NORTHERN STYLE NEWSWATCH 5
We would take our thoughts forward into December 2000 and the forthcoming meeting of the EU heads of government to be held in Nice. Over studied though the question of Europe may be, it has remained so for a great many years, and will in the immediate future remain the predominant focal point of concern for many Christians. Although God dwells outside of time and space, He has placed His people within boundaries, as the apostle Paul said:

"The God who made the world and everything in it . . . . determined the times set for
them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would
seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him. " (Acts 17:26-27 in part)

With this understanding it cannot be a coincidence that the `Nice Meeting' is set for a date at the end of a momentous year for the United Kingdom. The year which was intended to be one long Millennium party turned into one long string of national humiliations, a humbling of a nation which, as yet, refuses to face what has happened! Little more needs to be said on the Dome - the ongoing reporting in the media says it all! We could list a catalogue of woes, and no doubt the readers of this Newswatch could add their own! The tragic crash of Concorde; the carving up and disposal of the remainder of the car industry; the continuing BSE crisis, followed by Swine Fever; confusion over the election of the Mayor of London; the Royal Navy nuclear submarine fleet being laid up; confusion over education and healthcare; the terrible rail crash which revealed a crumbling rail system; the country narrowly averting an economic close-down, with the Fuel Protest revealing an impotent government; the terrible flooding and gales that affected all parts of our island. Need we go on? Others can complete the list, for who can doubt that the righteous judgement of God is being revealed.

However, we are not intending to launch into a `woes and lamentations' session - that we can safely leave to others! Our purpose in setting out some of the events of the past year is to consider the `Nice Meeting' - which may well turn out to be the most momentous event of a momentous year - and to consider its implications for the Body of Christ in this country in `the times and exact place where we should live'. Those of you who patiently read our comments in the Newswatch (whilst not necessarily always agreeing with us) understand that there is a progression of thought set out in them, based on considered historical precedents which we set against, or sieve through, Scripture, in order to avoid writing opinionated personal thinking, seeking instead God's warnings to His beloved people for the days ahead. Readers therefore know that in our comments we are not concerned with party politics within the secular or the religious scene. What, then, makes this `Nice Meeting' in December 2000 such an important landmark? This we need to carefully consider.

We have written and spoken consistently that the United Kingdom is being led unflinchingly into Europe by politicians of all flavours. The so-called Euro sceptics only differ with others on the form that this onward move takes, for the words which the politicians of all parties use are carefully honed to ensure that they take the population with them on the journey back into Europe. The `Nice Meeting' will determine the timetable for this to happen! New Labour has been allowed to come to power in the UK for this purpose, for Old Conservatism and Old Labour did not have the political will to undertake such a move. (There is no point in mentioning the other political parties.) A Third Way was needed, and by its very doctrine of Enlightened Humanism the path of the present party in power has to lead to Europe as a means of spreading the `gospel of Man's achievement' to an enlarged Europe in its effort to become its dominant power. The doctrine of Socialism does not allow for a nation state with confined borders, which, it believes, has been the cause of so many wars and oppressions throughout the world's long march in history. A very potent force was brought into the nation state of the United Kingdom when it elected the Third Way, and the `Nice Meeting' is primarily concerned with the overthrow of nation states - or in political language, the `pooling of sovereignty' - and the surrender of state power in the interests of the emerging European Super-Power State (which is, we suggest, a contradiction in terms).

The key to open this process, which will be at the heart of the `Nice Meeting', will be the removal of the power of veto from individual nation states to make possible the ongoing race for complete harmonisation of economic, social and foreign policies of the members of the European Union. This is in line with what Daniel `saw' as the ten kings that compose the `Fourth Beast': (Daniel 7:19)

". . . . which was different from all the others and most terrifying,
with its iron teeth
and bronze claws - the beast that crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. "

