Nuggets from Countdown to the Second Coming—The Revived Roman Empire (Part 2) | thebereancall.org

Dave Hunt

Formation of the EU has been only the first step, and one that students of Bible prophecy long anticipated and have been watching carefully. How could the same process extend throughout the entire territory that was once under the Caesars? That was the big question, now answered at least in part. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, beginning in the fall of 1989, has set in motion a process that promises to unite all nations on earth, thereby establishing the one-world government over which Antichrist will reign.

Already the door has been opened to include, in a United Europe, even the former Soviet Union and her satellites—a concept that was until very recently totally unthinkable. If this occurs, the very size, as well as the economic and military power, of the European Union (EU), stretching from the Atlantic to the farthest reaches of Siberia, will force the remainder of the world to join as well. As one well-known analyst has written:

“Membership [in the EU] is already open to those European peoples who have embraced democracy and are willing to do a deal to enter. That being so, as Europe behind the Iron Curtain liberalizes, it seems right and inevitable that the EU should expand eastward....

“In the very long term, the European structure will be considered the prototype for something much more ambitious. Talk of world government is at least a century old and has gone nowhere. But an ever-widening association, based on shared cultural values, is a more promising idea.

“The European cultural concept is not a conventional idea. It is a global one. We are taking the first steps toward an ecumenical community that will ultimately spread to all corners of our planet.”

This secular writer had no idea that he was reporting on the fulfillment of one of the most important and amazing prophecies in the Bible. The “global...ecumenical community” to which he refers is none other than the worldwide revived Roman Empire over which Antichrist will reign.