Despite “Brexit”, Britain and the world are in for dark times. According to the book of Daniel, the EU is predicted to rise as a superpower, composed of many nations represented by the feet of mixed iron and clay in the dream of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. In the time of those “kings” represented by the ten toes of the feet in that dream, the God of Israel is said to come and establish a world-ruling government with Jerusalem as its headquarters. Fiction or future fact? The EU Israel connection is intriguing!
THE RISE OF THE EU CONTINUES, DESPITE BREXIT. THIS WILL LEAD TO A FUTURE EU-LED FINAL WAR OF NATIONS AGAINST ISRAEL. THE EU AND ALL RELATED FORMS OF WORLD GOVERNMENT WILL THEN FALL
The EU Israel Connection
The rise and fall of the EU was predicted as early as the time of the prophet Daniel, who interpreted King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the future when the God of Israel will crush a multi-nation power to establish His kingdom that shall fill the earth. In Daniel chapter 2 we read:
In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his mind was troubled and he could not sleep … the king asked Daniel, “Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?” Daniel replied “there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days.”
After seeking God’s wisdom Daniel saw a vision of a great statue and was told its interpretation. The statue symbolized four great empires that would reign over Israel. The vision was not concerned with most of the nations or empires of history, but only with those nations that had, or will have, a direct impact upon Israel. Historically these were the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman empires, the historic Roman Empire being symbolized by the statue’s legs of iron. Some see the iron legs symbolizing the eastern and western empires of ancient Rome.
Today there is much talk of a “one-world government”, link and Nebuchadnezzar’s vision implies that this will be centered on a Revived Roman Empire, as seen in the EU.
Daniel’s Interpretation
Let’s read how Daniel described the dream:
As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen. As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me … Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue — an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure 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 baked clay. While you were watching, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the stone that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
Daniel then told the king the true interpretation (starting at Daniel 2 verse 36):
You are that head of gold. After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything — and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle … so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the stone cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands — a stone that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future.
Historically, all this has happened – except for one vital aspect. The feet of iron and clay represent the last form of the four world governments that would rule over Israel before Christ returns. As suggested, at its core, this government will be a revived form of the historic Roman Empire, with similar characteristics (controlling, godless and brutal).
BREXIT: The EU aligns well with these biblical characteristics of the final world empire. The EU’s controlling, uncompromising attitude has been all too evident in the Brexit ‘negotiations’. Britain’s ‘Brexit’ is an opportunity to restore biblical values to what has become a post-Christian nation whilst under the EU. But will this happen?.
It is this godless, end-time world government that aligns all nations against Israel at the end of this age. The good news is that it will be totally destroyed when Christ returns; the toes of iron and clay will be crushed and become as ‘chaff in the wind’ (Dan 2.34-35).
