After you read the above article, take a look at this! Whether you believe in the rapture or not isn't what I'm getting at - but this is a good article about the EU from Rapture Alert.
The European Approach to Middle East Peace
by Michael G. Mickey
(10-12-04)
By the time I got home from work today, my mailbox had a number of e-mails referring me to a Haaretz
story detailing Dr. Javier Solana's plan to unveil a possible European Union approach to the international Quartet's roadmap to peace on November 2, 2004. Why? Because a European approach to securing peace in the Middle East is precisely what I've been telling the readers of my website to be watching for.
From day one of hearing about the Quartet, I've suspected the group, which consists of Russia, the European Union, the United States and the United Nations, could be the many of Daniel 9:27. In Daniel 9:27, we see the Antichrist - a man of Roman descent I believe will be a European Union leader - will confirm a seven-year covenant of peace between Israel and her enemies in cooperation with the many the Scripture makes reference to.
Daniel 9:27: And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:
Dr. Javier Solana -- the European Union's top diplomat -- isn't giving out any details concerning what his Middle East strategy proposals consist of, but is saying he will present them to EU foreign ministers when they meet on November 2, 2004. His plans will not, according to Solana, deviate from the road map, insuring the Quartet will remain intact under his plan.
"Nothing will take us away from the road map," Solana is quoted as saying in the article. "That is a fundamental matter."
An EU Observer
article entitled 'EU to unveil plan to help Palestinian state' states Solana's EU peace plan is expected to focus on four areas:
- Security -- The EU is said to be considering a police mission on the ground. The use of peacekeeping forces, if this comes to pass, could be a way to confirm peace!
- Facilitating elections
- Economic development
- Reforms
The Haaretz story stresses the European Union isn't going to accept anything short of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If true, this will involve mankind taking away lands God has given the Jewish people and redistributing them to their enemies in the interest of peace -- a move which will plummet rebellious mankind into the Tribulation Period.
Psalms 2:1-4: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying], Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
God has only established the borders of one nation -- Israel! In spite of this, mankind, in all its wisdom, believes it can best govern in the affairs of man. How utterly foolish! The Antichrist's peace plan isn't going to bring peace to the Middle East for any significant period of time before it all goes wrong.
1st Thessalonians 5:3: For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Because the final global empire which will rule the earth prior to the visible, physical, bodily return of Jesus Christ at the battle of Armageddon is rising to global prominence in the form of today's European Union, I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see what will take place on November 2nd, whether my enthusiasm that the return of Jesus Christ could be
very near is warranted or not.
Could a European approach to Middle East peace signal we're nearing the time of the Antichrist's rise or will this latest proposal be nothing other than another stab at peace which will only add to the legend of the Antichrist when he actually does arrive on the world's diplomatic stage in the future?
Because I've been expecting the EU to step into a leadership role in the Quartet's efforts to secure Middle East peace for some time, I know many of my readers are going to write and ask me to guess how long it'll be until the Rapture of the Church takes place. My answer to that question? I don't know! It could be today, tomorrow, five years from now, or twenty years from now. Do I believe it will be twenty years from now? Absolutely not, but I could be wrong. Only the Father knows the answer to that question.
No one knows precisely when the Lord is coming, but we can be certain He will come before the Antichrist's peace plan, whenever it may arrive, is confirmed
or He will come simultaneously, as the peace plan of Antichrist is in the process of being confirmed. We know this because the Church is not appointed to God's wrath which will fall in abundance as soon as the Antichrist makes his move to grab global power and prestige through the securing of Middle East peace.
Recently, I heard one of my favorite Bible prophecy teachers (whose name I won't quote as my fear is I'm not going to do justice to his words) say something along the following lines, concerning us attempting to guess the timing of the Lord's return for us:
Don't waste your time trying to guess the time of the Lord's return.
Be ready all the time as He could come anytime!
That's great advice, especially at a time when the revived Roman empire - the European Union - may be about to take the lead in securing Middle East peace here in the end times, potentially opening the door for the prophesied Antichrist to make his move to global prominence.
Be ready all the time as our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, could come anytime! What great advice!
But I DO believe that the signing of the covenant will begin the trib, which means (for me) that the rapture is very soon!
