THE EU BEGINS ITS SELECTION PROCESS TO SELECT A FULL TIME PRESIDENT

The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by default has created a position for a full time president of the European Council of Ministers.

There have for many years been numerous students of Bible prophecy that have said that whoever is appointed as the full time president of the EU will be the Biblical Antichrist (including this blogger)

Up until recently the former British Prime minister was the former favourite to fulfill that role. Up until recently that is, until the German Chancellor Angela Merkel set about to persuade the French president Nicholas Sarkozy to deny Blair the role.

Any candidacy for the EU presidency must be approved by both France and Germany. As the selection process is to take place by the 27 member nations of the EU on the 12th of this month the official results of just who is going to be the EU president should be known by the middle of the month.

As it is still too early to predict the outcome of the selection process it will be at that time and only at that time we will get a clear picture of just who the Antichrist is going to be.

Tony Blair’s lead as the favourite to take the presidency of the EU has now been replaced by another character that seems to be more devious than what Blair could have ever been. He is the current Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy

Mr. Van Rompuy, who enjoys writing Japanese-style poetry, is regarded as the "safe" anti-Tony Blair choice for Germany and the smaller "dwarves gang" of EU countries.

He has discussed taking up the post with his family over Sunday lunch this weekend and appears to be on course to be picked as the least controversial candidate.

One European diplomat said: "There is a consensus around his name, which is rare among the 27 EU governments.

"No one is opposed to him and many are asking him to accept. Nobody else has unanimity."

Mr. Van Rompuy, 62, a Flemish Christian Democrat, is a reluctant Belgian leader who had to be persuaded by the country's King Albert II to become prime minister 10 months ago after the government collapsed amid the financial crisis and scandal.

After having only been in office for only 10 months as the Belgian Prime Minister for a very short period of time if he were to be selected as the President of the EU Council of Ministers his appointment would fulfill the criteria for correct identity of the Beast of Revelation when we are told in Revelation Chapter 13 that the Beast has 10 horns and 10 crowns. He has been in office 10 years and is of the inner tier of the governing nations of the EU Council of Ministers.

Unknown to many Christians, a 10-nation military alliance appeared in Europe in 1995, called the Western European Union (or the Brussels Treaty Powers.)

These 10 nations are members of both NATO and the European Union. What binds them together is a mutual defense obligation under Article Five of the modified Brussels Treaty, which means that an attack against one is an attack against all. They hold the rein of Europe’s growing military.

The 10 nations are: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom
Although not short in statue Mr. Van Rompuy would be the most impish looking man that I have ever laid eyes upon., if he is appointed as the full time president of the EU then it will only go to reinforce what I had believed would be the case for many years, that we would not really know who was going to be the Antichrist right up until almost the last minute, and that to keep on guessing his correct identity would be nothing more than an exercise in futility.