Global SITREP C10-22: The Kings of the East Revisited

The East

23 August 2022: It's been twelve years since the original The Kings of the East was published on Eschatology Today, so with recent events (strong rumors of war) an update would be most appropriate. The above link is for your reference to that original, and to contrast with this update. 

Before beginning a series of notations, none of these notes have been at the forefront of any eschatological treatment published to date and to my knowledge. These notes are things that have come to mind, rather swiftly out of the blue in the past couple of days. I asked the Lord, "What have I missed? How can this subject possibly be updated?" Swiftly came His response, praise God!

The first thing to note is that the prophetic reference is to multiple kings of the east. This reference does not indicate just the Communist Chinese of the People's Republic of China (PRC) even though that nation remains the most militant threat to nations on the Pacific Rim. 

The second thing to note is that the word "kings" is plural, indicating several countries of the eastern hemisphere are involved, and their involvement in the events of the 70th Weeks of Years is specific to that time. 

Thirdly, and most importantly to note is the God-breathed Biblical defining from the text of The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, is that these multiple kings (a grouping of Asian nations) all exist to the east of the River Euphrates. Even a cursory glance at a world map will illustrate how many nations exist on the continent of Asia to the east of the Euphrates River.

There is also a fourth note to make, all too briefly touched upon in the original linked posting above. That is the prophetic fact that their involvement in Middle Eastern or even global conflict, occurs at a minimum of two specific points in the span of the seven years of the 70th Weeks of Years. The first point is at the start of the Megas Thlipsis (Great Tribulation), or three and one-half of the 70th Week. 

We see this in Daniel 11:40-44, when the Western antichrist commences his empowerment in the final 42 months. Here the antichrist is at war with the king to the South and the king of the North. And then again at the end of those 42 months when the Euphrates has been dried up to prepare the passing of the massive army under the command of the kings of the East. This is the final battle at Har Megiddo (Armageddon).

Also worthy of being noted: there is no mention of the kings of the East within the context of Ezekiel 38/39. This is true even though some of the allied nations with Gog of Magog are, by geographic definition, found in Central Asia. Russia itself is both a European and an Asian nation as we've noted previously in the Ukraine war SITREPs.

Hopefully, this SITREP will have put some meat on the bare bones of what has been put forward thus far regarding the prophetic kings of the East.

Global SITREP F5-21: 2021 Finale

 

There had better not be even one Christian unaware
of what this little devise is and/or will become.

21 December 2021: This is the Eschatology Today finale SITREP for 2021. In this we'll look at how the dominoes are lined up and we'll recap what has been posted recently, but will now be doubled-down on.

First off, we have the double-down on what has been variously nomenclatured as Transhumanism, Human Augmentation, Human Digitization, COVID Passport - which all mean or are leading to the same thing every true Christian must know about from Revelation 13:15-17.  Most regular readers will recall this is a double-down on Global SITREP F2-21: COVID-19 as the Globalist Means to Their Objective and its comment section where much of what follows here was noted in that SITREP. However, there is more to inform about. 

This is sourced from a report found on The Conservative Treehouse by a writer known by the pen name "Sundance." This report contains a one-minute forty-two second video showing the implant biochip in use by citizens of Sweden. This, I believe, is a good witnessing tool for us to use to illustrate to the unsaved we all know the inerrant accuracy of Bible prophecy. Does the Bible explicitly say the 'Mark of the Beast" is the size of a single grain of wild rice? No, but in order to place the mark comfortably in the right hand or forehead it will of necessity have to be small, easily inserted, and pack the kind of high technology we see demonstrated in the embedded video. In many countries around the world you cannot fly without this type of "passport." There are voices in the US Congress who are saying we should not be able to fly on American aircraft within this country without such a "passport." And as noted previously, adding financial capability is already in the works.

Moving into the final week of 2022 there are, as we're all well aware, several hot-spots which are fully expected to boil over, possible this week or just around the corner in 2022. They are all equally dangerous and in one way or another have profound prophetic meaning or direct fulfillment. 

The ongoing nearly 8 year old Russia-Ukraine War could quickly become a Russia-EU or Russia-NATO war preceding the Ezekiel 38/39 war. Even if just the NATO Baltic states of Lithuania and Poland come to the active defense of Ukraine a Russian retaliation against them would trigger the heart of the founding principles of the NATO Alliance: Article V Collective Defense.

NATO Article 5 Collective Defense

Simply put, an attack on one NATO ally is an attack upon all of the NATO allies as enshrined in the alliance's original Washington Treaty. Was the recent attempt by Russian and its ally Belarus an attack upon NATO? Yes, by definition it was, and the entire alliance responded to it and the Russian-Belarus axis stood down. If there are any doubt about the Western alliances capabilities and who will eventually have full control over them, look no further - once again - to Revelation 13, verse four:

"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast! who is able to war with him!"

