The ultimate seat of power ....

Tony Blair has aspirations for the presidency of Europe, a significant seat of power that would probably become the future seat of antichrist.

The European Union is to centralize its leadership under a premier, the EU President. There has been a rotating chairmanship or presidency of the European Parliament for some time, but it did not have the same implications as an EU President, who would, like the US president, preside over the political administration of Europe.

If the US presidency is powerful, often quoted as the most powerful job in the world, then the European president could be the more powerful. The office would preside over a selected cabinet of ministers who would determine policy, introduce laws, administer all arms of the European government and manage regulations, enabling a significant level of control over the destiny of Europe. It will span the entire European continent, including fringe countries in the Mediterranean basin. If Blair wins the presidency, it may well be to influence Britain into full integration, something that the British people would find hard to resist given the prestige of a British president.

Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, which was interpreted by Daniel and recorded by the same prophet in the book of the same name. That vision depicted a giant image comprising: a head of gold (symbolic of the prevailing Babylonian empire); arms and chest of silver (representing the branching of Persia into two arms, the Medes and Persians); a torso of bronze (representing the Grecian Bronze Age); and finally legs of iron (the two major legs of the Roman iron age, centered around Rome and Constantinople). Out of the legs arose ten toes made of mixture of iron and clay, a synthesis of Romanism and Humanism (biblically we are made of clay).

The latter phase of the vision speaks of a resurgent, humanistic Roman Empire, founded in Europe (former Roman territory) and comprising ten principal nations. There are more than ten nations in the EU right now and membership wavers. Britain is a partial member, having exempted herself from being part of the currency union, whilst remaining a full fledged member of the political union of Europe. It is debatable whether Britain will stay in the union for many reasons. The British are just British, a proud people who have been at odds with Germany and France at various stages of history. They are reluctant to throw in their lot with their nemeses or to forsake the British Commonwealth over which the monarch presides. Britain is also proud of her heritage, her monarchy and the traditions that have held her together.

So the EU will likely comprise the rest of Europe, that Europe which was once annexed by Germany and Napoleon (who called himself the Emperor of Europe). It incorporates the Holy Roman Empire (the first Reich and the basis of Hitler’s Third Reich) and includes the pinnacle of Roman Catholicism, the Vatican. Napoleon delivered a mortal wound to Roman Catholicism when he revoked the papal dominance of Europe with his own Imperialism. That wound was healed during the reign of Pope John Paul II, who restored pride and goodwill in Rome. The bible predicts an alliance between the political reign of antichrist and a world religion. Is it possible that the antichrist would co-opt the church as happened at various times of history, when political forces harnessed the immense influence of the church to control the teeming masses of Europe through the Spanish Inquisition, Indulgences, forced conversion of non-Catholics and the appeasement of Constantine, who co-opted the growing force of Christianity into a synthesis of paganism and Theism.

Gordon Brown is currently working to bolster the UN and position that august body as a world power. That may be to shift the balance of power away from Europe. The US has been marginalized in the last decade, due to weak leadership and the growing threat of a recession, making conditions ripe for a realignment of world power around Europe, so Brown may be acting preemptively. However, he could just as well be a second prong of action involving Blair and himself, to facilitate the convergence of world power around Europe. Time will tell.

It is evident that prophetic events are unfolding right before our eyes at a time when the stage for Armageddon is being set in the Middle East. The various apocalyptic forces of Russia, Germany, India, the Islamic axis and Europe are being sucked into a prophetic maelstrom that would set at least half the world (about three billion people) on a dangerous and climactic collision course. Islam believes this to be their moment of destiny and will not turn back. Russia seems happy to lean on that momentum to further her own strategic objectives. India could be engaged by deteriorating conditions in Pakistan, which would give China a pretext to strike preemptively in defense of her own strategic interests. And if antichrist ascends the European seat of power, Europe will rush in to defend its own politico-religious objectives.

© Peter Eleazar at http://www.bethelstone.com/