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THE BLAST THAT CHANGED LEBANON COVER Smoke rises from the port in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4 after 2,700 metric tons of ammonium nitrate exploded. (Fadel Itani/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

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FROM THE EDITOR 1 China’s Secret War Against America 12 WORLDWATCH 26 Why We Told You to Watch Lebanon The Glory of Empire 15 SOCIETYWATCH 29 COVER STORY 2 The Beirut Blast: Catalyst INFOGRAPHIC 18 PRINCIPLES OF LIVING 33 for Biblical Prophecy Losing Our Religion Escape the ‘Biggest Civilizational Catastrophe’ Why the Arabs Embraced the Jews 6 ‘Economic Popgun, Political Howitzer’ 20 DISCUSSION BOARD 34 The Hidden Message of the Horowitz Report 9 Why Does Germany Have So COMMENTARY 35 Many Neo-Nazi Conspiracies? 22 Disunited States: What Happened to ‘Never Again’? 11 A Lesson We Must Learn History Is a Path to Understand Bible Prophecy 24 THE KEY OF DAVID TELEVISION LOG 36 A Watchman and a Prophet 25

Rescue workers search for victims after a massive explosion rocked Beirut.

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Why We Told You to Watch Lebanon

n August 4, the world was shocked by a massive However, soon after, Saudi Arabia decided it was too risky to explosion that destroyed much of downtown Beirut, the fully implement the deal. The Saudis and the French realized O capital of Lebanon. they had underestimated the power of Iran’s hold on Lebanon It quickly became clear that this blast will likely ignite a and feared that such a supply of weapons would further radical political change within the nation. empower the Iranians. To longtime Trumpet readers, the significance of this Still, the potential deal was a signal of intent—and a harbin- moment is clear. We have been writing about this transforma- ger of an alliance that will shock the world. tion in Lebanon for years, based on a powerful biblical proph- Six years later, it seems this blast in Beirut could drive the ecy. I believe what happens next in Lebanon change in Lebanon that the arms deal could not. will validate not only the Trumpet, but more Following the explosion, the streets of the capital are burn- importantly the Word of God, upon which ing with anger against Hezbollah and the Lebanese govern- we base our news forecasting. Events in ment. France and Europe are watching and appear to be ready Lebanon are proving the Bible accurate! to support the people in throwing off Iranian influence. Six years ago, Saudi Arabia announced In a Key of David program in 2014, I said: “That means there’s that it would give $3 billion to Lebanon’s going to be now a civil war, a bloody civil war in Lebanon for army so it could buy French weapons. I control of Lebanon, and you’re going to see Lebanon and the wrote an article for this magazine titled “Why You Need to European power prevail in that battle.” Watch Lebanon” (theTrumpet.com/11536). Lebanon was—and The scene is once again set for dramatic fulfillment of bibli- is—dominated by Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy terrorist group. cal prophecy. Please take time to read “The Beirut Blast: Cata- But I explained the prophecy in Psalm 83 that foretells Leba- lyst for Biblical Prophecy” on page 2 of this issue to see how this non’s future. It shows that Hezbollah will forfeit much of its event has pushed Lebanon toward fulfillment of this prophecy. power and that Iran will lose its grip over Lebanon—that the nation will instead ally with Saudi Arabia and other moderate Arab states, along with German-led Europe. The streets are burning with anger against I wrote: “Saudi Arabia’s gift is a deliberate attempt to Hezbollah and the Lebanese government. remove Iran’s hold over Lebanon. It is also part of a larger France and Europe appear ready to support strategy to bring the moderate Arab states together with Europe to counter the Iranian-aligned Shiite crescent devel- the people in throwing off Iranian influence. oping in the Middle East. This was just a small sign of an alliance that is going to build into something enormous that Continue to watch Lebanon. The nation is going to descend will shock this world. … into another civil war. As you watch this terrible scenario “This heavy Christian population makes Lebanon different unfold, recognize that bloody event as one in a chain reaction from the rest of the Arab world. By calling on Europe to partici- that the Bible says is destined to end in the Second Coming of pate in this deal—designed to protect the Lebanese from Shiite Jesus Christ! God has laid it all out for us to see in His majestic extremism—Saudi Arabia opens the door for a Sunni-Catholic prophecies. We must view the horrors of this explosion in alliance! … Because of its high population of Christian Arabs, Beirut in the full context of God’s plan for humanity. Then you Lebanon has become a linchpin for the Psalm 83 alliance. … can see God’s hand and the ultimate hope that lies beyond. n “Time will tell how the details come about, but the possibility of European fighters coming up against Iran is something How did we know? we have been watching for years. Here is a scenario, based Gerald Flurry has forecast for years that a historic shift will occur on a budding Arab-European alliance, that could see Europe in Lebanon. He wrote in 2014 that the future of this small nation will expand its footprint in the Middle East and hasten the massive change the Middle East. To learn how, request your free copy of his

FADEL ITANI/NURPHOTO/GETTY IMAGES ITANI/NURPHOTO/GETTY FADEL confrontation of Daniel 11:40.” reprint article “A Mysterious Prophecy.” OCTOBER 2020 1 After a massive explosion rocked the city, Lebanese protesters took to the streets to show their anger at the government.

THE BEIRUT BLAST: Catalyst for Biblical Prophecy

Get ready for a massive restructuring of the Middle East—starting in Lebanon. BY BRENT NAGTEGAAL

othing grabs attention apartment buildings, to people dining uploaded their video to social media. like a massive explosion. in nearby restaurants, to concerned The blast in the Port of Beirut was likely In past decades, it would citizens miles away in the eastern hills the most filmed explosion ever. take a war correspondent or north coast—all had their cameras And understandably, it grabbed atten- with a film crew to bring filming the billowing white smoke. tion the world over. video from a conflict zone Then it happened. The silver lining to this horrific event Ninto our living rooms. For a cameraman A colossal blast unexpectedly sent is that your attention is now drawn to to happen to be filming when a blast debris and rust-colored smoke soaring. A the tiny Middle Eastern nation to wit- occurred, and far enough away for the pressure wave instantly flattened nearby ness a far more spellbinding event: the film to survive, would be pure luck. Even buildings, flipping cars and blowing out fulfillment of biblical prophecy. then, it would be days before the public every window in Beirut. The resulting This seemingly unimportant nation is would see the video. shock waves, equivalent to a 3.5-magni- the linchpin for an important prophetic Today, everyone with a smartphone tude earthquake, were felt more than 150 alliance between Europe and certain is a videographer. Social media and miles away on the island of Cyprus. nations in the Middle East. And that streaming services mean that video Twenty-seven hundred metric tons alliance, prophecy says, will counter the appears instantaneously around the of ammonium nitrate had combusted Islamic regime in Iran. However, this world. Still, to capture an unexpected in a flash. By comparison, two tons of tiny nation is currently dominated by explosion, you need to be filming in the ammonium nitrate were used in the Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia turned right direction and at the right time. 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, making political power. This means a dramatic In Beirut on August 4, all the cameras the Beirut blast almost 1,000 times more change is certain to take place there. were doing just that. A fire in a port powerful. It was equivalent to 500 tons Before you divert your eyes from hangar, followed by an initial smaller of tnt, one of the largest non-nuclear Lebanon, you need to understand how explosion, got everyone’s attention—and explosions in history. the Beirut blast is acting as a catalyst to NURPHOTO/GETTY IMAGES out came the smartphones. From port Within moments, if you were on your bring about this staggering change in workers and fire crews up close on the own smart device or computer, you world affairs. The shock wave from this dock, to sailors at sea returning to port, saw that shocking video—from one event will be felt in not only the Middle to mothers high up in neighboring angle, then two, then 10, as more people East but worldwide. 2 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Utter Destruction not fully aware of the explosive contents of ammonium nitrate in a residential Aerial footage of ground zero of the blast at the port. Both Israel and the United house. That autumn, British authorities shows a gaping hole in the port. The States Treasury Department have said discovered 3 tons of ammonium nitrate explosion created a chasm 45 meters previously that Hezbollah controls stashed in thousands of disposable ice deep and utter destruction in every much of Beirut’s port facilities. “Any packs at a Hezbollah bomb-making facil- other direction. Initial estimates put way you look at it, Hezbollah is involved,” ity in London. Last year, Mossad report- the damage around $15 billion. Over stated Lt. Col. (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, a for- edly notified the German government 160 people were killed, thousands more mer Israeli Defense Forces intelligence that Hezbollah had stashed hundreds were injured, and nearly a third of a officer who specializes on Israel’s north- of kilograms of ammonium nitrate in million people—15 percent of the city’s ern border. “Even if it’s just a regular warehouses in southern Germany. This population—became homeless. accident, which this [the port blast] helped motivate Germany to ban the The question quickly surfaced, why probably is, Hezbollah controls both the organization. In 2017, Hezbollah leader were 2,700 metric tons of a highly explo- Hassan Nasrallah threatened to attack sive substance stored in the city, putting Israel’s northern port city of Haifa by so many people at risk? The most logical blowing up its ammonia tank. reason was that Hezbollah, the force Considering Hezbollah’s links to the that has dominated Lebanon for the past port and its several foiled ammonium decade, wanted it there. nitrate attacks, it becomes clear that The shipment of ammonium nitrate LEBANON Hezbollah was aware of the stockpile arrived at the port in late 2013 when the Windows blown and was using it for its nefarious ends. Moldovan-flagged cargo vessel Rhosus out up to 15 Though a paper trail from the ware- miles away. was forced to dock in Beirut after facing Beirut house directly to Hezbollah has not yet technical problems at sea. Lawyers repre- been revealed, the Lebanese people are senting the crew described the incident already blaming the group. in the Arrest News: “Owing to the risks The Spectator’s Paul Wood wrote on associated with retaining the ammonium SYRIA August 5 that in the direct aftermath nitrate on board the vessel, the port of the blast he received messages from authorities discharged the cargo onto the Lebanese friends saying that Hezbollah port’s warehouses” (October 2015). was to blame. “Even if that’s not true,” he But reports in some Lebanese media ISRAEL wrote, “it shows what some Lebanese claim Iran purchased the chemical are thinking—and therefore how this compound and had the Rhosus make a airport and seaport in Lebanon, so it’s crisis might develop.” beeline for Beirut to offload it and store responsible” (bicom podcast, August 11). it for future use. Along with control of the port, plenty Turning Against Hezbollah Storing the volatile material at the of evidence suggests that Hezbollah Before the blast, Hezbollah already faced port worried local port authorities. Cus- was holding ammonium nitrate there increasing resistance from the Lebanese. toms officials made 10 separate appeals to enable it to ship large quantities of Hezbollah’s control over many of the gov- to the Lebanese government from June bomb-making material where it wanted. ernment ministries gives it financial and 2014 through July 2020 to remove it. One Soon after the shipment arrived, Isra- political power, not to mention opportu- letter stated, “In view of the serious dan- el’s Mossad agency began reporting to nities for corruption and mismanage- ger of keeping these goods in the hangar foreign governments that more Hezbol- ment. However, as Hezbollah’s power in unsuitable climatic conditions, we lah activities involved ammonium nitrate. has increased, international investment reaffirm our request to please request According to the Times of Israel, the in Lebanon by the Gulf states and its the marine agency to re-export these Mossad learned in 2014 that Unit 910, allies has severely dropped, resulting in goods immediately to preserve the safety Hezbollah’s foreign operations group, economic collapse. Lebanon’s currency of the port and those working in it, or to was developing the means to launch has lost 85 percent of its value in the look into agreeing to sell this amount [to terror attacks around the world. This past year. More than half the population the Lebanese Explosives Company].” led to sting operations in several nations is now in poverty. People are enduring But the explosive material remained, involving ammonium nitrate in 2015. rolling blackouts, up to 22 hours per day, just a stone’s throw from the central In May 2015, authorities in Cyprus and food is becoming scarcer. business district. Why? found 9 tons of ammonium nitrate in Foreign nations and the International a Larnaca home. Hezbollah had paid Monetary Fund are ready to provide All Roads Lead to Hezbollah a Lebanese-Cypriot man more than Lebanon with a massive aid package. No direct links to Hezbollah have been $10,000 to hide the material, which it Economists for the Foundation for made public by investigators as yet, and planned to use to target Israeli inter- Defense of Democracy said that, before likely won’t be absent an independent ests in Cyprus. In August of that year, the blast, Lebanon needed a staggering international investigation. Neverthe- Kuwaiti authorities arrested three Hez- $93 billion. For context, the fdd noted less, it’s hard to see how Hezbollah was bollah operatives who had stored 21 tons that the imf’s largest-ever bailout in OCTOBER 2020 3 history was $57 billion to Argentina in possible peace talks with Israel in the guarantee that this assistance will not be 2018. Lebanon has just over 10 percent future while talking with French bfm tv placed in the hands of the corrupt, and a the population of Argentina, and needs news channel on August 15. free Lebanon will rise again.” twice the money to stay afloat. Again, A few days after the blast, Lebanese Macron conspicuously avoided visiting this was before the $15 billion blast. protesters stormed government build- with Lebanese leaders; he went directly to However, while the imf is willing ings and assembled in Martyrs Square in the people. If he has his way, the interna- to send a large sum to Lebanon, that Beirut to hang effigies of leading politi- tional aid effort will take the same route. money is conditional upon Lebanon cians, including Hezbollah leader Hassan “We will organize international aid accepting fundamental changes to its Nasrallah. Such open defiance of Hezbol- so that it directly reaches the Lebanese system that will curtail Hezbollah’s lah is unheard of in Lebanon. “Until that people under United Nations supervi- power. Hezbollah has refused, thus moment, daring to mention Nasrallah sion,” Macron said during a press confer- preventing aid money from coming. had been a life-threatening debasement ence. “I am here to launch a new political Put simply, if Lebanon is to survive as of sanctity,” wrote Lebanese journalist initiative. I will propose a new political a nation it has two choices: Accept being decade during my meetings, and I will a client state of Iran and the poverty that return on September 1 to follow up on it.” comes with it, or rise up against Hezbol- Beirut blast comparison Macron feels a responsibility to Leba- lah and get help from the outside world. EXPLOSION KILOTON YIELD non, largely because this Middle Eastern It is not easy to revolt against Hezbol- 0.002kt Oklahoma City bombing nation of 7 million people was a French lah, whose independent military is more protectorate following World War i; its 0.011kt MOAB conventional bomb powerful than Lebanon’s national armed ties go back to Napoleonic times. While forces. Yet even before the blast, voices its most common language is Arabic, 0.34kt in Lebanon were growing increasingly Tianjin explosions its second-most common is French. bold in holding Hezbollah to account. This September 1 is also the 100-year The patriarch of the Maronite Church, anniversary of Lebanon coming under which represents 40 percent of Lebanon’s French rule. population, began criticizing Hezbollah 1.5kt “We’re asking for the president of last month. “Today, Lebanon has become Beirut port explosion France to take over Lebanon,” a young isolated from the world,” Beshara al-Rai Beirut resident told the New York Times. stated on July 14. “This is not our identity. “Just throw away the government. There’s Our identity is positive and constructive no future here for us if the current politi- neutrality, not a warrior Lebanon.” Such Hazem Saghieh (Asharq al-Awsat, August cians stay. We’d rather get colonized than comments were interpreted to oppose 12). Now that taboo has been broken. die here.” The somewhat bizarre call for Hezbollah’s violent interference in During the massive protests the week recolonization speaks to the severity of nations like Syria and Yemen. after the blast, more than 700 people Lebanon’s frustration with its leaders. Rai’s comments are significant were injured. Seeing the violence on the The hero’s welcome for Macron because many Maronite politicians have streets, Lebanese Prime Minister Has- contrasted starkly with the reaction abetted Hezbollah’s rise to power in the san Diab dissolved his cabinet, ending to Lebanon’s own leaders. Days after government. President Michael Aoun is his brief term in office. He finished his the blast, leaders of the main political a Maronite Christian, but is allied with statement by saying, “May Allah protect parties had still dared not walk the area Hezbollah. Now he and other Christian Lebanon. May Allah protect Lebanon. for fear of attack. Three days after the leaders have heard a loud warning from May Allah protect Lebanon.” blast, President Aoun addressed the the Maronite leader and much of the nation. As expected, he blamed “foreign population to sever that relationship. Turning to Europe interference.” The Lebanese people “It is to Patriarch Rai’s credit that he Within 48 hours of the blast, French viewed his reaction as verification of the has shown that [Hezbollah’s] sway over President Emmanuel Macron walked government’s utter failure. Lebanon is more fragile than it appears,” through Beirut’s destroyed downtown, Western reporters saw the prompt wrote noted Lebanese commentator surrounded by throngs of people visit of Lebanon’s former colonizing Michael Young in the National (July 29). expressing anguish and fury at their own power as bizarre. An Associated Press The blast widened the split between political leadership. Some chanted, “Help headline read, “Is France Helping Leb- Hezbollah and Maronites because it us, Mr. President.” Others cried, “Revolu- anon or Trying to Reconquer It?” Some was the predominately Christian neigh- tion! Revolution!” Disillusioned by their critics characterized him as a 21st-cen- borhoods surrounding the port that own government’s corruption and incom- tury would-be emperor: “Macron Bona- suffered most of the destruction. Chris- petence, the Lebanese found Macron’s parte.” But to Lebanese in Beirut and tians, and many Sunnis and Shiites, are prompt arrival almost messianic. beyond, it’s not bizarre. It is, as some put protesting in the streets to demand a The fear, however, is that any relief it, “our only hope.” total change in government. In a sign money will be controlled by the same cor- “In a situation like this, it’s perfectly of a possible break with Hezbollah, rupt politicians who wrecked the nation’s understandable that people hope to get President Aoun publicly endorsed finances. Macron told one woman, “I can rid of their political leadership,” said 4 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Maximilian Felsh, a professor at Beirut’s former Israeli ambassador to the UN and one consent: they are confederate Haigazian University. “Anything is better the United Kingdom called on Europe against thee” (verses 4-5). than this. So I can understand that the to act immediately to ensure that “any Which nations are to be part of this majority of the Lebanese people hope foreign and humanitarian aid arriving in alliance? Verses 6-8 answer: “The tab- that, if this was possible, some foreign Lebanon would get to those who need it, ernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; power will take control of the country.” not Hezbollah.” “All the mechanisms and of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Macron’s visit was a watershed event. methods are already there,” he wrote. Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines It showed that the Lebanese trust a “What is missing is the will and decision with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur also foreign president more than their own to implement them. We should not ask is joined with them: they have holpen politicians, whether Shiite, Sunni, for whom the bell tolls—it tolls loud the children of Lot. Selah.” As Mr. Flurry Druze or Christian. and clear for the leaders of Europe. documents in his free booklet The King Upon returning to France, Macron If they don’t act now to save Lebanon of the South, the modern Middle Eastern organized an online international donors from Hezbollah and Iran, they may nations included in this alliance are Turkey, the Gulf states, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon (mentioned in this passage as Gebal and the inhabitants of Tyre). The alliance also lists Assur, which is modern Germany (for proof, read “The Remarkable Identity of the German People” at theTrumpet.com/7490). A search through history shows that no such alliance against ancient Israel or its descendants has ever existed. This shows that this is an end-time prophecy. Based on this prophecy, we can know for certain that Lebanon is going to side with a German-led Europe. Macron visits bombed-out Beirut on August 6 to great But we also know, based on another fanfare from the Lebanese. prophecy, in Daniel 11:40-43, that Leb- anon will no longer be allied with Iran. conference that resulted in almost never get another chance” (Jerusalem This passage describes an epic clash $300 million in pledges for relief efforts. Post, August 9; emphasis added). between two great end-time powers: The money is to be kept away from the While Europe has failed to act force- “And at the time of the end shall the king Lebanese government and administered fully in the past, it appears that soon of the south push at him: and the king of by a future United Nations mission. The there will be European forces on the the north shall come against him like a Gulf states are willing to help financially, ground in Beirut directing money and whirlwind ….” As Gerald Flurry proves in but not while Hezbollah is the dominant aid, directly bypassing Lebanon’s Hez- his booklet, the king of the south in this force in Lebanon. “Saudi Arabia will not bollah-led government. prophecy is radical Islam led specifically continue to pay Hezbollah’s bills,” wrote by Iran. The other power, the king of the prominent Saudi columnist Khaled Bible Prophecy Is About to Be Fulfilled north, is a German-led Europe—which al-Sulaiman in the Okaz daily. “It is The exact scenario of European nations Psalm 83 reveals will be allied with sev- untenable for Saudi Arabia to pay billions supporting Lebanon’s quest to rid the eral Arab states, including Lebanon. of dollars to Lebanon in the morning and nation of Iranian domination sets the The Beirut blast, followed by the Euro- in the evening be subjected to curses and scene for the dramatic fulfillment of pean-led recovery effort, propelled this taunts on its television networks.” biblical prophecy. prophecy toward being fulfilled. United States President Donald For the past decade, Trumpet editor It will not be easy for Europe to Trump confirmed that any U.S. aid in chief Gerald Flurry has forecast that replace Iran and Hezbollah as the would stay out of the hands of the Leb- Lebanon will leave Iranian control and dominant outside force in Lebanon. anese government. Germany’s Foreign side with European and moderate Arab Nevertheless, the public outrage at Ministry also supported the French posi- nations (article, page 1). Hezbollah and the jubilant support for tion, stating, “That’s precisely what the Mr. Flurry based this forecast on a Macron show that revolution is coming Lebanese people have rightly demanded. mysterious prophecy found in Psalm to Lebanon. Bible prophecy says that, Individual interests and old lines of con- 83. The psalm describes a confederacy ultimately, it is certain. flict must be overcome and the welfare of formed to fight against Israel. “They The Trumpet has been watching for the entire population must be put first.” have said, Come, and let us cut them off conditions inside Lebanon to reach Influential commentators are also from being a nation; that the name of the point where such a revolution is calling for European forces to make Israel may be no more in remembrance. possible. And the Beirut explosion has

