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"United States of Europe" When?

Since the 1950s, I have been proclaiming that America will one day be stunned by the emergence of a new power bloc in Europe; that America and the Soviet Union would not go to war; that a reunited Germany would be pivotal to a future United States of Europe! Now, suddenly, the walls come tumbling down in Europe; governments topple in but days; the global news media begins frantically writing about the reunification of Germany; and from the White House to London, urgent meetings behind the scenes discuss the destabilization of Europe, the power vacuum in East Germany, the nightmarish economic, sociological and political problems for which no immediate solutions are evident. And everyone was so SURPRISED! But for me, and those of us in this work, the only surprising part was how quickly so many events in Europe occurred. That Europe is in ferment; that governments are toppling; that the two Germanys may soon be reunited, IS NOT SURPRISING AT ALL TO THOSE WHO SUPPORT TWENTIETH CENTURY WATCH magazine and the work on television. Here's why!

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Europe at war 2018

Bob Barney: I believe this to be a very real scenario. Plain Truth readers know what we are warning... The King of the North is about to emerge in Europe.....

 

German troops storm Greece. Putin's tanks crush Latvia. France humbles the British Army. Unlikely, yes, but as Angela Merkel says euro meltdown could endanger peace, a historian's imagination runs riot...

By Dominic Sandbrook

The date is October 29, 2018, and Britain faces its darkest hour. On the battlefields of Europe, our Armed Forces have been humiliated.

In makeshift prison camps on the continent, thousands of our young men and women sit forlornly, testament to the collapse of our ambitions.

From the killing grounds of Belgium to the scarred streets of Athens, a continent continues to bleed. And, in the east, the Russian bear inexorably tightens its grip, an old empire rising from the wreckage of the European dream.

Europe's Troubles: Setting the Stage for Prophecy's Fulfillment

article by John Ross Schroeder

 

In 1933 Winston Churchill chillingly warned, "No one can watch the events which are taking place in Germany without increasing anxiety about what their outcome will be." With an economic crisis now plaguing the eurozone, will Berlin's troubled history repeat itself? What is Germany's destiny? Does Bible prophecy give us any indication of where events in Europe are leading?

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The late British author John Stott summed up the mindset of many this way: "Most of us feel demoralized by the heart-rending tragedy of this chaotic world. Our very survival is in doubt. The ordinary citizen often feels a helpless victim of the tangled web of politics, or a faceless unit in the machine of modern society" (Basic Christianity, 2008, p. 152).

The apostle Paul foretold that conditions would be like this during the last days of this age of man (2 Timothy:3:1-5[1]This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.[2]For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,[3]Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,[4]Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;[5]Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.). That's why our articles about regional and world trends ultimately focus on the good news guaranteed by the prophecies of the Bible.

But the Bible itself makes it very plain that the wonderful world to come will first be preceded by devastating conditions of a magnitude never before seen by the human race (see Matthew:24:21-22[21]For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.[22]And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.; Daniel:12:1And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.; Jeremiah:30:7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.). The state of the world will be so dire that human survival will be at stake!

Our news headlines show that prophecies written in the Bible many centuries ago are now beginning to be fulfilled in a major way. Nowhere is this truer than in Central Europe and the Middle East. This article focuses on Europe (though you can gain an understanding of the other region's prophetic role by reading our free booklet The Middle East in Bible Prophecy and articles about Israel and the Middle East that appear regularly in this magazine).

What does Bible prophecy tell us about the future of Europe? The biblical books of Daniel and Revelation both show that a new and dictatorial superpower will emerge at the time of the end, centered in Europe. In this article we'll see how the stage is apparently being set for the fulfillment of these prophecies.

Europe as a unified entity (click for more>>>>)

How dangerous is the neo-Nazi threat?

A neo-Nazi group is thought to have murdered at least ten people over the past decade. Have officials underestimated the threat of extreme-right terrorism? Have your say.

• 'Were security officials, politicians and society blind in the right eye?' - National (14 Nov 11)
• Neo-Nazi terrorism sparks calls for NPD ban - National (14 Nov 11)
• Neo-Nazi robbers linked to kebab shop killings - National (11 Nov 11)

In a new series on The Local, readers are invited to comment on a current topic, something that keeps coming up in conversation or simply a subject that engages, outrages or deserves a broader airing.

The self-styled National Socialist Underground (NSU) group claims to have directly killed nine foreign shopkeepers and a policewoman over a number of years and injured many more with a nail bomb.

