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FROM THE EDITOR 1 Watch German Politics!

What Will Happen After FROM THE EDITOR GERALD FLURRY Trump Regains Power 3

‘This Verdict Is Not Justice’ 8 • Hero Worship for Another Watch German Career Criminal 11 Politics! Gotten Your Jab Yet? 12 Where Are Vaccine Passports Leading? 16 ermany will vote for a new chancellor on Septem- • Is Coronavirus the Mark of ber 26. Angela Merkel has ruled for 16 years, and she is the Beast? 19 G retiring. Who will replace her? Nobody can predict what is going to happen. What Does Free Money Previous elections in Germany have been similar to the Cost? 20 United States: a main left-wing and right-wing party, but with a few smaller parties serving as coalition partners, usually Is Lying Always Wrong? 24 providing the extra 5 percent or so that the main parties need to govern with a majority. The Woman Who Saved the That is over. All the major parties are failing, and their leaders Man Who Saved the World 27 are unpopular. Several of the “minor” parties are now major parties. In April, a key poll put the Green Party in first place. The Former Prophets:How There’s a real prospect of a Green chancellor. could History Becomes do a deal with the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (cdu), Prophecy 30 Merkel’s party, but they might also do a deal with the Left party (the successor to East Germany’s Communists) and the Social The Real Rift Caused by the Democrats, pulling the government to the hard left. Royal Couple 33 This is shaping up to be the most interesting German elec- tion in a generation. Bible prophecy shows why you need to WORLDWATCH 35 watch closely. “This is the stuff of nightmares for the German establish- SOCIETYWATCH 39 ment,” wrote Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Telegraph, April 21). The cdu is in free fall. They selected Armin Laschet as their PRINCIPLES OF LIVING 40 candidate for Ms. Merkel’s replacement. The leaders of the party ‘Six Days Shall You Labor’ like him. The public does not. A recent poll found that 77 percent of cdu members thought their party had chosen the wrong man. COMMENTARY 41 “Never has a candidate entered a general election for the cdu Report: Britain Is Not Racist 1 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 so torn and disheveled,” wrote Spiegel. “The Political shifts in Germany could soon bring weather is ugly,” one party insider told Bild. an opening for such a man. Mr. Armstrong “I’ve never seen anything like it before. Not in believed the csu could provide that strong the refugee crisis or in the euro crisis.” Bild leader, and I have long said the same thing. published a letter from a longtime member This party’s newfound popularity could help who was quitting the party. this happen. The situation is so bad that the Christian However events turn out in Germany in the Social Union (csu)—which has been in a polit- short term, you need to know where Europe ical marriage with the cdu for 70 years—is is heading. The Bible’s prophecies reveal how considering divorce. Usually, the csu runs in it will soon change, and how it will affect you. Bavaria, and the cdu runs everywhere else. My free booklet A Strong German Leader Is The two parties work together at the federal Imminent takes you through the prophecies level and unite behind a single candidate for that informed Mr. Armstrong. It will show you chancellor. what prophecy says about this strongman, and A recent poll showed that if the csu ditched why he is so central to end-time events. It will the cdu and went nationwide by itself, it would help you prove for yourself what your Bible be Germany’s most popular party. In fact, the says about such a man. Study these prophecies, csu alone would be more popular than the and watch Germany! n cdu-csu union is right now. German politics are changing fast. “The Germany that most of us have known all our lives is about to change in radical and unpre- dictable ways,” wrote Evans-Pritchard. Germans are weary of weak leadership. They are desperate for a change. Many are looking for a strongman! They want someone with brawn and backbone to rise up and lead the nation—and Europe—out of this malaise. This is critically important. A new strong German leader is one of the key Bible prophe- cies for the end time. We should watch closely for such a man to emerge from this political mess. Herbert W. Armstrong warned for decades about the arrival of such a leader. European nations are becoming “distrustful of America and thinking more and more about uniting themselves into a united states of Europe,” he wrote in March 1950. To do that, they need a “new supreme leader—the successor of Adolf Hitler—to rise up and assert himself and take command.” I have continued this same warning since the Trumpet magazine’s earliest issues. “If a real crisis develops, will the Germans call for a new führer?” I asked in our December 1991 issue. “Your Bible says that is going to hap- pen! That crisis will probably be triggered by an economic collapse in the U.S.” 2 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 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 that away the Democrats’ majority there and radical Democrats stole the 2020 United negate the decisions they have been making. I States presidential election. Polls show that And Maricopa County, Arizona, is conducting over 70 percent of Republicans believe the elec- what appears to be a full and fair audit of more tion was stolen. A lot of Democrats also believe than 2 million ballots and dozens of electronic the election was stolen; I think many of them tabulators that could expose major fraud. know it was. Even official totals show a record I do not know how it will happen, but I am 74.2 million people voted for President Donald convinced is going to regain the Trump—nearly 5 million more than anyone in presidency. Bible prophecy foretells it! American history! Yet somehow, received 6 million Prophecy of President Trump more votes than that. Dr. Peter Navarro, a To understand the election fraud in America, former White House adviser, has uncovered you must understand a passage in 2 Kings 14. 3,069,002 “possible illegal votes” in just the The book of Kings is part of the Bible called swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, the former prophets. The former prophets Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Since are prophets: The men who wrote them were Joe Biden’s “victory” margin in these states prophets, and prophets are used by God to was a 10th of that (312,992 votes), no reasonable prophesy. These books contain history, but person can conclude the presidential election they are highly prophetic (see article, page 24). was free and fair. Project Veritas uncovered “For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, thousands of registered voters in Georgia who that it was very bitter: for there was not any all shared a single address across the street shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffen- And the Lord said not that he would blot out sperger’s office at the state capitol. the name of Israel from under heaven: but he Yet America’s justice system has no inter- saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son est in investigating voter fraud. The Trump of Joash” (2 