When the River Runs Dry
Run to the Savior
He’s calling you away
He’ll wash away your sins
Raise you up again
Run to the Savior
Before the river runs dry
When the river runs dry
Cries of war rise
When the river runs dry
From the east they ride
There’s nowhere to hide
When the King returns…
…. When the river runs dry
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 (NASB)
In the New Testament, Revelation 16:12, an angel pours out the sixth bowl judgment, supernaturally drying up the Euphrates River so that “kings from the east” can march across dry land in order to gather for a .
It is drying of the Euphrates River resulting from the sixth bowl judgment, and a warning of what it ushers in (Armageddon) that inspired, “When the River Runs Dry.”
A drought on her waters! They will dry up. For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad with terror. (Jeremiah 50:38).
Note: With the blowing of the sixth trumpet, four angels are released at the great river Euphrates (Revelation 9:14). Along with a vast army, they will kill 1/3rd of mankind. This is not what this song is about.
This song is about the sixth bowl, a separate event that happens after the sixth trumpet judgment, and just before Armageddon.
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