The 1979 movie, The China Syndrome, stoked fears of nuclear power plant meltdown. The fear as expressed—only partly joking—was that the melting of nuclear material would keep going deeper into the earth all the way to China, contaminating groundwater and everything else. A real such disaster came only twelve days after the film’s release, when Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania suffered a nuclear power plant meltdown.
The Sino Syndrome, as I call it, in terms of geopolitical-think, is the belief by many today that a deadly danger is coming from the other side of the world toward America at an ever-quickening pace.
Fears are mounting. The Sino threat is growing. The messages I’m receiving amount to being a syndrome, in my view.
China, which I believe without doubt will be the “kings of the east” leading force—that is, the King of the kings of the east—has many worrying that invasion is near. This apprehension includes that of some of my friends, one of whom I will let express his thoughts in brief here.
He says the following in one of his several emails to me:
I’ve seen several other Internet reports also revealing that our government is openly allowing communist China to infiltrate America in many ways. Buying up land, possibly near our military bases! Additional proof that our own pro communist leaders, Obama and Biden, are friendly to Red China and probably not opposed to a Chinese takeover of America. And soon!
I find it quite likely that Barack Obama, wanting to eliminate our free Republic and communize our nation, could simply allow the Chinese communists to help him in that endeavor.
Think about it. Is it not very likely that by now many communist Chinese agents have entered our nation through Obama’s open border and are positioned all across our nation?
I don’t know about you, but I find this news very concerning. You wonder how much longer God will delay the Rapture. Will it not occur until America falls to the Chinese?
There’s been a lot of talk about China invading Taiwan. But, nothing is being said by anybody about how China is rapidly infiltrating our nation, by permission of our leaders. Perhaps as punishment for turning from Him, God may allow us to soon fall to the communist Chinese. Just as He allowed both Judah and Israel to be overrun by their enemies for rebelling against Him.
My friend’s worry is expressed many times over by others who aren’t necessarily close acquaintances. The concern has indeed moved into the arena of near-paranoia in a number of cases.
Their fears aren’t without basis. I, too, don’t take lightly matters coming out of that troubling area. But my concern is greatly tempered, because it’s undertaken with the absolute knowledge of truth found in God’s Word—which I hope to go into a bit later.
First, a look into some of the things feared to be going on with regard to America’s number-one enemy so far as national entities are concerned:
- Some fear that Taiwan is China’s Ukraine—that the Chinese are about to invade that island. Biden and his administration, they say, are sending American assets to Taiwan just as they are to Ukraine.
- China has developed advanced weapons with nuclear capability, while America’s military is being diminished purposefully by the Marxists in power.
- China is mounting a space force that can destroy satellites, thus debilitating America’s defensive capabilities.
- China has been sending high atmospheric spy balloons to map and plan for assault on America.
- China is, like in the case of the so-called Chinese virus, preparing to create more such biological attacks.
- Chinese are crossing America’s open southern borders, with more than 14 million now in the US.
- China has purchased vast land swaths within the United States, usually near American military bases and key defense areas.
- China is destroying America economically, through every nefarious pathway available, including electronic hacking and interference.
- The Biden administration and the globalist cabal include China and possible war with that nation and Russia as part of plans to fundamentally change America, like Barack Obama said he intended before he was elected president in 2008.
- China, along with Russia, is planning full military invasions of America by having forces on both northern and southern borders.
When thinking on this entire range of assaults, all one can say is: “Whew!”
If all this threat from China—and from its ally Russia—comes to fruition, we will, as my friend fears, soon be under the thumb of the most despotic, torturous regime to exist on the planet. Americans will be facing the darkest of times, almost rivaling the conditions prophesied under Antichrist’s regime in Revelation.
But, as always, I stick to my absolute confidence that this just isn’t going to happen. While it is a possibility–even a likelihood—that this nation and others of the West will suffer even military attacks following the Rapture of the Church, I’m of the studied opinion that neither China nor Russia will conquer the United States—or any major nation-state of the Western hemisphere, for that matter. This is even though the Marxists and communist types have made great inroads into this part of the world.
The reasons I am so confident of what I write here are found in God’s Word. I have written the following consistently.
Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 say that Russia and its forces will meet their doom on the mountains of Israel as they attack. All the while, the other areas of the world–the Western world—will be observing Gog’s defeat and only issuing diplomatic notes of protest (this being evidence that China and Russia have not conquered the West).
