Each week we present what we call a Prophecy Update.  This is #423 in that series.

Unique among all books ever written, the Bible accurately foretells specific events – in detail – many years, sometimes even centuries, before they occur.

Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible, about 2000, or 80%, of which already have been fulfilled to the letter with no errors.

For example, many ancient prophecies were fulfilled at the birth of Jesus:

Isaiah said He would be born of a virgin, and He was.
Micah said He would be born in Bethlehem, and He was.
Genesis predicted He would come from the line of Judah, and He did.
Jeremiah said He would be descended from King David.

Something like 500 prophecies remain to be fulfilled.  We ought to be able to identify trends in the world, and hard news items, that would be expected in the light of the yet-to-be-fulfilled prophecies.

The Prophet Daniel provides us with very detailed information on the rise and fall of four worldly kingdoms, from the time of his life, until that day when Jesus Christ will return to reign His millennial kingdom on earth.  From the Book of Daniel, the four prophesied kingdoms are as follows:

The Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar
The Medo-Persian Empire
The Macedonian Empire (Greece) under Alexander The Great
The Roman Empire

Daniel also tells us that there will be a future revival of the Roman Empire in the area of Europe and parts of the Middle East.

Futurists, like ourselves, who take Bible prophecy literally, often speak of a Revived Roman Empire, and we point to the European Union as the possible fulfillment of that prophecy.

Thus you’d expect to see Europe trending towards consolidating its power.

A recent article was titled, German Finance Minister calls for establishment of one army for all EU.

Excerpts:

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble says the EU requires one common army instead of 28 separate ones to tackle domestic and foreign security threats.

During an interview published in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag on Sunday, Schäuble said that as “We will have to spend a lot more funds for joint European defense initiatives…our aim must be a joint European army.”

He noted that the funds required to maintain and organize 28 separate armies could be used “far more effectively together.”

“For Germany, this means that we will have to support our foreign and security policies more strongly than we would perhaps like,” he said.

He also stressed that controlling the crises in Africa and the Middle East requires stronger European engagement.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/28/443494/germany-schuble-common-eu-army–/

While we see the signs, we are not waiting for anything to happen before the Lord comes to resurrect the dead in Christ, and to rapture living believers.  That event is imminent, pretribulational, and premillennial.

Are you ready for the rapture?  If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up.  Ready or not, Jesus is coming!