This is important in Bible prophecy because there will soon be a huge surplus of men of military age with no chance for a normal life. Ever since the 80’s China has been birthing a huge surplus of men. If they end the unbalance by 2010 like they have stated before. That generation will span from 1980 until about 2010 or 30 years. The last born of this surplus generation of men will be of military age by 2025 while the first of the generation will be still be young enough to be capable of fighting. This peak generation of disposable men will occur in the years between 2025-2035. Revelation talks about an army out of the East that will have 200 million men that was born for a specific time. The surplus men in 2025-2035 from China will be more than 100 million and they will be joined by other nations like India who also have surplus men to make up that unique army of 200 million men that was born for destruction.
This all occurs late in the seven year tribulation for Israel. So knowing that, we only have about two decades left before the tribulation begins.
BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific China to act on gender imbalance The Chinese government says it is drafting new laws to tackle the growing gender imbalance caused by the widespread abortion of female foetuses.
On Friday it was revealed that the eastern city of Lianyungang had the most skewed population. Among children under four years old, there are 163.5 boys for every 100 girls.
Ninety-nine cities had gender ratios higher than 125, state-run news agency Xinhua quoted the CFPA as saying in a report.
This makes me wish Chiang Kai-Shek could ressurect and take down the Maoists. If only the Chinese hadn’t banned reincarnation! 😉
On a more serious note, I think what you say makes sense although I’m still wondering what might happen to Japan in the meantime. I don’t think they’re going to remain ‘pacifist’ forever, especially not in the face of the everlasting anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea (including many in the South since Liberals came in power there) and Communist China with its booming economy and huge and improving military. Some within the Liberal Democratic Party (Japanese Conservatives) have been pressing for changing the constitution drafted by the Americans after the Second World War so the Japanese can legitimately have a true army again. They’ve also proposed obtaining nukes but a large majority still pretty much opposes this because of Hirosima and Nagasaki. The Japanese Conservatives lost the elections last time which indicates many Japanese – including most of the younger generation – don’t buy into Shinzo Abe’s ideas of a ‘beautiful Japan’ and re-establishing more traditionally Japanese values but I still think there’s a chance that the public opinion will shift and Japan will re-emerge not merely as an economic powerhouse but also as a great power as in its old days of glory when it truly was an ‘empire‘.
I guess one day we’ll find out.
For your interest, here‘s a documentary about it. It’s from the NY Times so you shouldn’t be surprised it’s biased and meant as a warning against the ‘evil right-wingers’ but it’s still interesting nonetheless. I personally think the Japanese have the right to defend themselves and have an army but of course we need to see things in proper context. The thing gets a bit problematic because of the huge influence of Shintoism on the ‘Conservative’ Japanese who would support a return to the Japan of old. It pretty much resembles Fascist doctrine in many regards and doesn’t really equate to ‘Conservatism’ as we know it in the West, which may also include nationalism but not in the same way as it does in political views that draw heavily on Shinto beliefs. That’s not to say Japanese Conservatives or Shintos are all Fascists but there continue to be extremists in Japan who glorify self-sacrifice for the nation and so on and I’m wondering if there’s a chance it may give us a clue as to what the Japan of the end-times may be like and what role it will have to play. IMO, there may be a renewal of such sentiment in Japan would China seriously threaten Japan at some point. I personaly seriously doubt the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans will ever really be able to cooperate in the future unless they have a very good reason to do so. At this time, a spirit of brotherhood between the Indians and Chinese also seems unlikely so there ought to be a very serious reason why they would ever join forces.
Cheers,
ruben