Salvation Revelation

THE TEN CROWNS submitted by Jeremy

When this idea got started, the intention was to make this an ordinary blog post. However, the deeper I researched things, the more I began to realize this story was going to be much too big to cover in a blog.
As a blog begins to get too long, people tend to avoid reading it or even just skim the blog. People need to know this information…particularly “we the people of the United States”¹. This nation was founded on principles of government which Abraham Lincoln so eloquently stated as being “of the people, by the people, for the people”². At what point did the vary officials which this nation “elects” into office decide to deceive those who put them there? With all of the voter fraud and possible electronic vote tampering, how can we even be sure that the politicians who land in office were truly put there by us? There’s a larger agenda at work. A force more powerful than any national government is manipulating the world. That’s a story for a later time. Right now, I’m choosing to concentrate on the immediate effects of this force’s manipulations behind closed doors.

Yes, you may call me crazy after you read this. You may refer to me as a conspiracy theorist. Conspiracies exist. Most people call them scandals, but really, aren’t they conspiracies which have been proven to be true? I believe the Holy Bible lays out a scenario in which we appear to be spiraling into. Call it conspiracy, call it scandal, or whatever…open your eyes and behold! I hope I’m wrong!

 

“And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns and on each head a blasphemous name.” Revelation 13:1

This describes the coming antichrist. It says that he had ten horns with ten crowns on his horns. Obviously this refers to leadership. A person who wears a crown is a king. So, here we are dealing with kingdoms…ten kingdoms under the rule of one leader. This is probably the most understood interpretation of this verse. So, we need to begin watching for ten world kingdoms to come into view. I believe we are well underway to seeing this take shape.

1. The European Union

The first kingdom which has taken shape is that of the European Union. The EU is the lead kingdom in that it fits very closely with the revived Roman Empire prophecy of the Bible which will rule the Earth. This is the first and probably the most important to Bible prophecy.

The Bible tells us that the antichrist will arise out of the revived Roman Empire. Chapter 2 of the book of Daniel tells of a dream by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. Long story short, in his dream Nebuchadnezzar saw a large statue with a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet and toes made of iron and clay.

Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream for him. Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar that the head of gold is he and the Babylonian Empire. The arms and chest of silver represent the kingdom which will follow his kingdom…known to be that of the Medes and Persians.

One arm represents the Medes, and the other represents the Persians coming together in the chest…one kingdom, two peoples. The belly and thighs of bronze represent the next great kingdom…Alexander the Great’s Grecian Empire.

The forth empire, represented by the legs of iron, is that of the Roman Empire. The feet of the statue represent the final world empire. It is comprised of iron, the same iron that represented the Roman Empire, and clay, representing the brittle side of the coming empire. So, this empire will be partly strong (iron) and partly clay (brittle). Here again we see an illusion to the ten coming kingdoms…ten toes!

Many Bible prophecy scholars for many years had some difficulty seeing this prophecy coming to pass. There was no basis for the nations of Europe to ever come together; after all, both World Wars were fought mostly in Europe. This is until 1950.

In May of that year the six founding nations of the EU: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, laid down the groundwork that will eventually pave the way for the rebirth of the Roman Empire. The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was a pact to promote economic development and to make another European war less likely. The founding of the pact or treaty was created with the Treaty of Paris in 1951.³

Under encouragement from the United States, these six nations attempted to create defensive and political bodies know respectively as the European “Defence” Community (EDC) and the European Political Community (EPC).⁴

France failed to ratify the EDC treaty and the EPC treaty quietly disappeared too. The desire for such functions, however, never went away. Several other attempts have been made to create these establishments: “European Political Co-operation (also called EPC), the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) “pillar” established by the Maastricht treaty, and the European Rapid Reaction Force currently in formation”.

In 1957, the Treaty of Rome was passed then implemented on January 1, 1958. This treaty is the treaty which truly created the European Union. It established the European Economic Community (EEC), later renamed the European Community (EC), and the European Atomic Energy Community (Eurotom). These established a union with four pillars of freedom if you will…freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and people.

