![]() ![]() From the mouths of the Dragon, the Beast, and And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the river Euphrates and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrising. The dry riverbed became a fine roadbed for the kings from the East. The sixth Angel poured his bowl on the great Euphrates River: It dried up to nothing. The sixth angel poured his bowl on “the good and abounding river,” and it completely dried up in order to prepare the way for the kings of the east. ![]() Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates so that the water in the river was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east to come. The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east. In the Christian Book of Revelation, it is prophesied that in the ” near future the Potamos Euphrates or “breaking forth like water” of the middle east will dry up in preparation for the Battle of Armageddon.Revelation 16:12 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. In Islam, some of the hadiths suggest that the Euphrates will dry up, revealing unknown treasures that will be the cause of strife and war. ![]() Assuredly, Wildcats and hyenas shall dwell, And ostriches shall dwell there It shall never be settled again, Nor inhabited throughout the ages.” Jeremiah 50:38-39īoth Christian and Muslim eschatology include prophecies of the drying up of the Euphrates signaling the end of days. “A drought against its waters, that they be dried up! For it is a land of idols They are besotted by their dread images. The prophet Jeremiah described how the waters of Babylon, the region currently including Syria and Iraq, would dry up as a punishment for their idolatrous practices, the devastation being so complete as to render the region, once part of the so-called ‘fertile crescent’, uninhabitable. “On that day Hashem made a covenant with Avram, saying, “To your offspring I assign this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:” Genesis 15:18 It was also named as one of the borders of the land God granted to Abraham’s descendants. “The name of the third river is Tigris, the one that flows east of Assyria. The Euphrates figures prominently in the Bible with it being described as bordering the Garden of Eden. The water level at the Tishrin Dam, the first into which the river falls inside Syria, has dropped five meters and is currently about ten centimeters above “dead level” when the turbines stop producing electricity. Two dams in northern Syria face imminent closure which would leave about three million people without any access to electricity. ![]() The 1,700-mile-long Euphrates is the main source of drinking water as well as powering three hydroelectric plants that produce electricity for about three million people in Syria. Almost 90% of rain-fed crops, mostly wheat and barley, failed this season, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Iraq. Dams and drought have reduced the waters of the two rivers to about 20% of previous levels.Īll these elements combined have led to a food crisis in the region. In the year to September, rainfall in southeast Turkey where the rivers originate was 29% below the average of the previous three decades, according to Turkey’s meteorological agency. Officials accuse Turkey of cutting the river’s flow upstream over the last two years to half the level it committed to in a 1987 accord, a claim the Turkish government denies. “What was once known as the Fertile Crescent started to die about 35 years ago,” he said. ![]()
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