“And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation.” (Isaiah 13:19-20)
This threat that seemingly arose out of nothing continues to grow. ISIS, aka the Islamic State, advances still, bringing with it its dark, devastating and deathly agenda. For one thing, the Sunni terror group made its first conquest in Lebanon, seizing the city of Arsal with 40,000 residents and another 120,000 refugees.[i] But the real big news was back in Iraq, the home of ancient Babylon, where ISIS fighters chased off Kurdish forces without a fight as they captured three towns, an oil field – and most importantly the electricity-producing Mosul Dam in the northern part of the country. The dam controls the flow of both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.[ii] [That’s interesting in the light of the fact that Revelation 16:12 tells us that the Euphrates will one day dry up making way for an advance upon the Holy Land by the Kings of the East. “Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.” It will be part of the judgments of God.]
But in the present day, ISIS is threatening something else that is quite devastating. ISIS has used a magazine which they publish to define the threat they are making upon Iraq. The choice they lay out is clear: Give in to the rule of the new Caliphate, the Islamic State (ISIS) – or – face a devastating flood. Here’s how Breitbart reports it. “ISIS’s seizure of the dam happened on the heels of releasing the 2nd issue of its online magazine known as Dabique. Dabique’s issue is called ‘The Flood’ with the threat on the cover, ‘It’s either the Islamic State or the flood’. The ‘flood’ issue of ISIS’s Dabique talks about punishing sinners by drowning them through a massive flood.”[iii] Even without releasing the waters for a flood, the terror group could wreak havoc by withholding irrigation water from farmland. And should they choose to flood it would be beyond devastating. A study a few years back came to the conclusion that the city of Mosul would find itself under 65 feet of water. Portions of Baghdad would find itself 15 feet under and the whole thing could cause as many as 500,000 deaths, the lions share of those in the Kurdish city of Mosul.[iv] [v]
[i] SIS Gains First Ground in Lebanon, Yahoo, August 4, 2014
[ii] ISIS ‘Seizes’ Iraq’s Biggest Dam!, Investment Watch, August 3, 2014
[iii] ISIS Magazine Threatens: ‘It’s either the Islamic State or the flood’ , Brietbart August 3, 2014
[iv] “Iraqi Dam Seen In Danger of Deadly Collapse, Washington Post, October 30, 2007
[v] I give credit here to David Bay, of Cutting Edge Ministry, News Update, August 4, 2014
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