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ermany will vote for a new chancellor on Septem- party. In fact, the csu alone would be more popular than the ber 26. Angela Merkel has ruled for 16 years, and she is cdu-csu union is right now. G retiring. Who will replace her? Nobody can predict what German politics are changing fast. “The Germany that most is going to happen. of us have known all our lives is about to change in radical and Previous elections in Germany have been similar to the unpredictable ways,” wrote Evans-Pritchard. United States: a main left-wing and right-wing party, but with Germans are weary of weak leadership. They are desperate a few smaller parties serving as coalition partners, usually for a change. Many are looking for a strongman! They want providing the extra 5 percent or so that the main parties need someone with brawn and backbone to rise up and lead the to govern with a majority. nation—and Europe—out of this malaise. That is over. All the major parties are failing, and their leaders This is critically important. A new strong German leader is are unpopular. Several of the “minor” parties are now major one of the key Bible prophecies for the end time. We should parties. In April, a key poll put the Green Party in first place. watch closely for such a man to emerge from this political mess. There’s a real prospect of a Green chancellor. The Greens could Herbert W. Armstrong warned for decades about the do a deal with the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (cdu), arrival of such a leader. European nations are becoming Merkel’s party, but they might also do a deal with “distrustful of America and thinking more and the Left party (the successor to East Germany’s GET YOUR GERMAN more about uniting themselves into a united Communists) and the Social Democrats, pulling ELECTION FORECAST. states of Europe,” he wrote in March 1950. To the government to the hard left. Request your free copy of do that, they need a “new supreme leader—the This is shaping up to be the most interesting Gerald Flurry’s A Strong successor of Adolf Hitler—to rise up and assert German election in a generation. Bible prophecy German Leader Is Imminent. himself and take command.” shows why you need to watch closely. I have continued this same warning since “This is the stuff of nightmares for the German establish- the Trumpet magazine’s earliest issues. “If a real crisis devel- ment,” wrote Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Telegraph, April 21). ops, will the Germans call for a new führer?” I asked in our The cdu is in free fall. They selected Armin Laschet as their December 1991 issue. “Your Bible says that is going to hap- candidate for Ms. Merkel’s replacement. The leaders of the party pen! That crisis will probably be triggered by an economic like him. The public does not. A recent poll found that 77 percent collapse in the U.S.” of cdu members thought their party had chosen the wrong man. Political shifts in Germany could soon bring an opening for “Never has a candidate entered a general election for the cdu such a man. Mr. Armstrong believed the csu could provide that so torn and disheveled,” wrote Spiegel. “The weather is ugly,” one strong leader, and I have long said the same thing. This party’s party insider told Bild. “I’ve never seen anything like it before. newfound popularity could help this happen. Not in the refugee crisis or in the euro crisis.” Bild published a However events turn out in Germany in the short term, you letter from a longtime member who was quitting the party. need to know where Europe is heading. The Bible’s prophecies The situation is so bad that the Christian Social Union (csu)— reveal how it will soon change, and how it will affect you. My which has been in a political marriage with the cdu for 70 years— free booklet A Strong German Leader Is Imminent takes you is considering divorce. Usually, the csu runs in Bavaria, and the through the prophecies that informed Mr. Armstrong. It will cdu runs everywhere else. The two parties work together at the show you what prophecy says about this strongman, and why federal level and unite behind a single candidate for chancellor. he is so central to end-time events. It will help you prove for News and analysis updated daily A recent poll showed that if the csu ditched the cdu and yourself what your Bible says about such a man. Study these theTrumpet.com went nationwide by itself, it would be Germany’s most popular prophecies, and watch Germany! n JULY 2021 1 WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER TRUMP REGAINS POWER Bible prophecy shows that he will return to office to stop some of the destruction being caused by the current administration. But that is not the end of the story. BY GERALD FLURRY

t is practically an open secret states was a 10th of that (312,992 votes), that the courts will allow it. This could that radical Democrats stole the 2020 no reasonable person can conclude the be just the beginning. An investigation United States presidential election. presidential election was free and fair. in Georgia could also expose fraud in the I Polls show that over 70 percent of Project Veritas uncovered thousands election for U.S. Senate, which would Republicans believe the election was of registered voters in Georgia who all take away the Democrats’ majority there stolen. A lot of Democrats also believe the shared a single address across the street and negate the decisions they have been election was stolen; I think many of them from Georgia Secretary of State Brad making. And Maricopa County, Arizona, know it was. Even official totals show a Raffensperger’s office at the state capitol. is conducting what appears to be a full record 74.2 million people voted for Pres- Yet America’s justice system has no and fair audit of more than 2 million bal- ident Donald Trump—nearly 5 million interest in investigating voter fraud. lots and dozens of electronic tabulators WILLARD/ISTOCK.COM/MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES more than anyone in American history! The Trump administration filed at least that could expose major fraud. Yet somehow, Joe Biden received 63 lawsuits alleging fraud in several I do not know how it will happen, but 6 million more votes than that. Dr. Peter states. Almost all of these suits were I am convinced Donald Trump is going Navarro, a former White House adviser, thrown out—not by the merits, but over to regain the presidency. Bible prophecy has uncovered 3,069,002 “possible technicalities. foretells it! illegal votes” in just the swing states Now, a group of experts is asking a of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, judge to unseal and review absentee Prophecy of President Trump Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Since ballots in Georgia to see if the election To understand the election fraud Joe Biden’s “victory” margin in these there really was stolen, and it seems in America, you must understand a 2 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET time. This is an important truth you need the end time, though the principle is the to prove for yourself. same. The fact that the verse about war- “Israel” refers prophetically to America ring comes after the verse about saving and Britain. These nations—as well as indicates that the end-time Jeroboam the State of Israel, or biblical Judah— wages “war” after he has already saved are most prominent among those Israel once. God could use Jeroboam to descended from ancient Israel (for proof, do this warring in many different ways. request a free copy of The United States How does this verse apply to Donald and Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert W. Trump? Bible prophecy shows that, Armstrong). So when “Israel” is spoken however it happens, Mr. Trump will of in end-time biblical prophecy, these return to office. are the nations it concerns. Verse 26 shows there are people work- ‘Warred’ to ‘Recover’ ing to blot out the name of Israel—and Amos 7 contains a prophecy about end- many of them are within America! This time Israel—most prominently, the alone helps us to understand the serious- superpower America today. It is clearly ness of America’s affliction today. about the very end of the nation. It shows But God says in verse 27 that He “saved that at that time, Jeroboam is not only in them by the hand of Jeroboam the son power, but he is wielding kingly authority. of Joash.” Today, Donald Trump is ful- This prophecy describes a confronta- filling the role of an end-time “Jeroboam.” tion Jeroboam has with a representative As we will see, in Amos 7—another, of God. I will explain more about this more explicitly end-time prophecy— in a moment. But it’s important to note Jeroboam is the name of the leader of that Amos 7 looks like one flowing event: Israel. That prophecy connects with this There is no hint of a gap or pause in passage in Kings, which shows how God Jeroboam’s reign before this confron- actually used this leader to save America, tation. Is it possible that this prophecy temporarily, from its enemies. This hap- doesn’t mention an interruption in his pened during Donald Trump’s first term rule because in God’s view, there is no as president. (Read “Saving America gap? I believe that by maintaining the From the Radical Left—Temporarily” at flow of Jeroboam’s rule in this prophecy, theTrumpet.com/17092). God may well be showing that the 2020 But that is not the end of the story. election was stolen. Perhaps He looks on The next verse is actually a new para- Mr. Trump as still being president of the graph, as you can see in the King James United States! The view that the election Version of the Bible: “Now the rest of was stolen has far more weight if that’s the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he the way God Himself sees it. did, and his might, how he warred, But 2 Kings 14:28 gives us insight into and how he recovered Damascus, and what is happening during the pause passage in 2 Kings 14. The book of Kings Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for in Trump’s rule, between his first and is part of the Bible called the former Israel, are they not written in the book second term. prophets. The former prophets are of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?” Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon of prophets: The men who wrote them (verse 28). This verse marks a new the Old Testament says the word “warred” were prophets, and prophets are used by development. It happens after God uses means “to fight, to war.” The Theological God to prophesy. These books contain Jeroboam to save Israel. Word Study of the Old Testament says history, but they are highly prophetic This verse shows that the end-time that warring occurs 171 times, pertain- (see article, page 24). Jeroboam has to wage war to expand his ing to God’s role in Israel’s wars. That “For the Lord saw the affliction of domain. After using the word saved, it would apply in this case, because God Israel, that it was very bitter: for there uses another, even stronger word: warred. has commissioned Mr. Trump to save was not any shut up, nor any left, nor Jeroboam has to do that to recover some- Israel. Consider how different this word any helper for Israel. And the Lord said thing. Every word here is important. is from “saved” in verse 27. Mr. Trump not that he would blot out the name of Anciently, King Jeroboam ii reigned did not literally have to war to save Israel from under heaven: but he saved 41 years, but many Bible chronologists Israel during his first term—though them by the hand of Jeroboam the son believe the first 12 years of his reign were he did have to fight to expose all the of Joash” (2 Kings 14:26-27). a co-regency with his father, Joash, when fraudulent investigations, treasonous For many reasons that I have explained he warred against Syria. But often, what acts and bogus impeachments. There in a series of articles in this magazine, happened anciently is not exactly the are different ways you can war, but the this is a specific prophecy about this end same as what is prophesied to happen in indication is that regaining office may JULY 2021 3 take considerable work. Donald Trump thousands of Jews in Jerusalem, and he did, and his military achievements, will have to fight for it. It doesn’t have to burned and demolished much of the city. including how he recovered for Israel be military action, but it certainly could. The fruits show that America was both Damascus and Hamath, which had President Trump could also lead some ruled by a political “Antiochus” for eight belonged to [Judah], are they not written states to secede from the union. That years, much to the injury of the nation. in the book of the annals of the kings of would lead to some kind of warfare. Barack Obama worked hard and fast Israel?” The Ferrar-Fenton translation Verse 28 of 2 Kings 14 strongly indicates toward his stated goal of “fundamentally reads, “For the other affairs of Jerabam, that Mr. Trump recovers his presidency transforming” America. He and his and all that he did, how he warred, and by some kind of warring­—not voting. followers actually worked to blot out the how he recaptured Damascus and It seems certain to me that this will name of Israel! I realize this is an explo- Khamath of Judah to Israel, they are happen before the next presidential sive claim, but the evidence is abundant. recorded in the history of events of the election in 2024—unless there would be I have written two booklets (both free) days of the kings of Israel.” When Barack Obama was president, IF GOD SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS GOING TO “RECOVER” he was very unmerciful to the Jewish nation of Israel. But in President Trump’s SOMETHING, THEN IT WILL BE RECOVERED. AND WHAT first term, he saved the Jewish nation (biblical Judah) from much of Obama’s COULD HE RECOVER, IF NOT THE STOLEN ELECTION? tyranny. He supported Israel in many ways, including helping it sign the “Abra- some kind of war and voting combined. explaining this truth: America Under ham Accords” with Arab nations in the But 2 Kings 14:28 does not even hint of Attack and Great Again. region. Respected columnist Lee Smith an election. However, God used President Trump described the alliance between Israel and There is going to be some kind of to prevent that—not because of that the Gulf states as “an impediment to the war to recover something. If God says man’s righteousness, but because he dream of a reempowered, nuclear-armed President Trump is going to “recover” has the courage to step out and fight for Iran backed by the United States, which something, then it will be recovered. Israel and knows it is the right thing to do. was Obama’s main foreign-policy Amos 7 also shows that war will be Yet now, this same man is ruling again aim—and an affront to peace processors successful. And what could he recover, through an illegitimate president. Presi- convinced of their own never-ending if not the stolen election? dent Biden has rapidly signed executive importance. The Biden administration This all must happen because of a orders to not only undo what President apparently aims to sink the accords by miracle from God! And that should be Trump did but to blot out America’s penalizing Israel and its peace partners obvious to everybody when it happens— history and traditions and biblical foun- for getting too close, and returning the if they were honest. dations as quickly as possible. The Biden Palestinians to center stage—in order administration is allowing immigrants, to prepare the ground for reentering the Antiochus including criminals and drug smugglers, Iran deal” (March 21; emphasis added). 2 Kings 14:27 says someone is trying to to pour over the border. It is spending Note that: “Obama’s main foreign-pol- “blot out the name of Israel from under billions on housing, health care, educa- icy aim” was to align America with Iran— heaven.” Satan is the real power that tion and welfare. They are sinking this Israel’s enemy and the world’s number wants to blot out the name of Israel— country in a $30 trillion debt, which one terrorist-sponsoring nation! Iran’s America most of all. But he often works could explode in our faces any day! But main goal is to bring America down through human beings. And this points if you know what to look for, you realize and to wipe Judah off the map! For to another prophecy we have drawn what the ultimate goal is: to blot out the America to support Iran makes no considerable attention to in recent years, name of Israel. And the way they are sense, unless you realize that this leader that of an end-time political “Antiochus” going, they would do it! is trying to blot out the name of Israel! who attacks America from within. Iranian leaders talk about this all the The prophecy begins in Daniel 8:9. Helping Judah time. This nation wants to blot out the Commentaries agree the ancient type 2 Kings 14:28 states that Jeroboam recov- name of Israel. That includes America referred to here was Antiochus iv Epiph- ered Damascus and Hamath. The Son- and Britain. Yet Americans allowed their anes, a deceptive, wicked Seleucid king cino commentary states that Damascus president to enact that foreign policy. who controlled the Jews in the second was once ruled by King David, and that And now, that foreign policy is back! century b.c. While peoples in other areas the king of Hamath paid tribute to David Biden is empowering Iran so it may soon were allowed to keep their religions, and became part of his son Solomon’s obtain nuclear weapons. I am certain Antiochus wrathfully tried to destroy not kingdom (2 Samuel 8:9-10; 1 Kings 8:65). we will have more Palestinian terrorist only many Jewish men, women and chil- So the indication is that Jeroboam attacks now because of who is in charge. dren but also the Jewish faith itself. He reclaimed something to help Judah. God is wrathful about this. If this con- robbed the temple, set up a pagan altar Here is how the New International tinues, it will end very badly! You see and idol of himself inside it, deceived Version translates 2 Kings 14:28: “As for how important it is that somebody then destroyed and enslaved tens of the other events of Jeroboam’s reign, all needs to “recover” something. 4 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Isaiah 40:9 shows that God’s Church in God has a stern message for this man, repenting toward God, that they are sin- this end time has a message that must be and He will use this end-time Amos, ning, that God is cursing them for it, and delivered to “the cities of Judah”—“be- backed by God’s true Church, to deliver it. that this will result in the destruction hold your God!” Satan knows that. He Look at the history of King Jeroboam i, of this nation and the enslavement and also knows about God’s Church support- the first leader of the northern kingdom death of its people! ing archaeology projects in Jerusalem of Israel. He broke away from the throne The rest of Amos 7 describes the hor- for the past 50 years, and how we helped of David, polluted the priesthood, and rific prophesied Great Tribulation. This uncover King David’s palace. established a false religion—changing will be the worst time of suffering ever, It appears Mr. Trump may have to God’s holy days, priesthood and worship, and the Americans, the British and the recover some of Judah’s freedom for turning people to himself rather than to Jews will have to suffer it! us to even deliver God’s message! God—though God warned him not to Right now, the big question revolves God’s Church possesses the new (1 Kings 12:25-33). around how Donald Trump will regain throne of David today (request a free copy This end-time Jeroboam is commit- power. America is in the throes of an of my book The New Throne of David). ting the same sins! Our free book The Antiochus administration that is rapidly The Jews need to hear this message as a Former Prophets will explain this to driving the nation toward radicalism, witness in this end time! But Satan and you. The Amos 7 prophecy shows that socialism, amorality, class division and his Antiochus are working fiercely to he promotes false religion and gets race war! As I wrote in our April issue beat out our message—which is the ulti- religious people to look to him, not God. regarding 2 Kings 14:26, America’s mate expression of “the name of Israel”! He also rejects the throne of David and affliction is very bitter, and the nation what God is doing with that throne in has no helper! A Warning for Jeroboam this end time. God’s Church is going to But God’s prophecies are sure. The end of Jeroboam’s life and reign are have to show this man what his great sin Jeroboam’s clash with God’s Church recorded in 2 Kings 14:29: “And Jeroboam is and what his followers’ sins are. is about as clear as any prophecy in slept with his fathers, even with the Amos 7:10 shows a false minister the Bible. This has not happened yet; kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son telling Jeroboam about Amos’s warning therefore, President Trump must regain reigned in his stead.” This too indicates a message, and he says, “the land is not office—one way or another. We must second term for Donald Trump. He will able to bear all his words.” This is a key have faith. God is always testing our recover power, but not for long. That is verse. It shows that the message coming faith in certain ways; we would never when Amos’s prophecy will be fulfilled. from God’s Church will achieve such grow if He didn’t. We must reach the Amos 7 gives no hint of a political notoriety and get so strong that the point where we totally believe God! If Antiochus. This could mean that that people cannot bear it! we are shown to be wrong, then we will individual will be removed somehow. “For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall change and believe God! But everything Will God somehow remove him when die by the sword, and Israel shall surely God is showing us now makes it look Jeroboam “wars”? Will that be the end of be led away captive out of their own land. like, despite appearances to the con- the political Antiochus’s work? God does Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou trary, we are right on target. not say definitely, but I believe Amos 7 seer, go, flee thee away into the land of The bigger issue is what will happen indicates it. Judah, and there eat bread, and proph- AFTER Trump regains power. He will Now notice the prophecy more spe- esy there. But prophesy not again any put a stop to the immediate destruction. cifically. “And the Lord said unto me, more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, But this nation is very far from God! And Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A and it is the king’s court” (verses 11-13). Jeroboam and everyone else need a pow- plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, Yes, this end-time Jeroboam has “the erful warning and a call to repentance. I will set a plumbline in the midst of my king’s chapel,” a strong religious fol- That is what God’s Church is here to people Israel: I will not again pass by lowing. And he has kingly powers. The provide, as loudly and clearly as we can. them any more: And the high places of modern leader of Israel is committing If the American people do not heed God’s Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctu- the same sins that King Jeroboam i did warning message, this will be followed by aries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I anciently. And he and Amaziah and his the most terrifying time you can imagine! will rise against the house of Jeroboam followers despise what God’s Church is But that severe correction is what it will with the sword” (Amos 7:8-9). Here God saying. We are proclaiming a message take for God to reach people, and humble is giving His man a warning message to that Jeroboam and his followers have them, in preparation for the return of deliver to Israel and to Jeroboam. The the wrong religion, that the throne they Jesus Christ and the establishment of His Prophet Amos was a type of a messenger have will not last, that they are not truly Kingdom on Earth! n who will have to proclaim this warning in the end time. God says this is the last time He will warn Israel before its destruction if they don’t repent—and it WILL IT BE GREAT AT LAST? is in the time of “Jeroboam.” The Holy Bible prophesied America’s rise, its decline, its resurgence Notice: God is not happy with and what is coming next. For a guide to some of the most relevant Jeroboam! This is important to recognize. scriptures, request Gerald Flurry’s booklet Great Again. JULY 2021 5 “I hope we get a verdict that says guilty, guilty, guilty,” said Rep. Maxine Waters at a protest two days before the verdict. “And if we don’t, we cannot go away. We’ve got to stay on the street. We get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.” The judge in the Chauvin trial stated that Waters’s inflammatory remarks could result in the trial being over- turned on appeal if lawyers can make the case that jurors were intimidated into making their ruling. The rioting that started after Floyd’s death last year killed at least 30 people and cost the nation an estimated $2 billion. So we will never know how much fear of riot- ing impacted the jurors’ decisions. Whatever Chauvin’s guilt, his trial was a classic example of mob justice. Making matters worse, the mob will not be appeased even if Chauvin gets the maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. Why? There is a sinister reason.

