The release of one Jewish soldier in exchange for a thousand Palestinian prisoners spells victory with a capital "V" for the Palestinians.

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted early Wednesday morning to approve a prisoner swap that will see Gilad Shalit, the IDF soldier who has been in Hamas captivity for the last five years, return to Israel what we have just seen unfolding is an enormous victory to the Palestinians in their quest for a separate Palestinian state.

Since then, Gilad Shalit, has been reunited with his family shortly after crossing into Israel from Egypt after his release earlier in the day by his captors in Gaza, ending five years and four months in captivity.

The Israel Defence Forces representative announced Shalit's return at 11 a.m. Israel time on Tuesday. Shalit arrived in Egypt approximately three hours earlier.

While incarceration Shalit said in an interview that he treated well by his captors, but that he missed family, friends and freedom. The IDF reported that Shalit is in good health.

After meeting with IDF officials and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shalit met family members, and images of him embracing his father, Noam, were broadcasted right throughout Israel.

Shalit's release came as Israel began transferring 477 Palestinian prisoners to the Red Cross as part of a swap deal between Israel and Hamas that will see the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Eyewitnesses confirmed that some of the prisoners had begun entering Gaza.

Shalit's family was waiting for him at the Tel Nof Air Force base.

What a deal the Palestinians have gotten out of this? After all, exchanging one Jewish soldier for up to a thousand Palestinian prisoners what better odds could one expect than that. As that is the case, the success rate of this exchange has been more than 1000 to 1 in favour of the Palestinians.

According to the agreement framework presented by Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen, the deal Netanyahu brought before the cabinet included, at first, the release of 450 Palestinian prisoners, including 280 with life sentences.

110 prisoners will be released to their homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, out of whom 55 are Hamas men, with the rest belonging to Fatah and the other Palestinian groups.

According to the deal, 131 Gaza residents will be released back to the coastal Strip, many of whom are reportedly top Hamas operatives. Another 203 prisoners will be expelled from the West Bank, 40 of whom will be deported overseas and the rest to Gaza.

In addition, 6 Israeli Arab prisoners who have been serving for many years will also be released to their homes. The deal also specifies the release of 27 female inmates: terrorists Ahlam Tamimi and Amna Muna will be deported, with the rest of the female inmates are expected to be released to their homes.

The second wave of releases will take place in two months time, at which point Israel will release 550 prisoners of its choosing.

In a briefing with reporters, the Shin Bet chief indicated that senior Hamas West Bank operatives the militant group demanded be set free – such as Abdullah Barghouti, Ibrahim Hamed, Abbas Sayed, and others – will not be released from jail.

Ahmed Saadat, secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, will also remain in prison, as well as Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouti.
About half of those released to the West Bank will live under restrictions that include prohibiting them from exiting the West Bank and, in some cases, the towns in which they live.

Cohen added that the Shin Bet supported the newly signed deal since releasing Shalit by means of military operation was deemed impossible.
"The security establishment finds this release very difficult," Cohen said, adding:

"It's easier for me to be tough. We had no possibility or better way of releasing Shalit, so we backed the deal."

"It's not a good deal, but, on the other hand, it's the only way if we want to bring him home," the Shin Bet chief said, adding: "Hamas had to show flexibility as we did. What happened in Syria created instability and a need for Egyptian backup."

Is there someone out there who can reaffirm what my initial reaction was that this prisoner exchange program was a part of the road map to peace announced by the Americans?

Accordingly, what we have also seen is the world edge closer and closer to the covenant of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 - a lot closer than I have ever seen in my lifetime. As that is the case, my best advice then for those unsaved would be to do so before it is too late as you are quite rapidly running out of time.

Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27
AND 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.

The Antichrist - the Dictator Who Solves the Global Economic Meltdown

With the economic crisis the world is now facing, the EU in particular, what we have going on within the EU is exactly the same set of circumstances are now in place that had brought Mr. Hitler to power.

Accordingly, the only solution that the respective leaders of France and Germany, the two most powerful economic members of the EU, see as a way out of their economic woes is going to be to hand total control for the running of the EU over to just one man, just as they are doing right now.

Initially, when Jesuit Herman Van Rompuy was appointed as the first ever full time president of the EU people scoffed at any suggestion he could be the Antichrist. When instead, what they were looking for a man who would rule with an iron fist. What seems to have happened is that Satan who had brought forth a man that appeared to be everything that the Antichrist was not supposed to be, meek and humble. Some politicians even described the newly appointed EU president as having the charisma of a damp rag, and the all the appearance of a bank clerk, not that there is anything wrong with bank clerks.

Yet, if we look what has happened ever since his appointment as the leader of the European Union Council of Ministers we can note that history is indeed repeating itself again. Just as soon as he came to power one of the first things that he managed to do was to subdue three nations (3) nations, just as the prophecy said would be the case. Those nations were Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the nations offered bailout packages because of the economic crisis they were facing, and still are facing, at the time of the writing of this piece.

Van Rompuy now heads the 17 member nations of the Eurozone. There is yet another suggestion he is going to lead the United States of Europe. That would then give him ultimate power over every member nation and thus every individual with the entire sphere of the EU. If that were ever the case then there would be really nothing at all that is going to defeat him from taking over one fourth of the world just as the prophecy of Revelation Chapter 6 said would be the case.

KING JAMES VERSION: REVELATION CHAPTER 6, VERSE 8

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

There also really needs to be special note of just how what has happened thus far ties in with the prophecies of Revelation Chapter 13, which make very clear that the Beast has ten crowns, ten horns and seven heads.

KING JAMES VERSION: REVELATION CHAPTER 13 VERSES 1 TO 3

1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

It has been quite a long time since I went to school but when I did, 10 crowns +10 Horns +7 heads = 27 nations, the total number of member nations of the EU.

The European Union is composed of 27 sovereign Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

The ten horns of the Antichrist are ten countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) are EU members but do not use the euro.

Of the remaining 17 Eurozone countries Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Spain: ten nations, Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, and Slovakia are the ten crowns of the prophecy.

The remaining seven nations are the governing bodies, or heads: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Portugal.

As an adjunct, when it says the Antichrist receives a wound to death, it does not infer the Antichrist receives a wound that results in his death and then miraculously recovers by having a resurrection akin to the resurrection of Christ. With Satan that is impossible as Satan only takes life and souls -- but does not give life.

The third verse of Revelation Chapter 13 refers to one of the heads as having a fatal wound. See the aforementioned. That is, it refers to one of the governing bodies of the eurozone as having a fatal wound. Therefore, it does not refer to the man, the Antichrist, as having a fatal wound, but instead refers to a nation - Belgium.

