The Trumpet isn’t the only one questioning Britain’s future and whether the UK has the health to survive the coming months and years. “Britain Is Sailing Into a Storm With No One at the Wheel,” warned the Economist Sunday: “Britain could be thrust into talks under a lame-duck leader with no clear notion of what Brexit should look like or mandate to negotiate. All against a background of intensifying economic turmoil and increasingly ugly divides on Britain’s streets. The country is sailing into a storm. And no one is at the wheel.”
Hope and optimism are important in times of crisis and uncertainty, but we can’t allow hope and optimism to blind us to reality. Britain (and the world at large) is in trouble. We must be ready and willing to ask why? This question was answered many years ago by a man named Hosea, an ancient prophet to the people of Israel and Judah. The biblical book of Hosea is filled with prophecies about the end time, and it is filled, more specifically, with prophecies about end-time events in Britain. (Britain today is the descendant of Ephraim, a name used repeatedly throughout Hosea’s writings.)
Let’s consider just two of Hosea’s descriptions of Ephraim, or Britain, in the end time. In Hosea 5:11-12, the prophet says that “Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth .…” Here, God compares end-time Britain with a moth-eaten garment. Have you ever gone to your drawer and dug out a shirt that you assumed was ready to be worn, but the moment you went to put it on, you realized that it had been devoured by a moth and was full of holes? That is Britain’s current state, and Brexit is revealing that the UK is ridden with holes!
“Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people …” (Hosea 7:8). This is a prophecy that end-time Britain would intertwine itself with foreign people, foreign customs, foreign religions and foreign entities—like the European Union. Verse 9 shows that this leads to devastation: “Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not .…” Britain today, as Amos prophesied, has no “strength,” which means “might, power, substance, wealth and force.” Britain is sick—very, very sick—and a major part of the cause is its embrace of foreigners and foreign institutions, like the European Union. This isn’t a politically correct message, but it is a truth backed by reality. (It isn’t biblical justification of racism and bigotry either!)
There is a lot of talk among Leavers right now that the time has come for the resurrection of the British lion. Hosea says that Ephraim’s personality and behavior in the end time is closer to that of a silly dove! Hosea 7:11 says that “Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart .…” There’s no strength, no clarity of vision and leadership, no force or vigor—just weakness, from top to bottom.
Other prophecies also describe the state of Ephraim in the end time. Isaiah 1:5-7 say that “the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.”
That’s a hard truth to accept—and deliver—BUT WHAT AN APT DESCRIPTION.
We would all love to believe that Britain is entering “bright, sunlit uplands,” but the truth of the matter is that Britain is plummeting into the dark abyss of total political, economic and social breakdown.
“There are no adequate words to describe the rolling political, economic and constitutional crises that have developed in the days since Britain voted, by a narrow majority, to leave the European Union,” wrote Henry Porter in Vanity Fair. “The country has been swept by a kind of political Ebola .…”
That is a grim view, but it is, sadly, reality.
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