The European Community, now known as the European Union, continually seeks to deepen (integration) and widen (adding member states). The EU through a number of expansions has grown to 27 member states today. The EU is currently seeking to pass a European Union Constitution. The first time through, two nations opposed. One of those nations, France, has had a change in president, and this president vows to get the constitution passed.

The European Union isn’t yet the same as the Roman Empire, but a look at Figures 1 and 2 below will show you that it isn’t that far off!

Figure 1- The European Union courtesy of http://www.Europa.eu

Figure 2 – Roman Empire courtesy of http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/maps/basicmap.html

There has been some idle internet chatter about the EU bringing in Israel to the union as Israel and the EU are already involved in large amounts of trade. French President Nicholas Sarkozy has already expressed a view of having the Middle Eastern nations create their own union which he feels the EU would be willing to continue frequent trading with. Sarkozy’s proposal is known as the Mediterranean Union. According to arabnews.com, the EU has been trying to tie in UAE and Qatar with trade agreements already since the 90’s. The EU has a policy towards neighboring countries which one day would like to integrate into the EU or at least be associated with its economic community.

This policy is the European “Neighbourhood” Policy (ENP). This policy was outlined by the European Commission in 2003⁵. Take a look at the map for the “Neighbourhood” policy (Figure 3) and compare it to Figure 2 above.

Figure 3 – The ENP according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENP

Guess when this ENP is supposed to be in full effect…2010. Remember this year as it will be a reoccurring date through this report. Whether it’s the Mediterranean Union or ENP…the result is the same. The one the people of these countries are more comfortable with is the name which will be used.

2. The North American Union

Yes, that’s right…I said the North American Union (NAU). Obviously, this kingdom is still in the works. Let me tell you…it’s well underway. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was put into effect by former U.S. Bill Clinton on January 1, 2004. This agreement provide for free movement of goods between Canada, the United States, and Mexico by eliminating duties and phasing out tariffs⁶. How did the EU begin? By applying the ECSC, the six founding nations intermingled coal and steel industries in their nations. NAFTA is intermingling good flows among our nations, essentially intermingling our industries.

The next logical step when compared to how the EU came about is the Security and Prosperity Pact (SPP) which was agreed upon by U.S. President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Harper, and Mexican President Fox in March 2005. The SPP created the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) or the Council of the Americas.

This body’s responsibility is to prepared extensive recommendations on such issues as border crossing facilitation, standards and regulatory cooperation, and energy integration.⁷ In other words, the NACC is to prepare the public sector for complete integration of the three nations.

This specifically sounds like the beginning of economic integration just like the EEC. Recently, the public has been clued in a bit on a NAFTA Super Highway. Here’s the proposed map of the highway system which is to connect Mexico, the U.S., and Canada (Figure 4).

Figure 4 – NAFTA Super Highway courtesy of http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497

This is a highway which will be four football fields wide going straight through our heartland. The Texas stage is scheduled to begin soon. This highway is being contracted out to a Spanish company which will benefit from the tolls taken along this highway system. If you doubt this is going to happen, just look at the SPP website.

This website: http://www.spp.gov/2006_report_to_leaders/prosperity_annex.pdf?dName=2006_report_to_leaders will show you on page 20 under the next to last key milestone that one goal of SPP is to “initiate main studies on the NAFTA corridors between Mexico and the U.S. and to develop methodology to relieve bottlenecks within the highway network and at ports of entry by mid-2006”. Oh yeah, guess when the NAU/SPP is expected to be in full swing? 2012 at the latest…the goal is 2010.

To have a true union and to have one economy, it comes natural to say that you need one currency. Let me tell you this…the dollar isn’t it. Look for the Amero or perhaps even a direct jump to the Euro to come about. I think this is part of the press release issued by the White House on April 30, 2007. Many say this is the U.S. trying to move into the EU. I don’t think it is. I think it’s a way of strengthening the coming currency of the NAU and tying it to the EU as well as providing the link between the revived Roman Empire and one of the ten kingdoms. Time will tell. Here’s the link if you’d like to check out the press release: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070430-4.html .