More correctly, it is telling us the Antichrist is an ex Belgium Prime Minister. The founder of the EU was Henri Spaak, a former Belgium Prime Minister is the one who has had the fatal wound, but the wound healed when another Belgium Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, replaces him.

Therefore the verses are telling us that the Antichrist from Belgium and is an ex Belgium Prime Minister, as per the above mentioned.

Please note: The above explanation does not give me the right to say, or make claim to being a prophet, as I am not saying right here right now that I am to see into the future, but that I have only noted the aforementioned after the prophecy has been fulfilled, and not before. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

The Seven Heads, Ten Horns and Ten Crowns of the Antichrist!

Some people are saying over the Internet that I have allegedly said that the newly appointed president of the EU, Herman Van Rompuy, was undeniably the Antichrist. However, that was not what I had said at all. Instead, what I had said was that he fits the general description of the Antichrist, but, and this is a very big, BUT, that I would not know for sure who the Antichrist was until I saw him confirm a seven year covenant between Israel and Palestine.

[N.B. At the time of the writing of this piece, I also believe that if the world is to see a separate Palestinian state that whoever signed off on that more than likely would be the Antichrist.]

At the time of this writing that has not happened. As that is the case, I am then NOT saying that Van Rompuy is the Antichrist until I see him confirm a seven-year covenant and then break the treaty midway through the seven years and then move into a newly built temple, and from there proclaim to be God reincarnate here on the earth.

There is no information that I have any access to at all that says that Van Rompuy is going to confirm a seven-year covenant between Israel and Palestine. Accordingly, there is no point in my claiming to know something that I do not. To do so is nothing more than pie in the sky type of stuff. If any such information were to come forth, it needs substantiation otherwise it is nothing more than just pure conjecture with no real facts whatsoever.

However, that is not to advocate that any other information comparative to the suggestion that Van Rompuy is the Antichrist should be dismissed out of hand as being irrelevant or inconsequential just because we have not seen the latter portions of the prophecies concerning the Antichrist (as has been mentioned above) fullfilled. Coincidentally, there are some who are appearing to suggest that should be the case?

On the contrary, there is a great deal of information that is readily available to suggest, (that indeed) there are very strong indicators to suggest that Van Rompuy is the Antichrist even though the latter portions of the prophecies concerning the Antichrist have not (as yet) come to pass.

As the old saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Accordingly, as proof positive of one's point of view all that is required in this instance is reference to the Holy Scriptures.

The situation that I am about to make mention of here does not refer to something that is away off into the future, but instead refers to something that has already taken place? Therefore, we are speaking here in terms of a situation that is occurring and ongoing even as I write this piece. Not something suggested by those who study Bible prophecy in which they suggest what is going to happen comparative to the Antichrist is a long way off into the future or that he has to move into a temple before we would know just who he is.

May I also note the glaring obvious information that I am going to mention here is not dependant on other prophecies happening as if to prove what has already taking place?

Even though I am presenting certain facts here, there are still those who study Bible prophecy that will not change a point of view they had been taught years and years ago, no matter what information one is able to present to contradict their particular perspective. To those I would say let them carry on with their own system of belief, as the truth, and the whole truth of the matter, will come out sooner rather than later.

As most of those who have been students of prophecy over a number of years would realize the first half of Revelation Chapter 13 refers to the Antichrist, while the second portion of Revelation Chapter 13 refers to the False Prophet. Accordingly, for the sake of this exercise we need to study the first portion of Revelation Chapter 13 only.

REVELATION CHAPTER 13 VERSES 1 TO 10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

There was a time, not all that long ago at around about the end of 2009, those who study the Bible prophecies were eagerly awaiting the approval of the Lisbon Treaty. We knew that from that point onwards what were effectively going to see was going to be the confirmation of the EU constitution. Once that had taken place, those of us who study Bible prophecy would more than likely see the Antichrist revealed in that in the appointment as the first ever full time president of the EU.

Those of us who were watching Bible prophecy for a number of years were slightly disappointed at the time the announcement was made as to just who was going to be the first ever full time president of the EU for a number of reasons. The main reason being they had thought that in the appointment of the EU president, they were going to get a man of enormous charisma who was going to represent the EU on the world stage. Instead, what they had gotten instead as the first ever full time president of the EU was someone who seemed to represent the complete opposite in the form of Herman Van Rompuy.

When instead, what they were looking for a man who would rule with an iron fist. What seems to have happened is that Satan who had brought forth a man that appeared to be everything that the Antichrist was not supposed to be, meek and humble. Some politicians even described the newly appointed EU president as having the charisma of a damp rag, and the all the charm of a bank clerk.

Just as soon as he came to power one of the first things that he managed to do was to subdue three nations (3) nations, just as the prophecy said would be the case. Those nations were Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the nations offered bailout packages because of the economic crisis they were facing, and still are facing, at the time of the writing of this piece.

There has also been another quite clever ploy by Satan that also seems to have fooled everyone. Instead, of appointing the first ever full time president of the EU as the president of the United States, meaning that the cat would be out of the bag so to speak relative to his correct identity, what he had done instead was to simply appoint Van Rompuy as the president of the European Union Council of Ministers. What that really meant was that as the president of the Council of Ministers, he really did not have a great deal of power at all - but that was all to change later on down the track.

There are 17 member nations in the EU and keeping in mind that as the president of the Council of Ministers Van Rompuy represents the 27 member nations of the EU and that after that appointment as the president of the Council of Ministers, he has since been further promoted to head of the Economic Government of Europe.

The 27 member nations of the EU are:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.[

These are the 17 nations mentioned above who have adopted the Euro.

The Eurozone currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

As per the prophecy of Revelation Chapter 13, seven of those nations are the heads, or the governing bodies. (Including Belgium) The remaining numbers of those 10 nations are the ten CROWNS mentioned in the prophecy.

There are 27; member nations of the EU there are still 10 member nations of the EU outside the eurozone that do not use the euro. Those ten nations are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Those nations mentioned in the prophecy as the CROWNS that are upon the HORNS. The second verse is quite self-explanatory so there is no need to explain it in any detail as that is not the purpose of this article.

If we were then to add those nations mentioned in the prophecy as being the ten horns, the ten crowns, and the seven heads we would then be able to see that what that totals up to is 27, with there being 27 member nations of the EU. Is that a coincidence, I think not.

Right about now there are going to be some who are thinking, well what I have said above is correct, but that still does not mean Van Rompuy is the Antichrist but that all that is happening is that everything is being set up so that the real Antichrist could simply take over. However, if that were the case and one more nation happened to join the EU, then that would effectively through a complete spanner in the works and make the prophecy of the 27 nations untrue. As that is the case, then what we are seeing unfolding would have to make the now the correct fulfilment of the prophecies and not some future event.

