“HE’S COMING BACK” The Terrible Sound Under The Euphrates And What Happens To Us Next?

History shows us that great nations rise and fall. Babylon, Greece, and the Roman Empire have all risen to greatness, only to fall in time. This cycle of rise and fall is sometimes more dramatic than even the most popular TV shows, like Game of Thrones. As many say, truth is stranger than fiction—though it often takes centuries for the full drama to unfold. And now, we are witnessing a country on the brink of collapse. Here’s a clue: it’s a country in West Asia. Can you guess it? It’s Iraq.

Iraq was historically known as the “cradle of civilization,” where the first urban settlers thrived along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. For thousands of years, the fate of Iraq has been tied to these rivers. The Euphrates, in particular, made Iraq one of the most fertile countries in West Asia. But today, the mighty river is drying up, and with it, Iraq’s future. This tragic fate isn’t unexpected; in fact, it has been foretold by a terrifying prophecy, one that now seems to be coming true. Strange, ancient discoveries are being uncovered beneath the dried riverbeds, shocking the world.

In today’s episode of Eyes 200M, we explore the reasons behind the Euphrates’ slow death. The problems with the Euphrates began over a thousand miles upstream, near its catchment area below the Taurus Mountains in Eastern Turkey. Over the past several decades, Turkey has been rapidly building dams in a rush to generate electricity and create arable land. The first major dam, the Keban Dam, was opened in 1974, followed by the Ataturk Dam in 1990. Turkey’s Southeastern Anatolia Project, a $32 billion plan to build 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric plants along the Tigris and Euphrates, will eventually supply nearly a quarter of Turkey’s electricity.

Syria also began building dams on the Euphrates in the 1970s, but their development stalled after the Civil War. Since the Turkish and Syrian dams were constructed, water flow into Iraq has decreased by nearly two-thirds. Iraq has long been in a water dispute with its neighbors, and tensions nearly led to violence in the 1970s after Turkey and Syria diverted the river’s flow into reservoirs, nearly drying up the river downstream in Iraq. In response, Iraq constructed canals to divert water from the rivers, but negotiations with its upstream neighbors remain stalled.

As a result, Iraq has lost over 60% of its water resources in the past 100 years. Water flow in Iraq’s rivers has fallen drastically, from 1,350 cubic meters per second in 1920 to just 150 cubic meters per second in 2021. Currently, more than 75% of Iraq’s renewable water resources come from external sources. This has led to a dramatic drop in per capita water availability, from 5,900 cubic meters in 1977 to less than 240 cubic meters today.

In 2013, the World Resources Institute warned that by 2025, Iraq would face an even more critical water crisis. This dire outlook has been further confirmed by a recent NASA and German government satellite study, which showed that the Tigris-Euphrates basin is losing groundwater faster than any other region on Earth, except India. The World Resources Institute has ranked Iraq as one of the nations expected to experience extreme water stress by 2040.

By the 2020s, experts predict that Iraq will face a total collapse in water availability during the summer months. This will result in an environmental catastrophe, as Iraq shifts from water scarcity to a full-blown water emergency. Iraq’s demand for domestic water is expected to more than double by 2035, further worsening the gap between supply and demand. By 2040, water scarcity levels are expected to reach an alarming 4.6 on the Water Stress Index, indicating an absolute drought.

Global warming is only exacerbating the situation. Rising temperatures are expected to increase evaporation rates and further reduce rainfall by 30 to 40 percent by the end of the century. Iraq’s marshes, forests, mountains, lakes, and rivers are among the most vulnerable areas to climate change, and many populations have already been displaced due to the scarcity of water. This has led to increased competition for resources and may eventually overwhelm the country’s ability to manage these crises.

Some experts warn that Iraq may face the same fate as ancient civilizations, such as the collapse of the Ubaid period around 3,800 BC, which was caused by rising sea levels, desertification, and drought.

But could the drying up of the Euphrates be the fulfillment of biblical prophecy? Two passages in the Bible predict the drying up of the Euphrates. In Jeremiah 50:38, God prophesies a drought on the waters of Babylon, which is thought to refer to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The second prophecy is found in Revelation 16:12, which describes the drying up of the Euphrates River as part of the end-times judgments. According to this prophecy, the drying of the river is to prepare the way for the kings from the East.

Some believe this refers to the rise of powerful Eastern nations like China. Revelation 9:16-18 predicts that these kings will command an army of 200 million, a staggering number when the book was written, but today, China alone has an army that exceeds 200 million.