Editor's Note: This article was first published in January 2008 and explains how we can understand future events if we know who is who in the Bible. God knew the future of the world when the Bible prophecies were written, and we can understand world events and the coming future when we understand what nations are mentioned in the Bible.
by Robert R. Barney
Russia is rearing it's ugly head. Russia is the Gog
and MaGog in your Bible and will play a role in the future, but Russia
is never going to become the threat to the world that many fear. Both
the King of the North and the King of the South found in Daniel are the
key to understanding future world events. This is not to say that
Russia or China or even other nations will not go to war and be a
menace to the world, but in the total scheme of things, we must watch
events in Europe, and the Middle East. One
man, Herbert W. Armstrong, repeatedly dared to declare—years ahead of
the Soviet Union’s fall—that the USSR was not the power to fear. The
real power to watch, according to him, would be another force: a
ten-nation “United States of Europe” that would form in the years
ahead. He said that Russia would remain a thre at to the world—just not
in the way most Westerners thought. Russia would combine economically
and militarily with China, he predicted, to eventually create a
gargantuan new Asian superpower such as the world has never seen.
We must not lose sight of what is happen in the
Arab world and Europe, especially Italy and Germany. World War II was
only a foreshadow of the world that is yet to come. Eventually, England
will be booted out of the EU and I think will probably join into
another economic group comprised of Great Britain, Canada, Australia,
South Africa and the USA! France, The Netherlands, Denmark and
Scandinavia may also be in this economic union (read What Modern Nations Makeup the LOST TEN TRIBES of ISRAEL. There are some mistakes in this, but the basic principal is correct)
I will have someother eye-opening stories in the
coming months about general trends that we should be watching for.
Unlike the scam preachers out there, I don't have any idea when the
Kingdom of God is coming to Earth. I do know with certainty that it
will happen in the future. Our jobs are not to predict when, but to be
watching for the signs….
Other Armstrong predictions that came true:
Armstrong made these predictions in 1959 when I was only 4 years old!
CHINA is mentioned in end time prophecies as these “kings of the east”?
In April 1952, even
while West Germany was
rebuilding after being bombed to ashes in World War II, Armstrong
predicted “Russia may give EastGermany back to the Germans and will be
forced to relinquish her control over Hungary, Czechoslovakia and parts
of Austria to complete the ten-nation union.” in 1955—over 41/2 decades
before Eastern Europe split from the USSR: “Some of the Balkan
nations
are going to tear away from behind the Iron Curtain. Russia has lost
already, to all appearances, Tito’s Yugoslavia. Russia probably will
lose still more of her Eastern European satellites.” In May, 1968—seven
years before the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam to communism
he stated, “Bible prophecy reveals that not even America, with all of
her nuclear muscle, can prevent Southeast Asia from eventually being
overrun by communism.”