The following "Question" was asked by a member of the congregation at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, and "Answered" by their pastor, John MacArthur Jr. It was transcribed by David Lee of Malaysia, from the tape GC 1301-N, titled "Bible Questions and Answers Part 16."  A copy of the tape can be obtained by writing, Word of Grace, P.O. Box 4000, Panorama City, CA 91412 or by dialing toll free 1-800-55-GRACE.  ©1981. All Rights Reserved.

Questioner

Once before you said that Russia’s greatest enemy was China, and from reading The Late Great Planet Earth many times, and following the study we did in Daniel on Sunday nights which again was terrific. I understand that Russia and China will be aligned against Israel?

John MacArthur's Answer

I’m not sure that it is true whether they will be align with each other, but they’ll definitely be against Israel. I think what you going to have is the west, the north, the south, and the east. The west being the revival of Roman Empire, the south being an Egyptian confederacy…not of great consequence, the north being the tremendous power of Russia align with Kush-Put (?), you know…Persia , modern Iran and whatever. And then you are going to have the kings of the east.

Although they all agree that they are desirous of controlling Israel, I do not think that they will ally themselves with one another. And I think, Russia wants the Middle East, China wants the Middle East, it’s going to come down to the fact that China wants Russia, or Russia wants China. I really think that there will be a wide-open conflagration of not just everybody against Israel but everybody against everybody.

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