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If ever there was a time we need to be concerned about how to bring peace to this world, surely it is now. U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes The number one problem the world Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House as they prepare to faces today is human survival! announce the new Middle East peace plan.

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Echoes of the 1930s 4 INFOGRAPHIC 18 PRINCIPLES OF LIVING 33 The Incredible Hubble Time to Study Your History The Dangerous Left-Wing Media 8 Brexit Was Prophesied! 20 DISCUSSION BOARD 34 Coronavirus and Other Modern Plagues In Prophecy 12 The Graveyard of Failed COMMENTARY 35 Geopolitical Forecasts 22 What Courtesy Doesn’t Look Like Will China’s Coronavirus Make Vladimir Putin ‘King of the East’? 14 American Bolsheviks 25 THE KEY OF DAVID TELEVISION LOG 36

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n January 28, United States President Donald Trump peace not only in nations, but in our own homes. How do you unveiled his peace plan for the Middle East. It was 180 have peace in a home? O pages and covered an enormous number of specifics. There is a way, and you can absolutely prove it. In fact, even President Trump called it “the most detailed proposal ever put the name Jerusalem, “city of peace,” is prophetic, telling us forward” and “the deal of the century.” It received support from that we will have peace—in spite of man, not because of him. Israel: President Trump announced it at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by his side. But ‘Peace’ Process Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas responded, For almost 30 years, the United States and Britain have pres- “We say a thousand times: No, no and no to sured the Jews to accept a peace process that has repeatedly the deal of the century.” failed. Clearly America and Britain, like the rest of mankind, do Does anybody really think this plan will not know the way to peace. bring peace? I don’t suppose many people do. The “former prophets” include the biblical books of Joshua, The Bible tells us to beware when you Judges, Samuel and Kings. These books were written by proph- are hearing a lot about peace. The Prophet ets and, like virtually all biblical prophecy, contain forecasts Jeremiah wrote of false prophets “saying, intended primarily for this end time. Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (Jere- Notice this stunning statement in the prophetic book of miah 6:14; 8:11). Isaiah the prophet foretold of a time when “the Kings. When God decided to strip the kingdom of Israel away ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly” (Isaiah 33:7). from Solomon for his terrible sins, He said: “Howbeit I will not Diplomats run around talking about peace, peace, peace— rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son but we never have lasting peace. This has been true through- for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which out history. I have chosen” (1 Kings 11:13). God has chosen Jerusalem. He When they keep talking about peace, you know we are about has chosen no other city in the world—only Jerusalem. to have war—war like you have never seen! Did you know that Jerusalem means “city of peace”? You would almost think that is a sick joke. There has been no lasting peace Why do man’s peace plans always fail? in that city. In fact, Jerusalem has flowed with rivers of blood! There is a reason—a cause we need Why do man’s peace plans always fail? There is a reason—a to understand. Jerusalem provides a cause we need to understand. Jerusalem provides a stunning example of this reason. Many of the most arduous peace efforts stunning example of this reason. have centered around this city. For years, many nations have labored to bring it peace and have failed. This has everything to do with our having peace in this We desperately need to understand this fundamental point. world! If ever there was a time we need to be concerned about how to When the modern State of Israel came into being in 1948, the bring peace to this world, surely it is now. The number one prob- Arabs immediately attacked. The Jews had no real army. Within lem the world faces today is human survival! Many nations are three weeks, they were losing the war. Then the Arabs strangely acquiring nuclear weapons and honing their nuclear power! agreed to a temporary United Nations-sponsored truce. This is We are facing a nuclear war that stupefies the imagination! just what Israel needed to rearm and train its weary troops— Isaiah said, “The way of peace they know not” (Isaiah 59:8). many of them civilians who carried guns. Soon after, the Arabs There is a way of peace—but mankind does not know that way! started attacking again. This time the Jews were well prepared Man keeps trying to somehow generate some kind of peace, but and quickly won the war. It was a miracle from God. never can. The Jews experienced many miracles in the following years. This is a deadly dangerous issue. If we are to avoid great The Six-Day War in 1967 was a major clash between the Jewish

MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES WILSON/GETTY MARK suffering, we must understand how to have peace. We need nation and Egypt, Jordan and Syria. In that short but intense APRIL 2020 1 conflict, the Jews captured all of the Sinai, the Suez Canal, East Palestinians could get it even if they only pretend, in the short Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights—in six days! term, to make these concessions. Study that history and you will see they were aided by miracles. To think that giving the Palestinians a state will inspire them In late 1973, the Arabs attacked again, this time on the sol- to abandon plans to destroy Israel is delusional! emn Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. With much aid from the To convince Israel to even consider such a deal, the United Americans, the Jews won the war in three weeks—another States is supporting Israel’s claim over 30 percent of the West miraculous deliverance. Bank almost immediately. This includes much of East Jeru- At some point, however, the Jews decided to stop looking to salem and the Jordan Valley, a critical area on Israel’s eastern God for help. They decided, prodded by America and Britain, to flank that borders Jordan. Many in Israel support the deal seek security by negotiating with the very people who wanted because they will receive recognition of these territories right to destroy them. away, whereas the Palestinian state is conditioned on the PA

In the end, this plan still aims PA President Abbas examines President to create a Palestinian state not just Trump’s proposed next to Israel, but right in Israel’s peace plan map. midst. The Palestinians could get it even if they only pretend to make these concessions.

In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat made a pact in which Israel gave up land for promises of peace. Arafat, before he led the Palestinians in the peace process, was the number one terrorist in the Middle East! Does it make sense that you could somehow achieve peace by making a deal with a famed terrorist? There is no logic in that! Even as Arafat talked about peace to the Israelis and to the world, in private he would often tell people of his plan to take over Israel and destroy the Jews completely! That was always his ambition! Yet somehow we thought that simply handing him land would soften him or convince him to abandon that goal. Such reasoning shows terrible weakness and only encourages an enemy who thinks like that. Swapping land for peace has never brought peace.

The Dangerous Trump Plan Since the start of that peace process, the Jews have given up Gaza, Jericho, Bethlehem and the other parts of the West Bank to enacting reforms that most Israelis don’t believe Palestinian the Arabs. Think about that: Arabs attacked the Jews on multiple leaders would ever agree to anyway. At worst, in four years occasions with a goal to annihilate every one of them! Where Israel will be right where it is now, except with more of the in history can you find a war where the victors later gave the West Bank declared as sovereign Israeli territory. land back to the aggressors who tried to wipe them off the map? By this logic, many Israelis accept the deal because they President Trump’s plan differs in one critical area from the are banking on Palestinians rejecting it as they have so many previous attempts to bring peace such as the Oslo Accords times before. and the uniliteral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. In those But what if they are wrong? What if the Palestinians do start cases, Israel was encouraged to give up land for the promise negotiating the Trump deal? of peace. As Israeli commentator Ruthie Blum put it, Trump’s Some signs suggest that Arab support for Palestinian rejec- plan is “peace for peace.” In it, a Palestinian state would only be tion of the peace process is waning. In February, a Palestinian established if Palestinians renounce funding and glorifying of delegation led by Mahmoud Abbas went to the UN Security terrorism, stop paying salaries for convicted terrorists sitting Council hoping to see a consensus vote condemning the peace in Israeli prisons, and show other proofs that they no longer plan. But the Palestinians realized their motion lacked enough SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES want to destroy the Jewish state. The plan gives the Palestinian support, and the vote didn’t even happen. It was a shock to the Authority four years to enact these and other reforms. As soon Palestinians. One member of the delegation said, “The sense is as they do, they’ll receive a state. that we are coming back with our tails between our legs.” He In the end, this plan still aims to create a Palestinian state said they received a “cold shoulder” from Arab states, including not just next to Israel, but right in Israel’s midst. The the Gulf emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. 2 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Unlike with other peace initiatives, the Arab world seems used figuratively of a remedy applied to the wounds of the state.” to be pressuring the Palestinians to negotiate with President In other words, the remedy is the wound! Trump. If Palestinian leaders give in, Israel will feel obligated Another word for wound appears in Obadiah 7: “All the men to go along with the process. This will prove to be disastrous. of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the Peace will not be gained by giving up land to the Palestinians! men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and pre- Never! vailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound People often forget that Israelis have already withdrawn under thee: there is none understanding in him.” Gesenius’ from over 80 percent of the land they won in the Six-Day War. Lexicon defines this “wound” as “falsehood; hence, fraud, Yet the Trump peace plan includes a map that shows a lot of insidious dealing … net, or snare.” It has the same root word as Israeli territory becoming a new Palestinian state. This the word used in Hosea 5:13. In Obadiah the wound is directly plan is a two-state solution in which Israel gives up claim related to being deceived by a peace pact! to 70 percent of the West Bank. This area is the heartland of Wound in Hosea means bandage. It’s as if a bandage is hope- biblical history—the lands of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! What lessly applied to an open, running sore. From the beginning does God think about it when Israel gives up land He gave them of the peace process, the Jews have looked to men, often their through miraculous victories? enemies, for help—not God. That is the unseen wound. If implemented, this plan puts a Palestinian state on the So little trust in God—so much trust in their enemies! doorstep of Jerusalem and surrounding almost every Jewish The real wound is spiritual: a lack of faith in God. The Jews settlement in the West Bank. It doesn’t create two states side by keep trying to heal themselves by making peace pacts. They side with one continuous border: It is a series of roads, tunnels were strong when they trusted God. and overpasses connecting islands of Jewish communities in The Israelis will finally see that their peace agreement with the West Bank, each surrounded by a historically hostile people. the Palestinians has failed. They really only see the effect of David Ha’ivri lives in one of those Jewish communities inside their wound, not the cause. That is why they turn to Germany the West Bank. On February 3, he spoke out about what this for another peace pact, placing their trust in an even greater deal does to his and other West Bank communities. “President enemy! Once again they will fail to trust God. This will lead to Trump says that in his plan, no Israelis or Palestinians will the worst disaster in the Jews’ long history of suffering. be forced to leave their homes. However, it also lists 15 Israeli That is where this peace plan is leading. towns that would become isolated enclaves deep within the proposed Palestinian state,” he wrote for the Jewish Where Is Their Faith? Telegraphic Agency. “Some mistakenly take some consolation Something is terribly wrong with man’s reasoning. “The way of in the thought that the plan lists only 15 small towns to be peace they know not.” Men are trying to work the problem out isolated and cut off from Israel. A closer look at the Trump themselves and are even looking to their enemies to make a map reveals that another 40 larger Israeli towns, including my peace pact with! But how much are they looking to God? own, share a very similar fate. They will find themselves like The truth is, nobody can bring peace in a family or a nation isolated outposts connected to the rest of Israel by very narrow apart from God! God must be involved if you are to have real corridors, surrounded by Palestinian-controlled space.” peace. You will never have peace any other way. Such an arrangement wouldn’t bring peace. It would actually These leaders seem to have more faith in their enemies than create a dangerous wound for the Jews! in God! How much faith do we have in the all-powerful God These peace plans are a deadly delusion! We ought to see who could instantly bring us peace if we would look to Him? by now that they won’t work! Every time we have tried giving That shows you what the real problem is! land for peace, or negotiating with terrorists to bring peace, it How insulted must God be when men trust somebody like has only brought more war! the top terrorist in the Middle East rather than trusting in Him? History proves that—and so does Bible prophecy. Jeremiah 17:9 says the human mind is “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” That is human nature, and we Judah’s Wound can never have peace as long as we have human nature. Man The book of Hosea was written as prophecy for the end time. must be rid of human nature before we can ever have peace! The nation called Israel today is really biblical Judah. Hosea Iran has created a presence and influence in Gaza, Lebanon includes specific prophecies about Judah. and Syria. It has surrounded the Jews, and it hates the Jews “When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, more than anybody in the Middle East. Yet today, Israel is prof- then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: fering a peace pact with, essentially, an Iranian proxy! That will yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound” (Hosea never work! 5:13). Studying this verse in the original Hebrew reveals that Anybody should be able to understand that. But when you both Ephraim (Britain) and Judah go to Assyria (the prophetic look at Bible prophecy, the danger involved becomes even more term for modern-day Germany—to prove this, request our free exceedingly clear. booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire). Zechariah 14:2 says that in the end time, half of Jerusalem Why go to Germany? And what is Judah’s “wound”? Strong’s will be captured by the Arabs: “For I will gather all nations Concordance defines that word, “in the sense of binding up: against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the a bandage, i.e. remedy.” Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city defines it, “the pressing together, binding up of a wound; here PEACE PLAN PAGE 32 u APRIL 2020 3 Echoes of the 1930s

Events in Germany that led to out of coalition negotiations for 75 years. This shift in support means main- Hitler’s rise are happening again. That is, until February 5 of this year. stream parties can’t win a majority BY RICHARD PALMER Last October, the same state, Thuringia, of votes. The mainstream right, for held elections. Once again, neither the example, must either form a coalition ermany has been shaken by mainstream right nor the mainstream with an extreme party or reach out to its an event with dramatic par- left received enough votes to govern opponent on the mainstream left. allels with the 1930s. alone. After months of coalition negoti- Now the death spiral kicks in. A left-

