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FEATURES DEPARTMENTS SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA FROM THE EDITOR 1 WORLDWATCH 26 Wake Up to the Threat From China 5 Barack Obama in SOCIETYWATCH 29 Bible Prophecy Australia: A Warning to the World 10 All Roads Lead to PRINCIPLES OF LIVING 33 Barack Obama 2 No Substitute for Victory China’s Most Dangerous Maneuver 34 Ever Against America 12 How to Find God’s Work 24 DISCUSSION BOARD COMMENTARY 35 Chinese Cartels Have Infiltrated Mexico 16 Where Will All the Hate End?

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The mastermind behind the vast, elaborate network of lies and lawlessness aimed at destroying America has been exposed.

n Jan. 20, 2017, on his last day in the Oval Office, unrestrained assault on America’s “democratic institu- Barack Obama left a handwritten message for the tions and traditions,” including the Constitution and the O incoming president. In it Mr. Obama told Donald rule of law. Hundreds, even thousands, of people and institu- Trump that America’s presidents are “guardians of those tions were involved in this coup, directly or indirectly. Virtually democratic institutions and traditions—like rule of law, sepa- all of America’s top media organizations and personalities were ration of powers, equal protection and civil liberties—that our complicit, as well as the powerful tech companies and most of forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and pull the nation’s top politicians. of daily politics, it’s up to us to leave those instruments of our But behind this vast network of lies, corruption and democracy at least as strong as we found them.” lawlessness, there stood one man: Barack Obama. Mr. Obama’s note seems so noble and heartfelt. But it is There is compelling evidence that Mr. Obama was not only one of the most diabolical and hypocritical messages ever aware of the plot to pervert this election, but was intimately written by a United States president. Barack Obama spent his connected with those pulling the strings. One thing is certain: tenure as president doing exactly what he warned Mr. Trump This epic scandal was the result of Barack Obama’s leadership not to do. For eight years, he assaulted America’s “democratic of the Democratic Party and the radical left. institutions and traditions” in pursuit of his supreme goal to Many have referred to this as a rolling coup, and they are “fundamentally transform America.” right. This coup was initiated by Barack Obama before he left Why talk about this now, four years after Mr. Obama left office in January 2017. Even as he was writing that “beautiful” office? Because this man continues to pursue his ambition to message instructing Donald Trump to guard democracy and fundamentally transform America. the rule of the law, this man was devising plans to over- Barack Obama was at the epicenter of the election cri- throw Mr. Trump and return the radical left to the sis and the radical left’s effort to prevent Donald Trump White House! from being reelected! I want to show how the 2020 election crisis exposes The United States entered its greatest political crisis ever on Mr. Obama and his closest allies. Even more importantly, this Nov. 3, 2020, Election Day. To make Joe Biden president, the crisis reveals the unseen but extremely potent force behind radical left flagrantly manipulated the nation’s voting system. Mr. Obama and the radical Left. This crisis puts the spotlight Then for weeks, the mainstream media, at least half the public, on a crucial biblical prophecy, one I have been explaining since most of the nation’s politicians (Democrats and Republicans), 2012 and that you must understand! and much of the rest of the world believed Mr. Biden had been legitimately elected president. The Architect of Lawlessness But it was a giant lie. Mountains of evidence proved that Since Election Day, the corruption and lawlessness in Ameri- this election was manipulated. At court hearings in multiple ca’s politics and election system have been dramatically uncov- states, hundreds of witnesses gave firsthand accounts of all ered. This has exposed a massive lurch toward lawlessness in sorts of nefarious behavior. Thousands of witnesses signed this nation. This has a cause we must understand. affidavits alleging fraud. Prominent scientists and data ana- The most lawless being in the universe is a spirit being, Satan lysts investigated the numbers and testified of the statistical the devil. 2 Corinthians 4:4 calls him “the god of this world.” impossibility of some vote counts. Electronic voting machines This means people in this world worship him, even if unwit- and software were audited and revealed dishonest activity. tingly. This evil spirit being has frightening power—power we There was even video footage exposing obvious illicit behavior. can hardly imagine! This might sound like an extreme state- America’s entire electoral system is now in shambles. The ment, but in these extreme and confusing times, doesn’t it at nation will never have another secure, uncontested elec- least warrant consideration? There is a lot at stake for America, tion. And it’s all because the radical left engaged in an and for you personally! FEBRUARY 2021 1 One remarkable chapter that helps us understand the extent Satan was cast down to Earth. In my free booklet America of the devil’s influence over man is Revelation 12. This passage Under Attack, I explain why we can know that this critical event prophesies of a war in heaven where great angelic beings fought occurred on Jan. 16, 1986. It all revolves around events in God’s against the devil and his demons, of which there are millions. Church. Verse 13 shows that when the devil was cast down, he Here is the outcome of that spiritual war: “[T]he dragon fought attacked the Church of God! and his angels [fallen angels—demons], And prevailed not; nei- Perhaps you, like most of our readers, have no history with ther was their place found any more in heaven. And the great that Church. But this history is still extremely relevant to dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and you. The Bible describes the Church as spiritual “Israel” (e.g. Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into Galatians 6:16; Ephesians 2:12). When Satan was cast down, he the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (verses 7-9). immediately attacked spiritual Israel. That was his first target. Notice: Verse 9 says Satan deceives the whole world—every- But he didn’t stop there. After that, he directed his hatred body! His deception affects this world’s education, its religion, its against physical Israel. Who is that? Specifically, it is three of politics, its science—everything! So says your Bible. Ephesians the modern nations that descended from the biblical nation of 2:2 calls Satan “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that Israel—chiefly the United States, Britain and the Jewish state. now worketh in the children of disobedience.” He is stirring up (Proof of these nations’ identity can be found in Herbert W. people’s emotions, moods and attitudes. That is amazing, but it is Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.) biblical and you can prove it to yourself, and you certainly should. This is a driving goal of the devil and his demons: They seek Revelation 12:9 is an end-time prophecy. It tells us that to bring Israel down, whether spiritual or physical Israel. What happened in that Church shows a pattern for what Satan is doing to America and Britain. That is why that Church history is so relevant and important for you to grasp. (You can President Obama welcomes David Plouffe to the stage at a 2012 fundraising event. he never left so it’s reasonable to conclude that all Obama’s orbit; three know each other well. These men he remained an have worked together for years. Most outside senior significantly, they are political and adviser to the ideological brothers. Obama adminis- Now, skip ahead to this past Sep- tration. In 2011, tember and October. This is when Plouffe returned the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative gave All Roads Lead to to the White $350 million to the Center for Tech and House and did Civil Life (ctcl). Established in 2012 and Barack Obama a two-year stint headquartered in Chicago, the ctcl is as an assistant a nonprofit organization that works to the president with citizens, community groups and hat role is Barack Obama and senior adviser. Reading Obama’s local governments to promote greater playing in America’s election book, it’s obvious that he and Plouffe are participation in federal, state and local W crisis? This is arguably the kindred spirits and are very close. elections. Among its activities, the ctcl most underreported aspect of the In January 2017, at the same time helps local governments and community extraordinary effort to take down President Obama left the White House, groups implement election legislation, Donald Trump and demolish America. Plouffe was hired by Facebook ceo Mark educate voters, equip voting locations The more you research this question, Zuckerberg to be the head of policy with new technology, train poll workers, the more you realize: All roads lead to and advocacy at the Chan Zuckerberg collect and analyze election data, and Barack Obama. Here we’ll look at just Initiative (Zuckerberg’s philanthropic tackle cybersecurity concerns. In some one of these roads. organization). In this role, Plouffe was states, election workers are paid directly In his new book, A Promised Land, responsible for leading czi’s effort to by ctcl grants. ctcl claims to be non- Obama heaps praise on David Plouffe, his support political and policy reform partisan, but a little digging shows it former campaign manager. Obama has across America. Plouffe retired from his leans heavily to the left. publicly lauded Plouffe as the unsung full-time position at czi in October 2019 Before Zuckerberg’s gigantic hero and supreme architect of his pres- but remained with the organization in donation, ctcl received an average of idential campaigns. Plouffe was the stra- the part-time role of resident “strategist.” around $1 million per year. How did SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES tegic mastermind behind Team Obama’s So, Barack Obama and David Plouffe Zuckerberg learn about this relatively extraordinary 2008 grassroots campaign are close, and David Plouffe and small nonprofit in Chicago? Surely and its pioneering digital program. Mark Zuckerberg are close. Plenty of David Plouffe, former head of policy and When Obama took office in January evidence also shows that Obama and advocacy and the resident “strategist” at 2009, Plouffe took a sabbatical. But Zuckerberg have a strong relationship, Zuckerberg’s organization, was involved 2 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET read about this attack on the Church in Malachi’s Message and End-Time Antiochus in my son’s book, Raising the Ruins. All of our literature is free.) This prophecy in Revelation 12 connects to a stunning end-time The whole story in biblical prophecy shows that Satan has a prophecy delivered by the Prophet Daniel. The book of Daniel is three-pronged attack after he is cast down. First, he attacks only for this end time (Daniel 12:4, 9). He shows that Satan pur- God’s Church, spiritual Israel. Second, he attacks the nations sues his ambition to destroy Israel through human instruments. of Israel, especially the United States, the lead nation. Third, The last part of Daniel 8:17 reads, “Understand, O son of man, he works through the Holy Roman Empire and destroys these that the vision is for the time of the end” (Revised Standard nations in the Great Tribulation. Version). In verse 26, God told Daniel to seal up the vision, This passage in Revelation is far from the only biblical pas- “for it relates to the far future” (Moffatt). Many of the events sage describing the devil’s destructive passion. Really, Satan’s described in this chapter were fulfilled in type in the centuries hatred of Israel is a prominent theme of the entire Bible. I have after Daniel recorded them in 550 b.c. However, even those explained the prophecy in 2 Kings 14:23-29, for example, which events point to this prophecy’s primary fulfillment in the end describes a Satan-led movement in the end time to “blot out time, just before Christ returns. the name of Israel from under heaven.” (You can study this Beginning in verse 9 is a prophecy of a “little horn” that arose prophecy further in my free booklet Great Again.) from one of the four divisions of the Grecian Empire. Virtually This is Satan’s master plan: He wants to destroy God’s Church all commentaries agree this refers to Antiochus Epiphanes, and the nations of America and the British Commonwealth. To a dictator who obtained rule in Palestine in 176 b.c. through understand events in America and Britain, we must consider deceit and flattery. What they overlook, though, is that this also them in this prophetic context. has an end-time fulfillment. All of these prophecies will be fulfilled if our people fail to When we set this prophecy alongside others, as well as actual heed God’s warning message! end-time events, it is clear there are actually three end-time

in the decision to donate $350 million to fraud and corruption occurred: Philadel- and distribute absentee and mail-in ctcl. After all, this was exactly the type phia, Detroit, Minneapolis and Milwau- ballots, and to add extra drop boxes in of work he was brought on to do. kee; Delaware and Allegheny counties Democratic areas. It said the money It’s even plausible that Barack Obama in Pennsylvania; and Fulton, Cobb and was intended to increase ballots cast “in himself put ctcl on Zuckerberg’s radar. DeKalb counties in Georgia—all over- only certain urban and predominantly ctcl and some of its principal staff have whelmingly Democratic counties or Democratic precincts” and to “selec- multiple connections to the former cities in four key swing states. tively influence the outcome of the 2020 president, even going as far back as In September, not long after the general election.” his 2008 presidential campaign. Tiana ctcl began distributing the money, Sadly, all four lawsuits were dis- Epps-Johnson, ctcl’s founder and exec- concerned citizens filed lawsuits missed. The reasons varied, but the utive director, is an Obama Fellow at the against the organization in Michigan, judges across all states generally Obama Foundation in Chicago. Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, rejected the notion that the money Here’s what we do know: When ctcl arguing that federal law prohibited local would be used to manipulate the elec- received Zuckerberg’s first donation, it governments from accepting private tion. Yet in the end, that’s exactly immediately gave at least $75 million to federal election grants. The plaintiffs what happened! local authorities in heavily Democratic in these suits were worried that the This is only one of the paths of areas in battleground states! money donated by Mark Zuckerberg— evidence that suggests Barack Obama In A Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald who was counseled by David Plouffe, lies at the epicenter of this election Trump, released last year, Plouffe wrote and maybe even Barack Obama— crisis. There are others. The fact that that “the contest for the presidency would be used to commit fraud! the media is not seriously investigating may come down to block-by-block And rightly so. Amistad Project direc- evidence like this, nor exposing what street fights in Detroit, Milwaukee and tor Phillip Kline obtained a court order figures like Obama, Plouffe, Zuckerberg Philadelphia.” Is it a coincidence, as from the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the entire radical left are doing, is Ken Blackwell wrote for Breitbart, that that allowed him to view Philadelphia’s itself a massive scandal! “some of the biggest recipients [of ctcl’s communications with ctcl. “Those In last month’s cover story, “Why money], in fact, were the very locales communications show that ctcl dic- Donald Trump Will Remain America’s Plouffe had identified as the linchpins tated the way the election would be run President” (theTrumpet.com/23193), edi- of the Democrat strategy in 2020”? in Philadelphia, how many polling places tor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote, “I am A recent study by the Amistad Project they would have, they paid the election also certain that we are about to see listed the 20 largest publicly identified officials, they paid the satellite election some of the biggest frauds exposed recipients of ctcl funds. Remarkably, officials, they paid the judges, they perhaps ever!” In coming weeks and the counties and cities that received brought in these drop boxes,” said Kline. months, expect to see more evidence Zuckerberg’s money are virtually the The Michigan lawsuit claimed of Barack Obama’s fingerprints on this same as the counties and cities where the Zuckerberg’s money was used to print election coup. BY BRAD MACDONALD FEBRUARY 2021 3 types of Antiochus. First, there is the spiritual Antiochus, Consider the recent U.S. election. It’s fair to say we live at a the man who led God’s Church astray. Second, there is an time “when the transgressors are come to the full”! Lawless- Antiochus in physical Israel. Third, an Antiochus also leads ness, corruption and sin are rife, even celebrated! And here is a the prophesied final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire, leader who understands “dark sentences” and is able to destroy which God uses to punish Israel. mightily, “not by his own power,” but by the devil. Barack Obama is the end-time type of Antiochus who seeks “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper to destroy physical Israel! in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by This is not a new prophecy. I have been warning about peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Mr. Obama and his anti-American ambitions since before he Prince of princes [Jesus Christ Himself]; but he shall be broken became president in 2008. Throughout his eight-year presi- without hand” (verse 25). Notice: Antiochus has a policy of dency, I explained that Mr. Obama was an Antiochus-type who craft. He misleads people, appearing to come in peace before sought America’s destruction. This is the main theme of my he destroys them! booklet America Under Attack, first published in 2012. Satan is deceitful and duplicitous, skilled at presenting him- self as something he is not. He is the father of liars and was a murderer from the beginning (John 8:44). When he is involved, His books show he has had the things lead to murder if we don’t wake up! goal to fundamentally change America since he was a boy. A Promised Land Last November, around the time of the U.S. election, Barack And that life goal didn’t go Obama published his new book, A Promised Land. The book away when he left office. and its author received much critical acclaim both in America and around the world. The timing was no coincidence. When Mr. Obama left the White House in January 2017, Mr. Obama is an exceptional public speaker and can sound some said this was a failed prophecy. Mr. Obama was no longer and look very appealing. He appears sophisticated and enlight- president and it appeared he no longer had any influence on ened, and seems full of love and concern for America and its American politics. But the truth is, this Antiochus never people. And just as the nation was convulsing in political crisis, left the political scene, and he never stopped trying to this book and the associated publicity thrust Barack Obama undermine America! into the spotlight. He was on screens all over America sounding The details of this prophecy have very personal, emotional rational, wise and presidential. meaning to me—because we dealt personally with the Antio- In his book, Mr. Obama writes multiple times that America’s chus in the Church of God. Satan used that man to destroy “need for fundamental change” was a big theme of his campaign the Church! Daniel 8:11 says this man ”magnified himself even and presidency. He has said repeatedly that America needs to to [against] the prince of the host [Jesus Christ], and by him the change. During an election rally on Oct. 30, 2008, he famously daily sacrifice [the work of God] was taken away, and the place declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally trans- of his sanctuary was cast down.” The devil used this Antio- forming the United States of America.” chus-like man inside the Church of God to destroy God’s work. This is a towering theme of Barack Obama’s life! His Verse 12 further describes this man’s character: “And an host [a books show he has had the goal to fundamentally change demon army] was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason America since he was a boy. And that life goal didn’t go away of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; when he left office. and it practiced, and prospered.” Antiochus cast truth to the As president, Mr. Obama pursued this ambition with passion. ground. He was a lawless man! Moreover, his campaign of He had a lot of success reshaping America’s identity, both lawlessness “practiced and prospered”—it was very successful. domestically and internationally. Read Daniel’s entire prophecy to see what sort of man this Recall the Obama administration’s support of the popular Antiochus is. History also provides insight. Daniel 11:21 says Islamist uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. this leader obtained rule through deceitful lies and flatteries. Recall the way they ignored the popular uprising in Iran— He was a smooth talker and had a compelling personality. then negotiated a grotesque nuclear deal with Iranian leaders Anciently, Antiochus Epiphanes gained control by pretending that flushed them with cash and provided cover for ongoing to be someone he wasn’t. The same is true of the three end- nuclear activity. Think of the way they handled Benghazi, when time types of Antiochus: They are master deceivers. a jihadist mob attacked America’s embassy on the anniversary We must always beware of the devil for this reason: He comes of 9/11. Obama officials shamefully told our soldiers to stand as an angel of light (e.g. 2 Corinthians 11:14). down while terrorists killed an ambassador and three other Daniel describes Antiochus further in Daniel 8:23-24: “And Americans. Recall Obama’s restoration of diplomatic ties with in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors Communist Cuba. Recall Mr. Obama’s treatment of Britain (for are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and under- example, the threat to send the United Kingdom to the bottom standing dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall of the list if it voted to leave the European Union). Recall his be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy open hostility toward the Jewish state. Recall his keen support wonderfully [or mightily], and shall prosper, and practise, and of international organizations like the corrupt World Health shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.” OBAMA PAGE 30 u 4 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET GARY DORNING/TRUMPET Wake Up to the This nationThis seeks world domination—and it making is Threat FromThreat impressive that realizing progress ambition. in BY STEPHEN FLURRY AND JOEL HILLIKER FLURRY JOEL BY AND STEPHEN CHINA SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA

