The United States of Europe: A Powerful Testimony to the Prophetic Power of the Bible

I still find it incredible how the Bible, a book thousands of years old, predicted many of the events happening today as part of the end times. Check out the following, from express.co.uk:

“David Cameron was under mounting pressure last night to hold a referendum on EU membership amid claims that the Coalition is paving the way for full eurozone financial integration. Tory and Labour MPs believe that Chancellor George Osborne’s hopes for a single eurozone tax system will lead to the EU becoming a fundamentally different organisation to the one the UK joined in 1973.
Many also fear that Britain will come under intense pressure to adapt its tax and regulatory policies to conform more closely with the eurozone once fiscal union is under way, even if the UK remains outside the single currency. Steve Baker, Tory MP for Wycombe, said: “It is very clear that the EU is heading at full speed towards being one country.”

And then there’s this the Washington Post:

The Dow Jones industrial average fell, the euro slid against the dollar and key European markets edged down in off-hour trading after Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the results of their emergency talks in Paris.
Sarkozy called for a “new economic government” for Europe that would meet at least twice a year with European Union President Herman Van Rompuy as its head, but he offered few other details or indications that the body would have real power. Merkel and Sarkozy also called for all euro zone nations to enact constitutional amendments requiring balanced budgets. They said they want the process completed by the summer of 2012, but it would almost certainly run into protracted political difficulties in many countries. Both leaders said the moment was not right to replace 17 government bonds with a single one allowing weaker economies to borrow in cooperation with the powerhouse economies of France and Germany. A growing number of experts are calling for the eurobond as a way to prevent the unaffordable interest rates that have driven Greece, Ireland, and Portugal to seek bailouts from the eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.

The Old Testament prophet Daniel long ago predicted that Europe would unify into a revived form of the Roman Empire. From Daniel 7:7-8 (NASB):

After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. 8 While I was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth uttering great boasts.

Verses 23 to 27 clearly establish this final beast as an end times kingdom that would preside over the world during the “time, times, and half a time” understood to be the first half of the 7-year Great Tribulation period. Out of this kingdom will arise a powerful tyrant that will enslave the world and persecute the Church. From Daniel 7:23-29 (NASB):

Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it. As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be different from the previous ones and will subdue three kings. He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.

Is it really that incredible to think that in the midst of deep economic crisis the world would yearn for a powerful leader who would make everything all right, especially considering that so many are pushing for a one world government anyway?

We truly live in extraordinary times. Who would have ever imagined that such things, predicted thousands of years ago, would happen today? Just the mere existence of Israel is a tremendous testimony to the prophetic power of the Word of God. What are the odds that a nation could be scattered throughout the world for two thousand years, preserve its language, religion, and culture for the entire time, and finally be reunited as a sovereign, independent nation on its ancestral homeland? What are the odds of that ever happening? What other people in history can lay claim to a similar story? Incredibly, the Bible predicted it would happen millennia ago.