As an adjunct, when it says the Antichrist receives a wound to death, it does not infer the Antichrist receives a wound that results in his death and then miraculously recovers by having a resurrection akin to the resurrection of Christ. With Satan that is impossible as Satan only takes life and souls -- but does not give life.

The third verse refers to one of the heads as having a fatal wound. See the aforementioned. That is, it refers to one of the governing bodies of the eurozone as having a fatal wound.

Therefore, it does not refer to the man, the Antichrist, as having a fatal wound, but instead refers to a nation - Belgium. More correctly, it is telling us the Antichrist is an ex Belgium Prime Minister.

The founder of the EU was Henri Spaak, a former Belgium Prime Minister is the one who has had the fatal wound, but the wound healed when another Belgium Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, replaces him.

Therefore the verses are telling us that the Antichrist from Belgium and is an ex Belgium Prime Minister, as per the above mentioned.

Please note: The above explanation does not give me the right to say, or make claim to being a prophet, as I am not saying right here right now that I am to see into the future, but that I have only noted the aforementioned after the prophecy has been fulfilled, and not before. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Date setting, is it right or wrong, and if it is wrong, why is that the case?

There is really no one who readily comes to mind lately of whom I would consider as being a reliable student of Bible prophecy. That sounds like a very sad indictment on those who profess men of God and are supposed to be teaching those who are yet uneducated relative to the word of God the correct interpretation of the scriptures. That statement of course does not apply to most of those who claim to be men of God. Nevertheless, there are still large number(s) of those who claim to be Christian pastors that statement applies to?

All that I have seen thus far are nothing more than theories of one sort or another from most of those who are Christian writers and profess to know the truth. The facts of the matter are that there are still so many that are so far off the mark that it really is quite unbelievable. Of course, all that the majority of these alleged men of God teach is just something that is so far off into the future that by the time the dates they have set come about, most of what they said in their writings, would have forgotten about by the time the dates they have set comes around anyway. That always seems to be the case when their writings prove repeatedly to be just so wrong that there is really no point at all in discussing what they are alleging in the first place.

Therefore, what we really need to be concerned with is what are happening now and not what some men think is going to happen well within the future, when 9 times out of 10 those said same men/women are usually wrong anyway.

There are several indications in the word of God relative to just how certain events relative to the remainder of the Bible prophecies are going to pan out. What I mean by that is that there are certain events that must take place, say for example before the Lord returns back onto the earth. However, there is absolutely no indication whatsoever relative to just when, or as to the timing, of when those said same events are going to pan out. That is, there are no dates at all in the word of God that I am aware of even after having read the Bible from cover to cover numerous times over the forty years that I have been a Christian. Therefore, those who are now coming forth with this date or that date, such as the 21st of December 2012, indicating that there is going to be some form of a paradigm shift are so wide of the mark that it is really quite laughable.

Accordingly, my best advice would be to ignore these sensationalists, as all that they are seeking to do is to attract attention to their respective causes with nothing more than blatant scaremongering. Concluding, date setting is wrong and those who usually indulge in this satanic practice do so for no other reason other than for their own financial benefits. Keep well clear of them at all costs.

Most French believe Sarkozy will lose election: poll

(Reuters) - Two thirds of French voters believe President Nicolas Sarkozy will lose next year's elections if he runs -- including more than half of his own party's supporters, a survey showed Sunday.

Sarkozy, whose popularity slid back to near record lows in September, is yet to announce whether he will run for the presidency next April and May, but according to a poll by ViaVoice for left-leaning daily newspaper Liberation, 68 percent of people think he would lose the election.

Sarkozy's government was dealt a sharp blow this week, just seven months before the election, when left-wing candidates wrested control of the Senate for the first time in more than 50 years.

The survey of 1,007 people of voting age was conducted between Sep. 29 and October 1 with those polled citing Sarkozy's economic policies and public debt and deficit issues as their main cause for concern.

Worryingly for Sarkozy, 54 percent of those supporting his UMP party said they did not think he would win the election.

With a week until the first round of the opposition Socialists' presidential primary, former party leader Francois Hollande continues to be its most popular candidate.

According to the ViaVoice survey, the general public would prefer French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe to run as the presidential candidate from Sarkozy's party, although 54 percent of UMP voters still think the president would be the best man to run.

If Sarkozy loses office, next year, does that then take him out of contention for the role of the False Prophet, who in turn gives his backing to the Antichrist? On the contrary, he would then be able to take up the role as the head of the IMF once it became vacant. The False Prophet forces everyone to take his mark for buying and selling.

As the head of the IMF Sarkozy would be then be in the ideal place to do just that, as it seems that he is positioning himself ideally to achieve a dual role with the EU president, Van Rompuy, in running the Revised Roman Empire of the EU.

What is wrong with Israel?

One thing is claiming to be the victim all the time, over centuries. Another is acting in the same way, or worse, as those who are criticized for treating Jews badly. Certainly, Israel has the right to exist as a member of the international community…surely that is right but only if it behaves as such?

An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth! Is that right or not? Human rights for those who behave as human beings, is then right. Obviously it is.

Therefore, those nations, which do not behave as members of the international community, logically, should forfeit their rights to membership, just like a member of a sports club should be banned if he does not pay the fees or breaks the rules.

So why is Israel always playing the victim card, when it violates international law? If Israel accepts the notion “an eye for an eye” then it cannot complain when inevitably the type of violations it commits daily go full cycle and are visited upon Tel Aviv. Is that right or not? However, to say such is anti-Semitism (an idiotic statement, because all the term means is “anti-Semitic” as regards Semitic languages, as per Hebrew and Arabic).

The main contributor towards the hatred in the international community towards Israel is not the Jews living their lives in Moscow, London, Teheran, Addis Ababa or Jerusalem, but rather, the actions of the state of Israel. Let us not pussyfoot around here, let us have it out.

Israel tries to hide behind cowardly fences it builds for itself, namely making it a crime to question the existence of the Holocaust in many countries. Why the hysteria, why the exponential ultra-defensive posture regarding what seems to be obvious? For many of those who have visited concentration camps from the Second World War, there was never any doubt, until it became a crime to doubt.

Who is trying to cover up what? But why? Who made it a crime to speak about the African Holocaust, slavery, which was visited not upon 6 (?) million souls but probably nearer to 70 million?

The way Israel behaves these days raises serious questions as to the integrity of this “people”, if indeed Israelis can be called a single people and not a motley collection of Ethiopians, Finns, Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Americans, Palestinians and Russians, to name but a few.

While the actions of individuals are from those of the State, it is clear that Tel Aviv has a problem, a serious problem. That continuing problem places in question any continued goodwill towards the State of Israel’s right to exist, as it stands today, among many in the international community.

However, the Lord gave the promised of Israel to the Jews in 1948.

