The Basics of Bible - Herald of Hope

Signs of the Last Days
The exercise will take considerable time, and no doubt will involve
aeroplanes, ships and ground troops. The ground forces will need to
cross the River Euphrates, and Scripture says that its waters will be
dried up to allow the huge army to cross (Rev.16:12).
It is interesting to note that a great deal of attention is being given by
the World Tourist Organization (WTO) to the opening up of the old
Silk Road, which was a maize of roads used as the major link between
Asia and the Middle East in ancient times. It ran from Xian, in central
China, to the Mediterranean, as shown on the adjoining map. Rail
connections have already been established, and there are plans to
construct a natural gas line from central Asia to China along this
corridor. Fast-train technology, coupled with the desire to provide
access to land-locked developing countries in central Asia, makes the
proposal attractive.
A glance at the map will show that the path to the Middle East along
the Silk Road located south of the Caspian Sea must cross the
Euphrates River, which, the Bible says, will be dried up to allow
Asian armies to pass.
The Sign of Euphrates Drying Up
The Euphrates and
Tigris Rivers rise in the
very high country of
Turkey
eastern Turkey around
Ararat and flow to the
lowlands of Syria and
Syria
Iraq, finally pouring
into the Persian Gulf.
Israel
Iraq
Already Turkey has
harnessed the waters of
the Euphrates and Tigris
and has used the
Saudi Arabia
Euphrates as a political
weapon against Syria by
stopping the flow for a
period of four days. A report by Intelligence Digest 3 May 1996, reads
as follows:
"Last week we warned that Syria was likely to respond by increasing
support for Kurdish anti-Turkish terrorism, and that Turkey in turn
would likely respond by using the water weapon. No sooner was
the ink dry on the paper than news came in that Turkey had done
precisely that- reduced the supply of water flowing down the
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Tigris R.
Euphrates R.
The way of the
kings of the east