Europe in Bible Prophecy
From Europa to Europe
How did Europe gets its name? Is there some prophetic significance in the name or its origin?
Let’s consider a little Greek mythology. The favoured story goes that Europa, a Phoenician woman of high lineage, was seduced by the god Zeus and carried away to Crete. Zeus did this by disguising himself as a beautiful white bull and coaxing Europa to climb onto his back. Once there, he carried her off into the sea and on to Crete, where he raped her. Europa then became the first queen of Crete. The Romans adopted the myth but substituted their god Jupiter for Zeus.
It is claimed that Europa later stood for mainland Greece (recall Crete is an island off the SE corner of Greece) and then to lands north of Greece. Certainly, ‘Europa seated on a bull’ has been a motif in European art since Greco-Roman times, and in the eighth century Europa gained ecclesiastical usage under Charlemagne. Today, Europe is called Europa in the German language and in most other Germanic languages (except English). The actual term ‘Europe’ is generally derived from the Greek ‘eurys’ (broad) and ‘ops’ (face), which is an allusion to ‘the broad face of the earth’. The strong Greek connection could be very significant in that Greece could be the country of origin of the final world dictator (see below).
Why is the Europa symbol (a woman on a beast) so widespread? Is it merely symbolising Europe or is there prophetic significance? Consider:
“… and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.”
(Rev 17.3)
I just want to add something. In astrology, the bull is also a symbol for materialism. It is also the symbol for Wall Street. The prophesy could clearly show Europe was seduced by money and materialsim. The 666 mark of the beast of commerce reinforces that.Crete is in the middle of the sea. The Dragon rising up out of the sea is the greed and horror triggered in our cultures and collective consciousness by these Satanic, materialistic,, greedy forces. The sea is even the source of maritime or merchants law which trumps actual democratric law of the land in many cases. Even on our interstates in some areas of law. (My knowledge here is spooty, I’m not a lawyer. But the merchants are devouring the democracies of Europe, before a refuge for free humanity.
But notice that the dragon wants to devour the child and the woman giving birth flees into the wilderness. That child is the inner Christ in us which it wishes to kill. And which must be born. Certianly by focusing on greed, materialistic atheism etc, it wishes To kill the Christ within. But probably also literally, through population control, war etc.
But the woman of the apocalypse,tormented by birth pangs, fled into the wilderness. In the past, mother earth could hide us. We could run away from towns if persecuted. We could hide our thoughts, life. property. But the beast has set up his control grid worrldwide as he devours all the individual’s means to “hide behind mama’s skirt from intruduers. The lampstands and candles of the lord, that is, the vitality of the church to prootect herself and her flock,these candles have burned down. They are being trampled by the demons of materialistic, scientific atheism. But a few of us do not want to see what’s left of them buried and forgotten. We will not let scientist bury the cadavers of the church. (Read revelations for these images).
The hour is late, my friends.
Thus, the moment to make a Christ statememnt is here. We can no longer run from the dragon and hide in the wilderness. We will have to rely on our inner Christ and face the dragon down. Becuase the beast of world commerce will soon have it all and we will be naked unless we have washed our robes in the Christian sense. Then the mircales performed by a small remnant of Christ (or ultimatley Christ himself), will save us. Revelations says the Beast will defeat the saints but not the lamb. It is going to be a rough ride, and those who believe that a rapture will take them off to Sugar Candy Mountain will perhaps be disappointed. I believe that the Rapture as preached by fundamentalists is not biblical but was invented by “the devil’s Mesiah”. The Scriptures clearly call for Endurance and speak of the faithful being martyred. Sant Peter was executed. The early Christians were fed to the lions. Sometimes, as with Daniel, the lions mouths are shut, sometimes not. Perhaps our faith and the lords plan for us determines that.