We are still living in Biblical times in that what God has said in the past must be fullfilled.

Over the years, it suffered attacks due to the abominable treatment of Palestinians (thrown out of their homes and lands as Jewish settlers started to arrive) and due to overwhelming military backing from the USA, managed to push back its original borders to areas claimed as a “Greater Israel” in Biblical texts.

By claiming the land that was promised to them by God in times gone by and then now going forth and claiming that land, in effect, they are not illegally occupying the land of the Palestinians if they were promised the land to begin with by God.

That is the case if they are occupying only land promised to them (in the first place) by God. That is not to say that if they are occupying land not given to them according to the scriptures then that occupation is illegal.

Israel is the promised land of the Jews, irrespective of if the Palestinians occupy it right now or not. It is their land and they are entitled to it. There is no one who is going to argue with God - least of all yours truly.

That is not to say that I think that the Judaism is the correct religion or that the Jews are Gods chosen people as they rejected Christ -- just as the majority are still rejecting him to this day. The land of Israel is the fulfilment of promise (by God) to the Jews to return to their homeland, and that is all it is.

That does not mean Israel still have to abide by international law even if that involves a two state solution to the current and ongoing crises in the region.

The solution to the current difficulties can only come when the Jews have occupied all of the land that was promised to them by God irrespective of whether or not that occupation is illegal in the eyes of the world or not.

It comes as no surprise that the Secretary-General of the UNO calls for an immediate halt to the illegal programme to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem. Those who know Benjamin Netanyahu as an inconsequential office boy half a century ago would not be that surprised, because Benjamin Netanyahu has never been anything more than the puppet of the gray forces controlling him.

Not only are the new settlements illegal under international law, they also violate the terms of the Roadmap for Peace.

Apart from this, the Gaza blockade against innocent civilians, including women and children, is contributing towards fuelling more anti-Israeli hatred and worse, towards the creation of criminal networks supporting an illegal economy, according to UN reports. Alternatively, is this what Israel wants?

For every day that passes, the international community feels more admiration for the resilience and courage of Gaza citizens and more and more sullen hatred for the pariah regime that builds illegal colonies and strangles the rights of civilians, including women and children.

A country built on the basis of goodwill after the horrific and barbaric treatment meted out to Jews and after the 6 (?) million milestone became accepted finally among the international community after take 2 (WW2), Israel and Israelis could have done far better in terms of managing the process with a view to implementing a two-state policy in the region.

While there is no doubt whatsoever that the Holocaust took place (not only in Germany but also in the three Baltic States, Poland, Romania and practically every other country to have joined NATO recently.

Is this a pre-requisite for membership?) and while Israel’s right to exist is unquestionable, it is also true that if Israel wishes to become a member of the international community (and a very recent member at that) then it has the obligation to respect international law.

In addition, when we speak of the Holocaust, we are referring to gypsies, Slavs and other groups considered as "sub-human" by the Nazis, including several religious groups and persons whose sexuality was expressed in ways considered deviant by the Fuhrer.

Will there be a separate Palestinian state shortly -- and if so what are going to be the consequences for Israel and the rest of the world?

The Palestinian people are "long overdue" in their quest for an independent state, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, ahead of a Palestinian push for statehood in the UN planned for later this month.

That date is to be decided. Nevertheless, some are touting the 23rd, which is a Friday. Yet, there are others who have made mention of the Wednesday or even the Thursday as the final date. Therefore, at this stage it is unclear as to just what the final date will be.

Given the current evidence available, my best bet for correctly identifying the Antichrist is the head of the Euro Zone, Herman Van Rompuy. Van Rompuy is going to address the United Nations on the subject matter of a separate Palestinian state on the 22nd of this month.

As the name of this game is Bible Prophecy relative to world events, I may not be wrong here in assuming that what we are seeing unfolding on the world stage in relation to a separate Palestinian state may turn out to have a direct correlation with the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27.

Dan 9, 27: Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week, He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.”

That is not to say that what I am inferring is that this is necessarily going to be the aforementioned treaty (although it may be) but that the treaty is going to follow shortly afterwards. If that is to be the case, then all I can say is so much for the alleged pre-tribulation theory of the rapture. Once the treaty of Daniel is, signed one can almost kiss that goodbye as being nothing more than a fantasy.

Ban's comments came a day after Palestinian activists launched a campaign for the recognition of a Palestinian state in the United Nations. The move contradicts earlier reports that the Palestinian Authority was the one who issued the request.

In a letter addressed to Ban's Ramallah office, Palestinian activists urged the leader of the international community to "exert all possible efforts toward the achievement of the Palestinian people's just demands."

Speaking on Friday, the UN chief was quoted by the French news agency AFP as saying he fully supported Palestinian statehood: "The two state vision where Israel and Palestinians can live... side by side in peace and security -- that is a still a valid vision and I fully support it."

"In addition, I support the statehood of Palestinians; an independent, sovereign state of Palestine. It has been long overdue," Ban told reporters in Canberra, adding that a "recognition of a state is something to be determined by the member states."

Ban stressed the point further, saying, according to AFP, that it was not a decision to be made "by the Secretary General so I leave it to the member states to decide to recognize or not to recognize."

The UN chief's comments came following an Haaretz report, according to which White House Middle East emissaries Dennis Ross and David Hale met Wednesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and made it clear to him that a request to the United Nations for recognition in about two weeks of an independent Palestinian state could have serious implications.

For his part, Abbas said the Palestinian request for recognition of statehood within the 1967 borders had reached a point of no return and he could not retract it.

Ross and Hale also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak in the course of their visit to the region, but the trip aimed at applying last-minute pressure on the Palestinian president.

An Israeli source with knowledge of the details of the meeting between the visiting Americans and Abbas noted this was the first time the Americans spelled out the full negative implications of the Palestinian request to the UN.

That is the good news. However, some quite bad news which may be right around the corner for Israel if there were ever to be a separate Palestinian agreed to, and then signed off on?

The deadlock in the Arab-Israeli negotiations is over the well-founded fear on the part of the Israeli public that the Palestinians have not given up their long-term goal of destroying the Jewish state. Until those fears will be allayed, the Israeli public will not easily agree to the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state on its borders with the power to arm itself and become a military threat.

After refusing to allay Israeli fears during the ongoing direct negotiations, the Palestinians opted to present their case for sovereignty to a U.N. audience that is not sensitive to this issue. That is not reassuring to the Israeli public.

There is paranoia within the public of Israel that goes well and truly beyond the norms of being reasonable, that may as yet be well and truly founded if those who find the following applicable verses give us any indication at all of what may just be right around the corner for Israel once the Palestinian state is created.

Zechariah 14: Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

That is not to say that the whole world should also be now if fear of the Lord if what has been prophesied happens within a very short space of time.

Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east.

Disclaimer: I am neither pro, nor anti - Israel and so in compiling this article there was no thought whatsoever as to the well being, or otherwise, of the Jewish state of Israel. Therefore, as that was not a consideration at all when I made this report, and that is the case, as my stance towards the Jewish state in this instance is quite irrelevant. There are those who are Born Again Christians who seem to believe that it is compulsory for those who are Christian to side on the side of Israel over all matters. However, there is nothing in the word of God that says that is to be the case at all when all that the word of God says is that Israel is God's chosen land, but not that the Jews (or Jews anywhere around the world for that matter) who inhabit Israel are Gods chosen people. On the contrary, those who inhabit Israel are for the most part Antichrists, or unsaved and as that is the case, there are only 144,000 saved at the end of it all. However, that still does not mean that those who choose to go against Gods chosen land will still not suffer the repercussions prophesied to occur against those nations who choose to do so.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have now saddled up...

Economic Terrorists Seek ‘United States of Europe’

Plan For ‘European Economic Government’ Was Brainchild Of Nazis.

European globalists are committing another act of economic terrorism by exploiting the euro debt crisis in a bid to create a “United States of Europe.”

European Council president Herman van Rompuy has announced he is ready to spearhead the group, a move that frighteningly parallels plans by top Nazis, many of whom went on to found the EU, and their mission to build a continent-wide economic government.

EU leaders are fear mongering over the consequences of member states abandoning the single currency, warning that a euro collapse would lead to martial law and even civil war.

Their “solution” is to hand themselves even more power to create a common economic policy that all member states would be forced to follow at the expense of their national sovereignty, a de facto financial government for the whole of Europe.

“European Council president Herman van Rompuy said yesterday that he was ready to run for a second term as European Union president, to lead a “United States of Europe,” reports the Irish Independent.

“Mr Van Rompuy has announced he is willing to take on the “unfinished” eurozone debt crisis with new powers setting an “economic government” in Brussels.”
Simultaneously, British Prime Minister David Cameron last night said that Britain “must let eurozone countries move towards a United States of Europe with a common economic policy,” reports the Daily Mail.

“The Prime Minister admitted he was not sure whether Germany and other countries had the political will to prevent a break-up of the single currency, but insisted they must be allowed to try – even if that meant closer integration.”

The move to exploit the debt crisis in order to completely eviscerate the economic sovereignty of every EU member by forming a central economic planning committee, a United States of Europe, to which all countries are beholden, is not merely an act of economic terrorism; it’s a chilling throwback to identical proposals that were the brainchild of top Nazis.

Plans to create a federal European economic government in the name of mandating fiscal responsibility and avoiding a repeat of the turmoil in Greece chillingly mirror blueprints concocted in the 1940’s as a means of preserving fascist power at the end of world war two by men who were responsible for founding the EU in the first place.

The European Common Market, the precursor to the European Union, was a brainchild of top Nazis in the 1940’s who wanted to preserve fascist power in the event of defeat in world war two.

US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128, also known as The Red House Report, details how top Nazis secretly met at the Maison Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10, 1944.

Knowing Germany was on the brink of military defeat, conspired to create a Fourth Reich – a pan-European economic empire based around a European common market, precisely what the new Economic government proposal backed by the likes of Cameron and van Rompuy calls for.

Wealthy Nazi industrialists like Alfred Krupp of Krupp Industries and Friedrich Flick, as well as front companies like BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen, set about the task of building a new pan-European business empire. According to historian Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, an adviser to Jewish former slave laborers, “For many leading industrial figures close to the Nazi regime, Europe became a cover for pursuing German national interests after the defeat of Hitler….The continuity of the economy of Germany and the economies of post-war Europe is striking. Some of the leading figures in the Nazi economy became leading builders of the European Union.”

The foundations for the EU and ultimately the Euro single currency were laid by the secretive Bilderberg Group in the mid-1950’s. Bilderberg’s own leaked documents prove that the agenda to create a European common market and a single currency formulated by Bilderberg in 1955. One of the group’s principle founders was H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a former Nazi SS officer.

However, the ideological framework for the European Union goes back even further, to the 1940’s when top Nazi economists and academics outlined the plan for a single European economic community, an agenda that was duly followed after the end of the second world war.

In his 1940 book The European Community, Nazi Economics Minister and war criminal Walther Funk wrote about the need to create a “Central European Union” and “European Economic Area” and for fixed exchange rates, stating “No nation in Europe can achieve on its own the highest level of economic freedom which is compatible with all social requirements…

The formation of very large economic areas follows a natural law of development….interstate agreements in Europe will control [economic forces generally]…There must be a readiness to subordinate one’s own interests in certain cases to those of [the EC].”

How different is Funk’s call for governments to subordinate their economic interests to those of Europe compared with Jose Manuel Barroso’s insistence that EU member states should be forced to “institute structural reforms under pain of financial sanctions”? The similarity is frightening.

Funk’s co-authors echoed his sentiments. Nazi academic Heinrich Hunke wrote, “Classic national economy..is dead…community of fate which is the European economy…fate and extent of European co-operation depends on a new unity economic plan”.

A “new unity economic plan,” this is precisely what Cameron and Van Rompuy are proposing – centralized financial control over the economies of Europe ruled by Brussels.

Fellow Nazi Gustav Koenig observed, “We have a real European Community task before us…I am convinced that this Community effort will last beyond the end of the war.”

In 1940, Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels ordered the creation of the “large-scale economic unification of Europe,” believing that “in fifty years’ time [people would] no longer think in terms of countries.” Just 53 years later, the European Union in its current form was established.

Therefore, you have one of Hitler’s most loyal Nazi allies calling for “Economic unification of Europe,” and now former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is demanding the establishment of “a financial oversight body with the teeth to assert control over the finances of member states.”

Even on the face of it, the fact that the EU, which began as a free trade area, is now seeking to have its unelected members directly control national economies, is completely dictatorial, authoritarian, and represents the anti-thesis of any notion of democracy or representation of the people of Europe.

Add to the fact exactly the same agenda was pursued by one of the most notoriously criminal and barbaric regimes in history, then and surely alarm bells should be ringing?

Other top Nazis who called for the creation of a pan-European federal economic superstate include Ribbentrop, Quisling and Seyss-Inquart, who spoke of “The new Europe of solidarity and co-operation among all its people… will find…rapidly increasing prosperity once national economic boundaries are removed.”

Most of the individuals who hold the reins of power in the European Union are not Nazis, indeed, they probably believe themselves to be fair-minded liberals working for the “greater good”. However, the European Union by its very nature is totalitarian, because it seeks to remove power from national governments accountable to their electorate and centralize it into the hands of supra-national entities that are accountable to nobody but himself or herself.

