How is today's European union the revived Roman empire?
Today's European union is seen as the revived Roman empire because Western Europe is uniting as a United States of Europe, a comeback of the ancient Roman empire that had been dead for almost 2,000 years. Its deadly wound is healed, the world wonders, and it will ultimately drop back to 10.
Les explains that Daniel saw the ancient Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek, and Roman empires, and then saw the residue of those empires coming back together in the revival of the fourth dreadful and terrible empire, which was Roman. Revelation pictures one of its heads wounded to death, but the deadly wound is healed, and all the world wonders after this beast, this empire. Les brings this to the present time, teaching that Western Europe is coming together more and more as the United States of Europe. He notes the number may be 10 or 12, possibly 14 or 15, but they will drop back to 10. Because this is a revival of that empire that existed almost 2,000 years ago, was dead and off the scene, yet now comes back full force, the world is amazed. Europe had been ravaged by World War II, its great cities reduced to heaps of rubble and its industry destroyed, yet it has recovered.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.