“C Joe Biden knew better, but that his They’re not competition for us.” Tzu. “Supreme excellence consistsin wrote famedChinesegeneral Sun willful, rooted not incompassion but in working to accommodate China as they war stratagems with stunning success. Nations across Asiaare nervously Emerging facts are exposing realities the dangerous naivety of this statement tion onNov. 3,2o2o, reports exposing the Chinese Communist Party have these overt actions with covert oper- that sound like conspiracy theories— Chinese disciplesare carryingout his China’s achievements inmatching Communist China aimedat breaking its breaking the enemy’s resistance with blindness to the threat from Chinais have beendescendinginadeluge. And not bad folks, folks. But guess what? many of them suggest not only that recognize that ithassupplanted the U.S. realities about the deceptive activities of ations. They expose how membersof as the region’s dominant power. out fighting.” It seemsSun’s modern compromise andcorruption. statements from DonaldTrump. “They’re corporations andgovernments around entities, working inacademia, major surreptitiously infiltrated foreign “All warfare isbased ondeception,” Particularly sincethe national elec- Recent reports, however, expose enemies’ resistance without fighting. strategic choke points worldwide. the South ChinaSea andseizing China’s ambition to dominate the globe is becoming clearer tinents. Beijing is militarizing all the time. Inmany ways this string ofnations across con has hardly beenasecret. Its has given itleverage over a Belt andRoad Initiative and Its “debt-trap diplomacy” its Asian Infrastructure role inthe world economy. Investment Bank are replace America’s central designed to challenge and while hewas cam hina isgoing to eat presidency, ridiculing paigning for America’s man,” Joe Biden said our lunch? C’mon - - - the world. They reveal Chinese spies in Shanghai. Its headquarters is also the administration of Bill Clinton in seducing high-placed government home to intelligence officers from the 1992. This “old friend” delivered China officials with money and sex. They UK security services” (Dec. 12, 2020). some big victories: He was America’s show American federal representatives The loyalties of these people are first president to publicly oppose the using their entrusted power for political, devoted not just to China but to the independence of Taiwan—a nation personal and financial benefit. They ideology, the party and the chairman of Beijing claims as part of China. He also show election interference and literal the Chinese Communist Party. granted Most Favored Nation trading election hacking. And all this against This revelation proves that the world status, effectively sending more than the backdrop of a world-changing virus is dealing with a determined, resource- 3.7 million jobs from the U.S. to China. unleashed on the world from China. ful enemy, and that nations have been According to Di, China’s influence That this nation would aggressively too casual about protecting themselves continued through the administrations target the world’s dominant superpower against espionage, intellectual property of George W. Bush and Barack Obama should not surprise us. But the extent theft, and who knows what else these (and Joe Biden). It abruptly stopped with of its success, and the fact that America Communists are doing. Donald Trump. has not only allowed it but seems uncon- Tens of thousands of Communist “To put it bluntly,” Di said, “for the past cerned, is appalling. In fact, viewed in Party branches. Millions of members. 30 years, 40 years, we have been utilizing the context of biblical prophecy, it is Positions in sensitive areas. This is what the core power of the United States”—so a potent symbol of nothing less than a we are only now finding out. What else this even predates Bill Clinton. “But the historic global shift occurring before our don’t we know? problem is that after 2008, the status eyes: the end of the Anglo-American And will even this be swept under of Wall Street has declined—and more era, and the beginning of a short, the rug, dismissed or “debunked” by importantly, after 2016, Wall Street dark period that will mark the final American media? Will American leaders can’t fix Trump.” The regime of the ccp years of the age of man. and everyday Americans care enough to has been utilizing the core power of the Remarkably, most people remain at least demand more information—let United States. As we will see, President asleep to this issue. This is largely alone deal with it? Trump’s opposition to China put him because many elites in politics, media, in opposition to the “core power of the business and technology—including Joe ‘We Have People at the Top’ United States”—America’s “China Class.” Biden—have prioritized personal inter- Di Dongsheng is an economics professor “During the U.S.-China trade war, ests over the interests of their country. in Beijing and a liaison to China’s Com- [Wall Street] tried to help. And I know They have been bought off by China. munist Party. Speaking at a Nov. 28, 2020, that; my friends on the U.S. side told me In addition to the prophetic trends event hosted by the Chinese nationalistic that they tried to help, but they couldn’t this highlights, it also contains a larger website Guan Video, this man dropped do much,” Di continued. You read that lesson—a profound truth about our these bombshell statements: “The right. Powerful Wall Street investors— human nature and our need for God. Trump administration is in a trade war the supposed embodiment of American with us, so why can’t we fix the Trump capitalism—tried to aid the interests Infiltration administration? Why between 1992 and of the ccp against those of their own A group of Chinese who oppose the 2016 did China and the U.S. used to be “America first” president. “But now, Chinese Communist Party (ccp) regime we’re seeing Biden was elected. The hacked a server in Shanghai and in This revelation proves that traditional elite, the political elite, the December 2020 exposed the identities the world is dealing with a establishment, they’re very close to Wall and details of nearly 2 million members determined, resourceful Street …. You all heard that Trump said of the party, and of some 79,000 Commu- Biden’s son has securities companies all nist Party branches. The leak unmasked enemy, and that nations over the world. But who helped Biden’s Communists working in sensitive and have been too casual about son build his global companies? You powerful positions in business, technol- protecting themselves. understand? There are indeed buy-and- ogy, prestige media, defense and politics sell transactions involved in here.” around the globe. They work inside able to settle all kinds of issues? No mat- This clip was quickly deleted from major companies like Boeing, Volkswa- ter what kind of crises we encountered Chinese social media, and you can see gen, hsbc, anz and others, as well as at … things were solved in no time. … We why. It would be difficult for China’s least 10 consulates. AstraZeneca and fixed everything in two months. What is Communists to explain these state- Pfizer, both of which were working on the reason? I’m going to throw out some- ments. It would also be difficult for a covid vaccines, employ 123 ccp members. thing maybe a little bit explosive here. Biden-Harris administration to explain “Beijing’s malign influence now It’s just because we have people at the top. how Joe Biden’s steady support of favor- stretches into almost every corner of At the top of America’s core inner circle able treatment of China—which dates British life, including defense firms, of power and influence, we have our old all the way back to when he helped the banks and pharmaceutical giants,” friends” (emphasis added throughout). Clinton administration open trade with reported the Daily Mail. “Among them is In other words, China’s ability to influ- the Chinese regime—are not a function a senior official at the British Consulate ence the U.S. government began with of his own family’s corruption. 6 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET The Bidens Information released on Sept. 5, 2020, Seen as Emerging Threat,” stated, “The Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed he by the Government Accountability infiltration by foreign countries like has “never spoken to my son about his Institute (gai) documents Hunter China into election voting equipment is overseas business dealings.” Evidence of Biden’s involvement as a director for emerging as a growing concern among the full extent of these dealings has been an investment firm in Shanghai, Bohai vendors, who are actually asking for mounting—as has the impossibility of Harvest rst, which is involved in selling more federal regulation as they grapple Joe Biden’s ignorance of them. American technology to the Chinese with a lack of domestic suppliers pro- These include Hunter Biden’s 10 per- military. When Hunter Biden was a direc- ducing critical technologies.” cent stake and a position as one of the tor, Bohai bought American auto parts Dominion Voting Systems is a com- nine directors of a Chinese private manufacturer Henniges. Since Henniges pany that supplied election machines used in 28 U.S. states, serving more than 40 percent of the American population. Tony Bobulinski said he was personally involved And it turns out this company has strong in an investment partnership with a Chinese connections to China. government-linked company and not just In testimony before Congress, Domin- Hunter Biden but also Jim Biden and Joe Biden. ion chief executive John Poulos said his company’s voting machines were built with Chinese hardware “from equity firm called bhr Partners. Though manufactures technology with military the screen on the interface down to its name sounds American enough, its applications, the sale had to be approved, the chip component level.” Litigation funding comes mostly from institutions and was approved—by the administra- Attorney Dana Jill Simpson alleged that owned by the Chinese government. tion of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Flex China manufactured Dominion Before the 2020 presidential elections, “[T]hese deals didn’t just make the machines in cooperation with Hua- investor Tony Bobulinski told Fox News Bidens money; they had potentially dan- wei Technologies, a state-supported host Tucker Carlson that he was person- gerous consequences for our national Chinese firm that has been accused of ally involved in an investment partner- security,” noted Peter Schweizer, who enabling surveillance by Beijing. ship with a Chinese government-linked made the gai’s documentary Riding Though Dominion is headquartered in company and not just Hunter Biden but the Dragon: The Bidens’ Chinese Secrets. Canada, it is majority-owned by Staple also Jim Biden and Joe Biden. He said “Hunter quietly maintains an ownership Street Capital, a private equity firm in the arrangement included a $5 million stake in the firm, a stake worth millions New York City. Just a month before the loan to the Biden family. He also said of dollars, and stands to be worth even election, this firm received $400 million one of the business partners told him to more as its China partnership prospers.” from ubs Securities, a Swiss investment keep Joe Biden’s involvement secret. It all brings chilling plausibility to Di bank partially owned by the Chinese gov- Also before the election, on Sept. 23, Dongsheng’s claim that “at the top of ernment. “An ntd tv report on December 2020, the Senate Committee on Home- America’s core inner circle of power and 5 showed that three board members land Security and Governmental Affairs influence, we have our old friends.” of ubs Securities llc appeared to be released a report titled “Hunter Biden, When these “people at the top” are Chinese, including Luo Qiang, Ye Xiang Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact so willing to sacrifice national interests and Mu Lina, according to the company’s on U.S. Government Policy and Related and even national security for personal profile page on Bloomberg,” the Epoch Concerns.” Among its findings: Hunter enrichment, this opens up disastrous Times reported. “Later, these names were Biden received $1 million from a former vulnerabilities. And China is keen to taken down from the profile page, raising Hong Kong official; he received $5 mil- exploit them. questions about whether the company lion from a Chinese energy company tied Given its frustrations over not being made changes following media reports” to the ccp; and he received a 2.8-carat able to “fix” Donald Trump, would you (Dec. 15, 2020). ubs has refused to answer diamond from the company’s founder, not expect China to try to ensure he questions about these board members, Ye Jianming, whom he met on one of wouldn’t achieve a second term? That and Dominion has deleted the LinkedIn several trips to China under Secret Ser- it would work to secure victory for accounts of one third of its employees. vice protection while his father was vice another of its “old friends”? This company’s troubling connections president. Ye Jianming also did business are deadly serious. “China poses a with Jim Biden. E-mails from Hunter Election Hacking? greater national security threat to the Biden’s laptop show he opened a line of Last year, White House National Secu- U.S. than any other nation—economi- credit with Ye’s associate the same day rity Adviser Robert O’Brien warned that cally, militarily, and technologically. That the Chinese energy company announced China was targeting U.S. election infra- includes threats of election influence a $9.1 billion deal with a Russian govern- structure with cyberattacks. Bloomberg and interference,” Director of National ment energy company. Another e-mail News highlighted that Chinese hardware Intelligence John Ratcliffe has said. lists “the big guy” as a shareholder in the in U.S. voting machines was a threat Considering China’s intentions and its Chinese energy company deal, which to the nation. A Jan. 9, 2020, report, track record, Americans should assume

MANDEL NGAN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA NGAN/AFP MANDEL some have identified as Joe Biden. “Chinese Technology in Voting Machines the worst and investigate accordingly. FEBRUARY 2021 7 Remarkably, however, only a small once-dominant anti-Communist lead- infiltration on the national stage? minority seem concerned. Despite ership to the point that San Francisco’s John Ratcliff, who has access to more considerable evidence of irregularities, Chinese community is now reliably intelligence than any member of the lawbreaking, tampering and hacking, pro-China, along with much of San Fran- government besides the president, says the pressure and intimidation to simply cisco’s non-Chinese political leadership, the problem is even worse than it looks. move on and accept the election results including Feinstein” (Aug. 20, 2018). is overwhelming. Many influential In December 2020, it emerged that America’s China Class Americans are more concerned about a California Congressman Eric Swalwell, In a Dec. 3, 2020, Wall Street Journal second Trump term than about election another House Intelligence Committee opinion editorial, Ratcliffe wrote: “If I hacking from China. member, had been targeted by a woman could communicate one thing to the

