As I write, I wonder how many of my readers really understand the implications of the recent events in Europe, or the seriousness of the hour.

For me, it is a bitter sweet moment. I didn't want to be right about what I speculated in my book, but I didn't want to be wrong either. Now as trans-European powers are being concentrated into the office of High Representative, it looks like I was right -- this may become the office the foretold Antichrist will hold.

It all began in the early nineties when I saw a report in the Los Angeles Times about a 10 nation military alliance in Europe. At the time it really only had nine full member states, but Greece was scheduled to become a full member in 1995.

Why didn't the leading prophecy experts see it? Tim Lahaye, for one, was beginning to write his left behind books. This is what I think. Since the 10 nation alliance hadn't appeared in Western Europe as all the old prophecy scholars expected, he looked for another scenario. This led him to adopt the Club of Rome's idea about 10 global regions.

How about Hal Lindsey? This is my big question too. Hal does sometimes mention the 10 nations. However, I can tell by his commentaries he a doesn't quite understand what's going on in Europe. He keeps getting the facts twisted around.

Nevertheless, that 10 nation alliance we older students of prophecy were all once waiting for showed up on January 1, 1995. By the end of 1999, a new office and a new political leader had appeared among them, the EU's first High Representative of Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana.

The following year, the 10 nation alliance was installed as the EU's military wing, and this prophetically historic event was associated with the number 666. In December of 2000, I discovered the document the EU heads were implementing when they made the WEU their military wing was the WEU's Assembly Recommendation 666.

After finishing my book, my wife asked what we should expect to see next if I was right. I said we should expect to see three kings out of this 10 nation alliance somehow subdued. As you know, this month we saw the pro-American government in Spain brought down by well-timed bombings in Madrid. In the aftermath of the Madrid bombings, EU observers began wondering if the remaing two pro-American governments -- Britain and Italy -- would be next  Read about it here I And here. Like Spain, Britain and Italy are members of the 10 nation alliance.

If all this isn't enough to alert us, now we learn the heads of many European nations have presented this new office of High Representative with extraordinary, trans-European powers. Not only that, but the holder of this office has been given a mandate to fight a global war against terror.

Friends, I think it's here.