Fareed Zakaria: ‘Britain resigns as a world power’

Fareed Zakaria (World Economic Forum)

A reader tipped me off to the following:

May 23, 2015

Labour asks whether chancellor was ‘in on the secret’ of Bank of England’s ‘Project Bookend’ which is assessing economic risks of UK leaving EU…

Many business leaders and pro-EU campaigners have warned that a “Brexit” would hit British exports and damage the standing of the City of London.

Owen Paterson, a former Tory cabinet minister and a prominent Eurosceptic, said the Bank’s investigation should include the option of remaining in the European Economic Area without being a member of the EU.

“If the Bank does look at those very optimistic options, that is thoroughly worthwhile and I hope they will make those investigations public. It isn’t either ‘remain in the European Union or leap into the darkness’; there are other options,” he told the BBC.

“The European Union is a political construct. The jobs and the prosperity are delivered by the membership of the market, the European Economic Area, which is the 28 members of the EU and three members of Efta (the European Free Trade Association).” http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/23/labour-urges-osborne-to-reveal-what-he-knew-about-banks-brexit-taskforce

A reader sent me a link to the following by Fareed Zakaria:

Britain resigns as a world power …

After an extraordinary 300-year run, Britain has essentially resigned as a global power.

Over the next few years, Britain’s army will shrink to about 80,000. A report from the Royal United Services Institute predicts that the number could get as low as 50,000, which, the Daily Telegraph points out, would be smaller than at any point since the 1770s — and, as David Rothkopf of Foreign Policy magazinenotes, about the same size as the New York Police Department. …

Britain’s 30-year-old Tornado fleet of planes is a generation behind the American F-22s it flies alongside. The Royal Navy, which once ruled the waves, operates without a single aircraft carrier (although two are under construction). …

The country is suspicious of a robust foreign policy of any kind — including serious sanctions against Russia, getting tough in trade talks with China, the use of force in the Middle East and an engaged relationship with the rest of Europe. During the recent election, as The Post reported, foreign policy barely surfaced.

Why does this matter? Because on almost all global issues, Britain has a voice that is intelligent, engaged and forward-looking. It wants to strengthen and uphold today’s international system — one based on the free flow of ideas, goods and services around the world, one that promotes individual rights and the rule of law.

This is not an accident. Britain essentially created the world we live in. In his excellent book “God and Gold,” Walter Russell Mead points out that in the 16th century many countries were poised to advance economically and politically — Northern Italy’s city-states, the Hanseatic League, the Low Countries, France, Spain. But Britain managed to edge out the others, becoming the first great industrial economy and the modern world’s first superpower. It colonized and shaped countries and cultures from Australia to India to Africa to the Western Hemisphere, including of course, its settlements in North America. Had Spain or Germany become the world’s leading power, things would look very different today. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/britain-resigns-as-a-world-power/2015/05/21/d89606f8-fff1-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html

Fareed Zakaria’s comment about Britain and it not being an accident is correct.

What relatively few realize is that Great Britain arose in fulfillment to blessings from Jacob prophesied to the descendants of Joseph’s son Ephraim, that were given in the 48th and 49th chapters of the Book of Genesis.

But other parts of the Bible warned that curses would come if there was rebellion and disobedience, and that has happened to Britain (as well as other places). Because of that, Britain was to lose its dominance to basically be replaced by another descendant of Joseph, Manasseh. Whose descendants are predominantly in the United States of America.

The USA, of course, is also rebellious and disobedient and is in the process of losing its dominance on the world scene.

The world economic system was led first by the UK the last couple of centuries and then the USA. But this time will end as the final time of the Gentiles will arrive. That will be a time of trouble for the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh (Jeremiah 30:7).

More are noticing the decline of the UK, and more decline will come (cf. Isaiah 17:3-6), and then it will be taken over along with its USA and Canadian allies (cf. Daniel 11:39). As far as the military decline of the UK, notice the biblical prophecy about Ephraim:

3 The fortress also will cease from Ephraim, (Isaiah 17:3)

The above is coming to pass. The UK continues to reduce its military as Fareed Zakaria reported.

Issues such as the possible Brexit and other matters in the UK and steps leading towards its elimination as a nation. The blessings and rise of the UK were no accident, but sadly the cursings are in the process of coming as well.

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