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A European Union (EU) election is scheduled for later this month, and is to be followed by a replacement European Commission president:

May 3, 2019

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – National leaders of the European Union are likely to meet for a summit in Brussels on May 28, two days after a European Parliament election, to discuss who should run the EU executive for the next five years, officials said on Friday.

The meeting, similar to one held after the previous vote in 2014, would give leaders a chance to discuss their preferences for who will succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission, three senior EU officials told Reuters.

Parliament, which will convene on July 2 after being elected on May 23-26, is pushing the European Council of national leaders to nominate Juncker’s successor from among the lead candidates of winning parties. But many national leaders are reluctant to accept this so-called Spitzenkandidat process. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-05-03/eu-leaders-set-to-meet-just-after-eu-election-officials

The EU has two presidents–the President of the European Commission (currently Jean-Claude Juncker) and the President of the European Council (currently Donald Tusk).

Some pro-EU leaders would like to eliminate the European Council as they believe it gives too much power to the national governments and not enough to the EU itself:

Pro-European candidates for EU election identify Council as the ‘common enemy’

An oddly uncontroversial debate between the lead candidates of the four major pro-European political families at this month’s EU elections took place in Florence on Thursday (2 May).

Frans Timmermans for the Party of European Socialists (PES), Manfred Weber for the centre-right European Peoples Party (EPP), Guy Verhofstadt for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), and Ska Keller for the Greens were the only participants to the debate, organised by the European University Institute and the Financial Times newspaper.

No eurosceptic or anti-EU party took part, although all lead candidates of the main European political parties were invited, the organisers said.

Verhofstadt said he was not exactly a “Spitzenkandidat” because he is one of the nine members of the “Team Europe” selected by his liberal family to lead the election campaign. Besides, the former Belgian Prime Minister said he represents a political party which will be reshaped after the EU elections, after its expected merger with Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance movement.  …

All candidates agreed more powers had to be transferred to the European Commission and Parliament, and less to the Council, where member states are represented.

Timmermans argued that Europe was in a “do or die” situation in terms of reforms, warning that, for the first time in history, the EU risked breaking apart. 05/02/19 https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-elections-2019/news/pro-european-candidates-for-eu-election-identify-council-as-the-common-enemy/

It is not just the “Pro-European” candidates that want to reorganize the EU, so do the “Anti-EU” leaders. Notice the following:

European Elections: “The Battle for Europe has Begun”

May 2, 2019

The leaders of several European nationalist parties campaigned in Prague on April 25, ahead of the European Parliament elections set for May 23-26.

The rally was sponsored by the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENF), a pan-European alliance of nine nationalist parties dedicated to stopping mass migration and recovering national sovereignty from the European Union.

Tomio Okamura, President, Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD) and Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (photo from Tomio Okamura):

“Dear friends, dear guests, dear Marine, dear Geert, dear colleagues, I warmly welcome you here in the historical center of the Czech capital. We stand here symbolically at the statue of St. Wenceslas. Under the banner of St. Wenceslas, our ancestors fought more than a thousand years of hard struggle for the freedom and sovereignty of the Czech crown countries….

“Today, Europeans are once again fighting for their survival. It is not just the migration of colonists from Africa and the Arab countries that is changing the face of Western Europe. It is also the growing assault from Brussels on the sovereignty of Europe’s nation states in the name of a multicultural superstate.

“For those who downplay this warning, I would like to mention a quote from the former President of the European Union, Herman Von Rompuy: ‘The time of the homogenous nation-state is over. Each European country has to be open for different cultures.’

“In contemporary Europe, the Brussels aristocracy has no place for nations, and no place for democracy either. The former President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, has been quoted as saying: ‘It is not the EU’s philosophy that the crowd can decide its destiny.’ …

“I say clearly that the current EU must end! I remind you that at present, European Union directives and regulations outrank the laws of the EU’s member states….

“The European Parliament is the only place where we can change Europe. Come to the polls! …

 

Geert Wilders, MP and Chairman, Party for Freedom (photo from Wikipedia):

“My friends, we are gathered here today to stand up for our freedom and our sovereignty. The most precious things we have. Because without a strong nation state, there is no democracy. And without democracy there are no liberties.

“Today, we are fighting for our existence. And the biggest threats to our survival and our freedom are the European Union, mass immigration and the Islamic ideology of submission and violence.

