Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal promised yesterday to “give birth to the United States of Europe” should he win France’s presidential election in April.

• The late Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Plain Truth, predecessor to the Trumpet, repeatedly emphasized the exact phrase “United States of Europe” in his forecasts for Europe’s future.
• Bible prophecy warns that European unification is really a reiteration of what it terms “the beast,” the violent Holy Roman Empire.

Attal wants to remove trade restrictions between member states, introduce joint European debt, and merge major companies across the Continent to make Europe more competitive with China and the United States.

In the speech, given to lawmakers and former government officials at an aerospace start-up, he advocated for a two-speed European Union.

• This plan, often advocated by pan-Europeanists over the years, would more forcefully unite a smaller number of European nations and leave other current EU members with comparatively more sovereignty but fewer benefits.

Such measures will eventually succeed and help establish a unified European superpower, but only after Catholicism and the Vatican bind Europe together with a common religion under a forceful religious authority.

• Mr. Armstrong warned in 1950 that European states would distrust the U.S. and form “a united states of Europe.” He based that prediction on Revelation 17, which prophesies seven resurrections of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire slaughtered millions for religious beliefs throughout history. Its last iteration, led by Nazi Germany, was responsible for World War ii, in which roughly 70 million people died. This rising iteration of that German-led empire is prophesied to be even worse.