapter 5). Warning! These are boring books.
Time for Lebanon to get nervous.
The signs were seen countless times in history... everytime they were wrong. I don't see why this is any different today.
I need to tape this story on my fridge the next time I want to complain. Wow.
No, “intellegent Christians” are too busy trying to get SUV’s off the road because they believe it’s Global Warming doing this.
I’ve been to the source of the Mississippi (in Minnesota), a small spring flowing out of the ground.
The Mississippi receives most of it’s flow from it’s major tributaries, the Missouri, the Ohio, the Arkansas, etc. all downstream from Minnesota.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tributaries_of_the_Mississippi_River
Can we talk about this in a couple of hours?
Wow, talk about bible prophecy coming to life in front of our eyes. VERY interesting.
Exactly. There are none so blind who WILL NOT see.
It’s called being aware...
God never said HOW it would happen, only that it WOULD happen. The Turks are playing right into God’s hands it would seem.
I bet he does now...
Hmm, November 2008?
That’s not true. God has always warned His people through His prophets and through signs of the times. You may not know exactly the day or hour but you will know the season. Open up your eyes and be aware.
Historically, drought is a curse, or judgement. Not hard to see why. Who attacks Israel pokes his finger in God’s eye!
“It was his bicycle tire. Don’t know if Fix-A-Flat is suitable or not.”
No. Try a bike shop.
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