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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.69,0:00:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This vote, for Britian to \Nleave the European Union,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.70,0:00:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to have huge ramifications\Nwhich we can't really predict or foresee.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some we can, but many we can't.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the moment it's hard to \Nsee these many different countries
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their very different histories,\Nincluding histories of enmity to each other,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's very hard to see them being able\Nto cleave together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The European Union's origin is,\Nof course, in World War II -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this extraordinary catastrophe -\Na generation of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Europeans, who said, \N"We cannot do this again!"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was an understanding that, \Nif you want to preserve peace,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you need to have some kind of\Neconomic system
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that doesn't cause hatred\Nor cause rivalry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people won't understand or know\Nthat religion was actually
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a very important ingredient in the \Nestablishment of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,European economic community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is still a religious element to much\Nof the debate in the European Union.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the early 2000s, the then President\Nof the European Commission,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romano Prodi, actually published a book.\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in Italian, but the translated title\Nmeans, "An Idea of Europe".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, "What can hold\Nthese many different countries?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not enough for the elites to\Npropose political union.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has to be something cultural."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said, "The one thing\Nthat all Europeans have in common,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one thing that can bind us all together,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is loyalty to the Church."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he was Italian. \NWhat did he mean?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He meant, the Roman Catholic Church.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the story of people\Ntrying to make Europe into a powerhouse
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet failing, again and again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about Napoleon: everything looked\Nperfect, and yet, a decade, and it fell.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about Hitler: it failed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a European, I grew up with the question:\N"How does Europe fit into Bible prophecy?"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daniel chapter 2 - the king has a dream - \NNebuchadnezzar has a dream -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in that dream, he sees a huge statue, \Na beautiful statue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Different metals are used to indicate\Ndifferent kingdoms.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He starts off as the head, the golden head. \NBabylon, Medo-Persia, the Greek empire
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then, finally, the strength of the\NRoman empire.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is something else.\NThere are toes, and feet,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are made up of mixed clay and iron.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Daniel, somehow, he says, \N"They will not stick together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some are strong, some are weak."\NAnd that seems to be the story of Europe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially given recent circumstances - the\Nsituation in Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the core EU countries, the northern\NEU countries, are seen as oppressive,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as meddling in people's affairs,\Nat the same time we have to say,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all kinds of ethnic and nationalist\Nhatreds that seem to have died in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ruins of World War II, and have not been\Nseen for 70 years, are somehow magically
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and disturbingly reappearing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So given all these strains that are on\Nthe European Union, for one of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three biggest economies, the chief\Ncontributor to a common defense and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foreign policy, to leave, this is just\Ngoing to create a vacuum at the heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prophecy is not just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something interesting we study, you know,\Nin history books, or in Bible classes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can get our bearings, the\Ngreat direction, the big picture
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from prophecy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture tells us that there will not be\Nanother united Europe, it will be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weak and strong, and we can see that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's not where the story ends.\NDaniel chapter 2 doesn't end with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the statue and the feet of\Nmixed clay and iron.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a rock: it's small at first,\Nbut that rock smashes the entire statue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That little rock that becomes a huge rock,\Nis Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A new kingdom. God's kingdom.