In the late 1920s, the Nazi ations, once again, the mainstream right right coalition struggles. The two sides TOPICAL PRESS AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES, SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES (2), BRITTA PEDERSEN/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES, TRUMPET ILLUSTRATION Party was small. In 1928, it decided to compromise by asking the far fundamentally disagree and cannot Gwon only 2.6 percent of the vote, hardly right to help them form a government. take bold action. They compromise with a force to be reckoned with. But the No wonder many Germans fear they’re each other and form an unsatisfying following year, in local elections in the walking down the same path as the 1930s. centrist government. This causes more German state of Thuringia, the Nazis “Democracies don’t die overnight,” voters to reject the mainstream left and won 11.3 percent. It wasn’t huge, but it warned Spiegel Online. “They don’t mainstream right and to vote for more was enough to make them kingmakers. flourish one day and then get uprooted extremist parties. Neither the mainstream-right parties by a coup d’etat the next. They decay When extreme parties are brought nor the mainstream-left parties had gradually, until the ground is fertile for into the government, they are normal- enough votes to govern. an authoritarian seizure of power. ized, given legitimacy. Voters grow So the state went into coalition with “[W]hat happened in Thuringia must likelier to vote for them. Either way, the Nazis. Adolf Hitler’s friend Wilhelm be seen as a warning shot, a harbinger” when the mainstream parties struggle, Frick became the state’s interior minister. (February 7). the fringe parties thrive. The dam had burst. Less than a year Is German democracy on the way out? This simply kicks the death spiral up later, Germany’s main right-wing party— a notch. It is now even harder to form the German National People’s Party Political Death Spiral stable coalitions. Governing becomes (dnvp) worked with the Nazis to form a Thuringia is not the only parallel with even less effective. Problems get worse. government in the state of Baunschweig. the 1930s. The whole political dynamic in Support for the extreme parties grows. And by the end of 1932, the coalition was Germany and across Europe is the same. This pattern played out in the 1930s, repeated at the national level, with Adolf Here is the pattern: An economic and it is playing out in Germany today. Hitler as chancellor. crisis hits, causing people to lose faith in In the ’30s, the spiral drove more and The rest is history. the established parties. The mainstream more voters toward the Nazis. By mid- After the Nazis took over Germany and consensus proves itself incapable, so 1932, the dnvp decided that they had to started a world war that killed 60 million a few people start to support more work with Hitler, and offered him the people, far-right parties were kept firmly extreme parties. post of vice-chancellor. Hitler refused, 4 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET convinced he was powerful enough to Concerned about the direction of mainstream parties have refused to demand the top job. This refusal led to their party, the original founders of the work with them. Now they are stuck another election, which the Nazis won. AfD left or were kicked out. with a choice: form an unwieldy coali- So German President Hindenburg invited Not everyone in the party is as radical tion or work with a group that has killed Hitler to become chancellor. Frick, who as Höcke. Some view him as more of more civilians than al Qaeda did on 9/11. had risen to power in Thuringia, now a hindrance than a help; his extreme Spain has held four inconclusive elec- became the federal interior minister. rhetoric makes it harder for the party tions in the last four years. It currently Hindenburg and the mainstream to pick up more moderate voters, they has a coalition minority government, right believed they could “tame” Hitler. complain. Nevertheless, he is still toler- which is perhaps the most unstable Instead, they empowered him. Once in ated, and even promoted, as one of the arrangement possible. Meanwhile, a far- position as chancellor, Hitler grabbed senior leaders in the party. right party, Vox, has entered Spain’s legis- absolute power. With anti-Semitism surging world- lature for the first time in its democratic It is easy to see these parallels in wide, Jewish leaders are especially history. In the November elections, Vox Thuringia. In its October election, worried that politicians like Höcke are won third with 15 percent of the seats. extreme parties gained most of the vote. winning so many votes once again. In 2010 and 2011, Belgium set a new Die Linke (The Left), successor to East Charlotte Knobloch, former president world record for the longest period any Germany’s brutal Communist Party, of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, developed country has been without a won first with 31 percent. The Alterna- said the AfD’s success “shows that our government: 589 days. Now the Belgians tive für Deutschland won second with whole political system is coming apart are going for a new record. Their last 23 percent. For any coalition to hold a at the seams.” She said she was worried elections were on May 26, 2019, and they majority in the state legislature, it must that so many supported a party that has still don’t have a coalition. include one of these two parties. “downplayed the horrors of the Nazi era, Italian politics is dominated by par- who are openly nationalistic and have ties that either did not exist before the New Right-Wing Party spread messages of hate against minori- 2008 financial crisis or were considered The Alternative für Deutschland started ties, including the Jewish community.” too extreme for government. In Swe- in protest of the 2008 financial crisis. Christoph Heubner, vice president of den’s most recent election, its main left- All the mainstream parties had roughly the International Auschwitz Committee, wing party experienced its worst result the same economic policy. The AfD was sounded a similar warning, saying, “For since 2011, and the far-right Sweden founded by economists to put forward survivors of German concentration Democrats are now, by some polls, the an alternative path. camps, this massive increase in votes for nation’s most popular party. Then the migrant crisis hit Germany. the AfD in Thuringia is another menac- Eastern Europe is full of governments Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed ing signal that right-wing extremist atti- that are right wing, if not far-right, and a million migrants into Germany, with tudes and tendencies are consolidating most of these did well. In Hungary, Vik- little debate or discussion. Those who in Germany.” tor Orbán’s Fidesz won 52 percent of the had concerns were branded as racist “The last time we saw something of vote, one of the only parties in Europe by the mainstream media. So the AfD this kind in Germany was in the Weimar to win a majority. In Poland, the right- began offering an alternative view on Republic where political life was polar- wing Law and Justice party garnered 45 migration as well. ized between the Communists and the percent of the vote. This began a rightward shift that went far beyond merely concerns with migra- When extreme parties are brought into the government, they are tion. Björn Höcke, the leader of the AfD normalized, given legitimacy. Voters grow likelier to vote for them. in the state of Thuringia, for example, Either way, when mainstream parties struggle, fringe parties thrive. wants a complete rewrite of German history. “German history is handled as National Socialists,” political scientist In country after country, European pol- rotten and made to look ridiculous,” he and commentator Werner Patzelt told itics are entering the same death spiral once told a rally. He wants a “180-degree the Local. “This is quite uncommon” that many of them suffered in the 1930s. reversal” on how Germany remembers (Oct. 28, 2019). During that fateful decade, the rise of World War ii. Some support the AfD due to legiti- the extreme parties didn’t happen only To Höcke, the Holocaust memorial in mate concerns about migration. But it is in Germany. The rise of extreme parties Berlin is a “monument of shame” and not just their polling figures that paral- gummed up French politics. France had should be removed. “The AfD is the last lel the 1930s. Their rhetoric does too. five governments between May 1932 and revolutionary, the last peaceful chance January 1934. In Austria, the death spiral for our fatherland,” he said. He has Continent in Crisis empowered the Heimwehr—a far-right even brought up “Lebensraum” (living Fringe parties are rising all across Europe. group similar to the Nazis but opposed space) and talked about Germany’s In Ireland’s February 9 general elec- to unification with Germany. In Czecho- “thousand-year future,” clear allusions to tion, Sinn Fein—formerly the political slovakia, the Nazi Sudeten German Party Adolf Hitler’s expansionism and vision wing of the ira terrorist group—tied came from nowhere to win more votes of a “thousand-year Reich.” for first place. Historically, Ireland’s than any other party. In Romania, the APRIL 2020 5 Iron Guard rose to become the third- the establishment of conscription, the Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Chancel- most popular party, winning 15 percent reconquest of Germany’s colonies, a lor Merkel’s hand-picked successor. of the vote in the 1937 elections, after reduction in the number of Jews in pub- Kramp-Karrenbauer came under having been banned in the 1935 elections. lic life, and stronger links with German attack for not stopping the deal with Other extreme parties, like the Nation- communities outside of Germany. Politi- the far right. She was party leader—had al-Christian Defense League in France, cally, the difference between Hugenberg she lost control of her own party? She rose steadily after the 1929 stock market and Hitler was simply a matter of degree. was also accused of not speaking out crash. France’s far-right Croix-de-Feu In France, far-right leagues succeeded forcefully enough against the AfD. Party league grew from 500 members in 1928 in organizing violent protests. The more members were already disappointed to 400,000 in 1935. After it was banned prominent right-wing parties responded with her tenure as party leader. So she in 1936, its leader started the French by shifting their direction. These were announced she would not stand as a Social Party, which grew to become one among those that would make up the candidate for Germany’s chancellor, and of France’s largest right-wing parties. Vichy regime that cooperated with Hitler that she would resign as party leader, to Votes for extreme parties in many other after he conquered their nation. In Roma- be replaced in the summer. countries also jumped. For all these people, a vote for the The 1930s history remains a powerful warning for the future. Bible fringe wasn’t just a vote for a different prophecy gives us an even clearer warning. And that prophecy tells us political party. It was a vote for a there will be some major similarities—as well as some key differences. different system. They didn’t want their current constitution or system of nia, the king attempted to create a royal This backlash was much stronger government. They were convinced their dictatorship to prevent Nazi-like parties than the response to the Thuringia coa- nation needed something different. from taking power in his country. In lition in the 1930s. That history screams Many of the people voting for fringe Hungary, the regent was forced to accept a warning so strong that Germany groups today believe the same thing. a far-right, anti-Semitic government. could not ignore it. The nation had to Satisfaction with democracy is at an Some in Germany are trying to do something. So history from the ’30s all-time low, according to a Cambridge respond to Thuringia the same way. Ger- is repeating itself, but not in exactly the study published in January. The report many’s mainstream-right party is divided same way. states, “Europe’s average level of satis- on the subject, but a substantial faction The 1930s history remains a powerful faction masks a large and growing divide wants to shift the party to the right. warning for the future. Bible prophecy within the Continent, between a ‘zone One leader of this faction, and a top gives us an even more clear and specific of despair’ across France and southern contender to be Germany’s next chan- warning. And that prophecy tells us Europe, and a ‘zone of complacency’ cellor, is Friedrich Merz. Foreign Policy there will be some major similarities— across Western Germany, Scandinavia explained, “Friedrich Merz would tack as well as some key differences from and the Netherlands.” hard to the right, pushing the cdu toward what has gone before. The Cambridge study traces the origin the AfD in an attempt to recapture voters Revelation 17 warns of a political of this dissatisfaction to the economic that have fled to the populist right in past system that rises and falls seven times. crisis—just as was the case in the 1930s. elections” (February 11). It even specu- Verse 8 describes a beast, symbolic of a It states, “It is likely that, beyond personal lated that Merz could bring the AfD into major world power, that “was, and is not, feelings of economic dissatisfaction, the a coalition, taking the same course the and yet is.” This beast exists, then van- crisis has brought forward a broader mainstream right took in the 1930s. ishes—only to then “ascend out of the sense of political discontent that is tied to Former Defense Minister Karl-The- bottomless pit.” You could say it comes economic sovereignty, national pride, and odor zu Guttenberg strongly endorsed out of nowhere—from “underground.” anger over the use of public resources.” Merz, telling the German Press Agency This chapter describes it as having In country after country, voters believe on January 17: “For me, there is only one seven heads: It rises seven times. the political system no longer works for politician in the [Christian Democratic] Verses 1-2 tell us it is led by a woman, the them. So they want someone different Union left, who I consider perfectly suit- biblical symbol for a church. from the norm, someone outside the able for this task and who I would vote Where in the world is there an empire, established parties. The way Europe has for: Friedrich Merz.” led by a church, that repeatedly rises worked for decades isn’t working, they and falls? This passage can only be feel. They want something new. Break With the Past referring to the Holy Roman Empire in Recent events in Thuringia did not Europe, a series of empires that have Compromising With the Right follow completely in the footsteps of the all attempted to resurrect the Roman In the 1930s, the mainstream-right par- 1930s, however. The state leader elected Empire, and that have all been domi- ties dealt with this rise in extremism by with the help of the AfD lasted in office nated by the Catholic Church. compromising with the right and mov- only one day. The outcry across the This power has risen and fallen six ing to further to the right themselves. country forced him to step down. times so far. Revelation 17 says that In 1931, Hugenberg’s manifesto called Nor was he the only casualty. The when this power fully ascends, “the for the end of the Treaty of Versailles, fallout was so great it brought down people who belong to this world … will 6 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET be amazed at the reappearance of this AfD election rally beast” (verse 8; New Living Translation). They believe this beast is dead, but then it comes back one more time. We are seeing that beast power rise in Europe one more time. Because this is the same beast that rose in the 1930s, there are some critical parallels. But the seventh and final res- urrection of this empire is unique. The book of Daniel has a series of prophecies describing the rise of the man who will lead this empire.

A Coming Strongman Daniel wrote his prophetic book for the 1928 election 2005 Election end time (Daniel 12:9). It prophesies The Nazi Party comes in ninth place. The Germany’s two main parties events that have now happened; they Communists did four times better, with come neck and neck. Neither the were prophecy for him, but now history 10.6 percent. But this level of support left nor right had enough for a for us. But even these historical events is enough to cause trouble. No one can coalition on their own, so a grand are types of what is still ahead of us. form a stable coalition. A grand left-right left-right coalition begins. Daniel 8:23 describes the rise of “a coalition forms. It lasts only two years. king of fierce countenance, and under- standing dark sentences.” Verse 25 says 1929 stock market crash 2008 financial crisis he will be defeated after he stands up Massive economic crisis hits Major economic crisis causes mass “against the Prince of princes,” revealing Germany. Hyperinflation unemployment in southern Europe, the time frame for this fierce king’s reign: wipes out savings. threatens the eurozone, and reminds He will come to power in the very end Germans of 1929. The economic crisis time, right before Jesus Christ’s Second is not as acute as 1929, so the shift to Coming. Revelation 17 also describes the extreme is not quite so radical. But beast power and its leader fighting Jesus it’s enough to get the cycle started. Christ. The Daniel 8 man leads the beast described in the book of Revelation. 1930 election 2009 election Another passage in the same pro- Economic woes shake trust in Economic concerns reduce trust in phetic book—Daniel 11:21-31—tells us mainstream parties. Nazi Party places mainstream left and right parties. how this man will come to power. second (18 percent); Communist Support decreases by a combined Most Bible commentaries correctly Party places fourth (13 percent). No 13 percent compared to 2005. say this passage refers to Antiochus mainstream coalition is possible. A Epiphanes, who reigned around 175 to weak minority government forms. 164 b.c. These verses forecast exactly what Antiochus ended up doing. They July 1932 election 2013 election prophesied that he would “pollute the Nazis win largest share of the vote (37 A new right-wing party stands sanctuary of strength, and shall take percent). Other parties try to form for the first time: the Alternative away the daily sacrifice, and they shall a coalition that excludes the Nazis. für Deutschland. It receives 4.7 place the abomination that maketh des- They fail. New elections are called. percent of the vote, but no seats. In olate” (verse 31). Antiochus infamously modern Germany, you need at least assaulted and slaughtered the Jews 5 percent to enter parliament. and attacked the Jewish religion. He attempted to stamp out Jewish worship November 1932 election 2017 election at the temple and set up a pagan statue Nazis win largest share of the vote The Alternative für Deutschland is to Jupiter Olympius in front of the altar. (33 percent). It’s clear they’re not now more extreme and more popular, In Matthew 24:15, Jesus Christ clearly going away, and so Hitler is invited winning 13 percent of the vote and refers to this verse, making explicit into the coalition government. These becoming Germany’s third-largest reference to “the abomination of deso- elections prove to be Germany’s last party. Support for the two largest lation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet.” free elections for nearly two decades. parties plummets. Coalition negotiations But He talks about it not as something take longer than in any other that had already happened, but as some- postwar government. Mainstream

CARSTEN KOALL/GETTY IMAGES KOALL/GETTY CARSTEN thing that will happen in the future. parties are now clearly in crisis. APRIL 2020 7 If this prophecy was entirely fulfilled occur makes the bureaucratic turmoil by Antiochus Epiphanes nearly two in Berlin important to watch,” he wrote. centuries earlier, why did Christ tell His “The government is shaky, the need for The disciples to watch for this event? This strong leadership is clear—but the path prophecy had an ancient fulfillment, to achieve it is unknown.” Dangerous but it will also have a modern one. Like Daniel 8:23 says this leader is known many other prophecies, it is dual. This for “understanding dark sentences.” refers both to the ancient Antiochus The expression “dark sentences” means Left-Wing and to a modern Antiochus. that he operates “at a higher social level.” Daniel 11:21 prophesies that the Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon European people “shall not give” this defines this phrase as “twisted, involved, Media Antiochus “the honour of the kingdom: subtlety, fraud, enigma.” “This is revealing insight,” wrote but he shall come in peaceably, and History reveals just Mr. Flurry. “The prophesied strongman obtain the kingdom by flatteries.” The how gravely wrong operates on a high social level; he is capa- Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commen- the press can be. tary says that “the nation shall not, by a ble of understanding and solving com- BY GERALD FLURRY public act, confer the kingdom on him, plex issues and questions. He is brilliant but he shall obtain it by artifice, ‘flatter- and sophisticated, and he has intellectual ing.’” Barnes’ Notes on the Old and New depth and power. The context shows he free and fair press is criti- Testaments states, “[I]n other words, it enjoys notoriety and fame for it.” cal to our freedom. When this should not be conferred on him by any “This prophesied leader may well is compromised, nation-de- law or act of the nation, or in any regular exploit this frustration and confusion stroying dangers result. succession or claim.” by rallying a coalition behind him AThe media in America and Britain Look at Germany right now. In your and vaunting himself to power,” he have become political tools. They no lon- lifetime, have Germans ever been more continued. “This would take a lot of ger take a dispassionate, objective view of worried about their political situation? intelligence and calculation; it would events. Far too many in the media have They see that they are sliding down the require unusual skill to deceive people embraced a far-left political view, to the same path as the 1930s. They see that in high places with flattery. But the point that they cannot even recognize they are beset by potential crises, with prophesied Daniel 8 man will do it how grossly partisan they have become. another episode of the migrant crisis or magnificently. Adolf Hitler was a man Media empires are extremely power- the euro crisis likely to break out at any of mental strength, but he was not as ful. The left-wing media are in a power time. Yet at the helm are two lame ducks. adept at deceiving people as this coming struggle to get control—and they have With Germans desperate for a strongman will be! This leader will been winning. Though unelected, they strong leader, and none on the horizon, come as an angel of light.” have grown too powerful for politicians circumstances are almost perfect for The stage is perfectly set for the rise to challenge. To directly challenge the someone to come into power in an of this man. Europe is treading the same mega-media often leads to political death. unorthodox way. What happens if there path that led to a dictator before, and it The one exception has been United is some kind of crisis between now and will get a dictator once again. States President Donald Trump. He has summer, and Ms. Merkel is forced to But the Bible records one other single-handedly challenged the press step down? If politics as usual cannot important difference between this and exposed a great deal of its bias. Yet give the already-restless Germans the time and the 1930s. When Hitler was this has only caused the press to double leader they need, what can they do? defeated, his empire went underground, down on its opposition to him and its In the Trumpet’s January cover article, to rise again later. This time, the empire advocacy for leftist politics. editor in chief Gerald Flurry showed will not go underground. Daniel 8:25 Many in the media have forgotten just how many specifics the Bible gives says that this strongman will “stand up their obligation to tell the truth! us about this coming strongman. He against the Prince of princes.” He will try They have forgotten how noble it is to explained that this strongman “will to fight Jesus Christ when He returns, always seek and tell the truth. Only the somehow manipulate the political “but he shall be broken without hand.” truth can set us free (John 8:32). system to effectively hijack Germany This whole system, that has caused A similar problem seized Britain in the and, by extension, Europe.” wars for hundreds of years, will be decade leading up to World War ii. This “Knowing that such destroyed forever. And it will never be is history with extraordinary relevance political intrigue will resurrected again. n for today. The media and leaders of Brit- ain and America should have learned

