A Divisive Head for Europe

This Friday EU leaders will meet to appoint Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission (Telegraph, June 22, 2014). Some Europeans are strongly supportive of Mr. Juncker, while some British see him as Anglophobic because of comments he made in a 2005 speech to the European Parliament (ibid.). 

Last year Mr. Juncker was forced to step down amid scandal from his position as Luxembourg’s leader. He has also been known to endorse lying to the public in order to achieve important EU aims (Telegraph, June 4, 2014). British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call for an unprecedented “yes or no vote” on Mr. Juncker’s appointment to the Commision presidency at Friday’s nomination dinner for him (Telegraph, June 22, 2014). France and the Netherlands, two nations recently opposed to Mr. Juncker’s appointment, have reversed their opinions and now favor him—leaving Britain standing alone (Telegraph, June 23, 2014).

Divisive decisions by the European elite appear to be further fracturing long-standing relationships within the EU, while Britain is taking actions that further alienate it from nations once seen as friends. This corresponds with ancient Bible prophecies that place Israelite-descended nations like Britain on the “outside” of the final Beast power that will emerge in Europe (see Ezekiel 23:9-10, 22-30; Hosea 5:1-9; 11:3-7).

For more on this topic be sure to view our sobering telecast on “Britain’s Setting Sun.”