THIBAULT CAMUS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES CAMUS/AFP/GETTY THIBAULT their way to Lebanon. Ron Prosor, For they have consulted together with provided a formidable catalyst. OCTOBER 2020 5 It may even do more. This European intrusion into the Mideast is certain to infuriate Iran. Daniel 11:40 says Iran will start pushing at Europe. Could this in part be motivated by Europe entering the Middle East again—and what’s more, driving Iranian influence out of Lebanon? And then out of Syria, which is also prophesied to ally with Europe? Read the rest of the prophecy in Daniel 11 through chapter 12. It details further prophetic events to take place in quick succession, leading directly to the coming of the Messiah. As these events begin to take place, we will actually be able to count the days to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ! (Daniel 12:12). Did God allow this massive explosion in Beirut in order to draw your attention to the biblical prophecies about to Why the Arabs unfold in that little corner of the Earth? Events that start there will reverberate across the Middle East and the world. Embraced the Jews Within a few weeks of the blast, most people had already moved on from events in Lebanon. Don’t be one of them. The reason for the historic agreement between the United Arab Emirates Figuratively, now is not the time to put and Israel holds a clue as to how it will end. BY BRENT NAGTEGAAL away the video camera. A more signifi- cant event than the Beirut blast is about he decades-old paradigm for embraced Israel without any progress take place in Lebanon, and God does not Middle East peace was formally on the Palestinian issue. want you to miss it. T uprooted on August 13 when the This is a huge shift in Arab policy In fact, God wants to use these ful- United Arab Emirates became the third toward the Jewish state and a turning filled prophecies to help you prove His Arab state to normalize relations with point in Arab-Israeli relations. powerful hand in world affairs. As it the Jewish state of Israel. The first But to fully understand the signifi- says earlier in Daniel, “And he changeth two—Egypt in 1978 and Jordan in 1994— cance, you must understand why U.A.E. the times and the seasons: he removeth signed peace agreements with Israel to did this and what it reveals about a kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth formally settle terms after numerous larger power struggle taking place in wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge bloody wars between the nations. the Middle East. As we will see, U.A.E.’s to them that know understanding” But the case with the U.A.E. is differ- decision fits perfectly into what the (Daniel 2:21). God sets up kings and ent. This is not about a cold peace and Bible reveals about what the Middle East removes kings. Events in Lebanon will a militarized border as exists between will look like in the end time. eventually lead to the removal of both Egypt and Jordan, but rather a full SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES, MICHELE TANTUSSI/GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCK.COM/ OLEKSII LISKONIH the king of the south and the king of normalization of ties. Nicknamed the A Historic Change the north. Finally, when those very “Abraham Accords” after the biblical “This historic diplomatic breakthrough kings are destroyed, “shall the God of patriarch of both the Arabs and Jews, will advance peace in the Middle East heaven set up a kingdom, which shall this agreement means the U.A.E. plans region and is a testament to the bold never be destroyed … and it shall stand to treat Israel like every other nation, diplomacy and vision of the three lead- forever” (verse 44). n one open to cooperation, travel, trade ers,” read the joint statement by United and security partnerships. States President Donald Trump, Israeli Before this deal, the Arab Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu There will be consensus was that Israel and U.A.E. Crown Prince Sheikh would only be treated like Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. “All another explosion a normal nation once it three countries face many common This one will engulf the entire Middle East made peace with the Pal- challenges and will mutually benefit and more. Request your free copy of Gerald estinians. Palestine first, from today’s historic achievement.” Flurry’s booklet The King of the South Arab world second. While it will take some time for to learn which nations will join which two On August 14, the Emir- full cooperation between the states superpowers—and how they will clash. ates flipped the script and to take place, deals are already being 6 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET signed. Within two days August 13, “During a call with President couple of years in particular. of the White House Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, The thaw between the two countries announcement, a U.A.E. an agreement was reached to stop five years ago coincided with an even investment company further Israeli annexation of Palestinian more significant event in the Middle signed a “strategic territories. The U.A.E. and Israel also East: U.S. President Barack Obama’s commercial agreement” agreed to cooperation and setting a road Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. with an Israeli company map towards establishing a bilateral Signed in 2015, the Iran nuclear deal over research and relationship.” effectively sought to “share” the Middle development related to And with the U.A.E. pioneering the East among what are now rival powers: the coronavirus. Phone acceptance of Israel without demanding Iran, Gulf states like the U.A.E., and lines are now active hard-hitting concessions on the Pales- Israel. This huge shift in American pol- between Israel and the tinian issue, other Gulf states could soon icy rewarded the terrorist state of Iran U.A.E. Israeli websites follow. Even Thomas Friedman of the and degraded America’s relationship are no longer blocked New York Times was impressed and indi- with the Gulf states and Israel. by U.A.E. servers. Israeli cated that the door is now open for more This brazenly pro-Iran policy ter- airline carrier Israir is nations to recognize Israel. In his August rified the U.A.E., since it was (and is) in discussions to begin 13 piece, “A Geopolitical Earthquake Just at war alongside Saudi Arabia against direct flights between Hit the Middle East,” Friedman noted, Iran’s Houthi proxy in Yemen. Iran’s Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi “This deal will certainly encourage the growing power, immensely augmented and Dubai. And in a sign other Gulf sheikhdoms—Bahrain, Oman, by the United States under President of tacit support, Saudi Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia—all of Obama, compelled the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia will allow Israeli which have had covert and overt busi- Arabia to look for alternative means of passenger jets to fly over ness and intelligence dealings with Israel, resisting Iran. In the end, this meant Saudi territory. to follow the Emirates’ lead. They will allying with Israel. As Israeli commen- not want to let the U.A.E. have a leg up in “The greater Iran’s involvement in tators have noted, the agreement is a being able to marry its financial capital ‘spreading the revolution’ by encour- boon for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s with Israel’s cybertechnology, agriculture aging terrorism and undermining the leadership. “Stunningly, Abu Dhabi’s technology and health-care technology, region’s regimes, the [more] the [U.A.E.’s] groundbreaking decision to fully nor- with the potential to make both coun- relationship with the Jewish state malize relations with Jerusalem did tries stronger and more prosperous.” advanced,” Caspit wrote. “The more the not require any tangible concessions Bahrain is thought to be the next Gulf United States withdrew from the Middle of Israel,” wrote Raphael Ahren for the state to follow the U.A.E.’s lead, even this East and removed its influence over its Times of Israel. “Netanyahu did not agree to withdraw from one centimeter of West Bank territory. He did not evacuate Iran’s growing power, augmented by the U.S. under a single settler. He didn’t even have to President Obama, compelled the U.A.E. and Saudi pay lip service to the idea of Palestinian statehood or pledge allegiance to the Arabia to seek alternative means of resisting Iran. two-state solution” (August 14). The one thing Netanyahu granted was year. President Trump said, “Now that crazies, … Israel remained the only anti- to suspend plans to apply Israeli sover- the ice has been broken, I expect more Iran bastion of stability” (August 18). eignty to parts of the West Bank, includ- Arab and Muslim countries will follow The Abraham Accords are an admis- ing East Jerusalem and the Jordan the United Arab Emirates’ lead.” sion of the need to counter the radical Valley. The rumor that Israel would have Islamic state of Iran—they are not President Trump’s blessing to annex Formalizing an Anti-Iranian Alliance evidence of newfound love between West Bank territory had provoked a roar In hindsight, one can see that the U.A.E. Gulf Arabs and the Jewish state. Ghaith of backlash from the Arab world. The deal was in the works for the past five al-Omari, a senior fellow at the Washing- text of the U.A.E. agreement deliberately years. As Ben Caspit noted in Al Monitor ton Institute for Near East Policy, said, used the word “suspend”: Annexation on August 18, the first sign came in 2015 “Iran is at the center of the convergence may still happen in the future, but it is when the U.A.E. allowed Israel to open of interest between Israel and the U.A.E., off the table for now. And for that act, an office in the International Renewable both of whom see it as an existential Israel achieved peace with an Arab state. Energy Agency in Abu Dhabi. Israel threat, and this step will bolster the and the U.A.E. have quietly formed anti-Iranian axis” (Hill, August 13). More Peace Deals Coming additional connections, including some This is a relationship of convenience. The strategic decision to halt the annex- military intelligence sharing and joint Israel should not take for granted the lon- ation of the West Bank also allowed weapons contracts. The head of Israel’s gevity of a peace deal with any Gulf state. Mohammed bin Zayed to save face in Mossad intelligence agency has fre- In fact, biblical prophecy shows that it making the agreement. He tweeted on quently visited the U.A.E. over the past should be extremely concerned. OCTOBER 2020 7 Danger for Israel Turkey. Moab and Ammon are located The nations that the Jewish state is In his booklet The King of the South, within Jordan today. The ancient ready to sign peace deals with are the very Mr. Flurry explains how biblical proph- Hagarenes dwelt in the land of modern nations that will eventually attack Israel! ecy foretells two alliances in the end Syria. Gebal and the inhabitants of Tyre These verses indicate that the mainly time involving Middle Eastern states. are modern Lebanon, and the Gaza Sunni “moderate” Arabs will ally The first is what Daniel 11 names “the Palestinians are located in the territory together and with Germany, and will king of the south,” a radical Islamic alli- belonging to the Philistines. Assur refers take “crafty counsel” to destroy Israel. ance led by Iran. Daniel 11:40 describes to modern-day Germany, as we prove in The scene is not one of enemy nations this alliance pursuing an aggressive for- our free reprint “The Remarkable Iden- confronting each other in open war. It is eign policy that pushes the region to the tity of the German People” (theTrumpet one of deception. brink of war. Prophecy shows that other .com/go/GermanIdentity). All these This alliance will conspire to dou- nations in this alliance will include Iraq, nations will be allied together. ble-cross and destroy Israel. The Ethiopia, Egypt and Libya. Importantly, none of the “king of the peace deal between the Gulf states and The second alliance is prophesied in south” nations in Daniel 11:40-42 are Israel is leading to the fulfillment of Psalm 83, a biblical book not many peo- listed here. this prophecy. Based on Psalm 83 and other proph- ecies, you can expect Israel’s relation- ship with the moderate Arab states in the Gulf to indeed become stronger as they work to counter Iran’s rise. But you should also expect that once the great Iranian threat is defeated, many of Israel’s allies will turn on it in what will become one of the greatest betray- als in history. This is what your Bible foretells. It is natural to celebrate when we hear announcements of peace between Israel and Arab states. Yet the Bible tells us to beware claims of peace. The Prophet Jeremiah warned that false prophets would say, “Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (Jeremiah 6:14; 8:11). This is especially true regarding illusions of peace in the Middle East. These prophecies show that long- term peace will not come to the Middle East through this or similar peace deals between the Jewish state and the Arab ple consider prophetic. However, Lange’s Put together, these two passages of Gulf states. But there is comfort in Commentary and the Anchor Bible note Scripture describe the two alliances knowing that events in the region are that the alliance of nations forecast in forming now in the Middle East. One lining up with the prophecies of your Psalm 83 has never existed before. is the pro-Iran alliance. The other is Bible. Remember, these prophecies, “For they have consulted together anti-Iran. made thousands of years ago, were fully with one consent: they are confederate The United Arab Emirates and other revealed only in our lifetime—the time against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, Gulf nations are part of the anti-Iran in which they would come to pass. Some and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the alliance. In this regard, they find their would like to dismiss the Bible as a series Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and goals aligning with those of Israel. of man-made writings compiled over Amalek; the Philistines with the inhab- However, although the Psalm 83 hundreds of years to further a pro-Israel itants of Tyre; Assur also is joined with alliance may unite to counter Iran’s rise, or pro-Jewish agenda. While the Bible them ...” (verses 5-8). the Bible reveals that its main purpose is a book about Israel, its authenticity is The Middle Eastern nations listed will be very different. corroborated through fulfilled proph- in this psalm correspond to modern “They have taken crafty counsel ecies that concern the whole world. As nations where mainly Sunni Islam against thy people, and consulted the Psalm 83 alliance comes together, is prevalent today. Ishmaelites is the against thy hidden ones. They have said, and alongside Israel temporarily, we can prophetic term for the Arabs of modern Come, and let us cut them off from being be assured that the Bible is God’s Word, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. a nation; that the name of Israel may be and that He is actively involved in our Edom and Amalek describe modern-day no more in remembrance” (verses 3-4). nations today. n 8 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET THE HIDDEN MESSAGE OF THE HOROWITZ REPORT

