The Final World Empire of the European Union in the eyes of the carnal, or worldly man.

I met a man today who was travelling back to France after being over here in Australia on business. He told me that he travels the world as a part of his day to day activities meeting up with various peoples as a financial advisor.

One would suppose that as his job is to communicate with all peoples of all nations and languages (with English being the universal language) he would have to have a fairly strong command of the English language so that he could perform his job. Accordingly, even though he was predominately a French speaker his English, although broken, was quiet good.

As I was travelling with him in the same direction for a fairly lengthy period of time I thought this was a very good opportunity to witness to him relative to things of the Lord? In particular, I thought that this was a good time to witness to him relative to the viewpoint that I hold relative to the EU being the Final World Empire before the return back onto the earth of the Lord Jesus Christ?

As he was a resident of France, one would suppose that he would have a fairly strong grasp of the culture, of not only his native France, but of the general area of the EU as well? As he did?

However, when I explained to him that there was going to be one man who was going to take over the presidency of the EU, and that it was going to be that man who have total control over every person within the sphere of the EU from the cradle to the grave, that was not something that he seemed to except as being factual at all?

Furthermore, when I said that there may be a president of the EU duly elected sometime next year in much the same manner as the president of the United States is elected he, more or less, then went on to say that such a proposition was nigh on impossible to even contemplate at all.

He had said that each and every nation was far too selfish and concerned with their own well being to be ever bothered about the other nations within the EU for that to ever happen. Furthermore, He then went on to say that even though the EU had a single currency there was no way in the whole world that every nation within the EU was going to give up and hand their sovereignty over to one man.

However, the facts of the matter are that once the member nations had given up their own particular currencies and accepted the EU as being their currency that was effectively what the 27 member nations of the EU have done.

He was still right up to a point though. Nevertheless the only problem was that as a non Bible reader he could not see the all over picture? In the eyes of the carnal/fleshy man there was no way in the whole world that he could ever see this happening. Just as those who are not in the Lord could ever see this happening as was the instance in his case.
However happen it will, and because the Lord says it will happen he will place in the minds of the 500 million or so odd citizens of the EU for it to happen, simply because the Bible prophecies must be fullfilled, as they will be fullfilled as surely as the sun is to rise in the morning.

GREECE'S debt problems could spiral into a world banking crisis, the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and European Council president Herman Van Rompuy after their crisis talks at the EU headquarters in Brussels.

The IMF, which has contributed to the bailouts of Greece, Portugal and Ireland, urged the 17 eurozone countries to take "decisive action" and turn themselves into a "fully integrated" monetary union to prevent the debt crisis spilling around the world.

The call to action came as researchers in London warned that the "ultimate burden" from Greece defaulting on its debts could fall heavily on the US and British banks because they were so deeply tied into the world financial system.

Fathom Financial Consulting will say in a major report to be published overnight: "The notion that Greece can fall alone is fanciful and dangerous. Greece will not suffer alone -- the implications of the default will reverberate far and wide."

Eurozone finance ministers yesterday increased the pressure on Athens by refusing to release the next promised bailout cheque of E12 billion ($16.3bn) to pay Greek debts until its government approves austerity measures and a huge privatisation program. The delay in approval sent a chill through the financial markets, with the euro losing ground against the US dollar and bank shares sliding.

A mission of eurozone, IMF and European Central Bank officials were expected to arrive in Greece overnight to ensure their demands have been written into draft Greek legislation.

An official from one eurozone country said: "If we gave the green light for the E12bn, then it would be a blank cheque -- and then the credibility of the zone is at stake as well."

In a report on the euro area, the IMF said the sovereign debt crisis threatened to overwhelm an otherwise favourable economic outlook for the region. Action was needed in the interests of the entire world, the fund said. "With deeply intertwined fiscal and financial problems, failure to undertake decisive action could rapidly spread the tensions to the core of the euro area and result in large global spillovers."

Danny Gabay, an economist at Fathom, said: "We are heading towards a disorderly unwinding of this, and to me it is palpable how much like the Lehman debacle it is. Someone sold a lot of insurance and guarantees against this sort of event. From the data, that someone looks like Britain and the US."

The British banks' exposure to eurozone countries, including Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, France and Germany, amounts to E412bn. This includes contracts insuring investors against debt defaults. The equivalent figure in the US is far higher, at $US1.8 trillion ($1.7 trillion).

Some leading analysts fear Greece will be unable to survive in the euro area and could be forced to exit. Mark Hoban, a British Treasury minister, ducked questions in Britain's House of Commons yesterday on whether the euro would survive in its current form. But the former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said the euro "cannot last" as he urged the government "to be open with the British people" about the alternatives to a European single currency. The Labour MP said there was a "mood change" in Europe, with former europhiles "contemplating the end of the euro as we know it".

