The U.S.-Kings of the East Connection

The U.S.-Kings of the East Connection
By Terry James

A most interesting bit of news jumped out at me. It wasn't something I hadn't thought of; I've written about it and spoken about it in interviews. But, here it was, acknowledged in a secular news forum that–to me, at least—confirms a prophetic reality.

President Obama has declared that an economic catastrophe will result if the U.S. debt ceiling isn't raised within a matter of weeks in order to meet the nation's payment obligations. Raising the debt ceiling is something a significant number of Republican members of Congress, in particular, don't want to do without cuts of $1.5-$2.5 trillion in future federal spending.

To many global economic analysts, America defaulting is unthinkable.

Li Daokui, an adviser to the People's Bank of China, said a default could undermine the U.S. dollar, and Beijing needed to dissuade Washington from pursuing this course of action… "I think there is a risk that the U.S. debt default may happen," Li told reporters on the sidelines of a forum in Beijing. "The result will be very serious and I really hope that they would stop playing with fire." Interviews with government officials and investors show they consider a default such a grim--and remote--possibility that it was nearly impossible to imagine. "How can the U.S. be allowed to default?" said an official at India's central bank. "We don't think this is a possibility because this could then create huge panic globally." (Emily Kaiser, "China warns U.S. debt-default idea is 'playing with fire,'" Reuters, 7/7/11).

Here is the singular thought from the experts in this story that confirmed for me my own thinking over the years of observing U.S. positioning, as juxtaposed against other world powers. It comes from someone within Oman, who speaks for the sultanate and its Persian Gulf neighbors: "Our economies are substantially tied up with the U.S. financial developments," said a senior central bank official, who spoke on condition of anonymity" (Ibid.).

The bottom line is that if the United States economy suffers catastrophic meltdown, the whole world will come crashing down as well. The entire world–including the growing behemoth, China, is inextricably linked to the financial influence America exerts.

This is not a boast; it is fact. And this is why there is such distress and perplexity among the world's nations, fiscally speaking. The other national entities can't simply cut themselves loose from U.S. influence and survive. That is why, despite all of the complaining and posturing by the Chinese government, the leaders of the newfound capitalistic megapower have to accept America's indebtedness to them, no matter how slow-paying the U.S. might be. The Chinese are, after all, the most patient of all people.

And this is where I believe the prophetic picture begins to form with regard to this king of the kings of the east nations of Revelation 16:12.

The inscrutable Chinese power brokers need the U.S. to continue building its burgeoning economic base. They siphon America's economic lifeblood hourly the way Count Dracula suctions his victims' blood in the vampire movies. They will neither call in America's indebtedness, nor engage in major military troublemaking that would stanch the flow into their coffers.

Those coffers are being filled for one purpose, and it is prophetic. For years–during the days of the Cold War and before--China has had the ability to raise a force of 200 million troops. That number, according to Revelation 9:16, is the number that the kinds of the east will bring across the dried-up Euphrates.

However, such a force, which prophecy indicates will destroy one-third of all humanity, could not be equipped with military assets that could do the job. There wasn't enough funding to underwrite such a force. America's wealth, I'm convinced, is what is helping to prepare the way for the kings of the east. We are funding, thus fueling, its military ambitions for the dastardly, decimating job it will do in fulfillment of its biblically prophetic destiny.

The oil fields of the Middle East lie on the other side of the Euphrates River from China, a voracious consumer of energy.

A new report says that China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest consumer of energy. Oil company BP said Wednesday that China moved to the top in 2010 with 20.3 percent of global demand, ahead of the United States at 19 percent. The report says China's consumption rose by 11.2 percent last year compared with 3.7 percent in the United States. China's surge led a 5.6 percent increase in global energy demand, the biggest one-year jump since 1973. ("China overtakes US as top energy consumer," Associated Press)

It is the American dollar – as anemic as it seems these days—that is filling the Chinese coffers, thus funding its military. The leadership of the great dragon nation is still bent on world domination, make no mistake.