There's also the rising of the kings of the East who figure prophetically in both of the primary 'end of days' prophecy bookends, Daniel and Revelation. To the logically-minded, there's a good geographic reason why the kings of the East march to the west to the Middle East - there's nowhere for those kings to march towards the East. This is made very clear in Daniel 11. In Revelation the number of those marching is giving a 200 million. Note also as we have discussed before, this is during the time of darkness, when the Lord will have shaken the heavens and the Earth has been moved out of her place (Isaiah 13:13, Joel 2:31, Matthew 24:29-30, 2 Peter 3:10  and the 6th Seal of Revelation 6).

And, last but by no means least, are the many prophetic dominoes found in the Middle East which have been covered here for all of the last 12 years. These will precede Ezekiel 38/39, yet all of these are linked in a certain progression, but the will happen with such rapidity and ferociousness that the angel Gabriel described them as a flood (Daniel 9:26).

Most importantly, the imminence of our Harpazo cannot be overstated. We shall see each other on the other side of eternity. And with that final thought... Marana'tha!

Global SITREP B6-20: Kings of the East (Part II)

Army of the Kings of the East

10 May 2020: This SITREP is a follow-up to the Eschatology Today original "The Kings of the East" published in October 2010. All of the same Scripture references in that post apply in Part II. Another excellent point of reference is found within 'The Nations in Prophecy' by John F. Walvoord, published January 1967. Chapter 12 is entitled "The Kings of the East: The Oriental Confederacy."

There's a lot of speculation and think-tank products going around since the Communist Chinese SARS-COV-2 global pandemic erupted in late January of this year. With many world governments now holding or threatening to hold the People's Republic of China accountable for the outbreak in allowing its infected population to disperse around the globe in advance of the Chinese New Year celebrations (Jan 25, 2020) without any advance warning, there appear to be days of reckoning coming soon. How the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing may respond is the subject of many speculations. Some of them appear to mesh very well with Scripture on the subject.

We'll have to see how things transpire, but one of the most recent military scenarios has Bejing using the 12-million strong People's Liberation Army (PLA) to lash out against global COVID-19 retribution. The retribution is primarily led by the removal of the American market as a primary source of economic growth, thereby driving the economy of the People's Republic of China into a steep downward spiral. 

To stem the economic free-fall Beijing might find it necessary to internalize its economics by an even more massive expansion of its military forces. A vastly expanded military would then be used to subdue troubled North Korea, and absorb its million-man army. This could initiate the 'oriental confederacy' Walvoord wrote about, a/k/a 'The Kings of the East' in Scripture. Next would be a total military subjugation of Tibet, and in-turn cause India to intervene militarily in support of the fiercely independent Tibetans. China and India are nuclear powers, and India has a massive land army of its own. Then there's Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos and all the nations on the periphery of the South China Sea) which would not go quietly into captivity. South Korea, Japan and Taiwan would quickly become directly involved causing America's rapid intervention. This is how the so-called World War IV could begin, one that is raging at the very outside of the 70th Week. 

These kinds of speculative scenarios are quite probable as they are based upon real-world dynamic that have played out in similar manner as in the first two world wars and the third world war known as the Cold War. Scripture is not specific about the war at the beginning of the 70th Week, but there's no question that it will occur (Revelation 6:1-8).

Global SITREP A9-19: India and Pakistan

Indian Nuclear Missile

1 March 2019: The standoff between India and Pakistan continues. Ceasefire violations across the LoC from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir occur with some regularity. Most recent occurred an hour ago. The Pakistani gesture of releasing the captured Indian pilot appears to be taking place at this time (06:50 EST).

Indian Army Pinaka 214mm Multiple Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL)

18:40 PM EST and the escalation of "high intensity" military action continues unabated. Guided anti-tank missiles, Indian Pinaka 214mm MBRL, 155mm heavy artillery and snipers are apparently "weapons free" - that is, no targets are off limits. This includes hospitals, schools, civilian homes, businesses. Casualties rising exponentially. If this isn't full-scale conventional war, I don't know what is.

27 February 2019: There are millions of people in Pakistani and Indian cities who are trying to stifle tangible fears with the hope that military deconfliction and de-escalation back from the brink of a full-scale war which with little warning could become the world's first nuclear exchange between neighboring nations. 

India and Pakistan are both rushing troops, heavy armor and artillery to the flash point Line-of-Control (LoC) in the formly princely state of Jammu and Kashmir (JK). Fighter aircraft from both nations are flying combat air patrols (CAP) non-stop along their common border and the JK LoC. Most reports have it that India has lost two aircraft and Pakistan one aircraft in hostile actions.

