Helen,

I didn't mean this specifically was a prophecy fulfilled but I am guessing
the 10 nations talked about in the book of the Revelation will be made up of
10 unions.  For years, of course, everybody thought it would be 10 nations
functioning as one out of Europe.  What do they have now?  Something like 27
countries?  I can't remember but I have always thought the 10 nations would
be the 10 countries that had nuclear capability as far as weapons are
concerned.  If they don't get a handle on somebody pretty soon, like North
Korea, Pakistan, India, Eran, or even Israel, somebody is going to set off a
nuclear weapon and blow a few million people off the planet.  Unless it is a
small nuclear device, I doubt it will happen in the Middle East simply
because everybody is so close together, half the Middle East would disappear
in a mushroom cloud if a big bomb were detonated.  Probably the country that
set it off would blow itself away in the process.  I've been guessing on
Pakistan and Indian getting into it the last couple of years myself and they
certainly have come close.  Then, too, it could be a nuclear detonation in
the United States that kills a few million and pushes the U S off the map as
far as a global super power is concerned.  If that happens, the entire
planet will suffer economically in dozens of ways.  Many countries, of
course, already depend heavily economicly on the United States.  Even the EU
would likely collapse if the U S drops off the global market economically.
At least that's what the big economists are suggesting.  Anyhow, The North
American Union would likely be one of those 10 unions around the world.  It
seems like there is a lot of puzzle pieces being moved around.  I honestly
never thought I would see some of the world events in my life time that have
occurred and it sure seems closer to the return of the Lord more than any
time I can remember.  I'm also trying to keep up on the sun activity because
to me, it appears the sun is going to go into a nova stage during the
tribulation.  They used to think that a nova cycle, where the sun heats up,
normally they say 7 times hotter than normal, and the period it takes to die
out, turning the sun into a Red Dwarf, would take thousands of years.  Now
they say the entire cycle can take just 7 years.  Last year, or perhaps it
was late the year before, a 100,000 square mile area of the sun's surface
blew off into space.  They call these Corona Mass Ejections or CME's for
short.  This is one of the largest solar flares ever recorded.  The area of
the sun where this took place just happened to be pointed at a 45 degree
angle from the earth.  Otherwise, we would have had serious power outages,
weather disturbances, and likely would have lost a lot of satellite
communications.  In the last 50 years, the sun activity has increased and
larger and larger sections of the sun's surface are blowing off.  They are
predicting, even in the ham radio reports, that the next sun spot cycle, due
to arrive in the next two years, that is, it is building up now, will be the
largest sun activity ever.  That means even bigger areas blowing off into
space and if any one of the large CME's is pointed at the earth when it
goes, we are facing global cataclysmic results.  Every time I hear about the
latest sun spot solar flare and its size, I think of what Jesus said about
signs in the sky before His return.  I'm sure glad I'm a Christian.

Phil.