Blue-Gold-Yellow House Intelligence Committee member Eric Exiled Chinese dissident Guo Wengui, a Swalwell was targeted by a woman known as former business tycoon, has said China has an overarching strategy for world Christine Fang, an operative of Chinese State domination known as “bgy,” initials Security who had been deployed for years as for Blue (control the Internet), Gold an undercover agent in the U.S. (buy influence with money), and Yellow (seduce key people with sex). He says the known as Christine Fang. This woman American people from this unique van- plan is “to ruin the U.S. and to assure had placed at least one intern in Swal- tage point, it is that the People’s Repub- that China controls the world” (myanniu. well’s office and developed a personal lic of China poses the greatest threat to com, Oct. 5, 2017). relationship with him. She was also America today, and the greatest threat The credibility of these explosive an operative of Chinese State Security, to democracy and freedom worldwide claims was certainly strengthened by deployed for years as an undercover since World War ii. The intelligence is the Hunter Biden revelations. It has been agent in the U.S. clear: Beijing intends to dominate the further reinforced by reports of literal So, these Chinese spies are befriending U.S. and the rest of the planet economi- spies from the Chinese Communist Par- members of the House Intelligence Com- cally, militarily and technologically.” ty’s Ministry of State Security snuggling mittee. Imagine the reaction of Demo- This is China’s goal! And it doesn’t up with some of the nation’s top leaders. crats and the media if these congressmen take a pile of classified reports to see it. China’s Ministry of State Security were Republicans! But they are Demo- Reacting to news of Chinese spying, has a unit devoted solely to political crats. What was Democratic Speaker of Sen. Josh Hawley said, “[W]e’ve seen infiltration, influence and intelligence the House Nancy Pelosi’s reaction to peo- the Washington politicians and the D.C. operations in California. Not only does ple demanding that Swalwell be stripped establishment look the other way with California boast America’s largest state of access to American intelligence? China for years and years now. … It’s not population and biggest economy, it is “I don’t have any concern about Mr. as if they haven’t known that the Chinese dominated by the Bay Area and Silicon Swalwell.” has enacted espionage efforts against Valley, which are dominated by Demo- No concern. That is the general the U.S. It is known they are using tech crat politicians. The Blue, Gold and Yel- response to all evidence of Chinese espi- companies to spy on Americans, trying low strands of China’s strategy coalesce onage and infiltration. Why? The Center to leverage that information against us. here in a commanding way. for Strategic Studies has assembled a It’s not as if they haven’t known that the Two years ago it was shown that a staff list of 147 publicly reported instances of trade policies and other economic poli- member of the chair of Senate Intelli- Chinese espionage against the U.S. in the cies that we pursue with China have been gence Committee, California Sen. Dianne past decade. Why is this not a matter of ruinous for American workers. They’ve Feinstein, was a Chinese spy. For two urgent national interest? Government known all of that. They just don’t care. decades, Russell Lowe was office director data shows that about 30 percent of D.C. doesn’t care and they still don’t care.” in Senator Feinstein’s San Francisco foreign students in the U.S. are Chinese This is a devastating observation, but office and served as her California liaison nationals—about 340,000 of them. tragically true: Top politicians, jour- to the Asian-American community. This These students pay full tuition, so nalists, tech executives, businessmen, man was a known Chinese activist, hav- universities are addicted to the income professors, actors and even professional ing participated in Maoist-leaning, far- stream. Yet intelligence officials say this athletes routinely take the same effec- left organizations very influential in San pool has provided many spy recruits tively pro-Communist view. It’s a measure Francisco politics. One of these, Chinese for China. Why such carelessness over of the success of China’s strategies— for Affirmative Action, “worked with something so potentially ruinous? using Americans’ own greed, selfishness JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES other Maoist-influenced groups such Why are Democrats, the news media, and short-sightedness against them. as the Chinese Progressive Association tech giants and so many others in These efforts have created what ana- to push the Beijing line in Chinatown,” lockstep with each other—and, largely, lyst Lee Smith terms “America’s China the Epoch Times reported. “Together, with China’s Communist Party? What Class”—a swath of elites beholden in they helped to marginalize Chinatown’s else don’t we know—yet—about China’s one way or another to Chinese money 8 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET and influence. And they, like Di Dong- government organizations, including one the Assyrians would invade, and that sheng, are eager to clear the obstacle to blacklisted by the U.S. government for its these people would be the first to be relations with China—a president who role in abusing the Uyghurs. taken captive! has effectively revolted against a “deep Incidentally, the Hollywood Reporter Today, this same attitude infects state” that is betraying America’s inter- says Disney’s ceo at the time, Bob Iger, America—especially among the political ests to foreign powers like China—by is at the top of Joe Biden’s wish list for a class that is selling America’s industrial ensuring “old friends” are back in power. key ambassador post, possibly to China. might and resource wealth to foreign “America’s China Class, which owns the nations for profit. Blinded by greed, they platforms on which Americans commu- Amos’s Warning ignore threats to the nation. President nicate, has waged a relentless campaign Many, many of these elites are only Trump has worked to check the political of information warfare against [Presi- concerned with money. But some are establishment and to fight for America’s dent Trump] through its social media concerned with ideology too—and they interests. But his campaign to make and prestige media brands,” Smith wrote find socialism and communism attrac- America great again will be short-lived if for Tablet. These elites are flooding news tive. It’s trendy to self-righteously decry Americans fail to repent of the sins that and social media with disinformation “to slavery in America from hundreds of brought the nation to this point. protect their core interests—foremost years ago—and care nothing about your As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald among them being cheap Chinese labor shoes being made by virtual and actual Flurry has explained, President Trump and access to Chinese markets. … Amer- slave labor in China. “American cultural is an end-time King Jeroboam ii (read ican political and corporate elites didn’t elites (Hollywood, sports, art, etc.) who his landmark article on this subject choose decline. They chose to get rich. exploited the increasingly large Chinese at theTrumpet.com/17092). Like that By shipping America’s manufacturing market for their products provided ancient king, God is using him to tempo- base off to China, they seized a business cover for the China Class cohort with rarily save the nation from destruction opportunity the likes of which had never messaging that dovetailed with ccp (2 Kings 14:27)—just as God warns, “I been seen before—an enormous captive propaganda,” Smith continued. “Who will not again pass by them any more” labor force controlled by an authoritar- were Americans to judge a great and (Amos 7:8). This is America’s last chance ian regime that guaranteed the steady ancient civilization like China’s for jail- to repent. That is why God is ensuring production of goods at a fraction of what ing dissidents and enslaving the Uyghur so much governmental corruption is it would cost at home” (Sept. 15, 2020). minority? Doesn’t America have its own exposed: He is trying to awaken people When you’re only concerned with history of slavery and political prison- to the evil around us—and to the piti- money, doing deals with China is the ers? It’s racist to protect American jobs. able fragility of our sinful society and opportunity of a lifetime. There is Those jobs aren’t coming back and there civilization—to prod us to repentance! no other nation so large, with a labor is nothing to be done about it, as Barack force so subjugated. It is China’s com- Obama famously said …” (ibid). ‘Times of the Gentiles’ petitive advantage. This development is not only disas- The Americans and the British are This is why big-time companies like the trous—it is deeply shameful because descendants of ancient Israel. This means nba are willing to censor and fire their it was made possible by Americans’ own that end-time Bible prophecies about employees for criticizing China. Two corruptibility. And not just among a Israel primarily apply to the U.S. and Brit- years ago, an employee running the Mar- small cadre of leaders. True, Americans ain today. Those prophecies clearly show riott International Twitter account “liked” don’t force their leaders to prostitute that the peak of our power has passed, a tweet from a Tibetan separatist group themselves to big corporations for and that our destruction looms. that had praised Marriott for listing money, to engage in overseas business Decades ago—even before the U.S. Tibet as a country separate from China. dealings, to take bribes, to sell out Amer- established diplomatic relations with The Chinese government responded by ican foreign policy, to use their power Communist China in 1979—the late blocking Marriott’s website and mobile for personal gain. But we have allowed it. Herbert W. Armstrong warned that an app for a week. Marriott snapped back in Our weak moral character has allowed it. important factor that would strip Amer- line, publishing a groveling apology and Like our ancestors in the Bible, Amer- ica of its historically unprecedented, firing the employee—for a mouse click. ica is fatally weakened not by bullets and God-given blessings was its infiltration Most American entertainment and bombs, but by sin. by Communist forces. “We are not movie companies preemptively censor Anciently, during the time of the fighting a single nation in a military war, themselves to ensure their output will Israelite King Jeroboam ii, the Prophet but a gigantic, worldwide, plain-clothes be approved by Chinese Communist cen- Amos condemned greedy leaders army, masquerading as a political party, sors. After all, a failure to appease them who prioritized selfish interests and seeking to conquer the world with an shuts out a billion potential customers. enriched themselves while afflicting the entirely new kind of warfare!” he wrote Disney even filmed a movie in Xinjiang, people of Israel (Amos 6:1-6). These peo- in 1956. “It’s a kind of warfare we don’t the province where China is imprisoning ple “put far away the evil day”—acting as understand or know how to cope with. Uyghur Muslims on a mass scale. The col- if their lavish lifestyle would last forever It uses every diabolical means to weaken laboration with Beijing was so intimate, and ignoring threats to the nation. God us from within, sapping our strength, the movie’s credits thanked eight Chinese warned through the Prophet Amos that CHINA THREAT PAGE 23 u FEBRUARY 2021 9 or the last three universities, government and decades, the world has even religions. F been drawing closer to Hamilton warns that China. Of all major Western China is turning Australia nations, Australia has gotten into a puppet state. Australia, closer than any other. And he says, has received a wave now is it realizing the fear- of “billionaires with shady some consequences of that histories and tight links to embrace. the party, media owners It may be too late for the creating Beijing mouthpieces, Australians to pull out of the ‘patriotic’ students relationship. But their fate brainwashed from birth, and is a powerful warning to the professionals marshaled rest of the world. into pro-Beijing associations set up by the Chinese Money, Money, Money Embassy.” He alleges that It started with a business Chinese spies coordinated a relationship. penetration into all levels of After growing at an Australian society. astonishing annual rate In the aftermath of these of around 10 percent for allegations, Australian Sen. SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA some 30 years, China is Sam Dastyari resigned, and now, by some measures, the the nation had to change its world’s largest economy. It rules on politicians receiving takes a massive amount of donations from abroad. raw materials to fuel such AUSTRALIA: Other politicians appear growth, making Australia a to have received thinly dis- perfect trade partner. A WARNING guised bribes. Special Envoy In 2017, one third of Aus- Andrew Robb, for example, tralia’s exports went to China, was the man who signed off and nearly a quarter of its TO THE WORLD on China leasing Port Darwin imports came from China. for a century. And what was Soon the economic The consequences of growing too cozy with China waiting for him immediately relationship went beyond BY RICHARD PALMER upon leaving political office? trade. China started buying An estimated $2 million plus up huge tracts of Australia. Chinese Australia’s Merriden airport. expenses over three years—at the com- companies own more than 1 percent All this trade necessitated a close pany to whom he had just leased the port. of Australia’s land area, including coal political relationship. In 2014 the Aus- But Chinese influence on Australian mines, energy companies, cattle farms, tralian government invited President Xi governance has been even more aggres- tourist resorts and even tens of thou- Jinping to address Parliament. sive than all this. Three months prior sands of private homes. to Australia’s 2019 elections, someone By the end of 2019, China was offi- Undercover hacked the computer systems of the cially Australia’s ninth-largest foreign But this political relationship developed Australian Parliament and all major investor. However, much Chinese invest- a dark side. China is being credibly Australian political parties. Australian ment is also funneled through Hong accused of bribing Australian politicians Prime Minister Scott Morrison said at Kong, Australia’s fifth-largest investor. and interfering with Australian elections. the time that the attack was “sophis- The flourishing economic relation- In 2017, Australia’s public television ticated” and probably the work of a ship affected other areas of Australian station, abc, released a report showing foreign government. life. In 2015, a Chinese company closely that billionaires affiliated with the Chi- It has since emerged that this sophis- tied to China’s Communist government nese Communist Party were donating ticated foreign government was China. signed a 99-year lease of Australia’s millions to Australia political parties and northernmost port in Darwin. The building close relationships with Aus- Trade War port is vital to the Australian military tralia’s political elites. In 2018 Charles Chinese infiltration and aggression

and also hosts a United States military Sturt University ethics professor Clive has caused Australians to change their JULIA GODDARD/TRUMPET base. Chinese companies also signed Hamilton published an explosive book position toward their large, wealthy contracts for a 99-year lease on the port titled Silent Invasion. It documents the northern neighbor. of Newcastle, a share in the port of Mel- governing Chinese Communist Party’s The turnaround started gradually. In bourne, and a 100-year lease on Western infiltration of Australian corporations, 2016 the Australian government blocked 10 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Chinese investment in the nation’s in the position where one third of its Australia’s economy risks being broken. energy infrastructure over national exports go to one country. Engaging in This is the choice Australia now faces. security concerns. In 2018 they blocked a trade war with that country will affect Stand up to China and watch it use its Huawei Technologies from developing hundreds of thousands of jobs, with power, influence, hackers and economic Australia’s 5G network. some political districts facing little con- realities to devastate the Australian But the real break came this year. sequence but others being devastated. economy and more. Or submit to The Australia tried to hold China responsible In 2019 the state of Victoria signed Chinese Communist Party’s 14 points. for the spread of covid-19, and conducted an agreement to join China’s Belt and investigations into the origins of the virus. Road Initiative—a group of countries A Warning for America China reacted with fury. The Chinese that receive Chinese investment in their America is well down the path Austra- Communist Party placed tariffs on transportation and business infrastruc- lia is taking. China and America are Australian barley, wheat and coal. They ture in exchange for being drawn closer each other’s primary trading partners. found a sudden increase of “defects” into China’s orbit. Thus far, China has America is also waking up to scandals in Australian copper, cotton, lobster, avoided industries that would harm involving Chinese agents and Chinese sugar and timber. It blocked imports of Victoria. State Premier Dan Andrews money going to powerful politicians. Australian lamb for fear of covid con- has criticized the national government’s American universities have also been tamination, while meat from countries opposition to China—and Beijing seems compromised. And China is also using with much higher rates of covid sail on to have rewarded him for taking its side. trade wars very specifically—choosing through. About 40 percent of Australian Others, such as Queensland Premier what they put tariffs on based on which wine exports went to China. In Novem- Annastacia Palaszczuk, have also urged U.S. states they want to target. ber, the party imposed massive tariffs as the government to quickly end hostilities Australia’s fraught relationship with high as 200-plus percent on that wine. with China for the sake of Australian jobs. China is what America’s will become if Week by week, China is ratcheting up it continues down this path. After years the economic damage with more tariffs. of infiltration and influence, it already is Other strikes by China have been more Australia’s fraught beginning to face the same choice: Stand below-the-belt. On Nov. 30, 2020, an offi- relationship with China up to the Chinese Communist Party, its cial Twitter account of China’s Ministry is what America’s will 1 billion subjects, its world-leading econ- of Foreign Affairs posted a fake photo omy, and its willingness and ability to showing a grinning Australian soldier become if it continues exploit your open economy and society— holding a gory knife at the throat of an down this path. or comply with its continued infiltration Afghan child with the caption, “Don’t be and however many points it imposes. afraid, we are coming to bring you peace!” Business leaders also have a lot to lose, In fact, the Bible prophesies this is Australian inquiries into its troops’ and have taken China’s side. Andrew exactly where America is heading. Isa- conduct in Afghanistan have found no Forrest, a mining billionaire, brought iah 23 describes a “mart of nations”—a evidence of Australian soldiers killing one of China’s top diplomats to speak trading alliance in which “Chittim,” a bib- children. But China is spreading the alongside him at an official event—with- lical name for China, plays a major role. lie—an accusation that could easily lead out informing the Australian govern- America is a much larger economy to a terrorist attack against Australia. ment minister who was also attending. than Australia, and China cannot take As the trade and political skirmish Forrest said, “Australia needs to walk the Americans down alone. This same has worsened, China has issued Aus- that line where we have a best friend prophecy shows that China will work tralia a 14-point ultimatum. Australians in America, a best friend in China, best together with other Asian nations under can go back to buying and selling with friends across Southeast Asia.” its power, and with Europe! the Chinese the way they used to only Media mogul Kerry Stokes used the This is what happens when you let if the Australian government opens up front pages of his The West Australian a rival power infiltrate your economy, the country to Chinese investment and newspaper to call for an end to the your education, your society and your stops criticizing the governing Chinese conflict, writing, “If we’re going to go into policy. China will use all these levers Communist Party. the biggest debt we’ve had in our life and against America. Just like Australia, How will Australia hold up under this then simultaneously poke our biggest America will soon face economic pressure? Chinese infiltration has been provider of income in the eye it’s not nec- destruction. The prophecies are clear, so thorough that Australia is sailing into essarily the smartest thing you can do.” and so is the reality on the ground for a trade war divided. Some of Australia’s He said China “probably owes the world Australians and Americans. n own top politicians actually favor China! an explanation on the origins of covid-19,” To read more about Isaiah’s prophecy, but “we need to stop making accusations.” Divided We Fall He rightly pointed out the massive read our article “The Great Mart of Some of this is surely from bribery and economic cost that will come if the Nations” (theTrumpet.com/13881) other nefarious activity that we don’t confrontation with China continues. and request our free booklet Isaiah’s even know about. But a lot of it is from Between that and the destruction End-Time Vision, and read Chapter 7, the fact that Australia has put itself wrought by Australia’s covid lockdowns, “Building Toward a World Catastrophe.” FEBRUARY 2021 11 C hina has become one waters from the Atlantic and I of the world’s most Pacific oceans into reality. T aggressive and danger- Rather than sailing 8,000 ous powers. Its leaders miles around the dangerous N SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA clearly have the ambi- cape at the end of South A tion to rule the world! America, sailors could now L And China’s danger and transit the 51-mile canal in T ambition is multiplied by its remarkably less than half the time. A Cclose partnership with Russia. One of the “Seven Won- CHINA’S But the biggest problem China poses ders of the Modern World,” A is not generally mentioned. This is the Panama Canal served not something that American politicians, just Americans but opened MOST especially, want to forget. Perhaps even up free trade and all kinds of the American people want to forget it service and blessings to the M because they share in the blame for whole world! DANGEROUS letting this maneuver happen. This prob- Today, 340 million tons of lem may prove to be the most insidious cargo, including many mate- A move by China against America in his- rials and products we all use MANEUVER tory. And it will plague the United States on a daily basis, transit the in the near future! Panama Canal. More than I’m talking about China’s takeover of a million ships have passed EVER N the Panama Canal. through it. Some supply chains that serve millions Economic Power of people would not even be AGAINST Carving a channel through Central possible without it. A America was a goal for centuries. But One of the greatest for- it wasn’t until 1880 that France made eign-policy experts, the late AMERICA the first concerted attempt under Charles Krauthammer, said Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French entre- building this “strategic jewel” Americans are realizingP that preneur who had completed the Suez raised America “to the rank China is a dangerous threat. Canal. The French spent the modern of great power” (Time, Dec. equivalent of $6 billion, only to abandon 27, 1999). But you probably won’t guess it after disease and accidents killed The canal was a major its deadliest anti-U.S. stroke. more than 22,000 laborers. Building an part of making America BY GERALD FLURRY interoceanic canal appeared impossible. great! It was an unparalleled But in 1903, United States President spectacle—a wonderful Theodore Roosevelt convinced the creation and a great victory Panamanians to declare independence in American history. It was a grand the Panama Canal existed, the voyage from Colombia and signed a landmark blessing to the U.S. and to other nations would have been only 4,000 miles and treaty with them. America paid France and peoples. I believe building the taken as little as three weeks. $40 million for its equipment and Panama Canal may have been America’s This event showed the U.S. how excavations and paid the Panamanians greatest-ever foreign-policy success. militarily important it was to dig a canal an initial payment of $10 million. Then through Central America. It’s no wonder the Americans went down and started Military Power then that once Roosevelt green-lighted digging! The Panama Canal was also of immense the canal project, the U.S. military sup- Roosevelt was the first president military value for the United States. plied much of the labor, engineers and to really see that America should be To understand, consider this history: security during construction. And as they a world power. And he governed as if In 1898—years before the canal was dug the canal, they were simultaneously America was a world power, not just a built—the United States Battleship constructing military bases alongside it. colony of Europe. Maine exploded off the coast of Cuba, By the time America entered World After 10 years of innovation and killing 260 American officers and other War ii, it had nine operational military backbreaking toil, hundreds of millions men and igniting the Spanish-American forts at each end of the canal—and of American taxpayer dollars, and losing War. The Navy dispatched its most several inland installations along its over 5,600 lives themselves, the Ameri- advanced warship, the uss Oregon, to path. These included bases for the Army, REESE ZOELLNER/TRUMPET cans succeeded where so many others the scene. But the Oregon was anchored Air Force and Navy. The American mil- had failed. They turned the 400-year-old in San Francisco Bay. It had to sail itary presence covered almost 90,000 dream of slicing apart North America 12,000 miles, burn 4,100 tons of coal, acres and included more than 5,420 and South America and mingling the and spend 68 days to reach Cuba. Had buildings worth an estimated $4 billion. 12 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET C I important to the U.S. as the keep rioting and causing problems that T Panama Canal. Not even would disrupt trade through the canal, close! so Carter surrendered it altogether! N But, tragically, America’s The final phase of the Torrijos-Car- A control over this “strategic ter treaty took effect on Dec. 31, 1999, L jewel” was not to last. when the U.S. relinquished its last T control. But there is a lot more to this A Going, Going, Gone story than the world—and especially CHINA’S Though the people of Panama America—understand. A benefited immensely from America wasn’t relinquishing control the canal and the surround- just to Panama. MOST ing U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, some became resentful Chinese Power M about America’s presence in Even before the final phase of the han- DANGEROUS their nation. The Globalist dover, an event happened that should wrote in 2014: “[R]ich Pana- have shaken America—but it was A manians complained of not barely noticed! On March 1, 1997, a giant MANEUVER being able to sell enough Chinese corporation took control of the to the Zone, while poor American-constructed ports at each end Panamanians complained of the Panama Canal. EVER N of everything else. Demands Like most large Chinese companies, intensified after the Cuban Hutchinson Whampoa (now CK Hutchi- Revolution of 1959 ….” son Holdings) is controlled by the ruling AGAINST In that bloody revolution, Chinese Communist Party (ccp). This A Communists led by Fidel means the ccp ultimately could take Castro seized control of control of who can enter and exit the AMERICA Cuba. By 1964, some Marx- Panama Canal. ist-Leninist influence had Any student of military strategy P spilled over from Castro’s should see the startling possibilities Cuba into Panama. The that this terrible Chinese deal opened C Communists inflamed up. An enterprise of China—the nation I the resentment that some possessing the world’s largest army, and I F Panamanians felt toward aggressively expanding its navy and C America. Soon Panamanian air force—took control of the major A students and what were sea-transit gateway between East and P almost certainly Communist West. If China were to suddenly sink instigators started rioting a large ship in the canal or otherwise At the height of World War ii, the United in the Canal Zone, and more than 20 sabotage it, the nation could deny the States stationed 65,000 troops through- people were killed. U.S. Navy access through this strategic out Panama to protect its invaluable Panama’s government temporarily choke point. The wartime implications strategic ability to quickly move war- broke off ties with the U.S., and the of that are alarming! ships, materiel and troops from one administration of American President And now that China has a solid com- ocean to another and project its power Lyndon B. Johnson felt pressure to hand mercial foothold at the canal, what would around the globe. GlobalSecurity.org the canal over. During a 1964 speech, he stop it from opening military bases wrote that during World War ii, “When promised that America would draw up a there and moving its troops, submarines, the United States found itself enmeshed “long-range plan” of “major changes” for warships and fighter jets in? It is true in a two-ocean war, the Panama Canal the canal. that the Torrijos-Carter treaty includes suddenly became the most strategic Those plans culminated in a terrible a clause demanding “permanent neu- point on the globe.” deal signed in 1977. That is when Pan- trality and operation” of the canal, and During the Cold War, the Panama ama’s dictator, Omar Torrijos, signed makes clear that anyone trying to attack Canal was again a crucial strategic gate- new treaties with U.S. President Jimmy the seaway or build a military presence way and was the headquarters of the U.S. Carter that replaced the 1903 Roosevelt there would face an immediate military Southern Command. American soldiers, treaty. Under the new terms, Carter response from America. sailors, airmen and marines under agreed for the canal to be transferred to But if the ccp timed such a move pru- this command promoted freedom and a small group of political thugs in Pan- dently—waiting until the U.S. is suffering democracy in the Western Hemisphere ama. In other words, Carter just gave serious internal disorder or until China’s and countered the spread of communism. away this “strategic jewel”! The thugs partners are antagonizing America else- No maritime gate on Earth was as running that little country threatened to where—then how strongly would the U.S. FEBRUARY 2021 13 military be able to respond? pawns in the grand Chinese game. And in the next few years, the world will Christopher R. O’Dea, an adjunct The Communist Party that runs see just how dangerous it was. fellow at Hudson Institute, wrote in 2018 China is not to be trusted. You can see Panama is already a massive victory that we should expect China to militarize that by their fruits. This Communist athe- for the Chinese Communist Party and its commercial ports! “Chinese state- ist regime is ambitious in a very evil way. a great loss for the security of America owned shipping and construction com- This is the power that can control and the world. It was also proof of the panies have assembled a global network the gateway between the world’s two true prophecies of your Bible! of commercial ports that can be readily greatest oceans! It can control shipping converted to military bases. … China between America’s own east and west Possessing the ‘Gates’ clearly intends to militarize commercial coasts. This all happened through a deal Genesis 35:11 records a promise God facilities,” he wrote, saying that this struck by a money-grasping Panama- made to Abraham’s grandson Jacob, could quickly happen in Panama. nian government. whose name was changed to Israel: “And Around Panama, the Chinese Navy And America stood by and let it happen. God said unto him, I am God Almighty: is making port visits. In recent years, Theodore Roosevelt once famously be fruitful and multiply; a nation, and a warships sailing under the red, five-star said: “If we stand idly by … if we shrink company of nations shall be of thee, and Chinese flag have anchored off of Cuba from the hard contests where men must kings shall come out of thy loins.” Notice: and Venezuela. The U.S. Naval Institute win at hazard of their lives, and at the God Himself is saying this! wrote about these kinds of port calls in risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder The “great nation” mentioned here June 2019, and said the Chinese “will and stronger peoples will pass us by, and is the United States. The “company of leverage their Latin American presence will win for themselves the domination nations” is the British Empire. The fact when they feel it necessary.” of the world.” that God fulfilled this promise to Jacob The trail is already blazed! When Roosevelt had boldness and strength by blessing the U.S. and Great Britain the circumstances are right, China can to act! He took risks! He did not fear can be proved in several ways. You can move its military into Panama. Then it those who wanted to destroy America. read about it and prove it to yourself by not only will be able to deny America But he did fear God! He wrote a famous ordering a free copy of The United States transit through the canal, but also book titled Fear God and Take Your Own and Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert W. can use its presence there as a staging Part. Even the title says so much: Fear Armstrong. It shows how God fulfilled ground to attack the U.S. underbelly! God and trust God, and do your own this prophecy mightily through Jacob’s With warships, submarines and part with courage! Good advice! son Joseph and his descendants, who bombers only 900 miles from Miami, What would Roosevelt have thought ultimately became the Americans and China would be well positioned for such of his successors in the presidency who the British. attacks. If China moved warplanes or outright surrendered the strategic jewel Deuteronomy 28:52 shows that one missiles to “protect” its interests in Pan- that he and so many others hazarded specific way God would bless these two ama, much of the U.S. mainland would so much to build? What would he think powers was by giving them control over be within striking distance. The poten- of them surrendering it to “bolder and “gates.” These “gates” are the maritime tial threat to U.S. and world security stronger peoples” in China interested in ports and passages that world trade posed by Panama’s decision to let China “domination of the world”? flows through, and even land gates in a run the canal is difficult to fathom! few cases. Do you think this won’t plague Amer- Few Americans are concerned At the height of British and American ica in the future? Where is our vision? about the canal today. This power in the 19th and 20th centuries, America is so wrapped up in itself that it Britain possessed or controlled the Suez doesn’t even see what is happening. is another sign that we have Canal, Gibraltar, Malta, the Dardanelles, lost our world vision and are the English Channel, the Gulf of Aden, Not to Be Trusted bogged down in the present. the Andarman and Nicobar Islands, If you think China won’t behave that Zanzibar, Cape Town, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), way, look at what the ccp has already The truth is we surrendered the canal the Straits of Malacca, Singapore, Hong done in recent years. Look at their because of fear! We wanted to withdraw Kong and the Falkland Islands. America illegal trade practices, including system- forces from Panama rather than hazard possessed or controlled the Aleutians, atic theft of intellectual property and a clash that our leaders felt would inevi- the Hawaiian Isles, Midway, Guam, Wake government-subsidized distortion of tably come. Then we acted like the canal Island, the Philippines—and the Panama competition. Look at their illegal take- was unimportant. Yet we still fantasize Canal. And the British and American over of the South China Sea and Hong like children that we are a superpower. navies kept sea lanes open through many Kong. Look at the way they are pushing No real superpower acts that way! other choke points around the globe. at the Indians and trying to take more Few Americans are concerned about Britain and the U.S. didn’t gain all land along their border. Look at their the canal today. This is another sign that these strategic gates because we are aggression against Taiwan. Look at the we have lost our world vision and are somehow better than other nations. predatory lending to small countries bogged down in the present. What hap- God gave these awesome gifts to us! using debt as a weapon to make them pened with Panama is very dangerous. He gave them so we could virtually rule 14 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET the world, but in a far more benevolent way than powers like China ever would. The fact that Britain and America acquired all these strategic oceanic locations itself proves that these nations The are modern Israel. Communist One of these gates was far more strategically important to America than Party that all others. It is discussed specifically in runs China your Bible in an astounding way. is not to be In Genesis 22:17 God says to Abraham, trusted. “That in blessing I will bless thee, and Chinese President in multiplying I will multiply thy seed You can Xi and former Panamanian as the stars of the heaven, and as the see that by President Varela at the Cocoli locks in sand which is upon the sea shore ….” their fruits. the Panama Canal This shows how immense the family of Abraham would become, largely through his grandson Israel. because he feared God! Clearly, the Hope and many other gates. Based on God continues: “[A]nd thy seed shall Panama Canal is “the gate” God speaks these scriptures, he prophesied that the possess the gate of his enemies.” of in Genesis 22:17. trend would accelerate. In 1980, he wrote, Deuteronomy 28 specifies “gates,” “As the ‘pride of our power’ continues to plural, an accurate translation of the Losing the ‘Gates’ be broken, as the British continue to lose Hebrew word seareka. But here in Gen- In Deuteronomy 28:52, God says that if their foreign sea gates and possessions esis 22, it is from the singular construct the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and around the Earth, as America signs away of the word: “the gate.” It’s just one. Jacob refused to turn to Him, He would ownership of the Panama Canal … this Which gate could this be? Which one is cause their enemies to take control of all focal prophecy alone represents giant God singling out as the main fulfillment the very same gates He had previously proof as to where the modern ‘remnant’ of this blessing from God? blessed them with. of the peoples of Israel resides today!” I don’t believe any sea gate could Notice that this is about the end time— When Mr. Armstrong died in 1986, the be called “THE gate” except the Pan- the time we now live in. Genesis 49:1 U.S. still controlled “the gate,” the Pan- ama Canal. talks about what would happen to the ama Canal. But some 14 years after his Estimates published in 1934 calculated sons of Jacob (or Israel) in the “last days,” death, America surrendered it, proving that the maximum traffic the Panama and this passage in Deuteronomy, about Mr. Armstrong right. Canal could handle would be around the nations of Israel losing the gates, is Our broken pride in our power is 80 million tons of shipping per year. But largely about that same time frame. why our people are not stirred by what by 2015, traffic was more than 340 million God tells those same descendants happened with the Panama surrender. tons of shipping each year—quadruple of Israel in Leviticus 26:19: “And I will How long must God curse us before we the original maximum estimate. break the pride of your power.” That is awaken? That is the big question each of In 2010, the one millionth ship a prophecy, too. If we don’t look to the us must answer. The decision is in our crossed the Panama Canal. One million God who made great powers of Britain hands—nationally and individually. ships in less than 100 years! That adds and America, then He will reverse The whole world is watching. Unless up to billions of dollars saved by ships those blessings. They have already been we repent before God, they will see that didn’t have to circumnavigate South fading away, especially for Britain. Does our tragic collapse. And the Bible’s America. All that savings is passed on anybody ever ask why? God doesn’t prophecies show that China’s grip on the to anyone who buys products shipped give blessings like this and just take Panama Canal could play a major role in through the Panama Canal, which is them away unless there’s a great that tragic collapse. almost all of us. reason. Do you know what it is? And it goes beyond economics. As A big part of the answer is ingratitude ‘Mart of Nations’ covered above, the Panama Canal helped toward God, and turning away from Him. The Bible also prophesies the rise of a guarantee the security of the world, espe- Our sins have made us a weak spectacle massive trade bloc in the end time. Isaiah cially the Western world. It positioned before the world. The Bible makes clear 23:3 describes it as a “mart of nations.” the U.S. to better police the globe and to that God will continue to break the pride Verse 1 shows that a lead nation in keep powerful aggressor nations from of our power if we don’t heed Him and this trade bloc would be “Chittim,” an running roughshod over weak countries. aren’t thankful for all His blessings. ancient name for China. Another lead- This canal has served the world for Throughout his many years of writing ing power in the trade bloc is “Tyre,” a decades. It was a great gift given by and teaching, Mr. Armstrong witnessed name representing the commercial cen- God through America and through His Britain lose control over the Suez Canal, ter of modern Europe. A related passage