“First, let’s talk about the European Union. An undemocratic superstate. It is forcing its commands on the peoples of Europe. It is trying to take away our national sovereignty! And we want to be sovereign, don’t we?

“The European Union is attempting to erase our nation states. But we say; no more! Let’s say it loud and clear: no more! Our nations are shaped by their own history, culture, language and identity and therefore they are impossible to erase!

“My friends, our countries are strong nations. Based on a Jewish-Christian and humanistic civilization. That should never change.

“So, we want to control our own borders again. We do not want mass immigration. And we do not want to be invaded by a tyrannical ideology. …

Gerolf Annemans, President, Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENF) (photo from ccby-gfdl):

“I stand like all of you on this central spot of the continent, not only on the crossroads of Europe, but also and more than ever we stand at the crossroads of European history.

“The European Union has become an institution that crushes the peoples of member states because the big bosses of the European Union want to put their organization to become the one and only superstate on the continent.

“Our proud nations will become powerless provinces if we let this happen. …

Marine Le Pen, President, National Rally (photo from Wikipedia):

“The battle for Europe has begun. In these elections, the supporters of globalism stand against supporters of the nation state. The globalists against the localists. …

“What we see here, before our eyes, is the emergence of a new European harmony that sees the national parties coming together to offer 500 million Europeans a new framework of cooperation, a new project and a new momentum for the future.

“Immigration must be stopped, and the Islamist ideology must be eradicated…. Islamization and globalism are new totalitarianisms that threaten European countries.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14168/european-elections-prague

Notice also some statements from the Chancellor of Austria:

3 May 2019

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Friday that the national governments of the European Union should renegotiate the bloc’s foundational treaty to better deal with the challenges facing the continent.

“A new treaty is needed with clearer sanctions for members who run up debts, punishments for countries that wave through illegal migrants without registering them, as well as tough consequences for breaches of the rule of law and liberal democracy,” Kurz said in an interview with Austrian newspapers.

“Much had changed” since the 2007 Lisbon Treaty, he said, citing the bloc’s “debt crisis, euro crisis, migration crisis, climate crisis” and “Brexit chaos.” https://www.dw.com/en/austrias-sebastian-kurz-time-to-replace-eus-lisbon-treaty-to-cope-with-migration-brexit-debt/a-48598216

Changing or replacing the Lisbon Treaty would be needed for Revelation 17 to be fulfilled.

Before going further, notice the following:

The European Union (EU) is “an example of what could become a supranational state,” according to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the lead-up to a major conference against nationalism. …

the document reads. “The European Union is an example of what could become a supranational state with precise and limited sovereignty in matters of European common good.”

Our conference wants to understand in detail “why in the last years there has been a backlash against internationalism and a resurgence of nationalism,” the text states. https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/04/26/vatican-proposes-eu-example-supranational-state/

May 3, 2019

Pope Francis

Pope Francis said that nation states should give way to globalization in some aspects, calling on them to create “intergovernmental institutions that manage their common interests.”

“In the current situation of globalization not only of the economy but also of technological and cultural exchanges, the nation-state is no longer able to procure the common good of its population alone,” Pope Francis told the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, according to Catholic News Agency. https://www.dailywire.com/news/46760/pope-francis-denounces-nation-state-common-good-paul-bois

So, the Vatican supports the idea of the EU becoming a superstate–though some European leaders oppose that concept.

So, what will happen?

A church-state alliance will form:

1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,

2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. …

9 Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. …

18 And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.” (Revelation 17:1-5,9,18)

The great city of seven hills is the Church of Rome. There will be an alliance, and some have publicly called for it.

But isn’t the leadership within the EU very divided?

Yes, it is.

But that type of situation was prophesied as the Bible shows that the final European Beast power will have unity problems, but will still exist for a time:

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)

But don’t some of the political leaders act like the EU should be eliminated?

Yes, but consider also the following:

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 13:3-4)

The above shows that a Europe that the world did not expect will end up being at least successful militarily.

Will Europe be a democracy or a totalitarian state like some fear?

Here is some more of what the Bible prophesies:

12 “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. (Revelation 17:12-13)

A reorganization is coming to Europe (See also Must the Ten Kings of Revelation 17:12 Rule over Ten Currently Existing Nations?)

It will NOT be the election in May 2019, but the stage is getting more and more set for the coming reorganization.

The second reorganization in Revelation 17 is where power is turned over to a totalitarian dictator.

