Facts on the ground suggest it may be time for us evangelicals to set aside our minor differences and start working together. The end-times events could be happening friends, whether we like it or not.

If you thought the 10-nation Western European Union's Assembly Recommendation 666 was interesting, how about this: Out of over 1100 documents listed on the EU's 1998 General Report, the one creating the EU's new Office of High Representative, and giving it its foreign policy mandate, is also numbered 666. And, wouldn't you know it? That mandate includes the Middle East and Israel  Read about it here  I  And here  I  And here.

Friends, as far as Bible prophecy is concerned, this could be equally important as Recommendation 666. The reason I'm saying that is because a member of our discussion board recently pointed out something interesting about another passage about the coming Antichrist. In Revelation we read:

And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name (Revelation 13:16-17 New America Standard Bible). 

The member said the Greek word for "name" used in the above verse could also be interpreted "authority." In other words, the number 666 could actually be the number giving the coming Antichrist his authority to act for the revived Roman Empire. And, as far as the holder of the EU's Office of High Representative is concerned, that's what that number does -- it gives him his authority.

Here's my point: The Bible tells us with two witnesses a truth can be established (2 Corinthians 13:1). Here we find two places where a new European leader's rise to power is directly associated with that infamous number of prophecy. And, this person not only appeared from among a 10-nation alliance -- and now has three of those 10 nations to subdue -- but, as I write, this same person is negotiating a possible seven-year agreement with Israel.

As I said before, it may be time to start working together.