Dying River in Biblical ‘Cradle of Civilization’ Raises Scary Specter of End Times

The “cradle of civilization” may be turning into a dust bowl — and some Christians say the Bible saw it coming.

The mighty Euphrates River — the legendary waterway that helped give rise to some of humanity’s earliest civilizations — has been shrinking at an alarming rate, sparking fresh fears among end-times believers that an apocalyptic prophecy from the Book of Revelation could be unfolding in real time.

The famed watercourse winds nearly 1,800 miles from the mountains of eastern Turkey through Syria and Iraq, slicing through the ancient Fertile Crescent — the Biblical “cradle of civilization” — before meeting the Tigris River and draining into the Persian Gulf.

Now, as water levels plunge, prophecy-watchers online are sounding the alarm over a chilling passage from Revelation 16:12.

It says: “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.”

For generations, some Christians have interpreted the verse to mean that the drying river would pave the way for a massive eastern army to march toward the Battle of Armageddon — the cataclysmic showdown believed to precede the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. (Read more from “Dying River in Biblical ‘Cradle of Civilization’ Raises Scary Specter of End Times” HERE)

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