Published: June 27, 2009 11:20 pm      

Is Iraq important?

Is Iraq important?



The long history of Babylon, Iraq is interesting to the reader of Genesis and its orientation in the world. The description of the Garden of Eden (2:11-14) places its location in or near four rivers and two are easily found to be the Tigris (Hiddekel) and the Euphrates which run through the heart of Iraq.

When Adam made his exit from the Garden to the East God placed a (3:24)Cherubim to guard the East side of the Garden. Thus, the Bible gives a good indication that the cradle of mankind was near Babylon, Iraq.

Then, the tower of Babel enters the biblical scene.(11:1-4) Mankind speaking one language journeyed eastward to the land of Shinar, Babylon, Iraq and man said let us make a name for ourselves. We will make brick, build a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky. It was also to the land of Shinar, Babylon, Iraq that Daniel was taken when King Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem at the beginning of the world gentile age.(Daniel 1:2)

What does the Bible say about the eventual outcome of Babylon, Iraq? Jeremiah 51:60 tells the reader that he recorded a message on a scroll about the disasters that would come to Babylon and gave it to his staff officer Seraiah. Jeremiah instructed him to read the message aloud and tie the scroll to a rock and through it into the Euphrates River. Then say, 'So will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will fall.' " In fact the destruction will be so great that Seraiah proclaimed, 'O LORD, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither man nor animal will live in it; it will be desolate forever.' With this scripture one could deduct that at sometime nuclear destruction will occur so that life cannot live in Shinar, Babylon, Iraq. Could Iraq’s neighbor Iran bring this about or some other nation with nuclear power?



Brad Carter

Meridian