Details of how they managed to hide from the authorities for more than a decade, while carrying out some of the country’s most notorious killings will no doubt emerge as the investigation continues.

But the questions are now being posed of whether German society and its authorities so focused on the threat of Islamist terrorism, that neo-Nazis were ignored, dismissed as provincial loonies, a spectre of yesteryear. Was the country looking in the wrong direction?

Would a ban on the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) help or hinder attempts to fight far-right violence? Would banning the party drive fascists underground, or would it send a signal that nothing of this stripe is tolerated in Germany, making it simpler for authorities to crack down on them?

Could Germany be facing a wave of neo-Nazi terrorism – and if so, are its intelligence and police authorities up to the job of fighting it?

What do you think? Leave your comment below.

A Disturbing New Dimension of Far-Right Terror

Germany has been shocked by a series of revelations relating to a trio of neo-Nazis who appear to have carried out a crime wave lasting for over a decade. They are suspected of murdering nine immigrants and a policewoman as well as a series of bank robberies. The evidence points to a new kind of right-wing terrorism unlike anything Germany has seen. By SPIEGEL Staff. more... [ Video | Forum ]

Neo-Nazi murders, film confession shock Germany

Germany's Interior Minister warned on Sunday of a "new form of far-right terrorism" as details emerged of a grotesque film left by members of a neo-Nazi cell in eastern Germany, in which they claimed the murder of nine immigrants between 2000 and 2006.

Prosecutors said on Sunday that police had arrested a suspected accomplice of the group, which referred to itself in the film as the "Nationalist Socialist Underground," and which is also thought to be behind the murder of a policewoman in 2007 and a bomb attack on a Turkish area of Cologne in 2004.   More>>>>>>>>

DEATH OF THE EURO -Rise of the Beast?

Friday November 11,2011

By Macer Hall, Political Editor

PREPARATIONS were under way last night for the break-up of the euro as Europe’s debt crisis spiralled out of control.

As Treasury officials worked through the night to soften the impact on Britain, David Cameron warned that the single European currency was facing its “moment of truth”.

Business Secretary Vince Cable went further and spoke about “Armageddon” while Brussels officials warned that the chaos threatened to plunge us all into a new recession.   MORE>>>>>>

Roman Emperor's Vatican Calls For An End Of Personal Economic Freedom For The World's Inhabitants

The Vatican confirmed their conspiratorial role in the marxist-socialist totalitarian takeover of the sovereign Nations of the world this week by issuing a statement calling for marxist "social justice" and a one world government administered by the scam known as the United Nations over all the economies of the world.

There is no doubt that these new world order overlords are conspiring right now to enslave every man, woman and child on the planet in their hellish control grid. From NewsMax:

The Vatican's Frightening Call for an End to Economic Freedom

The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has long been a source of radical political thinking within the Catholic Church. This week's statement by the Council, “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public,” confirmed the radical economic agenda of the leftist intellectuals who hold sway there.

Outside the classroom of a major university, it would be hard to find a more socialism-based economic plan than the one espoused in the statement.

Not only does it legitimize the various “Occupy” crowds, its criticism of capitalism goes beyond the Council’s past commentary on economics to call for nothing less than the abolition of economic freedom and the establishment of a new world economic system managed by the United Nations.

Read more on Newsmax.com: The Vatican's Frightening Call for an End to Economic Freedom
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Pope calls for 1 World Bank! Yes, the beast is rising in Europe

The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises. The document from the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department should please the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn.

“Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority,” was at times very specific, calling, for example, for taxation measures on financial transactions. “The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence,” it said.   More>>>>>>>

Where does the King of the North come from?

Is the Vatican Throwing Its Support Behind Communist leaning-Occupy Wall Street?

Yes, The Beast of Europe, The King of the North is on the Rise!

A new document released on Monday by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has some people wondering if the Catholic Church is aligning itself with the Occupy Wall Street movement. But while some critics may embrace this notion, others flatly reject it.

Prior to the document’s release, Father Thomas Reese (who is often described as liberal), a fellow at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center, described the proposal as “closer to views of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement than anyone in the U.S. Congress.”

Watch Reese’s controversial comments........ More>>>>>>>>

Germany's Anti-Semitism Forged Hitler's Horrors

By Lev Navrozov

My column of Sept. 30, 2011 (“Hitler’s Tyranny Must Never Be Forgotten”) evoked an interest which prompts me to write a more analytic study of Hitler and his totalitarian rule of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when after his debacle in Russia, he committed suicide.