some critical lessons, but most did not. ISTOCK.COM/ARTISTEER There has been no repentance for their History is rhyming. shameful failure. As a result, they are Do you know the tune? To learn where the rhythms in Germany repeating the same mistakes. We cannot are leading, read A Strong German Leader Is Imminent. even calculate how much damage this is But these realities were of no interest to leaders were terrified of offending Hitler Britain’s ruling class and its press. and setting him off! They knew he was The It’s hard to fathom how pathetic the unstable and vicious, yet somehow Times had become in kowtowing to thought everything would work out if Dangerous Hitler. In 1937, the Times editor wrote, they could just not offend him. This is “I should like to get going with the how quintessentially compliant and pas- Germans. I simply cannot understand sive Britain (and America) had become Left-Wing why they should apparently be so much in the 1930s! And the media led the way. annoyed with the Times at this moment. This history is painful and embarrass- I spend my nights in taking out anything ing. But what did these leaders and Media which I think will hurt their susceptibili- the media learn from it? ties and in dropping little things which are intended to soothe them.” Such reasoning Churchill’s Will to Win reflects a profound sickness! This is the All the while, Winston Churchill was ultimate in a defeatist attitude, and delivering a very different message. He it leads to the death of nations! was doing everything possible to warn Examples abound of the intellectuals’ and save his country and the world from disgraceful credulity—despite so much Adolf Hitler. doing to our nations. The consequences contrary evidence. “Once Hitler had On April 24, 1932, he gave a speech this time will be far more severe. been sworn in and his Strassenkämpfer saying that while he believed in Britain’s began unsheathing their long knives, the institutions, difficulties always came Swindled by Hitler British government took the remarkable from “the mood of unwarrantable Adolf Hitler had publicized his toxic views position that the detailed reports from self-abasement into which we have years before he came to power in Ger- two of its most eminent ambassadors, been cast by a powerful section of our many, but almost nobody believed him. describing conditions in the Third Reich, own intellectuals”—many of whom The free media were dangerously manip- were based on misunderstandings, were in the media, as they are today. He ulated by Hitler. They have probably never distortions and unconfirmed rumors,” criticized their “defeatist doctrines.” been more deceived—until today! Manchester wrote. “According to one “What have they to offer but a vague In 1933, during disarmament talks in Wilhelmstrasse document which came internationalism, a squalid materialism, Geneva, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt into British hands when Berlin fell in May and the promise of impossible Utopias?” proposed a ban on all offensive weapons. 1945, [British Prime Minister Ramsay] he asked. “Nothing can save England if Hitler loathed the idea, but he pretended MacDonald assured Germany’s ambas- she will not save herself. If we lose faith to love it. He promised to scrap all of sador to Britain, Leopold von Hösch, that in ourselves, in our capacity to guide Germany’s offensive weapons along with he knew there were no atrocities, no and govern, if we lose our will to live, other nations—even its entire military beatings, no desecration of synagogues— then indeed our story is told.” establishment! “His reply to Roosevelt that everything England’s own envoys This is the same problem so many of was a fraud, of course, but it was the work had reported, was, in short, a lie.” They our journalists and people have today! of a master swindler, and it took almost believed the Nazis rather than their Intellectuals wallow in self-abasement. everyone in,” William Manchester wrote own envoys! That defies logic! They are hostile toward America and in The Last Lion: Alone. “London’s Daily “According to the Times, Baldwin told Britain exercising real leadership and Herald, the official organ of the Labour Hösch that England was ‘entirely willing strength. They lack the will to fight even Party, declared that Hitler, as a trust- to work closely … with a Germany under our worst enemies! Several nations worthy statesman, should be taken at his the new order’—die Neuordnung. It is today pose serious political, economic word. The conservative weekly Spectator startling to read this Nazi phrase, so and military threats. Yet the intellectu- called him the hope of a tormented freighted with evil, quoted by a once als pretend the world is better off with world; to the Times his claim was ‘irre- and future prime minister in the col- a weak and apologetic America, and that futable’” (emphasis mine throughout). umns of the Times. Doubtless Baldwin the best way to ensure peace is through These newspapers were utterly duped had not grasped its implications. But he disarmament, negotiation and com- by this madman! should have. And he should have spoken promise. They pretend the world is full Meanwhile, many signs showed that out. His silence, his refusal to see, of reasonable peoples, and that peace events in Germany were swiftly moving hear and speak … evil of the Nazi is possible by international consensus. in a dangerous direction: The ruling chancellor was characteristic of This is perilously delusional! party was organizing massive public book the response among England’s rul- “The British left, led by Clement Attlee burnings. Trade unions were banned and ing classes [led by the media]. If they and pledged to pacifism and disarma- union leaders were imprisoned. All non- offended him, they told one another, he ment, deeply distrusted [Churchill],” Nazi political parties were wiped out. would become hostile, and his hostility Manchester wrote. “Thus he outraged Jews were being mistreated and abused, would blind him to reason” (ibid). M.P.s on both sides of the Commons. and concentration camps were filling up. How repugnant and shameful! These … Afterward he said there had been APRIL 2020 9 ‘much mocking in the press’ “No one who reads it with an historians a thousand about his fall from grace. impartial mind can doubt that the years hence will still be The political cartoonists points of policy laid down by Herr baffled by the mystery of in Punch, the Daily Herald, Hitler may fairly constitute the our affairs. They will never the Express and above all basis of a complete settlement with understand how it was that a victorious nation, with David Low in Beaverbrook’s Germany—a free, equal and strong Evening Standard were everything in hand, suffered Germany instead of the prostrate brutal. Public appearances themselves to be brought low, became an ordeal for him. Germany upon whom peace was and to cast away all that they Chosen rector of Edinburgh imposed 16 years ago.” had gained by measureless University, he was unable to —THE TIMES, 1935 sacrifice and absolute victory deliver his rectorial address; gone with the wind! Now the students hostile to his calls for victors are the vanquished, a strengthened national defense repeat- free, equal and strong Germany instead and those who threw down their arms edly shouted him down until he gave up of the prostrate Germany upon whom in the field and sued for an armistice are and left the platform” (op cit). peace was imposed 16 years ago,” it wrote. striding on to world mastery.” These students had never learned It was doing public relations for Hitler as How did people respond to this plain about freedom of speech, and Hitler well as Hitler’s own propaganda minister. truth? That very day, the Evening Stan- almost took it away from them forever! Soon after, Germany took over dard decided to stop printing Churchill’s Most journalists are educated in such Austria, plainly exposing Hitler’s gra- articles. His syndicated column would institutions. cious words as rank deceit. no longer appear in over 50 newspapers The pacifists were dead wrong. And if Churchill gave a powerful message around the world! Churchill was denied not for Churchill, most of them would about the Austrian crisis. He warned his media platform to warn the world. have ended up just plain dead in the war! the House on March 24, 1938, against Within days, the syndication man- Are our pacifists today leading us to a becoming complacent because of a brief ager wrote Churchill: “I have received similar fate? easing of tensions. Every time Germany expressions of regret from all the papers made a move, it waited a while before in England from which we have had to Shameful Blindness making another. “After a boa constric- withdraw the series. All the editors are Hitler was skilled at taking advantage tor has devoured its prey, it often has agreed that the articles were unusually of the naiveté of British leaders. “Hitler, a considerable digestive spell,” he said. highly appreciated by their readers.” It deciding that Europe needed more “Now, after Austria has been struck would be hard to find a statement more reassurance, summoned the Reichstag down, we are all disturbed and alarmed, condemning of the media, and of aca- on May 21 [1935] and delivered another but in a little while there may be another demia, which produced these leaders! Friedensrede, declaring that Germany pause. [I]f there is a pause, then people The people were much wiser, less biased would never dream of threatening other will be saying, ‘See how the alarmists and far less arrogant than the media! countries, that the Reich ‘has solemnly have been confuted; Europe has calmed It wasn’t long before Hitler began agi- recognized and guaranteed France her down, it has all blown over, and the war tating for Sudetenland, part of Czecho- frontiers,’ including the renunciation of scare has passed away.’ … The Times will slovakia, which was in an alliance with ‘all claims to Alsace-Lorraine,’ and—at a write a leading article to say how silly Britain. Astoundingly, the press, espe- time when Nazi Strassenkämpfer were people look who on the morrow of the cially the Times, argued that the Czechs storming through the streets of Austrian incorporation raised a clamor should give in to Hitler. They said the Vienna, clubbing Austrian pedestrians for exceptional action in foreign policy main threat to peace was the obstinancy who had failed to greet them with and home defense, and how wise the of the Czechs! But the only reason the the stiff-armed Hitlergruss—that government were not to let themselves Czechs were obstinate was because they ‘Germany neither intends nor wishes to be carried away by this passing incident.” didn’t want to give Germany a large interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, Such thinking was a trap, he argued. portion of their country! to annex Austria, or to conclude an He finished by warning, “For five years What these leaders and the media Anschluss.’” This directly contradicted I have talked to the House on these mat- did in dealing with Hitler before World Hitler’s clear statement in Mein Kampf ters—not with very great success. I have War ii was despicable! Events make this that he would force Austria into the Reich. watched this famous island descending inescapably clear. Almost all the media But the media believed his lies anyway. incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway refused to see him for what he really The Times called Hitler’s speech which leads to a dark gulf. It is a fine was—until it was almost too late! Brit-

“reasonable, straightforward and broad stairway at the beginning, but after ain nearly lost World War ii. The world HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTYIMAGES comprehensive.” “No one who reads it a bit the carpet ends. A little farther on came dangerously close to being slaugh- with an impartial mind can doubt that there are only flagstones, and a little far- tered and enslaved by Nazi Germany. the points of policy laid down by Herr ther on still these break beneath your feet. Finally Hitler forced them to see how Hitler may fairly constitute the basis of [I]f mortal catastrophe should overtake evil he really was! They didn’t see until a complete settlement with Germany—a the British nation and the British Empire, they were forced to. Don’t forget that! 10 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET As Churchill worked furiously to save always lack the support to fight the real media learned nothing from that Western civilization, most of the media enemy, even if they have the will. mega-disaster. Media leaders still cannot worked equally hard to destroy it! They The left-wing media are lost in their see and will not repent of their glaring inflicted horrendous evil on Churchill own warped human reasoning. They are faults. They are simply too arrogant. because he was trying to save the world a danger even to themselves, and a grave Leaders of the powerful media must have from tyranny! This was a severely crim- danger to the many people who trust abundant humility, or they are a deadly inal act that should never be forgotten! them. They are destroying the mili- danger to their nation and the world! And it should have caused the media to tary spirit that defends our people! So who can we trust? The Bible warns bitterly repent. There should have been They are destroying the security of that trusting men will bring us many sweeping changes after World War ii, America, Britain and Israel. Our mili- curses! (e.g. Jeremiah 17:5). turning from such dangerous thinking. tary power is of little value if we lack the In many ways, the threats in the world Yet no such repentance ever took will to use it. We have degenerated into today are even more menacing than Hit- place. The media simply moved on as unparalleled selfishness and fear. ler was. Think about what rogue states though they bore no guilt whatsoever. Why should our most courageous and terrorists can do with weapons of And don’t expect them to voluntarily young men and women risk their lives mass destruction. This issue gets to the repent today. The left-wing media today while most of the media condemn what heart of the survival of our peoples. are making even bigger mistakes, and so they are doing? In the process we are ful- That is how important it is. are our politicians, educational institu- filling a prophecy where God says He will Some people are going to scorn this tions and religious leaders. “break the pride of your power”—or will analysis, but not for long. What does this portend for the to use that power—because of our sins Words will not bring people out of this survival of Britain, America and the (Leviticus 26:19). This is the real problem darkness. It will take a jolt like World Western world? we must confront, regardless of our War ii. That is the only reason Winston political philosophy! In the age of nuclear, Churchill came to power. And if we don’t Tyrants of the Intellect biological and chemical weapons, such wake up, we are going to be hammered The media today are much further left weakness leads to the death of nations! by a far worse World War iii of nuclear than in the 1930s. Their reporting is The media’s goal is to change the bombs to wake us up! even more biased and dangerous. They people to their way of thinking. And they Falsehood enslaves us—it takes us into have an even more entrenched hatred are having frightening success. They a black world of deceit. It is less violent for American and British power, deeper arrogantly believe they are qualified to than what terrorists fight for—but it is commitment to pacifism and failed tell people how to think. Their goal is still slavery! It is a slavery of the intellect. internationalism, and still no compre- not to get the facts to our people, which We become enslaved to error, evil and hension of the nature of evil. journalists should be doing. They want fantasy and call it truth and freedom. They attack the Trump administra- to rule—not inform. They are tyrants This issue gets to the core of whether tion for punishing Iran, the world’s and terrorists of the intellect! or not we really love truth and freedom. number one state sponsor of terror. It’s the 1930s all over again. As Anything less than the truth is just When the president ordered a strike Churchill said, we never learn from another form of slavery and terrorism. on top general Qassem Suleimani, who history. That means history is going to The self-willed, arrogant, left-wing had killed hundreds of Americans, they repeat itself! And the next time, there media are trying to enslave us, just as called that a dangerous provocation and will be no political leader to save us! the world’s worst terrorists are! It is just depicted that murderer like a beloved another form of terrorism. saint! They are angry with President Greater Threat Today Whether it comes from the right or Trump for standing up to China on The left-wing media scorn history. That left, it is still repugnant. The more we economic and trade policy. They are is why they never seem to learn lessons see such hatred of the truth, the more enraged by his forcing Mexico and Latin from history—even recent history like we ought to see how precious truth is. American countries to stop encouraging events leading up to World War ii. If Whether we realize it or not, God immigrants to illegally flood into the the “appeaseniks” had won in their battle used Winston Churchill to save us. But U.S. Every move the president makes to with Winston Churchill—and they no such political watchman will be used protect and defend American interests, almost did—there to save us today. Many Bible prophecies they condemn. would be no media warn that only repentance of our many The left-wing media are almost always freedom in the sins can save us now. God will give His against using our military might to stop Western world! blessings and protection to any individ- the Hitler-types and to do good in the The left-wing ual who will learn this lesson. n world. That means they provide very little context in their reporting. They give their biased opinion and often fail Churchill can inspire YOU. to tell the whole story. They fight against Read the warnings against appeasement made by Britain’s greatest the truth and blind many of our people modern statesman and how they apply to our world today with Gerald to reality. This means our leaders almost Flurry’s free booklet Winston S. Churchill: The Watchman. APRIL 2020 11 Coronavirus and Other Modern Plagues In Prophecy The Bible is clear: These diseases will worsen. Here is what you need to know. BY GERALD FLURRY GARY DORNING/TRUMPET

