The European Union in Prophecy by Ellen White
The European Union in Prophecy provides insightful perspectives on the E.U. both as a political project in integration and a transformation of an ancient order. One would discern that the aligned and centralised powers, which firmly resolved on unification, conceived and instituted united kingdoms, united states and united nations, still persevere in their efforts for a more robust and resilient E.U. However, unknown to most, the territorial aggrandisement, economic and military supremacy and global dominance of the E.U. have all been foretold in prophecy, millennia before the reign of the first European monarch. Spiritual forces that engineered the rise of the European thrones, also calculated the suppression of dissidence and incited merciless carnage. Although now paraded as an industrialised paragon of progress and self-made sophistication, this book elucidates on the enigmatic and clandestine alliances, decrees and dogmas that consolidated Eurocentricity that moulded modern civilisation. Indeed, despite rooted religiopolitical tensions and divergences, a peculiar one-minded homogenisation facilitates the unification process. Keywords
The European Union in Prophecy provides insightful perspectives on the E.U. both as a political project in integration and a transformation of an ancient order. One would discern that the aligned and centralised powers, which firmly resolved on unification, conceived and instituted united kingdoms, united states and united nations, still persevere in their efforts for a more robust and resilient E.U. However, unknown to most, the territorial aggrandisement, economic and military supremacy and global dominance of the E.U. have all been foretold in prophecy, millennia before the reign of the first European monarch. Spiritual forces that engineered the rise of the European thrones, also calculated the suppression of dissidence and incited merciless carnage. Although now paraded as an industrialised paragon of progress and self-made sophistication, this book elucidates on the enigmatic and clandestine alliances, decrees and dogmas that consolidated Eurocentricity that moulded modern civilisation. Indeed, despite rooted religiopolitical tensions and divergences, a peculiar one-minded homogenisation facilitates the unification process. Keywords
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>European</strong> <strong>Union</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Prophecy</strong><br />
In va<strong>in</strong> were Satan's efforts to destroy the church of Christ <strong>by</strong> violence. <strong>The</strong> great<br />
controversy <strong>in</strong> which the disciples of Jesus yielded up their lives did not cease when<br />
these faithful standard-bearers fell at their post. By defeat they conquered. God's<br />
workmen were sla<strong>in</strong>, but His work went steadily forward. <strong>The</strong> gospel cont<strong>in</strong>ued to<br />
spread and the number of its adherents to <strong>in</strong>crease. It penetrated <strong>in</strong>to regions that<br />
were <strong>in</strong>accessible even to the eagles of Rome. Said a Christian, expostulat<strong>in</strong>g with the<br />
heathen rulers who were urg<strong>in</strong>g forward the persecution: You may "kill us, torture us,<br />
condemn us. . . . Your <strong>in</strong>justice is the proof that we are <strong>in</strong>nocent . . . . Nor does your<br />
cruelty . . . avail you." It was but a stronger <strong>in</strong>vitation to br<strong>in</strong>g others to their<br />
persuasion. "<strong>The</strong> oftener we are mown down <strong>by</strong> you, the more <strong>in</strong> number we grow; the<br />
blood of Christians is seed."--Tertullian, Apology, paragraph 50.<br />
Thousands were imprisoned and sla<strong>in</strong>, but others sprang up to fill their places.<br />
And those who were martyred for their faith were secured to Christ and accounted of<br />
Him as conquerors. <strong>The</strong>y had fought the good fight, and they were to receive the crown<br />
of glory when Christ should come. <strong>The</strong> suffer<strong>in</strong>gs which they endured brought<br />
Christians nearer to one another and to their Redeemer. <strong>The</strong>ir liv<strong>in</strong>g example and<br />
dy<strong>in</strong>g testimony were a constant witness for the truth; and where least expected, the<br />
subjects of Satan were leav<strong>in</strong>g his service and enlist<strong>in</strong>g under the banner of Christ.<br />
Satan therefore laid his plans to war more successfully aga<strong>in</strong>st the government of God<br />
<strong>by</strong> plant<strong>in</strong>g his banner <strong>in</strong> the Christian church. If the followers of Christ could be<br />
deceived and led to displease God, then their strength, fortitude, and firmness would<br />
fail, and they would fall an easy prey.<br />
<strong>The</strong> great adversary now endeavoured to ga<strong>in</strong> <strong>by</strong> artifice what he had failed to<br />
secure <strong>by</strong> force. Persecution ceased, and <strong>in</strong> its stead were substituted the dangerous<br />
allurements of temporal prosperity and worldly honour. Idolaters were led to receive<br />
a part of the Christian faith, while they rejected other essential truths. <strong>The</strong>y professed<br />
to accept Jesus as the Son of God and to believe <strong>in</strong> His death and resurrection, but<br />
they had no conviction of s<strong>in</strong> and felt no need of repentance or of a change of heart.<br />
With some concessions on their part they proposed that Christians should make<br />
concessions, that all might unite on the platform of belief <strong>in</strong> Christ.<br />
Now the church was <strong>in</strong> fearful peril. Prison, torture, fire, and sword were<br />
bless<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> comparison with this. Some of the Christians stood firm, declar<strong>in</strong>g that<br />
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