I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. And he exercised all the power of the first beast before him, and caused the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed (
Revelation 13:11-12).
The European Union is a mix of apostasy, communism, capitalisam and Islam. The ten-nation political alliance gives power to the Antichrist who leads the Beast (
European Union). The Catholic Church has a worldwide organization but mostly in Europe and Latin America. The Pope is not the Antichrist. After all Christians are raptured, the False Prophet will seize the organization and merge apostate and false religions into the worship of the Antichrist.
Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world (
1 John 4:2-3).
God told His people what will happen and when. The world was created in six days and God rested the seventh day. Man rules the earth 6000
years and that rule is almost over. It is amazing how many Scriptures are being fulfilled during our lifetime just before the
Tribulation.
References:
21st Century Revelation: World Wars, Iraq Wars & End Wars, Chapter 17 - Basic Bible Chronology, Chapter 20 - Players in the Game, Chapter 21- Four Horses on the Run,
Timeline of the Tribulation