You cannot understand American politics until you recognize the spiritual dimension. This article should strike fear in every American, the Jewish state and the British peoples. If it doesn’t, they are going to suffer as no people ever have! All that suffering can be avoided if we heed this warning from Bible prophecy. BY GERALD FLURRY

he 2020 United States presi- Federal Bureau of Investigation Director condemning President Trump and dential election is only weeks James Comey. What happened next was endorsing Joe Biden is posted at the away, and former Vice Presi- one of the most dramatic turnarounds website thesteadystate.org. The phrase dent Joe Biden has powerful in U.S. political history. Once Biden “steady state” is a politically correct term allies supporting him in his had been anointed as Obama’s favored for what most Americans mean when Tbid to defeat President Donald Trump. successor, Democrats started voting they say “deep state.” In March, Mr. Biden lost the Nevada for him in droves. During the “Super Obama-era officials want to regain caucus to a self-avowed socialist, and it Tuesday” primary on March 3, he gained control. The Obama administration spent looked like he was washed up. But then an 84-delegate lead over Sen. Bernie eight years fundamentally transforming his former boss, Barack Obama, stepped Sanders, practically assuring that he America’s government and culture. And in. On March 1, he phoned presidential would become the Democratic nominee. ever since a Republican took the White candidate Pete Buttigieg and convinced Biden has since received unanimous House, the Democrats have demonstrated him to withdraw from the race and support from Obama’s national-security that there is no limit to what they are endorse Joe Biden for president. Key state: Former Deputy Attorney General willing to do to undermine the last elec- Obama administration officials immedi- Sally Yates, former Director of National tion—and the next one. And that includes ately began supporting Biden, including Intelligence James Clapper and more criminal, even treasonous, behavior. former National Security Adviser Susan than 150 former spies, cia station Evidence of this truth has grown Rice, former Central Intelligence Agency chiefs, diplomats and other officials. A throughout the Trump presidency. We SOPA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES, MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA RASMUSSEN/AFP CLAUS MADS IMAGES, GETTY VIA IMAGES/LIGHTROCKET SOPA GARY DORNING/TRUMPET, GETTY IMAGES (4), SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES (2), MICHAEL BROCHSTEIN/ MICHAEL (2), IMAGES GETTY VIA LOEB/AFP SAUL (4), IMAGES GETTY DORNING/TRUMPET, GARY Director John Brennan and former letter signed by many of these officials must understand how dangerous this is. OCTOBER 2020 9 In December, Inspector General uncovered a “political conspiracy” a Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff Michael Horowitz published a 476-page between the Trump campaign and Rus- as independent corroboration of the report detailing 17 serious “inaccuracies sia. Simpson said he reported Steele’s information in the Steele dossier—even and omissions” in the fbi’s Foreign Intel- findings to the fbi out of a sense of duty. though they were aware that Isikoff ligence Surveillance Court applications Yet the Horowitz report found that was getting his information from Chris- to spy on Carter Page, a foreign-policy Simpson repeatedly lied. topher Steele in the first place. Think adviser for the Trump campaign. In real- Horowitz notes that Steele was hired about that: A law enforcement source ity, these were 17 treasonous crimes to find evidence of Trump-Russia collu- fed information to the media, and then the Obama administration committed sion from the start. Christopher Steele the law enforcement agencies used the to try to frame Donald Trump and seize himself confessed to Inspector General media’s stories as proof of its claims! The control of the government! Horowitz that Simpson asked him back media wrote stories about these claims, This scandal is far deadlier than in May 2016 “whether there were any ties which law enforcement agencies used as most people realize. There is a spiritual between the Russian government and even more proof to renew the warrant. dimension to what is happening, and you Trump and his campaign.” The timing In other words, law enforcement and the cannot understand these events unless of this request is interesting. It means media formed an echo chamber. you recognize that. Had Hillary Clinton Simpson was talking about collusion been elected, the destructive trends that between Trump and Russia before the Treasonous Crimes unfolded during the Obama presidency fbi was involved and before Steele had After fbi officials had their fraudulently would have continued unchecked. Many produced any reports on Russia collusion. obtained warrant to spy on Carter Page, people believe it would have meant an In other words: Clinton and Simpson they were to apply a “two-hop” rule end to our constitutional republic! weren’t there to dig up dirt—they were to spy on anyone connected to Carter Now Obama’s deep state is trying to there to create dirt! Page. That included Mr. Trump himself. seize control of the government once They created an entire dossier of false The whole process was about targeting more. This exposes the seriousness of evidence out of nothing! The Horowitz Donald Trump. the times. report makes this perfectly clear. Recovered text messages exchanged by The Bible reveals the hidden message of Think about the wonderful freedom fbi agent Peter Strzok and fbi lawyer Lisa the Horowitz report, but you must prayer- that we have had in America—then Page reveal that Strzok wanted an “insur- fully study this topic to understand! consider the consequences of a group of ance policy” in case Donald Trump was people working to overthrow an elected elected, and that President Obama was Political Propaganda president of the United States of America directing the whole operation. “potus Most Democrats claim the investigation and his 63 million voters with a dossier wants to know everything we’re doing,” into Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia of propaganda! That was their plan! Lisa Page texted Strzok on one occasion began with the Crossfire Hurricane inves- And the details only get worse. Steele’s (emphasis mine throughout). tigation at the end of July 2016. Actually it primary contact in the Justice Depart- But the media echo chamber that began in April of that year, when Hillary ment was Bruce Ohr, an associate deputy Obama’s fbi created was just the Clinton’s presidential campaign hired attorney general whose wife worked for beginning of the scandal. The Horowitz the Washington-based research business Fusion gps as an independent contractor. report reveals seven gross inaccuracies Fusion gps to get dirt on Donald Trump. Officials at Fusion gps instructed Steele and omissions in the fbi’s initial appli- Fusion gps cofounder Glenn Simpson to start leaking the dirt he collected cation to spy on Carter Page, and 10 hired British former MI6 intelligence about Mr. Trump and his campaign to additional inaccuracies and omissions agent Christopher Steele to create a the New York Times, the Washington Post, in their renewal applications. Some series of memos later known as the the New Yorker, cnn and Yahoo News. of these “inaccuracies and omissions” “Steele dossier.” This dossier accused Meanwhile, the head of the UK’s Govern- are abysmally shocking! Significantly, Mr. Trump of escapades with Russian ment Communications Headquarters the fbi failed to inform surveillance prostitutes and other serious crimes. flew to the U.S. to discuss Steele’s dossier court judges that Carter Page had been Not one bit of it was verified. Steele with cia Director Brennan. an “operational contact” for the cia shared his dossier with former MI6 head The UK agent should have gone to for years, and had already debriefed Richard Dearlove, and Dearlove allegedly another department. But he went the cia about his contact with Russian advised Steele to contact the fbi. Steele directly to Brennan. Why? Because intelligence officers. That means the turned over his first report to the fbi on Brennan was President Obama’s spy fbi ended up spying on Page for work he July 5, 2016. This report officially kicked czar, who led the treasonous scandal to was doing for the U.S. government. And off the Crossfire Hurricane investigation overthrow the American government! since cia Director Brennan discussed on July 31, 2016, but the real scandal was The fbi wanted to apply for a fisa war- the Steele dossier with the head of the already months old by this time. rant to spy on Trump campaign adviser UK’s Government Communications Glenn Simpson later told the U.S. Carter Page, and they needed collaborat- Headquarters before the fbi applied Senate that he wanted Steele to look ing sources that Page was guilty of some- for its warrant, there is no way the fbi into Mr. Trump’s business dealings and thing. When fbi officials applied for their officials applying for a warrant on Page was alarmed when Steele inadvertently warrant in October 2016, they presented HOROWITZ REPORT PAGE 30 u 10 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Xinjiang and ‘Organs of Dictatorship’ The location where China’s cruelty is on most glaring display is Xinjiang in the northwest of the nation. This region was long disputed by the Mongols, Chinese and various Turkic peoples. But in the 18th century, the disputes abruptly ended when the area was conquered by China’s Qing Dynasty. Ever since, it has been a flash point for conflicts between the indigenous Uyghur people, who seek to make Xinjiang autonomous, and China’s leaders, who refuse to release the area from what they term “the great family of Chinese national territory.” What Tensions worsened throughout the 1990s and 2000s. In 2014 China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, cracked down. Happened to “Show absolutely no mercy,” he said in a speech to officials of the Chinese Com- munist Party (ccp), telling them they must subjugate the Uyghurs “without any hesitation or wavering” using “the ‘NEVER organs of dictatorship.” Xi’s government quickly turned his terrifying orders from that secret speech into public reality. By 2017, the Communist Party had filled Xinjiang AGAIN’? with innumerable cameras, thousands of checkpoints and hundreds of “reed- Europe lately can’t criticize America loudly enough. But when ucation centers.” It had even removed it comes to another nation’s lies, theft and shocking human Uyghur men from their homes, replacing rights abuses, Europe is relatively silent. BY JEREMIAH JACQUES them with Han Chinese men. Xinjiang had been converted into a police state. ere are three state- democracy that has spent hundreds of By last year, somewhere between 1.1 ments made by billions of dollars over the past 75 years and 3 million of the region’s 10 million European leaders this to rebuild and safeguard Europe and to Uyghurs were detained in these centers. year. Can you fill in the stabilize the world: the United States. The ccp insists that the goal is to purge blanks? It isn’t. It is the Communist regime of religious extremism from their thinking “It is not possible the People’s Republic of China. and teach them vocational skills. But to shape the world of In recent years, Europe and China evidence from survivors and from tomorrow without a strong EU- have dramatically boosted their trade. leaked ccp documents reveal the true Hrelationship.” —European Union Com- China is now the EU’s second-biggest purpose: The party is determined to mission President Ursula von der Leyen trade partner, and the EU is China’s “Sinicize” Xinjiang to assimilate Uyghurs It is in Europe’s “utmost interest” to biggest. The two have also expanded into a monolithic Han culture, and to work closely “with on all fronts.” political, technological, educational, eliminate any who will not submit. —German Chancellor Angela Merkel environmental, energy, cultural, scien- Detainees are forced to break their The “right path” for Europe is to “take tific and even military cooperation. religion by eating pork and drinking stock of ’s innovation policies And a growing number of European alcohol. They are banned from praying and formidable economy” and pursue policymakers are determined to do or speaking their native languages. “engagement rather than confrontation.” whatever it takes to continue shaping Resistors routinely face starvation, —EU diplomat Nicolas Chapuis the world of tomorrow by engaging with torture, sexual abuse, forced abortions These statements reflect an increas- China—even if it means compromising and sterilization. Unknown numbers ingly prevalent view among the leaders democratic values, and remaining mostly are killed in the camps. and people of Europe. One might think silent about the Communist regime’s Last year, Uyghur activist organiza- the innovative, economically powerful abuse of human rights, and even as that tions testified to the China Tribunal that nation they want to build a strong rela- violation of individual rights becomes the ccp’s crimes against humanity in

KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES FRAYER/GETTY KEVIN tionship with on all fronts is the same increasingly obvious and obviously cruel. Xinjiang included cutting out detainees’ OCTOBER 2020 11 organs against their will. After reviewing the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, most was postponed because of a different testimony from more than 50 witnesses, Europeans ignore it. And few of the evil that China has unleashed on the and mountains of video and written Continent’s leaders take a meaningful world: covid-19. evidence, the tribunal determined “with stand against it. certainty” and “beyond reasonable Last year, Germany signed a United It Could Have Been Stopped doubt” that “in China, forced organ har- Nations statement condemning the It is now clear that in November 2019, vesting from prisoners of conscience has Xinjiang camps, but the words have the Chinese Communist Party received been practiced for a substantial period been accompanied by no diplomatic warnings from authorities in Wuhan of time involving a very substantial num- punishments or economic sanctions— about a new virus that was resistant to ber of victims.” This is evil on a level that let alone military movements. Instead, medications. But instead of taking steps makes you physically sick to imagine. as evidence of this modern holocaust to contain it in those early days and to Some 75 years ago, after Nazi Ger- was multiplying, the EU decided to press warn the world, the Communist Party many’s slaughter of 6 million Jews, ahead with a major summit with China. took exactly the opposite approach. the phrase “never again” became the “The extent of human rights violations” The government apprehended solemn vow for many in Europe and means it is “inappropriate to court the journalists reporting on the outbreak, beyond. Never again would the nations Chinese party-state in this situation,” arrested citizens posting about it online, of the world sit by as a government said Katrin Kinzelbach, a human rights and detained doctors and strong-armed systematically carried out such satanic professor at the University of Erlangen– them into retracting warnings they horrors on any group. Nuremberg. But that is exactly what had issued. The Communist Party But the Uyghur people are living a Germany is doing with this “special destroyed lab samples, refused to admit nightmare under the boot of the Chi- EU-China summit.” medical experts from other countries, nese Communist Party. A 21st-century The summit was eventually post- and lied repeatedly and brazenly to holocaust is happening to them right poned. But not because the EU devel- governments and media. And some now. But as with the Holocaust against oped a conscience about Xinjiang. It Chinese critics of their handling of the

For 30 years after the 1949 Communist Revolution, the U.S. China’s Secret War recognized the Kuomintang government that had been forced off the mainland onto the island of Taiwan as the legitimate Against America government of all of China. It condemned the Chinese Com- munist Party on the mainland as an occupying force. But in he Chinese Communist Party (ccp) is waging a war 1979, after the regime promised to implement market-economy against America. United States Secretary of State Mike reforms, the U.S. switched its recognition to the Communists. T Pompeo recently warned that China threatens America’s In his 1984 book, New Lies for Old, kgb defector Anatoliy Golit- economy, its liberty and the future of free democracies worldwide. syn warned the West not to trust Communist China. He said Chi- “Next year marks half a century since Dr. Kissinger’s secret na’s reforms were a ruse to undermine the U.S. and ultimately mission to China, and the 50th anniversary of President establish a world federation of Communist states. Golitsyn Nixon’s trip isn’t too far away in 2022,” he said on July 23 in a noted that after “the Second World War, the threat of mono- speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. lithic, Stalinist communism drove the West into military and “The world was much different then. We imagined engagement political alliances, such “We are not fighting a single nation with China would produce a future with a bright promise of as nato, [the Southeast in a military war, but a gigantic, comity and cooperation. But today we’re all still wearing masks Asia Treaty Organization] worldwide, plain-clothes army, and watching the pandemic’s body count rise because the ccp and the Baghdad Pact.” masquerading as a political party, failed in its promises to the world. We’re reading every morn- Therefore, the Communist seeking to conquer the world with ing new headlines of repression in Hong Kong and in Xinjiang.” bloc decided to coordinate an entirely new kind of warfare!” Pompeo said, “China ripped off our prized intellectual its policies in secret while —HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, 1956 property and trade secrets, [costing] millions of jobs all across undermining the unity America. It sucked supply chains away from America, and then of the free world by pretending to be weak and disunited. This added a widget made of slave labor. It made the world’s key strategy included faking a split between Communist China and waterways less safe for international commerce.” He warned that Communist Russia and adopting enough free-market reforms to “[s]ecuring our freedoms from the Chinese Communist Party is bait the U.S. and Europe into trading with both. The goal was to the mission of our time, and America is perfectly positioned to lure Europe into an anti-American alliance and cut nato in half. lead it because our founding principles give us that opportunity.” In his 1995 book, The Perestroika Deception, Golitsyn elabo- In the 50 years since Communist China was officially recog- rated on how China’s close relationship with the U.S. was part nized by the U.S., it has grown from a backwater to one of the of a strategy to become “a modern superpower with the help of most powerful countries in the world. It is a trade and export American technology.” juggernaut, and many nations are unwilling to upset their Whether or not Golitsyn was correct that this was a deliber- relationships with the regime. ate Chinese strategy, many of his predictions have come to pass. 12 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET outbreak—including a property tycoon, Data from China’s General Admin- a prominent blogger and the head of istration of Customs shows that from Emergency at Wuhan Central Hospital— January 24 to February 29, China were simply “disappeared” by the regime. imported a total of 2.5 billion pieces of It was only in late January—after at personal protective equipment. This least seven weeks had passed and after represents an eye-popping quantity of some 7 million potentially infected gear—18 times larger than the usual people had left Wuhan for other parts of amount—that China bought up from the world—that the Communist Party nations that were unaware of how began taking quarantine measures and disruptive covid-19 would soon become alerting the world of the outbreak. Even for their own populations. White House then, after China finally began working People attend a February Director of Trade and Manufacturing 7 vigil in Hong Kong for with the World Health Organization, coronavirus whistleblower Peter Navarro said on April 21 that Dr. Li Wenliang. a Central Intelligence Agency report China “vacuumed up all of the personal shows that the Chinese regime threat- protective equipment around the world ened to “stop cooperating” with the and ship it to China. In Australia, for while it was hiding the virus.” who’s investigation “if the organization example, journalist Liz Storer reported Perhaps the purchasing frenzy was declared a global health emergency.” that “Chinese government-backed primarily intended to equip China’s pop- Meanwhile, as the regime was organizations” ceased normal business ulation with supplies needed to combat pressuring the who to downplay the operations during January and Febru- the disease. But the Chinese Communist threat, it ordered Chinese embassies ary to “literally pillage Australia” for Party would also have well understood and other Chinese organizations in epidemic-related supplies, “which they that by muzzling the cowardly who, the countries worldwide to buy up as much proudly put into massive containers and disease was sure to go global, medical equipment as possible abroad shipped back to China.” and that the countries