The recently spotlighted issue of immigration can easily be explained by this development of the NAU. Like the European Union, a North American Union would fortify its outer borders and entirely open up its “internal” borders. Why else would the United States continue to allow borders which have no real control over the flow of people in and out? Look at the border between the U.S. and Mexico. The U.S. is said to have around 12 million illegal immigrants within its borders. This is only estimated. In my opinion there are many more than this. The 12 million figure is only the largest that the American people could be half way comfortable with. Take a close look at the name of the SPP: Security and Prosperity Pact. These are the only two words which matter to most Americans. Again this is my opinion; we’ll see more “terrorist” strikes, more school shootings, and more general violence in this nation. The simple truth is that Americans won’t go along with such a union until its sense of security has been breached. That’s another story for another day. The NAU is coming.

3. Southeast Asia/Pacific (APEC)

The Asia-Pacific Union is also on the horizon. In 1989, twelve nations: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States, sat down to an informal dialogue. In 1993, APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) was formed. By that point, China, Mexico, and Papua New Guinea had joined in the mix.

This was the time that APEC outlined its goals and its vision for “stability, security and prosperity for our peoples”. Notice once again those key words: security and prosperity. This next thing is another similarity to the above kingdoms. In 1994, APEC comes up with the Bogor Declaration in Bogor, Indonesia. It states goals for “free and open trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific by 2010 for developed economies and 2020 for developing economies”.⁸

Notice that again, 2010 is a date set aside as a goal. In 1999 in Auckland, New Zealand, after yearly goal setting to keep pace with the Bogor Declaration, APEC committed to complete paperless trading among all members by 2010. In Bangkok 2003, “APEC pledges to take specific actions to dismantle terrorist groups, eliminate the danger of weapons of mass destruction and confront other security threats”. In the meantime, Chile, Peru, Russia, and Vietnam have joined APEC.

You may ask what the reasoning is for the United States, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Chile, and Peru are in this cooperation. Use your imagination a bit. If you’re going to create 10 world kingdoms (regions) to cooperate under one government, wouldn’t you want to build in relations between regions from the beginning.

The U.S., Mexico, and Canada are the members from the future NAU. Russia will be a major player in a region yet to be discussed. Chile and Peru could possibly join this union as they are a little more like this group than they are like their South American neighbors. They could be a bridge to a union in South America. The next few years will begin to tell.

Another possibility for this region is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This trade agreement contains many of the same nations minus China. This group utilizes free trade through the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA). This is a strong possibility. I feel China, Japan, and Korea will look elsewhere for their union. China has however begun associating with ASEAN as well as looking at free trade with Japan and Korea. Asia is a little cloudy at this point.

The EU and ASEAN have held several talks…the result is Asia-Europe Organization (ASEM). Then EU President German Foreign Minister Fischer suggested a new Euro-Asia free trade zone, and through this, creation of “a stable world financial and monetary system”.⁹

4. South Asia

Here’s the missing link which I’ve had to search hard for. But notice that the U.S. and the EU both are a part of this group. I believe that the involvement of these two groups is a good sign to watch the agreement carefully. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is a regional agreement involving Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Myanmar has also expressed interest in joining the SAARC. As you look through these ten regions I’ve compiled, you see that this region fills in the gaps of Asia. At the New Delhi summit just this year, members of SAARC called for the setting up of the South Asian Economic Union (SAEU). No deadlines have been set, but the first step is complete. I’ve yet to be able to find more information on this union as it is a new development.

