Posted on 11/18/2012 3:10:11 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
The other day I ran across something I had written back during the First Gulf War. Like everybody else, I was glued to CNN's coverage of the first Nintendo War. (I even videotaped some of it.)
Anyway, as I was watching the coverage, I was making notes, one of which was the observation that I was witnessing the beginning of a global power shift.
I wrote; "the Soviet Union and America must decrease, so that Europe can rise to pre-eminence."
I wrote a whole bunch more stuff about how I thought it would come about, but I'm only quoting the stuff I was right about. There was a lot I was wrong about as soon as I left the safe environs of Bible prophecy and started guessing.
For example, back in 1991, I expected the Gulf War to widen and perhaps drag in the Soviet Union against the USA and we'd have an immediate answer to the question, "Where is America in Bible prophecy?"
At the time, the Soviet Union and the United States were both superpowers, whereas the reviving Roman Empire had just been reborn via the Maastricht Treaty, which established a "European Union" and granted EU citizenship to every person who was a citizen of a member state.
EU citizenship enabled people to vote and run for office in local and European Parliament elections in the EU country in which they lived, regardless of their nationality.
The treaty also provided for the introduction of a central banking system and a common currency (the euro), committed members to implementing common foreign and security policies, and called for greater cooperation on various other issues, including the environment, policing, and social policy.
The European Union was the brainchild of six European countries emerging from the ashes of World War Two. In 1948, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and West Germany came together as the Benelux nations, out of which emerged the European Coal and Steel Community.
The Benelux Agreement led to the 1950 Treaty of Paris, and laid out a plan for a European Community to pool the coal and steel of its members in a common market. May 9 is "Europe Day" and commemorates the issuance of the Schuman Declaration, creating the ECSC.
The Schuman Declaration that created the ECSC had several distinct aims:
The ECSC was replaced by the European Economic Community as a consequence of the Treaty of Rome signed in 1957 between the six Benelux nations.
The word "Economic" was deleted from the treaty's name by the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, and the treaty was repackaged as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union on the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009.
The essential facts to our discussion at this point are these: The Benelux Economic Union (the "Inner Six") was created in 1948, becoming the European Economic Community as a consequence of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which was the basic text upon which both the Maastricht Treaty and Treaty of Lisbon are based.
The Treaty of Lisbon abolished the Western European Union and combined the WEU and EU into a single political entity under the authority of a single High Representative.
The Presidency of the Council, which continues to rotate among Member States every 6 months, has lost influence: the Prime minister of the country in question no longer chairs the European Council, its foreign minister no longer represents the EU externally (that is now done by the High Representative).
Currently, the European Union consists of twenty-seven member states. But until the WEU was abolished by the Lisbon Treaty, only the ten permanent members, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK had full voting rights.
And while the WEU has been absorbed by the EU, the original ten members of the Modified Brussels Treaty still hold most of the power in the EU.
My observation that Europe must ascend to superpower status was rooting in Daniel's prophecy that says in the last days, the antichrist will rule over a revived form of the Roman Empire.
Twenty-five centuries ago, the Hebrew prophet Daniel, living in exile in Babylon, had a vision for the last days. The revealing angel told Daniel:
“Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days." (Daniel 10:14)
The angel told Daniel of the final Gentile kingdom that would rule during the final hours before the return of Christ. According to the angel, it would be partly strong and partly weak and would consist of ten ‘kings’.
“. . .his feet part of iron and part of clay. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron for as much as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”
“. . . and it had ten horns. And the ten horns that were in his head, . . . and the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise Daniel said that the ‘people of the prince’ who would destroy the city and sanctuary (Jerusalem and the Temple) would also produce the antichrist. In AD 70, the city and sanctuary were both destroyed by Titus and his Roman legion.
It is clear that the only legitimate candidate for a revived Roman Empire is Europe. Daniel pictured it as consisting of ten ‘kings’, partly strong and partly weak, who would rule Europe militarily, and by extension, the western world.
So where are we today? The Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own debt on Christmas Day, 1991. The future of the United States is, for the first time since the Civil War, in serious doubt.
The twenty-seven member European Union's economy is in free-fall, and the future of the Euro is in doubt.
Of the original ten, three are in danger of being forced out of the Eurozone (Portugal, Ireland, Spain) in order to keep the euro (and the expanded EU) from collapsing.
According to the Prophet Daniel, an eleventh national leader will arise and will salvage the collapsing system by booting three of them out of the federation.
"I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." (Daniel 7:8)
According to the Book of Revelation, one of the chief levers of control used by the antichrist's government is its detailed control of the economy, to the degree that the antichrist will be able to restrict all buying and selling to those that accept his Mark.