When Mao Zedong and the Communists took over China in Order your free copy of The United States and 1949, the major English-speaking nations (Australia, Britain, Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert W. Armstrong. Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the U.S.) generated 37 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. The nations of Western Europe generated 19 percent of world gdp. The Mr. Armstrong’s warning focused on Communist China-Russia Communist axis generated only 15 percent. But Russia’s demoralization efforts to pervert our morals, after decades of perestroika deception, the English-speaking wreck our social structure, and destroy our spiritual values by nations now generate less than 25 percent of world gdp and promoting the “God is dead” movement in American universi- Western Europe less than 14 percent. China’s share has more ties. But in terms of industrial and economic power, the main than tripled. China has in fact “become a modern superpower force has been Communist China. In 2020, Secretary Pompeo with the help of American technology.” If it can pull the warns that China has “sucked supply chains away from Amer- “pseudo-social democratic regimes” of Europe into an alliance, ica,” but Mr. Armstrong warned about communism “sapping it will gain enough economic power to isolate the U.S. and its our strength” even before the U.S. established diplomatic remaining allies. relations with Communist China 40 years ago. Golitsyn was not the only one warning that this would The Americans and the British are descendants of ancient happen. Years before Golitsyn defected from the kgb, the Israel. This means that end-time Bible prophecies about Israel late Herbert W. Armstrong warned that communism would primarily apply to the U.S. and Britain today. be used to take from America its historically unprecedented Over its history, God has warned Israel through prophets. national blessings. Isaiah warned the nation against forsaking God’s law and adopt- “We are not fighting a single nation in a military war, but a ing Eastern philosophies. “O house of Jacob, come ye, and let gigantic, worldwide, plain-clothes army, masquerading as a us walk in the light of the Lord. Therefore thou hast forsaken political party, seeking to conquer the world with an entirely thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished new kind of warfare!” Mr. Armstrong wrote in 1956. “It’s a from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they kind of warfare we don’t understand, or know how to cope please themselves in the children of strangers” (Isaiah 2:5-6). with. It uses every diabolical means to weaken us from within, The modern descendants of Israel have committed the same sapping our strength, perverting our morals, sabotaging our mistake. Instead of trusting God to bless and defend them, our educational system, wrecking our social structure, destroying people have recognized and traded with Communist dictator- our spiritual and religious life, weakening our industrial and ships and even invited Communist professors from Russia, economic power, demoralizing our armed forces, and finally, China and other nations to teach generations of young Amer- after such infiltration, overthrowing our government by force icans and Britons. The result has been the moral corruption and violence! All this cleverly disguised as a harmless political of our youth, the theft of our economic strength, and the fatal

ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP-GETTY IMAGES WALLACE/AFP-GETTY ANTHONY party! Communism is worldwide psychological warfare!” weakening of our nations. BY ANDREW MIILLER OCTOBER 2020 13 whose shelves its agents had just pillaged In June, the European Commission 2000s, China began inserting itself into would then be desperate for protective did offer some criticism of China’s some of Hong Kong’s affairs, and the equipment. And then when China did spread of false information regarding people of the territory demonstrated not end up using all of the equipment covid-19. But as with Xinjiang, it was a against it. As the years went by, Beijing’s it had hoarded, it was well positioned token statement that has not reversed pushes against Hong Kong’s semi-auton- to sell the excess back to desperate and Europe’s outreach to China one iota. omy continued, and each inspired bouts fearful nations at a major markup. “Not of heated protests. only is China hoarding,” Navarro said, One Country, One System Last summer, an analyst in the terri- “they are also selling it back to the world In the early 19th century, Hong Kong tory told the Trumpet on the condition at prices that are obscene.” was populated by only around 7,500 of anonymity that China was bending China’s state-run media outlet Xinhua people in scattered fishing villages. But its “two systems” promise near to a recently lauded the “precious time that after Britain hoisted its flag there in breaking point. The Communist Party China has bought the world” with its 1841, the island rapidly blossomed into was maneuvering to make Hong Kong a management of the coronavirus. But the a hub for European entrepreneurs eager typical Chinese city where its members facts show just the opposite. The Chi- to trade with Asia under British laws wield authority above the law. He said he nese Communist Party tried to save face and British protection. Chinese nation- feared for his safety: “From the bottom instead of save lives. It prioritized its own als flocked there for jobs, and, as the of my heart,” he said, “I would warn survival above that of the Chinese people mainland underwent political turmoil, anyone, in any country, beware of the Chinese government.” But most nations, including most Riot police pin down a pro-democracy protester in Europe, said little and did even in Hong Kong. less regarding China’s encroachment against Hong Kong. And in June, China shattered its promise. The new security laws that China ille- gally imposed on the island criminalize subversion, secession, terrorism and collusion with foreign entities. Under “one country, two systems,” Hong Kong was to pass its own legislation until at least 2047. Now the Communist Party has ramrodded its own laws through, and can classify most any criticism of the party, including peaceful protests about Beijing breaking its promise, as one of these crimes—and execute pun- ishment accordingly. or the other peoples of the world, and as new waves of Chinese refugees regularly The draconian laws also establish a such it is culpable for the virus’s global fled to the island. force of Chinese security and intelligence spread. The facts show that it was the By 1997, when Britain ceded Hong Kong agents in Hong Kong for the first time. As regime’s dishonesty and ineptitude that to China, the population had reached a with such forces on the mainland, they unleashed this pathogen that has killed staggering 6.5 million. And many feared are immune to many laws and are tasked hundreds of thousands of people and that the freedoms and liberty-protect- with imposing Communist Party power began pushing economies into recession. ing principles Britain had established over Hong Kongers at all costs. What has been Europe’s response to there would be erased by the Chinese Perhaps most worrying is the “extra- all this? As Liz Storer, Peter Navarro and Communist Party. To mitigate the fear, territoriality” provision of the new laws. others in the English-speaking nations China promised to let Hong Kong keep The law claims that it applies not only were sounding the alarm on China’s dis- its distinct identity under a rubric called to anyone in Hong Kong, regardless of honesty, Europe took a different route. “one country, two systems.” This guar- their nationality or residency, but also The New York Times explained: “Worried anteed that, for at least 50 years, Hong to actions committed “from outside the about the repercussions, European Kong would be part of the “one country” region by a person who is not a perma- officials first delayed and then rewrote of China, but the Communists would let nent resident of the region.” That means

[a report on disinformation about the the government and people operate their that you who are reading this article right ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY IMAGES pandemic] in ways that diluted the focus own “system.” That meant a high degree now, in whatever nation you may be, are on China, a vital trading partner—tak- of economic, political and judicial auton- likely in violation of China’s new laws and, ing a very different approach than the omy—including passing their own laws. if possible, therefore subject to arrest. confrontational stance adopted by the For the first few years, the promise This brazenly violates international law. Trump administration” (April 24). was carefully respected. But in the CHINA PAGE 32 u 14 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET The Glory of EMPIRE

Britain is ashamed of its imperial past. It shouldn’t be. The right kind of empire has a noble and powerful impact on this world! BY GERALD FLURRY

istory is under attack, and negative—albeit one outweighed by his What was it that motivated Winston the British Empire is at the heroic stand against Adolf Hitler. Churchill to become a great man? heart of the storm. The truth is that Churchill’s love for Anything related to empire empire was actually one of his greatest Child of the Empire His denounced as evil. The great figures of characteristics! It was this love that Winston Churchill was born in the Empire are being torn down. enabled him to resist Hitler. The love for November 1874. Queen Victoria was on Prof. Philip Murphy at the University of empire contains a noble lesson that, if we England’s royal throne at the time, and London said Britain is seeing a new sort learn, would enable us to solve the mas- the British Empire was near the apex of of politics “in which empire is almost the sive problems facing our nations today. its global might and majesty. original sin of Great Britain, because it’s Churchill is still widely considered During the reign of Victoria, the Brit- inherently racist and it embodies all the a great man. He was a fearless warrior ish Empire’s holdings around the globe authoritarian masculine values that the and masterful military tactician and expanded until it had become the largest left is now in revolt against.” leader. He was a brilliant statesman and empire in history. Though Great Britain Sir Winston Churchill was the a quick-witted politician. He was also an was a small island nation, by the end of greatest figure of the 20th century and exceptional historian, an eloquent ora- the 19th century it was said that the sun perhaps the most towering personality tor, a gifted painter and one of history’s never set on its territory. With its colo- to come out of Britain in the last few most underrated philosophers. Excel- nies, protectorates and territories, the centuries. Though Churchill had and ling in any one of these fields is enough Empire included over 14 million square still has some critics and detractors, few to qualify a man as great, yet Churchill miles of land and 450 million people— ever questioned his love for his country. excelled in each of these areas. more than a quarter of the global popula- But he too is under attack. His statue But what motivated Winston Chur- tion. With supremacy at sea, Britain took was labeled “racist.” London’s mayor chill? What motivated him to devote on the role of global policeman and came covered the statue rather than risk virtually every minute of his life to fight- to dominate world politics. further damage. ing for his nation? What motivated him The vast tracts of lands it possessed to What the protesters hate more than to master military tactics and strategy? harvest natural resources brought great anything is Churchill’s support for the What motivated him to work so hard wealth into the empire. Owning such a British Empire. A Guardian editorial to become a great public speaker? large amount of the planet gave Britain called him “the enthusiastic supporter What motivated him to endure the hard unparalleled power in world trade and of a racist imperial system.” slog of politics? What motivated him, granted it significant influence over Even to Churchill’s defenders, his even in the twilight years of his life, to the economies of many countries. In CULTURE CLUB/GETTY IMAGES, DAVID LEVENSON/GETTY IMAGES, THE PRINT COLLECTOR/GETTY IMAGES (2) IMAGES COLLECTOR/GETTY PRINT THE IMAGES, LEVENSON/GETTY DAVID IMAGES, CLUB/GETTY CULTURE JULIA GODDARD/TRUMPET, TOBY MELVILLE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES, UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES, IMAGES, ARCHIVE/GETTY HISTORY UNIVERSAL IMAGES, GETTY VIA MELVILLE/AFP TOBY GODDARD/TRUMPET, JULIA support for the British Empire is often a churn out articles, columns and books? Britain’s ports, ships arrived from all OCTOBER 2020 15 over the globe carrying goods and raw for the British Commonwealth. But Win- emphatically was not the cruel, evil, inhu- materials that fueled the local economy. ston Churchill was fighting for humanity! mane force that many today think it was. The wealth supported an age of scien- Historians have noted how Churchill Emmert wrote that in Churchill’s view, tific, industrial, cultural and military would speak of England’s special destiny. the British Empire acted to “lift human advancement in the United Kingdom. Merriam-Webster defines destiny as life away from barbarism and savagery It was within this environment “something to which a person or thing towards civilization and human excel- of imperial greatness that Winston is destined; a predetermined course of lence.” In many instances, that is exactly Churchill grew up. In his book Churchill events often held to be an irresistible what it did. It was, as Churchill and His Generals, Raymond Callahan power or agency.” Churchill was never believed, a powerful civilizing force explains the impact the British Empire an overly religious man. But he did, that benefited all of humanity! had on Churchill’s mental, intellectual especially as he got older, believe in the and moral maturation: “Churchill’s presence of a Higher Power, and that Empire the World Needs hostility toward Bolshevism abroad and there was a grand strategy being worked Historian and Harvard professor Niall socialism at home had its parallel in his out on Earth. Ferguson explains in detail the good reaction to nationalism in the Empire. On one occasion Churchill announced, work of the British Empire in his book He had grown up with the late Victorian “I have not become the king’s first Empire. Despite the wide criticism surge of empire building. He was 8 when minister in order to preside over the leveled at the British Empire today, Britain occupied Egypt, 11 when Gordon liquidation of the British Empire.” Here’s he writes, “the fact remains that no fell at Khartoum, and present when organization in history has done more Gordon was avenged at Omdurman in to promote the free movement of goods, 1898. The Empire he had known as a “True capital and labor than the British young man always would seem to him Empire in the 19th and early 20th centu- part of the natural order of things …” imperialism … ries. And no organization has done more (emphasis mine throughout). to impose Western norms of law, order Churchill passionately loved the Brit- develops and governance around the world.” ish Empire, more than anything else in Ferguson does a very good job making his life. He wanted the Empire to be part manhood.” the case that “the world we know today of the natural order of things. Callahan WINSTON S. CHURCHILL is in large measure the product of Brit- continues: It was “beneficent and an ain’s age of empire.” He documents Brit- indispensable prop of British power what Lord Moran, Churchill’s doctor and ain’s towering contributions to the lands and greatness. Yet his entire political close confidante from 1940 till 1965, said it colonized, and to humanity in general— career would be played out in an era of about that statement: “It was not just contributions that included the English challenge and dissolution for imperial bravado. He was affirming a faith for language and literature; English forms rule.” Every minute of Churchill’s life, which he was prepared to give his life, of land ownership; Scottish and English every decision and tactic, every new bill, and he proved it throughout his life.” banking; Common Law; team sports; every column and book, stemmed from Dr. Moran then stated, “If Winston representative assemblies; and modern his devotion to the British Empire! has believed in anything at all in the notions of freedom and liberty. It is easy to oversimplify Winston course of his long life, it has been in All these things were rooted in Churchill’s love of the Empire. He didn’t the British Empire and all that it Judeo-Christian values, which the Brit- love it simply because it was English, stands for.’” ish shared with mankind during their or powerful and wealthy, or because Churchill’s ambitions were larger and global rule. it ruled over tens of millions of people. nobler because he filled his mind with Isn’t an empire that leads the world Churchill’s writings show that his love empire thinking. This expanded his away from savagery toward human for empire went much, much deeper. ability to give selflessly and tirelessly, to excellence a good thing? This world There was a selfless, altruistic, noble sacrifice and do whatever was necessary needs that kind of empire! dimension to his devotion. to grow and preserve that Empire. Even America’s forefathers, despite Winston Churchill wanted to share the Author and historian Kirk Emmert their hostility to many facets of British British Empire with the rest of mankind. explored Churchill’s devotion in his rule, recognized Britain’s enormous excellent book Winston S. Churchill on contributions to the moral view of man. Empire With a Purpose Empire. He wrote, “The word ‘empire’ In June 1783, George Washington wrote, Churchill believed the British Empire in the title is to be taken on many levels. “The foundation of our empire was not had a larger purpose. During World War The glory of the British Empire was its laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and ii, he once stated, “Whatever may happen service to a cause that transcended superstition, but at an [epoch] when the on the Continent, we cannot doubt our Britain, that transcended history, that rights of mankind were better under- duty, and we shall certainly use all our transcended time itself.” stood and more clearly defined, than at power to defend the island, the Empire Of course, the British Empire wasn’t any former period ….” and our cause.” Perhaps most of his coun- even close to perfect; there were On July 10, 1833, Lord Macaulay stated trymen were fighting only for England or many mistakes and injustices. But it in a speech before British Parliament, 16 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET “There is an empire exempt from all nat- Churchill warned “little Englanders” God has a plan to lift human life away ural causes of decay. That empire is the that their desire to retreat and live in from barbarism and savagery toward civ- imperishable empire of our arts and our seclusion was a dream—and that such ilization and excellence. He has a strat- morals and our literature and our laws.” thinking would inevitably bring conflict! egy to spread just laws and right morals. When Churchill entered the scene a few Read these words from Churchill He intends to fulfill the noble purpose of decades later, his view was essentially during the battle of Dunkirk: “We shall fostering the right kind of civilization for the same. These men believed Britain fight in France, and we shall fight on the the benefit of the whole world! had a unique and special system of law, seas and the oceans. … Then our Empire God is laying the foundation of that values and morals, and they wanted to beyond the seas, armed and guarded by future empire today. He is preparing a share those with the rest of mankind. the British fleet, will carry on the struggle people—His Church—that will be ready Contrast that ideal with what you see until, in God’s good time, the new world when the time comes that Jesus Christ is today, when Britain’s greatest export with all its power and might sets forth to crowned King of kings and Lord of lords. is lawless, amoral, drunken thuggery! the rescue and liberation of the old.” Are you one whom God could use for Just laws and upright morals should be Churchill didn’t view the British that noble purpose? Would you devote exported around the world. But Britain Empire as a conquering force. He viewed your life to this greatest of all causes? instead spreads deep corruption and a it as a force for freedom, justice and Think on this statement from James plague of evil, as does America. That is civilization—and it was! Anthony Froude, which he wrote in his a terrible shame. That strong belief in empire did great book Oceana: “A man … who is more than Emmert explained that Churchill things for mankind! himself, who is part of an institution, believed that the “fostering of civiliza- Where do you find that spirit today in who has devoted himself to a cause—or is tion [is] the highest purpose of empire.” Britain? If Churchill visited today, I think a citizen of an imperial power—expands It was Churchill’s hope and belief he would be horrified, and deeply sad- to the scope and fullness of the larger that the British Empire, grounded on dened and ashamed, at the state of the organism; and the grander the organi- a strong system of law and morality, nation he dedicated his life to serving. zation, the larger and more important would improve the character of both In fact, he would barely recognize it! the unit that knows that he belongs to it. Britain’s leaders and its subjects. It His thoughts are wider, his interests less never did this perfectly, but it did so God’s View of Empire selfish, his ambitions ampler and nobler. more than any other people or empire! Human history has certainly produced … A great nation makes great men, a “True imperialism … develops man- some very evil empires. Rather than small nation makes little men.” hood,” Churchill said (emphasis mine). civilizing the world, some empires Froude was talking about the British That is politically incorrect today—but have made it more barbaric and violent. Empire. Churchill and many others it is still very accurate! True imperial- According to biblical prophecy, the most were living proof of that statement. That ism—the expansion of an empire rooted savage empire of all is going to rise just great Empire ennobled them and set in law and morality—does create quality before Jesus Christ’s Second Coming— their imaginations on fire. men—and women. Churchill was a and we can see it emerging before our But Froude’s observation is infinitely masculine man, a courageous, selfless eyes in Europe today! At present, it is truer of the empire that God Himself individual. It was largely the British disguised with sophistication, but soon is establishing! This empire improves Empire that made him a real leader, one it will revert to its historical brutality. both rulers and ruled. The more we of the greatest in our time. That ugly history has contributed to understand it and commit our passions the evil view that many people today have to it, the less selfish our interests, the ‘Little Englanders’ of empire in general, especially among wider our thoughts, the ampler and Churchill always had his detractors. He intellectuals and scholars in the West. nobler our ambitions become! often called them “little Englanders.” However, the existence of these barba- After all, this is God’s Empire! It is the These people wanted to do away with rizing empires doesn’t change the good greatest, most wonderful and inspiring the Empire—to renounce it and live an that a civilizing empire can do. And the endeavor that will ever be. No nation inward life. Churchill believed that such scholars’ cynical portrayal of the British or kingdom on Earth will ever produce a retreat from the world would have Empire is very deceptive and dishonest. greater men and women than God’s terrible consequences. At its core, is empire immoral? No. Kingdom—and you can join forces with “In his opposition to both little There isn’t anything wrong with empire it even today! n Englanders and to unbridled imperi- if it brings good. Truly, the right kind of alists, he defended what he viewed as imperialism can accomplish great things! a modern, essentially political under- In fact, if you understand the gospel standing of empire,” wrote Emmert. that Jesus Christ brought to Earth— Empire of the future! “Contrary to current critics of imperi- advance news from God the Father of One final empire is coming. It will not be a alism, Churchill argued that a properly the soon-coming Kingdom of God—it government of the people or by the people. constituted, imperial rule was civilizing was at its heart an imperialistic message! Yet it will be the only government that has in that it improved both rulers and ruled, The Kingdom of God could very accu- ever truly been for the people. To learn preparing the ruled for self-government.” rately be called the God Family Empire! more, request “What Is the True Gospel?” OCTOBER 2020 17 LOSING OUR E B X M