5. South America (MERCOSUR)

The MERCOSUR agreement originated in March 1991 among the nations of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. In 1994 the nations involved here signed the Treaty of Ouro Preto which added structure and a common market among the members. This agreement is nearing the structuralism present within the EU. Constitution rumors are running. They’ve already established the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the MERCOSUR complete with an overseeing president. They’ve also instituted a Dispute Settlement Court which oversees the MERCOSUR institution. In 1996, Bolivia and Chile entered into the MERCOSUR followed by Venezuela in 2006. In 1998, the union established a “Political MERCOSUR” with representatives from each nation participating. Venezuela, within the past year, has been lobbying for the inclusion of Cuba. Can you imagine a union involving both Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro? Watch this union…it’s in full swing, growing, and looking rather dangerous.

You may say that this doesn’t include all of South America in this agreement. Well, that’s where ANDEAN comes in. The ANDEAN community of nations includes Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. It would be easy to see this agreement as being a separate union. I tend to believe that this will merge with MERCOSUR. Just look at the common link…Venezuela. Recent cooperation between MERCOSUR and Andean has resulted in several members of each agreement being granted associate membership in the other agreement. This is why I believe that South America will eventually emerge as one trade zone (Kingdom).

6. Central America (CAFTA)

On May 28, 2004, CAFTA was born. This was an agreement signed by the U.S., Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. On August 5^th of that same year the Dominican Republic entered into the agreement. Panama is the major holdout. The Caribbean nations have formed a separate agreement known as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). I feel that CARICOM will merge with CAFTA or NAFTA, though it could possibly go to MERCOSUR. The reason I lean toward CAFTA or NAFTA is that like CARICOM the U.S. is a major overseer of the agreement. MERCOSUR is independent of the U.S. altogether. Under U.S. pressure, I believe the Caribbean is likely to stay with Central America. Panama will come around.

7. SouthEast Africa

When I began looking at Africa, my first instinct was that it would be three regions. Originally, I believed it would be the North going with Europe, a Central Africa, and a South Africa. My belief was built upon the South African Development Community (SADC). This community included the nations of Angola, D.R. Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Madagascar, Lesotho, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, and Swaziland. Uganda’s membership was pending in 2004 with no further information found. I have a feeling that this may still be the way things work out. However, Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) deserves some consideration too. COMESA consists of the same nations as SADC minus Mozambique, Botswana, and South Africa with the additions of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, and Uganda. Both trade areas are well developed. The reason COMESA deserves such consideration is that it was born out of a UN recommendation for the division of Africa into four regions: Eastern and Southern (COMESA), West, Central, and North. You already know that I expect the North to be absorbed by the EU through EUROMED. I’ll be discussing the West and Central regions in the next section. That’s reason number one as to why I feel COMESA will be the kingdom of choice. The second reason is because of the structure of COMESA is stronger than that of SADC. COMESA has established its own bankers association with hopes of strengthening weaker zone members and promoting a more permanent common market. The EU has established relations with COMESA. Where the EU places its confidence, it’s a safe bet that trade zone will win out and become stronger.

8. West Africa

On May 28, 1975 fifteen nations signed the Treaty of Lagos with the mission of achieving economic integration. These fifteen nations are Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The resulting union is known as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The next year (1976) Cape Verde joined. Then in 2002, Mauritania withdrew, and that’s how ECOWAS got to its current membership.Nigeria has been successful in creating a block of five nations within ECOWAS referred to as the West African Monetary Zone which aspire to covert to a common currency by 2009. The currency is to be known as the Eco. The five nations are Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, and Sierra Leon. Liberia has also expressed interest in joining these nations. The plan is to merge all these nations to one currency shortly after.

Another move is known as the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC). Its member states are Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Not too big of a deal until you look at what the EU’s plans are. They plan to help CEMAC merge with ECCAS. ECCAS is the Economic Community of Central African States. Its members are Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, D.R. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and Sao Tome and Principe. I think I actually favor this move in a later union with ECOWAS as this would just about take care of the rest of West Central Africa.

So, as we can see, this region is thundering along towards being its own kingdom.

