There are many layers to evidence based trust, which is faith: one of which is fulfilled prophecy. Brexit delivered more witness to faith, as to the direction of events, than I expected. It was in political terms akin to the Exodus, with political plagues.
From 2011, before Brexit went mainstream, we wrote here: “Britain & Denmark both occupy a similar curious relationship with Europe at its periphery. Both have been significant movers in the establishment of the European union, but neither joined the currency. Both have a role in Bible prophecy apparently apart from Europe. Though always connected to the ten nationalities that describe Europeans (ten toes of Daniel's image), they are apart, and will to practical purposes increasingly not be a significant part of the EU. Their heart and place is not on the land, but the oceans.” Yet I could not have predicted how great an event Britain's role 'apparently apart' from Europe would become!
Brexit has been a spectacle. It has been gripping, as as we have seen emotion from the streets to the parliament. Every catastrophe and plague was feared. It has been a struggle of power where paths to leave were blocked at every turn, by hardened hearts and the voices of 17 million have cried, “Let my people go!” (Exodus 5:1). It has led to many sudden political 'deaths', from purges to those of the first-born of power, on one election night, dying a sudden and amazing political death (Exodus 4:23). And as yet Britain still has to go over “the cliff edge” where the waters will part. Yet many were laughed at for saying Britain would not enter the EEC in 1975, and that having entered they would not remain, based on Bible prophecy. If Britain had not entered, as Israel did into Egypt, there would have been no Glory to God in taking them out. If Britain had not entered few would understand what the EU is. Britain also had to learn bondage and to suffer 70 years for what they did to Jews when God sought to revive Israel's ancient nation. If Britain had not entered the EEC, there would be no Glory to God in doing a great and impossible thing suddenly, as a witness that now is the era of Political earthquake and Miracle.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. (Romans 9:17)
If you think we have seen great things: wait for what is next!
Big picture Context of all Bible prophecy of the Nations
Before explaining how Brexit Glorifies God, Brexit needs a context, because there is not one verse anyone can point out to explain it. This is true of all understanding of prophecy, as the whole Bible is a multi dimensional layered picture of events that shift from past into future. No Bible prophecy of world events can be understood without knowing two things: the Vision of Nebuchadnezzar and the promises to the fathers of Israel.
The vision Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon was of a great image standing, recorded in Daniel Chapter 2. Daniel explains that Nebuchandezzar had seen the future of all the great empires, where the Babylonians were to be succeeded by the Medes and Persians, Greeks, Romans which were to split into 2 which finally fragmented into 10. It would stand complete until there is a small stone that becomes a mountain as a global earthly political kingdom set up by God that wipes the image out, turning its legacy to dust. The vision began then at that time in Babylon and only ends when the Kingdom is set up by God. Long after Daniel was dead and the Bible already a historical book carefully copied, there is no trouble whatsoever in identifying that Rome did indeed split into 2 parts - East and West. Furthermore the two halves were indeed broken up and partly strong and partly weak nations, who would fight each other and become themselves empires, of which 10 as a round number is a fair representation. There is no argument that the power of one empire, led to and shaped the power of the next, from that time into the modern world, even as the territory shifted West. Even into the Cold war Russia held the power of the Eastern Roman area, and Franco Anglo America the Western part. Now the Franco German led EU has grown to replace the Franco Anglo American part.
The Vision of Nebuchadnezzar shows God's great Kingdom is to replace human Ceasars-Czars. The promises to the fathers of Israel show that the faithful, including Abraham and a great multitude of people, are to be raised again to live on the earth. Abraham and his seed are to inherit the land of Israel, the land Abraham saw. We are told the faithful are to inherit the earth (Psalm 37:11, Mat 5:5), and they are to be kings and priests (Revelation 5:10). Imagine it: a whole lot of dead people suddenly turn up alive again - to rule the earth. God was telling Nebuchadnezzar- you better enjoy it while you can, as your inheritance is to be handed to – people like Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar had conquered and taken Daniel and his people captive, but the end would be that Daniel's people would rule all, and Nebuchadnezzar's legacy would be as if it had never existed.
Nebuchadnezzar's empire was the imposition rule of humans over other humans by power through enforced laws, for benefit (Mark 10:42). The intent of the founding of Israel and the kingdom of God was people with heart attuned to God keeping God's laws because they loved God of their own will.
The detail of Prophecy: the Lion & why we expected Brexit
So how does Brexit fit? Nebuchadnezzar’s empire was great, as was the Roman empire, but did they indeed rule all people? No, they did not. In the same way during the Cold War there was the Russian East and the European West and the 3rd world which was not either. Daniel's prophecy is an overview. In Ezekiel's prophecy Chapter 38 and 39 there is a more detailed picture of a future day – the latter days – when Jews lived on the mountains of Israel (aka West Bank) when a great alliance from French Gaul to Persia and from the far North of Russia to Libya, the nations of the Image of Nebuchanezzar, would seek to invade Israel to rule it. One can imagine why! Think on it. What a global power they would be, the modern version of a greater than Babylon! For the millenia of the divided Roman Empire, the partly strong and partly weak halves emerging as nations, this was not possible as there was no Israel. Jews did not live as a nation on the 'mountains of Israel' until 1967. But just as Babylon was not all the world, so Ezekiel indicates, at the time of the end, there is a 3rd group of nations, a 3rd world led by Arabs and Lion Merchants who would seek to oppose the Alliance of Nebuchadezzar's image attempt take over Israel, the revived nucleus of the Kingdom of God. Those nations standing against the great alliance are called “the Merchants of Tarshish and their young lions.” (Ezekiel 38:13)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, "Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?" (Eze 38:10-13)
We can know who these Merchants are as they are called a mother lion.