Now take a look around. What direction is Europe trending? What direction is Russia trending? What direction is America trending? Where is the global economy headed? Where are the various currencies, especially the greenback and the euro, headed?
Are we trending in the direction forecast by Scripture? Or do you see it unfolding some other way? Let me put it to you this way: CAN you see it unfolding any other way?
Now, to the eleventh power, the "little horn" with the "mouth speaking great things" -- who is he? In context, he is the antichrist. Where does he come from? He arises from outside the original ten.
That is the reason that we focus so much attention on politics during the political seasons. The antichrist is a politician. He is probably alive today. We can already see his shadow on the horizon. And we know what it means.
"And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28)
First comes the Rapture. . .
"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:" (2 Thessalonians 2:8)
We're almost home. Hang in there.
Ping!
“Of the original ten, three are in danger of being forced out of the Eurozone (Portugal, Ireland, Spain) in order to keep the euro (and the expanded EU) from collapsing. “
I believe at least three major members out of these will leave the Euro:
Spain
Italy
Portugal
France
Leaving the Euro currency does not mean they will have to leave the Eurozone...
If you look at Europe’s symbolism, it removes all doubt. They wannbe end times demons.
“Of the original ten, three are in danger of being forced out of the Eurozone (Portugal, Ireland, Spain) in order to keep the euro (and the expanded EU) from collapsing.”
According to your info, Ireland wasn’t part of the original 10. However, the UK has stubbornly held on to its pound and often goes its own way with its own foriegn policy, often putting it at odds with the Continental governments. So the UK could be kicked out.
Actually, my understanding of the “horns passage” was that the little horn assumes the thrones of 3 of the 10 kings... the nations aren’t “kicked out”, their lands and peoples come under direct BEAST control.
Read instead “The Islamic Antichrist by Joel Richardson”.
"I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." (Daniel 7:8)
Since "horns" in Scripture represent units of power, we see from the Daniel passage above that there will be a unit of power that comes from a group of units of power and this unit of power that arises will "pluck up by the roots" or remove, three units of power from the first group of units of power.
No matter what we see now, we know that events will work out that will prove the Scripture in Daniel absolutely true. I think the scenario posited by the writer is just as valid as any other that may be put out there.
“The new Euro currency shows a woman riding the beast: “
She’s riding a bull.
The beast of the Revelation has seven heads and the ten horns.
I think the dollar will continue to decline in value and the calls for replacing it as the world's reserve currency will grow till it is replaced, probably by the yuan. The euro will disappear all together because Germany will not guarantee it.
There is no question that the USA is in decline since we've embraced the doctrines of demons and continue sacrificing babies to our selfishness.
The ten nation federation is probably going to be a combination of middle eastern nations and european nations that are dominated by muslims. I think this is the clay & iron feet combination.
It seems unlikely that in in the aftermath of such destruction of Islam, that anyone would willingly worship a Muslim. However, anything is possible.
In the book of Revelation, the "woman" that rides the beast is a city built on seven hills that reigns over the kings of the earth. The fact that it is the fledgling revived Roman Empire that has decided to use this Biblical symbol for their currency tells those of us who are watching these events and how they are stage-setting and fulfilling Bible prophecy that what we are seeing is reflecting exactly what Jesus Christ told us will happen.
Yes. And the European parliment building is modeled after the Tower of Babel. Geesh! Could they get any weirder and evil?
Unfortunately, the fallen Christians of Europe don’t have a clue of what is being announced to them.
It’s like people are under an evil spell. Spooky!
As I understand it, the Roman legion that actually destroyed the Temple was the X Legion Fretensis. It was stationed in Syria, thus most of its conscripts were Assyrians. This has lead many scholars to believe that AntiChrist will come from Assyria, which would fit well with all of Daniel's prophecies. BTW, Isaiah 10 and 14 and Micah 5 call AntiChrist the Assyrian!
I had never stopped to think that the 3 nations about to be dropped out from the eurozone could be the 3 horns that are plucked! I like that! What if we end up with a 7 nation European confederacy, led by a man of middle eastern roots? Any suggestions as to who that might be?
All of this is very exciting when we consider Jesus' words in Luke 21. We are the generation that has seen the fig tree (Israel) bud and produce leaves (become a nation once again). So I believe that Jesus will come back during our days. Come soon, Lord Jesus!
Don’t forget...the AC or Beast will also have his False Prophet working in Tandem with each other...later to be joined with the enforced worship of the Beast’s image! An unholy troika that mocks the Godhead!
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