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activities and pronouncements of this coming religious leader will
magnify the expectations of a new golden age for all mankind.
The powerful war-making apparatus of the coming European
superpower will be billed as the cornerstone of world peace and
security. As in times past, the world will ask, “Who is like the
beast? Who is able to make war with him?” (Rev. 13:4). A police
state will probably be created to enforce government decrees,
such as that concerning the mark of the Beast. And modern technology
may well enable it to be a totalitarian regime—the likes
of which Hitler and Stalin could only have dreamed. Perhaps people
will accept such measures as the price for getting rid of violent
crime and terrorism once and for all.
Dark times are coming. And the English-speaking nations
will not be spared. In fact, as explained in one of our other publications,
the coming European superstate, will wreak utter devastation
on the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and New
Zealand. Those who survive will be carried away captive by the
Beast and herded into slave labor camps. Jesus Christ referred to
this terrible time as the “great tribulation, such as has not been
since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall
be” (Matt. 24:21). (To learn more about this subject, please write
for our free brochure, America and Britain in Prophecy.)
Initially, other nations around the globe will experience an
economic upsurge. The newly formed worldwide trading bloc,
prophesied in Revelation 18, will be hailed as the key to universal
prosperity. In Ezekiel 27, the city of Tyre, an ancient center of commerce,
is also used as a type of this end-time, Europe-centered
global economy. Taking advantage of confiscated wealth from conquered
America and Britain as well as slave labor, those at the helm
of this system will, for a short time, enjoy unparalleled wealth.
But fatal flaws, inherent in the system from the beginning,
will in time produce ever-widening cracks. The end-time
European ruler will become involved in Middle Eastern affairs.
We find this in Daniel 11. Because this chapter contains the
longest and most detailed prophecy in the Bible, there is space in
this publication for only a brief synopsis. The prophecy spans the
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