LUIS ACOSTA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA ACOSTA/AFP LUIS outstanding leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Singapore, Cyprus, the Cape of Good CHINA MANEUVER PAGE 36 u FEBRUARY 2021 15 The Opium Wars of the 1800s involved SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA thousands of tons of opium pouring into China, which addicted millions Chinese of Chinese, devastated their economy, and contributed to their military loss Cartels Have against the British Empire. In 1927, China erupted in a civil war Infiltrated between the Nationalist Party and the insurgent Communist Party. Commu- Mexico nist leader Mao Zedong instructed his subordinates to grow poppies and convert them to opium, then traffic it into China’s non-Communist regions. How much are foreign powers using the drug As drugs became more available in those trade to undermine America? BY ANDREW MIILLER regions, people more readily used them. Opium weakened drug users, their soci- eties, their governments and their mili- taries. The Communists then conquered ynthetic opioids like fentanyl of the Chinese Communist Party (ccp) the area. Once in power, they took are America’s deadliest drugs. wants Americans addicted to drugs. draconian measures to stamp out drug S Twice as many people die from use, executing suspected traffickers. synthetic opioid overdose as die from ‘The Things They Like to Taste’ The Communists conquered main- being shot by a murderer. Yet until Officially, the U.S. government says the land China in 1949. Mao then nation- recently, law enforcement could not Chinese government is not complicit alized opium production and started trace it to its source. A new report from in drug trafficking. But retired Drug supplying narcotics to people in other the security firm Fortress Risk Manage- Enforcement Agency officer Derek countries that opposed him, primarily ment, however, shows it is being smug- Maltz told Fox News this is not true. Japan and the United States. During the gled across the Pacific Ocean by Chinese “As part of the ccp’s unrestricted 1950s and 1960s, Chinese Premier Zhou drug traffickers. The Chinese Los Zheng warfare model, they have progressed Enlai managed his nation’s narcotics cartel operates through a network of significantly against America with their operations. He allegedly told Egyptian Mexican pharmacies, veterinary clinics, enhanced role in the drug business,” President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1955 clothing stores and computer shops. Maltz noted. “They can make multibil- that the Communists would use drugs And it is Mexico’s largest fentanyl cartel. lions and, at the same time, undermine to destroy morale among U.S. troops According to Fortress, manufacturers the security of America. A kilogram of in Asia (Edward R. Slack, Opium, State in Wuhan, China, ship chemicals across fentanyl can kill 500,000 people, so the and Society). In 1964, Soviet statesman the Pacific Ocean to Mexican ports administration should look at the death Mikhail Suslov summarized Zhou’s in Manzanillo, Ensenada and Lázaro rates and treat this as a serious national strategy this way: “[D]isarm the capital- Cárdenas. The chemicals are then trans- security threat as opposed to only a ists with the things they like to taste.” ported to clandestine laboratories in public health crisis.” There is little evidence that any pre- and around Mexico City. The Los Zheng Most people realize China is one of mier since Zhou has actively managed cartel synthesizes them into fentanyl the nations most opposed to the U.S. China’s drug trade. But the nation still and methamphetamines for shipment Many understand that the most effective incorporates “drug warfare” in its mili- to drug dealers in the United States. way to destroy an enemy nation is by tary strategy. Overdose deaths in the U.S. involving weakening it from within. Yet few have “Recent Chinese doctrine articulates fentanyl and other synthetic opioids considered whether China is now doing the use of a wide spectrum of warfare mushroomed from about 3,000 in 2013 this through American drug users. The against its adversaries, including to more than 30,000 in 2018. The U.S. Chinese Communist regime wants the United States,” said a 2014 report government is attempting to shut down America to fall. It does not want to from U.S. Army Special Operations the Los Zheng cartel and has urged the engage a superpower in open warfare. So Command. “The People’s Liberation Chinese government to shutter the why not facilitate the flow of illicit drugs Army (pla) colonels Liang and Xiangsui chemical laboratories, but the cartel that kill thousands of people, destroy outline China’s vision on how China ISTOCK.COM/TZAHIV/RANPLETTE continues to dominate Mexico’s syn- families, increase crime, drain policing will attack the United States through a thetic opioid market. resources and create anarchy? Evidence combination of military and nonmili- One reason for Los Zheng’s success is shows China is using just such a strategy! tary actions. … These methods include that U.S. demand for fentanyl is high. But Chinese leaders understand the trade warfare, financial warfare, eco- another likely reason is that the politburo devastating effect opioids can have. logical warfare, psychological warfare, 16 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET smuggling warfare, media warfare, drug browbeaten into submission. But a failed warns that He will tear down this hedge. warfare, network warfare, technological Mexico would not restrict the drug trade Isaiah 5:5 records Him as saying: “I will warfare, fabrication warfare, resources at all. The border would be chaos, and tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I warfare, economic aid warfare, cul- the implications of that go well beyond will take away the hedge thereof, and it tural warfare, and international law drugs. One of the United States’ largest shall be eaten up; and break down the warfare” (Sept. 26, 2014). In short, by trading partners could well devolve into wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.” turning a blind eye to Chinese fentanyl a seething anarchy that could not help God warns that foreign enemies will traffickers—if not actively managing but leak into the U.S. proper.” besiege the weakened United States: them—the Chinese government can By allowing the Los Zheng cartel to “The Lord shall bring a nation against weaken America. operate in Wuhan and Shanghai, the thee from far, from the end of the earth, Chinese government is destabilizing as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation Enemies at the Border Mexico, and using Mexico’s population whose tongue thou shalt not understand; Drug use is a strategic vulnerability for of 130 million people as pawns to desta- A nation of fierce countenance, which America. Adversaries can attack the bilize America. If America itself were to shall not regard the person of the old, U.S. without starting a world war by collapse into “a seething anarchy,” its nor shew favour to the young: And he feeding its drug users. “[E]ven if every foreign enemies would have a once-in- shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the country in South America were run by a-lifetime opportunity to seize control fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy 10 U.S. Overdose Death rate kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have 8 per 100,000 destroyed thee. And he shall besiege thee Synthetic Opioids (including Fentanyl) in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced 6 walls come down, wherein thou trust- edst, throughout all thy land: and he shall 4 Prescription Opioids besiege thee in all thy gates throughout Heroin all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath 2 Cocaine Psychostimulants given thee” (Deuteronomy 28:49-52). 0 The Trumpet’s parent magazine, the 2006 2009 2012 2015 2018 Plain Truth, stated in 1979 that the first breach in America’s protective hedge anti-American governments, it would of Cuba, Panama and other vital mar- occurred in 1959, when Communist not overly concern Washington; these itime trade choke points. Since about revolutionaries overran Cuba. states, alone or en masse, lack the ability half of America’s seaborne trade passes Today, China is destabilizing Mexico to threaten American interests,” Geopo- within 100 miles of Cuba, a nightmare and further uprooting the hedge that litical analyst Peter Zeihan wrote in 2008. scenario would be having a foreign protects the U.S. southern border. This He then clarified: “… in all ways but one. power cripple its economy by cutting subversive activity will ultimately lead to The drug trade undermines American off its Caribbean trade routes while it is the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28. Once society from within, generating massive engaged in a civil war! America becomes too divided, destroyed costs for social stability, law enforcement, and drugged to strike its enemies, those the health system and trade.” Economic Siege enemies will tear down its walls, seize Addiction psychiatry specialist The late Herbert W. Armstrong explained control of its trade routes, and put it Dr. Indra Cidambi says these “massive in his landmark book The United States under a massive economic siege! costs” to social stability, law enforcement and Britain in Prophecy that the Anglo- Like the victims of the Opium Wars and health care equal about 5 percent of Saxon peoples of Britain and the U.S. and the weaponized drug trade, Amer- America’s gross domestic product. That is originally descended from the ancient icans are willingly ingesting a dose that over $1 trillion per year—about $3,000 for Israelites. This astonishing truth means is fatal to individuals and to the nation: every man, woman and child in America. that the Bible’s prophecies about Israel in “the things they like to taste.” n The strategic threat of drug use extends the “time of the end” are directed at the far beyond economic losses. Empowering British and the Americans. cartels to the point that the Mexican gov- In one prophecy, God likens the U.S. What does it matter? ernment becomes even less stable—or to a hedged vineyard. The United States A drug deal happens on U.S. streets with falls—threatens the territorial integrity is blessed with a hedge to the north and a Mexican dealer and drugs supplied by of the United States itself. “In many south by two nonthreatening nations and regards, Mexico as a failed state would to the east and west by the two largest China. Why report on this? It’s all about be a worse result for Washington than a oceans on Earth. But because the people where America is headed. Request hostile united Mexico,” Zeihan continued. did not acknowledge that these blessings Gerald Flurry’s free booklet Isaiah’s “A hostile Mexico could be intimidated, are from God and instead indulge in End-Time Vision and read Chapter 7, sanctioned or even invaded, effectively rampant sin, including drug use, God “Building Toward a World Catastrophe.” FEBRUARY 2021 17 SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA The Tangled Web of E-Voting After the 2020 United States presidential elections, former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell said she was accumulating “staggering statistical evidence” that Dominion Voting Systems stole votes from U.S. President Donald Trump. While these claims are still being investigated, it has been shown that Dominion Voting Systems has many disturbing connections to some unsavory people and institutions.