RELIGION 6 6 The United States of America has 9 been fundamentally transformed. Some politicians, educators and media personalities still talk about God, the Bible 16 and Christianity, but a landmark Pew 24 25 Research Religious Landscape survey of more than 35,000 Americans has found that America’s younger generation is 29 abandoning religion. In fact, if current trends continue, those born after 1997 may become our first post-Christian generation. 70 69 33 In his First Inaugural Address, President George Washington said, “The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the 62 pure and immutable principles of private morality.” And in his famous Farewell Address he said, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable 51 supports.” President Washington knew that without religion and morality, America was doomed to fail.

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Generation X (X) The share of U.S. adults who Absolutely Born 1966–1985 Believe in God has declined each successive generation, while the share of Baby Boomers (B) adults who are Not Certain there is a God Born 1951–1965 or Do Not Believe in God has increased. RELIGION SCRIPTURE Religiously Unaffiliated has increased. practice generation, whilethe share ofadults who as The share ofU.S.adults who self-identify Bible Was Not Inspired by Godhas increased. the BibleWas Inspired orwhoBelieve the share ofadults whoDoNot Know Whether declined each successive generation, whilethe the BibleIsNon-Literal Word ofGodhas Is theLiteral Word ofGodorwhoBelieve The share ofU.S.adults whoBelieve theBible E 30 E 83 25 Christian has declined each successive 37 12 8 5 Non-Christian Faiths orwhoare B B 29 29 35 78 17 5 7 X X 68 28 34 26 31 6 7 M M 20 43 55 37 31 8 6

EVOLUTION PRAYER TRUTH Humans Evolved Over Time has increased. share ofadults whoDon’t Know orBelieve declined each successive generation, whilethe Created HumansinTheirCurrent Form has The share ofU.S.adults who Believe God increased. Pray Monthly orSeldom/Never Pray has while theshare ofadults whoPray Weekly, has declined each successive generation, The share ofU.S.adults whoPray Daily Standard ofRight andWrong has increased. the share ofadults whoBelieve inaRelative declined each successive generation, while Absolute Standard ofRight andWrong has The share ofU.S.adults whoBelieve inan E E E 63 65 54 18 37 37 13 9 4 B B B 38 62 34 62 18 61 16 4 5 X X X 30 66 34 54 24 67 16 6 3 M M M 35 23 25 73 41 77 17 2 7

IDEOLOGY CHURCH BIBLE STUDY Know orLean Liberal has increased. of adults whoare Independent/Don’t successive generation, whiletheshare Conservative has declined each The share ofU.S.adults who Lean Seldom/Never Goto Church has increased. adults whoOccasionally Goto Church or successive generation, whiletheshare of Services Every Week has declined each The share ofU.S.adults whoAttend Church Weekly The share ofU.S.adults whoRead theBible Seldom/Never Read theBiblehas increased. adults whoRead theBibleAnnually successive generation, whiletheshare of E E E 48 48 42 42 25 27 41 11 9 7 or Monthly has declined each B B B 38 38 44 28 44 44 34 10 12 8 X X X 48 46 34 35 33 32 37 15 11 9 or or M M M 36 54 53 33 27 27 37 13 12 8 ‘ECONOMIC POPGUN, POLITICAL HOWITZER’

Europe’s COVID bailout did more than just add credit to Europe’s balance sheet—it added a whole lot of firepower. BY RICHARD PALMER AND DANIEL DI SANTO

id you know that the term seven years and 19 countries and includes Italy would hit the whole eurozone “prime minister” began as an programs that were already in place. So hard. This is simply the reality of shar- D insult, not a job title? British the money itself will actually do little to ing a currency. politicians were concerned that the help the EU recover from coronavirus. Before coronavirus, Germany was First Lord of the Treasury was amassing But that does not mean it’s unimportant. strictly opposed to “debt mutualization,” too much power, so they accused him of This fund contains one crucial change. or sharing debt among eurozone nations being the “prime minister.” For the first time ever, European leaders to create more borrowing opportunities He who controls the purse strings have allowed the EU as a whole to bor- during crises. Doing this means that controls the power. row money. An opaque, unelected body, Greece or Italy could spend money, and In the United States, the Funding Act of the European Commission, will have its Germany would be responsible to help 1790 changed history. It provided that the hands on the purse strings. pay it off. If Germany is to share its debts of individual states would be shared The EU will borrow money on the national credit card, it wants to make and paid through the federal government. financial markets, then distribute sure other countries don’t use it to buy Had each state maintained full control of €390 billion in grants and €360 billion in sports cars and luxury holidays. its own debts and income, the “United loans that must be repaid. But in May, German Chancellor States” would have become a loose associ- The idea is to help prop up European Angela Merkel made a 180-degree turn ation more like the United Nations. economies that are on the brink of on the subject. She began pushing for it, Decisions on finance determine the catastrophe. Italy is one of the hardest even against strenuous objections. course of nations and of the world. hit. Coronavirus has shut down the Europe’s leaders acknowledge this is Another historic financial decision tourism sector—which makes up 14 per- a radical change by qualifying it with was made this summer by the European cent of the country’s economy. Add in all sorts of language proclaiming it was Union. The way it now handles debt the other economic effects of lockdown, a “one-off.” Of course, income tax was puts this group of nations on the path to and Italy faces disaster. also supposed to be a one-off—in both becoming a superstate—and fulfilling Even before the virus hit, Italy was America and in Britain—but it remains one of the Bible’s greatest prophecies! struggling to stay afloat. It was one with us today. Once you break a taboo, of the most indebted countries in the you prove it can be done—and it is much

A Joint Credit Card developed world—with debt 135 percent easier to repeat. ISTOCK.COM/ SONATE, ISTOCK.COM/ DEM10 After a grueling 90 hours of negotiations the size of its annual economic output. The $247.5 billion Italy will receive spanning five days and including heated Borrowing money to help its busi- in grants and loans won’t be enough to insults among national leaders, EU nesses through the lockdown was not keep it afloat. The money will go to some officials agreed to a coronavirus bailout much of an option for Italy. So it turned eye-catching projects, like an earth- package on July 21. The result was a €750 to the EU. quake-proof tunnel to Sicily, but it’s not billion (us$862 billion) bailout package. It And the EU had little choice but to really going help the government pay is a large amount, but it is spread out over act. A complete economic collapse in the bills. Instead, money printing by the 20 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET European Central Bank is doing most of As Europe’s credit limit and overall This actually points to an important the heavy lifting on that front. governance grows, it will become even fact revealed in Bible prophecy. With Once the threshold of shared debt is less democratic. 27 nations, the European Union is cur- crossed, the other trappings of govern- Bible prophecy says 10 European rently too big to function as a superstate. ment soon follow. As the borrowing nations will unite under one strong Even having 19 nations in the eurozone limit on this shared credit card grows, leader, with religion as its unifying force. is an unwieldy arrangement. The Bible Europe will need some way to oversee Based on these prophecies, Herbert W. says the number of nations in the Union the borrowing and spending. It will need Armstrong, the founder of our predeces- will decrease, which will actually enable a powerful central government. sor magazine the Plain Truth, wrote that its power to drastically increase. Granted, this decision by the EU is European nations will “give all their mil- As the EU’s credit limit rises and its not Europe’s “Hamiltonian moment.” itary and monetary power to the central central government (dominated by It is not as wide-ranging as America’s ruler over the 10—the coming European Germany) becomes more powerful, debt sharing in 1790. The EU still has leader” (co-worker letter, Aug. 14, 1978). expect some EU countries to leave or be an uphill struggle before it reaches that Europe’s recovery fund won’t save pushed out. This will produce a leaner, point. But it is a momentous first step it from a coming economic crisis. As meaner, more consolidated European down that road. Mr. Armstrong warned, an economic bloc that can be directed powerfully by The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans- crash in America “could suddenly result “caesaropapist” rule. Pritchard called the bailout “an eco- in triggering European nations to unite “The coronavirus is hastening the nomic popgun—but a political howitzer,” as a new world power larger than either arrival of the prophesied Holy Roman identifying it as “a profound change the Soviet Union or the U.S. That, in Empire,” wrote Trumpet editor in chief in the structure and character of the turn, could bring on the Great Tribula- Gerald Flurry in the July Trumpet. “The European project” (July 21). tion suddenly” (co-worker letter, July 22, Bible says 10 kings will rise in Europe in 1984). Another economic crash would this end time, led by one overarching ‘Bordering on Totalitarian’ push Europe further down the road to strongman. These kings will form the Power over the current, relatively becoming a superstate. Holy Roman Empire. The coronavirus meager level of EU funding rests with the European Commission, a group of unelected leaders appointed by national AS THE BORROWING LIMIT ON governments. Already possessing the THIS SHARED CREDIT CARD GROWS, power to make laws, they will now have EUROPE WILL NEED SOME WAY TO OVERSEE the power to raise funds from the shared debt and the power of direct spending. BORROWING AND SPENDING. IT WILL NEED “Where else in the world does a single A POWERFUL CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. unelected body have the ‘right of initia- tive’ on legislation, and the executive powers of a proto-government, and the It’s not about how much cash is pandemic is helping usher in these 10 spending prerogatives of a parliament, involved. It’s about how much power. kings! We need to be thinking about all wrapped in one?” Evans-Pritchard these prophesied kings, who are rising asked. He warned that this power is Too Big Not to Fail? now. … Many people have voiced fear “bordering on totalitarian in consti- European nations did not take this that the recent crisis will destroy the tutional terms, mostly unchecked by momentous step easily. The meeting was European Union. But although it may meaningful parliamentary oversight.” one of the most divisive in recent history. look that way, Europe is in fact about to His most prescient characteri- Originally, the plan was for €500 unite in a powerful way.” zation of the EU’s growing political billion in grants and €250 billion in Mr. Flurry called the consequences power came in the form of one word: loans. This met strong opposition from of coronavirus on Europe “[o]ne of the “caesaropapist.” This word connotes the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, most important effects of the global imperial Rome and papal decrees. A Denmark and Finland, making for what panic over covid-19.” European nations caesaropapacy is a political system with French President Emmanuel Macron crossing this economic and political one leader ruling the empire and the described as “extremely tense moments” threshold in response to the virus church. Evans-Pritchard may have been throughout the drawn-out negotiations. confirms that statement. The direction likening the European Commission’s The summit was only 30 minutes shy of Europe is taking right now ties right in power to create and enforce fiscal policy the record for the longest in EU history. with Bible prophecy. to the power held by the emperors of At one point during the meetings, Understand these events, and it will Europe’s past. The Trumpet believes, German Chancellor Merkel and French help you see the next earthshaking however, that Europe will live up to this President Macron got up and walked out empire rising in Europe! n description literally. together, showing solidarity with each To learn more, request your free copy of There is going to be another Holy other and resistance to their opponents Gerald Flurry’s reprint article “Coronavirus Roman Empire. who wanted a smaller bailout package. and the Holy Roman Empire.” OCTOBER 2020 21 Why Does hat is going on under Germany networks of current and former the surface in Germany? soldiers and police officers with W Germany’s elite Have So Many ties to the far right. … Some Ger- special forces—the Kommando man news media have referred to Spezialkräfte (ksk)—are so full of Neo-Nazi a ‘shadow army,’ drawing parallels neo-Nazis that the government to the 1920s, when nationalist cells is considering shutting down the Conspiracies? within the military hoarded arms, whole unit. Senior members of plotted coups, and conspired to the military have looked the other overthrow democracy” (July 3). way while Nazis embed them- BY RICHARD PALMER Some dismiss the idea of a selves in their ranks. Far-right shadow army. But Gen. Markus members in the police have used their for the Protection of the Constitution Kreitmayr, the head of the ksk, isn’t so positions to target left-wing politicians. (BfV), the nation’s domestic intelligence sure. “I don’t know if there is a shadow Intelligence agencies funneled money agency—identify the far right as the army in Germany,” he told Bennhold. “But to a neo-Nazi group. Civilians have been biggest threat to German democracy. I am worried, and not just as the com- joining secretive far-right groups. mander of the ksk, but as a citizen—that Why are there so many neo-Nazis hid- The German Military in the end something like that does exist ing in Germany’s institutions? How have The German military intelligence ser- and that maybe our people are part of it.” they been able to stay hidden? And what vice said it believes the special forces are does that say about modern Germany? a “hotbed of the far right.” Forty-eight Police and Intelligence Services thousand rounds of ammunition and For the last two years, someone in Day X 137 pounds of explosives have gone the police force has been using police One of the most widespread movements missing from the ksk—presumably to databases to send threatening letters to are “Day X preppers.” They believe Ger- far-right groups. In June, one of the left-wing political figures. The fact that man society will soon collapse, and they ksk’s four companies was disbanded neither the police nor Interpol has been want to be ready to not only survive the because it was so full of far-right sym- able to track them down suggests it’s chaos, but to use it to kill their political pathizers that it was deemed beyond more than one person. opponents and rid Germany of migrants. rehabilitation. Some say the entire ksk The head of Germany’s largest police To that end they stockpile body bags, and its semi-independent command union complains that police officers are ammunitions and explosives. They’ve structure could be shut down. increasingly leaning far right in response drawn up hit lists and chosen locations In May, a sergeant major was arrested to the influx of migrants since 2015. A Der for mass killings. after police found thousands of rounds Spiegel investigation found at least 340 “Today, Day X preppers are drawing of ammunition, 2 kilograms of explo- cases of right-wing extremism, racism or serious people with serious skills and sives, an AK-47 and Nazi memorabilia anti-Semitic activities in police officers ambition,” a recent New York Times in his home. A few months before, a or candidates in training since 2014. investigation by Berlin bureau chief lieutenant colonel was suspended for The BfV has also been implicated. The Katrin Bennhold warned. “Germany has making far-right posts online. National Socialist Underground (nsu) belatedly begun dealing with far-right In 2018 the German government is a neo-Nazi group that killed nine networks that officials now say are far revealed a plot involving 200 people, migrants and a police officer between more extensive than they ever under- including veterans of the ksk, to kill 2000 and 2007. The BfV was supposed stood” (August 1). Green Party leader Claudia Roth, to shut it down; instead it gave the group “This movement has its fingertips in Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, former significant funding. The BfV claims it lots of places,” said local politician Heiko President Joachim Gauck and many was paying off informants. Others said Böhringer. “All this talk of Day X can other leaders. The conspirators had the informants were handing the money seem like pure fantasy. But if you look stockpiled weapons and ammunition. straight to the nsu with the BfV’s blessing. closer, you can see how quickly it turns There are worrying signs in the wider The BfV was also suspiciously incom- into serious planning—and plotting.” military, too. In April 2017 a lieutenant petent in investigating the nsu. For years, “I fear we’ve only seen the tip of the ice- in the German Army was arrested after the intelligence agency insisted there berg,” said Dirk Friedriszik, another local planning a terrorist attack that could be was no wider conspiracy to targeting politician. “It isn’t just the ksk. The real erroneously blamed on migrants. migrants. A BfV agent was even present worry is: These cells are everywhere. In In an earlier article, Bennhold wrote: at the murder of one of the migrants— the army, in the police, in reservist units.” “In interviews I conducted over the course and claims not to have noticed. It’s no wonder both Interior Minister of the year with military and intelligence “The worrying question that arises is Horst Seehofer and Thomas Halden- officials, and avowed far-right members whether the German security agencies wang—president of the Federal Office themselves, they described nationwide merely failed at doing their job, or 22 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET did they actually turn a blind eye and intentionally enable the nsu’s activi- ties,” wrote Ynetnews. “And if so, could neo-Nazis have infiltrated Germany’s spy agencies and actively encouraged the crimes? The authorities’ insistence on covering up information and stone- walling investigation on the matter only raise further suspicions” (April 24, 2017).

