Timothy Birdnow

Reading Charlie Kirk's Citizen Free Press this morning there was a story about Trump's European policy that caught my attention.

First, there was this story about Trump's plan to withdraw 20,000 American troops from the continent. This is long overdue and Europe needs to stop being the dependent child she became after WWII. Time for the Europeans to stand on their own two feet. We cannott afford to finance their defense forever.

Part of the deal is that the Europeans will have to pay for the troops we keep there too.

Again, I find this a welcome development; we cannot be the world's policeman forever. We have spent gargantuan sums of money to maintain the post-war world and the worm is turning. Times change and we have to change with them. America is financially incapable of being the big sugar daddy.

But another thought occurs to me; in the Bible we are told there would be a second Roman Empire, one more fearsome and stranger than the first. In fact it would be the final beast seen in the Book of Daniel:

"After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly ; and it had great iron teeth. It devoured, and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns."

The beasts of Daniel are kingdoms and we know them today. The first - the Lion - represented Babylon. The Bear represented Persia, the Leopard the kingdom of Alexander the Great, and the final beast was Rome.

This mirrored what John spoke of in Revelation:

The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns."

What does that mean? A great power with ten horns and seven heads? It is generally believed to mean a coalition nation, like, say, the European Union. And actually Revelation makes no bones about it, saying the princes will give their authority unto the beast "for one hour". So it's clearly a coalition power of some sort, one that mirrors the old Roman Empire and likely constitutes at least part of Rome's greter territory.

I would add that there is 2Thessalonians 2:7

"For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way."

What is this restrainer?

I suspect it has been none other than the United States of America. I suspect the coming of the antichrist has been prevented by America, and our withdrawing from Europe is what will pave the way for the coming of the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition.

Could it be what Trump is doing is going to open the door?

I don't know but it seems possible. But Trump is right in what he is doing; America just cannot continue down this path we've taken for 80 years now. At some point it had to end, and that point is now. We've gone bankrupt with this (among other things).

So if America is retreating it could spell doom for the world. Maybe.

On the other hand, a stronger Europe will mean we will have true partnership in dealing with world events. So often now the Europeans pay lip service to our policies (like an embargo on Iran) but then sneak around behind our backs and circumvent our policies anyway. They won't have that luxury if it is they who are bleeding and dying for security. I have no doubt Putin is afraid right now, and not just of what TRUMP is going to do. I have little doubt he fears Europe actually uniting and becoming a military power. Americans can always be managed. But the Europeans, right there at his doorstep, cannot.

Like it or not, the times are changing. We either roll with the changes or we go under.

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