Embracing Mob Rule Mob rule is becoming the law of the land in America. Journalist Ami Horowitz went to the George Floyd memorial the day before the guilty verdict was announced and asked questions of black protesters to get their real views. The truth was shocking. One person told him, “There shouldn’t even be a trial; he should be convicted just as is.” Another said, “Burn ‘This the whole city down, what does it mat- eorge Floyd’s death was ter?” Another said, “I don’t want to say clearly a tragedy. Whether Derek we need to start killing all white folks, Chauvin received a fair trial, how- but it’s like—maybe they need to feel the Verdict ever, is far less clear. pain and the hurt.” When asked whether GChauvin was the police officer at a civil war was necessary, another pro- whose hand Floyd died, and who was tester said, “If that’s what it takes, then convicted on April 21 by a Minnesota jury we have to do it.” Is Not of unintentional second-degree murder, “How many unarmed blacks were third-degree murder and second-degree killed by cops last year?” Horowitz manslaughter. Was the trial impartial? asked. “Thousands! Thousands!” one The media, politicians including mem- woman said. The correct answer was Justice’ bers of Congress and the president did 18. Another chimed in, “It seems like everything they could to intimidate you’re trying to … destruct the whole Despite getting the conviction jurors and witnesses into ruling that African-American race.” Several protest- they wanted, Democrats and Chauvin was guilty. A bloody severed pig’s ers agreed that police are committing media pundits cry, It’s not head was found at the door of one expert “genocide”—the deliberate and system- enough! BY STEPHEN FLURRY witness who testified on Chauvin’s behalf. atic destruction of a racial, political or Black Lives Matter protesters made it cultural group—against blacks. GETTY IMAGES clear that they would engulf the nation in So Black Lives Matter extremists are flames if Chauvin were acquitted. preparing to burn down cities and start a 6 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET civil war over 18 tragic deaths because the that true justice is about “I would not call media are making it feel like thousands much more than a single today’s verdict justice, and instilling the fear that American verdict in a single trial. however, because police are systematically exterminating True justice required that justice implies true over 42 million African Americans. we come to terms with the restoration. But it is Rhetoric inflaming such fears is fact that black Americans accountability, which coming from almost every institution are treated differently is the first step toward in the country: corporations, tech com- every day …. While today’s justice. And now the panies, academia, Congress, even the verdict may have been a cause of justice is in your presidency. necessary step on the road hands.” —Keith Ellison In a livestream outside the Capitol, to progress, it was far from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told her a sufficient one. We cannot audience, “This verdict is not justice. rest. We will need to follow Frankly, I don’t even think we call it full through with concrete accountability because there are mul- reforms that will reduce tiple officers that were there. It wasn’t and ultimately eliminate just Derek Chauvin. And I also don’t racial bias in our criminal want this moment to be framed as this justice system.” system working.” In other words, even What do these radicals if all four police officers present during mean when they say “get more con- to have national law to protect people George Floyd’s death were convicted of frontational” and “we mean business”? against these continued questions.” murder, Ocasio-Cortez still wouldn’t be What do they mean when they say the In other words, because of racism, satisfied until the United States has a entire system is not working, that the we must take power from local gov- completely new criminal justice system. conviction on all counts they hoped for ernments and give it to the federal Minnesota Attorney General Keith is not justice, that we cannot rest? If government. Ellison said, “I would not call today’s they aren’t really after a Derek Chauvin The department head of Criminology verdict justice, however, because conviction, what are they really after? and Justice Studies at Drexel Univer- justice implies true restoration. But sity summarized the plan to federalize it is accountability, which is the first Toward Federalization policing power in an article he wrote step toward justice. And now the cause During Barack Obama’s second presi- last year. “Suppose we reimagined of justice is in your hands. And when I dential term, he admitted that he “can’t the nature of American policing?” he say your hands, I mean the hands of the federalize every police force in the wrote. “And suppose we started by people of the United States.” Former country and force them to retrain.” But acknowledging that local policing has President Barack Obama published he sure acted like he wanted to move in been a failure in this country since its a statement saying, “Today, a jury in that direction. origins in the 19th century? From slave Minneapolis did the right thing …. But When the Obama administration patrols in the South, to controlling the if we’re honest with ourselves, we know released its Task Force on 21st-Century ‘dangerous classes’ in the North, the Policing Plan after Freddie foundations of local policing were built Gray died in police custody, it on the assumption that state-sanc- recommended imposing fed- tioned coercion was to be weaponized eral standards on state and by the white and wealthy against the “I hope we get a verdict that says local police forces. Critics poor, black and brown. … And so, at guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we of the plan pointed out that this crossroads, I pose the radical don’t, we cannot go away. We’ve it underhandedly worked to question: Why not disband most local got to stay on the street. We get nationalize law enforcement, police forces and federalize them?” more active; we’ve got to get violating a crucial principle (Hill, July 17, 2020). more confrontational. We’ve of the Constitution, by using This is why radical leftists will not be got to make sure that they know federal tax dollars as bribes. appeased no matter what happens to that we mean business.” But racial activists did not Derek Chauvin. They do not really care —Maxine Waters seem to care. In fact, some about justice for George Floyd. The left- openly proclaimed that a ists who are working out their agenda national policing authority is care about creating a national policing just what America needs. authority. They are looking for a pretext “There must be national to disempower local police departments policy and national law on and to transfer that power to the federal policing,” said racial activist government. Thus they are deliberately Al Sharpton. “We can’t go fanning flames of racial hatred in an

CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, BILL CLARK/GETTY IMAGES CLARK/GETTY BILL IMAGES, KHANNA/AFP/GETTY CHANDAN from state to state; we’ve got attempt to ignite race riots. They could JULY 2021 7 then use that crisis as an excuse to “Today, we feel a sigh of relief. deprive local voters of the power they Still, it cannot take away the have over local police. pain. A measure of justice In his article “The Real Agenda isn’t the same as equal justice. Behind Black Lives Matter” (theTrumpet This verdict brings us a step .com/13722), my father explained that closer. And, the fact is, we still this is a Machiavellian strategy straight have work to do. We still must from the Communist playbook. “These reform the system.” leaders are still using phrases like —Kamala Harris ‘police brutality’ and ‘black power’ to further their agenda,” he wrote. “In a 1950s tract titled ‘And Not a Shot Is Fired,’ Czech Communist Party theo- retician Jan Kozák wrote about how Communists took over Czechoslovakia through parliamentary maneuvers. The strategy he described required pressure for radical change from two directions simultaneously: from the upper levels of government and from provocateurs in the streets” (Trumpet, May-June 2016). The Biden-Harris administration is using a similar strategy to fundamentally transform America. Radical politicians like Representative Waters meet with are our people unable to recognize Without racial hatreds, real and per- street provocateurs who advocate rioting the Communist line—the Communist ceived, they would have no influence or as a form of protest, while “deep state” plan and conspiracy—in college and power over the American people! bureaucrats are pushing seizure of police university riots, in propaganda accus- authority as a way to solve those riots. ing ‘police brutality,’ in ‘black power,’ Tearing Down the System This strategy may sound shocking, ‘black panther’ and other slogans, even Left-wing politicians hate the fact that but the late Herbert W. Armstrong pre- in ‘civil disobedience’ and ‘nonviolent’ there are 18,000 state and local law dicted it decades ago. In his March 1969 movements of protest which lead to enforcement agencies that they cannot Plain Truth personal, he asked, “Why violence?” Then he answered with control from Washington, D.C. They this shocking truth: “The want a centralized federal policing guiding hand in student authority that they can control, and revolt is the Communist they are willing to incite riots until they Party. Many students, get it. But the founders of the United their emotions stirred and States specifically avoided establishing enraged to violence, do a national policing power for a very good not themselves realize this. reason: to prevent government tyranny. Yet, actually, these young Agents of the federal government exist leaders of the ‘New Left’ only to combat interstate crimes, such movement are going beyond as counterfeiting, treason and piracy. the Communist Party. Their The vast majority of the law enforce- plan is to stir up college-age ment power that would affect an Amer- “Let us be clear, George students to revolt first, and ican’s day-to-day life is left to the states Floyd—and many the teenage high school ado- and to the people. Yet radical leftists other black and brown lescents. If they can corrupt are distorting history to tell people that Americans who we have and/or win over tomorrow’s local police forces are systematically lost to police violence— students, they will gain racist in a way that federal police forces

should still be alive today. control.” are not—for some unexplained reason. DOUG MILLS/GETTY IMAGES, GETTY IMAGES Gianna’s father should be Some of those college-age Discrediting, disheartening, disarm- alive. This is why we must students and high school ado- ing and defunding local police depart- strive for a more just and lescents that Mr. Armstrong ments across America is only a first step equitable system.” wrote about now control toward establishing exactly what the —Rashida Tlaib the Democratic Party, and founders blocked: a national policing they are still using the same authority. Yet Bible prophecy reveals racially charged propaganda. NOT JUSTICE PAGE 32 u 8 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET those who do not believe in their cause of ignorance, hatred and lying (“Is Lying Always Wrong?”, page 20). Now the campaign has transitioned to pressure everyone to get vaccinated. It includes a mix of feel-good advertising, shaming and fear-mongering. And it is marked by the same propagandistic and deceitful techniques that were used for the lockdown campaign.

Vaccines have been hailed as the miracle that will help Vaccine Deaths COVID-weary society return to normal. But one ingredient Many government officials count anyone has been missing from the vaccine rollout: honesty. who died within a few weeks of having BY STEPHEN FLURRY a positive covid-19 test as a covid death. These are some of the numbers we see on the government and the media’s he response of American their backyards with their families by, ominous “covid death” tickers. government and our ironically, Independence Day. Many everyday people, on the other media to covid-19 is Intentionally or not, it highlighted hand, believe that dying with covid is revealing a lot about our the fact that the government’s gigantic, far different from dying from covid. society and ourselves. It oppressive “cure” has been worse than They say there are complicating factors. is showing us how quickly the disease. But nobody in the radical They say that many who get tested are the world can change, how establishment will say that. Mainstream at higher risk of death in the first place. much we take our rights for granted, and media outlets, predictably, praised the They say that there are thousands of Thow much or how little we value truth. speech. They continue to support the gov- deaths from all causes every day in the covid-19 was the subject of the first ernment’s radical agenda by emphasizing United States. They say that many who speech Joe Biden gave after entering their covid coverage and prominently die after a positive test result actually the White House. He recounted how displaying their death trackers. They are died from other causes (some as obvious countless Americans have lost their helping scare and shame Americans into as gunshot wounds). But liberal elites jobs, businesses and homes; how school wearing masks, then two masks, standing reject these objections. closures have set children back a year; like chess pawns on floor markers 6 feet The truth is, though, that some people how graduations, weddings and family apart, staying inside their homes, giving have died after their bodies absorbed reunions have been canceled. He por- up their businesses and incomes, and not the virus but the vaccine. trayed these people as victims of covid, sacrificing their constitutional rights. So, is anyone who died 28 to 60 days when in reality, they were victims of gov- The campaign is coordinated by liber- after having the covid vaccine a “covid ernment-imposed lockdowns. He then als in politics, big media, Big Tech, big vaccine death”? stated that if Americans would obey the business and beyond. Many of its most No. The same officials, journalists, newest batch of restrictions, the govern- virulent supporters call their political experts, commentators and other elites