It also seeks to remove the right of free speech for anyone in a position of influence who criticizes this agenda.

The fact that the EU was a brainchild of top Nazi economists and industrialists, formulated as a means of preserving dictatorial power and then implemented by former Nazi working under the auspices of the Bilderberg Group in 1955, proves that the entire European Union system is poisoned with a legacy and a raison d’être of totalitarianism.

The additional knowledge that the European Union is now pursuing identical economic policies to those voiced by top Nazis, (several of whom went on to found the EU in its embryonic stages)

That in itself is a chilling reminder of how fundamentally anti-democratic and fascist the EU is becoming as it swallows up more power from member states and appoints itself as the supreme dictator of an entire continent.

The European Union will fight tooth and nail to protect the single currency from collapsing because, as top Bilderberger and Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff made clear in a recent Financial Times piece. The plan for a globalized currency system is wholly dependent on the survival of the Euro, which almost certainly would be destroyed if the Greeks or any other member states were to default and ditch the single currency.

“The euro experiment has also brought us to a crossroads in the whole international monetary system,” wrote Rogoff. “Will our grandchildren inherit a world with a huge number of national currencies, or a very small number of multifunction currencies?”

Why Israel is God's chosen land, but the Jews are not Gods chosen people.

It is beginning to grow rather tiresome for those who are true Christians, and believe the word of God inexplicably, for the continuing praise that I am seeing over the state of Israel.

There is really something, somewhere, along the line that is quite amiss if there are some Christians who have nothing else on their mind other than Israel, and its state of preparedness for the inevitable war that is soon to ensue.

There is no point at all when it says in the Holy Scriptures that there is anything at all that is ever going to befall Gods chosen nation, Israel, and so why we are seeing this continuing and ongoing fascination with Israel is really beyond belief.

Israel is mentioned, more often than not, in the Holy Scriptures as being the beautiful land.

Furthermore, the Lord is referred to as being the Lord God of Israel, so there are no natural disasters or any other serious event at all that is ever going to befall the land of Israel, not now, or not ever. In fact, if there ever a world war, or any other catastrophic event to befall the planet, Israel would be the safest place on the earth to be.

However, there is no mention anywhere in the scriptures where it says the Jews of Israel (or Jews anywhere) are the chosen ones of God, or that there is anything at all that is necessarily special about them in that sense.

On the contrary, the Jews of Israel rejected the messiah and the crucified him. Furthermore, the Jews of Israel are the ones who are going to accept the Antichrist. In other words, the Jews rejected the original messiah. Instead, they are going to accept the counterfeit - the beast of Revelation.

As that is the case, then may I lay out a challenge to anyone who reads this to show me a verse anywhere in the word of God, which says the Jews are Gods chosen people, or any other statement of such like? If I were a betting man, I would lay a wager on the fact that there would be no one who would be able to show me the existence of any verse, or any verse of a similar nature, simply because such a verse does not exist.

Is there a difference between the Day of the Lord and a Post Tribulation Rapture stance- the answer seems to be a resounding NO!

I have a friend, a dear brother in Christ, with whom I communicate with on a regular basis. There are no names mentioned, as he comes across sometimes as being a little sensitive about certain subjects. Therefore, I thought it best not to say who he is so as not to embarrass him over the Internet. He also runs an end time's ministry blog and so we have this common interest in the end times. For that reason, I had been in the habit of late of posting comments onto his BlogSpot.

For whatever reason, he seems to have taken offence at something that I seemed to have said lately. In response to whatever offensive remarks I have made he has sacked me from posting any further comments onto his blog. Have you ever been sacked, (or fired) if you have then you will know just how belittling that is.

It may have had something to do with my aversion to the rapture stance. I told him that I thought there was nothing at all in the word of God about the rapture of the church but that the Bible teaches about the resurrection of the dead, and not the rapture of the church.

By strongly disagreeing with him in regards to the rapture that may have been the decisive factor that has tipped him over the edge, or upset him so much? However, I am not too sure about that. I am only assuming that is the case. Accordingly, I may be wrong in that instance, as I quite often am about other certain matters.

Whatever I have done wrong, it does not seem to be the right path to follow to restrict my freedom of speech by not allowing me to post any further comments at his BlogSpot either. That is, unless I have said something that was right over the top or out of order, which I do not believe has been the case in this instance?

It seems that in the church my friend attends the majority of the parishioners hold the pre-tribulation stance even though he holds the post tribulation stance himself. When asked why he did not attend a church that held the post tribulation stance his reply was that he could not find a church that was both evangelical and held the post tribulation stance. So they may escape what is to come on the day of the Lord the Christians will be taken from the earth to meet the Lord in the air.

Nevertheless, that is not the rapture of the church in the sense of the word as most of those who believe in it see it as. Those who believe in the rapture of the church believe that is going to happen a long time before the day of the Lord. However, even though my friend believes there is going to be a rapture of the church after the tribulation period, by calling it a post tribulation rapture what he is really saying is that he does not believe in the rapture of the church himself even though he says he does. What he really believes in is the day of the Lord, which is not really a rapture of the church even though he calls it post tribulation rapture.

The Lord will resurrect the dead in Christ first. Conversely, we who are alive shall not precede those who have come and died before us. That is what the word says, and that is what I believe also. Therefore, the only difference between the day of the Lord and the Rapture of the Church is in name only. That is, there are some who are calling it the Day of the Lord, and yet there are others who are calling it a post tribulation rapture of the church. That is the only variation as far as I am aware.

EU president unveils new £280m 'gilded cage' - is this the final temple mentioned in the prophecies as being the home of the Antichrist?

With its "humane gathering place", "diversity carpet" and £280m cost it is perhaps apt that it has been heralded as the building that "houses the heart of Europe".

While Herman Van Rompuy, the EU president, has described his "Europa building" as a "jewel box", David Cameron has been less enthusiastic dubbing it a "gilded cage".

However, perhaps even more unfortunate is the moniker the edifice, which will house Mr Van Rompuy's presidential office and be home to future Brussels summits from 2014, has earned from EU officials.

Built as a state of the art glass and wood wing to an existing Art Deco building, the complex focused around a womblike central structure providing a home for summits and meetings of Brussels officials or diplomats.

And it this organic looking "urn" shape has already been nicknamed the "E-Uterus" by Council of the EU officials who will be working in the new building.

"It looks like a womb and, I am sure, many grand visions of Europe will be birthed from there," quipped one official.

Unveiled to EU leaders by Mr Van Rompuy in a 14-page slick colour prospectus, produced at a cost of £100,000, when they sat down to a Brussels summit dinner on Thursday night formally dedicated to imposing a savage austerity programme on Greece.

