Germany’s Merkel-backed coalition approved

Angela Merkel’s party has gotten a deal through that should insure she will remain in power:

December 14, 2013

(Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrats voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining a “grand coalition” with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Saturday, clearing the way for a new right-left government that will take office on Tuesday.

Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), won the September 22 election but fell short of a majority. They needed a partner and spent much of the last three months negotiating a coalition deal with the arch rival SPD, which came a distant second.

A “no” vote could have plunged Germany into crisis and complicated European Union efforts for a banking union reform that would see the European Central bank police the sector with a new agency to shut down weak lenders. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/14/us-germany-coalition-idUSBRE9BD03X20131214

Many leaders in Europe are pushing for a ‘banking union’ to be agreed to this month (see BlackRock cautioning against USA stocks; European finance ministers meeting and Spain expects European banking union by the end of the month). This vote suggests that it could happen that soon.

Cooperation can be good.

Yet, Bible prophecy warns about a power that that will have a tremendous amount of control, including economic:

15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18)

Germany is the main economic engine of Europe and one of the leading exporting nations of the world. Actually, Germany is number three, just below the USA.

Unlike the USA, Germany has a trade surplus, not a deficit. This not only helps keep Germans working, it also builds Germany’s wealth and international influence. The political agreement that Angela Merkel’s side made is intended to increase Germany’s wealth and influence. And although the EU in general and Germany in particular will have problems (including civil unrest, political, and economic ones; cf. Daniel 2:41-43), the biblical reality is that the Bible shows that a European power with German influence will take over as the leading economic power for a time (Revelation 13:15-18).

And right now, we are seeing some of this rise and plans to rise further.

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