00:04Greetings, friends. This is Steve Dupuy for the Bible News Prophecy Program with Dr. Bob Thiel,
00:09bringing you news and analysis of world events in light of Bible prophecy. Dr. Thiel,
00:15is there anything else of significance happening in the world other than,
00:19or maybe because of, the Iran and Ukraine wars?
00:23Well, there's a lot of things going on, but what I'd like to focus on today
00:26is that the European Union continues to work to increase trade with other lands,
00:31triggered in part because of trade policies by the Trump administration,
00:34as well as previous U.S. administrations and policies.
00:39I want to go over something. There was an article that came out yesterday about Southeast Asia.
00:46Here's the headline.
00:47Trust in the EU, European Union, grows in Southeast Asia.
00:52It says, Europe's standing in Southeast Asia has improved over the past year.
00:56Okay, since after Trump's been in office.
01:00It's emerged as the region's most preferred third party to hedge against the United States and China rivalry,
01:08according to the State of Southeast Asia Survey, an annual poll that they published.
01:17According to the survey, 55.9% of the respondents said they trusted the EU to do the right thing,
01:25contribute to global peace, security, and prosperity, and governance.
01:29That's up 4% from last year.
01:32And over the same period, the distrust of the EU dropped by 5.5%.
01:39The EU is the ASEAN group's third largest trade partner after the U.S. and China.
01:45It's the bloc's second largest source of direct investment.
01:51The EU already has free trade agreements with Singapore and Vietnam that recently concluded a major trade deal with Indonesia.
02:03It's also looking to finalize agreements with the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand.
02:10And Alfred Grussell, an expert on Indo-Pacific relations, said,
02:15not only are the EU and ASEAN confronted with identical challenges,
02:19they also share an interest in promoting international law.
02:23As the two strongest regional organizations in this part of the world,
02:27they have a strong incentive to collaborate more closely to defend a rules-based order.
02:33I know you've told us in the past that Europe is going to rise up economically.
02:38Are they doing anything else that will fulfill this prediction?
02:43Oh, yeah.
02:44Well, the EU is already the biggest trade partner with Africa.
02:48And several months ago, they held a summit meeting in Angola, a country in Africa,
02:53to increase trade further in Africa.
02:57Furthermore, the EU is planning on greatly increasing trade with South America.
03:03An article that just came out that says,
03:07EU-MIRCOSER agreement to provisionally apply from 1 May 2026.
03:11The European Commission has formally notified
03:15MIRCOSER countries of the European Union's decision to proceed
03:19with provisional application of their trade agreement.
03:23The notification was made through a verbal address to Paraguay,
03:29the legal custodian of the MIRCOSER treaties,
03:32completing the final procedural requirement in line with the council decision of 9 January 2026.
03:38So does that mean the deal is done?
03:42To a degree.
03:43Okay.
03:43As a result, they're going to start trading more.
03:48And by the way, the MIRCOSER countries are Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
03:57And the document is going to start to be implemented now.
04:01And it's been hailed as an economic boon to both the EU and these Latin American countries.
04:08Now, I'm going to read something.
04:10Simple question.
04:11What's the EU-MIRCOSER deal about?
04:14The agreement, it says, aims to facilitate the flow of goods between the EU's member states
04:20and the four MIRCOSER economies.
04:23The EU says this will create one of the world's biggest trade zones with over 780 million people
04:29and could help soften the blow of U.S. tariffs by opening new export opportunities.
04:36Ignacio Garcia-Bercero, who's in a Brussels think tank, says,
04:43is probably one of the most significant and economically impactful trade agreements
04:47that's ever been concluded.
04:51According to the agreement, over the course of several years,
04:54so not completely in place yet,
04:58the two sides will lift over 90% of their respective tariffs
05:01that they currently apply to each other.
05:03Now, this sets 780 million people in the EU and the MIRCOSER companies.
05:08But if you add the associated countries to the EU,
05:11as well as associated countries to the MIRCOSER block,
05:15this is over 1 billion people.
05:17This is a huge deal.
05:19Therefore, yes, the EU is making trade moves away from the USA,
05:23as I predicted, based on biblical prophecies while watching world events.
