Europa Analyzed:  click here  Revelation 13

OLD ROMAN EMPIRE?  

Quoted from the EU site:

 "This is the European flag. It is the symbol not only of the European Union but also of Europe's unity and identity in a wider sense. The circle of gold stars represents solidarity and harmony between the peoples of Europe.

There are twelve stars because the number twelve is traditionally the symbol of perfection, completeness and unity. The flag will therefore remain unchanged regardless of future EU enlargements or reductions in the number of members.

The EU’s success owes a lot to its unique nature and the way it works. For the EU is not a federation like the United States. Nor is it simply an organisation for co-operation between governments, like the United Nations.  The countries that make up the EU (its “member states”) remain independent sovereign nations but they pool their sovereignty in order to gain a strength and world influence none of them could have on its own.

 Pooling sovereignty means, in practice, that the member states delegate some of their decision-making powers to European institutions they have created, so that decisions on specific matters of joint interest can be made democratically at European level.

 The three main decision-making institutions are:

·         the European Parliament, which represents the EU’s citizens and is directly elected by them;

·         the Council of the European Union, which represents the individual member states;

·         The European Commission, which seeks to uphold the interests of the Union as a whole.

This “institutional triangle” produces the policies and laws (directives, regulations and decisions) that apply throughout the EU.

To read more the meaning of the flag and the possible role that the European Community will play in prophecy, please click below:

 King Nebuchadnezzar's dream:
To read the story  press read Daniel 2

• ^{Daniel 2:40} Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron-for iron breaks and smashes everything-and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. ⁴¹ Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. ⁴² As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. ⁴³ And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
  ⁴⁴ "In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.
   

• INTERPRETATION: The fourth kingdom of iron is the Roman empire according to Daniel's interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The two legs are the division of the Roman empire into an eastern portion called the Byzantine empire which ended in the 1400's and a western portion based in Rome which ended in the 400's. The toes of iron may be the 10 member nations of the European Economic Community formed in the 1970's while the clay is the second tier of member nations. The nations of Europe since the Roman empire dissolved have never adhered or formed one empire but continue as separate nations.

   

   

1. 7:25 Or for a year, two years and half a year (3 1/2 years: 
    
2. Check: Daniel 9:24 - The 70 Weeks Prophecy