France’s Tumble from the Top

“It’s not a good sign when the leader of a G7 nation feels the need to state his country still matters. That is precisely what French President Francois Hollande did at a meeting of European Union leaders last month after his Socialist party’s humiliating defeat by the hard right National Front in European Parliament elections” (Reuters, June 13, 2014). According to one former European affairs minister, “Hollande is a devalued currency. If we need something, we go to the Germans. Before, we used to go to the French as a way of bringing the Germans around. Now France is mostly absent” (ibid.).  

The European Commission’s representative to Paris noted, “France can be a driving force for the EU but member states are also well aware that if France sinks, there is a risk for the whole euro zone. No one has any interest in weakening it. Everybody, including Germany, wants it to get stronger” (ibid.).

France has been a major player in the development of the EU. However, France is an Israelite-descended nation. Long ago, God warned that the nations who reject Him would diminish in power, authority and respect among world nations. Moses foretold that alien nations “shall lend to you [Israelite nations], but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail” (Deuteronomy 28:44). France’s continued “tumble from the top” of the European leadership, sobering as it may be, is something to expect as prophecy marches on. 

For more on this subject, be sure to read our insightful booklet The United States and Great Britain in Prophecy.