Pakistani PM Imran Khan made an overture to India to "sit down and talk about our problems," but at the same time made clear that a failure to do so risks an escalation the the nuclear threshold. Indian PM Narendra Modi earlier today gave his military commanders clearance to proceed with the course of action they believe is necessary because Pakistan has refused to take "credible action against terrorist entities and individuals operating from its soil," and instead has "acted with aggression against India.

Indeed, the fighting between the military forces of India and Pakistan is the direct result of a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist VBIED bombing on 14 February which killed 45 and wounded more than 35 Indian paramilitary officers in Pulwama, Indian Kashmir. India subsequently retaliated on 26 February with a dozen Mirage 2000 strike aircraft destroying the JeM training camp in Balakot, Pakistani Kashmir and two other camps nearby. India struck a non-military terrorist target that was well removed from the Pakistani population. This was clearly lost on the Pakistani leadership.

The JeM is believed by the intelligence agencies of many nations around the world to be the creation of Pakistan's intelligence service, known as the ISI, and therefore Pakistan is directly responsible for all JeM attacks against India. There have been over 3,800 terrorist attacks in India since 2015. Clearly, India and its 1.35 billion people has had enough of the terrorism coming from Pakistan and its 203 million people. Pakistan's leadership had better do the math.

While there is nothing in Scripture about this ongoing conflict, or the several other India-Pakistan clashes that have occurred in the past 70 years, we do know that during the 70th Week a truly immense army to 200 million troops will march towards the Middle East, killing 2.5 billion of the world's population, in making war on the Antichrist and his beast empire (Daniel 11:44 and Revelation 9:13-19 and 16:12.) 

Note this, there are more nations with nuclear weapons in the east (Russia, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan) expressing a desire to use them as there are in the west (US, UK, France and Israel). It may well be, in fact I believe it is a fact, that we are witnessing the rise of the kings of the east. If nothing else, the timing of this India-Pakistan war and its very real potential for nuclear escalation is no mere coincidence.

Global SITREP E3-14: The Alliance of the North and the East

11 November 2014 (Veterans Day in the U.S.A.): The image above powerfully reminds me of something the angel Gabriel prophesied to Daniel which would occur during the 70th Week. 

That this passage of prophetic Scripture is with respect to and occurs during the 70th Week is beyond any doubt because it involves the Western Antichrist and four distinct military enemies of his: one to the North, one to the South and one to the East. Not coincidentally, this passage of prophetic verses proves beyond any doubt that the Antichrist is a Western power. Additionally, this passage is also a thumbnail of the world war which will  be occurring during the latter part of the Thlipsis (Tribulation) and all of the Megas Thlipsis (Great Tribulation) of the 70th Week. Moreover this is the war whose end is suddenly caused by the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Battle of Har Megiddo.

In Daniel 11:40-45 we find six sentences which describe an ongoing military confrontation between the Western Antichrist and two of the military camps which attack him simultaneously "at the time of the end."

In verse 40 the southern military forces launch a strike and the northern forces follow through on the attack by coming against him with modern-era, land, sea and air 'shock and awe' maneuver warfare. The military forces of the Western Antichrist parry and defeat this joint attack and then go on the offensive by invading, passing through and conquering the territories of these enemies. 

In verses 41through 43 we see this counter-offensive of the Western forces entering coastal Israel but avoiding those territories of the greater post-Psalm 83 Israel that will include ancient Edom, Moab and Ammon. These western forces conquer completely the lands from Libya, Egypt and and south along the Red Sea to Sudan, the land of ancient Kuwsh.

Finally in verse 44 we come to the direct association I see in the image above. The blitz-like military conquest of the whole of the Middle East by the Western Forces of the Antichrist causes the remaining forces of the North to be joined in a new offensive by the Eastern forces (i.e. the kings of the East): "But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many." This advance of the immense numbers of Eastern forces is what John the Revelator describes in Revelation 16:12-16 as the sixth bowl judgment of the sixth angel, a/k/a Armageddon.

Here's where I think this prophetic future has solid rubber meeting the road in the present time. An article published in yesterday's Financial Times, titled "Putin builds China links as ties with West fray," informs that the Russian Federation's newly updated military doctrine to be published in December 2014 clearly identifies the United States and NATO as the enemy, and the role of the CSTO as the military alliance referenced in the prophetic texts discussed above. 

To the readers of Eschatology Today, this is not really new news, but a reaffirmation of the prophetic interpretation I have published here over the past five years, here, here and here for instance. Just one more of the proverbial cans that have been kicked by mankind down a dark road one kick too far, and proof positive that our God is in full control having told us about the end from the beginning.