The Prophecies require at the end time both a great Union of Nations with its origins in Babel and Rome, and also other nations to oppose them. Therefore Britain and America were required to break from the Colossus of the EU, to fulfil their special divine role of the future to oppose the actions of Gog leading the Colossus' union of nations, as written in Ezekiel.
During the Cold War, underneath the division of the Iron Curtain, the structure of the European image of Nebuchadnezzar standing, which left America influencing a half part, but outside the image as 'exceptional'. European law is based on Roman law, which has its heritage in Babylonian law and the laws of the Medes and Persians, which prevents actions unless permitted. By contrast English Common Law permits all unless it is forbidden and is mostly case based. The European Union since 1993 has emerged as the inheritor of Babylon, taking some of the Eastern Roman power. It is no accident that the EU emerges in 1993 as the Soviet's fail, in time to take control over former Soviet areas. It is no accident that the EU would work with Russia in the Middle East as the 'Quartet', with UN and American backing: until 2016.
2016 was the year of “political” earthquake: both Britain and America were suddenly separated and set free from the EU, re-forming the Image of Nebuchadnezzar, to allow it to form in its completeness and to unite with Russia. While Britain was a member of the EU, Britain could interfere with EU integration and with any EU relationship with Russia. Britain in the EU could also interfere with the French role in the unification of the Papacy and Orthodox Church and their shaping of the EU. In the past the EU was aggressively secular, but recent years have changed that. The two legs of Daniel's Image played out in the Division of the Roman Empire were created by the religious split into Catholic Rome and Byzantine Orthodox. France's Macron as a son of the Catholic Church is mirrored by Russia's Putin in his political patronage of the Orthodox Church. Britain has to leave the EU to allow the EU and Russia to stand united together as the legitimate Roman heirs of the Image of Power, the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire.
Brexit is not the end of the EU, rather it will allow the final formation of the greatest Indo-European entity with power from French Gaul to Persia and from Russia to Libya, begun as a project on the plains of Shinar with the establishment of Babel. There at Babel they chose to gather to make a name for themselves in rebellion together, rather than follow God's command to spread over the earth and Glorify God! Fundamentally British and American 'empires' were in trade only and not in the domination and control of the thinking of souls. Their ethos rejects unifying control, favouring a commonwealth of trade rather than a common realm. They had the souls of merchants.
In 1957 when the Treaty of Rome was signed to form the EEC, it was about trade. The nations of the Image were partly strong and partly weak. Russia was bound and strong. Most of Europe was weak and divided. America was strong. America loved trade. America thought peace can come by trade and fostered the EEC. Britain loved trade and sought to join the EEC, but were blocked until 1973, when they joined by reason of trade.
Then from 1993 things took a turn neither Britain or America could plan for. Instead of being a loose collection of nations in a commonwealth of trade, the EEC began to unify under a strong structure of bureaucracy to become the European Union. As more and more unity occurred from monetary union from 1999 to greater political union, Britons became wary. Looking back it was entirely consistent with prophecy that Britain the merchant nation would enter the EEC because of trade, but leave the EU to oppose the revival of the political union of the Empire of Babylon and Rome.
The events from 2016 to now are a shocking earthquake, rocking the very base of the Image of Nebuchadnezzar the great power of the realms of humans, and humanism, as they build it to its greatest form.
There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. (Daniel 2:28)
The stone, the rejected head stone of the corner (Psa 118:22), is already cut. The very earth is about to quake and open the graves (Revelation 20:6) so the stone of the firstborn (Col 1:18) becomes a great Kingdom of glorified beings who will rule the earth, as a great mountain of stones suddenly falling from above obliterates and grinds to powder all under it.
In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (Daniel 2:44)
Why Brexit was an Exodus
When Isarel leaves it is written it, "came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt." (Exo 12:41). Israel go into Egypt as favoured friends of the leader, to become great but then are placed in bondage. The 430 years makes them a nation. Britain 430 years before Boris' revolt at Chequers, that would see Boris begin to lead Britain out, are given the miracle of the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588. From this point Britain grows to be great even in Europe, but then is enslaved to the EU, from which, curiously as a fact of history, for the first time they become an independent nation.
Brexit was an Exodus, so the Merchants may be a people released from the bonds of the kingdom of humanism and have a separate role, as witnesses to and a witness to the Glory of God. Britain is not free. It is written that after 70 years of being forgotten they would be a harlot among the nations - for trade! Exodus is not about "freedom". The word is not used, rather it is about Britain's service to God's Glory.
Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. (Isaiah 60:9)
Exodus for us
It was also an Exodus to remind us that Yahweh Elohim's purpose was to call out and separate his sons as His Holy people,
The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. (Deu 28:9-10)
Exodus is not
about "freedom” for God's people. We are told "God
remembered his covenant" "I have heard their cry", I
know their sorrows" "I am come down
to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians to bring them up
into a land flowing with milk and honey." Moses is told by
Yahweh Elohim "I will be (Eyeh) with thee." Later we learn
the purpose, "Thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD,
Israel is my son, even my firstborn: And I say unto thee, Let my son
go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go,
behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn." (Exodus
4:22-23) In Christ we are adopted as sons (Romans 8:15) and taken out
of the nations of the kingdoms and realms of humanism, to go up, so
we may willingly serve Yahweh in the Kingdom of God.
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? (James 2:5)
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