ISTOCK.COM/JAE YOUNG JU YOUNG ISTOCK.COM/JAE ment might let them enjoy barbecues in party “the party of science.” They accuse who want you to think that dying with JULY 2021 9 covid is the same as dying from covid more fatal than the flu shot. That is room. Doctors told him that her liver stridently insist that dying with the still a small percentage, but the same was not functioning. Before they could vaccine is far different from dying from politicians and commentators who do anything further, her kidneys and the vaccine. They say there are compli- wring their hands over every death they heart stopped working. cating factors. They say that many who can tenuously tie back to covid-19 are There have been other scattered get vaccinated are more at risk of death suspiciously silent about any drawbacks reports of vaccines apparently killing in the first place. They say that there connected to the vaccines. people, including miscarriages and are thousands of deaths from all causes The anti-vaccine organization stillbirths, in the United States, Canada, every day in the United States. They Children’s Health Defense asked the Norway, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and say that many who die after a vaccine cdc how it was investigating reports elsewhere. Gregory Michaels, 56, died of actually died from other causes. of covid-19 vaccine deaths, but their a hemorrhagic stroke two weeks after They directly contradict themselves— questions went unanswered. he received a jab, and his widow affirms and pressure you to believe both that he died “due to a strong reaction contradictions! This is not an accident. ‘Remember—Shots Are Safe’ to the covid vaccine.” Former Detroit This is dishonesty. And it’s dishonesty in The numbers of reported vaccine-con- news anchor Karen Hudson-Samuels, pursuit of a radical agenda that affects nected deaths is small, but we have 68, died one day after taking the vaccine, you personally. no idea what the effects will be in the though public health officials say the Since covid-19 vaccines were medium term or long term. When much cause of her death is unknown. Daniel developed and distributed at “warp is unknown, why are so many so biased? Thayne Simpson, 90, died within a day of speed” and began being administered Why do liberal, mainstream news outlets getting jabbed, prompting public health in the U.S. on Dec. 14, 2020, more than give wall-to-wall coverage of everything officials to once again repeat that covid- 219 million shots have been given to to do with the virus, which has still killed 19 vaccines are nothing to worry about. more than 135 million Americans. Yet, as fewer Americans per year than heart One man interviewed by abc News the Biden-Harris administration urges disease or cancer, yet present much more talked about “spurious relationships” the remaining 197 million Americans to favorable headlines about the possible and says that sickness and death follow suit, disturbing details are emerg- dangers of the vaccine, like “Pfizer COVID occurring “in proximity” to something ing about the vaccine’s side effects. Vaccine Probably Didn’t Kill Woman, does not prove that the thing caused the Data released on April 16 by the 78, Who Died Shortly After Having It,” sickness and death. Of course he is cor- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and “Woman Dies from Brain Hemorrhage rect that something happening before Prevention (cdc) states that 86,080 in Japan Days After Vaccine, but Link another thing is often not its cause. But people in America reported serious Uncertain” and “Macomb County Man, why isn’t the same logic applied to covid health problems after taking a covid-19 90, Dies After COVID-19 Vaccine—but death counts, which are engineered to vaccine. These include birth defects Doctors Say Shots Are Safe”? be as high and as terrifying as possible? (71 cases), permanent disabilities (1,217 Why rush to emphasize “no evidence cases), hospitalizations (6,271 cases), covid-19 vaccines cause death”? Is it The Common Denominator and deaths (3,186 cases). There are because they want truth, or because Plenty of people get these vaccines who somewhat similar reports of adverse they’re advancing an agenda? seem to have no ill side effects. These reactions and deaths in other countries. Thousands of real-life Americans vaccines are apparently preventing But there are no nightly news covid- whose loved ones have died soon after millions of people from procuring coro- 19 vaccine death tickers. getting vaccinated from no other discern- navirus, and could facilitate a return to A January study from the same agency ible cause would probably like to talk to pre-covid normality for many. admitted that people who receive the the elites who insist there is “no evidence.” That said, there is also evidence of vaccines experience anaphylaxis at a Some of them might be from the fam- some dangers associated with these rate 10 times higher than the flu vaccine. ily of Kassidi Kurill. She was 39 years old, vaccines. The concerns are significant Anaphylaxis is an allergic reaction so and she died within days of her second enough that more than 20 countries severe that it causes death in 0.7 to dose of the Moderna vaccine. Her father have revoked their authorizations for the 2 percent of cases. This study gives said she was “healthy and good, then she distribution of certain covid vaccines us an early indication that took the shot,” but soon began feeling (while permitting and promoting others). the covid vaccine poorly. After two days in bed, she asked Yet America’s government, with could be 10 times her father to drive her to the emergency the support of the media and many businesses, are ignoring this evidence and proceeding with efforts to make vaccinations universal. On one hand 1+1=0 they have proven themselves willing to That is the medical math equation: One foreign substance in take every possible measure to prevent your body (a virus) plus another (a vaccine) equals no harmful covid deaths—even to the point of shut- consequences. God’s math is different. Learn about it in ting down the national economy—yet The Plain Truth About Healing, by Herbert W. Armstrong. on the other, anyone who expresses concerns about the safety of the vac- this syndrome to the vaccine is debated, the contrary, scientists still have no real cines is ridiculed for their ignorance. but it still highlights the risks of “warp idea what the unintended consequences The contrast is jarring. speed” vaccine rollouts. of injecting people with mrna will be. But the most salient common This risk becomes even more con- Tal Brosh, head of the Infectious Disease denominator in both of these positions cerning when you realize that Pfizer and Unit at Samson Assuta Ashdod Hospital, is that they involve people sacrificing Moderna have developed a brand-new told the Jerusalem Post, “There is a race individual freedom, and the government type of vaccine. Normal vaccines use to get the public vaccinated, so we are gaining more control over our lives. The killed or inactive pathogens to prompt willing to take more risks” (Nov. 17, 2020). pressure is increasing to ignore the risks the human body to start manufacturing He then noted that there are unique and and get the jab; for a growing number of antibodies against that pathogen. The unknown risks to mrna vaccines, includ- people it is becoming compulsory if they covid vaccine is different. It is the first- ing systemic inflammatory responses want to keep their job (article, page 12). ever mrna vaccine. It uses a specialized that could lead to autoimmune diseases. The right to choose is being squeezed It is too early to tell what the long-term out. And once the government grabs effect of this new technology will ulti- that much power over people’s rights, mately be. But you would think people including their health, you can be sure IN THE VACCINE, would take such warnings more seriously. it won’t give it up! IN YOUR BODY “This is not your normal flu vaccine,” Experts like Utah’s chief medical exam- Substances used in the development noted Dr. Carrie Madej, an internal iner say that proving a vaccine as a cause and actual content of the main medicine specialist in Georgia. “This of death almost never happens. Is that emergency-authorized vaccines. is something totally different. This is a because a vaccine almost never causes Altered mRNA witches’ brew. I’ve never seen anything death, or could there be other reasons? like this in science or medicine.” Adenovirus 26 There are powerful interests at stake, of The Pfizer and the Moderna versions moneyed pharmaceutical companies, ((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl) of the covid-19 vaccine contain polyeth- the medical industry and the agenda of a bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis ylene glycol—a petrochemical known big government getting bigger. (2-hexyldecanoate), 2 to cause skin rashes, nausea, vomiting, America has even deployed National [(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N- difficulty breathing and shock. And the Guard troops to inject millions of Amer- ditetradecylacetamide AstraZeneca version was developed using icans with rapidly developed, rapidly 1,2-Distearoyl-snglycero-3- kidney cells from a baby aborted in 1973 approved, emergency-authorized vac- phosphocholine and a cold-causing virus isolated from the cines that are still partially under trial. stool of a chimpanzee. If you added the SM-102 This is not just the government doing eye of newt and toe of frog, Dr. Madej’s its best with a bad situation. This is the 1,2-dimyristoyl-rac-glycero3- comparison to a “witches’ brew” might government taking a fairly standard flu me thoxypolyethylene glycol-2000 become literal. Yet millions are injecting epidemic and manipulating it to expand [PEG2000-DMG] themselves with this cocktail of chem- its power and prepare for even greater 1,2-distearoyl-snglycero-3- icals and experimental molecules in manipulation. Even when doing so could phosphocholine [DSPC] hopes that it will protect them. In some be killing some people. Tromethamine & Tromethamine few cases, this brew ultimately kills them! hydrochloride Witches’ Brew Divine Healing Ethanol How can public health officials be so sure Now is a good time to be thinking about these vaccines are safe? It normally takes Cell lines from an aborted baby where you put your trust for health a decade of research and development Source: Hackensack Meridian Health and healing. We all put our trust in before medical professionals declare something. Most of us place it partly or a vaccine “safe” for human use. Both wholly in the medical establishment— Pfizer and Moderna developed covid-19 sequence of ribonucleic acid to hijack a even when that establishment is inher- vaccines in a single year. These vaccines human cell’s protein-making machinery ently limited to what human beings can have barely been tested by comparison and instruct it to start manufacturing scientifically discover—even when what to the normal process, which still doesn’t coronavirus proteins—specifically the it discovers is then discovered to be yield side-effect-free vaccines. spike protein that gives the coronavirus wrong just months or weeks later—even In 1976, when Army recruits at Fort its crown-like appearance. So instead of when advancements in science are Dix fell ill from a virulent form of swine injecting people with dead covid-19 cells, constantly outpaced by advancements flu, President Richard Nixon rushed out doctors are injecting them with highly in disease—even when the medical a vaccination program. About 45 million engineered acids that make human method of “healing” is not to return the Americans received a new, experimental cells manufacture coronavirus proteins body to its natural state but to make vaccine, and 450 of them developed a instead of human proteins. it even less natural with chemicals rare neurological condition called Guil- This is a game-changing and potentially and scalpels—even when much of the lain-Barré syndrome. The connection of dangerous technology. Despite claims to medical industry has nothing to do with JULY 2021 11 science or healing and has everything to do with pharmaceutical stockholders and political agendas. Regarding your health, your body, your life, you need to understand the truth. The truth is that physical, biological laws WHERE ARE exist. Obeying them causes the effect of good health. Breaking them causes the effect of poor health. The late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote VACCINE in The Plain Truth About Healing, “Med- ical ‘science’ operates primarily on that method—trying, with medicines, to prevent God’s law from exacting its pen- alty. That theory says, in effect, we can PASSPORTS transgress God’s law and then prevent God’s law from exacting its penalty. The theory is: The sufferer has in his body one poison, so we add another poison LEADING? in the form of medicine. And one poison Could covid-19 usher in a brave new plus one more poison equals no poison!” world of governmental control? The covid-19 vaccine rollout is a full BY RICHARD PALMER expression of this distorted theory. It is amazing the lengths to which human beings will go to “cure” them- selves, so long as they can avoid sub- apers please.” These are You scan your security pass mitting to the laws of the very Creator perhaps the most un-Ameri- to get into work. Then you scan of human bodies and minds. God’s “P can or un-British words in the your covid vaccine app. Your arithmetic is one poison minus that English language. The Western world employer only allows vacci- one poison equals no poison. And yes, it has established and prided itself on nated staff in the office. No jab, no job. requires obeying the laws of the Creator love of individual freedom and limited At lunch, you leave the office to buy a and even the intervention of the Creator. governmental control. sandwich. There’s a good coffee shop God has power to heal. He promises, That time could be ending. In America down the road. Scan the vaccine app, and “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the and Britain, and around the world, gov- you’re in. Scan the app again to get back voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do ernments are planning unprecedented to the office, and you are back at the desk. that which is right in his sight, and wilt surveillance and control on the pretext After work, you stop by the gym. They give ear to his commandments, and of combating covid-19. checked your vaccine status when you keep all his statutes, I will put none of This new surveillance society will re-enrolled after lockdown. No vaccine, these diseases upon thee, which I have require no rustling of papers. Gov- no membership. After heading home brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the ernments are working on the most to change, you stop by a friend’s house Lord that healeth thee” (Exodus 15:26). convenient system of identification and party. But government rules prohibit This does not mean a true Christian surveillance ever using smartphones group gatherings unless everyone is vac- never gets sick. It means that a true and online tools. But the result is the cinated. By law, your friend has to scan Christian need not panic, get injected same. New vaccine passports could soon all your smartphone vaccine passes with with a vaccine, and suffer the side mean the government can track your his smartphone. It used to be awkward, effects. Sickness is the result of broken every move. but now everyone is getting used to it. physical laws, and God promises to heal Here is what the daily routine of a The result is the government knows upon repentance: “Bless the Lord, O vaccinated citizen might look like. where you are at every point of the my soul, and forget not all his benefits: In the morning, you leave for work. On day. It has a level of surveillance, and Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who your smartphone, you buy a train ticket therefore control, that until recently the healeth all thy diseases” (Psalm 103:2-3). to commute. The ticketing app checks Chinese Communist regime could only If you are interested in trusting and your vaccine status, verifying when and dream of. A government record deter- obeying the Creator of human health, where you were vaccinated, before allow- mines if you can work, travel, access request a free copy of The Plain Truth ing you to buy a ticket. You board one of entertainment or gather with friends. About Healing, by Herbert W. Armstrong. the more convenient carriages. People Does this seem far-fetched? It is actu- It explains the scriptures proving that unverified as vaccinated must wait in a ally a reasonable picture based on plans God wants to heal us, and how to claim line for the socially distant carriages, if already being drawn up by governments God’s promise to heal! n they are allowed on the train at all. around the world. 12 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET mother of parliaments, the land of Vaccine passport plans are underway constitutional monarchy. As slippery as even in America. New York is rolling all politicians can be, they would never out its “Excelsior Pass.” Without it, you attempt to oppress the people with any- cannot attend art and entertainment thing so un-British as a vaccine passport, venues, or have more than a certain WHERE ARE would they? number of people attend your private They have guaranteed that they won’t. gathering. And you can only get the pass In December, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said, “We have absolutely no Some of this is already VACCINE plans for vaccine passports.” Cabinet minister Michael Gove said the same reality in the State of month: “I think mandating vaccinations Israel. Restaurants is discriminatory and completely wrong … and I would urge businesses listening and sporting venues PASSPORTS to this debate today not to even think are open—if you have a about this.” In a later interview, he said, vaccine pass. “I certainly am not planning to issue any vaccine passports, and I don’t know LEADING? anyone else in government who would.” with proof of a recent negative covid-19 They were lying. test or vaccination. The very same month, a consulting But something like this—or even firm published a government com- more restrictive than this—could go missioned report into how vaccine nationwide. The Biden administration passports could be used to keep unvacci- used to say vaccine passports should nated people out of pubs, sports events be left to states. But on March 29, they and other crowded venues. announced it was working on a federal, The government insists that it won’t standardized system. cnn cited an force pubs and restaurants to require anonymous government official stating, the vaccine. Yet it seems prepared “Multiple government agencies are Real Plans to require these same businesses engaged in conversations and planning, Some of this is already reality in the State to enforce measures like social dis- coordinated by the White House, as this of Israel. Restaurants and sporting ven- tancing—unless they require vaccine kind of system will play a role in multi- ues are open—if you have a vaccine pass. passports. The government claims to be ple aspects of life, including potentially Only with a “green pass” do you have the saying, We’re not requiring pubs check the workforce.” freedom to stay in a hotel, go to the gym, vaccine passports, but if they do it volun- Like the British government, the hold a wedding, or even attend certain tarily, we won’t stand in the way. Mean- U.S. government has said that citizens religious gatherings. A teaching assistant while it crafts rules that make it almost will not be forced to accept a vaccine who refused one has been fired, and lost impossible for a restaurant to make a passport. Maybe it will not pass a law in court when she tried to recover her job. profit if it doesn’t require a passport. explicitly stating that the non-vacci- Gil Gan-Mor, director of the civil and Fraser Nelson warned in the Tele- nated shall serve a prison sentence. But social rights unit at the Association for graph that “the fundamentals of a biose- if the government gets its way, you will Civil Rights in Israel, sees no problem curity state are now under construction. be forced to accept a vaccine passport with this. “Anybody who is complaining This is what ministers think the public if you want to resume a somewhat ordi- can get the vaccine tomorrow morning,” now want: a big shift in the dial away nary day-to-day life. he said. And this is someone whose job from liberty so the state can better pro- Governments have made all kinds of is to uphold citizens’ rights! vide security. It’s happening incremen- promises that the data they collect and On April 5, the United Kingdom laid tally, with no real debate” (March 25). track will be private and not subject to out its plans: requirements for vaccine The European Union is also marching tracking. But how much can you trust passports to attend concerts, theaters, toward vaccine passports. Its efforts governments that have been caught nightclubs and large sporting events. One involve more than national tracking; surveilling and tracking their citizens in contractor working on the pass boasts with free travel across many European other ways, and have been caught lying that the app could deny people tickets or borders, it needs a supranational system. specifically about this issue? entry to the office for those unvaccinated. This means a new level of centralization, Even if the intentions of every power- It even shows how the app could be used with data gathered on ordinary citizens ful member of government are pure and to prevent the unvaccinated from private across a couple dozen countries to be good, the track record of governments events like birthday parties. united in a single centralized system. and even businesses that engage in mass It won’t get that dictatorial though, Never has the EU exerted such control data collection is poor, to say the least.

