The Antichrist will withstand these attacks and begin to rampage the region of the Middle East (Daniel 11:40b, 42, 43)
While doing so, Antichrist becomes very disturbed with the news that an army from the east is advancing (Daniel 11:44)
The advancement of the army from the east is made possible by the Euphrates River drying up (Revelation 16:12; Also Isaiah 11:15-16)
The Euphrates River runs 1800 miles long and is from three hundred to twelve hundred yards wide and from ten to thirty feet deep and has always been a formidable boundary between people living to its east and its west
The Euphrates River is the eastern boundary of the land that God gave to Israel (Genesis 15:18; Deuteronomy 1:7; 11:24; Joshua 1:4) – The Mediterranean Sea was the western boundary
When the watery barrier is removed, 200 million soldiers (Revelation 9:14-16) from China, India and other Asian powers will march straight for Armageddon and destruction (Revelation 9:16)