Prophecy Update: The Rise of the Anti-Christ May 30, 2019
There is currently a restructuring of the European Union that I believe will usher in the Anti-Christ. The restructuring of the current political makeup of Europe is due to the heavy-handed tactics of the EU parliament. The average person on the ground in Europe does not want to be ruled by bureaucrats. The onslaught of illegal immigrants and high taxation has caused tension, riots, and uncertainty. This has spurred a nationalist movement that is rivaling the globalism of the current leaders of the EU. The recent parliamentary elections has revealed this division.
Here is a recent article about this problem: May 28, 2019, 6:20pm EDT. The “Green wave” and 4 other takeaways from the European parliamentary elections: “Voters across the European Union went to the polls this past week to vote for the parties they want to represent them in the European Parliament. Both the center left and the center right appear to have lost their absolute majorities for the first time since 1979, when the first European parliamentary elections were held.” Here are some takeaways from the vote.
First, the green party people won more than people expected. Student activists around the globe went on strike to demand more aggressive climate change policies. On Sunday, the Greens emerged as the success story in European politics.
Second, strong nationalist parties now hold 25% of the seats in parliament. “For instance, in Italy, Salvini’s Lega party dominated the polls, winning 34 percent of the vote compared to 6 percent in 2014, for a gain of about 28 seats. And in France, Le Pen’s National Rally edged out French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist reformist coalition.”
Third, The center-right and center-left coalitions lost their 40-year majority.
Fourth, Nigel Farage, the former head of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and his newly formed Brexit Party placed first in the elections, winning more than 31 percent of the vote and 29 of the UK’s seats in the European Parliament. Since England has not left the EU yet, this vote was a referendum on Brexit and Brexit won again in England!
Fifth, the European parliamentary elections were still a tale of 28 individual member states. Yet the elections are much more a story of 28 different elections rather than one collective European narrative.
The Bible tells us that God created nations. In Genesis 10, God created 70 nations and we call this chapter the ‘Table of Nations.’ This is foundational to understanding all nations today. Five times God uses the word nation. These real people became nations, inhabiting cities, making governments. Gen.10:5 says, “From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.”
Notice that God defines a nation as land, language, and families. The global elites in the EU and UN reject this definition. God set the boundaries of the nations and He has given laws for these nations to obey. God also set the number of the nations according to the number of the Sons of Israel who went to Egypt. (Dt.32:8, “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel.) Seventy Hebrews went to Egypt, thus there are only 70 nations according to God. Satan tries to pervert this also. (by the way, God did not want us to count Israel with the nations because they are the leader! Numbers 23:9)
In Gen.11, God tells us about the first anti-Christ figure Nimrod. He tried to set up a government that is against God, that is global, and run by men dominated by Satan. God wants 70 nations with one nation to lead the seventy. That nation would be Israel. We are in the end times because the nations of the world have organized themselves into global organizations; United Nations, World Council of Churches, World Bank, International Criminal Court, World Health Organization, and World Trade Organization just to name a few. The Nationalist uprising in Europe is testimony that God’s truth about nations cannot be evaded, it can only be disobeyed. Satan’s next Nimrod is waiting in the wings, he will rise soon enough. In the meantime, the Judeo Christian view of nations is again prevailing among people groups in Europe.
You can be sure of one thing, that this movement will be corrupted by sinful behavior and people. BREXIT is a movement to leave the EU and exert national control by British people responsible for their lands. Here is why I believe this is a Christian thing to do.
First, it is clear from the scriptures that God has a purpose and plan for nations, the idea to divide the world into nations is God’s idea! Acts 17:26 says:
“From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.”
Secondly, God wants different nations defined by land, language, and family. In heaven, those distinctions will still be there as Revelation teaches us that heaven is full of people from every nation, tribe, and tongue. The diversity of nations is to Gods glory!
