The international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity to create a truly global society, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown will say in a keynote foreign policy speech.

In his annual speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, Brown - who has spearheaded calls for the reform of international financial institutions - will say Britain, the United States and Europe are key to forging a new world order.

"The alliance between Britain and the US - and more broadly between Europe and the US - can and must provide leadership, not in order to make the rules ourselves, but to lead the global effort to build a stronger and more just international order," an excerpt from the speech says.

Brown and other leaders meet in Washington next weekend to discuss longer term solutions for dealing with economic issues following a series of coordinated moves on interest rates and to recapitalise banks in the wake of the financial crisis.

"Uniquely in this global age, it is now in our power to come together so that 2008 is remembered not just for the failure of a financial crash that engulfed the world but for the resilience and optimism with which we faced the storm, endured it and prevailed," Brown will say in his speech on Monday evening.

"...And if we learn from our experience of turning unity of purpose into unity of action, we can together seize this moment of change in our world to create a truly global society."

Readers, if ever we have witnessed progress being made toward the creation of a global empire we're told in Bible prophecy is going to come into existence in the last days, the current global financial crisis is acting as a catalyst to make that once seemingly distant possiblity a soon-coming reality.

Not only do we see a clarion call being issued for the birth of the new world order to occur, we see a key element necessary for it to come to pass in the response of the United States to that call.

The EU Observer is reporting the following in part:

As he prepares to host a G20 meeting on Saturday, outgoing US President George W. Bush has said he has found "common ground" with European leaders on how to address the financial crisis. However, the specifics of global reform of financial regulation are unlikely to be agreed before president-elect Barack Obama takes office.

"We believe there is a great deal of common ground among our approaches to address the turmoil in the financial markets, and President Bush looks forward to discussing how to best advance reforms to global financial markets with a wide range of leaders," White House spokesperson Dana Perino said on Saturday (8 November).

President George W. Bush will host a summit of the world's 20 leading industrialised and emerging countries in Washington on 15 November, but the expectations are that any concrete reforms will be developed only after a second summit early next year in which the incoming Obama administration participates.

On November 15th, President Bush, having found "common ground" with leaders of the revived Roman empire we refer to as the European Union on how to best deal with the global financial crisis, is going to set the stage for the administration of President Obama, in the stages of its infancy no less, to have to address "concrete reforms" the November 15th summit is going to deem necessary. Think about that for a moment. What choice is the Obama administration, having made recovery of our economy a cornerstone of its political platform leading up to the November 4th elections, going to have other than to go along with whatever the international community is going to suggest needs to be done in this scenario? From my perspective, there doesn't seem to be but one response that can be given.

It looks like the forging of the new world order is about to begin in earnest. Although many of us have been feeling somewhat stressed by recent developments on multiple fronts, this is a reminder to us that there is a divinely-foreseen order to what often seems to us to be utter chaos.

Proverbs 3:5-7: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Maranatha!