A friend sent this to me - and I thought it was interesting - particularly from the perspective that my daughter's had me reading the "Left Behind Series" lately with her.

Concepts and history are proving out here...

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Those of you who are Bible scholars will already know some, if not all of this, but you may not have put it together. So, here in one place, are some things you might not have known about the country we now call Iraq:

Iraq is considered the "cradle of civilization" because it's where the world began. Did you know..?

1) The Garden of Eden was possibly in Iraq. Two of the four rivers in the Garden of Eden, the Tigris and Euphrates, flow through Iraq, so some speculate that Adam & Eve lived in the area of Iraq.

2) Abraham was born, raised and called out of Iraq. The ruins of the city of Ur are just across the Kuwait border in southern Iraq.

3) Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian kingdom was in Iraq. It was located on the Tigris River north of Baghdad. The prophet Jonah preached in this city.

4) Babylon was in Iraq. It was located on the Euphrates River a few miles south of Baghdad. Our troops are now gathered right next to Babylon as they prepare to move on Baghdad. Babylon is one of the most important cities in Scripture...

a. It is also known as the City of Babel where the Tower of Babel was built when the entire earth was scattered.

b. The wicked ruler Nimrod ruled from Babel.

c. King Nebuchadnezzar lived in Babylon, started the Babylonian Empire and conquered Israel.

d. The Prophet Daniel lived in Babylon during the Babylonian captivity and wrote perhaps the most important prophecies in Scripture from there.

e. Babylon is considered a type of the world in Scripture and a synonym for worldly, materialistic, idolatrous, sensuous wickedness. Babylon was perhaps the most glorious city in human history with walls as high as 300 feet by some estimates. Chariot races took place on the top of the walls several lanes abreast, the walls were so thick.

f. It would seem the Babylonian empire might rise again in the last days, which makes this war intriguing. Read Isaiah 13-14, Jeremiah 50-51 and Revelation 17-18 where it seems to indicate that Babylon re-emerges in the last days..? Think about the possibility of a free Iraq with the second largest oil reserves in the world and what a wealthy country it could be if it were out from under Saddam Hussein's control. Don't know? Just thinking out loud!

g. Read Zechariah 5:5-11 where it seems to indicate that the seat of wickedness in the last days will one day again be in Babylon..? (The land of "Shinar" is Babylon)

Jesus said we won't know the day or the hour, but we would know the season of the end times. Clearly God is doing something. I continue to sit in wonder how the United States is gathered right where the world began literally next to the Babylonian ruins in this war! Don't miss the prophetic significance of our current events! God bless you!!!

I discovered a lot of this. I was getting ready to embark upon the stories of Babylon, but this has shortened my search <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> .

The Tigris and Euphrates were two of the rivers of Eden, but Eden was at the place where the four rivers meet. I wonder if the two other rivers were running down to where the Persian Gulf is, and flooded at some point (Noah?).

Petals

Read Zechariah 5:5-11 where it seems to indicate that the seat of wickedness in the last days will one day again be in Babylon..? (The land of "Shinar" is Babylon)

Interesting post. What really saddens me is that Saddam’s regime in Iraq is not the seat of wickedness in these days. Oh it was bad all right, but not the only or the most wicket regime on earth even in the last century. I found this about North Korea . Just one more disgusting, evil regime.

I just don’t understand what is wrong with people. How anyone can be this evil, yet there have been so many. And there are so many who will just look the other way.

Perhaps we’ll have to wait a while longer before there is only one seat of wickedness and it is centered in Babylon.

Awesome info...

Interestingly the US is helping to rebuild this city..hmmmm....

Heard someone talking about the fiery furnace that Daniel was thrown into. Hadn't thought about the possibility of it being fueled by the oil of Iraq until then. Guess I was stuck in the thoughts of coal or wood or animal droppings (Camel?) as they might have used in rural America. Talk about an a-ha moment.

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The Iraqi oil is many hundreds is not thousands of feet underground. The technology to drill that deep did not exist in till the late 1800’s or early 1900’s. My bet is that your first assumption is the more accurate.

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