Restoration:
Coming Together?

by Darris McNeely

As the articles for this month's issue came to my computer, it became evident there was a thread running through them dealing with the enlargement of the European Union this May. The current union of 15 nations will see its largest single expansion when it adds 10 nations. The size of this union will be 450 million people, stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of Russia. It will be the largest political and economic union on the Continent since the days of the Roman Empire.

Many feel the EU is a sterling example of global "conflict resolution." For centuries the struggles of individual nations on the Continent resulted in wars that ravaged its people and lands and at times impacted the whole world. Now, 25 nations are coming together to form a union, which many hope will forever end the conflict.

The sheer size of this union will eventually cause it to assert its leadership in the world. Already the euro is challenging the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. What will this mean to America's superpower status?

Many see this emerging giant's potential to supplant America's current role. Columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote that Europe's "rationale—now and for a long time—has been precisely to regain global power for Europe, lost in two world wars and the American century. If the European Union can achieve this, if it can slowly absorb its member states into a uniform and vast new entity, then it will represent a real challenge to U.S. influence in Africa, the Middle East, and every major international institution" (The New Republic, June 16, 2003).

Will this coming together, this attempt to resolve age-old conflicts, result in lasting peace? Bible prophecy, as quoted in this issue, shows that this union, in its final form, will be like "iron mixed with miry clay"—a mixture ultimately lacking in cohesion. It will survive only a short time and will help precipitate the crisis at the close of this age. By the time America and the world awake to this fact, it will be too late.

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Restoration: Coming Together?

by Darris McNeely

Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0403/restoration0403.htm

Restoration:
Coming Together?