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Will "Cyrus" be converted while overthrowing Babylon?

The recent swine flu decimated China’s pork industry recently, and in 2019 they imported much more pork than was usual. Pork is China’s favorite meat.

But now, with the latest coronavirus spreading, there are not enough trucks to haul the imported meat inland from the docks. Neither is there enough electricity to keep the meat frozen. Even if trucks could be found, they would not be allowed into the quarantined zones. Supplies are running short for 400 million Chinese, and if this keeps up, more people could starve to death from the quarantine than are killed by the virus itself.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-18/thousands-of-frozen-meat-containers-pile-up-at-chinese-ports

If China is fulfilling the prophecy of Cyrus as one of the “kings of the east” (Revelation 16:12), we might be seeing a different twist on an old prophecy. In Daniel’s time, the kings of the east were Media and Persia, the nations who overthrew Babylon and set free the people of Judah.

The same is happening in the modern world. I have taught many times that nothing is to be feared from the kings of the east in Revelation 16:12, as these are the kings or kingdoms that God has raised up to set us free from Mystery Babylon’s captivity.

But God often or usually answers prayer in unexpected or unrecognizable ways. It appears now that whatever is happening in regard to the “coronavirus” crisis, it is threatening to bring down the Central Bankers’ world economic system that has empowered Mystery Babylon for the past century. We know that others have been working on a new system that is no longer controlled by the Rothschilds’ Central Banks. This crisis may well be the homestretch.

It is not to be feared (by believers), because it is God’s answer to the prayers of the saints. He directs all things and is working to set the earth free from its destroyers and controllers.

If China is the modern Cyrus, it is possible that it will bring down Mystery Babylon, and as a side bonus, communism itself will be destroyed and discredited for all time. China may quickly become a Christian/Kingdom nation soon, especially if the people see that God is miraculously sparing many Christian communities.

If so, “Cyrus” may yet come to know God and become a true type of the Messiah, as per Isaiah 45:1. I don’t see any direct confirmation of that view in Scripture, as very little is said other than that Cyrus did not know God (Isaiah 45:5). But we are coming into the next age, the age of the Kingdom, and it seems reasonable to think that with all the Christians in China, and all the prayer that has gone up from them, that China will become part of the Confederation of Kingdom Nations soon.