New 'Priestly' EU President

Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy kisses Lady Ashton after his appointment as EU president Photograph: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images

Is this the Biblically prophesied 'King of the North'? Read this fascinating profile on Herman Van Rompuy from the British newspaper, Guardian and then you decide.

Profile: Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium's Mr Fixit

• Ian Traynor in Brussels
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 November 2009 22.38 GMT

Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium's centre-right prime minister, pulled off the coup of a long political career tonight by ascending to the post of president of the European Council, the new summiteering role established by the Lisbon treaty.

Known as Belgium's Mr Fixit for his low-key, patient work behind the scenes struggling to hold a fractious country together, Van Rompuy won the bad-tempered contest for the role by making friends and influencing people.

He has been a fixture in Roman Catholic and Christian Democratic politics for decades, but he shuns the limelight, appears ascetic and austere, and prefers to conduct his politics away from public gaze. Derided by British Europhobes as "Rumpypumpy", the obscure embodiment of an elitist EU mafia bent on demolishing the nation state, Van Rompuy owed his extraordinary triumph to strong support from Berlin and Paris and to the fact that he has not been around EU summits long enough to make any enemies.

A classicist and economist by education and an alumnus of Belgium's ancient Catholic University of Leuven, Van Rompuy is a committed European federalist, a position that suits the core and oldest EU member states, but raises many eyebrows among east Europeans, Scandinavians, and, of course, the British.

"Europe has no use for iconoclasts, the old continent is crying out for calm steadfastness," De Standaard, the leading Flemish newspaper, writes tomorrow of the unlikely victory for Van Rompuy. "He will soon be the first president of Europe. Never in his wildest dreams could the Christian Democrat have thought the best was yet to come."

Van Rompuy has been prime minister of Belgium for less than a year, summoned last December by King Albert II, to try to salvage a country plagued by tensions between Dutch-speaking Flanders to the north and Francophone Wallonia to the south.

Previously, the king had employed Van Rompuy as the key intermediary cajoling the two alienated halves of the country into shortlived coalitions.

In an EU that prizes consensus, compromise and operates as a supranational coalition of different countries, interests, and political forces, Van Rompuy's talents for persuasion and conciliation look to be his prime qualifications for the job of chairing EU summits and trying to harmonise the EU agenda. His appointment frustrated those eager to show greater European muscle abroad by giving the job to a household name like Tony Blair. The criticism is that in an international crisis, Van Rompuy does not have the stature to stand alongside Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, or Hu Jintao and that Europe will be relegated to the second division of international powers.

Van Rompuy enjoys a reputation for self-deprecating wit. The appearance of modesty is said to mask steely determination, sharp intelligence, and strongly held views which he seldom reveals. He does not suffer fools and can be withering in private about political opponents, say Belgian sources.

Van Rompuy writes haiku in his native Dutch, and speaks French, English, and German. He is said to take himself off to a monastic retreat once a month. He is credited with easing the tensions which were threatening to tear Belgium apart last year, although he has accomplished that simply by putting off some of the biggest decisions which are the sources of the rancour.

In his prime role as chair of EU summits, he is likely to be more the servant of European national leaders rather than their master, another factor in his success.

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Did you notice the few words I gave emphasis to? Below is the definition of each of these words along with a bit of Bible prophecy:


Austere: Severe or stern in disposition or appearance; priestly (Revelation 17 is devoted entirely to warning the world about a 'beast' power that has a religious element guiding it, i.e., Catholicism).

Iconoclasts: A person who attacks established or traditional concepts, principles or laws. One who destroys sacred religious images. (Daniel 7:25 prophesies a time where the King of the North will speak directly against Almighty God and His saints AND change laws that are sacred to God and His true followers).


Cajoling:To persuade by flattery (Daniel 11:32-34 indicates this is how the final 'beast' power will convince millions to go against Apostolic Christianity).

Monastic: Resembling life in a monastery in style, structure, or manner (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 reveals a prophecy when the leader of the 'beast' power proclaims that he is God from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem).


Although not found in a dictionary, I found this reporters comments describing Van Rompuy's style of politics intriguing - that is Van Rompuy manages EU business 'behind the scenes' as well as he 'prefers to conduct his politics away from public gaze'. This style of business is how those who are involved with creating the peace treaty between Israel and the international community are depicted in Daniel 9:27 - a 'behind the scenes' agreement that will be made 'between many'.


Daniel 11:40-45 also tells of a time in the very near future where the King of the North (EU President) and the King of the South (a consortium of Islamic nations) will have a major disagreement and it will escalate to a war. Newly appointed EU President Van Rompuy has been quoted as saying 'The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigor with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey'.

The CIA World Factbook states that Turkey is 99.8% Muslim. What do you think the Turkish government is thinking right about now? I'm here to tell ya, they don't have visions of 'sugar plumbs' dancing in their heads! I'll take an educated, layman's guess that 'jihad' is foremost on their minds right about now.



If all this isn't enough, Van Rompuy is also a 'fixture in Roman Catholic and Christian Democratic politics for decades'. Frequent readers of this website will remember that in Revelation 17, the woman riding on the back of the seven headed, ten horned beast is the Roman Catholic Church. 

Keep your eyes on news coming out of the Vatican on this new EU Presidential appointment. My thinking is the Vatican will fully support Van Rompuy's agenda and begin the ride of the harlot!


Whew! Can you feel the importance of this moment? Do you understand that Jesus Christ's second coming is only a few short years away? If you can't feel it, then get a spoon and start digging the sand out of your ears because you've had your head in the same for too long! 


Its time to wake up. Its time to realize that only those whose names are written in the Book of Life will enter the 'Government of God' (Revelation 22:19). 

Am I flat out saying that this Van Rompuy is the King of the North? Nope, just pointing out some interesting facts about what type of political leader the King of the North will be. Because the EU presidential term is 2.5 years in length, this could be or it could be the next appointed EU president. Either way, the 'beast' is formed and ready to rock and roll!



Do you want to 'ride the beast' into the Lake of Fire or do you want your name written in the Book of Life? This is a choice that is yours and only yours to decide. But I wouldn't wait long - the Book won't be open forever.