The present ruling political party of the United Kingdom is caught in a dilemma: By insisting on keeping its right to veto, in order to keep control of its power-base in the UK, whilst it seeks to take the country into a fully integrated Europe, it will almost certainly force into being a two-tier or multi-track Europe headed by a German/Franco Axis, which is so feared for it will render the veto powerless - for the emergence of that Axis, and those who are drawn into it, will leave behind those who would not enter into `enhanced co-operation' (to use the official term). We repeat, agreeing to the removal of the veto will draw the UK into the very heart of Europe, which will eventually destroy the nation state! But opposing the removal of the veto will leave the UK marginalised and subservient to the German/Franco Axis - which is the powerful engine that drives the European Union. It is for this reason we state that the `Nice Meeting' is the momentous culmination of a momentous year in the disintegration of the nation state of the United Kingdom! The `key' was the last UK election and the letting in of the Third Way into British politics, which had no alternative but to be placed into the `lock of Europe' - for that was the reason for its existence. If it does not succeed in its ambition to be in `the heart of Europe', it will lose the purpose for its existence and leave the UK political scene as quickly as it came - leaving this nation state in a backwater!

To those who have followed our `developing thinking' over the years, but may well be confused by what we have written here, we would point out the key phrase that will reassure. We have mentioned a Third Way that was let in, brought in by a democratic vote in the last election, which has been the `key' to lead the UK into full integration in Europe. This corresponds to the alien spirit which was let into the Church by equally popular acclaim under the title of `the Toronto Blessing'. The United Kingdom and the Church in England are now set on a course into Europe, and into a battle that will bring about the demise of the nation state and the demise of the Church in England (as we know it). In one of the studies in our developing thinking we used and expounded the words of Jeremiah, where he spoke to the nation of Israel when it was facing the destructive forces of Babylon, and the people sought refuge in Egypt. We entitled it `Oh, remnant of Israel . . do not go to Egypt', for the LORD wanted the whole nation of His people to go into exile for His purpose to be revealed at His set time.

Within this context there is therefore no confusion in our `developing thinking', rather there is a deepening conviction of a coming `battle for democracy' which will change the Church from the form we have become used to into what the Lord of the Church wants it to be - a virgin Bride ready for His coming! In the Church there are ministries of a `prophetic nature' which, in becoming alarmed at the state of the Church, are in danger of turning into what we would call `Christian Imperialists' - in other words, linking the Church in England to a British Imperial Power. This Imperial Power was seen at its height at the end of the narrow timescale of the previous two hundred years of history, and was `layered into' the traditions, developments and enhancements that occurred during those centuries. However, if we stop to consider this more carefully, it is not monarchical tradition that is the thread which runs through British history, but the monarchy itself. (This is too lengthy a subject to set out in a Newswatch, and for those who may find some of the following comments difficult to understand we have set them out in a series of study booklets which have been written over the period of our `developing thinking'. We list them at the end of this Newswatch and, as usual, they are available free of charge if you would like to request them by E-mail or by telephone).

The monarchical thread which has formed these `Pretanic Isles' into its present-day form comes through two intertwined lines, both European (as we understand that term today). Both lines stem from two dominant Frankish tribes: The first, the Merovingian line, sprang from Clovis, who began the formation of what today we call France. The second, the Carolingian line, the usurping dynasty, sprang from Charles Martel (the father of Charlemange) through whom was formed what eventually became modern-day Germany. The rivalry and the eventual break-up of these two great dynastic powers caused the continuous battles which have been fought over Middle Europe. The Normans later swarmed over Britain from France and established the Plantagenet dynasty, which quickly overwhelmed the political life of Britain. The short-lived Tudor line was legitimized by this `Merovingian' Plantagenet line through Owen Tudor's marriage to Catherine de Valois, the Dowager Queen of England and widow of the Plantagenet King, Henry 5th. Similarly the Stuart line was also legitimized by the merging, through the marriage of James 4th of Scotland (whose dynastic line sprang from the Heredity Steward of the Scottish Royal Court) with Margaret Tudor, the daughter of Henry 7th, whose union produced through James 5th of Scotland's marriage to Mary of Guise Mary Stuart, the daughter of a French Queen and widow of a French King. The usurping line of the Carolingian dynasty came into Britain through the Hanoverian line (through an earlier marriage between Elizabeth, daughter of James 1st of England and Frederick 5th, Elector Palatine) which rose to its peak under Princess Victoria Marie von Teck-Wurtten Borg, who took the title and name of Queen Victoria. She married into an equally dominant Carolingian family of George Frederick Ernest Albert of Sachsen und Gotha , who was known as Prince Albert - the Royal family name finally being changed to Windsor. It is also worth noting that in this struggle between these two Frankish tribal dynastic houses, George 4th of the House of Hanover had as one of his titles `King of France'! Our parliamentary system has now finally developed into that of the Monarch reigning through Parliament, a representative democracy which has increasingly become (through the newly elected `Third Way' political party) not Presidential but Kingly - to the extent that the Prime Minister is rarely seen in Parliament, instead, conducting Cabinet business as a `fait accompli' and working through his own Office with the power of Patronage equal to any earlier monarchical system this country has seen! We therefore now have in place the `King' in Parliament, ready to continue the power struggle in Europe from his regional base in the British Isles. Those who understand and agree with the Scriptural revelation that there are powerful spiritual beings working through powerful earthly kings and authorities will have no difficulty in seeing the Scriptural principle outworking in the powerful political forces that are now at work, which will join battle at the forthcoming `Nice Meeting'.