05:28So, the EU has made trade agreements with countries from Africa,
05:32Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
05:35In what other way are they making trade moves away from the USA?
05:40Well, they just made a major trade deal with India.
05:43Hmm.
05:45There's over, there's about a billion, billion and a half Indians.
05:50And regarding trade,
05:52there's something I have in our free book
05:57about the unintended consequences in Donald Trump's presidency.
06:02Some of the things I have in here is trade.
06:05The morning after his election, I wrote,
06:07Europe will get more serious about trade deals with others internationally,
06:11such as being more motivated to approve the deal
06:14with the MIRCOSER block of South America.
06:17So, how does the fact that Europe will get more serious about trade deals
06:22relate to your book about Donald Trump and unintended consequences?
06:27When I wrote that,
06:31well, anyway, what I wrote in that book was
06:33one of the unintended consequences of Donald Trump's threats of terrorists
06:36and other trade matters is that it's motivating nations.
06:38He is threatened to look to trade more to each other.
06:42Look, the Europeans and the Latin Americans
06:46have been working on the COSER deal for a couple of decades, okay?
06:49This finally was the factor.
06:52You know, Isaac Newton's third law of motion states
06:55that for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
06:59Anyway, in the case of the Trump administration,
07:02policies are pushing away and threatening Europe.
07:06And it's motivating them to make deals that they've been hesitant to make.
07:09Now, in that Trump book, I also wrote,
07:13Europe will get more serious about trade deals with others internationally.
07:18Pushing tariffs and other policies that foreign nations do not like
07:22has contributed to other nations looking to bypass the United States dollar,
07:26as well as to trade more with each other
07:29and less with the United States of America.
07:31This will further push globalist moves forward without the USA.
07:35Thus, it's also helping set the stage to the coming European Babylon beast
07:40to dominate international trade.
07:43So, a lot's happening in Europe.
07:47Now, I want to read number eight of my items,
07:56of 26 items to prophetically watch in 2026.
07:59Number eight was trade.
08:02Not all warfare is militaristic.
08:05There's also economic warfare.
08:07This also often involves trade.
08:10Major use of sanctions,
08:11mainly pushed by the United States of America,
08:14has been continuing.
08:16This is affecting trade
08:18and pushing trade away from the United States of America.
08:20The EU will decide that Mexico
08:22and the rest of Latin America
08:24are in more agreement with it
08:25and will make some serious trading agreements
08:28with most or all of Latin America.
08:32And these things are happening.
08:35Number nine on this list,
08:37which I wrote in 2025 for this year,
08:41is called European trade moves.
08:43And Europe, to Donald Trump's tariffs,
08:46threats are a major concern for European trade.
08:50And I mentioned it in 2018.
08:53I wrote the Europeans have been working with Latin America,
08:56China, Russia, the Eurasian Union,
08:57and others in the world to try to set up
09:00its dominance of world trade
09:01as well as the standards of world trade.
09:03And such deals are happening.
09:05Again, this is what I wrote in 2025
09:07about what's going to happen for this year.
09:09Expect more concrete action,
09:12at least partially because of the re-election
09:14of Donald Trump along with J.D. Vance.
09:17Europe will reach out to various ones
09:19in Africa and Asia, which it's done,
09:22and Latin America, which it's done.
09:23In the next several years,
09:25more trade will occur with Africa, Asia,
09:28Mexico, and South America.
09:32Expect more trade conflict
09:33between the United States and Europe.
09:35The Bible shows that Europe will,
09:36for a time, dominate trade.
09:38See Revelation 17 and Revelation 18.
09:41So that's what I wrote last year.
09:43Well, these things are happening now.
09:46And even in the United States
09:48Prime Agriculture noted, quote,
09:50Mexico and the European Union
09:51are expected to sign
09:52a modernized global agreement in 2026.
09:57Another time, you've mentioned
09:59that the stage is being set
10:01for the European Babylonian beast power.
10:03And just now, you use Revelation 17 and 18
10:07as a reference to European domination
10:09of world trade.
10:11Elaborate on that.
10:14Well, again, in what I wrote in 2025
10:17to look for 2026, I wrote,
10:19Europe will get more serious
10:20about trade deals with others internationally,
10:22such as being more motivated
10:24to approve trade deals
10:26with the recursive bloc of South America.
