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.
Syria has a huge lake (Buhayrat Al Asad) resulting from Syria's damming of the Euphrates River at Jenf Al Amir, Suwaydiyat As Saghirah and again at Ath Thadyayn.
"IF" the Euphrates is drying up....???...it is the result of Syrian Dams.
....yawn.
Read through Acts Chapter 1 and the things that are said about the coming Kingdom. Note, this is post-cross. Did Jesus spiritualize it? Did Jesus allegorize it? Did Jesus chastise the apostles for asking about a coming Kingdom (i.e., you idiots, don’t you know it is already here in symbolic form???).
Amillenialism is false. It is contra-scripture and many of the people who hold to it have an inconsistent hermeneutic.
Thanks for the ping, I already knew about this one for a while.
That was the forest for the trees that I was hinting at in a roundabout way.
That's what dried it up before, a dam, enabling the armies of Cyrus the younger to get inside Babylonian city walls, by going under a flood gate.
So, prophetically, dried up is dried up. It was a dam that did it before, in prophecy. It very well could be a dam that does it again, in prophecy.
Correction, Cyrus the Great, not the Younger.
No one knows the day and hour. Anyone who does not think we were being given signs of the end is not reading right. Or is in denial. By the way, the Nile is also going to have this problem in Egypt, as countries upstream start taking the water. I believe there is something in Scripture about this too but I’m not sure.
Tuesday, July 14:
‘The front page of Tuesday morning’s New York Times had a stunning headline: “Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates River Dwindles.”
‘The drying up of this historic river in the land of ancient Babylon is so stunning, that even the Times had to note that Bible prophecy says this will happen in the “last days” of history, in the lead up to the apocalyptic battle of Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation.
‘Excerpts from the Times story: “Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on land they once floated over, cry out to visitors in a passing boat. ‘Maaku mai!’ they shout, holding up their rusty sickles. ‘There is no water!’ The Euphrates is drying up. ...
‘The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks, has left fishermen impoverished and has depleted riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for work.”
End quote.
Per Joel Rosenberg, ‘Please note did not add in the link above to the “Bible Gateway” website for Revelation 16:12. The Times’ online edition includes that link themselves. Apparently the newspaper of record now believes that the future of Iraq in light of Bible prophecy is part of “all the news that’s fit to print.”’
My mommy and daddy and a good chunk of my relatives taught me that on some topics,
Texans don’t communicate at any other volume.
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Actually, the net & most on it have their sensibilities on such and I have mine.
However, have as long a coffee start as you need! LOL.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Historically, drought is a curse, or judgement. Not hard to see why. Who attacks Israel pokes his finger in God’s eye
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indeed! indeed! INDEED!
INDEED!
AMILS, POST-MILS, RUN-OF-THE-MILS (joke), PRETERISTS,
and REPLACEMENTARIANS of all sorts
are in la la land when they construe God’s Word to NOT mean what it says.
Now now.
Some folks think they “know” that
ALMIGHTY GOD
JUST ABSOLUTELY HAD TO
do things precisely as their pointy little heads imagined . . . and that in A.D. 70.
LOL
ROTFLOL TO THE MAX.
I forget about the Biblical predictions re the Nile.
I do recall that Egypt is in for some rough sledding.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
A dried up river is a dried up river, but I guess some folks imagine that an old, white haired guy with long beard and robes, zooming around limited by the speed of light can’t work prophetically through the actions of man.
Such a limited “god” probably wouldn’t be able to do so. But, this outside, imposed conception is flawed. God is not limited by the physical laws He created, and He works through man all the time, and always has since the dawn of Creation, whether they’re conscious of any purpose to their actions or existence, or not.
And that just drives materialists and secular humanists batty.
Thanks for the ping!
INDEED.
. . . drives them . . . battIER.
Sure could.
Nevertheless, the story says it is the result of the turks damming it up. Negative.
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