When referring to the mess the EU is in now, the article reads the Eve of Destruction, which may be a lot truer than what most ever imagined once the Antichrist takes control?

Eve of destruction
By Andy Carling

Last week, on Europe Day, when the eurocrats and the hangers on mark the glory of our eternal, precious union, Herman Van Rompuy announced that the financial crisis was essentially over and everyone would be back in growth by the end of the year.

I said at the time that history has not been kind to European leaders who say ‘it’ll all be over by Christmas’. It only took a few days for history to slap the Council President in the face, although there is no sign that reality has in any way impacted on our Chief Monk.

Under the leadership of the current EU heads, and I use the word in the same sense that Enron had leadership, the EU is facing destruction, being slowly strangled, not by the euro sceptics, who are in reality no real threat, but by those who say they love Europe the most. I have been saying this for years.

Our leaders have, on left and right, pushed for an unregulated financial market, not realizing that if you let a bunch of psychopathic coke fiends loose with everybody’s money, it will end in tears.

The problems in Greece, Spain and the rest is a consequence of the financial crisis and, more pointedly, a consequence of the EU response, which was to create a vacuum of leadership, allowing Germany and France to dictate a policy of brutal austerity over 500 million people.

This is why the crisis in the EU is far greater than the economic failure. Pushing austerity and savage budget cuts has led the citizens to feel that they are the ones being punished – and it does feel like punishment – for the sins of the bankers and the political establishment.

You can’t build a lasting union if the poor and powerless are the ones who pay for the incompetence and worse, of the rich and powerful.

Instead of facing up to their responsibilities, the EU heads have surrendered to magical thinking, spending the last couple of years telling everybody that it was all under control and we would be living in the land of milk and honey very soon. Only a fool would believe them.

The European Parliament is about to destroy the last element that connects people to the political system. Their discredited parties no longer represent actual real people, no longer inspire people, for if they did people would join them, donate to them, vote for them.

Instead of trying to reconnect with the electorate, they’ve decided to go the other route, pan-european parties. These parties are generously funded by the taxpayers, who weren’t ever asked if they wanted their cash to be spent this way. The pan-european parties will further disconnect the public from the politicians, but they get millions from the taxpayers without having to work for it or justify it.

Indeed, the parliament was so eager to share the loot that they also handed out taxpayers money to some of the most revolting political parties in the continent, including those that spread hatred and racial discrimination, even some that praised Norwegian killer, Anders Breivik.

That they did this, shows the moral vacuum at the heart of the parliament. They didn’t even think it was in any way wrong until the media found out, then they were suddenly outraged by their own actions.

This is the scale of the problem we face in trying to reform every aspect of the EU, to make a union that cares more for the citizen than the smarmy big business lobbyist.

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST; John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.