Euphrates And Tigris Rivers Drying Up As Plagues of Snakes Released

The Desert Horned Viper lurkes in sand, only eyes, nostrils and horns above the surface.


If you think this sounds like something the Lord's Apostle saw and wrote about right from the Bible in Revelation, you're right.

We are seeing more headlines in the news today with biblical connotations, and now, plagues of snakes are released with swarms of snakes attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as  the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their habitat among the reed beds.

• The plague of snakes is the latest result of an unprecedented fall in the level of the water in the Euphrates and the Tigris, the two great rivers which for thousands of years have made life possible in the sun-baked plains of Mesopotamia, the very name of which means "between the rivers" in Greek.

"People are terrified and are leaving their homes," says Jabar Mustafa, a medical administrator, who works in a hospital in the southern province of Dhi Qar. "We knew these snakes before, but now they are coming in huge numbers. They are attacking buffalo and cattle as well as people."

Doctors in the area say six people have been killed and 13 poisoned.

John, in Revelation Chapter 16, wrote about the sixth angel pouring out his vial upon the great river Eu-phra-tes; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

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Behold, I come  as a thief, Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.  Revelation  16:12-15