Revelation 16:12 Warnings of severe water shortages in the Middle East

Everywhere you look : "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and
upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves
roaring" (Luk. 21:25).

February 18, 2013 by count down to zero time
Revelation 16:12 Warnings of severe water shortages in the Middle East after satellites show freshwater reserves the size of the Dead Sea have dried up


Just in case you weren’t quite sure whether we were in the end times, now we learn that the Euphrates river is drying up.
I think it’s clear to many Christians that we are in the end-times, but is a vial being poured out by the sixth angel?
In Revelation 16:12, it is prophesied that the Euphrates will dry up in preparation for the Battle of Armageddon: “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.”
<blockquote>The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraq’s neighbors, Turkey and Syria; a two-year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it is now.
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, …
Warnings of severe water shortages in the Middle East
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• Nasa study shows 144 cubic kilometers of stored water lost in Middle East
  
• Water lost through poor management, increased demand, and drought
  
• Affected areas include Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran in Tigris/Euphrates basin
  

PUBLISHED: 13:32, 13 February 2013 | UPDATED: 15:02, 13 February 2013
Vast freshwater reserves nearly equivalent in size to the Dead Sea have been lost in the Middle East in the last decade, according to a new Nasa study.
Scientists warn there could be severe water shortages in decades to come if water resources are not managed better in the region.
They say the precious water stocks have gone because of poor water management, increased demands for groundwater, and a major drought in 2007.


This Nasa image shows variations in water storage from normal, with drier conditions in red and wetter conditions in blue


Precious resources: Freshwater reserves from the River Euphrates basin in Iraq have decreased dramatically
The study, which will be published later this week, examined 2003 to 2010 data from two gravity-measuring satellites which are part of Nasa’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).
Scientists used GRACE satellites rather than ground-based research because of the difficulty of obtaining data on the ground in the regions covered.
The satellites showed that freshwater reserves in parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins had decreased by 117m acre feet, or 144 cubic kilometres over seven years.


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