World News and Trends: The French disconnection
Recently the French voted down the new EU charter, already approved by nine EU members.
Recently the French voted down the new EU charter, already approved by nine EU members. Opposition to Muslim inclusion to the EU appears to be part of France's disconnect as well as its antipathy toward anything that smacks of the United States' political framework. Perhaps unwittingly, this catapults Germany to the head of the line of the EU, ending a long Franco-German coleadership of the EU.
This might appear to scuttle the EU's future plans as a single-minded, economic, political and military colossus. Not so. Giscard d'Estaing of France and Helmut Schmidt of Germany have already proposed a "two-tiered Europe" with a more united inner core of nations.
Remarkably, an inner-core tier could shed light on the seeming enigma of Revelation 17 and Daniel 2, the final dominant superpower in Bible prophecy consisting of 10 leaders who give their power to a single leader the Bible calls "the beast" (Revelation 17:12-13). What currently appears on the surface to be an EU accident might well precipitate an inner core of 10 national leaders who will surrender to and support a final supreme leader in Europe.
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Good News Magazine: July - August 2005
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Jerold Aust
Jerold Aust has served in the ministry for 52 years, as a public speaker for 58 years, a published writer for 38 years, and is employed by UCG’s Media and Communications Services. He is a Senior Writer, interviewer, and editor for Beyond Today Magazine and has taught Speech Communication for UCG’s ministerial online program and the Book of Revelation for ABC.
Jerold holds a BA in theology from Ambassador College, Pasadena (1968), an MA in Communication from California State University, Fullerton (1995), a distance-learning Ph.D (2006), and a Famous Writers School diploma in non-fiction writing (1973). Additionally, he studied post-grad communication at University of Southern California (1995), radio, TV, voice-overs, and Public Relations at Fullerton College (1995-1996), and graduate communication at Wichita State University (1978). Jerold has taught communication at the University of South Alabama (7 years) and ABC (17 years). His published works include, Ronald Reagan’s Rhetoric: Metaphor as Persuasion and EZSpeakers: Public Speaking Made Easy in 7 Steps. Jerold's overarching goal is to share with humankind its incredible destiny!
John Ross Schroeder
John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