Before discussing the Greek debt crisis that has threatened the existence of the euro, Mr Van Rompuy surprised EU leaders, who were tucking into a starter of scallops with artichoke vinaigrette, by trumpeting the venue, due to open in 2014, which will come complete with a "colourful woven carpet" to represent "European diversity".

David Cameron, the Prime Minister, expressed his anger at the promotion of a grandiose Brussels project at a moment when EU leaders were supposed to be taking tough decisions that would lead to painful austerity measures imposed on millions of people.

"When you see a document being circulated, a great glossy brochure about some great new building for the European Council to sit in, it is immensely frustrating. You do wonder if these institutions get what every country, what every member of the public, has to go through as we cut budgets and try making our finances add up," he said.

"I do think it's important as we do that that the politicians aren't sitting in some gilded cage asking everyone else to take responsibility."

Bill Cash, chairperson of the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee said: "We need an investigation into the extravagance and the cost of this Aladdin's palace. It is a cross between the bonfire of the vanities and Kafka's Castle."

Over the last 14 years, EU leaders, ministers and diplomats have been meeting in a building called the Justus Lipsius, which is regarded as too cramped and drab to represent a body that has grown from 15 member states to 27.

The complex of buildings will also house the offices of Mr Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, a job created by the Lisbon Treaty.

Mr Cameron, who had dined the night before with other leaders on black cod with onion ragout washed down with a 2009 Sancerre wine, said that he regretted that the decision, taken seven years ago, to build a new EU venue could not be reversed.

"I've only been to this building seven times in the last year but it seems to me to be to do a perfectly good job. The microphones work, there is plenty of room and the food isn't bad either," he said.

With almost 27,000 sq metres of floor space, the new edifice is the latest development in a burgeoning post-Lisbon Treaty euro quarter in Brussels.

It will be a new environmentally friendly addition to the existing Residence Palace, built in the 1920s to houses luxury apartments for officials, commercial offices, a private theatre, swimming pool and restaurants.

The palace requisitioned in 1940 as the headquarters of the German army during the Nazi occupation of Belgium during the Second World War.

Emma Boon of the Taxpayers' Alliance said: "We're cutting back at home and we can't afford more ludicrous spending by Eurocrats. This is yet more evidence that we shouldn't hand any more money to Europe, they're already wasting the millions we give them each day."

Given the evidence available, who do I believe the Antichrist and the False Prophet are?

There has been literally thousands and thousands of Christians, ever since time immemorial, who have tried unsuccessfully to identify the Antichrist and his False Prophet.

If for no other reason than to know who the Antichrist was may spoil the fulfillment for the remainder of the Bible prophecies, for Christians to know who the Antichrist is before the timing was right was always going to be virtually impossible.

There have been some who have been saying that we would not know who the Antichrist was until the restrainer had been removed?

However, there is no one, nor is there anything that is restraining the Antichrist other than the Antichrist himself. That is the real and only reason why we would never know who the Antichrist was until he choose to come forth himself.

That is not to say that I have it all together and have identified the Antichrist. For me, (or anyone else for that matter) to make such a claim before the treaty of Daniel was confirmed would be nothing more than ludicrous, and indeed irresponsible.

The reason for that being is that if I openly come out and say that I know this one, or that one, is the Antichrist then I not only run the risk of leading those who take my word for it up the garden path if I am wrong.

Furthermore, I also run the risk of losing all credibility for making statements that are simply not true. Accordingly, anything else I say in the future relative to correctly identifying the Antichrist may be treated with genuine skepticism.

Two men appear concurrently run the EU together. Collectively, they fit into the categories of those I have mentioned above of the Antichrist and the False Prophet.

I shall explain why I think they are as I have suggested above in the following paragraphs.

Some of this ground has already been gone over before but just for the sake of this exercise, I will reiterate some of what I have said beforehand.

Please keep in mind though that the bottom line still remains that all I have, or shall make mention of, is nothing more than just my opinion only, and so in that sense I still maybe wrong, as I usually am 9 times out of 10.

So here we go. This is the best guess that I can make now relative to the correct identity of both the Antichrist and the False Prophet. The evidence now points to the current head of the Euro zone, Herman Van Rompuy, as being the Antichrist and the current French president, Nicholas Sarkozy, as being the False Prophet.

THE ANTICHRIST - HERMAN VAN ROMPUY
KJV -- REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - VERSES 1 TO 3
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

The Eurozone currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

Those 17 nations mentioned above have adopted the Euro.

As per the prophecy of Revelation Chapter 13, seven of those nations are the heads, or the governing bodies. The remaining numbers of those 10 nations are the ten CROWNS mentioned in the prophecy.

There are 27; member nations of the EU there are still 10 member nations of the EU outside the eurozone that do not use the euro. Those ten nations are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Those nations mentioned in the prophecy as the HORNS that are upon the CROWNS. The second verse is quite self-explanatory so there is no need to explain it in any detail as that is not the purpose of this article.

When it says the Antichrist receives a wound to death, it does not infer the Antichrist receives a wound that results in his death and then miraculously recovers by having a resurrection akin to the resurrection of Christ. With Satan that is impossible as Satan only takes life and souls -- but does not give life.

The third verse refers to one of the heads as having a fatal wound. See the aforementioned. That is, it refers to one of the governing bodies of the eurozone as having a fatal wound.

Therefore, it does not refer to the man, the Antichrist, as having a fatal wound, but instead refers to a nation - Belgium. More correctly, it is telling us the Antichrist is an ex Belgium Prime Minister.

The founder of the EU was Henri Spaak, a former Belgium Prime Minister is the one who has had the fatal wound, but the wound healed when another Belgium Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, replaces him.

Therefore the verses are telling us that the Antichrist from Belgium and is an ex Belgium Prime Minister, as per the above mentioned.

Please note: The above explanation does not give me the right to say, or make claim to being a prophet, as I am not saying right here right now that I am to see into the future, but that I have only noted the aforementioned after the prophecy has been fulfilled, and not before. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

THE FALSE PROPHET - NICHOLAS SARKOZY
KJV -- REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - VERSES 11 TO 18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

There does not seem much mentioned in the Holy Scriptures relative to the False Prophet. Therefore, most people assume that he is not as bad as the Antichrist.

However, the facts of the matter are that the False Prophet is worse than the Antichrist simply because he forces everyone to take the mark, and then in doing so destroys souls. On the other hand, the Antichrist destroys something that is perishable anyway - the outside shell or bodies - not that, that is bad enough.

The False Prophet has two horns meaning that he has two nations behind him, as does Nicholas Sarkozy with those two nations being France and Germany. Nicholas Sarkozy speaks only French most of the time. Therefore, he speaks like a dragon -

He does not seek authority for himself but instead gives all of his authority over to the Antichrist.

Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel had written to Herman Van Rompuy asking him to head the Euro zone member nations. Therefore, he is handing what authority that he has over to Van Rompuy, even as he acts on behalf of Van Rompuy, with all the authority of Van Rompuy.

Finally, Sarkozy is lining himself up to replace the current head of the IMF when both he and she resign sometime next year. Thereby, by taking over as the head of the IMF he will place himself strategically in place to force everyone to take the Mark.
That is about all that I have at this stage. Nevertheless, as has been the case over thousands and thousands of years, the understanding, and thus the interpretation of the Bible prophecies is so transparent and difficult to understand that what I, or others for that matter, may have said even as long ago as a week, may suddenly change overnight when new and fresh Revelations are brought to light.

The Statue of King Nebuchadnezzar relative to the promotion of Herman Van Rompuy to the presidency of the Euro Zone

Recently I have began another study into the book of Daniel and have noted the final world empire consisting of the ten toes of the statue of King Nebuchadnezzar is made up of both clay and iron.

As iron and clay do not mix what that seems to indicate is the Final World Empire of the EU made up of the respective 27 member nations is never going to reach a point of a full monetary union and that there will always be diversions and differences simply because the variations between the different cultures are so vast that it is just never ever going to happen.

What that also means is that there is never ever going to be a system of government in place, or a full time presidency, that has any comparison at all with other super powers such as the United States.

I also happened to be surfing the net the other day and happened to come across the blog of one man who has gone out and researched all of the different presidencies concurrently running the EU, and there are many.

All of these respective presidencies have different and varying methods of operation and do different jobs So in that sense it is almost impossible to say that there is one particular presidency that controls (or runs) the E.U.

However, with the recent promotion of Herman Van Rompuy to the role as the head of the Euro zone what that means is that he controls the Council of Ministries and the Euro zone. He who controls the purse strings also controls the government.

There is no one else that readily comes to mind that I can think of who has ever held more power within the sphere of the 27 member nations of the EU other than what Van Rompuy at the moment.

That fact also ties in with the prophecies of Revelation Chapter 13 which tell us the Beast has 7 heads, 10 crowns and 10 horns. See the below attached article Revelation Chapter 13 - the Eurozone and the Antichrist.

That is not to say we have definite proof of Van Rompuy being the Antichrist as that will not come until we see him confirm a seven year treaty in the Middle East between the Jews and the Arabs. It may not be a peace treaty as such but may only be the confirmation of a separate Palestinian state through the UN.

That is what the word of God says - WITH MANY - THAT IS THE WHOLE WORLD.

If that happens in the short term then I will be convinced that I have seen the treaty of Daniel Chapter 9, Verse 27 signed off on.
(KJV)
Daniel 9:27 King James Version
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.

Revelation Chapter 13 - the Eurozone and the Antichrist.

KJV
REVELATION CHAPTER 13 - VERSES 1 TO 3
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

The Eurozone currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

Those are the 17 nations that have adopted the Euro.

As per the prophecy of Revelation Chapter 13, seven of those nations are the heads, or the governing bodies. The remaining 10 of those nations or the ten CROWNS mentioned in the prophecy.

As there are 27 member nations of the EU there are still 10 member nations of the EU outside the eurozone that do not use the euro. Those ten nations are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Those are the nations that are mentioned in the prophecy as the HORNS that are upon the CROWNS. The second verse is quite self explanatory so there is no need to explain it in any great detail as that is not the purpose of this article.

The third verse makes reference to one of the heads as having a fatal wound. That is, as one of the governing bodies of the eurozone as having a fatal wound.

Therefore it does not refer to the man, the Antichrist, as having a fatal wound, but instead refers to a nation - Belgium. More correctly, it is telling us the Antichrist is an ex Belgium Prime Minister.

The founder of the EU was Henri Spaak, a former Belgium Prime Minister is the one who has had the fatal wound, but the wound is healed when he is replaced by another Belgium Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy.

Therefore the verses are telling us that the Antichrist from Belgium and is an ex Belgium Prime Minister, as per the above mentioned.

It does not mean that the Antichrist is wounded to death and then miraculously recovers by having a resurrection akin to the resurrection of Christ. With Satan that is impossible as Satan only takes life and souls -- but does not give life.

Please note: The above explanation does not give me the right to say, or make claim to being a prophet, as I am not saying right here right now that I am to see into the future, but that I have only noted the aforementioned after the prophecy has been fulfilled, and not before. Hindsight is a wonderful thing?

If and when Israel is divided up next month is that nothing more than just a sequence of events?

I was only a young man of just 18 years of age when I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as being my saviour and deliverer. At that time I had accepted the son of God who had come upon the earth in the form of a mortal man to save us from our sins. Also at that time I had barely began to read the Bible.

As such, I was almost completely unaware of the general meaning of the majority of the Bible prophecies. Also at that time, I was also unaware that the son of God came here to the earth as a Jew. Moreover, that he had walked in the Holy Land which later on became the land of Israel.

Next month there is a very strong possibility that Israel is going to be divided up into two to make way for a separate Palestinian state?

Knowing that now is of a small relevance, or any concern to me at all. Even if I had known that was going to be the case all of those years ago it certainly would not have affected my decision to become a Christian. Just as I am sure that it does not affect the decision of the millions and millions of others who have decided to become Christians?

Even if they had known at the time of that decision Israel was going to be divided up, which I am sure most of those who make a decision for Christ simply would not know, would that have affected what they had decided to do? I think not!

There are some who have been saying that as the son of God walked here on the earth as a Jew (there is no disputing that though) and that furthermore there is a Jew sitting on the throne in Heaven.

However, as Judaism is nothing more than a religion, that cannot be the case. Otherwise, it would seem that the Jews are held over in favour above all other creeds and races right throughout the entire world which cannot be so, or else God would be thought of as being partial, (or biased) towards the Jews only?

That is not to say because his son walked here on the earth as a Jew, there are some who have been quite fond of saying that even as God has given the land of Israel over to the Jews to keep forever, he has also given a very severe warning in his scriptures about dividing the land of Israel up into two portions.

However, that is a statement that I simply cannot be in agreement with.

Additionally, some are saying that following that decision there is going to be an horrific world war in which there are going to be enormous casualties on both sides. They say there are several Bible verses which suggest that this is going to be the case. Nevertheless, in saying this I am not referring to the battle of Armageddon.

However, is this fact alone only the order of sequence of events for the fulfilment of the Bible prophecies, which has nothing at all to do with Israel being divided up?

After all, given the current state of the world economy the solution to the world's financial woes has always been to start a world war to get things going again? That has nothing at all to do with Israel being divided up into two portions.

Additionally, if there were a world war that starts after Israel is divided up then this can be nothing more than what has been suggested above, just the order of events, and really nothing much more than that at all?