JOHN POULOS and James Hoover founded Dominion Voting Systems after the 2000 U.S. presidential election debacle—when paper ballot results from Florida were contested for weeks.

DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, but also has offices in Serbia and the United States. It provides voting equipment and software to 28 U.S. states—including the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

In 2014, Dominion donated between $25,000 and $50,000 to the DELIAN PROJECT—a CLINTON FOUNDATION initiative to provide emerging democracies with voting technology.

DOMINION

Dana Jill Simpson In June 2010, Dominion Voting Systems SMARTMATIC INTERNATIONAL was LITIGATION ATTORNEY acquired SEQUOIA VOTING SYSTEMS—a founded in Venezuela in 1997 by three “I have one goal in this California-based company that was owned by Venezuelan engineers, ANTONIO MUGICA, election and it is to Smartmatic International from 2005 to 2007. Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate. destroy Dominion Voting. This machinery not only stole the election from Trump but also Bernie. The late Venezuelan dictator HUGO CHÁVEZ This bunch in Serbia and Canada of chose Smartmatic International to supply Dominion computer program hackers the voting machines for a controversial works with Hillary and with the UN 2004 referendum on whether to keep him on overthrowing foreign countries as president. with the Delian Project. Anyone who stands up for this machinery is nuts In 2005 NEIL SHEN established and they are misleading the public SEQUOIA CAPITAL CHINA as an affiliate about where the equipment is made. to the U.S. firm, with the support of Sequoia The U.S. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT in the I have been to the Denver office and Capital’s Michael Moritz and Douglas Leone. United States ordered Smartmatic International to sell Sequoia all it does is sell foreign-programed Sequoia Capital funded Sequoia Voting Voting Systems in 2007 due to Smartmatic’s ties to Venezuela. machines to U.S. voters like they were Systems, and Neil Shen has close connections made in Denver when they are not.” to the CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

18 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES, CHESNOT/GETTY IMAGES, DAVID GANNON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, 60 MINUTES, VCG/GETTY IMAGES “On top of everything else, we have a company that’s very suspect. Its name is Dominion, with the turn of a dial or the change of a chip, you could press a button for Trump and the vote goes to Biden. What kind of a system is this? We have to go to paper. Maybe it takes longer, but the only secure system is paper—not these systems that nobody understands, including, in many cases, the people that run them. Although, unfortunately, I think they understand them far too well.”

Donald Trump U.S. PRESIDENT

The private equity firm A month before the election, Staple Street STAPLE STREET CAPITAL Capital received $400 million from UBS owns a controlling interest in SECURITIES—a Swiss investment bank Dominion Voting Systems. partially owned by the CHINESE GOVERNMENT.

JOHN POULOS testified before the U.S. House Committee on House Administration on Jan. 9, 2020, that Dominion voting machines were built with Chinese Staple Street Capital was cofounded GEORGE SOROS is the hardware “from the screen on by the CARLYLE GROUP. Many influential founder of the OPEN the interface down to the chip individuals have worked for or invested in the SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS, an component level.” Litigation Carlyle Group, including former Bundesbank international grant-making attorney Dana Jill Simpson president Karl Otto Pöhl, Saudi Prince al-Waleed network that funds left-wing alleged that FLEX CHINA bin Talal, and U.S. billionaire GEORGE SOROS. causes around the world. manufactured Dominion voting LORD MARK MALLOCH- machines in cooperation with BROWN was a global board HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES. member of the Open Society Foundations during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In December 2020, he Sidney Powell SMARTMATIC INTERNATIONAL was succeeded Patrick Gaspard FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR founded in Venezuela in 1997 by three as president of Open Society Venezuelan engineers, ANTONIO MUGICA, Foundations. “I can hardly wait to put Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate. forth all the evidence we have collected on Dominion, starting with the fact it was The late Venezuelan dictator HUGO CHÁVEZ created to produce altered chose Smartmatic International to supply voting results in Venezuela for the voting machines for a controversial Hugo Chávez and then shipped 2004 referendum on whether to keep him internationally to manipulate as president. votes for purchase in other countries, including this Smartmatic International is owned by a holding one. It was funded by money company in the United Kingdom, SGO. The from Venezuela and Cuba, The U.S. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT in the chairman of the SGO board is former Labour and China has a role in it also. United States ordered Smartmatic International to sell Sequoia politician LORD MARK MALLOCH-BROWN— So, if you want to talk Voting Systems in 2007 due to Smartmatic’s ties to Venezuela. author of The Unfinished Global Revolution and about foreign election associate of U.S. billionaire GEORGE SOROS. interference, we certainly have it now.”

SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES, SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES, TOM WILLIAMS/GETTY IMAGES, NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, AVERY CUNLIFFE/PHOTOSHOT/GETTY IMAGES, DAVID LEVENSON/GETTY IMAGES FEBRUARY 2021 19 stories that would hurt Democrat Joe Biden’s chances of election. Undercover investigators working for Project Veritas caught Google executive Jen Gennai on camera in 2019 boasting that only Google could prevent “the next Trump situation.” And in October 2020, Facebook executives announced that they were deliberately changing their search algorithms to limit users’ ability to share a story on the Biden family’s business dealings in China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine. Twitter went a step further. When the New York Post uncovered this story and others based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Twitter locked its account and blocked users from sharing the story. The conservative Media Research Center reported out of the 1,750 Biden voters it surveyed, 1 in 6 would not have voted for him if they had known about SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA scandals suppressed by the media. Google, Facebook, Twitter—some of the biggest and most powerful corpo- The Biggest Threat to rations in the world—are altering what Americans can see and hear to censor conservatives and support liberals. American Democracy But Barack Obama says they aren’t biased enough. Tech giants are censoring what you watch and read, and the The Bible foretold that truth would be consequences go beyond the 2020 election. BY ANDREW MIILLER cast down to the ground by an organized host of people in the end time. You need ormer United States President Limbaugh and “the entire right-wing to understand the inner workings of Barack Obama is denouncing media ecosystem” for interfering with this network and the dark spirit that F conservative media as “the single his administration’s plans to fundamen- empowers it! biggest threat to our democracy.” In his tally transform America. most recent effort to increase govern- Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Election Rigging mental control over news and technology Clinton and other liberals are broadcast- One of the biggest threats to free and companies, Mr. Obama contended that ing the narrative that the media does not fair elections in the United States is Facebook, Twitter and other media plat- censor conservatives enough. Yet Big media bias and censorship. For eight forms needed to use stronger censorship Media and Big Tech are already notori- years, behavioral psychologist Dr. Robert to stop conservatives from spreading ous for censoring conservatives, labeling Epstein, a liberal, has warned that Google “crazy lies and conspiracy theories.” them racists as if it were objective fact. can easily determine the outcome of elec- “The First Amendment doesn’t require Now evidence is piling up that these tions by adjusting its search algorithms private companies to provide a platform companies tried to interfere with the to favor one political party over another. for any view that is out there,” Mr. Obama 2020 presidential election by censoring Research shows that Google handles over told the Atlantic on Nov. 11, 2020. “At 86 percent of all search queries world- the end of the day, we’re going to have wide. And when Google’s search results to find a combination of government come up, 95 percent of the clicks are on regulations and corporate practices that the very first page of search results. address this, because it’s going to get When Google pushes a site off of the worse. … If we do not have the capacity first page, very few will ever click on it. to distinguish what’s true from what’s 6 MILLION “Google’s search algorithm can easily JULIAGODDARD/TRUMPET false, then by definition the marketplace The “bare minimum” of votes that shift the voting preferences of unde- of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition were shifted to Joe Biden by cided voters by 20 percent or more—up Google’s biased search algorithm. our democracy doesn’t work.” to 80 percent in some demographic Mr. Obama blamed Fox News, Rush groups—with virtually no one knowing 20 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET SOURCE: BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGIST DR. ROBERT EPSTEIN. they are being manipulated,” Epstein representatives attended meetings at the Biden while promoting stories critical of wrote in a 2015 editorial, “How Google Obama White House more than once a President Trump. They are tampering Could Rig the 2016 Election.” week. Almost 250 people switched from with elections “to essentially overthrow Epstein based his calculations on the Obama administration to Google or the United States” and transform the experiments he conducted with Ronald vice versa. Now Mr. Obama is pushing nation into a technocracy run by elites Robertson and published in the Proceed- for a Biden administration to continue in the tech, media and political world. ings of the National Academy of Sciences colluding with Big Tech. Project Veritas caught nine current of the United States of America. Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkis- and former Twitter employees on hidden Epstein told Fox News on Nov. 23, son noted that a major reason Big Tech camera admitting that Twitter algo- 2020, that he believed search engine is so willing to cooperate with progres- rithms purposely hide tweets that words manipulation shifted a “bare minimum” sive politicians and “deep state” agents like “God” or “America.” Twitter also of 6 million votes to Joe Biden. If true, is to protect their monopolies. The restricts advertisements from pro-life President Donald Trump would have Trump administration is pressing an organizations while promoting pro-abor- won the popular vote as well as the antitrust review of tech giants to deter- tion ads from Planned Parenthood. This electoral vote if Google had not biased mine whether or not to prosecute them type of censorship does not combat “fake its news coverage against him. and divide them into smaller companies. news,” nor is it aimed to help Twitter Former Google employee Zachary So money and lobbyists from Amazon, establish a monopoly. It is an outright Vorhies went public as a whistleblower Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and ideological attack on “God” and “America.” in 2019, leaking over 950 pages of internal Google doc- Communist Connections uments to Project Veritas and Mainstream media are the Justice Department. The Post-election survey of 1,750 becoming shockingly bold in information confirmed that Biden voters in seven swing states the offensive to fundamen- Google has biased its algo- tally transform America. An percent shift away rithms to promote liberalism biden negatives unaware from biden Atlantic article unequivocally and suppress conservatism. Biden sex assault allegations 35.4 8.9 declared that in the conflict It also revealed that Google Hunter Biden scandal 45.1 9.4 between freedom of speech has blacklists of search terms Harris most-leftist senator 25.3 4.1 and government censorship, and a blacklist of websites. China is right and the United Vorhies warned that “the trump positives States is wrong. reason why I collected these 33.1% economic growth 49.0 5.6 “As surprising as it may documents was because I Created 11.1 million jobs 39.4 5.4 sound, digital surveillance saw something dark and Middle East peace deals 43.5 5.0 and speech control in the nefarious going on with the U.S. energy independence 50.5 5.8 United States already show company, and I realized that Operation Warp Speed 36.1 5.3 many similarities to what they were going to not only one finds in authoritarian tamper with the elections, total (unaware of a least one) 82.0 17 states such as China,” but use that tampering with wrote Jack Goldsmith the elections to essentially and Andrew Keane Woods. overthrow the United States.” “Constitutional and cultural For 230 years, the U.S. has been a con- Twitter are flooding Washington, D.C., differences mean that the private stitutional republic where people freely to protect these companies’ control over sector, rather than the federal and state elect the representatives who govern Internet searches and social media. governments, currently takes the lead them. Now Google’s board of directors is But the alignment between Silicon in these practices, which further values trying to change that, not by abolishing Valley and the deep state goes far and address threats different from those elections, but by gradually increasing its beyond shared business interests. in China. … Significant monitoring and control over what people learn and know. These two centers of power are also in speech control are inevitable compo- If it can manipulate what people think is ideological lockstep. nents of a mature and flourishing Inter- true, it can fundamentally change Amer- A 2017 survey by scientists at Stanford net, and governments must play a large ica into whatever it wants! University quantifies what most people role in these practices to ensure that the already know: Tech entrepreneurs Internet is compatible with a society’s Deep State Media are liberal. They favor abortion, gun norms and values” (April 25, 2020). Barack Obama was known as “Silicon Val- control, homosexual unions, open In other words: to rein in conspiracy ley’s president.” Executives from Amazon, borders, universal health care, wealth theories, the U.S. government needs Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and redistribution and other progressive to control Americans like the Chinese Twitter had close relationships with his causes. This explains why Google, and Communist Party controls Chinese. administration. Data from the Campaign other tech companies went to such The New York Post reported that Face- on Accountability shows that Google drastic lengths to bury stories critical of book’s Hate-Speech Engineering Team SOURCE: BASED ON MRC/POLLING COMPANY SURVEY OF 1,750 ACTUAL BIDEN VOTERS IN AZ, GA, MI, NV, NC, PA AND WI. NOV. 9-18, 2020 FEBRUARY 2021 21 includes at least six foreign nationals A Dual Prophecy context, the expression can refer to an recruited from Communist China. Many Americans do not believe in the army of demons, angels or men. The This team suppressed news reports devil. Still, the Bible reveals he is “the host referred to in Daniel 8 is an army of about how Joe Biden’s son worked for a prince of the power of the air, the spirit demons and evil men who help an end- Shanghai investment firm that helped that now worketh in the children of time Antiochus in God’s Church and an sell American technology with military disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2). The end-time Antiochus in the United States applications to China. devil’s primary way to deceive people is of America. Internal company documents by broadcasting attitudes of selfishness, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry released by Project Veritas show that vanity, lust, violence, envy, bitterness explains in America Under Attack that Facebook actually favors Chinese and and resentment against authority. He the spiritual Antiochus “cast down Korean visa workers over American also speaks through “the children of dis- the truth to the ground” inside God’s citizens. These are the computer obedience,” more directly influencing the Church, and a political Antiochus is engineers secretly building artificial lives of people who are vulnerable to him. doing the same thing in the United intelligence algorithms to recognize and An end-time Bible prophecy reveals States. The most anti-Bible president in suppress opinions they disagree with how the devil uses a host of people to American history, Barack Obama, ful- in your news feed. And the only reason cast truth to the ground. “Yea, he mag- fills the role of the political Antiochus. we know they exist is because outraged nified himself even to the prince of the He is out of office now, but he and his whistleblowers are sounding the alarm. host, and by him the daily sacrifice was powerful allies have been at work in the The OpenPower Foundation—a mainstream media trying “to essentially nonprofit led by Google and ibm exec- overthrow the United States.” utives—set up collaboration between The alignment between A host of bureaucrats, military leaders, Chinese company Semptian and U.S. Silicon Valley and the intelligence agents, media moguls, tech chip manufacturer Xilinx. They are deep state goes far entrepreneurs, Wall Street financiers, creating microprocessors that analyze beyond shared business and Chinese spies are helping Antiochus vast amounts of data more efficiently. cast truth to the ground. This network China is using these microprocessors interests. These two is the biggest threat to America today. to enhance its Internet surveillance centers of power are also It aims to destroy the United States, its and censorship capacities. One Semp- in ideological lockstep. Judeo-Christian history, its constitu- tian employee sent documents to The tional form of government, and the bib- Intercept showing that the company has lical principles this form of government developed a mass surveillance system taken away, and the place of his sanc- is largely based upon. named Aegis, which allows government tuary was cast down. And an host was God is exposing the corruption in U.S. spies to see “the connections of every- given him against the daily sacrifice by politics so people have a chance to repent one,” including “location information for reason of transgression, and it cast down before a lawless spirit destroys America, everyone in the country.” the truth to the ground; and it practised, by replacing the rule of law with the According to The Intercept investi- and prospered” (Daniel 8:11-12). horrifying rule of powerful deception gative journalist Ryan Gallagher, “Aegis King Antiochus Epiphanes fulfilled this and brutal force. When people do not equipment has been placed within prophecy when he desecrated the temple sincerely love the truth, they come to China’s phone and Internet networks, in Jerusalem with an idol of himself. But believe lies (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12). enabling the country’s government to the book of Daniel is primarily for the The values that helped make America secretly collect people’s e-mail records, end time (Daniel 12:4). This prophecy great are being cast to the ground, but phone calls, text messages, cellphone about Antiochus is also being fulfilled in Antiochus and his supporters are only locations, and web browsing histories, God’s Church and in America in our time. able to do this by “reason of transgres- according to two sources familiar with Strong’s Concordance defines “host” sion.” The devil is exploiting America’s Semptian’s work. Chinese state security as “a mass of persons (or figuratively, lawlessness and lack of faith. God will agencies are likely using the technology things), especially reg. organized for allow this until people come to truly see to target human rights activists, pro-de- war (an army).” Depending on the the need for repentance toward God! n mocracy advocates, and critics of Presi- dent Xi Jinping’s regime, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisals” (July 11, 2019). This is the type of power the Chinese What can you do about Communist Party has to silence people who disagree with it. But where did key a problem this big? elements of that power come from? It came from the same tech companies You can’t take on the tech giants, but you can protect yourself from Barack Obama is working with to stop the corruption exposed in this article. How? By turning to God. “crazy lies and conspiracy theories.” Request Gerald Flurry’s free booklet Repentance Toward God. 22 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET u CHINA THREAT FROM PAGE 9 these deals and paying all that money, in Prophecy. “These tidings come after perverting our morals, sabotaging our what is their goal? What is their ambi- the king of the south has been destroyed. educational system, wrecking our social tion?” Mr. Flurry asked in a Key of David They come from the Asian axis! The Holy structure, destroying our spiritual and program. “Surely we must see a strong Roman emperor will be disturbed about religious life, weakening our industrial motivation there to take over the world, what the Russians and Chinese are doing. and economic power, demoralizing our to conquer the world, and some of the “Before this, when the Tribulation armed forces, and finally, after such infil- Chinese leaders will even tell you that” began, this emperor was cooperating tration, overthrowing our government (“Times of the Gentiles,” March 20, 2018). with the Russians and the Chinese by force and violence! All this cleverly The title of that television program to besiege the Anglo-Saxon nations disguised as a harmless political party!” points to the prophecy whose early economically. But perhaps he hears Mr. Armstrong’s warning focused on fulfillment we are now witnessing. With rumors that the Asian axis is planning Communist Russia’s demoralization America’s dominance ending, the world to invade North America and conquer efforts. In the years since, many of these is entering what Jesus Christ called “the it for its own. … Regardless of what the efforts have been carried out by Russia’s times of the Gentiles” (Luke 21:24). This exact tidings are, the Bible is clear that Communist ally China, which has fur- is a dark, violent period when non-Isra- it will be the Holy Roman Empire that ther expanded its attacks against Ameri- elite nations rule the world. single-handedly invades North America. ca’s industrial and economic power. Still, The Bible prophesies that one of And this passage is clear that these Mr. Armstrong’s warnings about the these dominant powers will be an Asian tidings will provoke the emperor to go dangers of communism proved correct. super-alliance headed by Russia and forth with great fury to destroy!” It’s a modern version of Israel being Under a Biden-Harris administration, conquered by Assyria, modern-day Ger- America’s China Class would run rampant, many! The destruction will be horrific, and the survivors will be enslaved. and the nation’s last remaining strength And it all may be triggered by China’s would disappear rapidly. But right now, the success in weakening America, besieg- man China cannot “fix,” is holding it back. ing it and preparing to attack it outright. Under a Biden-Harris administration, He identified exactly how communism China. The other primary one will be a America’s China Class would run ram- operates, and America has been victim- brutal European power, a resurrection pant, and the nation’s last remaining ized by its success. (Request our free of the medieval Holy Roman Empire. strength would disappear rapidly. But booklet He Was Right and read the chap- Prophecy forecasts that these two right now, the man whom China cannot ter titled “The Communist Infiltration of superpowers will temporarily work “fix” is holding it back—as also prophe- America Was Prophesied.”) together to bring America down! Isaiah sied in the Bible. God gives our nations God repeatedly warned Israel against 23:3 describes a “mart of nations” that specific prophecies about our weak- forsaking His law and looking to foreign- will control world trade and will freeze nesses, our sins and the consequences. ers for prosperity, protection and guid- out America and other Israelite nations God will even use a bold leader like Pres- ance. Isaiah 2:6, for example, says that (including Britain, Israel and other ident Trump to save America—though God “hast forsaken thy people the house English-speaking nations). America will only temporarily for the purpose of of Jacob, because they be replenished already be weak, riven with internal doing His work, warning the nation and from the east, and are soothsayers like division and turbulence, making this the world, and giving readers like you the the Philistines, and they please them- economic siege far more devastating. opportunity to repent and turn to Him! selves in the children of strangers.” Amer- See the reality around you! Heed ica has committed the same sin. Rather ‘Tidings Out of the East’ the warnings of prophecy! And take than trusting God to bless and defend The detail in the Bible’s prophecies about hope: The same Bible that shows us them, our people have recognized and “the times of the Gentiles” is stunning. what human nature really is and how to traded with Communist dictatorships Daniel 11 specifies that the European repent of it and that prophesies in detail and even invited Communist professors superpower (“the king of the north”) will the consequences of our decisions also from China and other nations to teach destroy a radical Islamic power (“the prophesies that these terrible events will generations of young Americans and king of the south”) and thrash its way occur just before the one and only event Britons. This has corrupted our youth, through the Middle East. Then, this: “But that can wipe away our corrupted human sapped our economy, and fatally weak- tidings out of the east and out of the north governments and corrupted human ened our nation. Americans’ own naivety, shall trouble him: therefore he shall nature: the return of Jesus Christ! n greed and disloyalty have made us fatally go forth with great fury to destroy, and vulnerable to sabotage by foreign nations. utterly to make away many” (verse 44). We must look up from our Chi- “The king of the north—the Holy The kings of the east nese-made gadgets and see this reality! Roman emperor—will hear troubling To learn more about the Bible’s proph- “Surely if we stop and think about this, tidings from the east and north,” we ecies regarding China, request a free