It is this `kingly line', directed by a strong spiritual `king', whom we see turning his eyes once again to the real and ongoing battles between the two dominant Frankish Houses who seek supremacy in Europe, which we shall see outworking in the `Nice Meeting' in December 2000. The nation state, as we in the UK understand it, is but a 200 year modern convenience to establish power-bases for opposing dynastic Houses in their ongoing battle for supremacy in Europe - into which this country is being drawn by all political parties, but needing a Third Way to be elected in order to bring it about. `English history' as taught in our educational system, is but the imposition of spiritual powers working through `English kings' who have imposed their authority on the British Isles, and history read through spiritual `eyes' that have not been drawn into the trap of `Christian Imperialism' will reveal that this is exactly how these islands have been seen over the past one thousand years of history. `Christian Imperialism' is but a modern-day version of the fusing of earthly culture and history with spiritual truths. Over the past one thousand years of history the combined power of state and religion has similarly imposed its will upon the people of these islands, and under the direction of the spiritual powers it has waited patiently for such a time as the `Nice Meeting'. We have set this out in this Newswatch so that we may be aware of what is unfolding in our time, through powerful secular and religious forces directed by far more powerful spiritual forces. The Fourth Beast of Daniel 7 has to emerge, and it has to emerge in Europe!

This, then, is the reality of the `anxiety factor' that we so constantly speak of, which has manifested in the people of these `Pretanic Isles', for it is an anxiety emanating from this `English Spirit' - which has imposed itself upon these islands for one thousand years and is aware that its battle lies once again in Europe where it was once a vassal subject of the Frankish `king' who sought dominance over the whole of Europe. Its anxiety lies in the possibility of it losing its power-base in the Frankish region of the British Isles as it makes its play for supremacy in Europe. Not entering that battle will leave the people of these isles in the vice-like grip of a despotic spirit whose ambitions will have been thwarted by a superior spiritual power. The key to this was the inviting in, the election of, by popular vote, of the Third Way! It opened up the way for the `English Spirit' to once again take the people of these Isles into Europe. Equally, the inviting in of the `Toronto Spirit' into the Church will draw it into a final battle for spiritual supremacy as real as the natural one being played out in Europe.

History will record, that just as the battles, seen particularly in the Plantagenet's wars in France, led to the loss of its estates in Europe, so this `English Spirit' will be broken in this battle in Europe. So, too, will the `Toronto Spirit' be broken in the Church, and the people of these Isles, who have lain under the imposition of a powerful Frankish monarchical power for a thousand years, will be free the hear the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ from a chastened, purged Church, who also for a thousand years has been in the grip of a spiritual `monarchical power' through its embrace of secular power in order to secure its spiritual hold. As they say in our circles:

"Selah . . pause and (joyfully) consider these things"

November 22nd
2000

Footnote:
The study booklets mentioned are as follows:
No. 6 Beyond the Storm - A Ripening Harvest
No.16 When The Blessings Stop
No.18 The LORD Has A Controversy With The Nations
No.20 Which Gospel Do We Preach?
No.21 To God's Elect . . Strangers In The World
Also Winds of Change Nos 1 & 2

All available free of charge upon request
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