Retrospective

Till the end of his life, Herbert Armstrong maintained the unerring conviction that Britain would eventually be separate from a united Europe. Witness this declarative statement in his book, Mystery of the Ages, published only months before he died in January 1986: “[A] union of 10 nations [is] to rise up out of or following the Common Market of today (Rev. 17).” He then forecast, “Britain will not be in that empire soon to come.”

Fifteen years later, a leading British newspaper was espousing this same conviction: “Britain will one day leave the EU. The timing may be hard to predict, but not the inevitability of our eventual departure. É We shall depart because the balance of advantage, both politically and economically, already so plainly in favor of leaving, will become overwhelming” (Daily Mail, London, Dec. 9, 2000).

Had the British peoples heeded the warning broadcast daily to it by Mr. Armstrong from offshore radio back in the 1960s, that prediction may never have had to appear in a London paper. Had they heeded, they may never have joined the EU and then be faced with the choice of whether or not to yield up their precious national sovereignty to a rising European empire—an empire which, the prophecies in your Bible declare, will turn to devour their nation!