India’s and North Korea’s nuclear tests: Ramifications?

Nagasaki Nuclear Bomb (1945)

India just tested a nuclear-capable missile today:

January 27, 2013

NEW DELHI An Indian news report says India has successfully tested a medium-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile fired from an underwater platform in the Bay of Bengal…

Pallava Bagla, a defense expert, said Sunday’s test off the east coast was 14th in the series with a range of 435 miles.

It would complete India’s nuclear triad — the capability to launch missiles from land, air and below the sea. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57566045/india-tests-nuclear-capable-missile/

The above action may encourage China and/or Pakistan to take additional military steps and expenditures.

Now further to the east, North Korea has again suggested it will test a nuclear “device”:

January 27, 2013

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials and ordered them to take “substantial and high-profile important state measures,” state media said on Sunday, indicating that he plans to push forward with a threat to explode a nuclear device in defiance of the United Nations…

North Korea…warned that it would keep developing rockets and testing nuclear devices to counter what it sees as US hostility…North Korea cites a US military threat in the region as a key reason behind its drive to build nuclear weapons…North Korea is estimated to have enough weaponized plutonium for four to eight bombs…However, it is not known whether North Korean scientists have found a way to build nuclear warheads small enough to mount on a long-range missile. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/North-Korean-leader-vows-important-measures/articleshow/18209623.cms

North Korea’s latest threat to conduct its third nuclear test and launch more long-range rockets is not just bluster but part of a deliberate effort by an increasingly confident Pyongyang to build up its atomic weapons capacity, analysts say.

The National Defense Commission, the North’s highest military body, said Thursday the planned moves include a series of satellite and long-range rocket launches as well as a nuclear test “of a higher level” targeting what it called its “arch enemy,” the United States. http://www.voanews.com/content/north-korean-nuclear-threat-not-just-bluster/1590390.html

The North Korean politicians have often been playing a dangerous game with their country and their people. But what many in the USA do not realize, its actions, as well as China’s, are getting the USA to focus more and more of its military concerns away from Europe and towards eastern Asia. While the politicians in the USA will consider this to be prudent and logical, biblical prophecy shows that the real threat to the USA will arise out of Europe–so much so, it will be a European-led power that will takeover the USA per Daniel 11:39.

Although North Korea is not prophesied to take over the USA , it certainly is possible that it may decided to actually launch one or more missiles at the USA in the future. The Bible warns of terrors affecting the descendants of Israel:

14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you (Leviticus 26:14-16)

North Korea could very well be a place some terrors could originate from and affect the USA, etc.

Yet some time from now, biblical prophecy seems to suggest cooperation by North Korea with others in Asia in the final time just prior to the return of Jesus Christ. I have long suspected that Taiwan, China, India, Korea, and Japan, would end up being parts of the “kings from the east,” along with nations such as Russia and some more directly connected to it.

This concept of Asian involvement in a major battle is confirmed in the Book of Revelation. Notice the following:

13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed–by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths(Revelation 9:13-18).

Only various ones in Asia are really capable of fielding a two hundred million man army. Thus, Revelation appears to be discussing an Asian role in the end-time prophecies. (It may also be of interest to note that some of the troops in China wear insignia that is red, blue and yellow–see China’s Change Towards Religion).

Also notice the following:

12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” 16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon (Revelation 16:12-16).

Here we see that the kings from the East (hence more than one country) are those that need to cross the Euphrates. This combined with Revelation 9, which shows that two hundred million man army be assisted by angels at the Euphrates is strong biblical evidence that Asia is at least part of this massive army.

China is clearly a nation that biblical is one of the “kings from the east.” Russia, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and others are also probably “kings from the East” (Revelation 16:12) as they all are in the farthest eastern reaches of Asia.

And by working on the nuclear capabilities, countries such as India and North Korea are demonstrating that they intend to be military powers–and this will tend to increase military preparation and spending throughout Asia.

Yet in the end, according to biblical prophecy, many in the east will take even more steps that the Bible warns about.

Some articles of possibly related interest would include the following:

Korea in Prophecy, Any Witness? Does God have a plan for the Koreans? Is Korea mentioned in any prophecies? Will Koreans be among the first in the Kingdom of God? 한국의 언어로 : 한국 예언, 모든 증인에?
India, Its Biblical Past and Future: Any Witness? The Bible discusses the origins of those of Indian heritage and discusses some of the witness to them (including those in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka).
Might Hindus Unknowingly Be Looking for the Arrival of the Beast and False Prophet? Do biblical and even Hindu prophecies suggest that many in India will follow, for a while, the Beast and False Prophet/Antichrist?
Japan, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 1: Any Witness? Where did the Japanese people come from? Have they had any witness?
Japan, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 2: Prophecy Japan in prophecy. What is prophesied for Japan? Will God save the Japanese?
Russia: Its Origins and Prophesied Future Russia in prophecy. Where do the Russians come from? What about those in the Ukraine? What is prophesied for Russia and its allies? What will they do to the Europeans that supported the Beast in the end?
Is Russia the King of the North? Some claim it is. But what does the Bible teach?
Asia in Prophecy What is Ahead for Asia? Who are the “Kings of the East”? What will happen to nearly all the Chinese, Russians, Indians, Koreans, and others of Asia? China in prophecy, where? Who has the 200,000,000 man army related to Armageddon?
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