Continuing crisis in Syria.

In two years, the Syrian conflict has claimed the lives of more than 70,000 people! The once beautiful cities of Damascus and Aleppo are becoming piles of ash and rubble, while world leaders cannot agree on a solution to this terrible war. “So far, a consensus has prevailed in the European Union that an arms embargo is a good way to keep the conflict in Syria from escalating” (Deutsche Welle, March 6, 2013). Meanwhile, the UN predicts, a “Whole generation of Syrian children could be lost” as a result of the civil war (The Telegraph, March 12, 2013).

“If you want to survive in this city gone mad you watch out for flying metal and rubble… Shelling by artillery and bombings from aircraft are such common everyday occurrences in Aleppo now that people don’t let it stop them [going] about their lives… Aleppo is slowly but surely being reduced to rubble” (Der Spiegel, March 6, 2013).  Likewise in Damascus... “You just wait and see what the [opposition] will do when they enter Damascus… If they destroy it all, it won’t be enough” (Al Araybia, March 5, 2013).  “Why” is this happening? Syria reflects the end result of human lust for power, riches and control of other human beings (James 4:1-3).

Bible prophecies have long foreseen the events in Syria: “Damascus has grown feeble… fear has seized her… Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day… I will kindle a fire in... Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad [Syrian Government]” (Jeremiah 49:24-27). We are witnessing the destruction of Damascus and other Syrian cities as God predicted more than 2,500 years ago!