Who Investigates the Investigators? Meanwhile, far-right violence is rising in German society. In June, newly released data shows anti-Semitic crimes reached the highest levels on record, with 2,000 (From top) Suspects of the committed in 2019. In February a far- Bosphorus serial murders right shooter killed nine in a terrorist committed between 2000 attack. In October, another far-right and 2007; Stephan Ernst, gunman attacked a synagogue in the who murdered politician town of Halle. Last summer, Walter Walter Lübcke; KSK Lübcke, a politician in the state of Hesse, soldiers train in Germany. was assassinated by a far-right extremist. So many people are involved that it’s “The outcome is typical of the against the Nazis! Over the last 10 years, hard to see how widespread the net- authorities’ handling of far-right cases, a series of German government reports works are. One high-ranking investigator extremism experts say,” wrote Bennhold. prove that claim false. The postwar was suspended in June after he gave con- “The charges brought are often woefully government, police, judiciary and civil fidential information to a contact in the narrow for the elaborate plots they are service were full of ex-Nazis. ksk, who then tipped off other potential meant to deter and punish.” Other reports show that ex-Nazi army neo-Nazis who could have been investi- Why is far-right extremism such a sys- officers set up secret armies. Once Ger- gated. In another investigation, a lieu- temic problem? Why do those involved many was allowed to have an army again tenant colonel in military intelligence get off so lightly? And if so many are in 1955, many of these ex-Nazis were was found trying to cover up an effort to willing to act on such beliefs, how many absorbed right back in. Men who knew infiltrate the military with neo-Nazis. more sympathize from the sidelines? and worked with the leaders of these “If the very people who are meant to This is the crucial question too few secret armies went on to rise to the very protect our democracy are plotting are asking: What does this mean for top of the new West German military. against it, we have a big problem,” said modern Germany? And now we find neo-Nazi conspir- Stephan Kramer, BfV president in the acies everywhere. Clearly the spirit of German state of Thuringia. “How do you A Warning for Germany Nazism didn’t die after World War ii. It find them?” This rise in the far right is a clear sign just went into hiding. The New York Times investigation that all is not well. Under the surface, a focused on one group of Day X preppers, Nazi spirit is brewing. Read “The Nazi Underground— Nord Cross. Investigation and prosecu- It’s also proof of a startlingly accurate Revealed!” (theTrumpet.com/20885). tion of Nord Cross has been so minimal forecast from Herbert W. Armstrong. or ineffectual that only one member has On May 9, 1945, just hours after World How could Mr. Armstrong make this faced any charges: One of the group’s War ii ended, he warned, “We don’t forecast on May 9, 1945? Germany had leaders, Marko Gross, received a sus- understand German thoroughness …. formerly surrendered to the Allies only pended sentence for “illegal weapons Now a Nazi underground is methodically hours before. It had lost nearly 10 percent possession” (the list of those weapons planned. They plan to come back and to of its population. Its factories were in was so long it took 45 minutes to read win on the third try.” rubble. Even its agriculture production out in court). But there have been no We now know there was a Nazi was only at 35 percent of its pre-war level. prosecutions for a wider conspiracy. underground. No one was forecasting that Germany It is reminiscent of another far-right Across Germany’s government, civil would rise again—except Mr. Armstrong. leader who received only a slap on the servants insisted they had had nothing Mr. Armstrong based his analysis wrist for his attempt to overthrow the to do with Nazi atrocities. In fact, they on Bible prophecy. Revelation 17:8

PUBLIC DOMAIN, KAI PFAFFENBACH/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, KAY NIETFELD/PICTURE ALLIANCE/GETTY IMAGES ALLIANCE/GETTY NIETFELD/PICTURE KAY IMAGES, PFAFFENBACH/AFP/GETTY KAI DOMAIN, PUBLIC government in 1923: Adolf Hitler. claimed they had secretly worked NEO-NAZI CONSPIRACIES PAGE 36 u OCTOBER 2020 23 repetition of history.” Churchill warned relentlessly that History Is a Path Germany would plunge the world into another war. He knew the record of human nature, which gave him foresight to Understand into the future of human nature. He knew that Britain could stop Adolf Hitler if it took decisive action early on. Bible Prophecy But other British leaders insisted on disarmament and appeasement to avoid agitating Hitler. Even when Churchill had almost no And understanding Bible support from other people, he remained prophecy can change your life! steadfast and courageous in his convic- BY GERALD FLURRY tions. When his warnings came to pass, the people finally turned to him for lead- ership through the worst war in history. They regarded him as a secular prophet! That devastating world war in which or decades, history has been You have freedoms today largely 60 million people died was only nec- under attack. Our schools because Churchill studied history. essary because neither politicians nor F stopped emphasizing it; many “As a recent chair of a prominent the media nor educators would listen to colleges stopped teaching it. Now people history department recently explained Churchill’s history-based warning! are actively tearing it down and radically to us, the discipline of history does not We must learn lessons from this his- revising it. This is deeply disturbing. consider exploring and understanding tory. Circumstances today are actually We are ruining one of mankind’s most the decisions of state leaders or military worse. It is far too easy to fall into a com- effective teachers! officials to be interesting, important or fortable routine and not realize, as Chur- Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin wrote innovative” (ibid). chill put it, “how near and how grave are an article for WarontheRocks.com titled If the teachers don’t care about his- the dangers of a world explosion.” “The Historical Profession Is Committing tory, no wonder the students are aban- But secular history has its limitations. Slow-Motion Suicide” (Dec. 10, 2018). It doning it! They deny the basic fact that The greatest historians have still never described how today’s historians write individuals like Churchill have changed known the way to everlasting peace (Isa- in a scholarly way for each other rather history—when that is part of the defini- iah 59:8). To find real answers, we must than for the benefit of their nation and tion of history! By accepting such error, search elsewhere. We must understand the world. This is a dangerous mistake. the entire discipline is “committing Bible history. Combine secular history “[A]fter the Vietnam War drove a wedge slow-motion suicide”! with Bible history, and that will lead you between government and the academy, God tells us to study history. Ignor- into understanding Bible prophecy! historians tended to shun constructive ing it jeopardizes our nation and our Here is a specific way you can begin engagement with policymakers in favor relationship with Him! Understanding understanding the history of the past of a more confrontational approach secular and biblical history, on the other and the prophecy of the future: Study premised on ‘speaking truth to power,’” hand, helps us understand Bible proph- the prophetic history of the Bible. they explained. “They came to regard ecy, which is the history of the future. ‘presentism’—using the past as a way of History as Prophecy addressing the challenges of the pres- History-Based Warnings The biblical books of Joshua, Judges, ent—as a distortion of the historian’s task. Because Churchill possessed historical Samuel and Kings form a portion of the ‘History,’ wrote one prominent historian understanding, he possessed penetrat- Old Testament known as the “former …, ‘cannot in the first instance be con- ing vision. When he studied history, he prophets.” These books contain the cerned with navigating the ship of state.’” drew from it many invaluable lessons. history of ancient Israel. The histo- Historians no longer believe that He talked about how history provided rians who wrote them meticulously remembering the past will help us make a “long, dismal catalog of the fruitless- researched and sourced that history. decisions in the present. That is absurd! ness of experience and the confirmed Yet, though these books do record his- They ignore examples like Winston unteachability of mankind. Want of fore- tory, they are called “former prophets” for Churchill, whose deep understanding of sight, unwillingness to act when action a reason. The historians who wrote them

history helped him navigate the entire would be simple and effective, lack of were prophets! And much of what they ISTOCK.COM/MAMMUTH Western world through World War ii and clear thinking, confusion of counsel until wrote is actually prophecy for our time! saved it from tyranny! God worked mira- the emergency comes, until self-preser- The book of Joshua records Israel’s cles for that to happen, but He used a man vation strikes its jarring gong—these are journey into the Promised Land. It who was absolutely steeped in history. the features which constitute the endless includes crucial principles of leading a 24 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET nation that apply even today. The book of Judges is the bloodiest book in the entire A Watchman and a Prophet Bible because the people of the nation failed to trust and obey God; instead, t may surprise you to learn that the role “every man did that which was right in Churchill played in World War ii, I believe, his own eyes” (Judges 17:6; 21:25). That is I was specifically prophesied in your Bible. exactly true in the modern nations that Here is something God told the Prophet Eze- descended from ancient Israel—Amer- kiel: “Son of man, I have made thee a watchman ica, Britain and the Jewish nation in the unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word Middle East. As a result, our nations at my mouth, and give them warning from me” have never been more divided, and they (Ezekiel 3:17). Ezekiel wrote this, but he was not are on the precipice of collapse—a pro- a watchman. He wrote more than 100 years after phetic repetition of history. ancient Israel had been conquered and enslaved. He himself was a captive. Samuel, Kings and Chronicles record God recorded and preserved his message for the end time: our generation. the longest biographical account in the Given that context, look at Ezekiel 33. It begins, “Again the word of the Lord Bible: that of King David. David was came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say a man after God’s own heart whose unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take history is an example of how we can a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman …” (Ezekiel 33:1-2). have a wonderful, inspiring, successful This is a prophecy about an end-time watchman whom the people chose. It relationship with God! goes on to say that if this watchman warns of a sword coming and people fail So much of the history these prophets to heed, then they are responsible for the calamity that follows. meticulously recorded and God miracu- Winston Churchill fulfilled this prophecy beautifully. The British people lously preserved for thousands of years chose him after he had become a great secular historian with unique insight is prophetic. Churchill described the and the courage throughout the 1930s to deliver a strong, extremely unpopu- “endless repetition of history.” Much lar warning. Ezekiel 33:1-6 is a prophecy about Winston Churchill! of the history of the former prophets Churchill was not a religious man, but he did say that “some great purpose becomes prophecy! and design is being worked out here below.” He knew that God has a purpose For example, these books record for human affairs. God can really use a person with that kind of understanding. how the state of religion in ancient But Ezekiel’s prophecy does not end there. In verse 7, the subject of this Israel revealed the state of the chapter shifts dramatically. After prophesying that the future descendants nation. Look around today: What is the of ancient Israel would elect a watchman, God said, “So thou, O son of man, I state of religion in our nations? It is weak, have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear and being overwhelmed by society’s the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.” secularism and immorality. Even among This prophesies of an entirely different watchman. He comes after Chur- Christians there is very little teaching chill and just before the end of this historical age. God says this time it will about prophecy—despite prophecy not be the people’s choice—He Himself will choose the watchman! This constituting about one third of the Bible! watchman warns the people from God and tells them that the only way to What made David a spiritual legend? avoid national destruction is by repenting toward God! (see verse 11). What made Saul an utter failure? We The death of nations is on the line! World War iii is prophesied to be need to know! All the history recorded infinitely worse than World War ii! in Scripture happened as examples for “And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a us to learn from (1 Corinthians 10:11). prophet hath been among them” (verse 33). Here the prophecy shows that this God commands us to pay attention to watchman is also a prophet. That means he knows history and Bible prophecy. history and to apply its lessons! This man is warning the world right now. We are in this prophetic period “Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants right now. Be assured that all God’s prophecies will come of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your to pass: “Lo, it will come.” We can know the future in God, so shall ye be established; believe detail for certain not just by studying history, but his prophets, so shall ye prosper” by listening to God’s watchman! Sadly, most people (2 Chronicles 20:20). These are God’s won’t believe him until his prophecies come true. words. Prophets wrote the former prophets books. Study and believe those writings, and you will prosper! This is more than Hebrew history; it is God’s history. It is the path to under- Repeat ... Repeat ... Repeat ... standing Bible prophecy, and it can You’ve heard, repeatedly, that history repeats itself. But change your whole life and fill you with which history? How? When? Request Gerald Flurry’s free purpose and inspiration! We had better book The Former Prophets to learn how you can understand

YOUSUF KARASH YOUSUF learn from it before time runs out! n the most important parts of human history—past and future. The German frigate Hamburg departs for a U.S. withdraws troops from Germany Mediterranean mission.

he United States NATO minimum level of spending announced on July 29 the on its defense budget. He has also T details of its withdrawal been unsuccessful in pressuring of 12,000 troops from Germany. Germany to pull out of its deal The redeployment of a third of to connect to Russia with Nord its personnel from the country Stream 2, a gas pipeline of stra- marks a dramatic deterioration tegic importance that threatens in the U.S.-Germany German warship relationship. A cavalry regiment will in Libyan waters return to the U.S., and 5,600 troops will move elsewhere in he German frigate participation of forces including Europe: a fighter jet Hamburg departed from 300 soldiers to enforce the arms squadron will move T its port in Wilhelmshaven trafficking embargo. to Italy, European on August 4 for its new mission Libya is on the verge of command will move as part of the European Union becoming a second Syria. to Belgium, and Africa Naval Force Mediterranean Germany wants to prevent its command is searching for a the security of all other European Operation Irini. The frigate will devolution into another war-torn new home base. nations. The president withdrew enforce a UN weapons embargo, nation at Europe’s doorstep. A “For more than 50 years, the the troops to emphasize the seri- monitor the illegal export of prophecy in Daniel 11 shows U.S. armed forces have protected ousness of the situation. Doing so petroleum, and support Libya’s that Libya will fall under Iranian and guarded Germany and the will likely motivate it to become a Coast Guard and Navy. control. Europe’s interest in the entire NATO area,” Bild.de wrote, stronger military power. On January 16 this year, nation foreshadows serious fric- noting that American troops Bible prophecy shows that German Foreign Minister Heiko tion with Iran that will ultimately helped with natural disasters and tragically, German military

Maas visited Benghazi. On erupt in war. n operated in Iraq, Afghanistan and power will end up posing a SINA SCHULDT/PICTURE ALLIANCE/GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCK.COM/LEONARDO PATRIZI, ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, BORIS ROESSLER/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES January 19, government officials Read “Mediterranean Battle elsewhere in the war on terror. terrible threat to the United in Berlin discussed the situation Escalating Into World War III!” U.S. President Donald Trump States. To learn more request in Libya. On May 7, the German by Gerald Flurry (theTrumpet has been unsuccessful in his our free booklet Germany and government mandated the .com/13891). urging of Germany to meet the the Holy Roman Empire. n

Germany’s rating is Hungary joins Germany’s reviving military empire 44 percent. China’s is 32 percent and ungary took delivery of to buy the majority of its new Russia’s is 30 percent. German-made Leopard military equipment from German While anti-Amer- H tanks in July. The major manufacturers. n icanism has surged, order of military technology To understand why German Germany has grown between the two EU nations, and European military devel- more popular due signed in 2018, is part world’s favorite nation to its absence from major of Hungary’s strategy military conflicts, its progressive to “extensively convert ccording to a global environmentalist reforms, and its armed forces to leadership poll its handling of the coronavirus, the technology of the A conducted by Gallup, the refugee crisis and financial crises. Bundeswehr” (n-tv.de, nation viewed as the best world More people and nations want July 17; Trumpet trans- leader is Germany. Germany to mediate peace nego- lation throughout). “The median global approval tiations and assume a greater Hungarian Defense rating for U.S. leadership across role in international relations. But Minister Tibor Benkö Hungarian new recruits 135 countries and areas edged this desire to empower Germany referred to the undergo military training. up to 33 percent in 2019. This overlooks major dangers—and tank delivery as “an rating is slightly higher than recent history. n extremely important event” and opment is extremely important, the previous low under Trump,” To learn more, read “We’re All told his visiting counterpart from read “Why the Trumpet Watches Gallup noted in “U.S. Leadership Falling in Love With Germany” Germany, Annegret Kramp-Kar- Europe’s Push Toward a Unified Remains Unpopular Worldwide.” (theTrumpet.com/11046). renbauer, that Hungary wants Military” (theTrumpet.com/15727). 26 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET his removal from office due to in “the U.S., Britain and Israel Israelis protest near Prime Minister indictments against him for requires a search for the Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on July 24. fraud, bribery and break of trust. common denominators or shared They call him “Crime Minister.” histories that distinguish them Meanwhile, Israel is from other established Western experiencing a second wave of democracies,” wrote Israeli coronavirus, which Netanyahu’s commentator Chemi Shalev government has reacted to in Haaretz on August 11. And by restricting operation of yet, that true shared history is businesses and freedom of largely unknown. As Herbert W. movement. Armstrong describes in his book The July and August protests The United States and Britain in have been some of the most Prophecy, these three nations are violent since the State of actually family, descendants from Israel was founded in 1948. a single ancient patriarch. Now In some ways, they have been they are linked by the common reminiscent of the rioting and threat of domestic radical leftists. The next Jewish revolt? of Jerusalem to protest Prime desecration of history and They are also facing a common Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. monuments that have taken future, prophesied in the Bible. n very week since mid-July, Some are protesting his plan to place in the U.S. and—for some Read “Race Riots Were demonstrators have annex parts of the West Bank, reason—the United Kingdom. Prophesied!” by Gerald Flurry E marched in the streets and others are demanding Such similarities of movements (theTrumpet.com/22513).