AL DRAGO/GETTY IMAGES DRAGO/GETTY AL with China doing all that and making all write in our booklet Russia and China copy of Russia and China in Prophecy. FEBRUARY 2021 23 Matthew 24. Men like Elijah, Elisha and even Christ were mostly overlooked or opposed by their contemporaries! Notice what Christ told the Jews of His day: “But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias [Elijah], when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; But How to unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow” (Luke 4:25-26). Find God’s With Israel and its widows languishing in famine, God sent Elijah to none of them. Why? What point is Jesus making? Work These Jews knew about Elijah and History shows that very few people do. assumed he had been sent to shake BY STEPHEN FLURRY Israel, to perform many mighty miracles, to help widows and heal multitudes. They assumed that if Jesus were a true hese are great days! What a more to the story, and you can read servant of God like Elijah was, He would time to be alive and to support about it in the same book of Kings be shaking their nation such that thou- God’s work! God our Maker is (2 Kings 14:23-29). In fact, it’s right in the sands of people and many top leaders Treaching out to this dark and dying middle of this history. I’m referring to would recognize it and follow Him. world in its last days. He is pleading for the role of God’s work as administered But Elijah didn’t. Neither did Christ. repentance and change before it is too through His faithful prophets, Elijah Neither does God’s work today. late physically. But most people don’t and his faithful successor, Elisha. During that famine, God sent His see Him. Most people don’t recognize This history shows you how to find servant out of Israel altogether. He lived what He is doing. the work of God. instead in a pagan Gentile city, assisted God is mercifully passing by our by a widow. People saw no powerful, nations with His message—one final time Two Godly Servants popular, universal work of God. Even (see Amos 7:8). He is sounding the alarm Elijah, whose name means “my God is people in Elijah’s nation, God’s nation, one final time before the terrible suffer- God,” took God’s message to the sinning did not recognize it as the work of God. ing of the Great Tribulation that Jesus nation and sinning kings of Israel Yet it was the work of God! Christ prophesied. He is also proclaiming (read 1 Kings 17-19). Elisha’s ministry is So when you’re looking for answers to His message of hope: After our govern- recorded in 2 Kings 1-13. There were the insanity in this nation and this world, ments and peoples succumb to that many other prophets and sons of the it would be wise to look not for some- deadly global cataclysm, He will return prophets during this time, but God thing favored by the masses (whether and establish His government (Matthew records more detail about Elijah and liberal or conservative), but something 24:21-22). This is mankind’s only hope! Elisha because these two prophets were favored by God! Find His message, the The Trumpet has been discussing forerunners of two godly servants who message of the Bible! And if you can’t important history from ancient Israel would appear in these last days! find it in the political or religious power about the reign of the first Jeroboam For nearly a century, Herbert W. Arm- structures of the nation, look elsewhere— (10th century b.c.) and Jeroboam ii strong and Gerald Flurry have prophesied just make sure it matches the Bible. (eighth century b.c.). Between these two in the spirit of Elijah and Elisha. They “And many lepers were in Israel in the reigns, 11 other Israelite monarchs ruled have warned our nations that our sins time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of for about 115 years. This history is cov- against God and His government are lead- them was cleansed, saving Naaman the ered in the biblical book of Kings. The ing to national calamities and captivity. Syrian” (verse 27). Jesus pointed out that modern descendants of the kingdoms They have proclaimed the hope of the true God’s work was the same with Elisha. of Israel and Judah are the Americans, gospel: Jesus Christ is about to return and The Bible records him as being involved the British, the Jews and other British rule the world from Jerusalem. in one healing, not scores of dramatic Commonwealth nations. God preserved Like their ancestors in the days of healings that attracted huge crowds and this history for more than 2,800 years Elijah and Elisha, the modern Israelites powerful support.

because it is also prophecy for today! in America and beyond are ignoring What were these men of God doing? ISTOCK.COM/ANGEL MATO The end-time Jeroboam is President God’s message. Many don’t know it Donald J. Trump. exists—or that He exists! Many believe A Prophet Without Honor Trumpet readers are now familiar in false ideas of God, “false Christs and Remember, the one speaking here is with this history. But there is much false prophets,” as Jesus prophesied in Jesus Christ! He did perform miracles of 24 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET healing, yet even the Son of God coming will find it in a place that teaches what When God shows us actual facts and the to Earth was mostly ignored or opposed Jesus Christ taught, a place probably actual truth, we can do the uncomfort- by humanity, by His own nation, even by about as popular now as Jesus was then. able thing and admit we are wrong, or we His own town! can rise up and thrust it from our minds. “And he said, Verily I say unto you, No An End-Time Elijah John 10:40-41 say Jesus went beyond prophet is accepted in his own country” Notice another teaching of Jesus in the Jordan River, away from the centers (Luke 4:24). Matthew 17:10-12. He prophesied that of power for the religious people of The Israelites of Elijah’s day, the Jews just before He returned to rule the world, His day, to a place “where John at first of Jesus Christ’s day, the people of our a man would come in the same spirit baptized; and there he abode. And many day do not understand God’s work! They that had empowered Elijah and John resorted unto him, and said, John did no do not understand God! This is what the Baptist. That man has come! He did miracle: but all things that John spake of Jesus Christ is teaching here. But God great things for God, and people recog- this man were true.” does have a work. He does want you to nized there was something special about Wow! John the Baptist—a type of find it. And you can, if you will look at him and his work. In the Philippines Elijah, the man who prepared humanity what Christ is telling us through the and other nations, crowds gathered to for the coming of the Son of God—did Bible and through His true Church. welcome him and hear him speak. World zero miracles! Yet Jesus Christ said no “They didn’t understand the Elijah leaders met with him to discuss the most greater man had been born of a woman work,” my father writes in From the Begin- important questions, the human con- (Matthew 11:11). ning. “Elijah was only sent to one widow. dition, the way to peace; these leaders “All things that John spoke of Christ He was primarily sent to reveal the included Anwar Sadat and literally doz- were true,” my father writes in From true God. That was his mission or pur- ens of other presidents, prime ministers, the Beginning. “Everybody at that time pose. He was not sent to save widows or legislators, judges and executives. and throughout history should have to heal people. If the Jews had listened to This man was Herbert W. Armstrong. known who Jesus Christ was. John’s John the Baptist—a type of Elijah—they Kings, queens, emperors, presidents purpose was to reveal the true God—the would have known who the Son of God and prime ministers of many nations real Christ. He revealed all about the was! To this day, they still don’t know.” honored him. But did the people of Lord from the beginning—the God who This is the teaching of the Bible! People his country, the United States, honor became Jesus Christ. expect God to reveal Himself on their him? Not nearly as highly. He led a “Mr. Armstrong didn’t perform many terms. They build religions and entire Church that proclaimed God’s message great healings or do numerous miracles. civilizations on their own terms. But the globally, but at its largest, how did its He didn’t shake the nations as one lesson of all human history now staring membership compare to the American Laodicean group said the Elijah would. us in the face is that this doesn’t work! mainstream and evangelical churches? But he did reveal the true God, which Our only hope is to seek God on His terms! One tenth of 1 percent. was why God sent him!” “And they were offended in him. But This is a fundamental principle Is your religion revealing the true Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not of finding and following the work of God? Is your own definition of right and without honour, save in his own country, God and thereby following God. If you wrong, your own set of facts, your own and in his own house” (Matthew 13:57). understand it, it actually makes you a “truth,” your own religion, revealing the This was an unpopular, uncomfortable little uncomfortable. All of us have this true God? Or is the revealing of the true teaching! Religious people rejected it, and human tendency to look at the world God done only by God Himself, through God and Christ allowed them that choice. and even God Himself according to our His Bible and through His work? Is it Jesus had been expounding on proph- own ideas of right and wrong. It was done on your terms or on His terms? ecies with these Jews, and Luke 4:22 says, true in Elijah’s lifetime; it was true in Even if you are conservative, religious “And all bare him witness, and wondered Jesus Christ’s lifetime; it is true today. and devout, you need to be corrected. You at the gracious words which proceeded This deep flaw in human nature need to let God show you the truth. You out of his mouth. And they said, Is not almost caused the premature end of need to compare what you hear and what this Joseph’s son?” They might have been Jesus’s human life! “And all they in the you think to the one and only source of willing to hear such instruction from synagogue, when they heard these things, truth: God Himself! Pray earnestly and a member of the Sanhedrin, from the were filled with wrath, And rose up, and humbly to Him, and He will answer you. ancient equivalent of a “spiritual adviser thrust him out of the city, and led him He will show you where Jesus Christ is to the president.” But they were unwill- unto the brow of the hill whereon their today. And if that work of God happens to ing to hear it from this carpenter’s son! city was built, that they might cast him be in your own country, it is up to you to “For Jesus himself testified, that a down headlong” (Luke 4:28-29). decide whether to honor it. n prophet hath no honour in his own This is human nature! country” (John 4:44). What a crucial We see outrageous examples of people Look no further— lesson for us today. If you are looking talking about “alternative facts” and you’ve found it! for the work of God, you won’t find it in “my truth.” But the fact is, all of us have a powerful political or religious organi- flawed human reasoning and self-de- Visit pcg.church to find out what you zation with multitudes of followers. You ceptive human nature (Jeremiah 17:9). need to know about God’s work! FEBRUARY 2021 25 WORLDWATCH Bundeswehr a clear change of EASTERN EUROPE recruits assemble in front of the direction. The Green REJECTS EU Reichstag to take their public vow. Party was established COVID PLAN in 1980 by a group ungary and Poland vetoed of environmentalists, a European Union-wide nuclear energy $887 billion COVID-19 relief opponents, human Hstimulus on Nov. 16, 2020. They rights activists, social objected to a clause demanding justice activists, that recipients of the stimulus Communists and adhere to the “rule of law,” which pacifists. The Greens is defined vaguely but subjects originally opposed the EU nations to discipline from the very existence of the European Council. GERMAN PACIFISTS SIGNAL German military. But The provision, known as times have changed Article 23, could also give the SUPPORT FOR THE MILITARY and, importantly, the European Council precedent Greens have recently to act upon majority rulings, ermany’s Green Party, France, which is attempting to become the second-largest rather than the existing historically known for build a European military. party in Germany, according to requirement that decisions be its staunch pacifism, is This comes after two of one poll, and could actually be unanimous. Gsignaling a major change of the party’s most prominent in a position to join Germany’s East European leaders fear tone. Green Party chairwoman members of the Bundestag next governing coalition— that the EU is tying COVID-19 Annalena Baerbock announced called for military reforms especially as they adopt a less relief to obedience to “European this drastic change in an and professed commitment radical position toward the values,” as determined by interview published Nov. 30, 2020, to the military in a Frankfurter German military. Germany, France and other by Süddeutsche Zeitung. She Allgemeine Zeitung article titled When even the Greens want more powerful countries. said that the Greens now support “Why Green Foreign Policy Needs deadlier rifles and higher-res- The veto is yet another signal more investments in the military, the Bundeswehr.” olution night vision optics, to Europe and the world that a stronger joint European defense German reports identify this Germany’s days as a pacifist the EU’s attempt to govern 27 policy, and more cooperation with and Baerbock’s statement as country are over. n countries by consensus and in preservation of those countries’ sovereignty is unworkable. GERMANY AND RUSSIA of the project. But FINLAND Watch for the EU bureaucracy RESTART PIPELINE Germany has found NORWAY and the EU itself to be pared onstruction of the Nord ways around the down. Europe’s more powerful SWEDEN Stream 2 gas pipeline U.S. as it reaches out RUSSIA countries will sidestep the restarted on December 5 in to Russia. Once the concerns of countries that LATVIA Cthe Baltic Sea, after a temporary pipeline is operational, cling to their sovereignty halt due to American sanctions. Russia will be able and are reluctant to form a When complete, the pipeline will to bypass Ukraine, Nord stream 2 European superstate. BELARUS change Germany’s relationship depriving it not only of Your Bible prophesies that with Russia, the United States transit fees but also GERMANY POLAND this is exactly the path Europe and the rest of Europe. of gas altogether, an UKRAINE will take. Revelation 17:10 The pipeline is expected to immensely powerful prophesies that a “beast,” a bring 55 billion cubic meters geopolitical weapon. symbol of an empire, will be of natural gas per year from Russia has already forcibly commodity. And as Trumpet resurrected in Europe one last Russia, through Finnish, Swedish annexed Crimea from Ukraine editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote time. Verses 12-14 specify that it and Danish waters to Germany. and is conducting warfare in his 2017 article “Germany and will consist of an international Workers are focusing on a against Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Secret War Against conglomeration of 10 separate MICHAEL KAPPELER/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES 10-mile section in German support of rebels in the eastern America,” Russia and Germany kingdoms submitting to one territory, then the final segment: part of the country. working together “is a signal that overarching authority. Expect 37 miles in Danish waters. The two most powerful coun- either or both are preparing for Europe’s 27-nation union to be In December 2019, the tries in the region, Germany and some kind of imperialistic exploit.” reduced, one way or another, United States sanctioned all Russia, allying with each other He pointed out that the Bible to a group of 10 that will amass vessels involved in the project, has ominous historical precedent. prophesies both Germany and power and steamroll the vetoes which halted construction and Russia and Germany will soon Russia will use their accumulating and protests of weaker nations. compelled Swiss pipe-laying control not only gas prices but powers to help bring down the A European superpower is company Allseas to pull out the supply of gas itself, a crucial United States. n about to rise. n 26 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET IRAN NUCLEAR One document recorded Iran’s response has been Sudanese President ARCHITECT Fakhrizadeh describing in restrained, likely because it Bashir visits Russian President Putin in ASSASSINATED 2011 how to split the project believed President Donald Moscow. ranian Gen. Mohsen into an officially recognized Trump would leave office on Fakhrizadeh, the head of Iran’s component and a secret January 20 and Joe Biden would covert nuclear program for component. Netanyahu told the keep his promise to lift sanctions Imore than two decades, was press, “Remember that name, on Iran and reimplement the assassinated on Nov. 27, 2020, Fakhrizadeh.” nuclear deal, which would when a spray of bullets struck his “There is no doubt that he was further endanger Israel. vehicle on the outskirts of Tehran. the core source of authority, This could be why the Some said he was killed by 12 men knowledge and organization Netanyahu government has in cars and on motor- conducted air strikes cycles; others say it Attendees at against Iranians in Syria the funeral for was a driverless car Fakhrizadeh and met with the Saudi in Iran with remote-control crown prince for the first RUSSIA TO BUILD weapons. Regardless, time. The Trump admin- BASE IN SUDAN most assume the istration has moved B-52 ussian President Vladimir perpetrator was the strategic bombers and its Putin has approved Israeli government. Nimitz carrier strike group construction of Russia’s In 2018, Israeli into the region, preparing Rfirst military base in North Prime Minister for the possibility of war. Africa since the end of the Benjamin Netanyahu Bible prophecy shows Cold War. The naval facility in gave a one-of-a-kind that, despite setbacks, Port Sudan will boost Russian press conference revealing of this program,” Israeli Maj. Iran will amass enough power power in a region that is already thousands of files documenting Gen. Amos Yadlin told reporters to lead a short-lived bloc of destabilizing due to violence in Iran’s nuclear weapons program; on Nov. 29, 2020. He said that radical Islamists, characterized Ethiopia and South Sudan. It is the files had been confiscated by Fakhrizadeh and Quds Force in Daniel 11 as “the king of the also a signal that as America Israeli spies. The records showed Cmdr. Qassem Suleimani, who south.” Assassinations and pulls out, Russia steps in. that Iran had lied about its nuclear was killed in January 2020, were limited warfare will pale in Nearly half of Sudan’s weapons program and intended the leaders of Iran’s two major comparison to the bloodshed weapons come from Russia, to continue operating it in strategic objectives: to establish this bloc initiates. n making it Russia’s second- violation of the international Joint a nuclear weapons program and Read The King of the South: largest weapons buyer in Africa, Comprehensive Plan of Action. to become a regional power. theTrumpet.com/go/Iran and a May 2019 agreement has already boosted military cooperation and given Russia years before losing power in access to Sudanese ports. This WHAT IF ETHIOPIA Oromo police COLLAPSES? 2018 to Abiy’s government. patrol the agreement allows for the base to streets. thiopia may soon erupt into Abiy’s Oromo ethnic group serve up to 300 Russian military civil war. On Nov. 4, 2020, represents about 35 percent personnel and four warships, as Ethiopian Prime Minister of the population. well as Russian air defense and EAbiy Ahmed deployed troops in Ethiopia has often suffered electronic warfare systems. the Tigray region in response internal and ethnic division, Over the last decade, America to what he said were “months but war in the Tigray region has been slowly pulling out of the of continued provocation and could shake the entire nation. has warned that Ethiopia Middle East. President Donald incitement” against the national Foreign-policy analyst Yohannes will eventually fall into Iran’s Trump said in 2019, “We’re government by the Tigray Woldemariam said that this “is sphere of influence, based on getting out. Let someone else regional government, including an existential crisis for Ethiopia. scriptures like Daniel 11:40-43. fight over this long bloodstained an alleged raid by the Tigray It could mean state collapse. The This is a prophecy that Ethiopia, sand. The job of our military is People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) whole region will be affected, predominantly Christian, will not to police the world.” During against a government army from refugees to destabilization” actually experience an Islamic his first term, thousands of base for supplies. Ethiopia is (Telegraph, Nov. 4, 2020). A takeover and ally with “the king American troops stationed in now under a six-month state of senior Tigray official told Agence of the south,” radical Islam, led Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have emergency, and government France-Presse that military by Iran! Conflict in the Tigray returned home. And the void left forces are marching toward the mobilization “can trigger all-out region could lead directly to the by America is starting to be filled Tigray capital, Mekelle. war. … A small spark can ignite fulfillment of this prophecy. n by other nations, like Russia. n The TPLF, representing about the whole region” (Nov. 5, 2020). Read Libya and Ethiopia in Read The Prophesied ‘Prince 7 percent of the population, For many years, Trumpet Prophecy: theTrumpet.com/go/ of Russia’: theTrumpet.com/go/

ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES, MIKHAIL METZEL/TASS/GETTY IMAGES, ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES ABUBEKER/AFP/GETTY ZACHARIAS IMAGES, METZEL/TASS/GETTY MIKHAIL IMAGES, AGENCY/GETTY ANADOLU ruled Ethiopia for about 27 editor in chief Gerald Flurry Libya prince FEBRUARY 2021 27 PUTIN ACCELERATES An October 2020 report by BUILDUP OF RUSSIAN the International Institute for MILITARY POWER Strategic Studies noted that the he Russian Navy set a military of Russian President record last year for the Vladimir Putin is more capable number of advanced than at any time since the end of Tvessels it added to its fleet. Its the Cold War and has been used National Defense Control Center to forcibly annex Crimea from said on Nov. 20, 2020, that Ukraine, conduct operations in 35 submarines and warships eastern Ukraine, and intervene were “laid down, floated out and in the Syrian civil war. accepted for service in the Navy Trumpet editor in chief this year,” a 33 percent increase. Gerald Flurry wrote in 2014 that Three days later, the Navy Karakurt-class increasing fear of Russia will corvettes in announced that a 885M Kazan Kaliningrad prompt European nations to nuclear submarine had struck lay aside their differences and a coastal target 620 miles away Russia’s newest corvette passed hypersonic cruise ballistic unite politically and militarily. To with a Kalibr cruise missile. This a test of its own by striking a sea missile that reached speeds of understand why it is crucial to marked one of the final tests target for the first time with a over 6,000 miles per hour. The watch Russia’s rise and Europe’s the 64-man boat needed to nuclear-capable Uranus missile. missile is not only incredibly fast response to it, read Mr. Flurry’s pass before officially entering The next day, Russia successfully but also maneuverable, making it article “The Crimean Crisis Is service. Two days after that, tested a Mach-8 Tsirkon basically impossible to intercept. Reshaping Europe!” n

CHINA’S ‘SECRETIVE’ NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUILDUP EXPOSED nited States intelligence They show significant expan- par with the United States and documents declassified on sions underway at China’s Russia in terms of its military and Nov. 13, 2020, reveal that Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex, nuclear capabilities.” UChina is carrying out a secret a nuclear weapons research Meanwhile, as China’s arsenal strategy to rapidly increase its facility in Mianyang and a military grows, it is also developing, number of nuclear warheads reactor facility in Leshan. testing and refining the and the capability of their “[I]t is clear from imagery that equipment needed to deliver its delivery systems. China is engaged in a secretive growing number of warheads to The documents, published by crash buildup of its infrastruc- their targets. the Washington Times, consist ture,” Marshall Billingslea, the U.S. Billingslea calculates that of a collection of slides that were State Department’s chief diplomat in 2018 and 2019, China test- shown during a recent briefing for weapons control, told the launched an astounding 225 Satellite image of VITALY NEVAR/TASS/GETTY IMAGES, DIGITAL GLOBE/GETTY IMAGES, DAVIT GHAHRAMANYAN/NKR INFOCENTER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES the Jiuquan Atomic for members of the North Washington Times. “There is no ballistic missiles, more than the Energy Complex Atlantic Treaty Organization. doubt that China wants to be on rest of the world combined. n

NAGORNO-KARABAKH IS BACK IN THE USSR Early in his rmenia and Azerbaijan 1990s. The agreement follows reign, Russian signed a Russia-brokered a steady Azerbaijani offensive President Vlad- agreement on Nov. 9, where Azerbaijan captured imir Putin said A2020, to stop the conflict Nagorno-Karabakh’s second- the collapse of revolving around the region of largest town, Shusha (Shushi the Soviet Union Nagorno-Karabakh in the South in Armenian). Under the treaty, was “the greatest Caucasus. The deal appears Azerbaijan will keep Shusha, geopolitical A man walks through to have brought an end to the as well as all other territories catastrophe the rubble after a shelling in the Nagorno- fighting, but also represents Azerbaijani troops have reached. of the century.” Karabkh region. a boost to Russia’s power in a The agreement is seen as a He has spent critical part of the world. major victory for Azerbaijan. But a great deal of his 20 years as under Moscow’s control where it Nagorno-Karabakh is the bigger winner is actually Russia’s leader trying to reverse remains to this day. Six years later, legally part of Azerbaijan, Russia, which stationed almost that “catastrophe.” In 2008, his he invaded the former soviet state but it is populated by ethnic 2,000 Russian soldiers within forces invaded the former soviet of Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Armenians and has been under Nagorno-Karabakh to maintain nation of Georgia and brought Now he is positioned to do the Armenian control since the the peace. a fifth of the nation’s territory same in the South Caucasus. n 28 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET SOCIETYWATCH MURDER RATE INCREASES IN MAJOR U.S. CITIES he homicide rate in 21 major cities jumped 34 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. ThatT is the finding of a Nov. 30, 2020, report by the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice. Criminologists and other experts are looking that are corrupters: they have for a reason for the surge of forsaken the Lord, they have killings. Since the death of provoked the Holy One of Israel George Floyd on May 25, 2020, unto anger, they are gone away the nation has been plagued backward. Why should ye be SUPREME COURT SIDES by anti-police protests and stricken any more? ye will revolt powerful Democrats accusing more and more: the whole head WITH CHURCHES police of racism and promoting is sick, and the whole heart faint” slogans like “defund the police.” (Isaiah 1:4-5). This is a prophecy he United States Supreme court’s four conservative justices This antagonistic environment of the modern descendants of Court temporarily barred in the majority opinion, and Chief has surely deterred police ancient Israelites, which include New York from enforcing Justice John Roberts joined the officers from doing their jobs, the Americans. The entire power Tcertain attendance limits at court’s three liberal justices in emboldening violent criminals. structure is sick, and its leaders houses of worship in areas hit by the dissent. Isaiah prophesied, “Ah sinful lack the will and the strength to the coronavirus. This 5-4 deci- In an article titled “Is Amer- nation, a people laden with iniq- root out even the most violent sion on Nov. 25, 2020, granted ica’s Supreme Court in Bible uity, a seed of evildoers, children types of lawlessness. n requests made by the Roman Prophecy?” (theTrumpet Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and .com/17949), Gerald Flurry two Orthodox Jewish congre- explained that a prophecy in gations to overturn a decision Amos 7 indicates the Supreme by New York Governor Andrew Court and much of the federal Cuomo that included places government will favor President of worship in his shutdown of Donald Trump and the conserva- “nonessential businesses.” tive movement in America in the New Supreme Court Justice end time. This gives Americans Amy Coney Barrett joined the one last chance to repent. n U.S. Border Patrol agents detain undocumented immigrants in U.S. STUDENTS FALLING McAllen, Texas. BEHIND IN MATH ost American students ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS SURGE are falling short in math, n October 2020, border contributing to a surge in illegal and COVID-19 lockdowns crossing arrests in the border crossings. Mare making the problem worse. United States hit their highest Almost 3,500 years ago, That is the finding of a Dec. 1, Inumber in 15 years. Statistics Moses recorded God’s promise 2020, Northwest Evaluation released by the U.S. Customs to bless Israel for obedience and Association analysis of 4.4 million and Border Protection on Nov. curse it for disobedience. One United States students in grades 19, 2020, reported arrests of the curses God said would three through eight. When most of more than 69,000 people come from disobedience was a U.S. schools closed in the spring, crossing the southern border, flood of foreigners. “And he shall students were thrown into new but what will be their long-term a 21 percent increase over besiege thee in all thy gates, until and unfamiliar ways of learning. effect? In “The Cure Is Killing September. Acting Customs thy high and fenced walls come The result is that the average Us” (theTrumpet.com/22173) and Border Protection down, wherein thou trustedst, student scored 5 to 10 percentile Trumpet executive editor Commissioner Mark Morgan throughout all thy land: and he points behind students who took Stephen Flurry shows how told Fox News that anticipation shall besiege thee in all thy gates the same test last year. government-imposed measures of more lenient immigration throughout all thy land, which COVID-19 lockdowns will to combat COVID-19 are actually enforcement policies under the Lord thy God hath given thee”

ISTOCK.COM/STEPHEN EMLUND, ISTOCK.COM/PRATHAAN, ISTOCK.COM/ARTISTEER, JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES MOORE/GETTY JOHN ISTOCK.COM/ARTISTEER, ISTOCK.COM/PRATHAAN, EMLUND, ISTOCK.COM/STEPHEN presumably end at some point, destroying America. n a Joe Biden administration is (Deuteronomy 28:52). n FEBRUARY 2021 29 u OBAMA FROM PAGE 4 Trump. He was not to tell Trump that he was being investigated. Organization, or the anti-Israel, anti-American United Nations. “Obama officials claimed to adhere to a book that forbade Recall his eager participation in the Paris Climate Agreement, consultations between political leaders and investigators. But which hurt America’s industry and economy. here they were consulting,” wrote Andrew McCarthy in the Domestically, the Obama administration accomplished National Review (Feb. 15, 2018; emphasis mine throughout). equally major “fundamental changes.” Recall the Affordable And what were they consulting about? Care Act, a destructive piece of legislation that increases These January 5 meetings were about keeping the national debt and makes America more of a socialist state. investigation of Donald Trump going even after he Recall the Obama administration’s politicization of the Federal became president! Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency and other About these January 2017 events, journalist Mollie Hem- intelligence agencies, and its use of federal institutions to ingway wrote, “Not only was information on Russia not fully shared with the incoming Trump team, as Obama directed, the leaks and ambushes made the transition chaotic, scared These are the actions of a man quality individuals away from working in the administration, working to “fundamentally made effective governance almost impossible, and materially damaged national security” (New York Post, May 10, 2020). transform the United States”—or Two weeks later, on Jan. 20, 2017, Susan Rice wrote an to “blot out the name of Israel.” e-mail to herself documenting what happened in the January 5 meeting. This e-mail was odd. As McCarthy wrote, this wasn’t spy on Americans. Recall the Fast and Furious scandal, the really “an e-mail-to-self. It is quite consciously an e-mail for Internal Revenue Service scandal. Recall Mr. Obama saying the record” (op cit). In it Rice wrote that everything in the Jan- that white Americans have racism in their dna. Recall the uary 5 meeting was entirely above board. The president, she manner in which he undermined America’s law enforcement. wrote, did everything “by the book.” The truth is, as McCarthy These are the actions of a man and administration working wrote, Rice’s e-mail was “not written to memorialize what was to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” decided. It is written to revise the memory of what was Put in biblical terms, these are actions aimed at blotting out the decided in order to rationalize what was then done.” name of Israel! This is how Antiochus behaves! Rice knew that what they had discussed was illegal. She Finally, recall the manner in which the Obama adminis- wanted to preempt any investigation by putting on record that tration handled its departure from the White House and the everything was “by the book”! transfer of power to Donald Trump. Study this history, and you If you have access to the Internet, I encourage you to read will find that this is when the coup began! “What Did Comey Tell President Trump About the Steele Dossier?”, by Andrew McCarthy in National Review, as well Coup as “Obama Meeting Could Be Behind Corrupt Michael Flynn On Jan. 5, 2017, Barack Obama met with his top intelligence Probe,” by Mollie Hemingway at the New York Post. officials in the Oval Office. The purpose of this meeting was As president, was Barack Obama the guardian of America’s to brief President Obama on the report he had commissioned “democratic institutions and traditions—like the rule of law”? investigating the allegation of Russian interference in the Did he leave the “instruments of our democracy at least as 2016 election. Obama’s request for the investigation was based strong as [he] found them”? largely on the Steele dossier, a fraudulent report initiated by Evidence shows that Barack Obama spent his final days the Clinton campaign alleging collusion between the Kremlin in office working with deep state operatives figuring out and the Trump campaign. how he could continue to undermine, and even spy on, the At this January 5 meeting, the president was briefed by incoming president! James Comey, Michael Rogers, John Brennan and James Clap- In this way, Barack Obama was kicking off the rolling per, directors, respectively, of the fbi, National Security Agency, coup that culminated in the 2020 election! cia and the Office of National Intelligence. Vice President Joe Biden, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and acting President Joebama Attorney General Sally Yates were also present. Virtually all the This is the term Freddy Gray, editor of Spectator usa, used to key powers of government were present for this meeting about describe a possible Joe Biden presidency. “Obama sounds a bit of Donald Trump, who was about to move into the White House. a World King these days, but you can’t blame him for feeling chip- After this meeting, Obama met with Yates and Comey, both per. He has his third book of memoirs out … he’s making millions of whom would remain in office when Mr. Trump became pres- through publishing and Netflix deals, his great nemesis Donald ident. With them Mr. Obama continued the discussion on the Trump appears finally to have been vanquished —and his gang Russia investigation, the ongoing investigation of Donald Trump, is taking charge of Washington again” (Nov. 28, 2020). the fbi’s investigation into retired U.S. Gen. Michael Flynn—a Barack Obama was pleased when Biden began announcing man Obama detested—and the briefing fbi Director Comey his selections for various positions in his administration. In a would give the incoming president the next day, January 6. November 23 interview with Politico, he said, “You’re seeing a During this second meeting, President Obama instructed team develop that I have great confidence in.” Of course he has Director Comey to be selective when he briefed President-elect great confidence in them—they’re his people! 30 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET “In fact, the incoming Biden administration is arguably more November 3, the radical left was ready to manipulate an election. Obamaish than the original Obama administration was,” Gray Then on November 7, Joe Biden—Barack Obama’s right- wrote. One Biden campaign staff member even told Politico, hand man for eight years—was declared America’s next “the Obama staffers are now cutting out the people who got president. Biden’s vice president, Kamala Harris, was also Biden elected.” hand-selected by Mr. Obama. When Biden and Harris Barack Obama’s presence in Joe Biden’s election campaign announced candidates for positions in the new administration, never received the scrutiny it deserved. To most people, many of these people were either close to Obama or had been especially the mainstream media, which adores Obama, it part of the Obama administration. wasn’t a concern. But prophetically, it is a huge concern! By mid-December, what amounted to a third Obama Antiochus was active, and he was pursuing his great administration had been created and was ready to move goal to change America! back into the White House! The most remarkable part was, most of America had no problem with this! Antiochus was ready to If this plan had not been interrupted, take back control, and America didn’t care! If this plan had not been interrupted, I believe I believe Barack Obama would Barack Obama would have ended up back in the have ended up back in the White White House—at the very least as the grand pup- House—at the very least as pet-master directing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. the grand puppet-master This might sound far-fetched to some. But is it, really? Consider what Obama himself said in an interview directing Joe Biden with Stephen Colbert in November. “People would and Kamala Harris. ask me, knowing what you know now, do you wish you had a third term? And I used to say, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front-man or front-woman, and they had an earpiece in and I was in my basement with my sweats looking through the stuff and I could deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and cere- mony, I would be fine with that because I found the work fascinating.” Mr. Obama has made other similar statements indicating he wants to be president again! In Matthew 12:34, Jesus said, “[O]ut of the abun- dance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.” Consider what Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s In the Epoch Times, Lee Smith wrote, “Obama wants it under- attorney, said during a Fox News interview on December 6. stood that Biden is an avatar for a third Obama term. Now he can “This was a pattern that was set by somebody in Washington, complete the work of ‘fundamentally transforming Amer- because everybody else carried out exactly in the same way ica,’ as he put it days before the 2008 election” (Nov. 17, 2020). and they did it in the crooked cities. … I don’t know who was in Barack Obama was the first president in more than a century charge of it. All I can tell you is it looks like a very well-planned, to take up residence in Washington after leaving office. Most very well-executed situation.” presidents leave the capital, partly out of respect for their suc- Mr. Giuliani has access to all sorts of facts and intelligence, cessor. Why did Obama remain? In March 2017, the Daily Mail and he says someone in Washington, D.C., orchestrated this wrote that Obama’s home in Washington, D.C., which is less coup. He didn’t say who he believes it was. But it is logical to than two miles from the White House, had become the “nerve conclude that it was Antiochus! center of the mounting insurgency against his successor, In the coming weeks and months, expect even more President Donald J. Trump.” evidence to emerge proving Barack Obama was behind the Can you imagine? Headquartered in D.C., this man has been radical left’s attack on the Trump administration and the U.S. coaching the radical left the entire time. Mr. Obama has been electoral system! personally involved in seeking to overthrow President Trump. In March, he personally guided the selection of Joe Biden as How to Be Saved the Democratic nominee for president. For example, Obama Imagine how destructive it would be to America if Barack personally called Pete Buttigieg after he pulled out of the race Obama led the nation, either directly as president or via a proxy and asked him to endorse Biden. He had aides make similar like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, for the next four years. Since calls to Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. he left office, the radical left has become much more powerful. Between March and November, Barack Obama and his team Think about the suffocating power of the tech companies, the campaigned hard for Joe Biden. Not only that, they encouraged uncontested supremacy of the radicalized mainstream media, voters to vote early, and to vote via mail-in ballots. We now know and the rise of hardcore Marxists in the Democratic Party. All of

CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES SOMODEVILLA/GETTY CHIP that a lot of the fraud was committed with these mail-in votes. By these powerful entities are led by an anti-God Antiochus whose FEBRUARY 2021 31 goal is to blot out the name of Israel—or God’s master plan radical left, He is giving the nation one final opportunity to for mankind! With the support of these people, Obama could repent of sin and turn to Him! easily finish the job of “fundamentally transforming” America! Speaking of this time, God says in Ezekiel 33:11, “I have no Barack Obama and his surrogates would have the power pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn to make sure a leader like Donald Trump would never be in from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for power again! America as we know it—a nation underpinned why will ye die, O house of Israel?” by Judeo-Christian values and governed by the rule of law, a God is deeply emotional about this! When He saves Israel, nation that respects its forefathers, a nation unique for its God- it is only temporary. But He yearns to save Israel perma- given power and prosperity—would be destroyed! nently! He derives no pleasure in seeing people suffer. This is why He pleads with these people year after year, crying out through this magazine, the Key of David television program When God saves America and theTrumpet.com, beseeching them to repent of their sins. from the radical left, He is giving God is full of mercy and love, and quick to forgive and protect. But to receive God’s forgiveness and protection, the the nation one final opportunity people of America and Britain—and any person of any race to repent of sin and turn to Him. or nation—must repent. We must stop sinning, stop rebelling against God’s law and stop resisting God! I have explained the prophecies in Amos 7 and 2 Kings 14, As world conditions deteriorate, remember this message. both of which reveal that God is not going to allow Mr. Obama God will protect us physically and spiritually (Revelation 12:14). and the radical left to blot out the name of Israel. These proph- Even in a blistering message like Amos’s, there is good news! ecies are dual, which means the events described in these chap- When this world disintegrates before our eyes, we know that a ters occurred anciently in Israel, but will also occur in America new world is almost here! Yes, there are difficult prophecies and Britain (the descendants of biblical Israel) in the end time. ahead, but they all lead to the return of Christ! In 2 Kings 14:26, Israel is in severe affliction. “For the Ever- This world does not know God! They are about to get to living pitied the immeasurable miseries of Israel both without know Him and have their chance to be saved. Spiritually, most and within, when there was no ease for Israel” (Ferrar Fenton of them will get to know God for the first time in a resurrection translation). Notice, much of the suffering is inflicted from from the dead. within the nation. The nation is being destroyed from the “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman inside by Antiochus and his supporters! shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that And remember that the book of Kings is one of the former soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and prophets, which contains prophecy mainly for the latter days— all the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity of our time today. my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and But notice verse 27: “And the Lord said not that he would inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.” The name them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall of Israel is about to be blotted out. God Himself intervenes no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given and saves Israel temporarily. How? By the hand of an end- them, saith the Lord thy God” (Amos 9:13-15). This is the time Jeroboam! wonderful conclusion Amos gives us. Today, Donald Trump plays the role of an end-time Jeroboam. The bad news in what is coming is only temporary. Soon, every- Most Americans will consider this good news, and it is—but one will be educated and they will be blessed for their obedience. not for the reason many think. But their time of understanding lies in the future. To those These prophecies do not end with America remaining per- prepared to repent and obey God, today is our day. We have the petually prosperous and peaceful. Anciently, the kingdom of unparalleled opportunity to give to God, to give to this world, Israel was destroyed by Assyria after the reign of King Jeroboam and to fulfill our responsibility to faithfully support the very ended (2 Kings 18). Prophecies in Isaiah 10 and Habakkuk 1 tell work of God. God is preparing His people to help Jesus Christ us this will happen to Israel in the end time too: America and rule for all eternity! n Britain will be destroyed by the Holy Roman Empire, which is led by Germany—the descendants of ancient Assyria. In Amos 7:8, God reveals why He saves America through Jeroboam. He says, “… I will set a plumbline in the midst of What’s the real my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.” A plumbline is usually used in measuring a building or construc- source of the tion. But God uses it differently here: This is about measuring attack on America? the destruction that is to come upon the nations of Israel. This destruction is not random; God is measuring it carefully and You can’t see it, you can’t shoot it, and you precisely. And it will bring about the most wonderful results can’t vote it out of office. But you can read imaginable. about it in Gerald Flurry’s free booklet When God saves America from Barack Obama and the America Under Attack. 32 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET of United States Army Forces in the PRINCIPLES OF LIVING General STEPHEN FLURRY MacArthur Far East during World War ii. After a addresses a joint session of humiliating defeat in the Philippines, Congress in 1951. MacArthur made a daring escape to Australia. Before his escape, he famously No Substitute vowed, “I shall return.” Three years later, he returned triumphantly to liberate the for Victory Philippines and lead the Allies to victory. MacArthur presided over Japan’s sur- ouglas MacArthur was one render in 1945 and its reconstruction to of America’s greatest soldiers. a peaceful state. D How did he become great, and At the start of the Korean War in what can we learn from him? 1950, the 70-year-old commander was As a boy, MacArthur dreamed of following in the steps of his chosen to lead coalition forces against the Communist-backed famous father, an army captain who won the Congressional incursion on the Korean Peninsula. MacArthur pushed for Medal of Honor during the Civil War. His mother told him, “You bold, aggressive action to stop the spread of communism. In must grow up to be a great man—like your father and Robert E. Washington, President Harry Truman favored a much more Lee.” When Douglas was 13, he overheard his father say to her, limited war. This led to an epic clash between the commander “I think there is the material of a soldier in that boy.” He never in chief and America’s most decorated and beloved five-star forgot that remark. William Manchester wrote, “No adolescent general. Truman removed MacArthur from his command, but rebellion for him; all his life he would seek to be a man-at-arms the larger-than-life general returned home to a hero’s welcome. in whom his father could have exulted.” Douglas MacArthur’s farewell address is one of the great Douglas excelled at sports and academics, but when he grad- orations in American history. His entire life—52 years of it uated high school in 1897, he was denied entry to the United serving his country in uniform—had been a preparation for States Military Academy at West Point. He did not receive the this singular moment. As MacArthur spoke before the assem- presidential appointment he needed, and he also failed his bled Congress on April 19, 1951, Americans everywhere were preliminary physical examination due to curvature of the spine. gripped by the power, soundness and sincerity of his words. But there was indeed material of a soldier in this young man: MacArthur said he had been accused of being a warmonger, He moved with his mother to a district in Wisconsin where which was not true at all. MacArthur hated war. Nothing, he they knew the congressman and immediately set out to correct said, is more revolting than war. “But once war is forced upon the spinal defect with the help of a specialist, whom he worked us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available with an entire year! He was determined not to be denied West means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory, not Point in 1899. The doctor said of him, “He was one of the quick- prolonged indecision,” he said. Appeasement begets new and est fellows to obey orders I have ever treated.” bloodier war. “In war,” he said, “there is no substitute for victory.” Meanwhile, Douglas also worked with his mother as well as We are in a spiritual war, against Satan, society and the sin a tutor to prepare for a contest in his congressional district, within ourselves. There is no substitute for victory. walking two miles every day to study. He said he never worked The Bible says the author of evil human nature and the god harder in his life. When the results were announced, placing of this world is Satan, a being of tremendous power (Ephesians first—by far—out of the 13 applicants was Douglas MacArthur. 2:2; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Peter 5:8). He is the reason this world “It was a lesson I never forgot,” he said. “Preparedness is the key is saturated in sin and suffering from all forms of physical and to success and victory.” He was going to West Point—because spiritual disease. He is the real enemy. he had absolutely outworked the competition! God hates war. He is no warmonger. But in this present evil At West Point too, he outworked the competition, enduring world, with Satan as its god, spiritual war is necessary! This hazing, meeting the rigors of his training, making the baseball is why the Bible describes true Christians as good soldiers team, rising from corporal to first sergeant to first captain, of Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 2:3). We are God’s army. Our Com- and graduating with one of the highest academic scores in the mander in Chief orders us to put on the whole armor of God, history of the institution. fight the good fight of faith, war a good warfare, conquer the Then MacArthur put his training into action: the Corps of adversary, forsake the ways of this world, crucify our carnal Engineers, Office of the Chief of Staff, combat in Veracruz, first natures, and destroy the body of sin (see Ephesians 6; 1 Timo- lieutenant, captain, major, brigadier general, the trenches of the thy 6:12; 1:18; Romans 6:6). Christianity in today’s world is war. Western Front, gassing, a Distinguished Service Medal, a Croixe God has drafted all true Christians to be good soldiers. de Guerre, Wound Chevrons, Distinguished Service Crosses, To be a good soldier, there is no substitute for thorough seven Silver Stars. After the Great War was over, it was super- preparation and disciplined training. And on the battlefield, intendency of West Point, commands in the Philippines and never forget, there is no substitute for victory. War’s very object stateside, Army chief of staff, major general, field marshal, even is victory. That is our goal. That’s the destination. However the presidency of the American Olympic Committee. In several long, difficult, bumpy or narrow the campaign may be, the only of his posts, he was the youngest man ever to be appointed. option is victory. Victory at all costs! For without victory, as

BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES BETTMANN/GETTY This is all before what he is most famous for: command Winston Churchill said, there is no survival. n FEBRUARY 2021 33 DISCUSSION BOARD

Having just read your article concerning the election and the skulduggery being perpetrated, I wanted to thank you for providing clarity on the issue (“Why Donald Trump Will Remain America’s President,” January, theTrumpet.com/23193). Here in the UK, the mainstream press continues to bleat on about Trump not having a shred of evidence regarding voter fraud. Independent news channels continue to broadcast live updates from the Trump team, and these provide a totally opposite view! I wait patiently for the sitting president to be sworn in for his second term. Bill Moylan e-mail response

I believed after I saw/heard the would form if U.S. Mideast policy reread those as well. I just want international movements and results of this election that it was reverted to appeasement, which you to know that I make good motivations. Thank you. wrong. I read what Mr. Flurry would be likely under a Democrat use of this valuable information. Bill Morin boston, massachusetts wrote about the election results administration. God has not Mark Mabie e-mail response (after Biden had been declared finished moving the chess pieces Good to know! We do have many I have to say you are very good at the winner)—I knew from my and needs President Trump in other publications, including a responding to all my needs; I just association with your (God’s) place for a while longer. Bible correspondence course ask and you respond. This is how organization that would not Kevin Sheridan e-mail response and many books and booklets, Jesus was. It keeps me knowing be the outcome. I actually felt all available at no charge. Visit you are the true Christian Church God was reassuring me of His I had that funny feeling theTrumpet.com and click on of the Kingdom of God. I finished involvement when I read what Mr. something was up when the big the “Library” tab to see all that the Herbert W. Armstrong Flurry wrote. I knew on one could change came overnight. But I we offer. College Bible Correspondence be so bold unless he had God didn’t know what happened until Course. I love what we have behind him. While I know this will Mr. Flurry explained it. I thank I read the Trumpet monthly. It learned. We know God’s plan for be devastating for the country, I you very much, once again. I love helps me to understand the man and His Kingdom. look forward to God’s intervention. God’s true Church. You all keep world I’m living in. I am very Ronald Campbell e-mail response I only hope that the reason God me up to date. grateful for the publication. is working things out this way Ronald Campbell e-mail response Joyce Follot genoa city, wisconsin Just a brief note of appreciation will help many to see the error of for such a wonderful and their ways and thoughts and turn Do you offer any other I am very impressed, thankful enjoyable magazine you all have wholeheartedly to the great God. publications? If so, please sign and encouraged by the Trumpet. sent me all these years. I read It is amazing to me how much me up. I have learned so much, I am especially impressed by everything in it thoroughly. I like God loves and cares for us (Israel). and I read and reread and save the knowledge and investigative that nothing is sugar-coated or NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCK.COM/JEDB3_16, DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES e-mail response them so I can refer back to findings you have shown in all beat around the bush on current the magazines at a future date, your writings. You have been events, but you stick to the truth Perhaps another consideration which is quite often. I also read providing a worldview unlike 100 percent. There are so many for a Trump second term is the your daily online publications. most publications, backed great articles I sometimes read coming coalition of Psalm 83. I also print off many of your up by solid facts on subjects over and over again.

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top article top article top video top podcast Why Donald Trump Will The Election Exposes the The Eternal Has Even More Evidence Remain America’s President Radical Left’s Rolling Coup Chosen Jerusalem for the Media to Ignore theTrumpet.com/23193 theTrumpet.com/23120 theTrumpet.com/23185 theTrumpet.com/23240 34 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET COMMENTARY home and livelihood, community and friends. And one’s nation. BRAD MACDONALD People are being driven to retaliation—and often, hatred— because the alternatives are increasingly detestable. But their resistance, which is rational, only inflames the irrational views and hatred of the attackers. To these aggressors, the victims’ resistance only confirms their conviction that the victim must Where Will All be punished. How does this cycle of hate end? Have you ever seen footage of a pile of tires on fire? A tire fire the Hate End? is practically impossible to extinguish. It stops only after the tires have burned out. It’s the same with the cycle of hate. It will stop only after the hate has burned itself out. To save our future, we must break the cycle of scorn. In Matthew 24:22, Jesus prophesies about the end of the age of man. “And except those days should be shortened,” He ook at this world and you see so much hate. In Amer- says, “there should no flesh be saved ….” He is talking about ica, politics have been split in two, with animosity and a time of mass violence and worldwide war. This “great tribu- L rancor separating them more and more. The radical lation,” as Jesus calls it in verse 21, is one giant tire fire of hate. left, spearheaded by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, openly “And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, broadcast deep hatred for traditional America. Across the and shall hate one another” (verse 10). world, hate and its offspring—harassment, intolerance, abuse, The Bible reveals the ultimate source of hate in passages such protests and riots, persecution, violence and murder, even as 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 2:2 and Revelation 12. These genocide—flourish. Everywhere you look, hate grows. expose the presence of Satan the devil, a spirit being who embod- This is terrifying, and here is why: Hate tends to stimulate more hate. When it is manifested in heated arguments, the Members of perversion of justice, dishonest journalism, destructive riots, the Proud Boys clash with Black beatings and murders, it always feeds itself. Even when the Lives Matter protesters in victims don’t initially hate the aggressors, persistent abuse Washington, D.C., compels them to hate. Hate is reciprocal. on Dec. 11, 2020. After enduring consistent verbal attacks and increasingly vile acts of aggression by the radical left, supporters of Donald Trump and traditional America started pushing back. Last summer in Portland, a Trump supporter confronting a blm horde was publicly executed in the street. This was inevitable. This is how hate works. It will happen again. This shocking event in Portland did nothing to soothe the hate of either side. To the contrary, the Trump supporters’ resistance only confirmed leftists’ views that these people are racists and deserving of hate. And Trump followers saw even more clearly how violently they are hated, no doubt aggravating their hatred of radicals. Hate rarely fizzles; it only intensifies. In January 1838, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Spring- field, Illinois, in which he warned about the destructiveness of ies hate, whose every thought and action is inspired by hatred hate. Antipathy was building between abolitionists and slavery toward God, His truth and His plan. Revelation 12:12 tells us advocates, and America was sliding into “mob rule.” Facing that this “great red dragon” has been cast down to Earth and has these conditions, Lincoln said, “[G]ood men, men who love tran- “great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” quility, who desire to abide by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, Looking at humanity collectively, there is no evidence of any who would gladly spill their blood in the defense of their coun- movement toward repentance that would reverse the trend try; seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and toward destruction. Individually, though, the path to repen- their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing tance is open to you. You can escape the cycle of hate, which in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired will soon end in a massive climax called the Great Tribulation. of, and disgusted with, a government that offers them no pro- How? Ultimately, we escape this future by conquering our tection; and are not much averse to a change in which they human emotions and impulses, our attitudes and human will, imagine they have nothing to lose” (emphasis added). the powerful pulls of the carnal mind and flesh. We escape this This is the way human emotions work. When people are future by surrendering our lives and minds completely to God, attacked, when they see their nation and livelihood under threat His law and His government. This is not easy; it cannot be done and their cities burning, and when they see that the authorities on human power or talent. It can only be done using the power are unwilling to defend them, they are compelled to respond. of God’s Spirit, which we receive upon repentance and faith. n

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