JULIA GODDARD/TRUMPET JULIA will it? This is Britain, after all, the over the lives of Europeans. Not even the Soviet Union was able JULY 2021 13 to track its citizens’ movements in real the person shows up in the government The infrastructure for vaccine pass- time. Such a system could be misused in database as unvaccinated, unregistered ports won’t do all these things, but it many ways. Once a government builds in some other government scheme, will do most of the heavy lifting. And it, it could use the same infrastructure guilty of something the government has crucially, it will break perhaps the first to track, check and exclude people for declared a crime, involved in a certain and biggest barrier of all: citizens’ resis- any reason. A big red X could show up political party, possessing membership tance to surrendering their rights. on the screen of the train conductor, in a certain religious group, having job interviewer, café cashier, banker, contacted certain people, having read Should You Be Worried? school administrator, social worker, certain material, or having posted a The infrastructure we are talking police officer or government agent if certain opinion online. about—that elites in your national government are talking about—can determine your ability to buy, to sell, to work. This has reminded many people to think of a particular verse in the Is Coronavirus the Mark of the Beast? Bible: “And that no man might buy or The Bible warns of a specific event that will occur in our generation. It characterizes sell, save he that had the mark, or the a certain human government as “the beast” and warns that it will implement the name of the beast, or the number of his “mark of the beast.” Many will accept this mark: To them, it will make sense to do so. name” (Revelation 13:17). But God warns that those who do will suffer terrible curses. This is describing the “mark of the The Bible reveals exactly what the mark is and how to avoid it. But we must look beast,” a dangerous, ungodly mark “here a little, and there a little” (Isaiah 28:10) to consider all the relevant scriptures. that Bible prophecy says will be imple- Many think the mark will be something brand new. What does the Bible say? mented during a terrible period in Revelation 20:4 describes John seeing in a vision all those who have been killed modern human history. for Christ. He wrote: “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was Considering this verse, should Chris- given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of tians be worried about the fact that their Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his governments have begun implementing image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ….” vaccine passports? This vision depicted true Christians who have been martyred over the past 2,000 There are certainly general biblical years. Some of these Christians, already dead, also refused the mark of the beast. principles at play that should cause us This means that the mark is not a 21st-century invention. concern. Jeremiah 17:9 warns, “The The Bible also shows that this mark revolves around obedience to God and His heart is deceitful above all things, and law. The same passage in Revelation 14 that warns of the dire curses for those who desperately wicked: who can know it?” accept the mark of the beast shows how those who refuse it are different. They Give flawed human beings such mas- “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus” (verse 12). Other scriptures sive governmental power over other state that the wrath of God falls on those who disobey (Ephesians 5:6; Colossians human beings, and they will abuse it. 3:5-6). Those who reject the mark and thus are targeted by the beast are those who Britain’s and America’s forefathers had “keep the commandments of God” (Revelation 12:17). enough Bible knowledge to know this. God will not visit these terrible punishments on someone who is scared That is what motivated them to limit by the government into receiving a vaccine. That decision will certainly have and check the power of the national consequences. But a loving God isn’t going to visit this kind of punishment because government. What the Bible reveals someone is tricked into receiving something. This mark revolves not around about human nature, human govern- whether you have been vaccinated, but around the question of whether you will ment and specific events prophesied accept or reject God’s commandments. for the future should prompt us to pay The mark of the beast is connected directly to one specific commandment. It close attention to what is underway in has differentiated true Christians for millennia. It is the Fourth Commandment: our governments. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” However, a covid vaccine or passport Generations of true Christians have been put to death for keeping Saturday and is not the biblically prophesied mark of not Sunday. Then, as now, it was a “test commandment.” It was, and will be, easy to the beast (see sidebar). However, this disobey, especially when persecution intensifies. system could one day be used to set up Who will you obey: the words of the Bible, or the religious traditions of such a mark—and exclude those that men? Will you keep the day Jesus Christ kept (Mark 1:15, 38-39; Luke 4:16), refuse it from business, public transport the day that first-century Christians kept? (Acts 13:14-15, 42-44; 16:12-15; and the workplace. 17:2). Or will you follow the churches and governments of this world? Will Even if opponents to these kinds it be God’s law that is figuratively written on your forehead and right hand of passes succeed, look at how much (Deuteronomy 6:6-8)—or will it be a law of men? liberty we have already lost over the Read a thorough biblical explanation of the mark of the beast in your free course of the pandemic. Another assault copy of Who or What Is the Prophetic Beast? by Herbert W. Armstrong. on that liberty, in order to implement a mark, will be that much easier. n 14 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET

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YOUR STIMULUS AS YOU PASS

What Does Free Economists think paying back what we owe is a relic of history. Money Cost? Are they nuts? BY ROBERT MORLEY

f you don’t save for the future, main effect is to stimulate the economy. supply—which includes cash, checking you will starve. This is a truth It theorizes that we won’t ever really accounts and other easily spent money— that people learned from early in have to pay back borrowed money has ballooned by more than 27 percent! human history. It is obvious to all because our central bank can create In other words, one out of every Iwho farm, hunt and preserve food, and unlimited numbers of dollars out of five dollars of all the easily spendable who watch the weather and climate. It nothing—at the push of a button. The money in existence since the founding is an ancient principle put into practice theory has a name: Modern Monetary of this nation was created over the past long before the creation of money, credit Theory. Believers view it as a modern 12 months. And the Federal Reserve has and just-in-time inventory management. monetary miracle, a way to push eco- used much of that money to buy trillions Saving for the future is what people nomic problems into the future forever. of dollars of government bonds, treasur- everywhere used to believe in. These theorists think they have tran- ies and even people’s mortgages. Today, the United States is $28 trillion scended the basic laws of economics. This is how it works: The U.S. Trea- in debt. We have no savings. There is no Can you borrow money and spend it sury prints a bond, which is basically emergency fund. We have already spent without ever having to pay it back? Can just a promise to pay back borrowed the taxes on future earnings of our you print massive amounts of money out money with interest. It sells it to the grandchildren—and their children. of thin air without destroying its value Federal Reserve in exchange for dollars But if you believe America’s leaders, and making everything more expensive? that the U.S. government then spends. everything will be fine because none of We are going to find out. Where does the Federal Reserve get that matters anymore. dollars to buy bonds? This is where the Leaders in Washington, Wall Street Print and Spend modern monetary miracle comes in. and even Main Street believe in a new Since the onset of the covid-19 lock- The Fed doesn’t earn dollars by provid- economic theory. Politicians love it, down and resulting economic fallout, ing goods or services or anything else, because it makes saving for the future the Federal Reserve has increased the or even by collecting taxes. It creates obsolete. It theorizes that deficits and nation’s money supply to record levels. dollars out of thin air. It has the ability debts are actually good because their Over the past 12 months, the M2 money to add as many zeros to its bank account JULY 2021 15 as Washington wants. With the push bought Alaska and the Louisiana Pur- [T]here is inflation in the beginning. At of a keyboard button, it can expand its chase, defeated fascism, ended the Great the end, there is revolution.” dollar supply to approach infinity. Depression, built the Interstate Highway Notice the price of lumber lately? A But according to the Federal Reserve, System, and went to the moon.” sheet of plywood at your local hardware there is nothing of concern here. In What did we accomplish this past year store now costs more than $65. A stan- March, it quietly announced that it will no with $6.4 trillion? dard 2x4 costs $7. Average lumber prices longer publish weekly data showing the Initially, the government distributed have surged close to 200 percent over number of dollars coming into existence. money to businesses and individuals, the past year. Why? Because of supply “They are trying to hide something,” many of whom had lost income because shortages due to government-mandated said Steve Hanke, professor of applied the government shut down much of factory lockdowns and soaring demand economics of Johns Hopkins University. the economy. This was one of the first due to people with government hand- “They don’t want people paying attention times in American history that the outs remodeling their homes. to money supply growth.” As Hanke government gave direct cash handouts Gasoline is also becoming more pointed out, “[Federal Reserve] Chair- to individuals. The government also expensive, with prices nationwide aver- man [Jerome] Powell has very explicitly increased unemployment benefits and aging $2.86 per gallon before the sum- claimed that money doesn’t matter in issued grants to businesses. But much of mer driving season has even hit. Corn is recent testimony. He’s basically said the money went to other uses. up 67 percent year over year. Corn syrup that money and the measurement of Now more than a year has passed is in just about everything. Wheat is up money doesn’t really matter because it’s since the first covid lockdowns. Official 24 percent. Milk is up 9 percent. unrelated to inflation.” unemployment has dropped back down This is not just happening in America. to just over 6 percent, gasoline demand Governments worldwide are printing is approaching pre-covid levels. Hous- money to spend. Prices for basic ing prices are setting records all over the necessities like food are rising. The ONE out nation. And the stock market is reaching United Nations Food and Agriculture of every record highs. Organization reports that food prices FIVE Yet the stimulus spending plans are are up 24 percent over the past year to not even close to over. the highest levels since 2013. Remember DOLLARS of all the easily the Arab Spring? Some say that, like so Looming Inflation many revolutions before it, it began as a spendable money The Biden administration is currently hunger revolt. in existence since working on a $2.3 billion infrastructure Other commodities are costing the founding of bill in addition to another $2 trillion more dollars this year too. Copper: this nation was American Families Plan infrastructure 82 percent more. Silver: 62 percent created over the bill. “Together, the ideas inside these more. Texas oil: 28 percent more. Con- past 12 months. plans aim to redefine what infrastructure crete: 60 percent more. is, by bolstering ‘human infrastructure’ Powell and the Fed assure us that the along with everything else,” writes Slate. inflationary effects will be moderate Hopefully Mr. Powell is right, because “[It’s]a new kind of American populism.” and temporary. His comments sound the U.S. government is spending a lot of More accurately, it’s American socialism. eerily similar to former Fed Chair Ben it. Consider the scope of the “stimulus” This spending comes in addition to Bernanke’s comments that the sub- bills over just the past 12 months: the regular $1 trillion budget deficits the prime mortgage bubble was contained. $2.2 trillion for the Coronavirus Aid, government was running before it began That infamously led to the Great Reces- Relief and Economic Security Act of 2020. shutting down the economy. sion of 2008. $2.3 trillion for the Consolidated And contrary to Fed Chairman Pow- One big difference between that crisis Appropriations Act of 2021. ell’s claims, the economic laws of supply and this one is where the Federal Reserve $1.9 trillion for the American Rescue and demand are asserting themselves. has directed its response. In 2008, the Plan Act of 2021 More money (due to money printing, money it created through quantitative $6.4 trillion! Where did all that money government spending and government easing was injected into the banking sys- come from? handouts) chasing a constant or shrink- tem. It caused asset inflation in financial Some of it was borrowed and will ing supply of goods (due to the global sectors like the stock market and the have to be paid back with interest. But lockdown) means the same goods and housing market, but it kept the banks an incredible $3.6 trillion worth was services cost more dollars. from collapsing and caused less inflation created with the stroke of a pen and a “A little inflation feels good at first, in consumer goods than many people push of a button. because wages are rising, and people feel feared. This time, the cash is being sent Pantera Capital gives some context. richer,” investment adviser Jared Dillian directly to individuals and businesses. With the first trillion dollars the United said. “But the laws of economics are When spending increases, the velocity of States printed throughout its history, not to be conned. What Powell is doing money could send inflation soaring and “We defeated British imperialists, is what I call central bank populism. the value of the dollar plummeting. 16 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET In other words, massive money This is the record of how God used borrow grain from their neighbors (and printing did not fix the fundamental Joseph to advise the pharaoh of Egypt. other nations) and eat that too! economic problem in 2008, nor has it You might know the story. So too When the government shut down the fixed the problem this year. We tempo- might many of our modern politicians, economy citing covid-19, no one was rarily papered over a volcanic economic economic wise men and financial magi- prepared. The store houses were empty. upheaval, and it cost us mountains of cians. But they reject the lesson: You America had to resort to even more money to do it. must save for the lean years! radical, even more dangerous monetary “Two years, we will be at $40 trillion Even during the best years of the last extremes to keep the economy going. in debt, and in two years after that, if two presidential administrations, not Heeding Joseph’s advice would have we continue this stimulus we are going once did the government run a budget prevented much of this mess. Had to be at $50 trillion” said Jim Puplava at surplus. It took in record amounts of rev- Americans saved instead of spent, Financial Sense Wealth Management. enue through taxes, yet spent even more. denied themselves instead of indulging “At some [point], these debt levels are The national debt took more than 200 themselves, they and their government unsustainable.” years to reach $1 trillion. It took only 26 would have abundant savings to fall back The U.S. government was running more years to rise to $10 trillion in 2008, on to survive the lean years—and we trillion-dollar deficits under presidents and only 12 years to exceed $27 trillion. would not be implementing make-be- Barack Obama and Donald Trump. And Our national debt is now greater than lieve monetary policy that is guaranteed that was in relatively good times. the sum of all goods and services all to inflict future lean years on ourselves. “If you are spending $6 to $7 trillion Americans produce in an entire year. Yet Instead, America has an increasingly per year to stimulate the economy now, our leaders—and many of us—refuse to sickly currency and an enormous pyra- when the economy is recovering, what mid of debt. do you do when you get into a recession?” Pharaoh was smart enough to heed Puplava said. “How big will the stimulus Joseph’s advice. When the famine struck, have to be to get out of the next reces- NATIONAL DEBT the people of Egypt had food to eat, sion or depression?” $25 TRILLION probably preventing a revolution. The How sad that we are even asking this economies of neighboring nations were question. America is the wealthiest destroyed, and Egypt actually grew even nation in world history. Yet its economy wealthier as both Egyptians and foreign- is doomed. ers were forced to sell their flocks and $20 TRILLION Why doesn’t America manage its herds and other wealth to the Egyptian resources better? government in exchange for food. If America had obeyed the funda- An Ancient Lesson mental laws of economics rather than $15 TRILLION Before taking office, all politicians becoming an even more greatly enslaved should read Genesis 41. So should debtor nation, it could have become a Federal Reserve chairmen and secre- creditor to the world. As Proverbs 22:7 taries of the Treasury. Our worsening says, “The rich ruleth over the poor, and boom-bust cycles, our imminent social $10 TRILLION the borrower is servant to the lender.” upheaval, the causes of so much suffer- ing would be avoidable—if we had the Heed the Lesson! humility to learn. By following Joseph’s advice, Egypt went God inspired the leader of the wealth- $5 TRILLION into the crisis from a position of strength iest and most powerful nation in the and turned into a superpower. Pharaoh world to have a dream. One of its vivid, promoted Joseph to second in command. haunting scenes was seven fat, healthy He was given such high esteem that his cows being eaten by seven emaciated, family was granted the choicest agricul- sick cows. He could not get the dream 1910 1940 1970 2000 tural land in Egypt, and when his elderly out of his mind, and none of his advisory father later died, the Egyptians mourned staff at the capital could tell him what it him as if he were one of their own. meant or what to do. change our behavior and comply with The good news is that, even if America Then one of his staff remembered a economic laws of cause and effect. refuses to learn this lesson, you can. God certain imprisoned slave. He was brought At least during President Trump’s term, wants you to prosper, even during severe in, and said that the dream meant the he cut taxes, allowing people to save more economic depressions. Joseph’s name nation would enjoy seven years of fantas- of their income. But which of us did? Did became synonymous with prosperity. tic abundance, followed by seven years of a single politician even worry about the “And the Lord was with Joseph, and he famine. He advised that the leadership rising debt during the last presidency? was a prosperous man …. And … the save during the good years so that the America’s leaders have instead moti- Lord made all that he did to prosper in nation could survive the lean years. vated people to eat their grain, then FREE MONEY PAGE 36 u JULY 2021 17 buying power dollar vs gold inflation The dollar’s buying power has When the dollar was created, it How much is a dollar from fallen so far that $1 in 2021 was worth almost 25 grains of the past worth today? $1 in

