The time ahead will be tumultuous—but here is why Europe will emerge stronger than ever.
In 1948, when the dust was still settling from World War II, Herbert W Armstrong wrote about the unification of “10 nations in Europe.”
“It will be a ‘UNITED STATES OF EUROPE,’ but that probably will never become its official name,” he wrote. “Leading statesmen in both America and Britain are actively advocating the idea of a United States of Europe” (Plain Truth, December 1948).
He continued to warn about this as European nations came together in the Coal and Steal Community and the common market.
Bible prophecy is clear that this power will be made up of 10 nations or groups of nations. The EU, minus Britain, has 27. The Trumpet and Plain Truth have said for decades that this number will shrink. Could that happen in the wake of Brexit?
This shrinking of the EU, or the formation of a new 10-nation European body, certainly implies the EU has a tumultuous time ahead of it. Going from 27 nations to 10 may not be easy. During the euro crisis, in 2011 Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry warned that nations would leave the eurozone and maybe the EU. “When that happens, the pundits will say European unification is dead, that the European Union has failed,” he wrote. “DON’T LISTEN TO THEM!”
The Bible also forecasts the arrival of a stronger leader in Europe—something the EU sorely lacks. The union will require a “confidence-inspiring leader,” Mr. Armstrong wrote in the November-December 1954 Plain Truth.
He also wrote that the common market would become a military power. “The nations of Europe have been striving to become reunited,” he wrote in the January 1979 Plain Truth. “They desire a common currency, a single combined military force, a single united GOVERNMENT. They have made a start in the Common Market.”
Mr. Armstrong also forecast Germany’s dominance. “This will be the heart and core of the united Europe,” he wrote (Plain Truth, June 1952).
Remarkably, BRITAIN’S VOTE FOR AN EU EXIT COULD DRAMATICALLY HASTEN EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE TRENDS.
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