Villians of the end times

AlasBabylon said:

I disagree that the "kings of the east" are villains.

This passage relates to a very important event in ancient history...
an event critical to ancient Israelites... when God's anointed king
from the east, Cyrus, conquered Babylon via drying up the Euphrates
river at Babylon to secretly invade the city of Babylon in a surprise attack.
This was the event that ended the 70 years of Babylonian captivity.

Ancient Greek historians also wrote about this event... so it would
have been well-known to the people of Christ's day both from Biblical
and secular history.

Rev 16 uses this Cyrus conquering Babylon analogy because it directly
relates to Rev use of Babylon as the end time evil empire analogy.


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mmksparbud said:

(Rev 1:3) Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
At the very least, we should try to understand.

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