And Yeshuites shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s. – Obadiah 21
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay . . . they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another . . . God of heaven shall set up a kingdom. – Daniel 2:41-45
There must be a stone cut out of a mountain without hands, before it can fall upon the toes of the Image, and become a great mountain and fill the earth. . . Isaac Newton, Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel & the Apocalypse of St. John, p. 78 (Anodos Edition)
“The King of these locusts” was the “Angel of the bottomless pit,” being the chief governor as well in religious as civil affairs, such as was the Caliph of the Saracens. Swarms of locusts often arise in Arabia faelix, and from thence infest the neighboring nations: and so are a very fit type of the numerous armies of Arabians invading the Romans. Newton, Ibid., p. 95
The Dilemma of the European Union
As a child of the Baby Boom generation – the post-World War II demographic phenomenon – I have lived in the shadow of the threat of nuclear war. Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction” has been our generational mantra.
As a remedy to what was really two parts of a half-century of war (WWI & WWII), world leaders created various treaty organizations to prevent the possibility of nuclear war. One of those organizations was the “North Atlantic Treaty Organization” (NATO) which was strictly a military development. Much later, a supranational organization called the “European Union” (EU) was created for the purposes of general economic and political cooperation among its members. Prior to the EU, there was the “Common Market.”
One of the advantages of the EU was that it benefited trade. It also created open borders between its members and “Interpol,” a police organization to track criminals and terrorists. Previous incentives for war among the European states (such as trade barriers, tariffs, and the state harboring of rebels and criminals) were eliminated.
Many of the European nations were colonial powers. They were largely divested of their colonies after WWII, but they retained corporate ownership of many of their colonial resources such as mines, oil wells and plantations in order to maintain the flow of these important commodities into their countries. In terms of industrialization and world wealth, Europe remained the “head” and not the “tail.”
Even though their colonies benefited from the initial European investment of capital and technology to develop their resources, Europe’s colonies eventually demanded a greater return from that investment and complained of “exploitation” of their respective peoples. While the movement for Communism had subsided in Western Europe (and then after the Cold War the former Eastern Bloc countries), it was still a driving force for many revolutionary movements in Africa, Asia, and South America among countries that were classified as the “Third World.”
Having been a former colony itself, many Americans sympathized with these movements and had a divided loyalty between the notions of private property and social justice. These people were predominately members of the political Left.
But on the political Right, there were malcontents who were offended by the power of large corporations and the machinations of rich men in capturing markets through war and treaties. In part, so-called conservative movements, such as the John Birch Society, created a political army through its publishing arm of capable researchers who exposed the nefarious activities of these rich men who constituted an elite class at first identified with the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Warburgs, Rothschilds, and so on. “Get US out!” – meaning get the United States out of the United Nations – was a frequent mantra among the political Right. And any international agreement to promote cooperation among nations, such as the ill-fated NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), was viewed with suspicion and even hostility.
For the Religious Right, theological doctrines were promulgated to support this anti-globalist movement. Globalist ventures were regarded as the work of the Antichrist which not only subverted the Constitution and America’s free institutions but also promoted a world religion which compromised basic Christian tenets of faith.
My uncle was a charter member of the John Birch Society and I was reared on these ideas. I read John Stormer’s None Dare Call It Treason (1964) as a youngster; I read Gary Allen’s classic, None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1971) at the age of 12.
Obviously, at such a young age, I did not understand most of the content of these books, but I did understand just enough to share their world view.
Of course, at the time, the European Union did not exist. As was said above, Europe was organized first as “The Common Market.” The Common Market was a stepping stone to a deeper integration which became the EU. Sheltering under the nuclear might of the United States, Western Europe set about to rebuild their countries after the devastation of the war period.
European Union in Prophecy
Previous studies under this “Newton’s Notes” label have revisited the Historicist School of Bible prophecy. As was true of Newton, Historicists regarded these sundry prophecies in the books of Daniel and Revelation as “history written in advance.” What was supposed to happen upon the break-up of the Roman Empire (the Fourth Kingdom in this interpretation) was the emergence of a Ten-Kingdom confederacy descending from various ethnic divisions of Central and Western Europe which were heirs of the territory and hegemony of the Classical Roman period. The divided empire which arose afterwards during the “Christian” Roman period under Constantine et al would eventually emerge as an Eleventh Kingdom which would rise up out of the Ten and seek to impose a unity upon the whole.
This Eleventh Kingdom was identified as the Papacy by Newton and other Historicists. It was the Papacy which would repeatedly try to use religion – specifically its brand of episcopacy – as the unifying principle. Later, having failed at that unifying principle, this Eleventh Kingdom would use the power of a commercial empire (“Mystery Babylon”) and the imposition of racial miscegenation (“fornication” cf. Jezebel, Rev. 2:14, 20) – or in other words, an experiment in eugenics – in order to produce a homogenous population which would be compliant to its rule.
