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Those whose Way was prepared to come in and destroy Babylon, by the drying up the River of Euphrates, ⟨p. 161⟩were the Army that was at War with Babylon, Cyrus the King, and his Host, that sought her Overthrow: So there seems to be all Reason to suppose, that those whose Way will be prepared to come in and destroy mystical Babylon, by drying up the mystical Euphrates, are that King and Army that are in this Book of Revelation represented as at War with Antichrist. And what King and Army that is, we may see in Chap. xii.7. and xix.11, to the End; Michael the King of Angels, and his Angels; he whose Name is called the Word of God, and that has on his Vesture and on his Thigh a Name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; and the heavenly Armies that follow him, clothed in fine Linen white and clean. Cyrus the Chief of the Kings of the East, that destroyed Babylon, and redeemed God's Church from thence, and restored Jerusalem, seems in that particular Affair very manifestly to be spoken of as a Type of Christ: God calls him his Shepherd, to perform his Pleasure, to say to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built, and to the Temple, Thy Foundation shall be laid, Isai. xliv 28. God calls him his Messiah; Chap. xlv.1. Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed (in the Original, to his Messiah) to Cyrus. He is spoken of as one that God had raised up in Righteousness, that he might build his City, and freely redeem his Captives, or let them go without Price or Reward, Chap. xlv.13. He is said to be one whom God had loved, Chap. xlviii.14. In like Manner as the Messiah is said to be God's Elect, in whom his Soul delighteth. As by Babylon, in the Revelation, is meant that antichristian Society that is typified by old Babylon; so by the Kings of the East, that should destroy this antichristian Church, must be meant those Enemies of it that were typified by Cyrus and other Chieftains of the ⟨p. 162⟩East, that destroyed old Babylon; viz. Christ, who was born, lived, died and rose in the East, together with those spiritual Princes that follow him, the Principalities and Powers in heavenly Places, and those Ministers and Saints that are Kings and Priests, and shall reign on Earth; especially those Leaders and Heads of God's People, those christian Ministers and Magistrates, that shall be distinguished as public Blessings to his Church, and chief Instruments of the Overthrow of Antichrist.