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No, the Euphrates River Drying Up Does Not Mean the World Is Ending: A Closer Look at Scripture
Not yet, anyways.
It’s been all over both the news and social media recently. The Euphrates River, primarily running through Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, is drying up. Suddenly, news anchors and social media prophets are everywhere. They claim a biblical prophecy found in the Book of Revelation is being fulfilled. I disagree wholeheartedly. Let me tell you why.
Let’s first begin by looking at the verse in question.
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. — Revelation 16:12 (KJV).
We live in a society that has little patience. We live in a society where we are constantly busy. Most social media scrollers will read a news headline, react to their emotional rise through a few witty words and then drop their mic with a hashtag. In the same sense, people don’t make the time to read any surrounding verses to understand the concept behind a verse. The Book of Revelation, of all the books in the Bible, is easily the worst book to pluck verses out of context to use as a defense to stand upon. This is because each chapter is littered with Old Testament references. Without a strong foundation of Old Testament prophesy, the symbols found in the Book of Revelation simply won’t make sense.
Now let’s expand on this verse and flesh out what’s truly going on here. Before the sixth angel dries up the Euphrates River, several other things must come first. I will only briefly touch on these events as I am currently writing articles in my Book of Revelation series that will take a detailed look at each verse in the Book of Revelation.
The Rapture
The Rapture of the Church is where all believers in Jesus Christ who accept Him as their Lord and Savior are immediately transported out of their earthly bodies and into heaven. This happens prior to the Tribulation period which begins with the first of the four horsemen. The world will take notice when masses of Christians suddenly vanish from society.