Before its totalitarian period, Germany had probably been the world’s most culturally creative country, be it music or philosophy or science or technology. And during the critical period for mankind, nuclear research in Germany was under way. At that time, however, Albert Einstein, a German physicist of genius, fled the country with his family.

Einstein sent four letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, informing him about the power of nuclear weapons developed in Hitler’s Germany and the necessity to speed up the American nuclear program.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Germany's Anti-Semitism Forged Hitler's Horrors
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World News and Trends: The empire Germany has always dreamed of

article by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder

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Adolf Hitler came to power only because of a major financial crisis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

World-shaking turns of events usually seem to emerge out of massive economic problems. Now, paradoxically, another monumental economic crisis appears to be on the brink to, as the headline of a July 22, 2011, Telegraph article by Peter Oborne put it, "Give Germany the Empire It's Always Dreamed Of," without a drop of German blood being spilled. Such are the largely unrealized spinoffs of the current euro-crisis.

The United States of Europe prophecy being fulfilled!

By Bob Barney

What's in store for Germany and European Union and what will it mean to YOU?

The late Herbert W. Armstrong, when he was the editor of The Plain Truth Magazine (not connected to this website) was the only voice in the world who foretold consistent prophecies and warnings published over the years in the Plain Truth magazine concerning the future of Europe, Germany and the eventual rise of the Holy Roman Empire.  Most laughed when he coined the phrase "The United States of Europe."  Here are a few excerpts:

The PLAIN TRUTH, June, 1952, p. 11: "The 10 `horns'...in the 17th chapter [of the Book of Revelation] ...will be...the revival of the BEAST, the Roman Empire, `out of the bottomless pit,' by a `United States of Europe,' or federation of 10 European nations within the bounds of the old Roman Empire*."

The PLAIN TRUTH, November, 1954, p. 7: "Word comes from the College of Cardinals that the possibility of the new pope being chosen (when that becomes a necessity) from the ranks other than Italian is not too remote. The next pope could be the man who will unite Europe!"

The PLAIN TRUTH, February, 1962, p. 5: "On the WORLD TOMORROW program, and in the pages of the PLAIN TRUTH, we have been shouting to a heedless world for [many] years this was going to occur...it would come as an ECONOMIC force, bringing unprecedented prosperity to Europe. But also, it is to become a political and military combine—a gigantic third power bloc in the world, that will include more population, greater man-power, and possibly even greater military resources than either the United States or Russia. When this giant combine—a United States of EUROPE—finally emerges as such before a startled and dumbfounded world, it will last only a very short time. It will fight against Jesus Christ at His Second Coming!"

The PLAIN TRUTH, March, 1963, p. 3: "...a German STRONG MAN is the logical choice to ascend to the helm of the new POLITICALLY UNITED EUROPE."

Not only did Armstrong see a united Europe, he also proclaimed a UNIFIED Germany and the destruction of the Berlin Wall!

The PLAIN TRUTH, October, 1964, p. 48: "Germany—A UNITED GERMANY with her former territories restored—is ready to emerge as the strongest nation on earth at the head of a revitalized...Europe! The power colossus is then going to deal a death blow to the United States and Britain..."

The PLAIN TRUTH, December, 1964, p. 16: "...God shows that in this end time He is going to use the modern Assyrians...the Germans—to dominate a United Europe."

The PLAIN TRUTH, October, 1968. [Editor's note: Herbert W. Armstrong's son, Garner Ted, had just returned from Munich and Bonn, following interviews with the late Franz Josef Strauss, who was then head of the Christian Socialist Union of Bavaria, and former Defense Minister. The article in the October issue included a lengthy question and answer session with Herr Strauss]. p. 6: "One of our major conditions [Strauss said] is that the desire for admission to the Common Market is not based upon the motivation to impede political integration. We want...members who are ready and prepared to join us on the way toward a political integration with the long-run goal of the United States of Europe." Later, underlining the fact that Strauss had become a strong proponent of European acquisition of nuclear weapons, he said, "I believe the Europeans should take more responsibility for their own defense...I see as the only chance... that of building up a Europe—integrating the Federal Republic of Germany into that Europe and building bridges from an attractive, economically powerful, political and influential Europe which can defend herself—including a nuclear potential—to add to the power of the Europeans."

