The problem with too many toys is not knowing which to choose. That's how today's news makes me feel. I don't know which to choose.

United Europe, as you know, is said to be hanging in the balances of a French election. Here's the way I see it. If the French say yes to the European Union's new constitution, the revived Roman Empire will continue rising. If the French say no, however, the revived Roman Empire will continue rising.

Wait a minute. Didn't I just say the same thing? Yes, I did. That's because, no matter how this election turns out, we already know what Bible prophecy tells us. In the final days, just before the Lord Jesus returns, the old Roman Empire will reappear with 10 kings.

It's called Bible prophecy. I've heard is said that about one fourth of the Bible was prophecy when written. Bible prophecy is history in advance. We know that because, today, much of what was once only Bible prophecy is now recorded in our history books.

For example, the old Testament book of Daniel that Jesus quoted from (Matthew 24:15) predicted that after Israel's Messiah had been cut off the Jewish temple and Jerusalem would be destroyed (Daniel 9:26). In 70 AD, after Jesus had be crucified and the faith He founded had been spread among the nations, Jerusalem and the temple was destroyed. You see, what in Jesus' day was prophecy, in our day is history.

That's why his choice of words so fascinated me. It's as if Javier Solana, the EU's High Representative, believes in Bible prophecy. In this article, he calls the revival of the Roman Empire "history's calling." Solana says:

The second rationale for the European project is to stabilize and transform the broader European continent. Last year's enlargement has been a tremendous success and the best possible response to history's calling Read about it here.

You see, if the revived Roman Empire is foretold in Scripture -- or as Solana says, "history's calling," then the French election doesn't really matter. That's because, someday all Bible prophecy will be recorded in our history. And, on that day, it will be the end of history as far as this age is concerned.

Not long ago, a social scientist named Francis Fukuyama jumped the gun and declared history over. In his book, The End of History and the Last Man, Fukuyama reasoned that, since the West had won the Cold War, the whole world would now embrace Western democracy.

In a way, Fukuyama was right. The bi-polar world order was over and a new, single world order was emerging. However, as we students of Bible prophecy knew, history wasn't over. It was just following its predicted course.

Now, Fukuyama has come out with another important book. Titled, Our Posthuman Future, Fukuyama tackles some of the most difficult moral questions humankind has ever had to face -- what makes us human and, should we be allowed to change it? Read about it here

Friends, God won't let it happen. God won't just sit back and do nothing while the center-piece of His creation is being altered. I'm reminded of another end of history that is recording in the old Testament book of Genesis. Here we read:

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose (Genesis 6: 1-2 New American Standard Bible).

There is much debate over the identity of these "sons of God." Some believe them to be God's people, those humans who called upon the name of the Lord (Genesis 4:26). Others believe these "sons of God" to be angelic beings who came down and had sexual relations with human women. That's because of what's said in the following:

And the LORD said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown (Genesis 6:3-4).

Whenever I find different interpretations possible, I try to focus on what's mostly agreed. Whether the giants were the result of human or angelic sinfulness doesn't really matter. The result was the same. The God-established order for humankind was changing and He wasn't going to sit back and do nothing. The account continues: 

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them (Genesis 6:5-7).

God backed His word's with action. He sent a flood that killed every human on earth, except Noah and his family who escaped in an ark. One age was history, another age had begun.

Like I said at the start, sometimes the problem is knowing which toy to choose. These two articles were like that. So, I decided to write commentary about both.

You see, Javier Solana is right about history's calling. That's because, bible prophecy is history written in advance. And, in the days before the Lord Jesus returns, Bible prophecy tells us that the old Roman Empire will revive under 10 kings -- just like it's doing. The results of the French election won't change that.

And, Francis Fukuyama is only partly right. Yes, we're nearing the end of history. However, we're not there yet. But, if we humans do as he warns against in his new book, if we start changing what makes us human, I fear we can bring that end of history upon ourselves suddenly. In fact, I think we will.

It's history's calling.