After Brexit talks begin, EU pushes military spending and is disappointed with UK

A year ago today, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. This is commonly referred to as the Brexit (British exit: BrExit) from the EU. Notice some comments from the German press:

23 June 2017

Negotiation experts say positive result in Brexit talks ‘nearly impossible’

One year after UK voters chose to leave the EU, many of the preconditions for successful talks still aren’t in place. …

On June 23, 2016, 51.9 percent of British voters expressed a preference for leaving the European Union. On March 28, 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, giving the UK and the EU two years to negotiate an exit agreement. Formal negotiations began on June 19.

So far the two sides have set a timetable and agreed that the conditions of the UK leaving must be set before any further deals are reached. http://www.dw.com/en/negotiation-experts-say-positive-result-in-brexit-talks-nearly-impossible/a-39385134

As far as that last item, the UK did NOT want to agree that the conditions of the UK leaving must be set before any further deals are reached. The EU wants people matters, the exit bill, and Northern Ireland resolved by the date of the official British departure (March 29, 2019) and then afterwards it says that it will discuss trade. That is not what the UK wants, but if the EU will not discuss future trade with the UK out of the EU, there is little that the UK can do about that.

Notice also the following:

23 June 2017

Europe’s most senior official has criticised the UK’s offer to EU nationals after Brexit, claiming it could “worsen the situation” for them.

European Council President Donald Tusk said the proposal was “below our expectations” and needed more detail.

He said the EU wanted to secure the “full rights” of all its citizens and British expats on the continent.

EU nationals living in the UK for five years would get “settled status”, with access to benefits, under UK plans.

Many Britons living in the EU are also worried about what it will mean for a reciprocal deal, which both the UK and the EU say they want. …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters that the offer was “a good start” but other European leaders have said more detail is required while Mr Juncker, who represents the EU’s executive arm, said it was a “first step but this step is not sufficient”.

Anne-Laure Donskoy, founding member of the 3million – which aims to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK – said the offer was “disappointing” and “really falls short of our expectations”.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme it was “neither fair, nor really serious”. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40378913

The negotiations will be difficult for both the UK and the EU. Plus, millions will be affected who live in those areas, plus the economic and other ramifications.

One of the ramifications of the Brexit vote is that the EU is now more willing to push for a European military. Notice something that happened yesterday, only a few days AFTER the Brexit negotiations began:

22 June 2017

Europe’s military capabilities are set to get a boost when joint defence plans are launched within the next three months.

EU leaders, at a summit in Brussels on Thursday (22 June), endorsed a Franco-German push to get governments to announce whether they will sign up to the new pan-EU defence scheme. …

The initiative is part of an European Commission-led policy drive that, among other things, seeks to use EU funds to finance defence research.

The Commission earlier this month had proposed to add €500 million in 2019 and 2020 for new military development.

Post 2020, the figure increases to some €1.5 billion every year for both research and development of new military technology.

“European defence policy was supposed to start in 1954, we proposed it in 2014, it’s happening now,” said EU commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.

EU council chief Donald Tusk said the plans would allow much deeper integration on defence.

Public money for military industries

Critics say the plans amount to subsidising the EU’s defence industry to develop new weaponry. https://euobserver.com/political/138324

Europe has wanted its own military for decades. Now it is is hoping to have many of the pieces together by 2020–the year after the UK is to be out of the EU. And despite its flaws, for a short time, the European power will dominate the world per Revelation 13, 17, and 18.

US President Donald Trump was one of very few non-UK major voices supporting Brexit. Because of him and Brexit, some feel that this may signal the end of an Anglo-American dominated world order (watch End of the Anglo-American Order). The Brexit will also specifically affect Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, and even the USA (watch Brexit and the fate of Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, the UK, and the USA).

And what about Europe?

The Bible is clear that Europe will reorganize and unite (Revelation 17:12-13), but it is also clear that there will be problems of unity in Europe:

41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. (Daniel 2:41-43)

Partially because of its problems, when Europe finally emerges the world will marvel:

1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. 4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” (Revelation 13:1-4)

Notice that the military power of the Beast was something that the world will marvel, be astonished about.

Why?

Because few truly thought that the European Beast power had the ability to rise up militarily. But we are seeing that happen before our very eyes!

And when Europe’s military is ready and Europe is more offended by the USA and UK, this will lead to the end of the UK, as well as the USA:

24 His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power;
He shall destroy fearfully,
And shall prosper and thrive;
He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people.

25 “Through his cunning
He shall cause deceit to prosper under his rule;
And he shall exalt himself in his heart.
He shall destroy many in their prosperity.
He shall even rise against the Prince of princes;
But he shall be broken without human means. (Daniel 8:24-25)

39 Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain. (Daniel 11:39)

The ‘he’ is the European King of the North. The strongest fortresses in the 21st century belong to the USA, and to a much lessor degree, its British-descended allies. And these lands will be divided (see also Will the Anglo-Saxon Nations be Divided and Have People Taken as Slaves?). Part of the King of the North’s power will come from the USA and UK, as well as through deceiving them and taking much of what they have (cf. Daniel 8:25; Lamentations 1:1-2).

While scripture does not seem to discuss Brexit, the Bible shows after problems happen, the UK peoples (prophetic Ephraim) will later try to make another deal with the Europeans (prophetically sometimes referred to as the Assyrians: cf. Isaiah 10; see also Germany’s Assyrian Roots Throughout History and Germany in Biblical Prophecy) and also will call out to Egypt:

1 Ephraim feeds on the wind, And pursues the east wind; He daily increases lies and desolation. Also they make a covenant with the Assyrians. And oil is carried to Egypt. (Hosea 12:1)

11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense—They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria. 12 Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them, According to what their congregation has heard. (Hosea 7:11-12)

Consider that there is nothing that I am aware of in world history that shows that Ephraim calls to Egypt after Hosea was written in a manner to fulfill that prophecy. Since this is a prophecy that must come to pass, this is one more reason why I believe the Bible supports the concept that the King of the North invades the U.S.A. and its English-speaking allies before it invades the King of the South (consider also Daniel 11:39-43). Some claimed COG groups (LCG and PCG come to mind) either teach the opposite or have contradictory teachings on those points.

The Bible clearly shows that Europe will be a great military and economic power (Revelation 13, 17, & 18), have a “great army” (Daniel 11:25), will persecute God’s people (Daniel 7:25; 11:29-35; Revelation 13:7), takeover many countries (Daniel 8:24-25, 11:39-43), lead the world to the brink of destruction (cf. Matthew 24:21-22), and ultimately be destroyed (Daniel 11:44-45; Revelation 19).

The time of Jacob’s trouble (Jeremiah 30:7), also known as the Great Tribulation, is coming. The UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand will be conquered during it.

The Europeans will one day severely punish the UK for its Brexit. But until then, expect ups and downs in the relations between the UK and the EU. I have written those last statements before, and we continue to see this with the Brexit negotiations.

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