Europe: Iron-Clay Mix (Poem)

There is lots of consternation these days about Europe,

About whether ‘Brexit’ may lead to its formal breakup.

Will the European Union survive

The pullout of the U.K. and still thrive?

Or will Brexit only serve as a draft - a model,

For others who from Europe may wish to uncouple?

And what of the ubiquitous issues of trade?

Will the current strings of world trade become frayed?

From the ashes of World War II, this Union was born.

Through integration, could regional peace be shoehorned?

Was this the first time the concept had been incubated?

Nope! Over eons, this notion has been iterated.

Rome, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler come to mind,

Each having his own European integration design.

Some came close, but they all eventually failed.

They all had ignored what The Bible had unveiled.

Long ago, in a bizarre dream... very mysterious,

God showed Nebuchadnezzar something quite precarious.

A statue of gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay conglomerate,

That would speak of world powers to come,

and of the odd penultimate.¹

Gold head, silver chest/arms, bronze belly/thighs,

iron legs, then a gimmick --

A conundrum in the feet where iron and clay

would try to mix!

The iron represents the ancient Roman Empire,

The feet represent today’s European quagmire.²

From Babylon-to-Rome, world powers would rise

and then fall.

Then after Rome, attempts to integrate would always stall,

Though many try, iron and clay really shall never mix,

But from these tries, one will arise with a deceiving shtick.

From Europe’s hodgepodge, a most cunning man will

at once arise,

Deceiving all nations to give him the world leadership prize!

He’ll be greatly honored when he conceives a plot,

To untie the Jerusalem Gordian knot! ³

But after a few years, over him many will NOT be awed,

When, in the new Jewish temple,

he declares himself... as God!

This will start the run-up to the global war, Armageddon,

When Christ returns to govern...

without human approbation.

For decades, there’ve been calls for a European president,

One on whose shoulders the integration quagmire

can be pent.⁴

But just as many around the world now are learning,

A strongman you will get, if strongman you are yearning!

So as you ponder the evolving story of Europe,

Study what The Bible reveals of its final breakup.

It’s the penultimate attempt in human governments,
That signals the coming devilish one Christ shall silence!

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¹ The Book of Daniel, chapter 2

² In many respects, Europe represents remnants of the Roman Empire, nations with significantly mixed political and economic strengths. As related to Nebuchadnezzar’s statue dream, it is interesting that the human foot has 26 bones and 10 toes, compared to the current 28 nations in the European Union, of which only about 10 are generally considered economically/politically strong. See for example: The Top 10 Most Competitive Economies in Europe  and also  Financial and Social Rankings of Sovereign States in Europe.

³ The anti-Christ. See Daniel chapters 7, 8, 9; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4; and Revelation 13:5.

⁴ ‘We do not want another committee. We have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass in which we are sinking. Send us such a man and, be he God or the devil, we will receive him.’ (Paul-Henri Spaak, former Belgian Prime Minister and President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe nearly 50 years ago. Europe in Prophecy)