China, on the other hand–the king of the kings of the east—will be held back until the late Tribulation era by a God-ordained and stipulated barrier that separates the Occidental and Oriental worlds.
This barrier is the Euphrates River of the Middle East.
That holding back of the great invading force until near the time of Armageddon is found in Revelation, chapters 9 and 16.
This, my take on the matter, I realize, will make little difference to most who view developments in China, Russia, and the Middle East, because most don’t take into account God’s Word on matters involved. The Sino Syndrome is building. Troubles coming out of those areas of this ever-darkening world are likely to appear much more ominous in the very near future.
I can only urge those so fearful of things they believe are coming to consider studying God’s prophetic Word–to overlay all of the portentous things they fear with the template of the Bible.
I’m speaking to Christians, of course. The lost mind can be brilliant in IQ, but totally oblivious to truth. The Christian, however, has every promise of the ability to find truth in all matters—including those concerning their future so far as war and peace are concerned.
And the only peace to be found is in the Prince of Peace. He has promised to keep us from that hour of Tribulation (Revelation 3:10).
If you haven’t yet come to Him for the “peace that passes all understanding,” here is how to instantaneously embrace the only way God has provided to be saved from the troubles coming upon this fallen world of rebels:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9–10)
Terry James Prophecy Line 
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’s blood and righteousness!
On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand
When darkness veils his lovely face
I rest on His unchanging grace
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil
His oath, his covenant, his blood
Supports me in the ‘whelming flood
When all around my soul gives way
He then is all my hope and stay
On Christ the solid rock I stand
All other ground is sinking sand
All other ground is sinking sand
When He shall come with trumpet sound
Oh may I then in Him be found
Dressed in his righteousness alone
Faultless to stand before the throne
I have ZERO fear (standing on The Rock) and why? Because God’s Word also says things will be NORMAL when He steps back into the affairs of man. AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH! And they knew not until the flood came. Noah and family? SAFE in the ark and this time? JESUS is our ark and I TRUST THAT but I also talk to fellow family members who fear as your article states.
I BELIEVE America WILL BE DESTROYED after the rapture ….. but, God will destroy it!
May God bless you all and keep you in His mighty care…….MARANATHA!
A timely post Terry. I had forgotten about what can only be labeled as predictive programming when 3 Mile Island occurred. Satan has always been busy laying his evil foundation for what we see today. But God…
When I was a young mother in the mid-1980’s, I got my real estate license and learned early on that the Chinese were buying up large swaths of land surrounding Mtn. Home AFB, a strategic facility about 30 miles outside of Boise, ID, where I lived. It was very concerning to me that we allowed our enemies to buy our land without restraint. I knew little of politics, was not yet saved (that incredible gift was far into the future yet) but had enough common sense to know that it was moronic to sell our country to enemy agents. No one I talked to about it was the least bit concerned…after all, it was legal and there was a lot of money to be made, don’t you know?!
Fast forward to Arizona where I have lived for the past 24 years and I see the same practices going on here, but on steroids! Entire real estate training programs and systems are being taught on how to work with Chinese, Turkish, Saudi, and every other kind of buyer who were, and are, willing to purchase whatever we will sell them; land, homes, businesses. It’s a known fact that 90%+ of our prescription drugs are made in China. We are exponentially the largest consumer of drugs in the world. THAT is insanity!
With our borders wide open and everything we own for sale to the highest bidder, it’s foolish to expect an outcome other than what we are facing now. I can’t understand how literally everyone can’t see it, however the Bible explains this phenomena in Daniel 12:10 “Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.” The Chinese are strategic and patient, and can see that their golden opportunity to take us over and destroy our nation is almost at hand.
Let us not forget that right now China has grave economic issues of their own. A war would distract from their broken policies and looming fiscal meltdown…which is true for our nation as well. There are lots of incentives for our nations to go to war against one another. And since we know that O’Biden is in control of our administration, our Congress is corrupted on both sides and our judiciary (and our society itself) is rotten to the core, so it isn’t a matter of if, but when.
As a Believer, I stand back and marvel as we see the stage being set for the 7-year Tribulation. Only God can hold this world together, which all things considered, should have, by now, exploded into chaos. His patience and love is profound and on brilliant display for those with eyes to see.
There is no horizontal escape from what will come. The escape is vertical and is to be found only through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Every day I pray for the unredeemed to come to saving faith in Him, before the Tribulation begins. He knows His own and promises multitudes will be saved after the Rapture occurs.