As noted by Newton cited above – coming centuries before our modern situation, yet instructed by past European experiences with the Moors in Spain and the Ottomans in Central Europe – Historicists expected a future European invasion by the “Arabian locusts” which would overrun the Continent.
Analysts must make a distinction between “the Ten Kingdoms” proper and the apostasy imposed upon them by the Eleventh Kingdom. The Ten Kingdoms are not the Antichrist but become the Antichrist while they serve the Eleventh Kingdom in the name of “international unity.” Theoretically, they cease to be the Antichrist when they are subdued by the “Stone Kingdom” as noted by Daniel’s prophecy also cited above.
Newton was Pelagian on this point: he believed that human beings were capable of moral choice and that through sin, they can apostasize and become evil, yet through repentance and saving grace, they can be restored. This was true also of human institutions, such as churches and kingdoms.
Newton was a Moral Government theologian who integrated this view of human agency into his Covenant Theology: choices result in sanctions. Obedience results in Divine blessings and disobedience produces Divine cursings. As we have cited him before on this question:
While the people of God keep the covenant, they continue to be his people: when they break it they cease to be his people or church, and become the Synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not. And no power on earth is authorized to alter this covenant.
Ibid., p. 5
Although he might be considered “Reformed” living among his Puritan contemporaries who were Calvinist, yet, he regarded the Church Councils which condemned Pelagianism to be the work of Papal supremacists:
And in one of his decretal Epistles to Nicetus Bishop of Aquileia, he [Pope Zosimus, circa. 417 AD] commands him to call a Council of the Bishops of that Province against the Pelagians, which might ratify all the Synodal Decrees which had been already ratified by the See of Rome against this heresy. . . These words sufficiently shew the monarchial form of government then set up in the Churches of the Western Empire under the Bishop of Rome, by means of the imperial Decree of Gratian, and the appeals and decretal Epistles grounded thereupon.
Ibid., p. 33-34
Thus, in Newton’s view, it is possible for Europe in its apostasy to be the “Whore of Babylon,” yet upon judgment and repentance, to become the Camp of the Saints. It all depends upon the moral condition of the people and the righteousness of their institutions. On this point, he was less a Historicist and was more an Idealist, as was said in a recent Cambrian Pesher:
While all schools of eschatology must engage with the symbolic language of the Bible, “typology” – especially the notion of the archetype – is a unique feature of the Idealist School. Newton was known in his day as a Historicist because, as a master of history, he could identify the fulfillment of prophecy from the biblical period to at least the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, his view of symbolic language belonged to the notion of the archetype and the “ecbatic” progression of sacred history through time.
“Archetypes & Ecbatic Prophecy,” The Cambrian Pesher, December, 2025
The Camp of the Saints
The Camp of the Saints is a controversial 1973 French dystopian novel by Jean Raspail that depicts the collapse of Western civilization due to mass, Third World immigration, specifically a million migrants from India descending on France. The book explores themes of societal decay, racial conflict, and the West’s inability to defend itself against an overwhelming influx of people, often described as prophetic and highly relevant to modern debates on immigration.
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And [Satan] shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. – Revelation 20:8-10
The student of prophecy must appreciate that the “Stone Kingdom” in Daniel’s visions Newton associates with a true Christian kingdom which somehow begins its rule in the territory now occupied by the “Ten Toes” or the Ten Kingdoms cited above. This would be Western and Central Europe and presumably all territories settled by them in the subsequent centuries. This would also include the Americas settled by Europeans, various island nations such as Australia and Iceland, and outlier nation states such as South Africa.
However, this Stone Kingdom does not preserve the sovereign power of this Ten-Kingdom complex and its various colonies, but rather completely destroys it. Just prior to this conquest by the Stone Kingdom, the Ten Kingdoms rebel against the Eleventh Kingdom and “Mystery Babylon,” but evidently do not “repent” according to the biblical narrative.
In a final desperate act, the Eleventh Kingdom seeks to flood the Ten Kingdoms with “locusts” – a flood of immigrants – in an attempt to fend off the rebellion. It is during this period of “clay mixed with iron” that the Stone Kingdom emerges and destroys the Ten Kingdoms along with the Eleventh Kingdom and the “locusts.”
While Newton’s analysis ascribes the Eastern Empire (the 2nd Rome and presumably the “3rd Rome” which is Moscow) to a fate inflicted by the “Tartars” and the Turks (p. 95), who are in turn destroyed by the “armies of heaven”, i.e. the descendants of the Parthians (see the Cambrian Pesher: “Jesus, The Parthian King of Kings“), the kingdoms of the Western Empire are destroyed directly by the Stone Kingdom which grows from a small beginning to become a mountain which fills the whole world.
