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POPE BENEDICT XVI As Has Happened Before, a This Is a Trend of Gigantic Propor- Strong Germany Will Drive Eu- Tions WHO CARES? EUROPE’S SAVIOR IMMIGRATION Why you should pay more Conservative Europeans face two main challenges: secularism Addressing basic attention to Latin America. and Islam. To whom will they turn for solutions? questions on a hot issue. august 2006 THE PHILADELPHIA www.thetrumpet.com TRUMPET Who Will Stop Iran? THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET AUGUST 2006 Vol. 17, No. 7 Circ. 326,000 2 14 19 35 WORLD ECONOMY 1 From the Editor: A 26 ECONOMYWATCH Clash of Civilizations Pressures Drive Dollar Down Is Imminent ■ Personal Savings Rate Plum- Iran’s president wants an mets ■ arms Set to Create international crisis—and he’s Trouble ■ Will the U.S. Lose going to get it. the nyse? SOCIETY LATIN AMERICA 14 Latin America IMMIGRATION Swings Left 28 Nation: A Place Should the U.S. be worried With Borders about the anti-Americanism Nagging questions surrounding surging to its south? America’s immigration problems 16 The Religion Factor 29 Benefits of Illegal Immigration WORLD CANADA 30 Where Terrorists and 2 The Dawning of a New Germany COVER Deportees Walk Free? All eyes are fixed on Germany for the 19 Shrugging at Evil World Cup. America would be wise to Iran’s leaders openly declare 32 SOCIETYWATCH keep its eyes fixed there. war on America, yet the United TECHNOLOGY U.S. Beaten in 4 Getting Fed Up States refuses to take them seri- Brain Game ■ DRUGS UK ously. The result will be tragic. Kids Hooked on Heroin ■ ENTERTAINMENT Horror 6 Wanted: Savior for Europe Movies More Sadistic Europe suffers from a myriad of prob- 22 WORLDWATCH ■ Record Sales of Sleeping Pills lems—religious, cultural and economic. EUROPE Laying Groundwork for One man hopes to change all that. Navy ■ Bavarian Premier Calls 35 Don’t Know Much 10 Top Cardinal Slams Muslims for Anti-Blasphemy Laws ■ U.S. Key Business to Be Germany’s? About Samurai ■ RUSSIA Will Putin Seek a We can’t all be above average. 12 Care Package From Rome Third Term? ■ RESOURCES U.S., Italy’s new prime minister has big China Race for Mideast Oil DEPARTMENTS plans for the European Union. ■ Iran Seeks Global Anti-U.S. 34 Letters Axis ■ MIDDLE EAST Jerusalem Day Loses Relevance 36 Key of David Television Log For a free subscription in the U.S. and Canada, call 1-800-772-8577 COVER STAFF Publisher and Editor in Chief Gerald Flurry THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET (issn 10706348) is published monthly CONTACT US Please notify us of any change in your address; include your old mail- Iranian President Executive Editor Stephen Flurry News Editor Ron (except bimonthly June-July and November-December issues) by ing label and the new address. The publishers assume no responsibility for return Mahmoud Fraser Senior Editor Dennis Leap Managing Edi- the Philadelphia Church of God, 14400 S. Bryant Ave, Edmond, of unsolicited artwork, photographs or manuscripts. 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Box 6626, Upper Mount Mark Jenkins International Editions Editor Wik ever, are welcomed and are tax-deductible in the United States, Gravatt, qld 4122, Australia New Zealand p.o. Box 38-424, Howick, Auckland, 1730 Heerma French, Italian Daniel Frendo German Canada and New Zealand. Those who wish to voluntarily support Philippines p.o. Box 1372, q.c. Central Post Office, Quezon City, Metro Manila 1100 Hans Schmidl Spanish Edition Editor Carlos Heyer this worldwide work of God are gladly welcomed as co-workers. Latin America Attn: Spanish Department, p.o. Box 3700, Edmond, ok 73083, U.S. FROM THE EDITOR GETTY IMAGES A Clash of Civilizations Is Imminent FERVOR Shiite Muslims worship at the Jamkaran Mosque, where they wait for the return of the Mahdi be- fore the end of the world. mir Tahiri, an Iranian journalist formerly history. Jesus Christ said He would speed up His Second Com- stationed in Iran, wrote in the Weekly Telegraph, ing in order to cut these terrible days short. “Tehran’s Shia regime believes that its nuclear weap- That sounds quite close to what Ahmadinejad is talking ons will speed the second coming of the Mahdi”— about, except that he puts an ugly twist on it that you don’t Aspeaking of their messianic figure (April 25). find in Christ’s prophecy. Nuclear warfare will indeed hasten Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes the Mah- the return of Jesus Christ—not the 12th Imam, or the Mahdi. di will return in two to three years—or even sooner if somehow Christ is not eager for a nuclear war and for suffering to he can create an international crisis. He afflict billions of people. God does not believes he was given his presidency to i can tell you want to see a clash of civilizations! That provoke a clash between civilizations! is why He warns through biblical proph- This should alarm all of us. Imagine: absolutely that ecy about what is coming—to help us Iran is the world’s top terrorist-spon- recognize the horror as it approaches soring nation. It is about to get nuclear iran is not going and turn to Him in repentance so we bombs, and its leaders believe a nuclear to conquer israel. don’t have to experience it! war will speed the return of their version The Bible shows that if we heed God’s of the Messiah. That means they are eager for a nuclear war. message, He will protect us individually. If the world heeded And once you start a nuclear war, how do you stop it? it, the catastrophe could be avoided altogether! Could any statement be more explosive? Right in the same context, here is a prophecy about that That is one of the most shocking statements ever made— warning from God: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be yet at the same time, it is a sign of the best news you could ever preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and hear! Why? then shall the end come” (verse 14). Any Christian ought to recognize Ahmadinejad’s belief as God calls the message “a witness” because He knows most a twisted counterfeit of one of Jesus Christ’s prophecies. people are going to reject it. But He sends it for a witness This is what Christ said in His famous Olivet prophecy: against them so they cannot come back and say, “Why didn’t “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the you warn us?” If they have that approach, He will say, I did beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And warn you. Why were you asleep? Why didn’t you respond? except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh The God of love warns us, hoping to prevent a nuclear clash. be saved [saved alive—Moffat translation] but for the elect’s He does not want to see anybody suffer. But He allows it—and sake those days shall be shortened” (Matthew 24:21-22). even causes it, in some cases—if we won’t heed His message. This is a prophecy about the worst suffering ever in human See CLASH page 11 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET AUGUST 2006 1 WORLD EUROPE he cumula- tive viewer- ship of this year’s World Cup is es- timated to be 32 billion The Dawning of people. That Tis an average of every man, With the World Cup in progress, Germany has woman and child on Earth captured the world’s attention. The tournament will watching roughly five of its soccer matches. As the end, but here is why you should keep your eyes host nation, Germany glued to this nation. BY BRAD MACDONALD has the world eating from the palm of its hand. The publicity value to this “re- formed and democratized” Germany is priceless. For an entire month, Germany is the center of attention. The World Cup will pass, but we must not turn our at- tention from Germany.
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