9. The Middle East

In 2003, President Bush initiated the Middle East Free Trade Initiative (MEFTA). This initiative is aimed at improving trade in the Middle East, particularly with the U.S., by 2013. The President is aiming for a North Africa and Middle East trade zone. However, as I’ve pointed out before, I believe the incentives are stronger for the North African nations to pursue the EU. This MEFTA could well be the shout which gets things moving. Many of the Middle Eastern nations don’t particularly care for the U.S. involvement in the region, but this initiative could be planting the seeds for things to come. I believe that as the United States continues to push its weight around in the region, more and more of these nations will unite together in opposition to everything the U.S. stands for. This opposition will be what drives these nations into their regional kingdom. I feel that Iran, Syria, and Russia will play vital roles in bringing this 9^th kingdom together. The main barrier today is the Shiite and Sunni rivalry. This will fade, I believe again, due to the U.S. meddling in Middle East affairs. I can see this region being made up of Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, the Gaza Strip/West Bank (Palestine?) , Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen. Israel will end up with the EU, I do believe.

Another strong regional free trade agreement, the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement (GAFTA), consists of many nations of the region including Jordan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Yemen, and, yes, Palestine. This agreement has been compared to ASEAN in strength and promise. Oh, did I mention that this agreement is endorsed by the UN itself? The UN’s own Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is made up of these same nations. Five of the nations, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, involved in GAFTA are also part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). This body has set a date for obtaining a common currency…2010.

10. Central Asia

A major component of the formation of this regional kingdom is the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC or EurAsEC). This community involves Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The members of EAEC have agreed to merge with the Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CACO) also found as the Organization of Central Asian Cooperation (OCAC). OCAC’s goals include “development of the economic integration in the region, the perfection of the forms and mechanisms of expansion of the political, social, scientific-technical, cultural and educational relations”¹⁰. This shouldn’t take too long to come together. In fact, the goal has been discussed to have a common currency by 2010. I have just two words…Soviet Union.

I know this all may sound crazy to some people. There are just too many “coincidences” to overlook. I’m not a prophet. I’m not saying this is how it will be. I’m just throwing out possibilities. I’ve seen thoughts of other people which vary some. Those are all solid possibilities too. I think we all agree for the most part that these “free trade zones” and “free trade agreements” have a strong possibility of redrawing the lines on your map. All I do know for sure is this…the Bible doesn’t lie. The times of the end are quickly approaching. Check the news…no, not the news you can easily get from TV. I’m talking about reliable alternatives to CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. Our public media is far from being unbiased. We all need to start preparing for the things coming just around the corner. This stuff gets me a little excited. Yeah, bad things are on the way, but the greatest thing is yet to come…meeting Jesus face to face. Trust in the Lord! We love you, Jesus!

References and Resources

* I realize these sources may not be “properly formatted”, but you can tell where the information came from. I do give credit where credit is due.

¹ The United States Constitution

² Lincoln, Abraham. Gettysburg Address.

³ The History of the European Union as retrieved from

http://europa.eu/abc/history/index_en.htm on May 1, 2007.

⁴ History of the European Union as retrieved from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union on May 2, 2007.

⁵ European Neighbourhood Policy as retrieved from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Neighbourhood_Policy on May 10,

2007.

⁶ North American Free Trade Agreement as retrieved from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement on May21,

2007.

⁷ North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) as retrieved from

http://www.americas-society.org/coa/NACC/indexNACC.html on May 22, 2007.

www.spp.gov

http://www.humanevents.com

⁸ Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation retrieved from http://www.apec.org/ on May 23,

2007.

http://www.aseansec.org/64.htm

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2007.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_Community

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May 25, 2007.

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http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/sadc.html on May 25, 2007.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Monetary_Community_of_Central Africa on May 27, 2007.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Economic_Union on May 27, 2007.

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. Retrieved from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation on May 27, 2007.

¹⁰ Organization of Central Asian Cooperation. Retrieved from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asian_Cooperation_Organization on

May 27, 2007.

Eurasian Economic Community. Retrieved from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Community on May 27, 2007.

*I realize many people do not consider Wikipedia a reliable resource. For this purpose, information from Wikipedia has been cross-referenced. The cross-reference sites, however, have not been listed. You have doubts? Feel free to do some research!