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1861 1873 1900 1913 1929 1933 1944 During the Civil The Coinage Act of The Gold Standard The Federal The Wall Street President Franklin The Bretton War, the U.S. 1873 abolishes the Act establishes Reserve Act of crash of 1929 D. Roosevelt Woods agree- government right of holders gold as the only 1913 creates a leads to the Great suspends the gold ment estab​­‑ issues fiat of silver bullion to standard for central bank Depression. standard and lishes the U.S. currency to pay have their metal redeeming paper to manage the signs Executive dollar as for war expenses. struck into fully money. country’s money Order 6102, which world reserve legal tender dollar supply. criminalizes the currency. coins. possession of gold. inflation money supply After America abandoned the worst cases of gold standard, nothing limited $20 federal officials putting new hyperinflation dollars dollars in circulation. in history Hyperinflation is extreme inflation where the value of a currency plummets by 50 percent or more each month. $17.5 HUNGARY | July 1946 The Value pengo inflation rate 41,900,000,000,000,000% time for prices to double 14.8 hours of a Dollar $15 The purchasing power of the United States ZIMBABWE | November 2008 dollar has fallen sharply over the past dollar inflation rate 79,600,000,000% century as the Treasury Department time for prices to double 24.4 hours printed money and the Federal Reserve $12.5 added as many digital zeros to its bank account as it wanted. If America YUGOSLAVIA | January 1994 continues creating money out of dinar inflation rate 313,000,000% nothing, a hyperinflation crisis is time for prices to double 1.4 days just around the corner. $10 GERMANY | October 1923 papiermark inflation rate 29,500% time for prices to double 3.7 days $7.5 GREECE | October 1944 drachma inflation rate 13,800% time for prices to double 4.2 days $5 CHINA | April 1949 yuan inflation rate 5,070%

dollars (trillions) dollars time for prices to double 5.3 days $2.5 ARMENIA | November 1993 dram inflation rate 438% time for prices to double 12.4 days

1944 1971 2008 $0 TURKMENISTAN | November 1993 manat inflation rate 429% 1970 1950 1960 1980 1990 2010 2020 2000 time for prices to double 12.5 days 1944 1971 2008 2020 The Bretton President Richard Quantitative The U.S. money TAIWAN | August 1945 Woods agree- Nixon ends easing begins supply grows by yen inflation rate 399% ment estab​­‑ convertibility of in response to $3.8 trillion, equal time for prices to double 12.9 days lishes the U.S. U.S. dollar to gold. financial crisis. to 20 percent of dollar as all dollars ever world reserve created. VENEZUELA | January 2019 currency. bolívar inflation rate 197% time for prices to double 14.8 days JULY 2021 19 But even “small” lies that you seem to “get away with” cut you off from the God of truth! Humanity as a whole has indulged in lies and hypocrisies from the beginning and has plunged deeply into them in our lifetimes. And largely because of this sin, we are entering a period of terrifying darkness.

Why Do We Lie? God’s communication is 100 percent truth. The Apostle Paul wrote that hope of eternal life itself is based on faith in some- thing that “God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Titus 1:1-2). Thank God He has set His will to never lie. Nothing can stop Him from keeping His word. Our hope in that is an anchor Is Lying Always Wrong? for our souls (Hebrews 6:18-19). God’s nature has not even a shadow of deception (1 John 1:5). He wants us to Society is confused. Are you? BY JOEL HILLIKER walk in the light as well, with our words in perfect accordance with our deeds. ying is normal. Lying is neces- of people’s sin (see Jeremiah 8:4-12; Let sin in, let it spread, and you have sary. Lying is not a problem if you 9:1-3). Read Jeremiah 9:4-5, see what a world where the average person lies L know how to use it. If you really happens in a society that accepts lying, every day as a way of life. know what you are doing, you can even and ask yourself if this sounds familiar: People almost always lie to try to tell big, bold lies. We need lying to make “Let everyone beware of his neighbor, benefit themselves. They lie to hide things work: our marriages, our friend- and put no trust in any brother, for wrong things they have done; to avoid ships, our businesses, our politics, our every brother is a deceiver, and every punishment; to lower the reputations of security, our international relations. neighbor goes about as a slanderer. others, especially in comparison to their PATRICK SEMANSKY-POOL/GETTY IMAGES, GEORGE BURNS/OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK VIA GETTY IMAGES, SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES), JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES, This is the standard attitude in our Everyone deceives his neighbor, and own; to raise their reputation, especially ISTOCK.COM/WAVEBREAKMEDIA, ISTOCK.COM/ AARONAMUT, ISTOCK.COM/ AJR_IMAGES, ISTOCK.COM/ ERIKREIS, ISTOCK.COM/ GPOINTSTUDIO, ISTOCK.COM/ FIZKES society. And it is a lie! no one speaks the truth; they have in comparison to others; to hide personal Look at the role of lying over just the taught their tongue to speak lies; they insecurities; to avoid an issue; to let an past year with covid-19, with irregulari- weary themselves committing iniquity” untrue statement go uncorrected; to ties in America’s election last November, (English Standard Version). receive more money than they would oth- with truth and facts being censored by The value we place on truth is central erwise receive; to avoid telling people no media and Big Tech, with leftist causes to our character. It’s the difference or other things they don’t want to hear; to being promoted in spite of contrary facts. between thinking like God and thinking avoid hurting people’s feelings; to flatter. There is an epic amount of lying in the like the devil. But God forbids all lying with His public sphere today. And in so many cases, The God who inspired Jeremiah’s Ninth Commandment: “Thou shalt not life moves on; new headlines emerge and prophecy is the one, true, eternal bear false witness against thy neighbour” the truth is overwhelmed by deceit. Creator God. But this world is not God’s (Exodus 20:16). Proverbs 6:16-19 show This is terribly destructive and dan- world. The societies humans have built that God hates lying. It destroys relation- gerous to you and me and to our whole are Satan’s societies. His influence ships; it destroys character; it destroys society. permeates and dominates humanity. He people. Not just sometimes—every time. is the god of this world, he has deceived Using our tongues to lie is a sin all of A Prophesied Crisis the whole world, he is the father of lies, us have to battle. Adults learn to hide it The Prophet Jeremiah forecast the and there is no truth in him (2 Corinthi- somewhat, and it is often more obvious role of lying in our society. He said God ans 4:4; Revelation 12:9; John 8:44). in children. Yet one study shows that would be amazed at the boldness of His influence reaches into even the children as young as 3 years old can people’s sin: how they “cling tightly to closest human relationship: One study commonly deceive adults without being their lies,” how they rush toward sin, has found that an average of 10 percent detected. In fact, all children lie until how they are unashamed, how lying and of communication between spouses is caught! Parents need to be vigilant and other sins are routine, how people who deceptive. Lying is so easy. In fact, if you prayerful to catch it and prevent that weaponize lying “proceed from evil to don’t prize and exalt truth, you will easily tendency from becoming a habit. evil.” He said God would be moved with slip into various subtle forms of decep- One of the most dangerous forms sorrow and indignation by the boldness tion without even thinking about it. of lying is hypocrisy: pretending to be 20 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET something you are not or to believe our dishonesty from the point of view and actually hurting our friends and something you do not believe, especially of those we lie to, we recognize that we acquaintances when we pretend not to regarding religion. This is a deceptive, would feel betrayed if the roles were notice flaws. Help them by being loving self-destroying burden—from which reversed. … Every lie is a direct assault and positive, but truthful. God wants to free us! When we walk in upon the autonomy of those we lie to.” Being truthful can lead to confron- the truth—not pretending to be some- This is modern terminology for tation. In those situations, should we thing we are not, living completely free exactly what you will read throughout avoid confrontation or avoid truth? God of deceit, having nothing to hide, living the Holy Bible, recorded by men with- commands in Ephesians 4:15, 25 that with integrity even when others aren’t out neural science backgrounds but we must be “putting away lying” and looking—we give God the Father His inspired by the God who created the “speaking the truth in love.” greatest joy! (3 John 1-4). human brain and mind. Pretending not to notice someone Harris relates an example of a “poor- making a bad decision or being self-de- Lying Harbors Vice er-quality relationship”: a family in structive shows no love. A true friend is Sam Harris is a neural scientist, an athe- which the mother was diagnosed with willing to deliver what the Bible calls a ist and a prominent critic of religion. multiple sclerosis. The doctor told her faithful wound (Proverbs 27:6). One para- Disregarding religion and the Bible, he husband but lied to her. The husband phrase of Proverbs 24:26 states: “An hon- has written a book called Lying that eval- lied by concealing the truth from her. est answer is the sign of true friendship.” uates this subject from his own narrow She researched it herself, self-diagnosed, A couple of my closest friendships started secular perspective. But his conclusions but concealed it from her husband. Her with a difficult conversation over a point are quite interesting. son found out accidentally a year later, of disagreement or a personal problem. “Most forms of private vice and public and the other two children found out two Willingness to confront a problem in love evil are kindled and sustained by lies,” years later. The family concealed it from can actually open the door to genuine Harris writes. “Acts of adultery and the grandmother (and, therefore, all friendship based on sincerity and truth. other personal betrayals, financial fraud, other friends and family members). One Anyone who avoids awkward conver- government corruption—even murder of the children said, “Rather than feeling sation by lying to someone will fail to and genocide—generally require an addi- grateful and protected, I felt sadness that develop valuable interpersonal skills tional moral defect: a willingness to lie.” we hadn’t come together as a family to and character traits, such as tact, discre- But aren’t there some cases where face her illness and support each other,” tion, unfeigned politeness and patience. lying works out for the best? “[E]very and “I think she deprived herself of the “In committing to be honest with every- lie haunts our future,” Harris writes. opportunity to have a closer relationship one, we commit to avoiding a wide range “There is no telling when or how it with her mother.” Tragically true. of long-term problems, but at the cost might collide with reality, requiring of occasional, short-term discomfort,” further maintenance. The truth never A Form of Hatred Harris writes. “However, the discomfort needs to be tended in this way. … The Yet surely there is some place for lying: should not be exaggerated: You can be liar must remember what he said, For instance, being positive and build- honest and kind, because your purpose and to whom, and must take care to ing up someone’s self-esteem—right? in telling the truth is not to offend peo- maintain his falsehoods in the future. … “A lying tongue hateth those that are ple: You simply want them to have the When you tell the truth, you have noth- afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth information you have, and would want to ing to keep track of. The world itself worketh ruin” (Proverbs 26:28). have if you were in their position.” becomes your memory ….” Harris writes that lying to friends— Proverbs 3:3-4 give us a simple, power- Sounds a lot like what the God of truth even with flattery—makes them igno- ful antidote to what is wrecking our soci- reveals much more poetically in His rant to part of reality, harming them in ety and threatens our lives and the lives Word: “Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; ways we cannot anticipate and treating of our children. Believe, be grateful for, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled them like less than they deserve. “When enjoy and use the simple and powerful with gravel. … The lip of truth shall be we presume to lie for the benefit of truth it communicates: “Let not mercy established for ever: but a lying tongue others,” Harris writes, “we have decided and truth forsake thee: bind them about is but for a moment. … For God shall that we are the best judges of how much thy neck; write them upon the table of bring every work into judgment, with they should understand about their own thine heart: So shalt thou find favour every secret thing, whether it be good, lives—about how they appear, their rep- and good understanding in the sight of or whether it be evil” (Proverbs 20:17; utations, or their prospects in the world. God and man.” 12:19; Ecclesiastes 12:14). This is an extraordinary stance to adopt Forsake the broad path of breezy Harris writes, “Lying is, almost by toward other human beings.” deceit. Commit to the straight and definition, a refusal to cooperate with God does not command us to go out of narrow way of truth. Be someone who others. … Research suggests that all our way to criticize others. Sometimes means what you say, whose word can forms of lying—including white lies we should decline to share what we be trusted, who walks what you talk, meant to spare the feelings of others— know (without giving the impression who praises but doesn’t flatter, who can are associated with poorer-quality rela- that we don’t know). But when asked deliver tactful, honest criticism, and tionships. [T]he moment we consider for our opinion, we are disobeying God who speaks the truth in love. n JULY 2021 21 Throughout these difficult years, Winston wrote to his father and mother, pleading for visits. “[C]ome and see me soon ….” “Come and see me soon, dear Mamma ….” “I am wondering when you are coming to see me?” Except on rare occasions, neither his mother nor his father took the short train ride to see him. In fact, they rarely replied to his letters. Nine-year-old Winston wrote his mother, “I have only had one letter from you this term.” While father and mother were tending to things they viewed as more important, who watched Winston? The live-in caretaker they hired when he was one month old, a 40-year-old woman named THE WOMAN Elizabeth Anne Everest. Who Saved ‘The Fireside at Which He Dried His Tears’ Most biographies include THE MAN little mention of nannies. But in biographies of Churchill, Who Saved the situation is different. Wil- liam Manchester’s The Last THE WORLD Lion, for example, discusses Everest in dozens of passages, many quite detailed. That’s because the early history of By serving a child selflessly, one woman had a profound Winston Churchill is largely impact on Western civilization. Who might the children the history of Everest. in your life grow up to be? BY JEREMIAH JACQUES For Winston’s first seven years, she was his world entire. This world was largely one of learning: Reading, t was a baby boy. He entered the affection and even time together. In the writing and basic mathematics were world at 1:30 on the morning of Victorian era, high society parents like part of their daily routine in the nursery. I Nov. 30, 1874, born to a noble family his viewed their children at appointed But Everest also allowed time for, and in Oxfordshire, England. times and received reports from those even joined him in, acting out scenes As a child, he had a large table for who actually spent time with them, from the books they read. his thousands of toy soldiers and their their nannies. But Randolph and Jennie “Woom” was apparently the closest momentous battles, wonderful collec- Churchill had no time for even these young Winston could get to saying tions of books and stamps, even his own brief interactions. “woman.” This became his name for her. log cabin, accessed over a small moat The two saw very little of Winston “Woom” was more than educator and by a functioning drawbridge. All a boy during his earliest years. When he playmate. She saved him from emotional could ask for. turned 7, they sent him off to his first starvation. She shaped his personality. JULIA GODDARD/TRUMPET Almost. of several boarding schools, where he She taught him to navigate the vicissi- This boy was Winston S. Churchill. suffered bullying from classmates and tudes of life. And Winston, neglected His parents provided his physical needs even teachers due to a sickly disposition by parents, bullied and struck down and luxuries, but deprived him of and speech impediments. by frequent and prolonged illnesses, 22 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET experienced vicissitudes. But even as he pray aloud for him to hear and learn. ‘My Dearest and Most Intimate Friend’ grew and his world widened, he knew It was from her lips that Winston first When Winston was 19, financial strain that whatever struggle he faced, he had heard passages of the King James Bible. prompted his family to dismiss Everest, someone to turn to. She helped him memorize parts of it, despite his adamant objections. In My Early Life, he wrote that she was and taught him about the lives of men She moved in with her sisters who, his “confidante.” “[T]o her I poured out and women recorded in it. The two took along with more financial support from my many troubles.” frequent walks together, during which Winston than he could sensibly afford, At age 11, Winston contracted double she taught him to sing hymns. kept her from utter destitution. But the pneumonia and was violently ill for sev- In Never Give In, Stephen Mansfield following year, Winston received a letter eral days. His doctor wrote his parents: describes Everest as a “low church” adher- saying she had contracted peritonitis. “Forgive my troubling you with these ent averse to the “ritual” and “popish He dropped everything and rushed to lines to impress upon you the absolute trappings” of the Anglican Church. “But see her. necessity of quiet and sleep for Winston she was … a passionate woman of prayer Everest knew her own condition was and that Mrs. Everest should not be and she taught young Winston well.” serious, but her worry was over Win- allowed in the sick room today—even Thanks to Everest’s influence, Chur- ston, who had traveled through rain to the excitement of pleasure at seeing her chill realized during his teen years that visit her. She refused to be comforted might do harm!” Britain’s colonial policy was noble and until he dried himself off. Soon after, The next year, Winston was living at worth fighting for only as long as it she slipped into a coma. The young Harrow boarding school. His mother remained founded on what he called “a man sat at her side, holding the hand had not visited him there for nearly a higher reason” and “a moral force—the that had dressed him, helped him walk, year, and his father never had. But one divine foundation of earthly power.” turned the pages of his storybooks, day, after months of Winston beseech- His belief that his country repre- pointed to the Scriptures, dried his ing his parents to send her, Mrs. Everest sented “Christian civilization” was tears, picked him up, and built his life. arrived. “Public-school boys then were central to his lifelong sense of mission. It was Woom who had always been ashamed of their nannies,” Manchester Growing inside him was his now there when he was otherwise alone. wrote. But Winston “paraded his old historic indomitable determination to Woom who had taught him compassion nurse, immensely fat and all smiles, stand and fight. and humility. Woom who had shown down High Street, and then unasham- “[W]ho put such moral steel in Chur- him endless love. edly kissed her in full view of his school- chill’s heart and spine?” journalist Cal He held her hand until the end, at mates.” One later said that kiss was “one Thomas asked. “If his parents were not 2:15 the next morning. He later wrote, of the bravest acts I have ever seen.” strong spiritual and ethical guides, who “Death came very easily to her. She had Violet Asquith, a personal friend to gave Churchill such principles?” lived such an innocent and loving life of Winston Churchill during his adult Elizabeth Anne Everest. service to others and held such a simple years, summarized all that Woom was British Prime Minister Boris John- faith that she had no fears at all, and did to him: “In his solitary childhood and son’s 2014 biography concludes that: not seem to mind very much. unhappy school days, Mrs. Everest was “She it was, I reckon, who helped him to “She had been my dearest and most his comforter, his strength and stay, his that vast and generous moral sense.” intimate friend during the whole of one source of unfailing human under- The “moral sense” Everest helped the 20 years I had lived. … I shall never standing. She was the fireside at which build in young Winston is not incidental. know such a friend again.” he dried his tears and warmed his heart. It ultimately changed the course of Used by God, Winston S. Churchill She was the night light by his bed. She history. changed history and our lives. And Eliz- was security.” “There has probably never been a abeth Anne Everest changed Winston S. greater political watchman than Win- Churchill. n ‘Vast and Generous Moral Sense’ ston Churchill,” Trumpet editor in chief Everest warned her charge of the dan- Gerald Flurry writes in his booklet Win- Learn the lessons gers of debt, the perils of befriending ston S. Churchill: The Watchman. “His Churchill’s foresight and courage saved the bad influences, the importance of main- foresight saved the Western world from Western world from demise in World War II. taining health, the virtue of practicing demise in World War ii.” Yet today, many scorn his accomplishment kindness toward animals. She helped The importance of Churchill’s uncom- and his message. The war’s greatest him develop concern for the poor, which promising stand against Nazi evil, at a tragedy is that we failed to Manchester wrote would help make time when no one else was willing to learn from that shameful Churchill one of the two “most effective confront it, cannot be overstated. It truly and near-fatal disaster. To champions of the working class” in saved the world. Mr. Flurry makes clear understand Churchill’s Britain’s political arena. that it was actually God who accom- message for us today, order Everest also taught Winston, as best plished that, but He did so through Chur- your free copy of Gerald she could, about his Creator. He would chill. And Churchill would never have Flurry’s booklet see her praying silently and ask about had the foresight, conviction and spine to Winston S. Churchill: the purpose. She would explain, and be used in a mighty way without Everest. The Watchman. JULY 2021 23 is divided, not just politically, but ideologically and reli- giously. Israel’s government is wracked with disputes; the nation’s leaders spend more time competing than cooperating. In many ways, the nation is making the same mistakes it made anciently. This is why the people of Israel, especially the nation’s leaders, need to study and THE FORMER PROPHETS understand the former prophets!