Iran pressures Iraq to push out remaining U.S. troops Iran launches ballistic missiles uring his first interna- In August, Kadhimi traveled to from underground tional tour, Iraqi Prime the U.S. to meet with President D Minister Mustafa Kadhimi Donald Trump. The two leaders ran launched a series met with Iranian Supreme continued the strategic dialogue of ballistic missiles Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that began in June and resulted I from a camouflaged on July 21. Khamenei pressured in a withdrawal of some U.S. underground silo on July him to push the United States out troops from Iraq. 29. The tests were part of of Iraq. massive Iranian war games Khamenei accused in the Persian Gulf and the the “corrupt” U.S. of Strait of Hormuz. spreading destruc- U.S. troops stationed at tion, sowing division the Al-Dhafra Air Base in and blocking Iran- Abu Dhabi and the Al-Udeid Although U.S. 5th Fleet could Iraq cooperation. Air Base, headquarters of U.S. easily destroy the Iranian Navy, Kadhimi also Central Command, went into Iran could strike at America and met with Iranian high alert and took cover during the world in the Strait of Hormuz, President Hassan the launch. blocking commercial shipping, Rouhani, and the two Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of including a quarter of the world’s leaders pledged to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard oil shipping, and causing prices increase annual trade between The U.S. is much more Corps aerospace division, said of transport, insurance and oil to Iraq and Iran from $12 billion to powerful than Iran, but its this was the first time Iran soar around the world. $20 billion. leadership and its people lack achieved such a launch. For almost three decades, Kadhimi, a former intelligence the resolve to wield much of that This year’s games were the Trumpet has identified Iran, chief and activist, came to power power. The Bible specifically monitored by Iran’s new the world’s number one state in May this year after protests prophesied this deterioration military satellite, Noor, which sponsor of terrorism, as the forced out his predecessor. in “the pride of your power” in the Revolutionary Guards—a head of radical Islam and the His centrist government is our generation, as well as Iran’s U.S.-designated terrorist power that will lead “the king of attempting to balance Iraq’s aggressive foreign policy and entity—put into orbit on April the south” radical Islamic bloc relationship with Iran against successful formation of a radical 22. The technology that put the prophesied in Daniel 11. Even as that with the U.S. as Tehran and Islamic power bloc. n satellite into orbit is the same other major issues consume the Washington grow increasingly Request a free copy of The King technology needed to produce world’s attention, continue to

MOSTAFA ALKHAROUF/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES, AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES, AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA AL-RUBAYE/AFP AHMAD IMAGES, GETTY VIA AFP IMAGES, AGENCY/GETTY ALKHAROUF/ANADOLU MOSTAFA antagonistic toward one another. of the South, by Gerald Flurry. intercontinental ballistic missiles. watch Iran. n OCTOBER 2020 27 Will Russia and weapon in orbit the week before. exclusively to material science China rule space? It stated that Russia’s Kosmos to rescue us from the threat of 2543 satellite released an object communism,” he wrote. “We he chief of “in proximity to another Russian are in a frenzy over methods of Russia’s space satellite, which is similar to training future scientists who can T corporation on-orbit activity conducted by develop even greater weapons told Komsomolskaya Russia in 2017, and inconsistent of destruction and death! … And Pravda on July 13 that with the system’s stated mission this very thing—looking to the Russia is interested in as an inspector satellite.” Space physical, material, science—is our partnering not with Command called the test colossal error!” the United States but “consistent with the Kremlin’s America is making the with China to build a published military doctrine to same error today. Developing scientific base on the moon. the project, Russia and China employ weapons that hold U.S. new and better space-based Dmitry Rogozin said Russia were clearly the lead players. So and allied space assets at risk.” weapons may temporarily deter and China have already taken whether he admits it or not, this During the Cold War, the late conflict with nations such as “the first steps towards each “lunar scientific base” is part of theologian Herbert W. Armstrong Russia and China, but when other precisely by defining the a new space race: Russia and wrote a booklet titled Who Will that conflict inevitably comes, it contours and significance of the China against America. Rule Space? in which he explained will be all the more devastating. lunar scientific base.” He added Meanwhile, U.S. Space that America was making a America—and mankind—does that though he was not opposed Command said on July 23 that huge mistake in its approach to not need a scientific solution but to American involvement with Russia tested an anti-satellite the space race. “We are looking a spiritual one. n

Japan protests America, War II, when the U.S. to stabilize Asia for more than courts Russia occupied the defeated 70 years. nation and wrote a clause Meanwhile, on July 10 Russia he people of Japan are into its new Constitution presented Japan with the again protesting the banning war as a means framework of a peace treaty to T presence of American for Japan to settle finally conclude their lingering troops on the island of Okinawa. international disputes. World War II disputes, although In July, a significant The U.S. and Japan it omits the contentious issue coronavirus outbreak among also signed the Treaty of the Kuril Islands, a territory the 26,000 U.S. soldiers and of Mutual Cooperation both nations claim. But the affiliated personnel stationed and Security, codifying Japan’s of tensions between the two announcement highlights in Okinawa has the Japanese dependence on America for its nations, with the Japanese Russia’s attempts to improve its shaken. “It is extremely regret- defense and stipulating that the decrying crime, noise, pollution relationship with Japan, a trend table,” Okinawa Governor Denny U.S. would protect Japan by and aircraft accidents caused by that Bible prophecy shows will Tamaki said on July 11, “that the stationing American troops in them. The COVID-19 outbreak is culminate in the end of the U.S.- infections are rapidly spreading the country. only the latest issue to outrage Japan alliance and the formation among U.S. personnel when we Around half of the 50,000 the local populations. of an Asian superpower. n ISTOCK.COM/3DSCULPTOR, CARL COURT/GETTY IMAGES, KENZABURO FUKUHARA/KYODO NEWS/GETTY IMAGES Okinawans are doing our utmost American military personnel The increasing anti-American Order your free copy of The to contain the infections.” currently stationed in Japan sentiments are playing a role in Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia,’ by America’s military presence in are in Okinawa. But the troops the weakening of the U.S.-Japan Gerald Flurry (theTrumpet.com/ Japan dates to the end of World have been a perennial source security alliance that has helped go/putin).

Might makes China right the property. … So it is simple as from Washington and toward that.” He added: “If war breaks Beijing. The Trumpet takes n July 27, Philippine Pres- out” then “atomic arsenals” a keen interest in this aim ident Rodrigo Duterte would cause “the extinction of because it is furthering three O blocked America from the Filipino race.” prophetically significant increased access to military Whether Duterte genuinely trends: the deterioration of U.S. bases in his nation. fears nuclear war or is only power, the coalescing of “the “I have nothing against appeasing China, the remarks kings of the east” Asian alliance, America,” Duterte said during are consistent with an and the rise of China. n his annual State of the Union aim that has been evident Order your free copy of address, but China “has the throughout his presidency: Russia and China in Prophecy Xi welcomes Duterte to Beijing. arms” and is “in possession of move the Philippines away (theTrumpet.com/rcp). 28 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET SOCIETY South African farmers torturing white farmers is part protest farm attacks on WATCH August 18. of a terror campaign to drive them off their land. The Brant family is among the most recent victims of a violent movement that has been developing since 1990, when the South African government lifted the ban on One in four Americans the African National Congress have missed a bill payment (ANC) and the Communist Party since COVID-19 lockdown of South Africa. While many hailed Nelson he United States economy Mandela’s victory in the 1994 may be headed toward election as the beginning of T even worse times as a new golden age for South COVID-19 lockdowns affect Africa, Trumpet editor in chief people’s incomes and savings Farm attacks surge Gerald Flurry warned: “South accounts. Millions of Americans Africa is the first of the Anglo- have lost their jobs due to in South Africa Saxon nations to give away its COVID-19, making it hard for God-given birthright.” Late many to pay their bills. A new Trumpet columnist Ron Fraser OnePoll survey of 2,000 Ameri- he bodies of Daniel and 2020 AfriForum report shows wrote, “Disaster looms huge on cans finds that one in four have Hybrecht Brant were that farm attacks have increased the horizon of South Africa, as missed at least one bill payment T found six miles away from almost fivefold in the past godless communism has its day since the pandemic began. This the body of their murdered decade, from 115 attacks in 2010 bringing an ANC-dominated survey further found that one in daughter, Elizabeth. All three to 552 attacks in 2019. In attacks government to power with the three Americans have dipped were kidnapped and murdered where a specific crime was apparent full endorsement of into their savings accounts on July 26, when a gang broke reported, the attackers tortured Western society.” because of COVID-19. into their farmstead in the a victim 9 percent of the time by This analysis was based on In Deuteronomy 28, God specif- Northern Cape Province of South burning them with irons, pouring Bible prophecy, and is recorded ically warned that debt problems Africa. The attackers stole little boiling water down their ears, in our free e-book South Africa in are one of the many curses that besides a laptop, two cell phones piercing them with power tools, Prophecy (theTrumpet.com/go/ come when a nation turns away and some jewelry. The Brant and other methods. sap). South Africa gives a preview from following His law. n home was left smeared with A direct correlation has been of the type of violence coming To learn how to stormproof blood, an indication of the brutal established between anti-white to the U.S. and Britain if people your financial house from motive for the attack: terrorism. hate speech from South African continue to reject biblical truth in calamity, request a free copy Farm attacks are increasingly politicians and farm attacks. favor of godless communism and of Solve Your Money Troubles! common in South Africa. A July This strongly indicates that false religion. n (theTrumpet.com/go/money).

Supreme Court allows Nevada to lock subject to nothing down churches tighter than casinos and nobody! … What most people don’t ruling by the United U.S. Constitution see is that we are States Supreme Court states: “Congress destroying the rule of A has denied Nevada shall make no law law. … Again, history its constitutionally mandated respecting an estab- reveals that empires religious freedom. In a lawsuit, lishment of religion, or are destroyed if a Nevada church requested prohibiting the free they fail to establish that religious gatherings be exercise thereof ….” the rule of law. But held to the same standards as The Supreme Court’s the liberal culture casinos, gyms and restaurants, principal responsibility often has contempt which can operate at 50 percent is to ensure that laws that much freer exercise to places of of history and our Founding capacity. But on July 24, the are passed do not violate the entertainment. Fathers. They foolishly rely on court voted 5-to-4 to uphold the Constitution, yet it has allowed In 2013, Trumpet editor in their own reasoning, which is Nevada government’s ruling to the Nevada government to chief Gerald Flurry wrote: “If not grounded in foundational limit religious services. restrict exercise of religion in a the judges are not subject to law. … This process is sure to

PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCK.COM/STURTI, ISTOCK.COM/LPETTET, ISTOCK.COM/STURTI ISTOCK.COM/LPETTET, ISTOCK.COM/STURTI, IMAGES, MAGAKOE/AFP/GETTY PHILL The First Amendment of the draconian way, while allowing constitutional law, they are lead to anarchy!” n OCTOBER 2020 29 u HOROWITZ REPORT FROM PAGE 10 control of the campaign to frame Donald National Security Agency officials began did not know about his work for the cia. Trump. On Aug. 5, 2016, fbi agent Strzok to investigate allegations of Russian The Horowitz report also reveals that and his paramour Lisa Page “had a interference. And in a later interview, the fbi exaggerated the significance of tense conversation about an imminent he admitted that he personally gave Christopher Steele’s past reporting and meeting involving ‘agency people’— the fbi leads involving “contacts and omitted that Steele had told the fbi that apparently the cia,” he wrote. At this interactions between Russian officials the Kremlin officer he got his informa- meeting, one official—whose name and U.S. persons involved in the Trump tion from was a “boaster” and “egotist” has been redacted in government campaign.” The fbi used this information who “may engage in some embellish- memos—told the fbi officials, “The to open the Crossfire Hurricane investi- ment.” In other words, the fbi knew White House is running this.’” gation into the Trump campaign and Steele was getting his information from According to McCarthy, that official started discussing how to get a fisa war- a known liar in Russia, but still used the was cia Director John Brennan. rant so they could use all the power of the dossier as “evidence.” intelligence community to These “inaccuracies and omissions” spy on anybody they wanted. are not some comedy of errors. They These admissions should are part of a plot to unjustly and trouble anyone who does illegally spy on a U.S. citizen and not want to live in a cia frame Donald Trump for a crime he surveillance state. did not commit. In the 1970s, Sen. Frank Democrats were able to use rumors Church led an investigation and lies to launch a 22-month Special into cia and fbi activities Counsel investigation and a four-month and warned that these impeachment investigation against agencies were developing Mr. Trump. You don’t have to know a lot some alarming abilities. On about government to know that attempt- nbc’s Meet the Press in 1975, ing to remove a lawfully elected president he said: “If this government from office using unverified propaganda ever became a tyranny, if a At President- is treason of the highest level! Corrupt elect Trump’s dictator ever took charge inauguration, law enforcement officials, led by Barack President Obama in this country, the tech- Obama and with the help of Hillary greets him. nological capacity that the Clinton, conspired to overthrow the gov- intelligence community has ernment of the United States! If that is That means President Obama was given the government could enable it to not treason, then nothing is treason! using the cia to orchestrate the plot impose total tyranny, and there would Investigative journalist Andrew against Donald Trump! be no way to fight back because the most McCarthy covers this history in his Brennan was one of the most radical careful effort to combine together in book Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an agents in the Obama administration. resistance to the government, no matter Election and Destroy a Presidency. The While still a student at Fordham how privately it was done, is within the real collusion in the 2016 election wasn’t University in 1976, Brennan voted for reach of the government to know ….” between Donald Trump and Russia. It Communist Party usa presidential Shortly after Obama was elected to was between the Clinton campaign and candidate Gus Hall. Shockingly, he was a second term, the public learned that Barack Obama’s deep state. recruited into the cia just four years the nsa has a data warehouse in Utah, later! Why did President Obama want a “billion-dollar epicenter” where it can Police State a Communist running the cia for him? store massive amounts of information. The Horowitz report reveals how Barack Well, shortly after Brennan took the job, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, Obama and his inner circle almost his department began spying on the YouTube, aol, Skype, PalTalk and Apple destroyed the United States by changing Senate Intelligence Committee. When were caught handing over to the gov- America from a constitutional republic he was caught, he lied outright and ernment all kinds of information about into an authoritarian dictatorship run absolutely denied it. But he was finally U.S. citizens—phone records, e-mails by powerful, unelected bureaucrats, forced to admit it. McCarthy does not and other digital communications—and civil servants, military leaders and write much about Brennan’s Communist they claimed they were forced to do so. intelligence agents. Key Obama adminis- past, but Barack Obama was mentored William Binney, a 32-year veteran of tration officials lied, concealed evidence by card-carrying Communist Frank the nsa turned whistle-blower, was MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES and manipulated documents in order to Marshall Davis. Perhaps their shared asked where the surveillance data spy on a U.S. citizen and destroy Donald Marxist worldview is the reason Obama was heading. He said: “It’s really a Trump’s presidency. And the whole and Brennan worked so well together. turnkey situation, where it can be scandal was directed from the very top! In testimony before the House Intel- turned quickly and become a total- In Ball of Collusion, McCarthy ligence Committee, Brennan said that itarian state pretty quickly. The recounts how the fbi was not truly in in late July 2016 a group of cia, fbi and capacities to do that is being set up.” 30 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET That chilling statement gets to Democratic Party, and how it will This is what 2 Kings 14:26-27 is really the heart of the issue! affect America. about! Barack Obama and his administra- Our people don’t understand their The reason the radical left hates tion tried to use the power of the cia, Bibles as they once did, but Revelation Mr. Trump is that God is using him to nsa and fbi to create a dossier of propa- 12:12 reveals that Satan is our deadly expose how the Obama administration ganda against a political rival, use the adversary. He is behind the vitriolic almost destroyed our constitutional dossier to spy on an American citizen, hate tearing America apart today. He is republic. And the Trump administration and frame Donald Trump of a crime he full of wrath, and he has gotten control really began exposing this corruption on did not commit. And he almost suc- of the radical left. These people want to Jan. 16, 2018, when the fbi declassified ceeded! That is how close we came to tear down the system. They are deceived Peter Strzok’s text messages. a Marxist tyranny in America. (verse 9). Satan has got such a hold on the The Bible also shows that an enemy radical left that what they really Spiritual Dimension almost destroyed the nation of Israel in hate most of all is God Himself. The American people are still learning ancient times, but then God raised up a President Trump is a very flawed the full extent to which Barack Obama flawed human king to temporarily save human leader who is not particularly was personally directing this treasonous the nation. “For the Lord saw the afflic- religious. Yet God is using him like an plot against Donald Trump. And the tion of Israel, that it was very bitter: for end-time version of King Jeroboam ii. only reason we know as much as we do there was not any shut up, nor any left, As long as God keeps empowering Pres- is because Congressman Devin Nunes nor any helper for Israel. And the Lord ident Trump to resist the satanic forces pressured the fbi into providing con- said not that he would blot out the name attacking America, we can continue gressional committees with 384 pages of of Israel from under heaven: but he delivering His warning message. But text messages between Strzok and Lisa saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the once God stops empowering Mr. Trump, Page. The fbi turned these messages son of Joash” (2 Kings 14:26-27). the writing is on the wall. over to Congress on Jan. 16, 2018 (please The book of Kings is one of the former When God stopped empowering the request my free booklet January 16: prophets—prophecy for this end time ancient King Jeroboam ii, the nation God’s Miracle Day for a detailed explana- primarily. (Request my free book The of Israel was besieged and conquered tion of why this calendar date is so signif- Former Prophets.) by the Assyrian Empire. Modern-day icant). These text messages revealed that A man tried to blot out the very America is prophesied to suffer the the 17 treasonous crimes outlined in the name of Israel, but God stopped him, same fate (Isaiah 10:5-6)—unless it Horowitz report were not just the result and He did it through an unrighteous repents (Ezekiel 33:11). of some overly zealous intern at the fbi. leader, Jeroboam ii. It is important to Yet those individuals who respond Instead, they revealed that “potus wants understand the prophetic principle of and heed God’s warning, He will protect. to know everything we’re doing,” and, duality. History is repeating itself today. One way or another, all people are “The White House is running this.’” Just what is the prophetic name of Israel? going to have to acknowledge that Something deadly dangerous has First, it is spiritual Israel, or God’s true obedience to God’s law brings life and seized the country—far more than Church in this end time. Second, it is peace, while disobedience brings death people realize. There is a spiritual physical Israel, or the physical nations and destruction. How much easier it dimension to what is happening, and of Israel: America, Britain and the Jew- would be to learn these lessons from you cannot understand these events ish nation in the Middle East. (The late the recent history of how close America unless you recognize that. Herbert W. Armstrong explained this in came to destruction during Barack On Dec. 6, 2019, amid the Democratic his book The United States and Britain in Obama’s presidency, rather than wait for Party’s attempt to impeach President Prophecy. Request a free copy.) a foreign enemy to invade! God is giving Trump, political commentator Rush Barack Obama’s deep state would have us every chance to repent, but those Limbaugh noted, “Democrats are wan- blotted out America’s constitutional who do not do so now will have to repent dering aimlessly and being propelled republic and replaced it with a violent after great tribulation. The Prophet by one thing … we are watching pure, dictatorship if he had not been stopped Isaiah says Assyria will be the rod of raw hatred. They hate the man and they by an end-time King Jeroboam ii. The God’s correction “against an hypocritical hate the people who elected him.” In Trumpet could not deliver God’s warning nation,” but after this correction a “rem- follow-up radio programs, Limbaugh message in a cia surveillance state, so nant shall return, even admitted he was at a loss to explain why God had to raise up President Trump the remnant of Jacob, Democrats hate President Trump with to temporarily halt what the devil was unto the mighty God” such vitriol. They are not just expressing doing through the Obama administration. (Isaiah 10:5-6, 21). n disagreement. They have the deepest kind of hatred for him. Rush Limbaugh can recognize this Why so much hatred for Trump? hatred, but he doesn’t understand The answer goes beyond politics and into the spiritual dimension. If you why it exists. But the Bible reveals want to know what is really happening in U.S. politics and what is at stake why this hatred is taking root in the for you, request Gerald Flurry’s free booklet America Under Attack. u CHINA FROM PAGE 14 wholly meaningless, but are basically and the Scriptures show that they will Though the new laws have not yet been the bare minimum to give an appear- use that control to strangle America and invoked to make apprehensions outside ance of caring about China’s evil—and some of its allies. China, they have resulted in a number all the while keep deepening the Europe– “The Bible contains many prophecies of arrests in Hong Kong, including that China relationship. of that European power attacking Amer- of tycoon Jimmy Lai on August 10. The This behavior from a continent that ica,” Mr. Flurry writes. When it happens, 71-year-old ran the pro-democracy Apple professes to champion democracy, inter- “there will be no help or sympathy from Daily newspaper and was detained by a national law and human rights would be Asia.” In fact, “Russia, China and Japan” group of 200 police officers for “colluding utterly baffling, were it not for prophe- will form a “brief alliance” with Europe. with foreign powers”—though there is cies that foretold this development. “All of them are going to besiege America, no evidence of any such collusion. Under Britain and the Jewish nation.” the new law, individuals like Lai can be ‘Mart of Nations’ Mr. Flurry continues: “This is why sentenced to life in prison, or worse. Around 2,700 years ago, the Prophet Isaiah’s prophecy of an end-time ‘mart of The new law “buries one country, two Isaiah was inspired to write of an nations’ that includes both European and systems” the Economist wrote, adding immensely powerful, multinational Asian powers is so intriguing. And why that it shows that the Chinese Commu- trade alliance that would develop in the trend of collusion between these two nist Party “would rather be feared than the modern age. Isaiah 23:3 labels this a great economic blocs is worth watching.” admired” (July 2). “mart of nations.” From these prophecies, we should After the law was imposed, the Verse 1 identifies one of the lead play- expect the ties now growing between the Trumpet reached out to the Hong Kong ers in this conglomerate as “Chittim.” In EU and China—including those perpetu- analyst who had often supplied us with Isaiah’s End-Time Vision, Trumpet editor ated by Europe’s refusal to meaningfully firsthand accounts and analysis. But he, in chief Gerald Flurry writes, “Kittim is confront China’s viciousness—to only like tens of thousands of other former synonymous with the Chittim of Isaiah’s grow stronger in the years ahead. Even as Xi Jinping’s China grows more aggressive and more malicious, Europe will increas- Europe does the bare minimum to appear ingly side with it—and against America. to care about China’s evil—all the while And this trend will culminate in a time of extreme calamity and darkness. deepening the Europe–China relationship. But Bible prophecy does not end there! The Scriptures show that the activists, had deleted all the online prophecy …. After their migration darkness will not last long, and will be accounts that had been used for years to through Central Asia, the Kittim made overcome by light. An entirely new era, cry out for freedom. His fate is unknown. their appearance in modern-day north- the most luminous epoch in mankind’s We are not even halfway through the eastern China and Mongolia.” So this history, will begin. promised 50 years, but it is clear China name indicates modern China. “[T]hat trading partnership won’t last has ended Hong Kong’s freedoms. And Isaiah’s prophecy says “Tyre” will also long,” Mr. Flurry writes. “Soon they will now the stakes are so high, there is be a major player in this bloc. Mr. Flurry clash, just before Jesus Christ returns almost no one left willing to protest. explains what this name signifies: “The and destroys both of them.” The U.S. and UK quickly responded to spiritual center of the [modern European] The Creator of mankind will come China’s illegal measure, rushing through Holy Roman Empire is called Babylon in back to Earth and bring a decisive end to new legislation that ends extraditions your Bible (Revelation 17:5; 18:1-3). But man’s rebellion, self-destruction, human to Hong Kong and opening paths for its here in Isaiah, the Bible refers to Tyre rights abuses, reproductive genocide, people to resettle in America and Brit- (and its allies Zidon, etc.) as the commer- oppression, diseases and countless other ain. The EU, though, only said it would cial center of this European power.” evils. He will usher in an age of peace “continue to follow developments.” New A related passage in Ezekiel 27 says and stability for the Uyghurs, Chinese, Europe’s Robert Tyler called this a move “Meshech” and “Tarshish,” ancient terms Hong Kongers, Europeans and all the “akin to that of stating that you’ll observe indicating modern Russia and Japan, will world. “Thank God,” Mr. Flurry writes, the future growth of a plant a month also join this globe-girdling trade alliance. “there is great after you stopped watering it.” Together these nations will come to news beyond the It is not just with Xinjiang, covid-19 control global commerce for a brief time, bad news.” n and Hong Kong. When it comes to China’s similarly illegal and disturbing behavior in Tibet, Taiwan, the South China Sea, the World Trade Organiza- What if Asia allied with Europe? tion, and in the economic, cyber and What will our world look like if dozens of nations controlling half of the technology realms, the reaction from world’s wealth rapidly united into the largest alliance in human history? Europe is generally the same: Make And who would they be uniting against? Read what the Bible prophesies for statements or gestures that may not be our day in Gerald Flurry’s free booklet Isaiah’s End-Time Vision. 32 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET PRINCIPLES OF LIVING STEPHEN MacDonald called the breakdown of the family the “biggest FLURRY civilizational catastrophe that we’re facing today.” She said that breakdown is the “root of the spiraling crime, insane drive-by shootings that we see in the inner city, and the destruction of human potential.” Escape ‘the Biggest With an urgent tone, MacDonald said, “It’s a hard thing to turn this around, but we have to.” She’s absolutely right. Civilizational What she doesn’t know is that family breakdown, and the resultant societal breakdown, were prophesied. Isaiah 3:12 Catastrophe’ describes a society in which children “oppress” and women “rule.” Men, fathers and husbands, aren’t even mentioned in that verse! The family has been turned upside down and as a It has to start in your own home. result, society has been turned upside down! Thankfully, it does not have to be this way in your home. It merica is collapsing. On our city streets, youths should not be this way in your home! God gives instruction that are terrorizing people, vandalizing buildings, burning will help you escape “the biggest civilizational catastrophe” and A police cars, looting stores and inflicting violence on build a strong, stable family. those who oppose them. Even more shocking, many leaders That includes learning how to love your children God’s way, permit, justify and encourage the destruction! This is what a which takes unselfishness, patience, positivity, encouragement, nation on the verge of collapse looks like. vision and many other virtues. It includes teaching and train- You may think this crisis erupted after the death of George ing them in the way they should go. It includes guiding and Floyd. The reality is, it has been building for decades. But correcting them as necessary. Above all it means getting your it didn’t originate in the halls of gov- family structure right. The Bible ernment, the university or even the provides marvelous detail about classroom. The chaos on our streets the God-ordained roles within the started in our homes. It came from the God gives instruction family (e.g. Colossians 3; Ephesians decades-long breakdown in our families. that will help you build 5; 1 Timothy 3). The emphasis is In a Fox News interview in July, com- on the husband and father ruling mentator Heather MacDonald said, “I a strong, stable family. the household well. If the house is am going to break a massive feminist not ruled well, the results are cata- taboo here, and say that males matter. strophic! A breakdown in the home Fathers matter. Fathers bring a set leads to the breakdown of cities and of values and norms to child rearing society as a whole. whether it’s self-reliance or self-disci- God sent a man in this end time pline, honor and courage. On average, it in the spirit of Elijah to “restore all complements what mothers can bring.” things” to the Church (Matthew 17:10- In today’s culture, this sort of lan- 11). God said this man “shall turn the guage is considered inflammatory, sexist heart of the fathers to the children, and violent. In this upside-down world, and the heart of the children to their MacDonald is one of the few people still fathers” before Christ’s return (Mal- brave enough to state the obvious. achi 4:6). This beautiful scripture is “The anarchy that we have lived talking about protecting, maintain- through with the looting and the rioting ing and strengthening the family of the last month …,” she continued, “has been preceded by a structure! It is about getting our families right in the context of more slow-motion anarchy and breakdown which is the break- Jesus Christ’s imminent return! Why? Because God’s Family is down of the family because our prisons today are filled almost going to be leading in the World Tomorrow. God is working with exclusively with fatherless men” (emphasis added). people right now who will be able to help Him in building excel- MacDonald is exactly right: This has been a slow-motion lent families during the Millennium and beyond. That starts with breakdown of the family! Children unloved, untaught and teaching them how to do this in their own physical families today. undisciplined in the home have become unhappy, unenlight- This prophesied role was fulfilled by Herbert W. Armstrong. ened, unrestrained adults. Uncontrolled tantrums in the home He taught and wrote extensively on how to build strong fami- have become Molotov cocktails hurled at police. Children never lies. Since his death in 1986 we have carried on that work. As a taught to be grateful have become rioters who loot what they starter to help you get your family life in order, we would like can and burn what they can’t, even though they live in the to offer you a free book: Child Rearing With Vision. This book wealthiest, freest, most blessed nation in world history. will show you how to raise a family God’s way. Teaching God’s Stability, discipline, happiness, gratitude, productivity, kind- law and administering God’s government in the home is key to a ness: these qualities need to be learned. And they need to be happy, fulfilled life—and it trains you to teach and administer

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34 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET COMMENTARY JOEL more than five generations ago. Slavery has been illegal in the HILLIKER United States for more than 150 years, but they say that if you are white, you are to blame—it’s in your dna. Examples of such irreconcilable differences are proliferating continually. The Bible (and common sense) show that family is a Disunited States: A blessing, a crucial, stabilizing institution. But many people argue that family is a form of oppression that must be abolished. The Lesson We Must Learn Bible (and science) say your sex is determined by your biology and is a blessing to be used rightly. Many people flatly deny that. s it unjust to prejudge people according to their On these basic facts of reality, there can be no compromise. race? Is it wrong for people in the street to exact vigilante-​ There is no shared ground on which to build a harmonious, I style “justice” on strangers? Is it wrong to prejudicially unified society. One side is right, and the other is deeply, dan- condemn people for the sins of their forefathers? Is it criminal gerously wrong and always will be. to steal and destroy property? Until recently, we all agreed: Yes. But even those who support individual responsibility, family, Not anymore. Journalists, commentators, professors, and logic and reality still act like somehow they can reconcile this even mayors, governors, and members of Congress—influ- force of illogic, irresponsibility, instability, destruction and evil ential, powerful people—are excusing, defending and even by accepting some of its demands. Yet every concession leads to encouraging racial hatred, arson, theft, assault and violence as more demands. Satisfying this movement is impossible. It is not legitimate forms of protest. reasonable or rational. It is purely a How long can society function if force of destruction and evil. we cannot agree on these points? The Bible is absolutely clear America faces civil war. Some about the existence of evil—and it suspect it. Bible prophecy confirms warns not to try to accommodate it. it. One reason war is coming is that It says to flee from it, resist it, fight we are breaking a specific biblical it. If you do not, you will end up like principle of living: We are compro- America: overcome by evil. mising with evil. The Apostle Paul writes about The violent racism and indiscrim- this profound point of godly living inate destruction in America today in 2 Corinthians 6. He is talking to are obviously, dangerously evil. A God will use the suffering Church members, but it applies short time ago, everyone knew we are bringing on ourselves to teach us universally. America is ignoring it at that. But thanks to decades, even a lesson and ultimately to purify this nation. its peril: “Be ye not unequally yoked generations, of moral relativism, together with unbelievers: for what people have lost their sense of right fellowship hath righteousness and wrong. They cannot recognize evil even when it is lighting with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with their own city on fire. darkness?” (verses 14). God says thinking you can overcome Unlike the moral standards of the left, which change from year evil by embracing it is a delusion. And the curses and division to year, sometimes from moment to moment, our Creator gave overwhelming America today vividly prove God right! us laws of right and wrong that never change. Evil is always evil. Verse 17 shows there are things God considers unclean and The Bible says God is no respecter of persons. He evaluates commands us not to even touch them. They are evil, God hates based on character. He judges the heart, not the outward them, and He wants to protect you from them. He says in appearance, and holds everyone to the same unchanging Psalm 97:10, “Ye that love the Lord, hate evil ….” Ignoring this standards. But many people have come to hold different groups command brings terrifying curses. Just look around. Learn the to entirely different standards. They believe we must judge by lesson of our collapsing nation. appearance. They are hating people, they are beating people, Thankfully, God is going to use the suffering we are bringing because of skin color, and have convinced themselves this is just. on ourselves to teach us a lesson and ultimately to purify this The Bible says every person is judged by his own works. God nation. Conditions will get far worse before they get better, but says if you commit a crime, that is your fault. You must take God will ultimately save us. He is about to establish a world that responsibility, or you will never repent and change. More and tolerates no evil, that conquers evil with good! (Romans 12:21). more people reject this foundational principle. They believe Even those who fought for evil will have their eyes opened. society is responsible for criminal behavior; people are com- Learn this invaluable lesson today. Study God’s unchanging mitting crimes because society is racist. They say society is so law (our booklet The Ten Commandments can help you). Use corrupt, citizens are no longer accountable for defying the law that absolute standard to come to recognize evil in the world and ruining communities. They don’t want to reform criminals, around you—and in yourself. Don’t compromise with it. they want to incriminate society. Repent, change, grow. Read our editor in chief’s booklet How to The Bible says you are not held guilty for something your Be an Overcomer: Win Your War Against Sin, chock full of prac- father or grandfather or great-grandfather did (Ezekiel 18:20). tical instruction on this crucial process. And do your personal

ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/GETTY IMAGES NOUVELAGE/GETTY ELIJAH But many people insist that some are guilty of sins committed part to overcome evil with good. n OCTOBER 2020 35 u NEO-NAZI CONSPIRACIES FROM PAGE 23 describes a “beast,” symbolic of a major world power, that “was, and is not, and yet is.” This beast exists, then vanishes—only to then “ascend out of the bot- tomless pit.” You could say it comes out of nowhere— from “underground.” Built into this same passage is another prophecy—a prophecy of an individual God would use to expose this beast. Verse 10 says, “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.” These seven kings reign one after the other. But during the time Philadelphia Trumpet editor of the sixth king, God would inspire a man to explain to in chief Gerald Flurry the world what this scripture was prophesying. appears each week on The This is how Mr. Armstrong could pinpoint the trend Key of David explaining the within Nazi Germany in 1945. The Bible prophesied meaning behind world events the ongoing undercurrent of neo-Nazi conspiracies in and teaching the inspiring Germany. They are the foreshocks of this subterranean truths of the Bible. The beast as it rises to the surface one last time. program is also available at That’s not to say this new power will be a carbon copy of keyofdavid.com. Hitler’s Germany. There is a spirit in Germany—a will to dominate—that has risen and fallen over 2,000 years of history. This is what is rising. This power may have some ALL TIMES ARE A.M. LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED key differences from the Nazis. 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