12 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET new strain of coronavi- hereafter,” or events that would come Christ returns—a prophecy that was rus is killing hundreds of after the Apostle John’s era (Revelation recently fulfilled (request my free book people and infecting tens 1:19). In Revelation 6:1-8, God inspired The New Throne of David for an expla- of thousands. The pneu- John to discuss the “seven seals” that nation). Before that takes place, though, monia-like illness is called lead up to Jesus Christ’s Second Coming. four chariots emerge from between two the covid-19, or the Wuhan The first four seals are commonly called mountains, symbolizing the two present coronavirus. Infections are the “four horsemen of the apocalypse.” members of the eternal God Family: God spreading mostly in China, but are start- These horsemen symbolize the end- the Father and Jesus Christ (verses 1-3). Aing to reach into nations around the world. time culmination of the most devastat- The black horses here are a rep- Authorities say the numbers of dead ing woes endured by mankind because resentation of violence, famine and and infected could keep multiplying for of his rebellion against his Creator! pestilence. It is clear that God sends weeks or months. This is partly because In his description of the fourth horse these chariots out to the four quarters before Wuhan, the Chinese city where and its rider, John writes: “I looked, and of the Earth. Notice verses 4-5: “Then I the illness broke out, was placed on lock- there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s answered and said unto the angel that down, some 5 million potentially infected name was Death, and Hades followed talked with me, What are these, my lord? people left it for other parts of China him …” (verse 8; International Standard And the angel answered and said unto and the world! Infections have been Version). This symbolizes catastrophic me, These are the four spirits of the confirmed in Australia, Belgium, Cam- disease epidemics. The passage states heavens, which go forth from standing bodia, Canada, Egypt, Finland, France, that along with the other three riders— before the Lord of all the earth.” Germany, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, which represent religious deception, war These spirit beings that take on the Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, Russia, and famine—the anemic horseman that appearance of horses have been “stand- Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, represents disease will end up killing ing before” God and receiving clear Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the United “the fourth part of the earth.” With today’s instructions about how they should Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the population of some 7.8 billion, that death proceed. They are “of the heavens,” United States and Vietnam. toll would come to nearly 2 billion people! which means they are not Satan and Several of these nations are reporting Revelation is not the only book in the his demons, who have already been cast not just infections from the outbreak, Bible to warn about an end-time return of down from heaven and confined to this but deaths! disease outbreaks. Jesus Christ Himself Earth (Revelation 12:9-12). These spirits The official story from the Chinese said pandemics of pestilence would hap- in Zechariah 6 originate from God’s own government is that the virus originated in pen before His return: “For nation shall throne room, and their chariots are a Wuhan wet market where animals that rise against nation, and kingdom against commanded to go “to and fro” across normally would not come into contact kingdom: and there shall be … pesti- the Earth—into the four quarters with each other—wolves, koalas, snakes, lences … in divers places” (Matthew 24:7; (verses 6-7). rats, peacocks, foxes, salamanders and see also Mark 13:8 and Luke 21:11). Pes- This is discussing a worldwide effort dozens more—live in crowded and unhy- tilence in this context means disease that will occur during the Great Trib- gienic quarters, awaiting slaughter to be outbreaks on a massive scale. ulation and Day of the Lord. Angelic sold as food for people. The government These are not dusty old prophecies. beings are already being positioned says conditions in this market enabled They are mostly for our time today! They and instructed for these catastrophic trans-species mutations of pathogens that are dramatic, dire prophecies whose ful- events! But God is in close control eventually leaped to humans. But a study fillment lies directly before us! Multiple over exactly how much devastation published by the Lancet on January 24 millions of people are prophesied to these beings are allowed to unleash. He shows that the first three infections, doc- perish from sickness and disease! is not destroying indiscriminately: He is umented in early December, had no link So we should expect diseases like this punishing the world in love and in mea- to this wet market. Nor did 11 other cases new Wuhan coronavirus to get worse, sure—to help mankind turn from the among the 41 analyzed in the study. and to eventually spread like medieval paths of destruction to the way of truth So the true cause of the coronavirus pandemics and kill millions of people! and peace! God will allow the diseases may still be unknown. This also shows that Whether or not this specific new and other afflictions represented by it broke out earlier than China’s official outbreak will cause such ruin, these these horses to affect mankind to pre- reports say, and that it then went unde- prophecies are sure. cisely the degree needed to help them tected for an unknown amount of time. repent—no more, no less. There are many worrying unknowns No More, No Less The Wuhan coronavirus is only a about this new illness. But there are In Zechariah 6, you can find symbolism small part of the overall picture. Other some sobering big-picture truths that that relates to that of Revelation 6. It plagues are already spreading in cities we can know—and must! is important to note the time frame closer to home. described in this chapter. Verses 10 ‘Pestilences in Divers Places’ through 12 show us this is about the Metropolitan Squalor The biblical book of Revelation is modern day. They discuss a dual crown Many American cities are facing a primarily about “things which shall be being given to a man just before Jesus crisis of homelessness. In downtown APRIL 2020 13 Los Angeles, for example, is a little It is such an awful scene, we can In Louisiana last year, an outbreak city of homeless people called “Skid hardly even stand to hear the news of the mumps at a U.S. Immigration Row.” The area is awash in drugs, trash, about it! Yet it is just a small foretaste of and Customs Enforcement (ice) facility human feces, rats and every imaginable the plagues coming to America, Britain forced officials to put hundreds of kind of filth. The squalor is causing and Judah (the nation called Israel detainees in quarantine. Around the soaring rates of diseases such as aids, today) if people don’t repent before God! same time, U.S. Customs and Border hepatitis A and Shigella. And it is lead- Protection Commissioner Kevin ing to outbreaks of some diseases that Diseases Don’t Respect Borders McAleenan told reporters that illegal haven’t been common in the developed Last year, Border Patrol agents appre- aliens were overwhelming border world for hundreds of years! hended over 850,000 illegal aliens at officials and posing serious health Last year, Los Angeles authorities America’s southern border—the largest risks. “We are seeing migrants arrive declared Skid Row a “typhus zone.” number since 2007. A separate report with illnesses and medical conditions Numerous residents are also contracting said hundreds of those caught illegally in unprecedented numbers,” he said. tuberculosis. Even some police depart- entering the country last year came Meanwhile, eruptions of viral diseases ment employees have contracted these from parts of Africa known to be heavily at immigration detention centers in Third World diseases. Some experts hit by the Ebola disease. Arizona, Colorado and Texas prompted warn of the onset of bubonic plague—a And who knows how many other members of Congress to ask ice’s acting disease that wiped out much of Europe illegal aliens snuck across the border director what was being done. in the 14th century! We are ignoring without being caught or counted? It would be naive not to see that with that history, and officials are permitting This is dangerous for a number so many people you are likely to have these conditions to ripen within some of of reasons, including pestilence! diseases being brought in and spread our mightiest cities! “Communicable diseases do not stop around. Yet despite all these concerns Similar circumstances are found in at international borders,” said a and despite proven outbreaks, illegal parts of Baltimore, Seattle, San Fran- recent report from the Federation for aliens keep pouring into the country so cisco and other cities. Travel guides American Immigration Reform. We fast that few are adequately checked for advise visitors to avoid parts of such don’t have to look far to find evidence infectious diseases. The health-care sit- places to avoid infection. proving this true! uation at the border now, according to a WILL CHINA’S CORONAVIRUS MAKE VLADIMIR PUTIN ‘KING OF THE EAST’? he axis that Xi Jinping’s China has forged with Vlad- being scarce, food is also difficult to buy when these people imir Putin’s Russia stands out as one of this century’s haven’t been able to work for weeks on end. Some in the areas defining geopolitical developments. The two have grown where factories are shut down have risked their lives to cross a as thick as thieves in their push against America’s global frigid river separating them from a non-quarantined city. Tinfluence, with a level of cooperation routinely called “revolu- There is real desperation and suffering, and many Chinese tionary,” “game-changing,” and “an alliance in all but name.” are coming to see that a portion of it resulted from Xi’s focus on Due to China’s colossal economic, political and military power, “saving face” at all costs. analysts have generally seen it as the lead player in the duo, and When the outbreak started, the priority of Xi’s Communist Russia as the junior partner. But the outbreak of the Wuhan Party (ccp) was not to stop the spread of the illness, but to coronavirus could weaken Xi and China, and lift Putin’s Russia stop the spread of news about it. The ccp detained journalists to the helm of this powerful Asian alliance. covering the virus, arrested citizens posting about it online, and dispatched goons to muzzle medical experts and force them Economic and Political Impacts to formally retract their published warnings. When one such Whatever the illness’s final death toll turns out to be, its expert, Dr. Li Wenliang, died of the disease on February 7, shock economic impact has already been profound, with two thirds waves went through China and filled the nation’s social media of China’s total commerce shut down. Besides reducing the with outpourings of anger toward the government. “We want nation’s economic growth rate by as much as 1 percent, this also freedom of speech” became the hashtag of the hour, in volumes has serious political implications for Xi Jinping: As an autocrat, that overwhelmed China’s notorious armies of online censors. he has an unwritten contract with China’s 1.4 billion citizens Xi’s handling of the crisis has clearly diminished his people’s saying if they give him complete political control, he will make trust in him. them wealthy and build China into a superpower. But now growth is slowing, and millions of Chinese—espe- Losing the ‘Mandate of Heaven’? cially among the 50 million residents in the quarantined The Financial Times recalled on February 10 that in earlier areas—are increasingly desperate. chapters of Chinese history, events such as disease outbreaks In parts of the Hubei province, just one person per household and internal rebellions against a leader—such as is happen- is permitted to leave once per week to try to buy food. Besides ing now in Hong Kong—were seen as “ominous portents” 14 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET statement from a former Department of future children suffer. He wants people Jesus Christ will accomplish what the Homeland Security official, is just “one to “prosper and be in health”! (3 John 2). most brilliant doctors, scientists and major incident away from a catastrophe.” Christ came so we could “have life” and other experts have utterly failed to do: The factors needed for a crisis are all “have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). He will bring lasting peace and perfect present! How close might the U.S. be to In Exodus 15:26, God specifically prom- health to all men, women and chil- a real catastrophe? ised the people of ancient Israel that if dren. Deadly diseases like the Wuhan they obeyed Him, they would never have coronavirus, typhus, bubonic plague, The Stampede Will End! to suffer any diseases! tuberculosis and all others will vanish Where is this leading? We are already The trouble was that ancient Israel— and never return. experiencing the preliminary stages of like the nations of modern Israel and God has a lot to accomplish with His what the Bible terms “great tribulation,” the rest of the world today—did not people in the midst of an explosion of in which one third of the populations in obey God. Instead it rejected Him and satanic chaos! He sends these angelic America and other Israelitish nations His law of love. So instead of prospering beings out with specific jobs, all in will die—before being directly attacked and being in health and having real, preparation for the Great Tribulation, by foreign enemies! abundant life, people suffer. the Day of the Lord and the Second These horsemen of Revelation and It pains God to know that the suffer- Coming of Jesus Christ! He is already the horses of Zechariah 6 are going to ing is about to get much, much worse. preparing for that crisis of crises! n stampede over the Earth! God is already It grieves Him to consider the diseases beginning to send a number of globe-rat- and other horrors soon to be visited tling events our way! The Wuhan coro- upon Earth. But it is all part of His ‘And the name of him who navirus and the other diseases breaking plan to teach man the absolute neces- sat on it was Death …’ out today are only the beginning. He is sity of obeying His law. And scripture What does this symbol going to let the world see where its evil after scripture shows that God’s plan mean? What can protect ways are leading. will succeed! you and your family from We frequently emphasize in the Trum- This world, with its horrific diseases it? To find out, request your pet and our other literature that the lov- and countless other troubles, will soon free copy of The Four Horse- ing God takes no pleasure in seeing His be replaced. At His Second Coming, men of the Apocalypse.

The expanding pandemic could help shift the global power WILL CHINA’S CORONAVIRUS MAKE VLADIMIR PUTIN ‘KING OF THE EAST’? balance in line with Bible prophecy. BY JEREMIAH JACQUES that the leader was losing the “mandate of heaven.” And if Version). Meshech and Tubal are early names corresponding “the heavens” were obviously displeased with a given leader, to modern Russian cities, and Rosh is a variation of an ancient “the right of the populace to rebel was implicitly guaranteed.” name for Russia. This “prince” is clearly a Russian leader. Throughout Chinese history, such rebellions have led to The verse says “the land of Magog,” which includes mod- numerous revolutions. ern China, will also be a key part of the power bloc. But the Perhaps more threatening to Xi than losing the confidence wording makes clear that it will be not a Chinese leader but a of the general populace would be losing that of the cadre of Russian one that is the primary king, or prince, over this kings leaders just below him. On February 4, in Geopolitical Futures, of the east conglomerate. George Friedman wrote: “The Central Committee is packed Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has identified Vladimir with Xi supporters, of course, but a situation like what has Putin as the man to fulfill this role. “We need to watch Vladimir developed must cause concern and generate ambitions.” He Putin closely,” Mr. Flurry writes. “I believe he is almost certain called it extremely unlikely that Xi’s ccp comrades remain to be the ‘prince of Rosh’ whom God inspired Ezekiel to write “content” with his handling of the various crises. about 2,500 years ago!” (The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia’). Maybe the Wuhan coronavirus will soon be contained, the The path the Wuhan coronavirus takes next could deter- Chinese economy will bounce back, and Xi will be able to pin mine how soon and to what degree the power of Xi Jinping the dragon’s share of the blame on some of his underlings. But and China will be reduced. Meanwhile, Russia is virtually even in a best-case scenario, he will not emerge from this crisis untouched by the disease, and Putin has just set a plan in unscathed. And China will be weakened. This is significant motion designed to let him rule Russia—with increasing influ- because the Trumpet has been expecting a decline in the power ence over its neighboring nations—for as long as of Xi and China relative to that of his fellow strongman in Russia. he lives. The power balance in the Russia-China axis is shifting in accordance with prophecy. n King Over the ‘Kings of the East’ Bible prophecy speaks of a massive end-time Asian military To understand more about the “kings of the east” force as “the kings of the east” (Revelation 16:12). Ezekiel 38:2 power bloc that is coming together mainly under describes the leadership of this Asian bloc, saying it will be led Russian leadership, request your free copy of by “the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal” (New King James The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia.’ But Spitzer kept those eyes focused INTO THE on the goal, and others began to see his vision. And in 1966, at the height of the Space Race, the National Academy of Sciences appointed him to lead a team to make it a reality.

Striving to See It Through The appointment was a victory, but the OPENING A

‘RARE WINDOW’ project’s greatest hurdles still lay ahead. HEAVENSThe cosmos displays a breathtaking message— The engineering challenge was enor- now with unprecedented clarity. Do you see mous, astronomy skeptics and political what it is showing us? BY JEREMIAH JACQUES skeptics abounded, and funding was repeatedly delayed. Not until Spitzer launched a lobbying mission did members of Congress approve funding o my very great amazement, telescope technology improved from in 1977: $36 million for a scaled-down Saturn was seen to me to be not the 1600s to the 1900s, what could version of the Large Space Telescope. a single star, but three together, be seen and photographed remained Target launches in 1979, then 1983, “T which almost touch each other.” “fuzzy and revealed little detail.” slipped by. That year the project was These words were written by Galileo renamed after the man who had set Galilei in 1610, just months after Lofty Vision the science world ablaze in the 1920s the telescope had been invented. By As early as the 1920s, astronomers saw by proving that the universe is expand- pointing the new technology toward how beneficial it would be to place a ing in all directions: Edwin Hubble. the night sky, astronomers such as telescope in orbit where it would float From there, work on the Hubble he could suddenly see far more of the above the atmosphere, capturing clear Space Telescope shifted into high gear. universe’s detail than mankind had images. But for decades, this was only a Teams of technicians from Lockheed, been able to for millennia. dream for the starry-eyed. Perkin-Elmer, the Wide Field/Plan- But as evidenced by Galileo’s error— Then in 1946, as rocket technology etary Camera team, nasa’s Goddard mistaking Saturn’s rings for a pair of was taking off, American astronomer Space Flight Center and the Space moons clinging to the planet’s sides— Lyman Spitzer penned an article detail- Telescope Science Institute worked their window into the cosmos was ing how it could be achieved. Such a under the supervision of Marshall still foggy. The problem was caused telescope would “uncover new phe- Space Flight Center. In 1986, techni- by something that is vital for life, but nomena not yet imagined,” he wrote, cians were piecing myriad components a hindrance for stargazers—and for “and perhaps … modify profoundly our together, and a launch by the end of anyone striving for a detailed look at basic concepts of space and time.” the year seemed on target. Astron- mankind’s future of “real joy.” Spitzer later said that though his omers were over the moon. But on article had negligible influence on January 28, nasa suffered one of the Peering Through a Haze other scientists at the time, it left a darkest tragedies in its history: The Earth’s atmosphere provides needs crater-deep impact on his own mind: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated for fauna and flora: oxygen-rich air to “My studies convinced me that a large during launch, killing its crew of seven. breathe, protection from ultraviolet space telescope would revolutionize All shuttles were grounded and Hubble solar radiation and from incoming astronomy and might well be launched was put in storage in California. objects, and retention of heat. It makes in my lifetime.” It wasn’t until three years later that physical life possible. From 1946 on, Spitzer devoted his Hubble was unpacked and shipped to But light passing through the atmo- breath and his intellect to turning an the Kennedy Space Station in Florida. sphere bends, shifts and wiggles, cloud- idea on paper into a giant Earth-or- Finally, on April 24, 1990, nearly 45 ing the view and twinkling the stars. biting telescope. He blasted through years after Spitzer’s article had made a “Trapped on the Earth within its expanses of data, puzzled out technical case for a space telescope and started unsteady and hazy atmosphere, problems and tried to convince others laboring on it, Discovery launched astronomers were condemned to look of the idea’s merit. “Most astronomers Hubble into space. The 43-foot-long at the heavens as though they had bad didn’t take it seriously,” Spitzer told telescope was released into low-Earth vision and were forbidden from using Zimmerman in 1977. “They thought I orbit, about 353 miles above the sur-

glasses,” writes Robert Zimmerman was sort of wild-eyed or wide-eyed, one face and well above the atmosphere. It NASA in The Universe in a Mirror. Even as or the other.” was 30 years ago this month.

