More than 500 years before Christ’s birth, God warned through the Prophet Daniel that there would only be four empires to reign over the Jewish People until Jesus Christ sets up His Kingdom on earth. Daniel wrote during the time that the Babylonian Empire was in power. The remaining empires were the Medo-Persian, Greek, and Roman Empires.
These empires were revealed to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia in a dream, and this is how Daniel interpreted the king’s dream:
You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Daniel 2:31—35 (NKJV).
The gold portion of the statue was Babylonia, the silver was Medo-Persia, the bronze was Greece, and the iron and iron-clay mixture portions are both representative of Rome. We know this is the interpretation because it is revealed throughout the rest of Daniel as well is in Revelation. See Daniel 7—9, Revelation 17. The final kingdom that destroys the last form of the Roman Empire is when Jesus Christ Himself returns to the earth and begins what is called the Millennial Kingdom, where He reigns as King of the Earth, physically on the earth, for 1,000 years. See Revelation 19—20.
What is so interesting about King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is that the Roman Empire was never ruled by the ten co-leaders signified by the ten toes of the statue. The Apostle John’s prophecy in Revelation confirms for us that there will be ten leaders of a revived Roman Empire. See Revelation 17. Therefore, we can confidently conclude that if the Bible is true, and I stake my eternity on the fact that it is indeed true, then the Roman Empire must return in some revived form that is ruled by ten leaders.
What is even more interesting to me is that as we watch the European Union, and it’s creation of Euromed, the Union for the Mediterranean, I believe we are actually watching Rome return. In fact, the Union for the Mediterranean countries form the borders of ancient Rome. See Europa: Euromed, The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, http://eeas.europa.eu/euromed/index_en.htm; Centre for Research on Globalization, The Mediterranean Union: Dividing the Middle East and North Africa, http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6879.
I know that many people discount what I’m saying, but I would point out that it is crystal clear that the European Union is beginning to take shape as one single nation, rather than merely a union of many nations. In November 2009, a constitution of sorts called the Lisbon Treaty was entered into by the nations of the European Union. That document legally formed the European Union nations into an association that could technically be called the United States of Europe. Now that the world is trying to deal with this current financial crisis, we are beginning to see the individual decision making ability of the European Union nations disappear.
Watch the video that follows and listen to the speech given by Nigel Farage. Mr. Farage is a member of the European Parliament, and in the video he rails against the tragedy of the European Union member states losing their individual freedoms to the supreme rule of the European Union.
I don’t know what form this current financial crisis will cause the European Union to take, but I do know that eventually it will be led by ten co-leaders. Then one individual will rise up to power among them, and he will eventually be indwelt by Satan himself. See Revelation 13, 17.
These things are coming, one day. The end might be very far into the future, but then again, it could begin tomorrow. I implore you today to make sure you are “right” with God. Repent from sin and rebellion, and then put your faith in Christ alone, who offers His death to be your substitute for the debt you owe God due to your sins/rebellion. The Apostle Peter described Christ’s sacrifice like this, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.” If you hear His voice, do as Jesus commanded, “Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15b (NKJV).
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