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The kings from the east

Revelation 16:12 says,

¹² The sixth angel poured out his bowl [of wine] 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.

There were six bowls of wine poured out by six different angels in Revelation 16. These were all preparatory to the final bowl of the wine of judgment, where Mystery Babylon fell. But the sixth bowl set the final stage for the seventh and was directed toward the river Euphrates.

Many modern theories have been advanced, where men attempt to interpret this, many taking this literally. They say that the Euphrates will be dried up, allowing a 200-million man Chinese army to invade Israel from the east. This view is still stuck on military tactics from the ancient past, as if the Euphrates is a physical barrier holding back the Chinese army.

But in an age of modern warfare, rivers are not much of a barrier. In a nuclear age, it is no longer feasible to send a large concentrated force by land or sea. A single nuclear bomb would wipe out the entire army or fleet long before they would arrive at the scene. Hence, this old view is no longer feasible or even possible.

The Original Pattern

The river Euphrates flowed through the ancient city of Babylon. Along the banks of the river were high walls to prevent attacks by ships in the river. Yet the city fell to the Medes and Persians in 537 B.C. after they diverted the river Euphrates, allowing the troops to march into the city along the dry riverbed. So Isaiah 44:27 prophesies about King Cyrus of Persia, saying,

²⁷ It is I [God] who says to the depth of the sea, “be dried up!” And I will make your rivers dry. ²⁸ It is I who says of Cyrus, “He is My shepherd!” And he will perform all My desire…”

Isaiah prophesied that a king named Cyrus would dry up the river, but God took credit for it, identifying Cyrus as His “shepherd” (vs. 28) and His “servant” (vs. 26) and even His “anointed” (Hebrew: messiah) in Isaiah 45:1. So in Revelation 16:12 the angel of God is the one who dried up the river Euphrates.

In the fall of Babylon, someone on the inside left the Ishtar Gate unlocked, and the Persian army was able to capture the city intact. In the biblical record, only King Belshazzar of Babylon was killed (Daniel 5:30). Babylon was not destroyed but came under new management.

Revelation 16:12 makes it clear that the fall of the original city was a prophetic pattern of the fall of Mystery Babylon in the future. Again, the “river” will be dried up so that the kings from the east can take the city. But ancient Babylon is in ruins and is not the same as Mystery Babylon. “Mystery” is from the Greek word musterion, which means “secret, hidden, occult.” Mystery Babylon is a secret, hidden world government run by Satanic occultists who have risen to power through banking and finance.

Financial terminology today is based on water terms. Banks are like the banks of a river, which hold and control the flow of the current (currency). When money is plentiful, they are said to have liquidity. Revelation 17:15 treats Mystery Babylon as a financial “city” that rules over many nations in opposition to the government of the New Jerusalem. Just as old Babylon is not the same as Mystery Babylon; neither is the old Jerusalem the same as the New Jerusalem.

The Modern “Kings”

The original Babylon was conquered primarily by two kings: Cyrus the Persian and Darius the Mede. Revelation 16:12 does not tell us specifically how many “kings from the east” will destroy Mystery Babylon. My own view is that there are again two primary nations that God has raised up to overthrow Mystery Babylon’s financial powers that are centered in the West. These are Russia and China.

Iran, too, has become an important factor as well, because Iran is Persia. It appears, however, that Iran’s primary role is to overthrow Jerusalem and the Zionist state, whereas Russia and China are called to overthrow the financial system that has put most of the world in bondage to its debt-money system. God has raised up these kings for the same reason that He raised up Cyrus and Darius thousands of years ago: to set His people free.

The modern Babylonians know this and consider Russia, China, and Iran to be their mortal enemies. War preparations are being made, and many politicians speak openly of a war with China by the year 2028. They have whipped Europe and America into a frenzy to gain public support for such a war.

But Isaiah 44, 45 and Revelation 16:12 tell us who the real enemy is. We the People were taken captive in 1913 with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act. We have served our time for bad behavior, and God has now raised up China and Russia as His servants to set us free from our occult slave masters in the West.

Unfortunately, most Bible prophecy teachers fail to recognize this. In part, it is because they do not know history. They fail to see that the pattern of Babylon’s overthrow is being repeated on a greater level in geopolitics today. Their Zionist viewpoint makes them side with the old Jerusalem, so they speak as advocates of the children of the flesh (Galatians 4:24-26, 29). By believing that the present Zionist state is the fulfillment of the biblical prophesies of the restoration of the House of Israel, they think they must support the earthly Jerusalem at all costs.

Hence, they ignore or reject Paul’s clear teaching in Galatians 4, and by advocating for prophetic “Hagar” (that is, the earthly Jerusalem), they pray that her son (Ishmael) will be “chosen” to rule the world in the Age to come.

Furthermore, by failing to distinguish between the House of Israel and the House of Judah, they assume that the Jews (Judahites) are the Israelites to whom the promises of restoration were given. They fail to understand the prophecies in Jeremiah 18 and 19, which record the ultimate fate of Israel and Judah. Jeremiah 18:1-10 speaks of Israel as a jar of wet clay that is beaten down but rebuilt into another vessel; Jeremiah 18:11 through chapter 19 prophesies to Judah and Jerusalem, comparing Judah to an old jar of hardened clay that will be smashed in the valley of Ben-hinnom (Greek: Gehenna). See Jeremiah 19:1, 10, 11.

Because of this misunderstanding, many in the church today side with the Zionist state, not knowing that it is slated for utter destruction—probably at the hands of Iran/Persia. They are confident that God will save Jerusalem at the last minute, ignoring Jeremiah’s prophecy altogether.

The Jews are not the biblical Israelites—not since the nation was divided after the death of Solomon. The prophets all prophesied after that division, so when they spoke of Judah, they meant the southern kingdom, and when they spoke of Israel, they meant the northern kingdom. Those who are blind to this may end up supporting the side that God is fighting. Shall we fight God or support the side that He leads?

Many in the church today follow the propaganda of Mystery Babylon and consider Russia and China to be their enemies. Many consider Iran to be their enemy. Anyone who seeks to overthrow Mystery Babylon has somehow become the enemy of God, when, in fact, God uses the kings from the east to set us free. Who is on God’s side? Does it matter? I think it does.

Disillusionment is in the Pike Plan for World War 3

Albert Pike, the Luciferian head of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry more than a century ago, received a demonic plan to foment three world wars. The first two were fulfilled; we are now entering the time of the third world war.

https://godskingdom.org/blog/2023/10/sliding-toward-world-war-3-and-what-you-need-to-know/

“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other….

Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction…will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

The plan is to cause Muslims, Jews, and Christians alike to become “disillusioned,” making them ripe for conversion to Luciferianism. I cannot speak for Muslims or Jews, but there is no doubt that the church is being set up for disillusion. What do you think would happen if the Pike Plan actually succeeded? Would the church lose faith in God and think that prophecy failed? Having put all their eggs into the Zionist basket, what choice would they have—other than to learn the truth of God’s word?

In my view, the Pike Plan will fail because God is using these occult Babylonian Luciferians for His own purposes—to destroy Jerusalem to fulfill Jeremiah 19:10, 11, and to destroy Mystery Babylon to fulfill Revelation 16:19. This will remove (forcibly) the blindness from the church, so that they might repent and come into agreement with God.

Would it not be better, though, to understand the truth ahead of time, so that God can use us to prevent disillusioned Christians from becoming Luciferians?