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danr wealth and warc.:s vou enriched
kings of rhc world. And now you are
·wreckcd in dec.:p water.... All seafar–
ing folk are appallcd ar rhe sighr of
you; rhc.:ir kings are
a~hasr.
rheir faces
convulscd: mcrchants abroad are
shockcd. Your fare is awful:
there is no
[11t11re for
)'Olt.~'"
Will rhcrc be a future for rhe
Europeans? For hundrcds of years, rhe
Europeans have been thcir own worsr
PLAIN TRUTH September-October 1972
enemies. This has been espcciallv true
in chis cenrury. They are a collecrion
of ralenred and producrivc people.
They have cenruries of political expe–
rience.
In
1914,
rhey owned more than
half rhe world and "ser che srandards
for whar rhey did not own.'' as one
observer poinred out. In less than a
gencrarion rhey rhrew ir all away in
rwo senseless wars. Europc has madc a
THE FIVE-DA
Y VISIT
TO FRANCE
in
May of Brilain's Queen Elizabelh. Al
lhe slale ba nquel al Versailles the
Queen declared she sees in lhe devel–
opmenl of lhe European Community
"lhe beginning of a new Europe, a
Europe of parlners in a greal enter–
prise, a lurning poinl in ils hislory."
Beords.more
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Ploin Trvth
miraculous rccovery, and due to rhe
rcvolurionary concept of rhe Com–
mon Marker, it is on irs
way
ro
bccoming rhe world's leading eco–
nomic supcrpower.
A
Glimpse at
Our Future
lf one could look inro che fucure
and see whar is ro occur, perhaps he
could avoid any danger rhar lurked. If
a wise polirician or sraresman could
see the furure in his mind's eyc. like
in sorne apocalypric revelarion. he
mighr be consrrained ro change his
coursc.
The aposde John saw
~uch
a
vision. now writtcn in rhe
Nt'"
Tes·
ramenr book of Revelarion. chaprcrs
l
7 and 18. Here. a
mas.~ive
powcr
enriry called ''Babylon rhe Grear" is
describcd. Inreresringly enough, rhe
Jase manifcsration of chis ··Babylon–
ish" sysrem. which is an end-rime
reviva! of che Roman Empire, is
dcscribcd as being composed of "ten
kíngs," mcaning a union of king–
doms as governmenrs (Rev.
17:12).
But thís garganruan prophetic com·
bine. as in Ezekiel's accounr of
ancient Tyre, becomes a shatrered and
desrroyed power:
"Alas. alas. char grear ciry Babylon.
thar mighry cirv! for in one hour is
th) judgmenr come.
'·And che merchanrs of rhe earrh
shall weep and mourn over her; for
no man buyerh rheir merchandise any
more:
"The merchandise of gold, and sil–
ver. and precious srones, and of pearls.
and fine lincn, and purple, and silk,
and scarler. and all thyine wood, and
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