16 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET At last, after millennia of viewing universe’s age. And it offered unprece- wrote in The Incredible Human Potential, the heavens through a haze, mankind dented insight into exoplanets. “He says that He has decreed the entire was on the cusp of seeing it through a In the 30 years since its launch, Hub- universe—with all its galaxies, its count- perfect prescription lens. That, at least, ble has taken hundreds of thousands of less suns and planets—everything—will is what everybody expected. the most breathtaking photos ever cap- be put under man’s subjection.” tured: stars being born; galaxies enter- Verse 8 goes on to say the universe Houston, We Have an Optics Problem ing their adolescent years; supernovas is “not as yet” under man’s jurisdiction. nasa spent weeks tweaking Hubble’s dying; nebulae of size incomprehensi- But it will be. systems. But the first pictures looked as ble; galaxies of hues uncategorizable; Paul wrote in his letter to the if they had been snapped through Lon- celestial bodies so far away our brains Romans that the whole creation is now don fog. Officials adjusted every variable can’t begin to fathom the distance. in “bondage to decay” and is “groaning” they could from Earth, but to no avail. Zimmerman writes: “Hubble, and the in anticipation of the “redemption” of “[N]othing we did made the image much men and women behind it, opened a mankind (Romans 8:21-23; Revised better,” said David Leckrone, a scientist rare window into the universe, dazzling Standard Version). The anticipation who joined the Hubble program in 1976, humanity with sights never before seen.” is urgent because after redemption, in an interview with Astronomy. “[T]he humanity will reverse the decay. mood became very morose.” Beholding Your Incredible Potential Mr. Armstrong wrote: “This passage They soon diagnosed the ailment When King David looked to the indicates precisely what all astrono- as a spherical aberration in the main heavens, he saw them only with the mers and scientific evidence indicate— mirror. The mirror’s curve had been naked eye. Yet he gaped breathlessly the suns are as balls of fire, giving out ground to within 10 nanometers of at God’s creation and was particularly light and heat; but the planets, except accuracy at all points, making it by far fascinated by mankind’s place within for this Earth, are in a state of death, the most precise of any in optics his- it. In Psalm 8:3-4, he wrote: “When I decay and futility—but not forever ….” tory. But the device on Earth that had consider thy heavens, the work of thy The entire universe is “waiting” tested the mirror had been assembled fingers, the moon and the stars, which for man, he wrote, to “impart life to incorrectly, causing distortion. thou hast ordained: What is man, that billions and billions of dead planets, as In 1993, a team of astronauts flew up thou art mindful of him? …” life has been imparted to this Earth.” to Hubble and spent 10 days replacing Later in the psalm, he wrote that During a January 18, 2013, episode its Wide Field and Planetary Camera the same God who created the radiant of the Key of David program, Trumpet with a new one fitted with modified cosmos also made humans to “have editor in chief Gerald Flurry called small mirrors that offset the distortion dominion” over His creation on Earth attention to Hubble’s significance in of the main mirror. (verses 5-8). the context of those profound Bible At last, a window into the heavens A thousand years later, the Apostle truths. “God had a hand in the Hubble was clear. Paul quoted part of David’s psalm and Telescope,” he said. Its images “should brought additional meaning to it. God set our imaginations on fire” because ‘Sights Never Before Seen’ will not give mankind control just they are a “major way that we get to Just as Spitzer had theorized in 1946, over the Earth, he wrote, but will put know God and know about our own Hubble was a game-changer. “From that “everything in subjection” under him. future.” During his May 2009 com- point on,” Leckrone said, “every place “[T]his subjecting of the universe to mencement address at Herbert W. we pointed Hubble in the sky, there was man implies the leaving nothing not Armstrong College, he said the window something new and remarkable.” subject to him” (Hebrews 2:8; Wey- Hubble opened should “fill a human Hubble captured remote superno- mouth New Testament). being” with “real joy.” vas, which showed that the universe’s God created the entire vast universe It is astounding to meditate on the expansion is not slowing, but acceler- for man. Everything Hubble has shown fact that Spitzer and the thousands who ating. It shined light on the mysteries us—from the four moons it discovered labored for decades to put Hubble into of dark energy and dark matter. It around Pluto in our own solar system orbit weren’t working alone, but were revealed the ubiquity of black holes, to the most unfathomably remote guided by a divine hand eager to fill peo- showing that most large galaxies galaxy—will be under mankind’s ple with “real joy.” This understanding center around one. Its intense and control. That’s a foundational message can help us better appreciate the efforts prolonged gaze at “deep fields” showed declared in numerous Scriptures. of those that made this vision a reality, us that even parts of the firmament And Hubble’s images could be seen as and the “rare window” we now have into that we thought were dark and empty the companion photos that could be mankind’s out-of-this-world future. n are actually radiant with galaxies. It let printed alongside those verses. us peer at the early eons of the cosmos, “[F]or those willing to believe what Discover why the universe in your free allowing astronomers to pin down the God says,” the late Herbert Armstrong copy of The Incredible Human Potential.

APRIL 2020 17 THE INCREDIBLE

HUBBLEThe farthest star visible to the naked eye is a mere 16,308 light-years away; it looks like a dot from the ground. The farthest image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope is a detailed view of galaxies about 13 billion light-years away. To say that Hubble has expanded our view of the heavens is an understatement. The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a crystal- clear vision of an ever expanding universe. Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has said that “God had a hand in the Hubble Telescope.” Our Creator wants us to see what is out there waiting for us. Here are just a few of the engineering feats that allow Hubble to capture such amazing cosmic images.

“The heavens declare EXCEPTIONAL CAMERAS Hubble has two primary camera systems to capture images of the cosmos: the the glory of God; Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The ACS was installed in 2002 to replace the previous Faint Object Camera. It primarily captures imagery in visible wavelengths. The increased sensitivity of ACS has increased Hubble’s potential for new discoveries by a factor of 10. Installed in 2009, WFC3 provides wide-field imagery in ultraviolet, visible and infrared light. WFC3 was designed to complement ACS. WFC3 probes deeper into infrared and and the firmament ultraviolet wavelengths, providing a more sheweth his handywork.” complete view of the cosmos. — PSALM 19:1 NASA (5) NASA

Installing ACS Ultra Deep Field HUBBLE 13,000,000,000 light-years from earth

Pillars of Creation Jupiter’s Clouds 7,000 light-years From Earth 547,720,000 miles from earth

PRECISION OPTICS DEAD-ON AIM Optically, the Hubble Space Telescope is a Hubble’s pointing control system can aim Cassegrain reflector with two hyperbolic the telescope at a target with an accuracy mirrors, similar to most professional of 0.01 arcsecond (0.0000027778 degree). telescopes. But the Hubble was designed The three fine guidance sensors on board to capture light from the visible spectrum Hubble consist of a large structure hous- through the ultraviolet. Because ultraviolet ing a collection of mirrors, lenses, servos, light has such a short wavelength, Hubble’s prisms, beam-splitters and photomultiplier mirrors were polished to an accuracy of tubes. These sensors detect when the 1 10 nanometers. That’s /10,000 the thickness telescope drifts even a minuscule amount of a piece of paper. and returns the spacecraft to its target.

PRIME LOCATION Cassegrain reflector Telescope Our atmosphere is great for supporting life, but it wreaks havoc on light waves. The ADVANCED TOOLS Hubble Space Telescope orbits Earth 353 miles above the ground, well outside the The Hubble’s unique location demands light-bending layers of our atmosphere. unique solutions to repair problems. Over Out there, Hubble has a clear view of 150 unique new tools have been developed far-off heavenly bodies. for servicing Hubble. Even a task as simple as removing screws can require a brand Hubble’s Orbit 353 miles above earth new specialized tool. Mesosphere 53 miles above earth Stratosphere 31 miles above earth Troposphere 6.2 miles above earth Germany would rise again within “a European union.” As this union took shape, and some talked of Britain join- ing, he wrote in 1956, “Germany is the economic and military heart of Europe. Probably Germany will lead and domi- nate the coming United States of Europe. But Britain will be no part of it!” When Britain joined in 1973, he fore- cast that they would regret it, writing, “Britain is going to look back on Monday, Jan. 1, 1973, in all probability, as a most tragically historic date—a date fraught with ominous potentialities! For that date marked the United Kingdom’s entry into the European Community.” Over a decade after Britain joined the Common Market, Mr. Armstrong continued to forecast that it would not be part of this European superpower. “[T]he soon-coming resurrected ‘Holy Roman Empire’—a sort of soon-coming ‘United States of Europe’—a union of 10 nations [will] rise up out of or following the Common Market of today (Revela- tion 17),” he wrote in 1985 in Mystery of the Ages, published less than a year before he died. “Britain will not be in that empire soon to come.” The Trumpet has consistently pro- claimed the same message. “We have … said for many years Britain would not Brexit Was be a part of the final European Union,” wrote Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry in 2012. But where is Britain going now? What Prophesied! will its relationship with Europe be? Britain is out, but so much of its future The UK leaving the European Union was foretold in the Bible! remains to be decided. What does this source of advance news say will follow? BY RICHARD PALMER Amid all this uncertainty, it makes sense to turn to the same source that t 11 p.m. on January 31, the Farage and fellow euroskeptics had forecast Britain’s exit: the Bible. United Kingdom officially left more battles to fight. Opposition to A the European Union. For those in implementation put up barrier after Why Britain Left the UK, it was a cause for celebration or barrier, and the cause still looked hope- The Bible shows that the British people commiseration, depending on your view. less. But on January 31 this year, Britain are descendants of the Israelite tribe of But this date is also of huge impor- finally left the European Union. Ephraim. There is abundant proof that tance for everyone everywhere. This one This event that surprised so many did the British are modern-day Israelites—a event teaches the most important lesson not surprise Trumpet readers. book’s worth of proof, in fact. We would anyone can learn. like to offer you a copy of that book—The Britain’s decision to leave the Euro- Consistent Forecasts United States and Britain in Prophecy, by

pean Union was one of the biggest news Herbert W. Armstrong spent decades Herbert W. Armstrong—free of charge, YUI MOK/PA IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES stories of the decade. It caught even its warning about world events based on with no cost, obligation or follow-up. most passionate supporters by surprise. Bible prophecy. He consistently said Ancient Israel divided into two nations Brexit advocate Nigel Farage finished Britain would not be in a soon-coming after the death of King Solomon. Judah the day of the referendum—June 23, European superstate. was the southern nation with its capital 2016—believing his cause had lost. In 1945, broadcasting as World War ii at Jerusalem, and its people are known Even after the referendum passed, ended, Mr. Armstrong predicted that today as Jews. That is a truth generally 20 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET acknowledged. But the northern 10 tribes of biblical prophecy, showing why God punishment when He says: “Alas! for were called the house of Israel. It became was so careful to ensure those proph- that day is great, so that none is like it: a completely separate nation from the ecies were recorded and preserved it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but Jews. In fact, the word Jews first appears through the millennia, and showing how he shall be saved out of it” (Jeremiah in the Bible within a report about Judah deeply relevant they are to our day. 30:7). The name Jacob refers to Joseph’s fighting Israel (2 Kings 16:5-6). two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who From 721 to 718 b.c., the kingdom Sunlit Uplands? were given Jacob’s name. The next verse of Israel was invaded, conquered and The fight for Brexit was hugely divi- shows that the descendants of Ephraim removed from its land by the Assyrian sive. In an effort to stop it, the pro-EU and Manasseh will go into captivity! Empire (2 Kings 17:18). Its people were reached a new low in politics, branding And what people does the Bible deported to the southern shores of the Brexiters as racist bigots. prophesy will take them into captivity? the Caspian Sea (verse 6; 1 Chronicles But with Brexit done, there is hope Britain and America are not the only 5:26). Meanwhile, the kingdom of Judah now that Britain can move into a glori- powers identified in your Bible. Several remained in its land for more than a ous future. The shackles of EU mem- scriptures talk about a European power. century until it was later conquered and bership have been removed. The bitter Revelation 17, for example, talks of a taken captive. divisions are over. beast—a symbol in Bible prophecy for The Assyrians were later conquered Is this a new birth of freedom for Brit- an empire. This empire is controlled by by the Chaldean-Babylonian Empire, ain? At the Trumpet, we have certainly a woman—which symbolizes a church. and then migrated north and west pointed to the flaws in Britain’s relation- The beast has “seven heads,” which to Europe. Ultimately, they became ship with Europe. We have lamented represent seven kings (Revelation 17:10). modern Germany. The “lost 10 tribes” the loss of sovereignty to Europe. So is it The chapter goes on to show that this migrated northwest as well, but they sunlit uplands from now on? beast rises and falls seven times. migrated even farther. Some tribes There certainly may be a short-term Where can you find an empire, led by settled in France, Belgium, Holland and resurgence after leaving the EU behind. a church, that rises and falls throughout the Scandinavian countries, where their But when you understand Bible proph- history? This can only be referring to descendants are today. ecy, you see that the future of Britain the Holy Roman Empire: the repeated But two tribes in particular migrated after Brexit is both far darker than any attempts to resurrect the Roman even farther: Ephraim and Manasseh. analysts believe—yet, in the long run, Empire that were guided and controlled The Bible prophesied that these two far more spectacular. by the Roman Catholic Church. tribes would inherit massive national wealth (Genesis 48:14-16). Ephraim migrated to the British Isles. “Germany is the economic and military heart Manasseh settled in the United States. of Europe. Probably Germany will lead and Genesis 48 prophesies that Ephraim would become a great company of dominate the coming United States of Europe. nations and that Manasseh would But Britain will be no part of it!” — herbert w. armstrong, 1956 become a great nation (verses 18-20). Genesis also specifies that these descen- If you understand that the British Other passages show that Assyria— dants of Abraham would control the people are called Ephraim in Bible modern Germany—plays a major role in world’s most strategic mountain passes, prophecy, you will discover that the this power. ports, canals, capes and other strategic same Bible that prophesied modern In Isaiah 10:5, God says, “O Assyrian, choke points (Genesis 22:17-18). Ephraim’s wealth and power also proph- the rod of mine anger, and the staff in Only two nations in history can fit esies of its cataclysmic upheaval! their hand is mine indignation.” And God’s promises to these two tribes: the God prophesied that after Ephraim against whom does God use this rod? British Empire and the United States. and Manasseh received their promised Verse 6 shows that it is against “the peo- These two peoples share a common wealth and power, if they did not turn ple of my wrath”—the nations of Israel, ancestry. In the 19th and 20th centu- to the God who blessed them, He would including Britain, that have angered God ries, both came into possession of the remove those blessings and punish with their sins. majority of the world’s wealth and all these nations with war and captivity. When Mr. Armstrong was on the of its most important trade routes and Daniel 12:1 prophesies of “a time of scene, this empire had risen and fallen sea gates. No other two nations have trouble, such as never was since there six times. We are seeing it rise before us received these promises so abundantly. was a nation even to that same time.” one last time—in the form of the Euro- This is just the briefest overview. The Jesus Christ called it a period of “great pean Union. Mr. Armstrong knew that proof of this truth is abundant, and it is tribulation,” that would annihilate the Bible said one more empire would truly important to look into deeply, to mankind if He didn’t intervene! (Mat- rise. That is why he forecast, in 1945, that study, and to prove for yourself. Because thew 24:21-22). a “European union” would soon arise. its implications are staggering. It opens God specifies that the U.S. and This is why we he knew that Britain up the meaning of a tremendous amount Britain will receive the worst of this BREXIT PAGE 36 u APRIL 2020 21 1990s, largely due to reduced demand, television networks and newspapers THE slashed foreign news coverage by two thirds. “Young adults cared more about GRAVEYARD the Zone Diet than the subtleties of Mid- dle East diplomacy,” Joseph Nye writes OF FAILED ‘The in The Paradox of American Power. And GEOPOLITICAL End of many American leaders “became arro- gant about our power, arguing that we FORECASTS History’ did not need to heed other nations. We seemed both invincible and invulnerable.” Predictions of future world Political observer Kishore Mahbubani events always fail—or do they? said widespread belief in Fukuyama’s BY JEREMIAH JACQUES forecast “did a lot of brain damage,” and as a result, “the West went on autopilot.” o many centuries after AFTER the Berlin Wall fell, leading to During these “autopilot” days, the 9/11 the creation, it is unlikely the collapse of the Soviet Union and the terrorist attacks hit America like a bolt “S that anyone could find end of four decades of Cold War, United from the blue. A few years later, Vladi- hitherto unknown lands of any States State Department official Francis mir Putin’s Russia invaded the former value.” That is what the head of the Fukuyama famously proclaimed that the Soviet nation of Georgia, bringing a Spanish Royal Commission wrote world had reached “the end of history.” large chunk of its territory back under in 1486, advising King Ferdinand to His thesis stated that mankind had Moscow’s control. His 2014 invasion of reject an exploration proposal by attempted all plausible types of govern- Ukraine and annexation of its Crimean one Christopher Columbus. ment and a clear winner had emerged: Peninsula was even more dramatic. In early 1792, British Prime Western liberal democracy. It repre- Many Western leaders couldn’t Minister William Pitt the Younger sented, Fukuyama wrote, “the end point believe their eyes. “Russia is on the justified drastic cuts to the country’s of mankind’s ideological evolution—the wrong side of history,” U.S. President military, saying: “[U]nquestionably final form of human Barack Obama said, there never was a time in the history government.” apparently in denial of this country when, from the The West had won. that Fukuyama’s situation of Europe, we might more The continued spread forecast had failed. reasonably expect 15 years of peace, of liberal democracy, “[I]n the 21st century, than we may at the present moment.” individual freedom the borders of Europe In 1956, Soviet Leader Nikita and popular sover- cannot be redrawn Khrushchev told representatives of eignty was inevitable. with force.” capitalist nations: “[S]ocialism will, The sun would set on But Russia had just in the long run, conquer capitalism. authoritarianism, and Germans break redrawn them. Sec- Such is the logic of the historical the era of great pow- through the Berlin retary of State John Wall on Nov. 11, 1989. development of mankind.” In 1964, ers warring against Kerry seemed equally he said socialism’s future victory each other was over. perplexed by how over capitalism was “as certain as President George H. W. Bush’s 1990 “history” could be happening in an age the rising sun.” address to Congress echoed Fukuyama’s when it was supposed to have ended. “It’s These were all highly educated, sentiments, hailing a future “free from really 19th-century behavior in the 21st well-informed, powerful individ- the threat of terror, stronger in the century,” he said. uals making earnest predictions pursuit of justice, and more secure in the Meanwhile, the Arab Spring and about the way global affairs would quest for peace.” Mankind was entering a Ukraine’s Orange Revolution failed to play out—and getting it precisely “new world … quite different from the one achieve their pro-democracy aims, the wrong: an entire New World of we have known, a world where the rule of Syrian civil war mutated into proxy hitherto unknown lands laid over law supplants the rule of the jungle.” battles between major powers, India and EMMA MOORE/TRUMPET, PATRICK PIEL/GETTY IMAGES the horizon, decades of war began The “end of history” was a thrilling Pakistan locked in a nuclear standoff, mere weeks after Pitt’s speech, and hypothesis, and became a near instant Iran and Saudi Arabia engaged in proxy Soviet-style socialism, at least, died hit among analysts and policymakers war in Yemen, Iranian zealots system- about 30 years ago. across the West. atized their terrorist chaos, and around Individuals get it wrong, but so do U.S. military, economic and cultural the world populism and authoritarian- entire modern geopolitical theories, power was at its zenith, the spread of ism returned with a vengeance. formed, studied and believed by republican democracy was certain, so the It turned out that history—tangled, large numbers of the brightest U.S. lost interest in the rest of the world unjust, retrograde, violent, ugly human minds around the world. and drifted off to sleep. Throughout the history—did not end in 1989. 22 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET authoritarian political ideologies. They The believed the ruling Chinese Communist Party would be forced to adopt responsi- ‘China ble domestic and international behavior Fantasy’ and eventually democracy. A truly free and democratic China would benefit the whole world. This prompted Westerners to pursue policies of engagement with Chinese Vice President Xi China on all levels, including welcoming welcomes U.S. it into the World Trade Organization. President Bush to Beijing in 2008. “THE more we bring China into the The West’s near-universal optimism world,” U.S. President Bill Clinton said was identified by Los Angeles Times in 1993, “the more the world will bring correspondent James Mann as the and detained more than a million Chi- change and freedom to China.” His “China fantasy.” nese citizens in concentration camps. Republican successor, George W. Bush, By 2010, China had grown much He nixed constitutional term limits echoed the sentiments in 1999, saying, stronger and richer, but barely freer. on his rule, clearing the way for him “Trade freely with China, and time is Then, in 2012, Xi Jinping became China’s to control China for the rest of his life. on our side. Economic freedom creates leader and began reversing what minus- And he made clear that in international habits of liberty. And habits of liberty cule reforms the nation had made. trade, China served only the interests of create expectations of democracy.” Xi used China’s increased strength the regime—viciously so. This forecast was popular throughout from engaging with the West to tighten The “China fantasy” foresaw the the 1990s and into the early-2000s. the Communist Party’s stranglehold on dynamics exactly wrong: Chinese inte- Western business moguls and politi- the nation—and to boost his own power gration into the international system cians of all stripes believed China’s inte- to staggering levels. He clamped down generated greater authoritarianism, a gration into the global economy and its on the media and silenced activists. He more tightly closed political structure, increasing prosperity would cause the disappeared hundreds of human-rights and a far more vengeful and powerful nation to liberalize its repressive and lawyers and thousands of dissidents, enemy of the West.

