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http://raptureready.com/soap2/nuara23.html

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"Whoa! Emerging of the Ten Nation Confederacy?

“Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour” (1 John 2:18).

The apostle John also saw in his vision the first beast, the antichrist. Combining John’s vision with Daniel’s vision, many Bible scholars surmise that this beast will emerge from the leaders of a ten-nation confederacy and will rule the world during the Tribulation. Many believe the European Union (EU) fits the description in John’s vision.

The current 28 member states of the EU have a difficult time agreeing on issues large and small, and many believe it cannot survive in its present form. An EU organization known as “The Berlin Group” or “The Berlin Club” has been formed, which consists of eleven nations: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Hal Lindsey and others reported on an April meeting of this group. Ten nations were represented, since France did not attend. At this meeting the group discussed ways to keep the EU from disintegrating. Here is an excerpt from Hal’s report:

“It was a meeting of ten EU foreign ministers that proposed merging the jobs of the European Council president and the European Commission president into one super presidency with superpowers that can see Europe through its current crisis. The creation of a European super presidency being proposed by ten European leaders? There’s that number again. Who could have imagined such a thing until now?” — Hal Lindsey"