{"id":5366,"date":"2010-11-16T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T21:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2010-11-16T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T21:45:30","slug":"eu-facing-severe-financial-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/eu-facing-severe-financial-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"EU facing severe financial strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/herman-van-rompuy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Herman Van Rompuy<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EU President Herman Van Rompuy declared that there are financial problems facing the EU:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><strong>EU can&#8217;t &#8216;throw money&#8217; at debt  crisis<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Excerpt&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">EU President  Herman Van Rompuy warned early that the 27-nation bloc&#8217;s very future could be at  stake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we don&#8217;t survive with the eurozone we will not survive with  the European Union,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/money\/20101116-31215.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/money\/20101116-31215.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/money\/20101116-31215.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, essentially the EU President is saying that if the Euro does not survive the EU will not survive.\u00a0 Last week he warned EU states that they essentially could not survive outside the union (see <a title=\"EU President Declares End of Nation State, Britain Skeptical\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"\/news\/prophecy\/eu-president-declares-end-of-nation-state-britain-skeptical\/\">EU President Declares End of Nation State, Britain Skeptical<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Now whether or not the Euro will be the final currency of the Beast power is not clear yet.\u00a0 The Bible is clear, however, that the political form in Europe will change, probably shortly prior to the start of the great tribulation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>12 &#8220;The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.\u00a0 (Revelation 17:12-14, NKJV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I, and others in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/ylcg.htm\">Living Church of God<\/a>, have long believed that it is likely that God would allow the US economy to hobble along until very close to the end so that Matthew 24:14 could be fulfilled, as US dollars support most of that effort at this time.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, there is some concern that the Euro problem could affect it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Britain needs to prepare for an economic dark age next  door<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<h3>The crisis in the eurozone shows why this country must widen its horizons<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Telegraph <\/strong>&#8211; Nov 16, 2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/columnists\/simonheffer\/8138669\/Britain-needs-to-prepare-for-an-economic-dark-age-next-door.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/columnists\/simonheffer\/8138669\/Britain-needs-to-prepare-for-an-economic-dark-age-next-door.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/columnists\/simonheffer\/8138669\/Britain-needs-to-prepare-for-an-economic-dark-age-next-door.html<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is concern in Britain about what is now going on.\u00a0 If the Euro crisis gets too severe, this could give the UK a reason to pull out of the EU.\u00a0 But we will see.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible itself warned that the final beast would not be highly cohesive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter&#8217;s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. (Daniel 2:41-44)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because of this prophesied lack of cohesiveness, I have believed that this would help depress the value of Euro so that it would not overly depress the purchase value of the US dollar until we are nearer to time of the end of the USA.<\/p>\n<p>There continue to be events in the Eurozone nations that show the fragility of that union.<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more, please check out the following articles:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/britishisrael.htm\">Anglo \u2013 America in     Prophecy &amp; the  Lost Tribes of Israel<\/a> Are the Americans,   Canadians, British, Scottish, Welsh, Australians,          Anglo-Southern     Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of       Joseph?    Where are the lost     ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the   lost     tribes  of   Israel? Will God   punish   the U.S.A., Canada,   United     Kingdom, and    other Anglo nations?   Why might   God allow   them to  be    punished  first?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/usa-canada-uk-australia-new-zealand-divided.htm\">Will   the Anglo-Nations be Divided?<\/a> Will the lands of the United States,   United Kingdom, Canada,          Australia, and New Zealand be divided? What  does  Bible prophecy teach?          Are there non-biblical prophecies that  support  this idea? Who      will     divide those lands? Who will end up with  the lands  and  the     people?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/catholicprophecy.htm\">Catholic Prophecies: Do They Mirror, Highlight, or Contradict Biblical Prophecies?<\/a> People of all faiths may be surprised to see what various Roman and   Orthodox Catholic prophets have been predicting as many of their   predictions will be looked to in the 21st century.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/europa.htm\">Europa, the Beast, and Revelation<\/a> Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the   Book of Revelation? What about \u201cthe Beast\u201d? Is an emerging European   power \u201cthe daughter of Babylon\u201d? What is ahead for Europe?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/karl-theodor-zu-guttenberg-king-of-the-north.htm\">Might German Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg become the King of the North?<\/a> Is the German Defense Minister one to watch? What do Catholic, Byzantine, and biblical prophecies suggest?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/kingofthenorth.htm\">Who is the King of the North?<\/a> Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies point to the   same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North   discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the   English-speaking peoples of<span> the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand<\/span>?   When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and   half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic   collapse will affect the United States?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/is-russia-the-king-of-the-north.htm\">Is Russia the King of the North?<\/a> Some claim it is. But what does the Bible teach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Van Rompuy COGwriter EU President Herman Van Rompuy declared that there are financial problems facing the EU: EU can&#8217;t &#8216;throw money&#8217; at debt crisis Excerpt&#8230; EU President Herman Van Rompuy warned early that the 27-nation bloc&#8217;s very future could be at stake. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t survive with the eurozone we will not survive with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5370,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}