Dams can’t totally dry up a River,
Only divert it into another Channel,
Which Turkey is not about to try to Do!
Dams are built to Control River Flow Rate,
As to Water Levels maintained Downstream!
During Tribulation Period God’s big Earthquakes
Will block the long Euphrates in southeastern Syria,
To divert it southwest in Syria between Palmyra Faults
And Folds into the headwater tributary of the Jordan River,
Leaving the Euphrates dry for the Millennial Kings of the East!
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Revelation 16:12 – 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.
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Chapter 23 – God Forms a Dry Highway
November 2, 2001
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Isaiah 11:15,16 – And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. [16] And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of
the land of Egypt.
In Isaiah’s day the “tongue of the Egyptian Sea” is what we identify as the Gulf of Suez, a northern extension of the Red Sea that slithers between Egypt and Sinai like a long wet tongue.
Since Isaiah’s writings man has dug out a northern extension of the “Egyptian Sea” to link the Mediterranean and Red Seas together. This extension is known as the Suez Canal. The two words “utterly destroy” come from “charam,” which means “to be cut off” or “to shut up.” We are advised by God, through the prophet Isaiah, that He intends to completely shut-up the waters of what we identify today as the Suez Canal. He will do so by crushing the western and eastern banks together by movement of two tectonic plates.
In Birth Pang Number 18, Chapter 20, the division of the Mount of Olives into two remaining halves was described, with one half being carried northward on the extreme southern edge of a newly created Gaza Plate, while the other half drifted south on the northern tip of a newly formed Sinai Plate (See Figure 33). In Figure 34 you may observe the consequences of the movement
of the Sinai Plate as it floats southward on an underground liquid sea of magma. As the southward drift occurs, the Sinai Plate will be jammed against the massive African Plate. Dry land will crunch against dry land, and the “tongue of the Egyptian Sea” will be “completely shut-up.” It will be possible to walk across this area on dry land throughout the millennial reign of Christ.
When the expression “the river” is used in Hebrew, if there is no context above or below to identify it specifically, always means the Euphrates River.
The term “the river,” found above in verse fifteen, is “hannahar,” and it applies to the Euphrates River. When it states that the Euphrates should be smitten “in the seven streams,” the Hebrew construction does not mean that it already existed as seven streams, and that God smites all seven. Instead, it states that God shall smite a single river and, when he has performed that action, it will have divided it into seven streams. That single river is none other than the massive Euphrates River. This drying up of the great Euphrates is also echoed by John in Revelation.
Revelation 16:12 – 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.
We are advised in verse sixteen that the drying up of the great Euphrates creates a dry highway, a highway for the millennial return of Israelite tribulation survivors from lands east of the Euphrates. The latter portion of this verse also indicates that the dry highway will extend into Egypt. The “Israel” of verse sixteen represents the descendants of the man Jacob, hence the personal pronoun “he” is used, even though it refers to the entire nation that came forth from him through his twelve sons. When the nation of Israel “came up out of the land of Egypt,” God parted the waters of the extreme northern extension of the Red Sea, the extension that Isaiah identified as “the tongue of the Egyptian Sea” in 700 B.C., but which is identified as the Gulf of Suez today. On the day Israel crossed the “yam cuwph” extension of the Red Sea, while fleeing from the Egyptian Pharaoh, it could be said that God created a highway of dry land from Egypt to Assyria. But God closed his dry land bridge to destroy the Pharaoh’s mighty army with a flood of closing walls of water, however, the dry land bridge he describes in Isaiah will last a thousand years.
Because of the drying up of the Euphrates, and the shutting up of the Suez Canal, it will be possible to walk all the way from Egypt to Assyria without passing through waters that cannot be waded in sandals. When God jams the Sinai Peninsula against the extreme northeastern tip of Africa, a sea-free highway will be created, a highway that will last for a thousand years. Two great continents, the African and the Eurasian, will be fused together by God. Throughout the millennial reign of Christ the many nations of these massive continents will move up and down this dry land bridge to worship Christ in Jerusalem, the new capital of the world. The commerce of Africa will flow through Israel to Eurasia, and the products of Eurasia will flow through to Africa. Israel will sit at the crossroads of the world’s land and sea commerce. She will be the center of the world. God will destroy those who came against Jerusalem during the Tribulation Period. And the city of Jerusalem will be the place where all the nations of the world come up to worship the King of kings, Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel.
Zechariah 14:2,3,16 – For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. [3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
[16] And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Luke 1:30-33 – And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. [31] And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. [32] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: [33] And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Daniel 7:13,14,27 – I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. [14] And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
[27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
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Chapter 24 – God Smites the Great Euphrates
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Isaiah 11:15,16 – And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. [16] And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Revelation 16:12 – 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.
In Birth Pang Number 21, Chapter 23, proof that “the river” of verse 15 is the great Euphrates River was fully exposited. We were advised that God will smite it and, as a result, it will be subdivided into seven smaller streams. The question then arises as to the geographical location on the Euphrates that will be smitten by God. At what point will God strike the Euphrates to dry up the southern part, and turn the northern section into seven smaller streams? I call your attention to Figure 35 for the answer to this question.
The same God who inspired this Scripture has created a long zone of structural weakness in the crust of the earth – a weakness that extends northeast from the headwater tributary system of the Jordan River across Syria, making contact with the Euphrates between Dayr az Zwar and Abu Kama. This structural weakness consists of the an elongated area of major faults and folds in the earth’s known as the Palmyra belt. Please observe on Figure 35 that this belt of folds and faults links the northern Jordan and Euphrates Rivers together.
