Does China have a Role in End Times Bible Prophecy?

Many students of Bible prophecy consider Revelation 16:12–16 to possibly refer to China in the end times. The current world wide pandemic, since it has manifest itself out of China, adds to this serious question.

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in China’s power and influence, all around the world. The development of China’s enormous military strength; their intimidation of Hong Kong freedom seekers, Tibet, Taiwan, and other regions; their pursuit of global economic dominance; aggressive rhetoric on the world stage; and, of course, their severe persecution of Chinese Christians, all this has been characteristic of modern Communist China. It is not hard to imagine that the “kings from the East” who one day march into Israel will include China, or even be led by China.

Following World War II, the United States was a chief architect of the post WWII international order and became its uncontested leader. Preparing to rebuild the international economic system while World War II was still raging, 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, also known as the Bretton Woods Conference.

The delegates deliberated during 1–22 July 1944, and signed the Bretton Woods agreement on its final day. Setting up a system of rules, institutions, and procedures to regulate the international monetary system, these accords established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), which today is part of the World Bank Group.

The United States, which controlled two thirds of the world's gold, insisted that the Bretton Woods system rest on both gold and the US dollar.

After the end of World War II, the US held $26 billion in gold reserves, of an estimated total of $40 billion (approx 65%).

On 15 August 1971, the United States unilaterally terminated convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively bringing the Bretton Woods system to an end and rendering the dollar, a fiat currency.

The long Cold War and America’s debacles in Korea and Viet Nam, magnified by the War on Terror; or more accurately, the Terrorist War on America and Israel; have taken a toll on the American capacity to lead the world.

China, with its breathtaking economic growth and vast increases in military spending, has been on the ascent for decades, but long remained focused on domestic stability and the security of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Communist Politburo clambered to center stage after 2008, when the global financial crisis appeared to signal a weakening of American primacy.

Revelation 16:12-14  And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

This passage predicts a massive, climactic conflict known as the Battle of Armageddon. It occurs at the end of the tribulation, after the sixth bowl judgment. At that time, the Euphrates River will be dried up, allowing the “kings from the East” to invade the Near East and march toward Israel. It is the “kings from the East” identification that many associate with China.

Revelation 9:14-16  Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

China has a lot of money and they make everything, so they have accumulated a power over us that we never should have been allowed them in the first place. By 2030, the Chinese aim to have a military “second to none,” to become the global center for technology innovation, and to serve as the economic anchor of a truly global trade and infrastructure regime, an economic bloc that would be unprecedented in human history.

The Chinese Communists have co-opted Western politicians and media and thoroughly corrupted many American economic manufacturers in ways that continue to benefit Chinese Communist strategic interests. Those same bought-and-paid for US politicians (and other US entities also purchased by the Chinese, such as Hollywood studios, corporate media shares, and Academia interests) have literally sold the American worker and American hegemony down the river!

Further geopolitical evidence of China’s emergence as a “King of the East” is their leadership in the Far Eastern counterpart to the US/Europe alliance NATO, known as the Shanghai Cooperation Council. China is the engine that runs this trade, military, and political organization.

   China formed this league with Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, in 1996 and in 2001, added Russia and India to its membership. The overall goal of this Far East Union, is to override the American dollar as the unit for world exchange, and bring about the decline of the current world order that was established after WWII; and emerge as the leaders in a New World Order; or at least a footing that enables the “Kings of the East” to become an equal partner to the West!

Note: China owns 20% of the debt of the United States.

When the end-times’ forces from China maneuvers eastward, perhaps simultaneously as do the armies of Magog’s Coalition and confront the Antichrist, the seventh and final bowl judgment will be poured out. The Lord Jesus will return, the most violent earthquake ever will shake the world, and the forces of the Antichrist and the armies of the East will be destroyed (Revelation 16:17–20; 19:11–21).

There is an OT prophecy, which had ancient setting, but also speaks of the End Times when the Lord exacts vengeance on the nations of the world who mobilize their armies across the Euphrates to attack Israel.

Jeremiah 46:10 For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

So, yes “China and other nations of the East” will play a definite role in the end time events of Bible Prophecy, particularly during the Great Tribulation; as they and the Northern Magog Alliance with Iran moves into the Middle East “time-bomb” to counter the Antichrist; who will by that time have been exalted (likely by the West) to absolute World power!