Related to being a totalitarian dictator, the Continuing Church of God put out this sermonette on its ContinuingCOG channel:

Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of London, stated that the European Union wanted to be what Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte tried to create. Duncan Smith agreed. But European Council President Donald Tusk called Johnson’s comments absurd and then stated that the EU was the answer to the problems facing Europe. But what does the Bible teach about the future of Europe? Is European unity the answer or will it usher in something worse than Adolph Hitler? Dr. Thiel quotes Jesus and others in the Bible for those who truly want to know what will happen in a unified Europe.

Here is a link to our video: European Unity to be like Hitler?

The Bible shows that there will be a non-Islamic, non-Christian, leader who will demand worship in Europe:

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?”

5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.

6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.

7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.

8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. (Revelation 13:1-9)

While the above leader will temporarily feign something he will claim is Catholicism as well as some interfaith tolerance, he will ultimately NOT tolerate full Islam in his land. And even though he will be supported by a heretic from the Vatican, his people will turn against the city of seven hills per Revelation 17:16-18. This Beast leader will reign during the Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:21-22).

In the Book of Daniel, this Beast of the Sea leader is also referred to as the “king of the north.”

Here is something about him from the New Jerusalem Bible (a Roman Catholic accepted translation):

⁴⁰ ‘When the time comes for the End, the king of the south will try conclusions with him; but the king of the north will come storming down on him with chariots, cavalry, and a large fleet. He will invade countries, overrun them and drive on.

⁴¹ He will invade the Land of Splendour, and many will fall; but Edom, Moab, and what remains of the sons of Ammon will escape him.

⁴² ‘He will reach out to attack countries: Egypt will not escape him.

⁴³ The gold and silver treasures and all the valuables of Egypt will lie in his power. Libyans and Cushites will be at his feet: (Daniel 11:40-43)

The lands that the coming King of the North will take over are predominantly Islamic.

So, what some of the anti-EU groups want with Islam will happen, but what they fear about Europe becoming a totalitarian superstate will happen as well.

Sadly, this leader seems to be looked forward to in various Catholic writings (watch also Great Monarch in 50+ Beast Prophecies).

As far as Islam and Europe goes, check out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:

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Will Islam be Pushed Out of Europe?

On June 8, 2018, Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced the closing of seven Islamic mosques in an effort to reduce “political Islam.” In the past several years, at least 6 European nations have banned the wearing of a commonly used garment by Islamic females. Heinz-Christian Strache (later Vice Chancellor of Austria) has declared that Islam has no place in Europe. Did Germany’s Angela Merkel call multiculturalism a failure? Will there be deals between the Muslims and the Europeans? Will a European Beast leader rise up after a reorganization that will eliminate nationalism? Will Europe push out Islam? What does Catholic prophecy teach? What does the Bible teach in Daniel and Revelation? Is Islam prophesied to be pushed out of Europe? Dr. Thiel addresses these issues and more.

Here is a link: Will Islam be Pushed Out of Europe? (watch also War is Coming Between Europeans and Arabs).

Yes, there are issues in Europe.

Yes, many leaders–both on the ‘left’ and on the ‘right’ want Europe to reorganize.

But it will not happen as most now hope.

Europe continues to take steps that are preparing it to come under control of the Beasts of Revelation 13.

The elections later this month will further help set the stage for this.

UPDATE 05/05/19: We just put together a video related to matters in this post:

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EU leaders pushing towards the Apocalypse

In May 2019, a debate among pro-European Union leaders revealed that change to reduce the European Council and hence reduce the influence of individual nation states was promoted as a way to save the EU from dying. A week or so before, Euro skeptics met at a conference where the leaders there pushed for more national autonomy from the EU as a way to save Europe. On May 3, 2019, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz pushed for replacing or at least changing the Lisbon Treaty. In the Spring of 2019, Pope Francis said the nation state cannot solve what is needed, whereas the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences pushed for the EU to become a supranational state. Are these leaders pushing Europe towards the Apocalypse? What does the Bible teach? How does what the Euro-philes and Euro-skeptics tie in with Revelation 17:12-13? Was disunity, but also a Beast unity prophesied? Dr. Thiel addresses these matters and more.

Here is a link to that video: EU leaders pushing towards the Apocalypse.

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This entry was posted on Friday, May 3rd, 2019 at 3:00 pm and is filed under Prophecy.

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