How History Only History? Many people believe the Becomes Prophecy former prophets contain only history. That is not true, The history recorded in the ‘former prophets’ might but even if it were, it would be ancient, but the lessons they carry are far more make these biblical books important today than they were 3,000 years ago! extremely valuable. BY GERALD FLURRY Many authorities call history our most effective teacher. There is a lot of ow often have we heard that The Jews today, and all people, can truth to that statement. Napoleon history repeats itself? It does— learn a lot by studying the former Bonaparte said if you want to be a great H time and time again. prophets! general, you must study the great gener- The Hebrew Bible is divided into Consider the basic message in Joshua als of the past. That is good advice for us three main sections: the law, the proph- and Judges, which is powerful and unique. spiritually as well. Bible history is the ets and the psalms, or writings. The When the nation followed Joshua’s greatest history of all because it is God’s prophets include what are classified as way—which was really the way of Moses, history. We must learn about these the major and minor prophets. There which was really the way of God and His spiritual warriors of the past. We need also are the former law—things went well to learn about Joshua and Samuel. We prophets, comprised for Israel. The period should understand why Saul failed even This article appeared of the biblical books of of the judges, when though he had such a great opportunity. in the March-April 2021 Joshua, Judges, 1 and the nation rejected We must learn about David, who has the issue of our sister mag- 2 Samuel, and 1 and God and His laws and greatest, longest biography in the Bible. azine Watch Jerusalem. 2 Kings. These were “every man did that We need to know about Elijah and Elisha. Visit WatchJerusalem.co.il. originally just two which was right in his What were these powerful leaders books: Joshua-Judges own eyes,” shows what all about? All this incredible history is and the Book of Kings. They are all tied happens when a nation abandons God. recorded in the former prophets. It is together; we need to understand them The books of Joshua and Judges con- ready for us to study and learn from. Of individually and as one prophetic unit. tain lessons about success and failure. all people on Earth, the Jewish people The former prophets record a broad The books of Samuel and Kings ought to be intensely interested in these sweep of history of the nation of Israel— contain similar relevant lessons. These biblical books! from the time the Israelites entered the books record the history of David and But the former prophets are far Promised Land under the leadership of Solomon, the two kings responsible for more valuable than if they were only Joshua until the two parts of the divided uniting Israel and making it a regional history. These books contain many kingdom, Israel and Judah, were con- superpower. These two books reveal direct prophecies—pivotal prophecies quered and taken into captivity. There is how a nation surrounded by enemies that are especially for this end time. a special message in all the former proph- can remain independent and safe. They Throughout these books we read about ets. They are mostly about history, but reveal how national unity is crucial to the promised Messiah, for example. they are called former prophets for good national security. They contain powerful But the former prophets also give us ISTOCK.COM/DUNCAN1890 reason. The word former simply means lessons on leadership and how leaders indirect prophecies. Of course they they are the earlier prophets. These determine the destiny of a nation. record history, but it is history that books were written by prophets and they Israel today has many enemies. Its pol- in most cases also becomes prophecy. are filled with end-time prophecy. itics are divisive and unstable; the nation Consider for example how the state of 24 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET religion in ancient Israel revealed the study the prophetic books and the his- critical and meaningful to the righteous state of the nation. If we have the same tory of the prophets in order to put it all scholars of ancient Israel! If only mod- or similar religious problems today, together in the manner God wanted. ern Israel valued it so highly! this is an indirect prophecy of what is The compiler of Chronicles lists his happening to the modern descendants of sources in 2 Chronicles 9:29: “Now History Recorded by Prophets Israel and Judah—the end-time nations the rest of the acts of Solomon, first King David created offices to ensure this of Israel and Judah, which are primarily and last, are they not written in the invaluable history was recorded and pre- America, Britain and the Jewish state. book of Nathan the prophet, and in the served. “Now the acts of David the king, (If you have not proved this important prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and first and last, behold, they are written in truth, study our free book The United in the visions of Iddo the seer against the book of Samuel the seer, and in the States and Britain in Prophecy.) Jeroboam the son of Nebat?” In other book of Nathan the prophet, and in the These books show that if we live the same lifestyles our forefathers did, we will attain virtually the same results— These books show that if we live the same good or bad. If we live like the people did during the time of Joshua, we will expe- lifestyles our forefathers did, we will attain rience the same beautiful results. If we live like people lived during the period virtually the same results—good or bad. of the judges, we will experience the same horrific results! History becomes words, the book about Solomon that he book of Gad the seer” (1 Chronicles 29:29). prophecy. Not all prophecy is history, used consisted of the writings of these The men who wrote the former prophets but a lot of history becomes prophecy. three prophets: Nathan, Ahijah and Iddo. and Chronicles were highly educated. History prophesies the fate of nations— “‘The Book of the Acts of Solomon’ com- They knew the scriptures, and they knew whether they will thrive or collapse! prised three works written by prophets God’s history and prophecy. These proph- contemporary with Solomon and which ets all recorded the history of David. They Thoroughly Researched embracing the whole period of his reign kept the flame of David’s throne shining Some commentaries say that the former were naturally soon gathered into one brightly for any followers of God! prophets descended partly from “oral treatise and called by one collective Education was of great importance in tradition.” This is provably false, and it name” (ibid; emphasis mine). Note that these former prophets. Samuel, Elijah is Bible criticism aimed at discrediting carefully: The sources used by the com- and Elisha were educated! They all these inspired scriptures and weaken- piler of the former prophets included founded schools to educate others and ing people’s faith! The Book of the Acts of Solomon, which to disseminate that invaluable knowl- In this case “oral tradition” could be relied on source material written by edge. Their schools were small because almost anything. Only God’s Word, doc- prophets who were right there with most of the nation wasn’t following the umented by the prophets of God, can be Solomon! God-inspired men gathered godly education. Still, that history—and fully relied upon. all this material together to make a even these men’s regard for godly educa- God ensured that the material in the bigger book. That was then consulted in tion—was recorded for us today. former prophets was recorded and pre- composing the former prophets. I believe the Prophet Jeremiah was served mainly so we could understand it This process was much more thorough the editor whom God inspired to inte- during the time that leads directly into and meticulous than just “oral tradition.” grate the former prophets all together. the Second Doming of Jesus Christ. This history was recorded in much the But we are not looking for Jeremiah in It took much intensive study by these same way our historians write history these books—we are looking for God all biblical writers to collect this invaluable today. But there was one vital difference: the way through. God put this history instruction for our education! This Their work was also inspired by God! together! Yet faithless scholars label it history isn’t simply oral tradition. In These men labored over these writ- with names like “Hebrew history.” Yes, discussing the book of Kings, the Cam- ings, building on previous records and it contains history of the Hebrews—but bridge Bible explains: “The compiler manuscripts, because of how important that is hardly all it is. Such a title waters specifies three sources from which his this history is! Clearly it was extremely down the truth of God. It isn’t merely u narrative is drawn: 1) The Book of the Acts of Solomon (1 Kings 11:41) as the authority for Solomon’s reign. 2) The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, which is mentioned 15 times …. It’s far more than history. 3) The Book of the Chronicles of the The former prophets contain vital guidance that you need Kings of Israel, quoted 17 times” in Kings. in your life today and prophecy that will illuminate your The writers and compilers of the former worldview. They were written for our time now. Request prophets had many written sources—not Gerald Flurry’s free book The Former Prophets to learn just oral tradition. They had to deeply about these crucial books in your Bible. JULY 2021 25 history of the Hebrews—it’s the history of God and of what He is doing on Earth! This history was arranged and inspired by God Himself! If you and I aren’t studying this his- tory, we are missing out on an incredible, even life-saving opportunity! I encourage you to take time to really study the history recorded in the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings. Some of the history is wonderful and positive. It is deeply inspiring to read about the joy and prosperity Israel expe- rienced during the time of Joshua, Sam- uel’s devotion to true education, King David’s astonishing accomplishments and beautiful example of humility and repentance, Elijah’s faith-filled service The Real Rift to God, Elisha’s miracle-filled prophetic work, and many others. The history of these awesome biblical figures teaches Caused by the us how to be happy and successful today! The former prophets also flow with Royal Couple much tragic history. These books recount a lot of suffering, conflict All the Harry and Meghan coverage and depression. The book of Judges is missing the point. BY GERALD FLURRY describes some of the most heinous, gruesome behavior in the Bible. The life of Saul is a sobering warning against vanity and self-reliance. The example of n March, cbs aired an interview titled in the same way that other grand- Jeroboam and the civil war he incited that Oprah Winfrey held with Harry, children would be.” In addition to this shows what happens when we depart I the duke of Sussex who has quit his bold claim, both of them implied that the from the true religion established in royal duties, and his wife, Meghan Markle. royal family killed Princess Diana. Jerusalem by King David. A storm of media coverage followed, but Of course, Britain and its monarchy Knowing this history will help us almost everyone overlooked one of the have faults. The Trumpet writes about avoid repeating the same mistakes! most important effects of this interview: them often. But the accusations made by The history in these books could It drove a wedge in the middle of one of Meghan and Harry were lies. We do need actually save your life. Spiritually, it will the greatest partnerships in history. to address the sins in our societies, but lead you into a deeper, more fulfilling Britain and America have done great let’s not lie about it! Neither Britain nor relationship with God. It will reveal how things by working together. Winston America are horribly racist countries. you can be protected by God when trials Churchill dedicated much of his life to After all, people of all kinds of races are strike and how you can achieve your building a special relationship between working hard to get in to both of these incredible human potential. Learning America and Britain. They fought countries. And people of various races the lessons of these books will even help together in World War i and won the enjoy tremendous success in these you physically. These lessons will help war. The same occurred in World War ii. countries, including Meghan and Oprah. you grow as a leader and as a mother Had Britain been left to itself, it could Many in Britain were appalled by or father, husband or wife. They will not have won! the interview. The popularity of Harry reveal the path to material prosperity. When these nations are divided, both and Meghan fell to an all-time low. This history will show how you can be are less secure. The Oprah interview Meghan’s popularity dropped more than content and at peace—with yourself, contributed to that. 10 percent; only 31 percent of Britons your family and all those with whom you Harry and Meghan hurled explosive view her positively and 58 percent view come into contact. accusations at the British monarchy, her negatively. Polls before the interview ANDREW MILLIGAN/GETTY IMAGES This history occurred thousands of including that the royal family is racist. indicated more than half of Britons still years ago, these writings are ancient and Meghan heavily implied that the only viewed Harry favorably; afterward, that venerable, but their lessons are even reason her son, Archie, was not a prince, number dipped under half. more relevant and important today than was that she was part black. She said she It was a different story in America. they were three millennia ago! They will was distressed by the “idea of the first One poll of Americans who watched change your life! n member of color in this family not being the interview indicated that favorability 26 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET toward both Meghan and Harry contempt for the British Empire. He shut up, nor any left, nor any helper increased. The U.S. media, showed a lack of respect to the British for Israel” (“America Has No Helper,” which has exalted Meghan prime minister and even the Queen. theTrumpet.com/23615). Prophetically, Markle, quickly sided with her. A key theme of his time in office was “Israel” refers to the modern descen- “Oprah Winfrey and Meghan alienating America’s allies. The Obama dants of ancient Israel, mainly the Markle: How Two Black Women administration repeatedly targeted British and the Americans (request Took Down Whatever Fantasies Britain with diplomatic snubs. One State your free copy of The United States Remained About the British Department official reportedly said, and Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert W. Monarchy” was the Washington “There’s nothing special about Britain. Armstrong). There are people working Post’s take. “Markle laid bare You’re just the same as the other 190 to blot out the very name of Israel (verse her own traumas to illuminate dark truths about Britain, the royals—but also more generally about life in a predominantly In a world this hostile, Britain, America and white institution with a racist the Jewish nation of Israel need to stick past,” it wrote. “Racism contin- ues to seep through every facet of together and to turn toward God. British royal life” (March 8). The New York Times boldly targeted the royal family. On March 9, it countries in the world. You shouldn’t 27). Tragically, many of them are within published “Meghan and Harry’s expect special treatment.” Obama America and Britain! Interview Shows the Monarchy himself threatened that if Britain voted These verses are prophecy of a time Must Go.” This article claimed to leave the European Union, the U.S. when there would be no one to help the interview showed “that the would put it at the “back of the queue” these nations. People are creating and British monarchy is a toxic den of for trade relationships. aggravating divisions within America backbiting and racism” and com- President Donald Trump brought and Britain—regarding race, class, pol- pared it to “a bottle of poison.” the Churchill bust back into the White itics and anything else they can think of. White House Press Secretary House. He spoke warmly of relations Now they are sowing divisions between Jen Psaki praised the “courage” with Britain and was a vocal supporter these two nations. Splitting Britain and of Harry and Meghan. Hillary Clinton of Brexit. But now the pendulum has America apart from one another means characterized the British press’s swung back again. One of Joe Biden’s that they cannot help each other. treatment of Meghan as “cruel” and first actions after moving into the White Threats in the world are increasing. “outrageous.” The Telegraph’s U.S. editor, House was to kick the Churchill bust Other nations are betraying and attack- Nick Allen, claimed the interview “set out again. And Harry and Meghan, like ing America and Britain and Israel. Many off a wave of anti-Britishness” and that Biden, are strongly connected to Obama. Bible prophecies show these trends will the British “haven’t been this unpopular The two reportedly took advice from the intensify. In a world this hostile, Britain, in America since they burned down the Obamas when considering their split America and the Jewish nation of Israel White House in the War of 1812.” from the royal family. need to stick together and to turn Historian Andrew Roberts wrote that The division developing between toward God. But they are splitting from the accusation of royal racism “is deeply our nations is a deadly weakness. It’s a God and from each other. There will damaging for British soft-power abroad, weakness the radical left and especially be no helper for Israel—not even from especially in the United States. Amer- Barack Obama have spent years creating other modern Israelite nations. icans cannot be expected to know the and exploiting. Now these former royals It is shameful that we are causing so minutiae of royal protocol, but they have are joining in. much of this division and bringing it been left believing that prejudice has In our April Trumpet issue, I wrote upon ourselves. It is going to lead to some prevented Archie from both becoming a to you about a crucial scripture in dark times for Britain and America. But royal and receiving royal security, which 2 Kings 14:26, which states: “For the Bible prophecy also shows that God is is untrue.” Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it letting it happen for a spec- was very bitter: for there was not any tacular reason. n No Helper The duke and duchess aren’t the only ones doing the dividing. After Barack Why does the Trumpet report Obama took office, he famously got rid of the bust of Winston Churchill in the on the British royal family? White House, which the British govern- Their throne was once the throne of David, which the Bible ment had lent at the outset of the war on prophesies will continue all the way until Jesus Christ returns terror. This was a major insult to Britain. to rule from it! But there has been a change. To learn what it is, Obama has often and openly expressed request your free copy of The New Throne of David. JULY 2021 27 DENMARK WANTS MUSLIMS OUT WORLDWATCH enmark became the first crime and income. Fifteen neigh- European country to borhoods in Denmark currently revoke the residency meet the criteria. Dpermits of Syrian refugees on These measures are being March 1. This is part of a series of taken not in a right-wing nation FRANCE related events across Europe to by a right-wing government but restrict Muslim migrants. in a Nordic-model Scandinavian HOLDS Denmark claimed that Syria is state known for its welfare and now safe enough for the 94 refu- other left-wing policies, and FIRST gees to return. This despite the currently ruled by its center-left decade-long, multi-sided conflict Social Democratic Party. MILITARY being nowhere near resolution This is a sign that Europe and the Syrian government as a whole is becoming much SPACE recently shelling a Muslims gather for hospital in the rebel-held prayers in Denmark’s EXERCISE city of Aleppo. Parliament Square. The government is rance conducted its first military space programs are also planning a bill to military space exercise from Russia and China. In large limit the population March 8–11. Along with the part due to the threat of these of “non-Western” Fspace commands of Germany powers militarizing space, residents in its cities and the United States, the French France is aiming to become (those who are not originally more right wing regarding Air Force’s space command the world’s third-largest space from the European Union or the immigration, especially Islamic simulated 18 threats against its power and has shown plans to Schengen Area). The cap will immigration. Europe may satellites and assets, including arm its satellites with machine- likely be 30 percent. The original be ending its experiment in missile launches, jamming guns and lasers. The French wording of the bill included the multiculturalism. attacks, solar radiation storms government has said it hopes to term “ghetto,” which in Danish law Your Bible prophesies that and debris falling to Earth. avoid an arms race in space, but is defined as any neighborhood Europe will soon embrace its The only other powers with it may have already begun. n of more than 1,000 people with historic culture, Catholicism— certain employment education, and clash culturally, politically, crime and income characteristics religiously and militarily with the FRINGE RIGHT that is majority “non-Western” Muslim Middle East. n WINS AGAIN IN and that meets other criteria “The Whirlwind Prophecy,” NETHERLANDS regarding employment, education, (theTrumpet.com/go/whirl). uring March 15–17 parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, center- FRENCH GENERALS for which you will be responsible, Dright incumbent Prime Minister will amount to thousands.” CALL FOR MILITARY TO Mark Rutte won reelection. But DEAL WITH ISLAMISM Time is working against the STEPHANIE MAHE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, OLE JENSEN/GETTY IMAGES, JEROEN MEUWSEN/BSR AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES its three hard-right parties he hour is grave; France is government, and every incident also fared well, winning a in jeopardy threatened by adds pressure. Just days after historic-high 29 total seats. several mortal dangers,” the letter was signed, another Geert Wilders’s Party for WILDERS “Tan open letter addressed to terrorist fatally stabbed a woman Freedom won third place with 11 French President Emmanuel in a police station in France. percent of the vote, the even more hard-line stance against Muslim Macron and his government Pushed by these radical extreme Forum for Democracy immigration has pushed main- begins. This letter, signed on Islamists, something of a won 5 percent of the vote, and stream Dutch politics to the right April 21 by 20 former French medieval Holy Roman Empire the JA21 party received enough so much that Politico describes it generals and more than 1,500 mentality is rising in France. votes (2.4 percent) to send a as “the Wilders effect.” members of the military, police More and more people are ready representative to parliament for The Forum for Democracy has and gendarmerie, calls on for military conflict to safeguard the first time. Together, the three previously called for a ban on the France’s leaders to “safeguard their continent and historic parties earned 29 seats—the best Koran. Its leader, Thierry Baudet, the nation” from Islamic threats. roots. Just a few years ago, such results the hard right has ever once spoke of the Netherlands “We can see that there is no a turn of events would have had. During his election campaign, belonging to the “boreal world,” more time to procrastinate,” it been unthinkable. Yet, the Bible Wilders said he wants to see equivalent to the “Nordic” continues, “otherwise civil war prophesied of it millennia ago. the Netherlands as “a country and “Aryan” race ideals once will tomorrow put an end to this Read The Holy Roman Empire in without headscarves.” His advocated by the Nazis. n growing chaos, and the deaths, Prophecy to understand why. n 28 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET RUSSIA PULLS VENEZUELA AND CUBA DEEPER INTO ITS ORBIT high-level Russian delega- Russia’s Borisov tion toured the Caribbean (left) visits Cuba’s Cabrisas on March in March and April, signing 31 in Havana. Aa rash of cooperation agree- ments with Venezuela and Cuba, bombers, a squadron of Russian a sign of Russia’s deepening soldiers and 38 tons of military A Syrian flag flies among the rubble influence in the periphery of the equipment to Venezuela. And in the rebel-held town of Jobar. United States. it has sold numerous tanks, On March 30, the delegation patrol boats, missile corvettes GERMANY OFFERS reported Euractiv, citing met with Venezuelan President and light fighters to Nicaragua. CASH FOR CHANGE IN European diplomatic sources. Nicolas Maduro and signed 12 Watch for Russia to continue SYRIA AND LEBANON “Germany and France want first major energy, finance, military deepening its relationships with erman Foreign Minister to see a government in place and strategic agreements, as unstable, anti-U.S. countries led Heiko Maas pledged committed to implementing well as a plan for Russia to supply by socialist governments close to $2 billion in aid to Syria at reforms. There is no other way Venezuela with more corona- the U.S. mainland. Ga March 30 donor conference around it ….” virus vaccine doses. The next day, “The Bible contains many in Brussels, the largest sum “For Germany, Syria’s revolution the delegation conducted the prophecies of [a] European Germany has pledged in four isn’t about a humanitarian crisis 18th Session of the Cuba-Russia power attacking America—and years. In return for the loan, at all,” Trumpet editor in chief Intergovernmental Commission many other prophecies of Germany is requiring Syria to Gerald Flurry explained in “How with the Cuban government in America being besieged,” undergo “a substantial political the Syrian Crisis Will End.” “It’s Havana and agreed to a plan to Trumpet editor in chief Gerald process,” he said. about geopolitics and how Berlin increase cooperation in energy, Flurry writes in Isaiah’s End-Time On April 7, Germany published can aggressively advance its trade, agriculture, heath, defense Vision. He explains that Europe a plan to rebuild downtown strategic interests in the Middle and communications. will carry out this besiegement Beirut, the Lebanese port city East!” (Trumpet, September 2012). In recent years, the Kremlin in cooperation with Russia and devastated by an explosion in Germany and Europe are has docked its warships in China. “All of them are going to August 2020. The plan involves up making a move to draw Syria Havana’s harbor and given besiege America, Britain and the to $3.6 billion in financing from and Lebanon out of Iran’s orbit. Cuba $50 million to buy Jewish nation.” n the European Investment Bank Psalm 83 and Daniel 11:40 Russian military equipment and Request your free copy and International Monetary Fund, prophesy that Germany will form modernize Cuban defense firms. of Isaiah’s End-Time Vision the generation of 50,000 jobs, a Middle Eastern alliance against It has also flown nuclear-capable (theTrumpet.com/go/ISA). and private German companies Iran. Both Lebanon and Syria will rebuilding the port and its be part of it. n surroundings. Request The King of the South, PUTIN TO HAVE “This plan is not going to by Gerald Flurry (theTrumpet. LONGEST RULE SINCE come without strings attached,” com/go/kos). PETER THE GREAT? ussian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on PUTIN IRANIAN COMMANDER out of the region. Qa’ani, his April 5 that formally gives successor, has pledged to follow Rhim the option to remain in authoritarian rulers. But VISITS IRAQ slamic Revolutionary Guard the same path. Since 2018, the power until 2036. Vladimir Putin is one we need Corps (IRGC) Brig. Gen. U.S. has withdrawn from eight His second successive and to keep a particularly close eye Esmaeil Qa’ani took a two-day bases in Iraq and consolidated fourth overall presidential term on,” Trumpet editor in chief Itrip to Iraq in early April, meeting its forces to better protect itself concludes in 2024. Under the Gerald Flurry wrote in his 2017 with Iraqi officials and senior from ongoing attacks. previous constitution, he would booklet The Prophesied ‘Prince leaders of political parties and Perhaps the main purpose have been required to step down of Russia.’ “His track record, his movements. The visit took of Qa’ani’s trip was to send a at that time. But new legislation nationality and his ideology show place on the eve of negotiations message highlighting Iran’s permits Putin, who turns 69 this that he is fulfilling a linchpin Bible between Iraq and the United power in Iraq and threatening year, to run for two more six-year prophecy. The time frame of his States, including discussions the U.S. Iran intends to control terms, enabling him to remain rule also shows that nobody else about the presence of U.S. Iraq, and with the U.S. consid- in power for a total of 36 years, could be fulfilling the Ezekiel 38 troops in Iraq. ering withdrawing its remaining longer than Joseph Stalin or any and 39 prophecy.” n Late IRGC Quds Force troops, fulfillment of Iran’s goals Russian leader since Peter the Order your free copy of The Commander Qassem Suleimani’s in Iraq appear to be only one Great in the 18th century. Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia’

LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, ERNESTO MASTRASCUSA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/GETTY IMAGES DRUZHININ/AFP/GETTY ALEXEY IMAGES, MASTRASCUSA/AFP/GETTY ERNESTO IMAGES, BESHARA/AFP/GETTY LOUAI main goal was to drive the U.S. executive order away. n “This world has a lot of (theTrumpet.com/go/prince). JULY 2021 29 The withdrawal “It is not the right time to with- was announced last draw their troops,” Saifuddin Azizi, year under the Trump an Afghan commander, told the administration: It was New York Times. “It is unreason- scheduled to take able, hasty and a betrayal to us. It place in June, pending pushes Afghanistan into another the Taliban’s meeting civil war. Afghanistan’s destiny will certain conditions. look like it did two decades ago.” Biden’s unilateral From Cuba to Vietnam to Iraq September with- and beyond, America has been drawal is apparently fighting wars against small Third unconditional. World countries for decades and RECORD COAL PLANT The U.S. currently has won none of them. CLOSURES IN U.S., EU has 2,500 troops News forecaster Herbert OFFSET BY RECORD Taliban militants in Afghanistan, in W. Armstrong knew this would OPENINGS IN CHINA still control half of Afghanistan. addition to counter­ be the case based on Bible lobal Energy Monitor terrorism forces. prophecies like Leviticus 26:19- published a report in April BIDEN’S MESSAGE After spending more than 20: “And I will break the pride of showing that a record $1.5 trillion, suffering more than your power; and I will make your Gnumber of coal-fired power TO THE TALIBAN: ‘YOU WON’ 20,000 wounded, losing 2,400 heaven as iron, and your earth as plants in the United States and n April 14, Joe Biden servicemembers, and fighting brass: And your strength shall be Europe were retired in 2020, announced that he will for two decades in a war that spent in vain: for your land shall but were more than offset by withdraw all American has killed more than 100,000 not yield her increase, neither massive coal increases by China. Otroops from Afghanistan people, the Americans are now shall the trees of the land yield Even while Chinese leader Xi by September 11, the 20th leaving—with the Taliban still their fruits.” The losing battle in Jinping was calling for nations anniversary of the 2001 terrorist in control of half the country, Afghanistan is a stark fulfillment to pursue a “green recovery attacks. Following the news from the internationally recognized of this prophecy. n of the world economy” from Washington, the North Atlantic government controlling little Read “America Has Won Its the COVID-induced global Treaty Organization stated that all more than the capital city, and Last War” (theTrumpet.com recession, his government NATO troops will leave this year. the nation still poverty-stricken. /15709). commissioned 38.4 gigawatts of new coal plants throughout the year, 76 percent of the global total. New Chinese coal plants VENEZUELA-STYLE A Venezuelan health worker holds up a offset the record decreases INFLATION MAY BE U.S. dollar and the COMING TO AMERICA equivalent bolívars. in the rest of the world (37.8 enezuela’s economy is in a gigawatts) and meant that the free fall. The Central Bank worldwide total amount of coal of Venezuela introduced a plant construction projects has

