I’ve ticked through all the facts: how many miles are dry, why and how the climate is warming, what biologists are doing to protect rare fish as the waters heat up and evaporate or sink into the sands, and through time, what agencies and irrigators have done to deny, ignore, or nowadays, try to alleviate the drying.Īs I type this in mid-July 2020, about 50 miles of the Middle Rio Grande are dry within two stretches south of Albuquerque. What someone almost 20 years ago told me they called the “Rio Grande highway.”Īlmost every year since 2002, when the Rio Grande has dried, I’ve reported on it.
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Ninety-nine years later, I’m looking at a stretch of that same river-which in Spanish reports from the 1500s is called Nuestra Señora-and watching fish die in the tiny puddles still standing along the river bank as the channel has dried and cracked into an empty, sandy wash. (Report on Floods and Drainage, 1925 | State Archives) The “S.F.” refers to what we today call cubic feet per second and it’s a way to measure how much water is flowing past a certain point.Īccording to that report: “From time immemorial the Middle Rio Grande Valley has been subject to periodical floods that have at one time or another repeatedly submerged all of the area between its bluffs.” Discharge Old Channel 1,800 S.F., New Channel 7,100 S.F. The glossy black-and-white photographs are stuck to the report’s pages, and the typeset words read: High Water June 1, 1922. Taken from a bluff above the Rio Grande, the photos show a wide, meandering river that has overflowed its channel and engulfed the lands beyond the bosque. In the great tribulation, the eastern invader will cross the Euphrates, march through Babylon, and enter Palestine.This article was originally featured in the Santa Fe Reporter in July 2020. They were able to march into Babylon on the dry river bed and capture the city. In the first century, when Revelation was written, the Euphrates divided East from West, and the kingdoms of China and India lay beyond it to the east.Ĭenturies earlier, the armies of Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon by diverting the Euphrates that flowed through the city. It flows almost 2,000 miles toward Palestine before making its way southeast to the Persian Gulf. To some extent the river provided protection for Israel because it was difficult to cross and a wilderness to the west separated it from Canaan, the Promised Land. It was the eastern boundary of Israel's inheritance (Deuteronomy 1:7 11:24). The Euphrates is called "the great river" five times in Scripture. Rather, it seems to be about removing a barrier used for defensive purposes: preparing the way for invading kings from the east. This judgment is not about corrupting or removing the use of this water. Prior bowl judgments have either corrupted or destroyed most of the water on earth (Revelation 16:1–4). The contents of the bowl caused the river to dry up. This verse tells us the sixth angel poured his bowl on the river Euphrates. Revelation 16:12, CSB: The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east. Revelation 16:12, NLT: Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great Euphrates River, and it dried up so that the kings from the east could march their armies toward the west without hindrance. Revelation 16:12, NASB: The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east. Revelation 16:12, KJV: 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, ESV: The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. Revelation 16:12 Parallel Verses Revelation 16:12, NIV: The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.
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