Third, God requires that each nation live up to its obligations to its citizens. A loss of sovereignty will destroy the ability of the nation to obey God’s will. The EU has taken away the sovereignty of each nation. Most people do not realize how much sovereignty member nations surrender when they enter the EU. For example, ‘in Costa v ENEL (1964), the European Court of Justice ruled that member states have definitively transferred sovereign rights to the European Union and Union law cannot be overridden by domestic law.’ All nations of the world are required by God to reject idolatry, immorality, killing innocents, especially babies, and respect Israel. We are required by God to make the nation a nation that serves the living God who created us. All false gods are a no go zone. The Psalms tell us that Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord but cursed is the nation that forgets God. (Ps.33:12, 9:17)
Fourth, God teaches us that He is the one who raises up nations and puts them down. It is the sovereignty of God over the nations themselves. It is at this point I want to pivot to the end times nations. Psalm 2 says that the nations and their leaders will reject God’s truth and Messiah.
Psalm 2:2 says, “The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying” —-here we see that the kings of the earth are in full blown rebellion against the Lord and His ways. This started at the cross when Jesus was on the earth the first time and it will continue in the end times. God gave us a glimpse of this in Zech.12 where He describes how the nations reject what He is dong with Jerusalem. It is described for us in Ps.83 when God raises up Israel again, the nations try to destroy Israel in order to stop God and His plan. It is described for us in Ezekiel 36-37 when the nations in the land of Israel refuse to give up the land. These nations say that the everlasting heights have become their possession and God says they will lose it because He will move in His wrath and jealousy for His people Israel. It is described for us in Ezekiel 38-39 when Russia, Iran and a host of other nations will come against the nation of Israel. We live in the day when this could happen any minute. I could go on and on. Europe has decided to defend Iran against Israel and the United States. They are in full blown panic over what is happening in the Middle East, they want desperately to get rid of Israel but something changed.
In Gods sovereignty over nations, the votes are in and those who defend Iran are going bye bye. In the chaos of this I see Satan raising up his man—the man of destruction called the anti-Christ. Like the sons of Issachar (I Chron.12:32) understand the signs of the times—Hitler tried to destroy the Jews because Satan knew that God was about to make Israel a nation again. Satan will do the same thing in the Tribulation period and it will lead to Armageddon. After WW1, Germany was defeated and they lost their pride. Hitler offered them their pride again and they gave themselves to this evil antichrist figure. That is today with the globalists. They keep losing, Donald Trump and the move towards nationalism in Europe is a blow to the pride of these globalists. Antichrist will rise just like Hitler rose and restore the pride of these evil globalists.
Daniel 8:23-25 teaches us that antichrist will be very powerful. “In the latter period of their rule, When the transgressors have run their course, A king will arise, Insolent and skilled in intrigue. His power will be mighty, but not by his own power,
And he will destroy to an extraordinary degree And prosper and perform his will;
He will destroy mighty men and the holy people. And through his shrewdness He will cause deceit to succeed by his influence; And he will magnify himself in his heart, And he will destroy many while they are at ease. He will even oppose the Prince of princes, But he will be broken without human agency.”
The nations are falling apart, the transgressors have run their course vs.23—what does this mean? It means that the people, the whole world have a seared conscience, they will choose evil over good, lies over truth, wrong over right. Antichrist rises in a day like this—that is today! The moral boundaries are so blurred, so hated, that people will do evil like the Nazis. In America we see this with those pushing abortion—they want to kill the babies after their born now—it is heart breaking. They have no shame when they advocate the death of babies. Europe is in the same evil vacuum pushing every immorality. Those who are standing up against it are rising, causing the battle lines to increase between good and evil. The New Testament has a verse like this—it is 2 Thess.2:7, For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
My friends, we see the mystery of lawlessness at an all time high. It is time for the rapture and the rise of the antichrist. Europe is set up for it, America is in a civil war of ethics and truth, China, Russia are in full blown rebellion against the Lord and His anointed. Look and see that we live in the last days. What a thrilling time to be alive. Pray and ask God to send revival.
