EU splitting and Germany leads.

When 27 EU leaders met in Brussels last week to discuss how to save their common currency, the ten non-members of the eurozone (including Britain, Denmark and Poland) were asked to leave the eight-hour meeting that followed a reception!

The debt crisis in Europe is being used to move the 17 eurozone members toward political union and the formation of a European state.  “Under an agenda forged by Sarkozy [France] and Merkel [Germany], the eurozone is to develop into a powerful core of the European Union, with new institutions that were unforeseen in EU treaties and never legitimized by European voters” (Sunday Times, October 30, 2011).  A German news source reports, “This new Europe [‘Merkel’s Europe’] has a nearly hegemonic leader, namely Germany” (Spiegel Online, October 31, 2011). 

However, this 17-nation core of the eurozone may be short-lived.  Northern European nations favor free trade, while the Mediterranean countries favor state-run industries and protectionism.  The financial crisis in Greece could reduce the numbers in the core group if Greece leaves or is expelled from the eurozone (euobserver.com, November 3, 2011)—and other nations could follow. 

Bible prophecies have long foretold that at the end of the age a group of ten kings would surrender their sovereignty to a centralized European Beast power, overseen by a powerful church (see Revelation 17).  The events in Europe are bringing these ancient prophecies into sharper focus.