IRAQ GEOGRAPHICAL AREA AND BIBLICAL HISTORY

The Garden of Eden was in Iraq

Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization

Noah built the ark in Iraq

The Tower of Babel was in Iraq

Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq

Isaac’s wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq

Jacob met Rachel in Iraq

Jonah preached in Nineveh which is in Iraq

Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel

Amos cried out in Iraq

Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem

Daniel was in the lion’s den in Iraq

The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq (Jesus had been in Iraq also as the fourth person in the fiery furnace)

Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the ‘writing on the wall’ in Iraq

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq

Ezekiel preached in Iraq

Peter preached in Iraq

The ‘empire of man’ described in Revelation is called Babylon which was a city in Iraq

The geographical area of Iraq is the second most often mentioned country, after Israel

No other nation, except Israel, has more history and prophecy associated with it than Iraq

The names used in the Bible for the geographical area of Iraq are Babylon, Land of Shinar and Mesopotamia