Armstrong's son, Garner Ted Armstrong wrote: "I have been predicting the eventual creation of a "United States of Europe" for more than 45 years on radio and television, in many articles and in major booklets. Continually, I have emphasized that the eventual "Beast" power which is prophesied to emerge will not grow gradually out of the present 15-nation configuration, which includes nations I believe are part of the so-called "lost ten tribes of Israel." Those nations include Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland, Belgium, and northern France. For decades, I have predicted that Britain would NOT be a part of the final ten nations which will form. Now, with the German Chancellor wanting to hurry the process of developing a European Superstate, with Germany playing the pivotal role, Britain is appalled."

"If you have not yet read my book Europe and America in Prophecy, please call or write for your free copy immediately. We had run completely out of stocks due to high demand, and I have ordered it reprinted."

Now from TODAY's 'Der Spiegel', Germany's largest newspaper are these ominous words:

Is Germany's Finance Minister Going Rogue?

He used to be regarded as Germany's safest pair of hands when it comes to the euro crisis. Now, criticism of Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is growing within the government parties. Some believe that Schäuble wants to exploit the crisis to push through his vision of a United States of Europe. By SPIEGEL Staff.

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Neo-Nazis gain foothold in rural villages

Parts of East Germany are struggling with right-wing extremism, with a number of villages appearing to be dominated by large swathes of supporters of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD).

• 'Something is deeply wrong when the NPD is more successful than the FDP' - Analysis & Opinion (5 Sep 11)
• SPD wins Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania vote - Politics (4 Sep 11)

In Sunday’s state elections more than 30 percent of the people who voted in the village of Koblentz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania chose the NPD on their ballots. Nearby villages saw similar numbers of residents voting for the NPD – between 26 and 29 percent.

The strong support of small communities like these helped the NPD to an unexpected six percent of the overall vote, putting them over the five percent threshold necessary to gain representation in the state parliament.

Former German leader calls for "United States of Europe"

Forward by Bob Barney: Readers of the The Plain Truth are well aware of our position that Europe will be the last great revival of the Holy Roman Empire. Herbert W Armstrong coined the term "The United States of Europe" in the 50's and was laughed at! It's going to happen - your Bible says so (if you know where to look). Now all we are waiting for is a worldwide depression and the emergence of another Hitler type and the end will be near.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Sunday called for the creation of a "United States of Europe," saying the bloc needed a common government to avoid future economic crises.

Schroeder, a Social Democrat who ran the country from 1998 to 2005, said in an interview with Der Spiegel that European Union leaders were wrong to expect the euro to drive the bloc on its own.

"The current crisis makes it relentlessly clear that we cannot have a common currency zone without a common fiscal, economic and social policy," Schroeder said.

He added: "We will have to give up national sovereignty."   MORE>>>>>>>

'German Identity Is Shaped by Christianity'

Forward: Germany (The Assyria in the Bible) is going to emerge is the beast power of Revelation and will eventually do battle with the Muslim world (read more here). This is just the start of that war!

In a SPIEGEL interview, German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich discusses the motives of Norwegian killer Anders Breivik, calls for an end to anonymity on the Internet and explains why Islam is not part of German identity.

SPIEGEL: Minister Friedrich, the massacre in Norway has sparked a discussion about the political background to the attacks. Is Anders Breivik a madman or the first anti-Muslim terrorist?

 

Friedrich: He is a madman, but he's also more than that. I'm not talking about insanity in a medical sense. This sort of a crime, where someone shoots children in cold blood as they desperately beg for their lives, is incomprehensible for any person with normal emotions. But other factors must also have entered into the equation, factors that made this crime possible in the first place. Investigators are now trying to determine what they are.

SPIEGEL: Is this sort of an attack possible in Germany?

Friedrich: We are increasingly concerned about radicalized perpetrators acting alone. The deadly shots at American soldiers at the Frankfurt airport were also fired by a lone perpetrator, in that case an Islamist, who had become radicalized on the Internet. We have more and more people who isolate themselves from their social environment and immerse themselves into an online world. It changes them, usually in ways that no one notices. This constitutes a serious threat, also in Germany.

SPIEGEL: Have politicians paid too little attention to the extremist anti-Islamic scene that has developed in Europe in recent years?

Europe on Brink of 'Major Financial Collapse

Forward: This all has to do with the formation of a new Europe, the Bible cause "The Beast" which will be headed by Germany and be the final revival of The Holy Roman Empire.  Europe's economy will fail, a great depression is coming to Europe and a MONSTER will emerge.

