We call this theoretical convergence between doomsday prophecies and today's events the nostradamus effect. The war scroll describes a future battle, an eschatological battle -- in other words, a battle that has to do with the end of days with kind of the final battle of good versus evil.
Some believe it is a blueprint for armageddon, of a 21st-CENTURY WAR TO END ALL Wars.
for some who believe in the prophecy, the ancient text predicts the exact spot where a third world war may erupt.
Mesopotamia is just a general term used to describe that area east of jerusalem today.
It would be all those countries in general that are east of israel.
Assyria, of course, is iraq.
And persia, of course, is modern-day iran.
So as you can see, these are all involved in latter-days events, and that happens to be exactly what's going on in our world right now.
Believers in prophecy suggest it's more than mere coincidence that the very lands mentioned in the war scroll -- mesopotamia, assyria, and persia -- are the same lands now engulfed in conflict.
in a funny way, we can say that the motivation of the people who wrote the war scroll are very, very similar to the motivation of people today who are expecting a battle of armageddon in the middle east at any moment.
And that can only be considered very, very dangerous because the belief systems we hold affects our behavior.
And if we believe something to be true and if we believe something is going to happen, the chances are we might actually cause it to do so.