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up, so “that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared,” and then in Rev. 9:16 we find
that “the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand…” We can
connect these two verses together by virtue of numbers and geography.
An estimate made in April, 1961, said that there “were 200 million armed and organized
militiamen” in China. The Associated Press reported that one out of every five in China have had
military training. Premier Mao Tse-tung publicly boasted the fact that China could field an army
of 200 million. A Chinese documentary called Voice of the Dragon revealed that China could
produce a military force of 200 million. In an Associated Press article by John A. Hightower, on
April 28, 1964, he said: “The documents (secret Chinese military plans) make clear that the Red
Chinese leaders believe that they cannot be defeated by long range nuclear missiles, such as U.S.
missiles, and if they invaded, they could rely on their vast military manpower.” To comprehend a
number this large, bear in mind that the population of the United States is about to 295,000,000.
Napoleon said: “Let China sleep, for when China awakes, let the nations tremble.” In 1953,
Premier Mao Tse-tung (who in 1921 founded China’s Communist Party) said: “Members of the
Chinese Communist Party do not take second place to the members of any Communist Party in
the world.” China is the last bastion of Communist domination, and they likewise will join the
fray in a quest for world domination.
The government of Pakistan, with the help of 12,000 Chinese soldiers, constructed the 549
mile Karakoram superhighway, which had been nicknamed the “roof on top of the world.”
Starting in Tibet, it weaves its way through the province of Singkiang; the mountains peaks of
Manchuria, Mongolia, Nepal, the Himalayas, West Pakistan; and into Afghanistan, to where the
Euphrates River rises in Turkey, and runs across Syria. It follows the ancient trans-Asian
invasion route used by Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and the Mogul invaders. Will China
use this highway as a route to Israel?
It is written that the Euphrates River will be dried up at the time of this troop movement. It
could be done through supernatural means, as has happened with the Red Sea and the Jordan
River (Exodus 14:13-22, Joshua 3:4, 2 Kings 2:8, 14); or it could be the result of manipulation.
There are two dams in the Turkish section of the Euphrates, Ataturk and Karakaya. In 1974,
Soviet engineers built the Keban dam, and in 1975, built another at Tabka, in Syria. In January,
1990, Turkey began the operation of a dam that caused the river to fall 75% in one day. So, it is
quite possible that the river could be made to dry up at just the right time.
Okay, take a deep breath. We have the armies of the Antichrist hunkering down in Israel, we
have the Soviet Union and countries of Eastern Europe (perhaps Albania, Bulgaria, Romania,
Ukraine, and Yugoslavia) coming down from the north, we have Iraq and Iran coming from the
East, we have China coming from the Far East, and we have Ethiopia and Libya coming from the
South. What this amounts to is millions upon millions of men bearing down on Israel from three
directions. It does not look good.
And Then Shall the End Come
Revelation 16:13-16 identifies the unholy trinity of Satan, the Antichrist, and the False
Prophet working to bring together the armies of the world in preparation for the coming battle.
There is a hint here that Satanic inspiration will be used to marshal the coming military forces
into a cohesive unit that will be arrayed against Christ himself. This place this will happen at is