Since in the Book of Revelation, it is “the Beast” and the “False Prophet” who are thrown in the “Lake of Fire,” the “Ten Kings” are left on the battlefield to be eaten by the “vultures” in a feast described as “The Marriage Supper of the Lamb” (Rev. 19:9). In Newton’s lexicon, this festal orgy represents the confiscation and scavenging of these former kingdoms by the new Stone Kingdom erected in their place:
[T]he flesh [is put] for riches and possessions (Newton, Observations, p. 7).
While numerous religious groups, including American advocates of Manifest Destiny, have fancied themselves as this “Stone Kingdom” called upon to restart the world, nevertheless, Newton regarded reform movements during this “Tribulation Period” as deceptive reiterations of the “false prophet.” For Newton, the true churches were the physical descendants of the two faithful Churches in Revelation 1-3, which contain episcopal letters to the “Seven Churches”: five which apostasized, two which did not: Smyrna and Philadelphia.
In previous studies, we have profiled them as the “Church of the Anointers” (Smyrna) and the “Church of the Brother’s Love” (Philadelphia), which in the analysis of their particulars can yield the following:
Of the seven, Smyrna and Philadelphia were not “spoken against” by Christ in the vision.
Even though he had words of commendation for most of the churches, and certainly
acknowledged the righteous remnant in each one, it was only Smyrna and Philadelphia
that were left unremoved from the menorah and continued in their role of lighting the
Temple. Newton makes them the Olive trees of Zechariah’s vision (chapter 4) and also
the two Witnesses of Revelation 11 :The two Witnesses are not new Churches: they are the posterity of the primitive
Church, the posterity of the two wings of the woman, and so are fitly represented
by two of the primitive candlesticks. Observations, p. 88, (Cambrian Pesher, “The Liturgy of Malediction,” 2021)
The Church of Smyrna would be the Church of the Anointers and the Ebion: the Church of the mothers – the Widows – of the Desposyni (the Seventy) who with the Apostles ordained the first Christian leaders. Outside of the Church, the Desposyni – being Davidic – were unknown as such, but were rather mere farmers and tradesmen. This was because they refused to integrate with “Establishment Judaism” or with the secret societies among the Gnostics and other heresies.
The Church of Philadelphia – noted as the Church of Brotherly Love – would be the Desposynic Church in Exile who may have lost their identity, but still retained a piety and heritage from the Johannine Community. Largely Teutonic, they would live in tribal groups as freemen and would propagate a patriarchy and landed gentry as embodied in institutions such as the English Common Law.
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Broken or Crushed?
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. Jesus, Matthew 21:43-44
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works or else I will come . . . and will remove thy candlestick. – Revelation 2:5
The close of World War II concluded a long period of European racial hubris that spanned centuries. Victors tend to hold their conquests in contempt and often ascribe victory to some superior racial quality. When the Europeans encountered so many inferior tribes during their explorations, it only seemed to validate these prejudices.
After the Nazi experiment with eugenics and genocide, Europeans turned away from that legacy in horror. Rejecting Social Darwinism, they tried to create an inclusive society which welcomed the peoples of their former conquests. Instead of breeding and ethnic cleansing, they would use education and therapeutic methods to heal and shape society.
But the pendulum swung too far the other way.
Instead of focusing on a peaceful and beneficial transition for their former colonies within their respective homelands, they opened the floodgates of immigration which have, in the end, produced a different threat: Islamic chauvinism. These new immigrant hordes believe they are superior to Europeans because of their religion.
The elite’s commitment to social engineering is wavering, and may finally be dead at Davos. It is hoped that there will be a renewed commitment to free institutions which grow organically from the family and the Christian religion.
The danger before us, of course, is a faulty religion which is founded upon a Judeo-Christian heritage. Because it was fundamentally flawed, it gave rise to Newton’s polemic which we have been reviewing with these many installments of Newton’s Notes and the many other studies available on this website. Newton was not only a devout Christian, but he was also a leader of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment proposed a Christianity founded upon a reasonable understanding of Divine Revelation in contrast from one founded upon Church dogma and thought control.
There is no law of nature which requires that the West must follow the path of “Mystery Babylon.” Certainly, the view of Bible prophecy offered here does not require it, even though the prevailing view among Zionists and Fundamentalists may be to the contrary. Rather, we can, through self-correction, become the “Camp of the Saints” which receives the benediction and the vindication of Heaven.
Let us choose that path, instead.
JWS, 1/25/26
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