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China and End-Time Prophecy: How God Is Using the Red Dragon to Fulfill His Ultimate Purposes
In China, an Army Is Rising...
For years, China’s population size, economic growth, and thirst for military power have taken center stage by those who study biblical prophecy. Most end-time experts have seen the “Red Dragon” as an aggressor to Israel. In Revelation 16 and 19, John's mention of the armies involved in the final battle marking the end of the world could well depict China’s army today.
However, a different kind of army is also rising in China, and it is quickly approaching two hundred million people. This army is for Christ, not against Him. It is a host of Christians from the Chinese underground house church who are fighting a battle against principalities and powers and spreading the gospel in unprecedented ways under intense persecution.
These Christians are motivated by a powerful vision called “Back to Jerusalem.” The Chinese church is quietly working to complete the Great Commission by bringing the gospel to unreached peoples in China’s eastern provinces and to all the countries between the border of China and the city of Jerusalem.
Yet there’s even more to this fascinating development. What you read in this book may change your view of end-time prophecy. Back to Jerusalem is not just a missions movement of the Chinese church. It is an eschatological event confirmed by both the Old and New Testaments. God is using the Red Dragon to fulfill His ultimate purposes.
China and End-Time Prophecy explores the surprising connection between ancient prophecy and China’s modern missions phenomenon. This book will give you a new vision of what it means to go into all the world with the gospel. Most of all, it will show you why the completion of the Great Commission is inevitable and the return of Christ is unstoppable.
For years, China’s population size, economic growth, and thirst for military power have taken center stage by those who study biblical prophecy. Most end-time experts have seen the “Red Dragon” as an aggressor to Israel. In Revelation 16 and 19, John's mention of the armies involved in the final battle marking the end of the world could well depict China’s army today.
However, a different kind of army is also rising in China, and it is quickly approaching two hundred million people. This army is for Christ, not against Him. It is a host of Christians from the Chinese underground house church who are fighting a battle against principalities and powers and spreading the gospel in unprecedented ways under intense persecution.
These Christians are motivated by a powerful vision called “Back to Jerusalem.” The Chinese church is quietly working to complete the Great Commission by bringing the gospel to unreached peoples in China’s eastern provinces and to all the countries between the border of China and the city of Jerusalem.
Yet there’s even more to this fascinating development. What you read in this book may change your view of end-time prophecy. Back to Jerusalem is not just a missions movement of the Chinese church. It is an eschatological event confirmed by both the Old and New Testaments. God is using the Red Dragon to fulfill His ultimate purposes.
China and End-Time Prophecy explores the surprising connection between ancient prophecy and China’s modern missions phenomenon. This book will give you a new vision of what it means to go into all the world with the gospel. Most of all, it will show you why the completion of the Great Commission is inevitable and the return of Christ is unstoppable.
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257 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2021
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May 4, 2022
While the church in the west is sleeping there are an estimated 160 to 200 million Christians in the underground church in China with approximately 30 thousand being saved per day… unbelievable. They are sending missionaries to the most closed off countries in the world; North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran etc.
Praise God!
Let us pray for those believers putting their lives on the line, who are imprisoned, tortured and being killed and let us pray for our hearts in the west to be awakened to fulfill the great commission and be ready for Gods call wherever that may be.
Praise God!
Let us pray for those believers putting their lives on the line, who are imprisoned, tortured and being killed and let us pray for our hearts in the west to be awakened to fulfill the great commission and be ready for Gods call wherever that may be.
January 31, 2022
Eye opening and refreshing view on missions
Be careful. After reading this you might empty your bank account for missions. Love Eugene's on the ground perspective and his love for history. I was deeply impacted by the Biblical concept of how God flows from east to west- just like the Hebrew language itself,!
Be careful. After reading this you might empty your bank account for missions. Love Eugene's on the ground perspective and his love for history. I was deeply impacted by the Biblical concept of how God flows from east to west- just like the Hebrew language itself,!
July 14, 2026
Paul Hattaway popularized the main topic of this book, Back to Jerusalem (BTJ), with a book of the same title (2005), and was the impetus of the author of this book (Eugene Bach). Bach is attempting to convince even more people of how the underground Chinese church (more specifically those from BTJ) is sending out more missionaries into the 10/40 window than any other country. The 10/40 window refers to the area of the world least evangelized—from China to Jerusalem (also from 10 to 40 degrees ____________).
That leads us to the premise of the book.