The enticing, so the sales proceeded. The Organization, it has purchased huge ‘India Obama administration continued the quantities of Russian weapons in courtship, expanding U.S.-India trade violation of U.S. sanctions, and it has Counter- ties and further boosting security conducted a series of military exercises weight’ cooperation. with Russia and China. And Indian Prime Western optimism for the theory Minister Narendra Modi has held a series abounded. It was perhaps best articu- of milestone personal meetings with lated by the Heritage Foundation in 2011: Putin and Xi, which the Diplomat called “[T]he complex challenge presented by a IN the late 2000s, as it was becoming rising China will inevitably drive the U.S. clear that the “China fantasy” was col- and India to elevate ties and increase lapsing and that Beijing’s rising power cooperation across a broad range of and geopolitical ambitions were cause sectors in years to come.” for concern, America began looking for But in 2014, China’s main partner, help in constraining the dragon it had Russia, unlawfully annexed Crimea, and awakened. India’s military and economic President Obama said the nations of the power, geographic location, status as the world were “largely united” in viewing world’s largest democracy and historic the move as illegal. And after all the Bush Putin, Modi and rivalry with China made it appear to be and Obama administrations had done to Xi gather for a trilateral meeting. the perfect nation for the job. curry favor with India, the expectation To fashion India into a security was that it would back the U.S. position. counterweight to China, the Bush Instead, India shocked the world by a signal of “monumental change with administration began selling the nation joining China and supporting Russia. regard to the post-Cold War status quo.” prized nuclear technology. Arms control In the years since, India has increas- With each of these purchases, war advocates decried the decision, but the ingly defied the West and leaned toward drills and meetings, it becomes clearer prospect of having a strong India as a the Russia-China axis: It has joined that the India counterweight theory

MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, MIKHAIL SVETLOV/GETTY IMAGES SVETLOV/GETTY MIKHAIL IMAGES, NGAN/AFP/GETTY MANDEL democratic bulwark to China was too the China-led Shanghai Cooperation has sunk. APRIL 2020 23 ‘Declaring the End From the Beginning’ mankind’s history, and in the lead-up to Myriad other hypotheses, theories and ‘Oops …’ it, major historic events such as 9/11 and models predicting the future of world Crimea should not catch us unawares. events have come into vogue in recent (Request a free copy of Mr. Flurry’s book- decades: Moral Consensus theory, Oil let Nuclear Armageddon Is ‘At the Door.’) Imperialism, Voluntary Unificationism, A study of the Bible shows that one “There is no likelihood man can the Import Substitution Industrialization third of it is prophecy. Around 90 percent ever tap the power of the atom.” theory, Neo-Ottomanism and Islamic Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923 of those prophecies concern our modern Democracy theory, the Democratic Peace (the first atomic bomb dropped 22 years later) age. Tomorrow’s news—about the U.S., theory, the Russian Reset, Structural — Britain and Israel, the nations of Europe, Adjustment and the list goes on. “A rocket will never be able to the Middle East, and Russia, China and All have been subsequently discredited leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” India—has already been written! by the course of actual events, and have New York Times, 1936 These prophecies are inspired by the — been buried in the graveyard of failed omniscient God, and their accuracy is “No matter what happens, geopolitical forecasts. Even mankind’s stunning. Numerous specific prophe- the U.S. Navy is not going best and brightest minds consistently to be caught napping.” cies have already come to pass, proving fail to foretell the course of global affairs. U.S. Secretary of Navy, Dec. 4, 1941 both the existence of the Almighty God But there is someone who reliably (Pearl Harbor was attacked three days later) and that the Bible was divinely inspired. reveals what is coming. — And these fulfilled prophecies should Isaiah 46:9-10 quote the Creator God “[T]he fate of our country depends, give us faith in the accuracy of the fore- making an extraordinary statement: in all human probability, on the casts that have not yet happened. “… I am God, and there is none like me, exertion of a few weeks.” The language of Scripture sometimes Declaring the end from the beginning, George Washington in 1776 sounds archaic to the modern ear, and and from ancient times the things that (The War of Independence didn’t the symbolism in prophecy is some- end until some seven years later) are not yet done, saying, My counsel times obscure. Even many people who — shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.” believe that the Bible is God’s Word “We old people will probably not Unlike men whose prognostications live to see the decisive battles think prophecy is so coded and mysteri- usually age like milk, God knows pre- of the coming revolution.” ous that it cannot be comprehended. cisely what is on the horizon in global Vladimir Lenin in March of 1917 But prophecy can be understood. You affairs. He can say something, and then (The decisive battles of the Russian can know when the “last days” are, and thousands of years later bring it to pass. Revolution broke out within a year) who “Rosh” and “Magog” and “Cush” and And in His instruction manual for man- “Assyria” and “Ephraim” and “Manasseh” kind, the Holy Bible, He offers a remark- dominate global affairs—“men’s hearts” are. That is why these prophecies have able amount of detail regarding specific will be “failing them for fear.” This is not a been recorded in the first place. That nations in the modern day and how they nation whose rise should have ever been is why they have been miraculously will interact with each other. He gives a hastened and celebrated. (See Gerald preserved for thousands of years. guide to end-time international relations. Flurry’s article “The Climax of Man’s Rule The God of the Holy Bible keeps His A student of Bible prophecy would Over Man” at theTrumpet.com/21698.) promises, including His prophecies. never have bought into the India coun- A Bible prophecy reader would also He is a God who follows through. “God terweight forecast because Ezekiel 38, have avoided being lulled to sleep by is the originator of prophecy,” writes using ancient names for modern India, “the end of history.” Numerous Bible Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry says the nation would ultimately part- passages forecast a third world war that in his booklet Daniel Unlocks Revelation. ner not with the U.S., but with Russia will be fought with nuclear weapons and “The Father has a deep prophetic under- and China. (Read “Is India in the Bible?” make all mankind’s previous wars look standing that no other being has.” at theTrumpet.com/20671.) like playground skirmishes. Matthew Mr. Flurry goes on to explain that when Neither would a prophecy student 24:21-22 state: “For there will be greater we study prophecy, we must honor the have believed the “China fantasy,” anguish than at any time since the world Father who originates and reveals it. We because Luke 21 reveals that during the began. And it will never be so great again. must remember that all the prophesied “times of the Gentiles”—the In fact, unless that time of calamity is geopolitical events mainly point to God’s end-time era when shortened, not a single person will sur- love, to the soon-coming return of Jesus China and other vive” (New Living Translation). This war Christ and to the God Family. “Prophecy non-Israelite nations will be by far the bloodiest chapter in is of no profit if it doesn’t have God’s love!” he wrote. “Without love, understanding

all the prophecy in the world means EMMA MOORE/TRUMPET ‘My counsel shall stand’ nothing. … Christ is going to come and The complex machinations of nation-states are incomprehensible to men, rule forever! That’s what we need to get but obvious to God. Gerald Flurry’s Daniel Unlocks Revelation shows excited about most of all …. Our focus how God prophesies of international relations. Request your free copy. must be on knowing God ….” n realize that there is an organized, active, powerful movement working to abolish the U.S. Constitution and establish a Communist system of government. History and Bible prophecy show that if Americans do not turn to God in repentance, they will suffer a civil war many times worse than the Bolshe- vik Revolution.

Hardcore Radicals Mason Baird is far from the only Com- munist working for Sen. Bernie Sanders. American Bolsheviks Another field organizer in South Caro- lina, Daniel Taylor, told Project Veritas reporters that plans are underway for Could an event as violent as the Russian Civil War ever extreme action. happen in the United States of America? BY ANDREW MIILLER “We don’t want to scare people off. You first have to feel it out before you get into s America approaches the Project Veritas: “We would need a federal the crazy stuff,” he said. “You know, we November 2020 presidential government and labor union movement were talking about more extreme orga- A elections, the nation is deeply that is working together to strip power nizations like Antifa, you were talking divided. And this division is not just away from capitalists and preferably about, Yellow Vests [French protesters], between Republicans and Democrats. directing violence toward property …. A all that, but we’re kind of keeping that on The Democratic Party itself is deeply militant labor movement is kind of our the back burner for now. … Change won’t divided between moderate socialists like last—our last real—chance before we try come easily, regardless. Even if Bernie is Pete Buttigieg and Michael Bloomberg other means. ... After we abolish land- elected, change will not come swiftly or and radical socialists like Elizabeth lords, we don’t have to kill them, that’s my easily, so the connections we make now Warren and Bernie Sanders. feeling, I think it’s damaging to the soul, in the campaign with people, and volun- This divide is reminiscent of the but there were plenty of excesses in 1917 teers, it’s important we retain that regard- divide between the Mensheviks and I would hope to avoid. … I’m not excited less of the outcome. It’s unfortunate that the more radical Bolsheviks during about the prospect of armed struggle.” we have to make plans for extreme action, the “October Revolution,” or Bolshevik This man is not talking about political but like I said, they’re not going to give it Revolution, in Russia. strategy or which “battleground” states to us, even if Bernie is elected.” This is history that every American are key for his candidate to win the Taylor did not detail the kind of needs to understand. most votes in. He is talking about actual “extreme action” he was considering. But The Bolshevik Revolution unleashed battlegrounds. America’s current system an Iowa field organizer for the Sanders some of the most violent events in world history. Vladimir Lenin and his support- There is an organized, active, powerful movement ers overthrew the Russian government in 1917, then forcibly reorganized the working to abolish the U.S. Constitution and Russian empire into the world’s first establish a Communist system of government. socialist state. This revolution unleashed a civil war that killed 10 million people. has to be torn down, he says. If you can Campaign, Kyle Jurek, told Project The Bolsheviks won, consolidated their do it without large-scale killing, great; Veritas reporters that if Donald Trump power, and established a Soviet state but if you can’t, you can always resort is reelected, cities will “burn.” that slaughtered another 50 million peo- to your backup plan and kill 10 million “The only thing that fascists under- ple. All told, the Bolsheviks murdered as men, women and children. stand is violence,” Jurek said, referring many as were killed in World War ii. Shockingly, despite being exposed to Trump supporters. “So the only Yet the Bolshevik Revolution wasn’t all in this video, Baird remains a full-time way you can confront them is with vio- that bad, according to some paid staffers paid member of the Sanders campaign. lence.” In another conversation, Jurek working for presidential candidate Ber- Even more shockingly, Baird was actu- suggested that supporters of President nie Sanders. These radical socialists say ally one of the more moderate people Trump should be reeducated in prison that while launching another Bolshevik revealed by Project Veritas investigators. camps. “There’s a reason Joseph Stalin Revolution in the United States is not The average American probably had gulags, right?” he said. “Actually, preferable, it may be necessary. thinks that an event as violent as the gulags were a lot better than what the cia One field organizer for Sanders, Mason Bolshevik Revolution could never hap- has told us that they were. Like, people

