Euphrates River

Many of you probably saw this New York Times article if you are plugged into Joel Rosenberg's blog...but for those that haven't, it's pretty interesting. The article is about the fact that the Euphrates River drying up. What's kind of amazing is that the New York Times brings up a prophecy out of the book of Revelation;

The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks, has left fishermen impoverished and has depleted riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for work.

You can read the full article here; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/world/middleeast/14euphrates.html