In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion killed more than 180 foreign missionaries and more than thirty thousand Chinese Christians (131). However, the Azusa Street Revivals emerged within the next couple of years, which empowered foreign missionaries to flood the streets of China again. More specifically, in the Shandong Province near the base of the Taishan Mountains, God rose up indigenous missionaries like Jing Dianying, of the Jesus Family group. This is especially important due to the history of this area.
More common than not, people view “Chinese” religions as Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, but according to China’s most famous historian, Sima Qian, Huang Di is the ancestor of all Chinese people—who was known as “the Yellow Emperor.” He apparently taught the Chinese people to worship the God who created all things—the God known as Shangdi, which is the same word Chinese Christians use today to refer to God. This has gone on for several thousand years—since 2,700 BC (www2.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/file/1097kaBVw...). The early Chinese emperors followed the practices of the Yellow Emperor by sacrificing animals to Shangdi with this prayer:
Of old in the beginning, there was the great chaos, without form and dark. The five elements had not begun to revolve, nor the sun and the moon to shine. In the midst thereof there existed neither form or sound. Thou, O spiritual Sovereign, camest forth in Thy presidency, and first didst divide the grosser parts from the purer. Thou madest heaven; Though madest earth; Though madest man. All things with their reproducing power, got their being…^26 (30).
Compare this with Genesis 1:1-4, 11-12. Check out The Temple of Heaven in Beijing, which has the world’s largest existing altar. When contrasting the way most Chinese religions are depicted in art, they are full of faces and icons. However, this doesn’t have any. Could it be a result of Shangdi’s influence, as it relates to Exodus 20:4 (Commandment of No graven images)?
The book argues that many Christians have viewed China primarily as an end-times military threat, but Bach contends that God is instead using the rapidly growing Chinese house church and the "Back to Jerusalem" missions movement as a key part of fulfilling the Great Commission before Christ's return. He argues that China's role in biblical prophecy is connected not only to the "kings from the east" passages in Revelation but also to God's global mission to bring the gospel to unreached peoples across Asia and the Middle East.
That leads us to the premise of the book.
In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion killed more than 180 foreign missionaries and more than thirty thousand Chinese Christians (131). However, the Azusa Street Revivals emerged within the next couple of years, which empowered foreign missionaries to flood the streets of China again. More specifically, in the Shandong Province near the base of the Taishan Mountains, God rose up indigenous missionaries like Jing Dianying, of the Jesus Family group. This is especially important due to the history of this area.
More common than not, people view “Chinese” religions as Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, but according to China’s most famous historian, Sima Qian, Huang Di is the ancestor of all Chinese people—who was known as “the Yellow Emperor.” He apparently taught the Chinese people to worship the God who created all things—the God known as Shangdi, which is the same word Chinese Christians use today to refer to God. This has gone on for several thousand years—since 2,700 BC (www2.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/file/1097kaBVw...). The early Chinese emperors followed the practices of the Yellow Emperor by sacrificing animals to Shangdi with this prayer:
Of old in the beginning, there was the great chaos, without form and dark. The five elements had not begun to revolve, nor the sun and the moon to shine. In the midst thereof there existed neither form or sound. Thou, O spiritual Sovereign, camest forth in Thy presidency, and first didst divide the grosser parts from the purer. Thou madest heaven; Though madest earth; Though madest man. All things with their reproducing power, got their being…^26 (30).
Compare this with Genesis 1:1-4, 11-12. Check out The Temple of Heaven in Beijing, which has the world’s largest existing altar. When contrasting the way most Chinese religions are depicted in art, they are full of faces and icons. However, this doesn’t have any. Could it be a result of Shangdi’s influence, as it relates to Exodus 20:4 (Commandment of No graven images)?
The book argues that many Christians have viewed China primarily as an end-times military threat, but Bach contends that God is instead using the rapidly growing Chinese house church and the "Back to Jerusalem" missions movement as a key part of fulfilling the Great Commission before Christ's return. He argues that China's role in biblical prophecy is connected not only to the "kings from the east" passages in Revelation but also to God's global mission to bring the gospel to unreached peoples across Asia and the Middle East.
October 7, 2026
Though I am neither Pentacostal in my denominational leanings nor Christian Zionist in my eschatological understanding (and disagreed with some of the author’s theological interpretations), I found this book very interesting and encouraging. Grateful to see what God has done and will do in and through Chinese Christians.
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