HERITAGE IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES, HEIDI RODIS/TRUMPET HEIDI IMAGES, IMAGES/GETTY HERITAGE Baird, said in a video recorded secretly by pen in the United States. But he does not were actually paid a living wage in gulags; APRIL 2020 25 they had conjugal visits in Rather than accept the gulags. Gulags were actually “Gulags were actually meant for, like, results of the election, they meant for, like, reeducation. reeducation. Greatest way to breaking claimed that the system was Greatest way to breaking a … billionaire of their, like, privilege, rigged and said the only way a … billionaire of their, like, and the idea that they’re superior: to fix it was to establish a new privilege, and the idea that Go out and break rocks for 12 hours a day. system of government run they’re superior: Go out and You’re now a working-class person and you’re by councils of working-class break rocks for 12 hours a day. going to … learn what that means, right?” citizens called Soviets. You’re now a working-class —KYLE JUREK When the Bolsheviks person and you’re going to … declared the 1917 election learn what that means, right?” illegitimate, their insurrec- Incredibly, Jurek may not tion erupted into full-scale be the most radical Sanders civil war. They changed the employee caught on tape. name of their party to the When Sanders campaign Russian Communist Party field organizer Martin Weiss- and recruited a Red Army to gerber was asked by Project fight the anti-Communists Veritas undercover reporters and their White Army. The what he would do if Sanders war continued for five years lost the election, he answered, until the Bolsheviks defeated “I’ll straight up get armed. I the anti-Communists and want to learn how to shoot achieved their dream: The Russian prisoners Soviet Union was established. and go train. I’m ready for the work on the White … revolution, bro … I’m telling Sea Canal in 1932. Former American Com- you. Guillotine the rich.” munist Whittaker Chambers Bernie Sanders, who is later wrote about what it is trying to become president of the United a “vanguard” party, the vanguard party that separates Communists from the mil- States, has not condemned these com- must be led by central leadership, and lions of socialists who are an unwitting ments. He has retained all who made the central leadership must wield enor- part of communism’s secret strength. them as paid staffers in his campaign. mous power. Most of the people in the “Have you the moral strength to take party agreed. They began calling them- upon yourself the crimes of history so Revolution Redux selves Bolsheviks, from the Russian the man at last may close his chronicle of In its pure form, socialism means the word for “majority.” Those who wanted age-old, senseless suffering and replace government controls the economy. It party leadership to remain decentral- it with purpose and a plan?” he asked owns not just the Postal Service, it owns ized were called Mensheviks, from the in his book Witness. “The answer a man everything, without competition: mines, Russian word for “minority.” makes to this question is the difference mills, refineries, builders, railroads, At that time, the Russian Social Demo- between a Communist and those miscel- automakers, carriers, distributors, cratic Labour Party was a small party of laneous socialist, liberals, fellow travel- ports, airlines, telecoms, news media, young intellectuals. In 1907, there were ers, unclassified progressives and men banks, schools, hospitals, farms, gro- only 38,200 Mensheviks and 46,100 of goodwill, all of whom share a similar ceries, restaurants, stores—everything. Bolsheviks. Three out of four Bolsheviks vision, but do not share the faith because Most American socialists say the gov- were age 30 or younger. they will not take upon themselves the ernment doesn’t have to literally own all After Czar Nicolas ii abdicated in 1917, penalties of the faith.” businesses as long as it controls them Bolsheviks began calling for insurrection The “miscellaneous socialist” is dif- through heavy regulations and taxes. against the new Russian Provisional Gov- ferent from the true Communist only People like Senator Sanders empha- ernment. These calls sparked the Bol- in that he lacks the will to commit acts size that they are “democratic” socialists, shevik Revolution on November 7, when of violence. which means that this enormously Red Guard militia retaliated against the Socialism cannot be permanently powerful government they want to government for shutting down one of established by democratic means. Most create will be voted in by a majority of their printing presses. The Bolsheviks people will ultimately reject it—if you the people. Sanders says this to distance marched against pro-government forces give them the chance. At that point, himself from the violent atrocities com- in Petrograd, now called St. Petersburg. socialists have to either give up their mitted by “authoritarian communism” Yet the Bolshevik Party still ran dream or start shooting people. in the Soviet Union. Some take comfort candidates for office in elections that An American-style Communist rev- in this distinction. They shouldn’t. November, hoping to conquer Russia olution with American-style rhetoric, PUBLIC DOMAIN Vladimir Lenin joined the Russian by democratic means. But these “dem- American-style violence and Ameri- Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902. ocratic socialists” received only 23 can-style reeducation camps sounds He said that the masses must be led by percent of the vote. impossible to many. But to one of the top 26 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET contenders for the American presidency which is largely based on the Bible. They estimated they would have to kill 25 and many of his paid campaign staff are ideas that were brought to America million people establish communism members, “extreme action” is merely on from German and Russian universities. in America. That is a lot more than died the “back burner.” For decades, these anti-Bible ideologies during the Bolshevik Revolution, yet the have subversively “devoured” America’s Bible shows that the death count will Down With Capitalism strength while the average citizen actually be far higher still. The late Herbert W. Armstrong explained “knoweth it not.” A sobering prophecy in Ezekiel 5:12 in his book The United States and Britain Soon, the atheistic ideals of Com- reveals that one third of the population in Prophecy that the peoples who settled munist philosophy will ignite a violent of end-time America and Britain will die the U.S. and Britain descended from the revolution. from the pestilence, famine and violence ancient Israelites. God made an uncon- that will result from civil war. That ditional promise to Abraham to give his ‘You Will Revolt More and More’ equals more than 100 million deaths descendants great material wealth. God “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with from rioting and warfare in the U.S.—10 kept this promise by giving the U.S. and iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children times more than in Russia! (Request our Britain nearly three fourths of the world’s that are corrupters: they have forsaken free book Ezekiel: The End-Time Prophet usable resources and wealth during the the Lord, they have provoked the Holy for more explanation of this prophecy.) peak of their power. But God did not One of Israel unto anger, they are gone Today, socialism is gathering strength. promise to keep blessing these nations if away backward. Why should ye be What people don’t understand about they turned away from Him. A prophecy in Leviticus 26 states that “Democratic” socialists want a hugely powerful if the descendants of Israel came to despise God’s statutes, He would strip government—voted in by a majority of the people. away their blessings and allow their cities to be laid waste. In a January 1949 stricken any more? ye will revolt more “democratic socialism” is that its purpose Plain Truth article, “The Plain Truth and more: the whole head is sick, and is the same as the purpose of “dictatorial About Communism,” Mr. Armstrong the whole heart faint. From the sole socialism”: to overthrow constitutional specified that communism is a tool of the of the foot even unto the head there is government, by violence if necessary. devil to blot out America’s blessings. no soundness in it; but wounds, and Bible prophecy shows that America’s “The real goal of the Communist bruises, and putrifying sores: they have great blessings will indeed be taken plotters is the violent overthrow of the not been closed, neither bound up, nei- away—not just because socialists United States and the British Empire. ther mollified with ointment. Your coun- “outmaneuvered” conservatives— but Why? We are the real ‘capitalist’ nations. try is desolate, your cities are burned because the American people as a whole We possess nearly three fourths of all with fire: your land, strangers devour it have turned away from God. This has the world’s ‘capital’—its developed and in your presence, and it is desolate, as opened the door to communism and usable resources and wealth. … The overthrown by strangers” (Isaiah 1:4-7). many other attacks inspired by the devil. plain truth, known by so few, is that This passage describes cause and The coming violence in America’s cities we possess greater wealth and national effect. The the people are “laden with is punishment, but it is punishment with resources than any other nation ever iniquity,” or sin, therefore the “whole a purpose. God will use it to show us the did, because Almighty God gave us head is sick.” The government is corrupt result of sin and turning away from Him this wealth in fulfillment of His and the nation is faint. As a conse- to our own ways of thinking. He will use it birthright promise to Abraham, Isaac quence, the people “revolt more and to lead us to Him (Ezekiel 12:17-20). God and Jacob! And communism is the dev- more.” This revolution intensifies until blessed Abraham for his obedience to His il’s effort, through his demon-inspired strangers burn down cities and tear law, and his descendants were supposed human tools, to take from us this great- down America’s system of government. to follow his example. Only after people est national and economic blessing God When Federal Bureau of Investigation learn this lesson will God bless Amer- ever conferred on any people! And since informant Larry Grathwohl infiltrated ica—and all nations—with peace, joy and this blessing from God is the world’s the Weather Underground prosperity. It is a matter of life-and-death ‘capital’ atheistic communism shouts, Organization in the importance that everyone who hears this ‘Down with capitalism.’” 1970s, he reported message take note of the seriousness Mr. Armstrong based his forecast that these radical of the times, evaluate their lifestyle and of future events and trends on Bible Communists turn to God in heartfelt repentance. n prophecy. Hosea 7:8-9 predicts that the modern-day descendants of ancient Israel would mix themselves with for- eigners and, by extension, their foreign Where capital really comes from ideologies. The far-left ideas put forward Neither Smith nor Marx could understand the source of America's by the Democratic Party today are not and Britain’s enormous wealth. But you can, with Herbert W. based on traditional American culture, Armstrong’s free book The United States and Britain in Prophecy. APRIL 2020 27 Czar Putin: Ruler for life

uring his January 15 enough to force him from power. Presidential Address to The Trumpet has consistently D the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the most sweeping changes to his nation’s constitu- tion since the document was put into force in 1993. Immediately after, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and the rest of the Russian cabinet resigned to allow Putin to implement the changes. The proposed amendments will make the office of president far weaker and strengthen India’s the offices of prime minister Anti-satellite and state council chairman. weapons are After Putin’s presidential term increasing showcased at India’s 2020 expires in 2024, Putin may Putin addresses the Republic Day parade. assume one of these positions military might Federal Assembly or a new position leading the on January 15. “Union State of Russia and ndia began 2020 with day, the nation showcased its new Belarus,” which he is in the forecast the opposite message several increases to its Tigershark fighter jet squadron. process of developing. regarding the former spy I military power. On January 1, India has the world’s fastest Putin has ruled Russia with agency officer: “Putin Won’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi growing major economy, an increasingly tight grip for Just Survive, He’ll Thrive” appointed Army Chief Bipin second-largest population and this entire century. The Trumpet (theTrumpet.com/12054). Now Rawat as the chief of Defense fourth-strongest military, armed forecasts that whatever almost every analyst agrees Staff, a newly created role for with nuclear weapons. Its military strategy he pursues, he will with this view: Putin is czar significantly increasing coordina- streamlining, and ongoing devel- remain the true power over for life. To understand what tion between air, navy and army opment of advanced weapons, Russia and one of the world’s the Bible says about Putin forces during wartime. Three is preparing it to become an foremost despots. specifically, order your free copy weeks later, India test-fired a new important part of a biblically As far back as 2005, some of Trumpet editor in chief Gerald submarine-launched, nuclear-ca- prophesied 200 million-man analysts thought that anti-Putin Flurry’s booklet The Prophesied pable ballistic missile. The next army (see Revelation 9:16). n movements would be strong ‘Prince of Russia.’ n

Iran continues so far unsuccessfully, to launch

building the bomb into orbit a 550-pound payload, PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, MIKHAIL.SVETLOV/GETTY IMAGES, ATTA KENARE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES five times larger than what it ran has continued its clan- has successfully put into orbit in destine work on building a the past. These payloads could I nuclear weapons program. easily be replaced with nuclear Experts say that if it suddenly warheads. begins openly pursuing its first Iran has the will to develop bomb, it could succeed in as little nuclear weapons through as two months. On January 18, defiance, negotiation, deception the Daily Mail reported that Iran or whatever means necessary. has intended to build nuclear It also has the will to use them. Iranians visit a warheads since at least 2002, weapons and military It is showing the character it when a “senior Iranian official exhibition in Tehran. will take to fulfill the biblically request[ed] the parameters of prophesied role of "king of a warhead fitted on a missile.” reported that the program has Satellite launch vehicles and the south," which is forecast Despite Iran’s claim that its always had a “military dimension.” intercontinental ballistic missiles to ignite a world war (Daniel nuclear program is solely for Iran also hides its missile share much of the same tech- 11:40-44). Read more in our free civilian purposes, the Daily Mail testing behind its space program. nology. It is currently attempting, booklet The King of the South. n 28 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Thanks to President Trump, Europe is arming again

fter United States President Donald Trump A implored European nations to contribute more to the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion, some nations are complying. Germany’s Die Welt reported that the International Institute for States of America,” as French Chinese sailors Strategic Studies database shows President Emmanuel Macron stand near fighter that overall European military put it. He told the Economist jets on the deck of an aircraft carrier. spending “rose every year in the that the U.S. “is turning its back Trump era” (February 9). on us. What we are currently China is world’s second-largest arms producer But the result of the increased experiencing is the brain death spending will not be to President of NATO.” Watch for Macron’s ata published by the America’s $227 billion in weapons Trump’s liking. France and desire for a “true European army” Stockholm International production, but it is becoming Germany want their military to become a reality, with the D Peace Research Institute increasingly formidable. budgets to go toward protecting brains and leadership coming on January 27 reveals that China Through decades when China Europe “with respect to China, not from the United States or is now the world’s second- was weak and suffering domestic Russia and even the United France, but from Germany. n largest weapons producer. turmoil, the late Herbert W. China now spends between Armstrong consistently forecast $70 billion and $80 billion each that China would rise to become A new decade of year on its armaments industry, a major power. He based that spending addiction according to its official figures. It forecast not on economic data also keeps some of its weapons or military analysis, but on Bible he United States spending secret. Russia, the third- prophecy. To learn more specifics Congressional Budget largest producer, spends only $38 about his forecasts, request your T Office released its 10-year billion. China is still dwarfed by free copy of He Was Right. n projections for federal revenues and spending on February 6, and the report shows trillion-dollar East Africa deficits as far as the eye can plagued by see. This fiscal year, the federal debt will remain below 2.6 locusts government will borrow $1 trillion, percent. If interest rates increase raising the national debt to $23.8 beyond that, America could soon enya and trillion by the end of the year. be spending more than $1 trillion Ethiopia are The deficit will exceed $1 trillion per year on interest alone while K suffering their every year for the next decade, struggling to finance both an worst desert locust as federal spending continues to army and a massive welfare state. infestation in 70 years. grow faster than the economy. “When any nation begins Experts estimate The borrowed money will be to look to its government to there are billions of consumed by health care, welfare provide, that nation is on a the insects, which are and social security, with these greased toboggan-slide to decay decimating crops. in the already underfed region, expenses accounting for 84 and oblivion,” wrote Plain Truth The United Nations triggered which recently experienced percent of tax revenue by 2030. founder Herbert W. Armstrong emergency protocols on January crop-destroying rains. These About 14 percent will be owed in in 1956. “It brought about the 17. Its Food and Agriculture rains provided ideal conditions interest, leaving only 2 percent for fall of Rome. It brought about Organization characterized the for locusts to breed, which the military, infrastructure, educa- the fall of proud Babylon long situation as an “unprecedented means the infestation could tion and all other expenses. This before. And it’s bringing about threat to food security and worsen in coming months. will necessitate borrowing even the fall of America today.” livelihoods” across the entire Exodus 10 shows that God more money and/or increasing Deuteronomy 28 warns that Horn of Africa. A comparatively has power over the environment taxes dramatically, which would debt problems are one of the small swarm of locusts can and uses miracles to punish and slow the economy and could many curses that come from consume enough food to feed correct. For more information, easily reduce overall tax revenue. disobedience to God’s laws. 35,000 people. request a free copy of Why These projections assume that Like its debt, America’s sins are

MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES, TONY KARUMBA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, KARUMBA/AFP/GETTY TONY IMAGES, SOMODEVILLA/GETTY CHIP IMAGES, SCHIEFELBEIN/AFP/GETTY MARK The crisis is worsening hunger ‘Natural’ Disasters? n the interest rate on the national gigantic in scale. n APRIL 2020 29 that is seen as a role model for A French anti- German right- submarine frigate wingers protest the other personnel. But Special murder of a German Forces members have five times man by a foreigner. more right-wing extremist cases than other soldiers. Extreme Security author Caroline Walter told Deutsche Welle that the recent revelations are likely just the “tip of the iceberg.” She said: “The problem in the Bundeswehr is that whoever points out right-wing extremism is still a Europe patrolling backstabber who’s violating the Iran’s coast spirit of the brigade.” High number of right-wing extremists Bible prophecy shows that rance’s first frigate began reported in German Army the Germany military will patrolling the Persian become dramatically more F Gulf on January 30 as ermany’s Military Coun- that 360 cases were added powerful and more forceful part of a new European naval terintelligence Service to the investigation in 2019. in the near future. Much of its mission to deter Iranian attacks G is investigating around Perhaps hundreds or thousands strength and destructiveness on European and other interna- 550 cases of alleged right-wing of other extremists go unre- will come from an explosion of tional shipping. This mission is extremism in the German Army. ported or hide their views. extremist sentiment. Continue supported by Belgium, Denmark, Counterintelligence president A number of cases have been to closely watch Germany—and Germany, Greece, Italy, the Christof Gramm told the German reported in the Army’s Special its military—for this prophesied Netherlands and Portugal. newspaper Welt am Sonntag Forces Command, an elite division resurgence to emerge. n The European Maritime Surveillance Mission in the Strait of Hormuz provides military escorts to oil tankers and cargo Germany expands World leaders attend role in Middle East Berlin’s conference on ships in the Persian Gulf and Libya on January 19. the Strait of Hormuz carrying, n January 8, United among other things, about 30 States President Donald percent of global seaborne O Trump called on “NATO crude oil. Most of the coast to become much more involved is controlled by Iran, and the in the Middle East process,” with strait is only 21 miles wide at its U.S. forces taking a less active narrowest point. role. Since then, Germany has Last year, several attacks increased its involvement in the occurred against oil tankers Middle East. and against oil processing

On January 14, Germany, facilities in Saudi Arabia, with ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, JACK GUEZ/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, EMMANUELE CONTINI/GETTY IMAGES along with Britain and France, the evidence implicating Iran triggered the Iran nuclear deal as the culprit. France has Dispute Resolution Mechanism pushed Europe to become expressing their concern Germany also became one of was a failure, it highlighted the more active in the region to over Iran’s failure to comply the eight nations to support the need for German intervention. counter Iranian aggression, and with the terms of the Joint European Maritime Surveillance German involvement in the France, Germany and the United Comprehensive Plan of Action. Mission in the Strait of Hormuz Middle East is barely getting Kingdom triggered the Dispute Their joint statement said: “We which provides military escorts started. Trumpet editor in chief Resolution Mechanism of the have therefore been left with no to European and international Gerald Flurry writes in The King Iran nuclear deal on January 14. choice, given Iran’s actions, but oil tankers and cargo ships of the South: “Germany has This could lead to reimposing to register today our concerns traversing the Persian Gulf and expected to clash with Iran, United Nations sanctions on Iran. that Iran is not meeting its the Strait of Hormuz off the and it has been working on a Watch for Europe to become commitments.” The whole Iranian coast. strategy for a decade or more. much more involved in the dispute process could take a On January 19, Germany That strategy is almost complete.” Middle East, and expect Germany little over two months to resolve hosted a diplomatic conference The clash between Germany and to emerge from the shadows and could result in sanctions to discuss solutions to the civil Iran, prophesied in Daniel 11:40, to take the lead economically, being reimposed on Iran. war in Libya. Though the meeting is rapidly approaching. n politically and militarily. n 30 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET SOCIETY Report: British police WATCH were told to ignore Pakistani rape gangs

olice in Manchester, England, were told to inves- P tigate other ethnicities but to ignore rapists who were Pakistani. The shocking news perpetrated their crimes. They was revealed on January 14 in a knew the rapists were ages 18 report published by the Greater to 50, that there were almost Manchester Police. The report 100 of them, and that they were was commissioned two years ago mostly Pakistani. to investigate why the department Yet senior officers intention- failed to stop rings of men who ally devoted too few resources to Impeachment raped young teenage girls, some the operation then shut it down of them still children, for years. prematurely in 2005 before offi- Proceedings Have Although several officials did not cers could arrest or even disrupt cooperate and relevant files were many of the rapists. Since the Deeply Damaged america withheld, the authors of the report criminals were Pakistani, police discovered shocking betrayal of allegedly feared being accused Manchester’s girls by its police. of racism against immigrants n February 5, the Senate like Lisa Page,” wrote Federalist Victoria Agoglia was repeatedly or bias against Muslims, so they acquitted President contributor Margot Cleveland raped and abused for years until tolerated the rape of children. O Trump of two articles of in “How Democrats’ Get-Trump one of her abusers injected her God inspired Isaiah to write impeachment. On abuse of power, Crusade Has Irreparably with a lethal dose of heroin and of modern Britain: “[T]he whole 47 Democratic-aligned senators Damaged the Nation.” They no she died at age 15. This prompted head is sick, and the whole heart and Utah Senator Mitt Romney longer believe in equal justice police to launch Operation faint. From the sole of the foot voted that Mr. Trump was guilty, under the law, or the integrity Augusta, during which they knew even unto the head there is no while the rest of the Senate found of sworn affidavits and judicially that up to 16 girls who were soundness in it; but wounds, and him innocent. On obstruction of authorized surveillance.” lower-income, white and as young bruises, and putrifying sores: they Congress, all Democratic-aligned When people lose faith in as 12 years old were being raped. have not been closed, neither senators found Mr. Trump guilty, government institutions, they They knew names, addresses, and bound up, neither mollified with and all Republican senators tend to take matters into their even locations where the rapists ointment” (Isaiah 1:5-6). n found him innocent. own hands. Leftists join radical The impeachment process groups like Antifa and the was marred by calling on Democratic Socialists of America, In August 2018, Thunberg false witnesses, relying on which want to replace, rewrite began skipping school to protest hearsay, and other disregard or ignore the U.S. Constitution. alone outside the Swedish for due process. Democrats Those afraid of socialism buy guns, Parliament. Her lone protest have brought the standards and in some cases join militias, in became a media sensation, and for impeachment to a historic an attempt to defend themselves. over the past year and a half, low and damaged people’s trust Tensions are building, she has received numerous in federal law enforcement. but protests and armed Greta Thunberg named awards and has inspired other This is underlined by the fact resistance are not real solutions. ‘Person of the Year’ students to join her “school that President Trump’s job Government corruption and strike for the climate.” Many of approval ratings rose 10 percent declining trust in its institutions ime magazine named the depressing climate predic- throughout the impeachment are symptoms of a greater 16-year-old Swedish tions that distress Thunberg are proceedings began. According sickness in the nation. The T climate activist Greta untrue and are being used for to Gallup, 49 percent of Amer- Prophet Isaiah wrote about the Thunberg its 2019 “Person of the ulterior political motives. icans approve of Mr. Trump’s spiritual sickness that besets a Year.” The magazine said that The promotion of Thunberg is job performance, the highest nation that turns away from God. her climate obsession began an embodiment of an end-time percentage since he took office. More and more Americans are when she was 11 years old when prophecy in Isaiah 3:12: “As for “Americans no longer trust realizing that the government she attended a class about the my people, children are their the world’s premier law enforce- is sick (Isaiah 1:4-7), but too few effects of climate change and oppressors, and women rule over ment agency because of men like are willing to consider that the then fell into a “deep depression” them. O my people, they which James Comey, Andrew McCabe reason for these problems is the with periods of “endless sadness” lead thee cause thee to err, and

MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCK.COM/KAARSTEN, FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES COFFRINI/AFP/GETTY FABRICE ISTOCK.COM/KAARSTEN, IMAGES, WILSON/GETTY MARK and Peter Strzok, and women sin of the people. n in which she barely spoke or ate. destroy the way of thy paths.” n APRIL 2020 31 Palestinians in the ye, and let us go up to the mountain West Bank protest of the Lord, to the house of the God of the U.S. peace plan. Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3). Clearly this hasn’t happened yet! It is a prophecy that is about to be fulfilled. Isaiah 66:10 and 12 say, “Rejoice ye Efforts to make peace with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all with the Palestinians ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, are prophesied to fail all ye that mourn for her …. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend catastrophically. peace to her like a river ….” Instead of a river of blood, there will be a river of peace flowing from Jerusalem! God is going to bring the wonderful peace and joy man has sought for 6,000 years but has never been able to find because he hasn’t looked to God. u PEACE PLAN FROM PAGE 3 that the horrors of World War ii—with Watch Jerusalem! So much is going to shall go forth into captivity, and the Germany’s extermination camps, be happening there! Events are serious residue of the people shall not be cut off Russia’s gulags and other nightmares and sobering, yet at the same time, they from the city.” including nuclear bombs incinerating are filled with the hope of God! Yes, the efforts to make peace with whole cities—were only a rehearsal What hope God gives through His the Palestinians are prophesied to fail for the Tribulation to come! peace plan. What a vision this is! How catastrophically! Why such butchery and warfare? does that compare with President This peace agreement could encour- Because this is what it will take for Trump’s peace plan? age the Arabs to make a grab for half of God to get man’s attention! We have Henry Kissinger once said there is no Jerusalem. Zechariah shows they will to recognize and acknowledge what a other choice than the peace process. That end up taking it by force! disaster results when we try to solve is terribly wrong! That is not a choice I explain this prophecy in Chapter 3 of our problems on our own, without God! of life. Jerusalem in Prophecy, and it is a crucial And this is what is going to bring Moses wrote that there are two ways end-time prophecy to understand. But peace to this world! before us: life and death. Choose life! notice: In this context God says that (Deuteronomy 30:19). Man is choosing all nations will be gathered “against Peace Is Coming the wrong way. We are choosing the way Jerusalem to battle.” Many other proph- Despite the lack of peace in Israel today, that God is not involved in. God is telling ecies provide detail about this climactic numerous prophecies tell us that God us what we should be doing, but we are battle. All these nations, with all their will give us peace! not following His instructions. That militaries, are going to gather in Arma- Leviticus 26:6 says that if you turn needs to change and change quickly. geddon before marching on Jerusalem! to God, “I will give peace in the land,” More than a hundred scriptures tell And what will happen then? nobody will “make you afraid,” and you how to bring peace! We need faith “Then shall the Lord go forth, and “neither shall the sword go through your in God. We could save ourselves so much fight against those nations, as when land.” This is what God says if you will do suffering if we would listen to God today he fought in the day of battle” (verse 3). what He says! What a promise! and turn to Him! God says, “[T]urn ye, Jesus Christ is going to return personally Zechariah 1:17 says that God “shall yet turn ye … for why will ye die, O house of to fight them! Revelation 14:18-20 show choose Jerusalem.” And He is going to Israel?” (Ezekiel 33:11). He wants you to that this battle will be so fierce, the cause the whole world to look to Jerusa- choose life—choose His way and trust blood of these armies will be flowing lem! He will bring peace to all mankind Him. When you do, He will give peace in deep enough that for 200 miles in the in just a few years. your individual life, and in your nation. Valley of Jehoshaphat, at the foot of the “And many people And very soon, He is going to give peace n

Mount of Olives, it will rise to the level of shall go and say, Come to this whole world! ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES the horses’ bridles! This clash in Jerusalem will be the decisive battle in the bloodiest war in human history. Many prophecies show Peace IS coming to the Middle East! that the death toll will be horrific all But it will not happen the way you might expect. Request your over the Earth. The Bible warns soberly copy of Gerald Flurry’s free booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy. 32 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET PRINCIPLES OF LIVING STEPHEN FLURRY

Time to Study Your History

o you have time to read history? The situation in America, Britain and across the globe is now a slow-mo- D tion world crisis ready to explode. And for that reason, I submit to you that you no longer have time not to read history. When Winston Churchill faced his world crisis, he had to To him, history was more muster every ounce of knowledge, wisdom and courage he had than a subject or a hobby. accumulated over his lifetime to try to save his people, their nation and its virtues. Imagine if that lifetime had been spent It was his identity. absorbing frivolous content. He could have never become the one statesman alive whom God could use to save Western civilization. What was it that Churchill had devoured and relied upon as the world crisis struck? This was more than a work of history, said one British History. historian. This was a biography that changed history. When To him, history was more than a subject or a hobby. It was his Churchill finally came to power in 1940, he was prepared for identity. William Manchester wrote in The Last Lion: Visions of battle. The story from his nation’s glorious past—a story he Glory, “Churchill did not simply observe the historical contin- knew well—continued living right into the present. uum; he made himself part of it. … He did not live in the past; Winston Churchill was advised, inspired and motivated by the past lived on in him.” History became Winston Churchill’s giants of history like Moses and the duke of Marlborough. personal memory. Whether or not he knew it, the history of the Israelites “History was the way he understood the world, the lens he recorded in Exodus was literally personal to Churchill, and not used to bring reality into focus,” Stephen Mansfield writes in just because the British needed supernatural deliverance. Just Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Chur- as Marlborough was, the Israelites were in fact his ancestors. chill. “Churchill thought historically, meaning that he under- In fact, the Israelites are your ancestors. Their history is stood life in terms of generations, great men, the succession of your history. This is true of those who physically descended ages, heroic events, noble conflicts and the linear connections from the Israelites (mainly the modern English-speaking of time. … For him history was more than something to study; peoples), but it is also true in a spiritual sense of those who it was a way of thinking.” are in God’s true Church, “the Israel of God” (Galatians 6:16). One of the history books Churchill read was Exodus. He As a Trumpet reader, you are in close contact with that wrote an essay in 1931 titled “Moses: The Leader of the People” Church. It is possible you could be among those few whom that rejected the skeptics’ claim of Moses being only an alle- God is calling into it. gorical figure. He asserted that he was not only real, but “the The Bible clearly establishes that God’s Church is spiritual national hero.” Israel. The history of the Church and the history of its prede- Churchill wrote this essay at the beginning of his “wilderness cessor, physical Israel, is the most important history you can years” of being a political outcast. Every prophet, Churchill study. This is especially true as we face the unfolding crisis. wrote, must go into the wilderness: “He must have a strong You are going to need every bit of true, deep, actionable history impression of a complex society and all that it has to give, and you can get your mind on. then he must serve periods of isolation and meditation. This is Like Churchill, we are living in historic times. It is time to the process by which psychic dynamite is made.” drop the distracting smartphone apps, the gaming, the frivol- Churchill dove into history. He wrote his four-volume, mil- ity and dissipation. It’s time to devote your precious hours to lion-word masterpiece Marlborough between 1933 and 1938, serious pursuits that could very well be life-saving pursuits. while his colleagues disarmed Britain and he was the lone, It’s time to become part almost powerless voice warning against it. This deep dive into of something bigger history helped prepare him for Britain’s darkest hour. than yourself. It’s time to Henry Steele Commager wrote this about Churchill’s famous become part of history. n ancestor and Britain’s most decorated general: “The hero was a man after Churchill’s heart: the greatest soldier in the annals To begin your study of the most of the race, ever victorious and ever magnanimous .... But the important history, request: theme was more than biographical; it was nothing less than the Winston S. Churchill: The Watch-

KURT HUTTON/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES ARCHIVE/GETTY HUTTON/HULTON KURT theme of the struggle for Europe” (emphasis added). man and The Former Prophets. APRIL 2020 33 DISCUSSION BOARD

Not only are you right, but you are somewhat understating the problem in my opinion (“America Has Been ‘Fundamentally Transformed,” March, theTrumpet.com/21850). The nature of the conflict around us is ferocious and contemptuous. Our side does not understand that hatred and does not see how badly they have been played. We are personally under attack by these forces, and we have been for some time. Linda

I’m a historian, mostly on the then six months later the same close to God and His way of 20th century, but also world thing happens, but the schools thinking made all the difference. history, especially the French are only getting worse! To think And looking at the fruits of your Revolution. People in America that “much needed” money organization do, indeed, remind knowledge about spiritual truths have no idea how horrible is going to fund transgender me of that wonderful time. Thank and current events. the French Revolution really appearances is loathsome you for this! Richard Reyes was. As I watch television, the beyond words! And that C. Johnson events, the testimonies, and the mathematics program … nothing I have been reading Herbert impeachment of Donald Trump, I could be more ludicrous! I would like to thank your Armstrong’s books and am think of the events leading up to Carolyn Risen oregon ministry for all the reading amazed with the work you are the French Revolution. It gives materials that I have received doing for our great God. God me chills; it’s so terrible. I agree Very good to tell us what is being over the past few years. Thank bless you all for giving me the with Mr. Flurry 100 percent. We taught in our public schools. It you for the wisdom your ministry truth. All I want to do is share are in trouble and the future is is frightening, disgustingly real, shares with all who are willing to this with everyone. very scary. Keep up the good and getting worse daily! Thanks open up their hearts to the truth. Claire Smith scotland work and thank you very much! for digging into this and bringing I pray that God will continue to

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But bold lies and force of them applauded as the previous president repeatedly bypassed W will are surging, most notably in our leaders. Con- or ignored constitutional limits on his power. For years many sider a couple of recent examples within America. have praised cities, counties and states for flatly refusing to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi contemptuously uphold and enforce immigration law. For years they have ripped up her copy of the president’s State of the Union speech broadly ignored and excused rank criminality, rioting and on live television. She explained, “It was the courteous thing to violence as being a “natural response” to systemic injustice. For do, considering the alternatives.” In January she sternly cor- years they have labored to rewrite America’s history into a story rected a reporter for suggesting that she hates the president: “I of shame. For years they have attacked constitutional guaran- don’t hate anyone. I was raised in a way that is a heart full of love, tees including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the and always pray for the president. … I pray for the president all right to bear arms. For years they have denounced the Con- the time. So don’t mess with me when it comes to words like stitution itself as antiquated, outdated, a “charter of negative that.” Never mind her actions. Just take her at her word: Her liberties,” invented by racist, bigoted slave owners that must heart is full of love, so don’t mess with her. be “reinterpreted” or demolished. Democrat presidential can- The irony was not lost on many who watched the president’s didates are tripping over each other trying to prove who among speech. As President Trump enumerated a litany of national them is willing to act most radically to reshape the country by successes, the gallery and half of Congress cheered while denying people’s rights, despoiling the wealthy and destroying Democrats sat, stone-faced, often visibly agitated. Most whole industries. Their whole mindset is utterly lawless. Democrats saw nothing to celebrate in unexpectedly robust Here is a suggestion: Don’t take them at their word. Watch job creation, higher wages, and lower African American and what they do. Jesus Christ warned of ravening wolves coming in Hispanic unemployment. They could not applaud progress in sheep’s clothing—and said, “Ye shall know them by their fruits” fighting the opioid epidemic, supporting neonatal health care, (Matthew 7:15-16). They say they want to help the poor, help or securing America’s border. They apparently saw nothing minorities, help women. But when the president announces good about weakening the Islamic State or strengthening that 7 million people no longer need food stamps, 10 million have America’s military. These moralistic lawmakers were unmoved been lifted off welfare, black poverty and unemployment have by the guests and visitors this impeached president invited to reached their lowest levels in history, and the workforce offers the Capitol, including a young black girl receiving an academic more opportunities for women than ever, watch what they do. scholarship, and one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. Their hearts are full of something, but it isn’t love. The Democratic Party prides itself on its compassion, Jeremiah 17:9 says the human heart is deceitful and wicked. humanity and charity. It says it fights for freedom, justice, People want to look righteous, and they can say anything. Peo- equality, fairness. It has a “heart full of love” for everyone. ple like to identify as loving, prayerful, courteous. Don’t judge them by their conspicuous incivility, or by their Judge by fruits. acrid reaction to evidence of their own nation’s current resur- Humanity has a limitless history of cloaking its corruption in gence. Just take them at their word. righteousness. Jesus Himself saw it: When a woman anointed Just take them at their word during the impeachment hear- His feet with costly ointment, noble Judas rose in indignation: ings that they respect the law and love the Constitution. Take That should have been sold and the money given to the poor! he them at their word that they are fighting corruption and abuse said. But John’s Gospel exposes the truth: Judas didn’t care of power, and are fiercely advocating equitable justice and the for the poor—he was a thief and wanted to pocket the money pillars of constitutional government. Take them at their word (John 12:6). And soon after, he betrayed Jesus—with a kiss. that they respect the wisdom of the founders: Adams, Jefferson, “Mark you this, Bassanio,” Antonio says in The Merchant of Ven- Madison, Franklin. Take them at their word that crass partisan- ice, “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. / An evil soul ship is being displayed only by Republicans. Take them at their producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, / word that acquitting President Trump marks the tragic ruin- A goodly apple rotten at the heart. / Oh, what a goodly outside ation of what would otherwise be the greatest country in history. falsehood hath!” Yes, Satan himself comes as an angel of light (2 They love the Constitution, and they love America. They say. Corinthians 11:14). He can call the rankest disrespect “courteous”

ISTOCK.COM/VENCAVOLRAB Yet in January, these same individuals rushed their and the most insidious hate “love.” Don’t take him at his word. n APRIL 2020 35 u BREXIT FROM PAGE 21 would not be part of that union in the long run. It will be a victim of this new European power, not a participant. If Mr. Armstrong’s Bible-based forecasts were right about Brexit, that means you can trust them to be accurate in describing what comes next: the rise of a superstate that terrorizes the world. It may seem far- fetched. But then so did the idea of a “European union” in 1945, or Brexit in 1973.

The Most Important Lesson You Can Learn This European superstate will have a massive impact on Philadelphia Trumpet editor everyone around the world. It is critical that we know in chief Gerald Flurry it is coming. But that is not the most important reason appears each week on The why you need to understand this forecast. Key of David explaining the Mr. Armstrong’s forecasts about Brexit prove that the meaning behind world events Bible is a now book—a book that speaks to us today, a and teaching the inspiring source we can rely on totally. One third of the Bible, the truths of the Bible. The inspired Word of God, is prophecy. program is also available at Daniel 4:17 says, “[T]he most High ruleth in the keyofdavid.com. kingdom of men.” Fulfilled prophecy confirms this. God forecast events like Brexit. When they are fulfilled, they demonstrate His power. Trumpet editor in chief Gerald ALL TIMES ARE A.M. 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