The Euphrates is one of the greatest carriers of topsoil silt on the face of the earth. It tears it from Turkish mountainsides and carries it through the Fertile Crescent of Syria and Iraq into the Persian Gulf. The land delta of the Persian Gulf is one of the fastest growing deltas on the earth. This growth is produced by massive influxes of silt carried into the Persian Gulf by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Isaiah indicates that God will smite the Euphrates into seven sub-streams. This will occur in the zone of the earth that begins on the Euphrates in the vicinity of El Rashid, Syria, and then continues southwestward into extreme northern Israel near Dan.
When the Arabah fault (See Figure 25) is ripped open from the Gulf of Aqabah to Lebanon, the fantastic shaking will cause the Palmyra fault zone to collapse, and the Euphrates River will be diverted across this crumbled zone of rock and earth to link up with the northern headwaters of the Jordan.
Whenever a sediment carrying river moves into a zone with more sediment than it can carry due to deceleration, then it invariably produces what geologists call “a braided river.” A braided river is the division of a single river into many streams. Isaiah counted seven. Seven streamlets will weave their way southwestward through the newly formed cracks in the Palmyra Weakness, and will eventually feed into the northern tributary system of the Jordan River. It will be what geologists refer to as “headwater piracy”—piracy by the Jordan upon the Euphrates.
The additional waters, fed into the Jordan River system, will add more water and topsoil than Israel can use during the millennial reign of Christ. Israel will become the breadbasket of the world.
We are advised by John in Revelation 16:12 as to the effects of this massive water diversion into the upper Jordan. The section of the Euphrates to the east of Israel will go dry. It will then be possible for the kings of the east to wade in sandals any water lying before them on their way to Israel. Figure 36 shows the combined effects of the drying up of the Euphrates, and the Idumean opening of a Jordanian drainage through the Arabah desert into the Red Sea. (See Birth Pang Numbers 15 and 16)
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Turkey says it will try to increase water flows to Iraq, Syria from Tigris and Euphrates
SUZAN FRASER
Associated Press Writer
1:38 PM EDT, September 3, 2009
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In a change of heart, Turkey said Thursday it would strive to increase the amount of water it releases to Syria and Iraq through the historic Tigris and Euphrates rivers but warned that it too was suffering from a severe drought.
Hours earlier, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz had said his country was already too overstretched with water and power demands and could not raise the flow of water any further.
Water disputes threaten to disrupt the newly warm relations between Turkey and its neighbors and complicate wider efforts to bring stability to the region, as the populations of the three countries increase and the demand for water grows.
Drought-stricken Iraq has accused upstream neighbors Turkey and Syria of taking too much from the rivers and their tributaries.
Below-average rainfall and insufficient water in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have left Iraq parched for a second straight year, wrecking swaths of farmland and threatening drinking water supplies.
“It is very important and Iraq is already getting much less water due to some dams constructed in Turkey and Syria,” said Nagesh Kumar, a water expert at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. “There is potential for international conflict in this region on water disputes.”
Turkey’s environment minister, Veysel Eroglu, said his country would try to release as much water as possible over its legal obligation of 500 cubic meters per second.
“There is a serious water crisis in Iraq, we are taking this into account,” he said at the end of a meeting Thursday with the Iraqi and Syrian irrigation ministers. “But our own capabilities are limited.”
Eroglu would not say how much more water Turkey could allow its neighbors. Yildiz said Turkey was already releasing on average 517 cubic meters per second, sacrificing its own energy needs to help others.
The drought has also dealt a blow to Iraq’s hopes that reductions in sectarian violence over the last year would fuel an economic recovery. Instead, lower-than-expected oil prices have crimped government revenues and the scarcity of water is forcing Iraq to spend money to import crops like wheat and rice to meet domestic demand.
Minutes of the meeting obtained by The Associated Press said Iraq had requested 500 cubic meters per second at the Syrian-Iraqi border during September and October to help farmers during the irrigation period. That’s about twice the amount Iraq receives currently, a Turkish Energy Ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
According to the minutes, Turkey said it would be difficult to increase the water flow by that amount because of the drought.
Abdul-Latif Jamal Rasheed, Iraq’s Minister of Water Resources, said Turkey and Syria had shown understanding.
“The situation in Iraq is serious, we are asking that they help us in our hour of need,” Rasheed said. “They have said that they will help us as much as they can.”
Rasheed did not say how much water was currently flowing into Iraq and there were discrepencies in the figures the ministers gave concerning water levels. Earlier, Rasheed had hinted that Syria wasn’t sending all of the water it should down to Iraq.
He said reporters “ask me at every meeting whether there will be a war over water.” ”The issue cannot be solved through war but through neighbors negotiating between them with the best of intentions,” Rasheed declared.
Nader al-Bunni, Syria’s irrigation minister, contended his country was letting more water flow into Iraq than required by agreements.
Sharing water from the Tigris and Euphrates has been a potential source of conflict since the 1970s when Turkey and Syria began constructing dams. To avoid strife, the three nations have been holding a series of water meetings — Thursday’s was the sixth ga
thering in the last two years.
Turkey has recently established friendly ties with Syria — a country it had long accused of harboring Kurdish rebels — and has been actively participating in Iraq’s reconstruction.
Turkey in the past has been advocating using water more efficiently through joint projects instead of increasing water flows downstream.
On Thursday, the three nations agreed to establish joint stations to measure water volume, monitor and exchange information about climate and drought, and create joint water education programs.
They will meet again in Baghdad next January.
Associated Press writers Selcan Hacaoglu and Gulden Alp contributed to this report.
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