Vmillion-bolívar bill on March 5: It is actually increased over last year. WALI SABAWOON/NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES, KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES, FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES only worth 53 United States cents. Almost 9 out of every 10 new Shortly after the U.S. Senate coal plant proposals globally passed a $1.9 trillion spending come from China, completely measure ostensibly to combat ignoring its pledge under the coronavirus, Sen. Rand Paul 2016 Paris Agreement. noted Venezuela’s hyperinflation to the rest of the world. Yet other will suffer the same outcome Trumpet editor in chief Gerald crisis and warned that the U.S. governments are making the as Venezuelans are suffering Flurry discussed the Paris is on the same path. Citing the same mistakes, citing coronavirus now, Zimbabweans suffered climate accord in 2017, writing: million-bolívar bill, he wrote, as an extenuating circumstance. in 2008, Yugoslavians suffered “What is happening here is not “Will U.S. be the next Venezuela Since the World Health Orga- in 1994, Germans suffered in about the environment. It is with Congress borrowing over nization first declared COVID-19 1923, and has been suffered by about destroying the United $6 trillion in one year?” a health emergency, the U.S. all societies who reject a crucial States. The regulations this The late President Hugo Congress has approved over biblical financial principle: “The accord binds America to abide Chávez’s socialist policies ruined $4 trillion in coronavirus-relief rich ruleth over the poor, and by, and the funding it obligates Venezuela’s economy, prompting packages and the Federal the borrower is servant to the America to provide, accomplish the government to raise revenue Reserve has pumped almost lender” (Proverbs 22:7). Soon, that purpose very nicely.” n by printing banknotes. This $6 trillion into the economy. Americans may be using million- Read “What the Paris Climate caused the nation’s current hyper- If Americans continue dollar bills that buy a sixth of a Agreement Was Really About.” inflation crisis, and it is a warning gorging themselves on debt, they gallon of gasoline. n (theTrumpet.com/15956). 30 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET SOCIETYWATCH U.S. MILITARY MANUFACTURES MATERNITY JUMPSUITS e need the young women just beginning their careers in the “Wmilitary service to see it and know that no door will be closed to them,” Joe Biden said during a Women’s Day speech on March 8. “We’re making good progress designing body armor that fits women properly; tailoring combat uniforms for women; 2020: DEADLIEST creating maternity flight suits; Isaiah 3:1-3 describe what is updating requirements for their happening in the United States YEAR FOR U.S. GUN hairstyles.” armed forces: “For, behold, the The United States spends Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take VIOLENCE IN DECADES more on its military than the away from Jerusalem and from next 10 nations combined, but it Judah the stay and the staff, the ore Americans died from more gun control measures, is also softening it. On January whole stay of bread, and the gun violence last year former President Barack Obama 25, Biden signed an executive whole stay of water, The mighty than in any other year in said the “pandemic cannot order repealing a ban on man, and the man of war, the Mthe last two decades, according be the only thing that slows transgenders in the military; he judge, and the prophet, and the to a March 27 report from the mass shootings in this country.” also announced that taxpayers prudent, and the ancient, The from the Gun Violence Archive. But the data shows that the would fund surgeries for men captain of fifty, and the honour- Despite the unprecedented pandemic actually increased the who want to become women able man, and the counsellor, and lockdowns, almost 20,000 Amer- number of victims. or women who want to become the cunning artificer, and the icans were killed in gun violence, These shootings highlight much men while they are in the military. eloquent orator.” n and an additional 24,000 used a bigger issues than the possession gun to commit suicide. of firearms: depression, mental According to the Centers for illness, gang membership and MAJORITY OF Disease Control and Prevention, contempt for law and authority. CANADIANS ON THE this was the first time firearm These triggers of violence can BRINK OF INSOLVENCY deaths exceeded 40,000 since only be solved by obeying the survey by MNP Consumer 1981. In a bid to push through moral laws of the Bible. n Debt Index published on April 8 found that A53 percent of Canadians are SEXUALIZATION OF within $200 of failing to meet BRITISH TEENS IS their monthly bills. This number FINALLY A SCANDAL includes 30 percent who he National Police Chiefs’ already have $0 left at the end of Council lead for child the month. protection said, “I think that Canadians have some of the Tthere is a huge societal problem highest debt-to-income levels in with what young men are the world. In the fourth quarter viewing online, the sexualization of 2019, just prior to government debt for every $1 of disposable of women, and the complete no uplifting vision. We sacrifice lockdowns, Statistics Canada income. blurring of those lines in terms of them to sexual lust and forni- reported that the average A survey in December what is a healthy relationship.” cation. The Internet alone does Canadian held $1.71 in debt for 2020 found that 47 percent of In Isaiah’s End-Time Vision, $10 billion to $13 billion worth of every $1 of disposable income. Canadians felt more relaxed Trumpet editor in chief Gerald business in pornography every In the second quarter of 2020, than usual about going into debt, Flurry writes: “Anciently the year just in America! It is the many Canadians reacted to the and 60 percent said that since Israelites sometimes physically most profitable online business. lockdowns by paying down some interest rates were low, they felt sacrificed their own children. We also sacrifice our children of their debts, but debt levels in good about going into debt to Today we sacrifice our youth to demoniac music, drugs and the third and fourth quarters buy things they otherwise could

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that he was a violent criminal with a warrant out for his arrest. Two Hero Worship for officers then asked Wright to step out of the car. Wright initially Another Career Criminal complied, but then broke free and began to drive away. Officer he Democrat media complex has made another saint out of a Potter shouted that she would tase Wright, but she unholstered her Tcareer criminal who was killed in an altercation with police. Rioting gun instead of her taser and shot him in the chest. broke out in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, where Officer Three days after the shooting, Officer Potter was arrested Kim Potter fatally shot Daunte Wright as he tried to escape arrest on and charged with second-degree manslaughter. So there will be April 11. The agenda of the propaganda media is to deepen the narra- an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Daunte’s tive in people’s minds that America is a racist country and its traditions death. But that has not stopped protesters from making all kinds and institutions must be torn down. In service of that agenda, they are of accusations and rioters from fighting with officers at police creating a hero out of Wright and a monster out of Potter. headquarters. But these characterizations leave out the full picture—and it’s not And it has not stopped race baiters from forcing city officials an accident. out of their jobs for saying that Potter should receive due process. Anyone can search the Internet and immediately find several of Police Chief Tim Gannon was forced to resign despite having Wright’s own social media posts in which he records himself making nothing to do with Wright’s death, and city manager Curt Boganey gang signs, showing wads of money, using drugs, and waving a was fired after suggesting Potter deserves due process of law. pistol. Court papers obtained by the Daily Mail show Wright had Now Mayor Elliot has called on Gov. Tim Walz to have Minnesota a warrant out for his arrest when Potter and two other officers Attorney General Keith Ellison take over Wright’s case—despite the stopped him for an expired registration tag. According to the Mail, fact that Ellison is a far-left radical with Nation of Islam connections “Daunte Wright choked a woman and threatened to shoot her if she who wrote an editorial for the Communist Party USA arguing that did not hand over $820 she had stuffed in her bra …. Wright was due grassroots socialist organizations are needed to bring about neces- to face trial on a charge of attempted aggravated robbery—with a sary reform in the United States. He has always believed American

possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.” police are irredeemably racist, and in 1989 told the Freedom Road JOE RAEDLE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES You won’t hear about these assault charges at a “Justice for Socialist Organization that the “responsible activist has to show Daunte” protest, but they are extremely significant to understanding young folks out there that white supremacy and capitalism are what actually happened. Potter and her colleagues pulled over what’s putting them in the position they’re in.” Wright’s white Buick LaCrosse and then followed standard proce- The evidence keeps piling up that the radical left does not want dure by checking Wright’s name in their database. They learned justice. They want to destroy the police! n PRINCIPLES OF LIVING give our physical bosses is considered as service rendered to God. STEPHEN FLURRY “God is not going to settle for a cheap, sloppy, careless, inferior bit of workmanship,” Plain Truth founder Herbert W. Arm- strong wrote. “He commands that we shall be ‘perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.’ A careless workman once complained to me, ‘The trouble with you, Mr. Armstrong, is that you are a perfectionist!’ I guess he was right. He should tell God, ‘Six Days Shall ‘The trouble with you, God, is that you are a perfectionist!’ God is a perfectionist. And so am I. How about you?” (April 1965). “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for You Labor’ there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest” (Ecclesiastes 9:10). This doesn’t say “whatsoever you are good at” or “whatsoever you like to do, do with your might.” It most certainly includes our daily work. Are you overlooking part of “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is the Fourth Commandment? day,” Jesus said, “the night cometh, when no man can work” (John 9:4). The return of Jesus Christ is drawing near. But emember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” We keep instead of taking away our motivation to work, this ought to this commandment by resting on the seventh day of serve as a prod to work harder! “R the week. But what are we resting from? Examine the Some people criticized Mr. Armstrong for continuing to other side of the Fourth Commandment: “Six days shalt thou expand the work of God’s true Church by constructing new labour, and do all thy work” (Exodus 20:8-9). buildings when they thought Jesus Christ’s return was immi- This is not a suggestion. It is a command that is just as import- nent. In an Aug. 28, 1967, letter to supporters of the Church, ant as the first half of the commandment. If we don’t labor, we he wrote: “If we knew Christ should come tomorrow, and we are breaking the Fourth Commandment just as surely as if we worked on the Sabbath. This commandment points us back to creation (verse 11) and our Creator who works for a living. The spirit or intent of this law shows that people should be doing productive work for the first six days of the week. God did the labor of creation for the first six days; we are to follow His example. When Adam was first created, God placed him in the Garden of Eden and commanded him “to dress it and to keep it,” which required him to toil even to receive sustenance (Genesis 2:15-17). God could have created an environment and means of sus- tenance that did not require labor. But He designed us to work and to work hard! God could have created Did you know that 30 percent of your life will be spent work- an environment and means of sustenance ing? If God specifically created us to do so much of it, why does that did not require labor. work seem boring and difficult for so many people? We have to But He designed us to grasp the spiritual principle behind it. work and to work hard. The Bible contains about 900 references to employment and work habits. It is God’s nature to work diligently, and He wants us to be just like Him. God is reproducing Himself—His charac- needed a new building for His Work, and today was the day ter and nature, His drive and resourcefulness, and His diligent to start building it, I would break ground and start that new work ethic. Human nature is lazy, but a true Christian is a dili- building on its way today! And I would be busy building it gent, productive, hard worker (1 Timothy 5:8). Jesus Christ said tomorrow as I would be caught up to meet Him!” in John 5:17, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” God for- Christ said in Matthew 24:46 that His faithful servants will bids being slothful (Romans 12:11). He says that hard work is the be the ones who are found working and building right up until only sure, godly way to avoid poverty (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12). His arrival! God doesn’t want us to just sit around and wait He even commands that anyone who does not work should not for His return. He wants us to continue working and building, eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10). Also read Ephesians 6:5-6 and Colos- physically and spiritually. sians 3:22, which says, “Servants, obey in all things your masters Imagine builders on top of their ladders, hammering away, according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but working on a new building, and all of a sudden, Christ returns. in singleness of heart, fearing God.” Then they all just set down their tools and rise to meet Christ We are responsible not just to our boss or customers to work in the air. That’s the vision Matthew describes, and that’s the hard, but to God. A good employee constantly feels pressure to vision Mr. Armstrong had. He wanted to be found doing when

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Judy e-mail government, and have become a Prophecy and The United States lighting that candle so I could see lawless society. Man has caused and Britain in Prophecy, as well which way I needed to go.

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So often leftists say that society needs to have a “conversa- This good news should have made tion about race.” But they dominate that conversation and fill banner headlines. The media disagree. it with accusation and grievance rather than facts and real solutions. The more they “converse,” the more divided we grow, eftists ceaselessly decry “systemic racism.” They and the more toxic race relations get. insist that ethnic minorities’ lower levels of education and A Spiked columnist praised Dr. Sewell for “shedding light on L income, and higher levels of crime, family breakdown and uncomfortable truths. He is sticking his head above the parapet other problems, can all be explained by this structural disease for the greater common good. He has encouraged many to exer- in modern society. cise personal responsibility and individual initiative in order to Last summer the United Kingdom government tasked a overcome adversity and progress in life. And in doing so, he has group of 12 experts, all but one of whom was from an ethnic been accused of being an establishment ‘sell-out’ and betraying minority, to examine the facts. The Commission on Race and the ‘racial-justice’ cause, by identitarian grievance-mongers who Ethnic Disparities was led by a black man: Dr. Tony Sewell, would like to keep all non-white people locked in a perpetual ceo of a charity that helps disadvantaged students, including condition of miserable victimhood” (April 5, emphasis added). minorities, study science and technology at top universities. This is the ugly truth behind the “systemic racism” fiction. Other members with backgrounds in broadcasting, economics, Everyone, of every race, faces adversity. Radicals who convince education, health, policing and science deeply studied the role people that all their problems result from society being stacked of racism in crime, education, employment and health. against them trap them in failure. Persuading people that the In April, the commission released its findings. “Put simply we no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities,” the report said. Yes, there are The report showed by racial disparities, but “very few of them are directly to do with several metrics that race racism. Too often ‘racism’ is the catch-all explanation, and can be simply implicitly accepted rather than explicitly examined.” relations and the lives The report says accusations of “institutional racism” too of ethnic minorities have often don’t follow actual evidence. And the “widening charge of racism” can have ugly consequences—such as minority significantly improved groups abusing members of their ethnicity who are police over the past 50 years. officers. The report did not claim that racism does not exist in the UK, but it showed by several metrics that race relations and solutions lie in raging against the world destroys individuals the lives of ethnic minorities have significantly improved over and encourages them to destroy society! the past 50 years. Minority students, for example, outperform “Personal responsibility and individual initiative”—these white students. The pay gap has shrunk to 2.3 percent. truly are keys to success for everyone of every race. God This is good news, isn’t it? Not for leftists. Not to the media. wants each of us to exercise these, with His help, to rise above Much of the media condemned the commission for its adversity in life. The more that people reject victimhood, stop findings. Dr. Sewell was branded as a “token black man,” “coon,” blaming society, and drive themselves, the better off they will “coconut,” “race traitor,” “house negro” and comparable to a Ku be. The more they embrace the duties of family, according to Klux Klan member. The condemnations didn’t address the facts the design of the Creator of family, the more they will mature of the report, cite flaws in it, or present evidence and reason to and fulfill their potential. refute it. They relied almost completely on anger and the unas- The mainstream media bullheadedly insist that whites have sailable logic that denying systemic racism is proof of racism. built a system that holds down non-whites. This report exposes The left has no interest in significant, documented improve- that narrative as a lie—one that ignores facts, incites emotion, ments in race relations. That is because their power comes accuses and divides. from dividing people. Facts show there has been progress, and that race relations To address problems in society, you must correctly identify do provide opportunity to succeed. They point to actual the problems. If you attribute every social problem to racism solutions to some of society’s problems. They give people the when every social problem is not caused by racism, you will tools they need to remain aloof from those who want to control never solve the problem, and people will continue to suffer. them. They show people that they need to, and have the power This report found that family background is much more to, take personal responsibility and improve their own lives.

ISTOCK.COM/GOODLIFESTUDIO influential in a person’s success than racial background. “In That really is good news! n JULY 2021 35 u FREE MONEY FROM PAGE 17 his hand” (Genesis 39:2-3). Those who obey God’s laws do face trials and tests—Joseph is a prime example. But if God could take an unjustly enslaved, unjustly impris- oned foreigner and prosper him in character, stature and wealth, He can prosper you, no matter your condition. God prospered Joseph for a reason: Joseph under- stood and followed God’s laws. Believe it or not, this whole world could soon have the opportunity to benefit from Joseph’s economic management. Longtime readers of this publication know that the economic situation for America and the nations of the Philadelphia Trumpet editor world is hopeless. Yet God will soon personally inter- in chief Gerald Flurry appears vene and save humanity from itself, from lawless think- each week on The Key of David ing that plunges us into disaster, suffering and death explaining the meaning behind (economic and otherwise). When Jesus Christ returns, world events and teaching the as the Bible prophesies, He will return to assume gover- inspiring truths of the Bible. nance of all nations. He will teach and enforce God’s law. The program is also available at He will inspire and compel human beings to follow the keyofdavid.com. laws of cause and effect that produce peace, prosperity and purpose (see Micah 4:1-4). ALL TIMES ARE A.M. LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED In his booklet The Wonderful World Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like, Herbert W. 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