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In this case, Syria has much to repent for. “God loves all of creation but nations are judged on how they relate to Israel. “It is clear that what is happening in Syria is the prophecy of Jeremiah,” Rabbi Berger said. Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, emphasized that it is precisely during the holiday of Sukkoth that the world is judged on how much rain it will receive in the upcoming year. Assuredly, Wildcats and hyenas shall dwell, And ostriches shall dwell there It shall never be settled again, Nor inhabited throughout the ages. 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.Ī drought against its waters, that they be dried up! For it is a land of idols They are besotted by their dread images. 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 Kurdish authorities are accusing the Turkish government of withholding water for political purposes. Turkey has seized land in Syria from the Kurds in order to decrease their influence on the border region. Much of the path of the Euphrates inside Syria lies inside the northeastern region of the country which is controlled by the semi-independent Kurds which Turkey considers to be a terrorist organization. Some experts believe that Turkey is using the water crisis to exert a political agenda. In recent months, that amount has dropped to as little as 200 cubic meters per second. The sources of the river lie in Turkey and an agreement between the two countries in 1987 allowed an annual average of 500 cubic meters per second of water to cross into Syria. 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. However, the fulfillment of the biblical prophesy has its optimistic meaning as well: the coming true of the signs given by Christ shows the nearness of Christ’s second coming – “When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” (Luke 21:28).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. Just for comparison, in June 2018 one US dollar equaled 4.5 Turkish liras, while in June 2023 one dollar was exchanged for more than 23 Turkish liras, a decline by more than 80 percent over the past five years.
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In his book “Daniel and the Revelation”, the Christian Adventist writer Uriah Smith wrote in 1882 that the drying up of Euphrates river in Revelation 16:12 was a symbol of “consumption of the Ottoman power”.
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‘The great river Euphrates’, as God’s Word states in Genesis 15:18, Deuteronomy 1:7, Joshua 1:4, Revelation 9:14 and Revelation 16:12, the longest river in Western Asia and the fifteenth-longest in Asia with its length of approximately 2800 km (1700 mi) and a depth that varies between 3 and 32 feet (0,92 m to 9,75 m), dries up and “only in the last few years the river water was almost completely drying up”, the website confirmed on June 2, 2023.