Europe is a "train wreck" and on the "brink of a major financial crisis," Scott Minerd, CIO of the fixed-income firm Guggenheim Partners, told CNBC Tuesday.

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"The way Europe is operating right now, it's what I called recently 'cognitive dissonance,'" Minerd said, or "basically doing the same thing thinking they're going to get a different outcome."

"They keep throwing more and more liquidity at it thinking it's going to get better and it's not," he added. Europe fails to recognize that it has a "structural problem, not a liquidity problem."

People will "flee the euro" unless they find a way to bifurcate the euro in some way where strong countries are in the euro only and the weak countries are out, Minerd explained, adding, "To be honest with you, I don't see the mechanism to do that."

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What was the real meaning of the fall of the Wall?

Forward by Bob Barney: For over 70 years now, two lone figures predicted the reunification of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire. They predicted a "United States of Europe," long before anyone else thought it was possible. How did they do this? They understood who the modern day nations were in the Bible and what God predicted what would happen.There names? Herbert W. and Garner Ted Armstrong. Even President LBJ watched to the famous "World Tomorrow" broadcast on TV. What they predicted is happening right now! LISTEN!

 

The United States of Europe

By Garner Ted Armstrong

(written in the 1990's) For 42 years, I have continually warned that a "United States of Europe" would form in central Europe, comprising more than 250 million people; a huge industrial, economic and military power which would eventually challenge the United States; that a 10-nation combine would form which would fulfill the Bible prophecy of the "Beast" which would fight Jesus Christ at His return.

Specifically, I pointed out that the eventual United Europe would be formed among nations which were, during most of those 42 years, under the heel of Soviet domination; part of the "Warsaw Pact"; nations such as East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia [since divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia], Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania.

Too many times to count, I appeared before large audiences and said, "The last chapter of European History has not been written," before launching into a description of how the Cold War would NOT result in Russia advancing into Palestine; how, instead, the aforementioned nations would COME OUT from behind the Iron Curtain; how a "United States of Europe" would eventually form. Time and time again, I named the nations which would eventually emerge as a part of a United Europe.

Now, the Soviet Union has imploded, dividing up into many squabbling, sometimes warring states. Russia teeters on the brink of bankruptcy and civil war. President Yeltsin is in poor health; says he will not run for President of Russia again, and is being challenged by ultra nationalistic and communist leaders. RUSSIA, while NOT the "beast" power of Bible prophecy, will figure very prominently in world events of these next few years, and in the great Battle of Armageddon.

 

EU Big Bang? 'Germany could rule United States of Europe'

Forward: Readers of The Plain Truth are well aware of our prediction that the Biblical Beast of Revelation will be the revived Holy Roman Empire ruled by Germany (The Assyria of the Bible). Every day, it is becoming more and more clear that we are right!

MARK ‘SET FOR COMEBACK’ AS GERMAN EURO CRISIS DEEPENS

ALMOST three-quarters of Germans doubt that the euro has a future, a poll reveals.They also believe rescue attempts are futile as billions more euros will be paid to bail out Greece.

A poll by German newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine, found 71 per cent had “doubt,” “no trust” or thought there is “no future” for the euro. Only 19 per cent expressed “confidence” in it.  Read the story>>>>

Vatican fears increasingly unstable Arab world

By   Jean-Louis de la Vaissiere / Agence France-Presse June 10, 2011, 6:03 pm

VATICAN CITY: A Vatican expression of concern over the violence in Syria this week was the latest sign of deep misgivings in Catholic circles about Arab uprisings seen as a threat for Christian minorities.

The Coming King of the South

Herbal medicines banned as EU directive comes into force

Daily Mail

Patients have lost access to hundreds of herbal medicines today, after European regulations came into force.

Sales of all herbal remedies, except for a small number of popular products for 'mild' illness such as echinacea for colds and St John's Wort for depression have been banned.

For the first time traditional products must be licensed or prescribed by a registered herbal practitioner.

Both herbal remedy practitioners and manufacturers fear they could be forced out of business as a result.

Some of the most  commonly used products were saved after the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley approved a plan for the Health Professions Council to establish a register of practitioners supplying unlicensed herbal medicines.

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Roma Defenseless against Extremist Vigilantes

WATCH EUROPE:

Right-wing extremists have been on the rise for years in Hungary, and the country's Roma population lives in increasing terror. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has preferred to look the other way as vigilante groups have supplanted the rule of law. By Keno Verseck more...