Global regionalization moves forward at Africa meeting

The Organization of African Unity ceased to exist on July 9 after 38 years of existence as the leaders of Africa created a new organization from its ashes: the African Union. The African Union will be loosely modeled after the European Union, and the transition will take one year.

‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. Daniel 7:23 - 24

Since 1989 and the demise of the Soviet Union as a super power, the influence of individual African nations has been rapidly declining. The idea of a united Africa was first proposed as the United States of Africa by Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1999. At first rejected by other African nations, it soon became apparent that most regions of the world are forging bigger economic blocs, and the African leaders decided that Africa must be united if it is to make its voice heard in the global economy.

In a speech to the opening session of the last summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the leaders to shake off their deep divisions and work together against the continent's poverty, wars and health crises. "This historic effort will require leadership, courage and a willingness to depart from the ways of the past if it is to do for Africa what the European Union has done for Europe," Mr. Annan said.

The world divided into ten kingdoms as envisioned by the Club of Rome in 1973 in their report, Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global World System. The idea is now coming to life in the United Nations as regions begin to form economic blocks loosely modeled after the European Union.

African leaders reason that they must first build regional blocs in west, central, east, north and southern Africa and then ultimately merge these into one big economy - on the basis that bringing four or five groups together is easier than negotiating with 53 countries at the same time. The African Union will eventually have a common parliament, central bank and court of justice. In the long run, a common African currency is also envisaged.

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.... ‘‘The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. Revelation 17:3 and 12

Regionalization is one of the key goals of the UN as it moves towards becoming a world government under the guise of global governance. The 1995 UN Funded Commission on Global Governance highly recommended breaking the world into governing regions. "Some issues are best dealt with regionally rather than globally.... Regional economic groups can also contribute to burying historic enmities through developing closer economic and political linkages, realizing economies of scale, developing common infrastructure, and pioneering new methods for deepening integration in advance of progress at the global level," states the Commission's report. That is exactly what Africa is attempting to do this year. The report goes on to say, "a framework for allocating responsibilities between institutions of global, regional, national, and local governance in an efficient way" is being debated in Europe.

Regionalization was a hot topic of discussion in 1997 when there was a deeply fragmented discussion to have ten regions. If there are ten, it is likely that the African Union will not include the entire continent. More likely, Africa will be divided into two or more economic regions that will follow ecological/cultural/economic lines. It should not go unnoticed that the Bible also talks about the world being divided into ten economic kingdoms or horns during the last days in Daniel 2 (ten toes) and 7, and Revelation 13 and 17. Are we seeing that happen now? Time will tell. TOP

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