New York Times: Euphrates River is drying up as foretold by Bible

Armageddon Battleground
Map of Euphrates River Valley and Middle East
The Bible says the Euphrates river will be the initial division between the North and the South when the nations of the world begin to align in preparation for the battle of Armageddon. It is in this last battle that the nations of the earth will fight Jesus Christ and His angels coming down from Heaven. Jesus will conquer all the armies against Him and will begin to directly rule the world from His throne in Jerusalem.


Rice farmers surveyed their dry field near a village on the outskirts of Najaf. Iraq is now importing more and more grain. A boy rested on the mud in a dried-up section of the Euphrates River near Jubaish, Iraq, in June 2009.

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.

“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.”Revelation 16: 12

Jesus is coming soon…Our King and Savior!