10:30That said, in 2026,
10:32Europe will work on getting more of the world
10:34to accept its standards
10:36and trading matters.
10:37This will help Europe
10:38ultimately dominate trade.
10:40For a time, Babylon will dominate world trade.
10:43And so in that article,
10:45I quoted Revelation 18, verses 2 to 3.
10:49So let me read from the Bible.
10:52And he cried mightily
10:53with a loud voice saying,
10:56Babylon, the great is fallen,
10:58is fallen, is becoming a dwelling place
10:59of demons and of every foul spirit
11:02and a cage for every unclean
11:04and hated bird.
11:05For all the nations have drunk
11:07of the wine and the wrath
11:09of her fornication.
11:10The kings of the earth
11:11have committed fornication with her
11:13and the merchants of the earth,
11:15let's talk about trade,
11:17have become rich
11:17through the abundance of her luxury.
11:21So those verses indicate
11:23that the nations
11:24that are now entering trade agreements
11:26with Europe
11:26are the ones committing fornication
11:29with Babylon.
11:30Will Europe continue
11:31to make new trade deals
11:33with additional kings of the year?
11:36Yes.
11:37And again, going back
11:38to what I warned last year
11:40to look at this year,
11:41that what Europe is trying to do,
11:44although Babylon will not fully reign
11:46in 2026,
11:48the USA is pulling out of trade deals
11:50or are wishing to change them
11:52and steps are pushing Europe
11:53to dominate trade.
11:56Expect Europe to reach out
11:57to various Gentile nations
11:59in Asia, Africa, South America,
12:01and elsewhere to make trade deals.
12:03The final time of Gentiles
12:06is approaching.
12:08We see BRICS,
12:09so that, by the way,
12:11Brazil, Russia, India, China,
12:13South Africa,
12:14plus there's also Egypt, Ethiopia,
12:16Iran are part of BRICS
12:17and some others.
12:18So Global South,
12:20the EU and others
12:22are working on ways to trade
12:25and not have to deal
12:26with descendants of Ephraim,
12:29UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
12:31and Manasseh,
12:33the United States of America.
12:35And by the way,
12:35we have a free book on that
12:37at ccog.org
12:38about lost tribes.
12:39Anyway,
12:41to finish what I wrote last year
12:43to look at this year,
12:44the Europeans will work
12:45with many nations
12:46to secure stronger
12:48trade agreements.
12:50And that's been happening.
12:52And this stuff's not covered
12:54in much of the mainstream press.
12:56I mean, how often
12:57have you seen
12:58the mainstream press
12:59going out and saying,
13:00oh, by the way,
13:01Europe's making this trade deal
13:03and Europe's making this trade deal
13:04and these other people
13:04are making these other trade deals
13:05with each other
13:06and not the United States.
13:08We don't hear it.
13:09What we hear in this country
13:10about the tariffs and trade
13:12is it's going to affect inflation
13:14or it didn't affect inflation
13:15as much as we thought
13:16or it's going to affect this,
13:18it's going to affect that.
13:20But these people
13:21aren't looking at the Bible.
13:23The Bible's telling us
13:24that Babylon,
13:26the great,
13:26its trading power,
13:28it's going to rise up
13:29in Europe
13:30and this is happening
13:31right now before their eyes.
13:32It's one of the biggest stories
13:34that they're missing.
13:36And you might see
13:37a little bit about it
13:38here and there
13:39but they don't emphasize it.
13:41They don't think
13:41it's important
13:42because they don't rely
13:43on the Bible.
13:45And this is a problem
13:47with other things.
13:48I mean,
13:49other things are going on too.
13:49The Europeans are arming.
13:51There's stuff going on
13:52with Iran
13:53that I think
13:54fulfills some other prophecies,
13:55other things going on
13:56in the Middle East.
13:56But they miss that
14:00or their biases
14:01and the fact
14:02that they don't believe
14:03the Word of God.
14:04But they should
14:05because the reality is
14:06properly understood
14:08biblical prophecies
14:09are coming to pass.
14:12Thank you, Dr. Thiel.
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