I’m still praying that many will come to Him before they must die for their faith. It is far better to die once and live with Him in eternity than to die twice and exist in torment forever without Him.
Praise His holy name.
I had NO IDEA this insanity has been going on so long. Gee, you don’t think this information has been deliberately buried, do you??
I wonder how long we have to wait before our power grid, farms, and transportation systems are totally owned by our enemies – and, yes, these people are definitely our enemies.
Thanks for telling us about this.
You are welcome Ed. I learned of it in the mid-80’s; one can only guess how long we’ve been allowing this to occur.
It’s truly laughable to think we can stop what is coming. It is hard not to laugh in someone’s face when they tell me to “trust the plan” or that Trump is coming back in 2024 to fix things. Their blindness is profound. And they think WE are the ones who are crazy.
If we are being called “crazy” when the lunatics are running the asylum, that would be a compliment!
The mess this country and world are in is fixable only by Jesus. Even if Trump actually gets vote majority in 2024, popular and electoral, the fix is in so he wouldn’t win. We saw that last time, right?
Of course, that presupposes Biden and the Wokesters don’t come up with some reason to suspend the elections for some preposterous “national emergency” if he sees any opponent with a good chance winning.
Or maybe only President Xi will be on the ballot by then!!
There is zero chance Trump will retake office. ZERO. I knew that the morning of Nov 4, 2020. It was obvious that the enemies of our Lord had taken control, and every possible opportunity for us to wrest our nation back from them was cut off. All by God’s sovereign design.
For a very short time I prayed that we could prevent what seemed to be coming, but graciously God revealed to us that wasn’t His plan. Now I wouldn’t want to turn back for anything in the world: I say let’s get this done!
Please Lord Jesus come take us to Yourself and bring in Your 1000 year Kingdom! Rapture Ready and listening for the sound of the trumpet!
I’m with you!
Donald Trump provided a brief delay along the trajectory which is ultimately inevitable, but history has to play out as the Bible describes. I, too, want to finish the course down here, because it will be paradise for believers. Not so for those who have rejected God and his Son.
Galatians {6:7} Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. {6:8} For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Even after 2000 years, most of the world, including those members of much of organized religion today, just doesn’t “get it.”
I expect they still wouldn’t even if God gave them 2000 years more!
When Jesus walked the earth, there were multitudes who wanted to be fed by Him and healed by Him, but didn’t want Him as their Lord and Savior.
It is unthinkable to us, but the same will be true during the Millennial Kingdom.
I agree.
People wanted the “perks” without having to take on the responsibility of living the way Jesus said that they should.
As you said, it will be the same during the Millennium.
As we see, Satan manages to gather up an army of rebels when he is released from being imprisoned for 1000 years. I suspect it will be composed of the offspring of the survivors of the Tribulation who remember to horrors of that time. They weren’t alive to see Jesus’ miraculous return and him bringing a near-Eden existence back to Earth. I see it will be very much a “youth rebellion.”
As another observation, I do believe that most people who saw Jesus’ return will live out the whole thousand years (Isaiah 65:17-20; Zechariah 8:4). In OT times, people originally lived for centuries (Genesis, chapter 5)and I think this will be the case during the Millennium, too.
A dose of truth from the Master regarding the timing of that great, indescribable climax of human history when the living and the dead Christ-followers will be raised: “And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the LAST DAY. For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the LAST DAY.” (John 6:39-40) Please leave room in your thoughts for the possibility that we’ll be here for the duration — that is, those of us who remain alive until then.
This looks like quite an older article – refers to Obama opening the door for Chinese infiltration into America. What is amazing is how timely it is with Joe Biden and the Wokesters. We are now into “Obama on steroids” mode when it comes to the “leadership” in this country accelerating its demise at an unimaginable pace.
From Daniel’s reference to the Antichrist being troubled by the kings of the east (Daniel 11:44). it really shows you how powerful they will become in Trib times.
Looks like they are already well on the way.
This looks like quite an older article – refers to Obama opening the door for Chinese infiltration into America. What is amazing is how timely it is with Joe Biden and the Wokesters. We are now into “Obama on steroids” mode when it comes to the “leadership” in this country accelerating its demise at an unimaginable pace.
From Daniel’s reference to the Antichrist being troubled by the kings of the east (Daniel 11:44). it really shows you how powerful they will become in Trib times.
Looks like they are already well on the way.