The IMF's European director, Antonio Borges, said: "We have an imbalanced system, and what we are trying to say is that in a process like monetary union, until you become fully integrated like the United States with a fully integrated monetary union, you have these obstacles which magnify the problems."

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was expected to face a confidence vote in his new cabinet overnight, and has vowed to push through a promised E28bn austerity package by the end of the month. A widely opposed E50bn privatisation program has yet to be signed off by the parliament.

Eurozone ministers have decided to meet on July 3 to check Greece has adopted all the EU-IMF measures, and then release its next bailout payment.

Will Religious Freedom in the Middle East lead to the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9 Verse 27?

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (C) speaks during a news conference after a meeting with religious leaders in Brussels May 30, 2011.

There is something astir at the moment within the EU that is really beginning to raise alarm bells with yours truly?

Even though I have been a Christian for a number of years now, I have only really had an interest in the Bible prophecies of the end times for a very brief period of time, perhaps a few years?

But even in that very short period of time what is happening now in the EU is something of the like that I have never ever seen before?

What I am referring to is the unification of the various religious groups in the Middle East that look very much to me like what is happening could be the beginnings of the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9 Verse 27?

Daniel 9:27

King James Version (KJV)

²⁷And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Certainly, the presidents of the EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso and the EU Council of Ministers, Herman Van Rompuy, are working in concurrence with one another to achieve the objective mentioned above, that is, to unify all religions in the Middle East? Quite frankly, I find this type of information to be quite mind boggling?

PARIS: European Union leaders assured senior religious figures on Monday they would defend the freedom of belief in the Middle East as part of their support for the spread of democracy in the Arab world. European Commission President Jose Barroso told 20 Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist leaders at an annual consultation in Brussels that the EU aimed to promote democracy and human rights. Several of the Christian representatives present expressed concern about religious freedom in the mostly Muslim Arab world, which has seen more freedom of speech in recent months but also more violent attacks on Christian minorities in some countries. Barroso said the changes in the Arab world were “of historic proportions” and compared the challenge of anchoring democracy there to the task the EU found in post-communist Europe. “I strongly believe these challenges cannot be met without the active contribution of the religious communities,” Barroso told the meeting. Democratic rights included freedom of religion and belief, he stressed. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said “there is no contradiction between Islam and democracy. This period of openness must be maintained after the revolutions and religious and other minorities must be respected.” Christian Concerns Rotterdam Bishop Adrianus van Luyn, head of the COMECE commission of Roman Catholic bishops conferences in the EU, said the progress and stability the EU sought in the Arab world would depend on an improved relationship between religions there. “This requires freedom for all faiths, an end to the discrimination of smaller religious communities and the participation of moderate forces in the construction of society,” he said. In recent months, Arab Christians and Muslims have both prayed together and clashed, he said. “Religious differences have often been manipulated or even whipped up on purpose,” he said. “The role of the different regimes in this is unclear.” Warsaw Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz said Christians in Europe were watching events in the Arab world “with hope, but also with fear for the future of those societies.”“Repeated attacks on Christian communities are additional reasons for concern,” he said. “If one day the Christian communities in the Middle East disappeared … moderate Muslims would lose their natural partners.”Germany’s top Protestant leader, Nikolaus Schneider, said the EU should help foster diversity in the Middle East.“Pluralism is not a curse word, it’s necessary for the existence of a free and democratic society,” said Schneider, chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) umbrella group of Protestant churches. End of quote

As if he were the only one that we needed to be concerned with in the end times, there has been a concerted effort by so many Christians over the centuries to try and indentify the Antichrist.

However, there are two men who will (or are) working in conjunction with one another to run the EU as the final word empire. They are the presidents of the EU Council of Ministers, Herman Van Rompuy and the president of the EU Commission Jose Manuel Barraso. see the aforementioned.

Remember, it was not all that long ago that Barraso appointed Van Rompuy from out of total obscurity to the presidency of the Council of Ministers? It is Barraso who is binding various denominations in the Middle East together in what looks like could result in some sort of a pact or treaty?

Van Rompuy is there in agreement with what is going on.

Accordingly, what that now looks like to me is that Barroso could be the False Prophet (for the reason mentioned above) and that Van Rompuy could simply going to sign off on some sort of a treaty Barrasso has already worked out?

If that were ever to be the case then there would be no doubts at all that Van Rompuy is the Antichrist?

I still cannot say that what I have suggested above is going to pan out precisely as I have said. However, the other facts presented here are not away out there pie in the sky type of stuff.

Accordingly, if there is anyone out there who reads this then let then draw their own conclusions with regards to the signing of the covenant of Daniel. Actually, the False Prophet is worse than the Antichrist? Be blessed