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 />
resurrection day these disciples met the Saviour, and their hearts burned with<strong>in</strong> them<br />
as they listened to His words; when they looked upon the head and hands and feet<br />
that had been bruised for them; when, before His ascension, Jesus led them out as far<br />
as Bethany, and lift<strong>in</strong>g up His hands <strong>in</strong> bless<strong>in</strong>g, bade them, "Go ye <strong>in</strong>to all the world,<br />
and preach the gospel," add<strong>in</strong>g, "Lo, I am with you alway" (Mark 16:15; Matthew<br />
28:20); when on the Day of Pentecost the promised Comforter descended and the<br />
power from on high was given and the souls of the believers thrilled with the conscious<br />
presence of their ascended Lord--then, even though, like His, their pathway led<br />
through sacrifice and martyrdom, would they have exchanged the m<strong>in</strong>istry of the<br />
gospel of His grace, with the "crown of righteousness" to be received at His com<strong>in</strong>g,<br />
for the glory of an earthly throne, which had been the hope of their earlier discipleship?<br />
He who is "able to do exceed<strong>in</strong>g abundantly above all that we ask or th<strong>in</strong>k," had<br />
granted them, with the fellowship of His suffer<strong>in</strong>gs, the communion of His joy--the joy<br />
of "br<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g many sons unto glory," joy unspeakable, an "eternal weight of glory," to<br />
which, says Paul, "our light affliction, which is but for a moment," is "not worthy to<br />
be compared."<br />
<strong>The</strong> experience of the disciples who preached the "gospel of the k<strong>in</strong>gdom" at the<br />
first advent of Christ, had its counterpart <strong>in</strong> the experience of those who proclaimed<br />
the message of His second advent. As the disciples went out preach<strong>in</strong>g, "<strong>The</strong> time is<br />
fulfilled, the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of God is at hand," so Miller and his associates proclaimed that<br />
the longest and last prophetic period brought to view <strong>in</strong> the Bible was about to expire,<br />
that the judgment was at hand, and the everlast<strong>in</strong>g k<strong>in</strong>gdom was to be ushered <strong>in</strong>.<br />
<strong>The</strong> preach<strong>in</strong>g of the disciples <strong>in</strong> regard to time was based on the seventy weeks of<br />
Daniel 9. <strong>The</strong> message given <strong>by</strong> Miller and his associates announced the term<strong>in</strong>ation<br />
of the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14, of which the seventy weeks form a part. <strong>The</strong> preach<strong>in</strong>g<br />
of each was based upon the fulfillment of a different portion of the same great<br />
prophetic period.<br />
Like the first disciples, William Miller and his associates did not, themselves,<br />
fully comprehend the import of the message which they bore. Errors that had been<br />
long established <strong>in</strong> the church prevented them from arriv<strong>in</strong>g at a correct<br />
<strong>in</strong>terpretation of an important po<strong>in</strong>t <strong>in</strong> the prophecy. <strong>The</strong>refore, though they<br />
proclaimed the message which God had committed to them to be given to the world,<br />
yet through a misapprehension of its mean<strong>in</strong>g they suffered disappo<strong>in</strong>tment.<br />
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