Kings 14:26-27). administration filed at least 63 lawsuits alleg- For many reasons that I have explained in a ing fraud in several states. Almost all of these series of articles in this magazine, this is a spe- suits were thrown out—not by the merits, but cific prophecy about this end time. This is an over technicalities. important truth you need to prove for yourself. Now, a group of experts is asking a judge to “Israel” refers prophetically to America and unseal and review absentee ballots in Georgia Britain. These nations—as well as the State of to see if the election there really was stolen, Israel, or biblical Judah—are most prominent and it seems that the courts will allow it. This among those descended from ancient Israel could be just the beginning. An investigation (for proof, request a free copy of The United in Georgia could also expose fraud in the States and Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert election for U.S. , which would take W. Armstrong). So when “Israel” is spoken of 3 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 in end-time biblical prophecy, these are the ways. nations it concerns. How does this verse apply to Donald Trump? Verse 26 shows there are people working Bible prophecy shows that, however it hap- to blot out the name of Israel—and many of pens, Mr. Trump will return to office. them are within America! This alone helps us to understand the seriousness of America’s ‘Warred’ to ‘Recover’ affliction today. Amos 7 contains a prophecy about end-time But God says in verse 27 that He “saved them Israel—most prominently, the superpower by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.” America today. It is clearly about the very Today, Donald Trump is fulfilling the role of an end of the nation. It shows that at that time, end-time “Jeroboam.” As we will see, in Amos Jeroboam is not only in power, but he is wield- 7—another, more explicitly end-time proph- ing kingly authority. ecy—Jeroboam is the name of the leader of This prophecy describes a confrontation Israel. That prophecy connects with this pas- Jeroboam has with a representative of God. I sage in Kings, which shows how God actually will explain more about this in a moment. But used this leader to save America, temporarily, it’s important to note that Amos 7 looks like from its enemies. This happened during Donald one flowing event: There is no hint of a gap or Trump’s first term as president. (Read “Saving pause in Jeroboam’s reign before this confron- America From the Radical Left—Temporarily” tation. Is it possible that this prophecy doesn’t at theTrumpet.com/17092). mention an interruption in his rule because But that is not the end of the story. The next in God’s view, there is no gap? I believe that verse is actually a new paragraph, as you can by maintaining the flow of Jeroboam’s rule in see in the King James Version of the Bible: this prophecy, God may well be showing that “Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all the 2020 election was stolen. Perhaps He looks that he did, and his might, how he warred, and on Mr. Trump as still being president of the how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, United States! The view that the election was which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they stolen has far more weight if that’s the way not written in the book of the chronicles of the God Himself sees it. kings of Israel?” (verse 28). This verse marks a But 2 Kings 14:28 gives us insight into what new development. It happens after God uses is happening during the pause in Trump’s rule, Jeroboam to save Israel. between his first and second term. This verse shows that the end-time Jeroboam Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon of the Old has to wage war to expand his domain. After Testament says the word “warred” means “to using the word saved, it uses another, even fight, to war.” The Theological Word Study of stronger word: warred. Jeroboam has to do the Old Testament says that warring occurs 171 that to recover something. Every word here is times, pertaining to God’s role in Israel’s wars. important. That would apply in this case, because God Anciently, King Jeroboam ii reigned 41 years, has commissioned Mr. Trump to save Israel. but many Bible chronologists believe the first Consider how different this word is from 12 years of his reign were a co-regency with “saved” in verse 27. Mr. Trump did not literally his father, Joash, when he warred against have to war to save Israel during his first Syria. But often, what happened anciently is term—though he did have to fight to expose not exactly the same as what is prophesied to all the fraudulent investigations, treasonous happen in the end time, though the principle is acts and bogus impeachments. There are the same. The fact that the verse about warring different ways you can war, but the indication comes after the verse about saving indicates is that regaining office may take considerable that the end-time Jeroboam wages “war” after work. Donald Trump will have to fight for it. he has already saved Israel once. God could use It doesn’t have to be military action, but it Jeroboam to do this warring in many different certainly could. 4 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 President Trump could also lead some states “fundamentally transforming” America. He to secede from the union. That would lead to and his followers actually worked to blot out some kind of warfare. the name of Israel! I realize this is an explosive Verse 28 of 2 Kings 14 strongly indicates that claim, but the evidence is abundant. I have Mr. Trump recovers his presidency by some written two booklets (both free) explaining kind of warring­—not voting. this truth: America Under Attack and Great It seems certain to me that this will happen Again. before the next presidential election in 2024— However, God used President Trump to unless there would be some kind of war and prevent that—not because of that man’s righ- voting combined. But 2 Kings 14:28 does not teousness, but because he has the courage to even hint of an election. step out and fight for Israel and knows it is the There is going to be some kind of war to right thing to do. recover something. If God says President Yet now, this same man is ruling again Trump is going to “recover” something, then it through an illegitimate president. President will be recovered. Amos 7 also shows that war Biden has rapidly signed executive orders to will be successful. And what could he recover, not only undo what President Trump did but if not the stolen election? to blot out America’s history and traditions This all must happen because of a miracle and biblical foundations as quickly as pos- from God! And that should be obvious to sible. The Biden administration is allowing everybody when it happens—if they were immigrants, including criminals and drug honest. smugglers, to pour over the border. It is spend- ing billions on housing, health care, education Antiochus and welfare. They are sinking this country in 2 Kings 14:27 says someone is trying to “blot a $30 trillion debt, which could explode in our out the name of Israel from under heaven.” faces any day! But if you know what to look for, Satan is the real power that wants to blot out you realize what the ultimate goal is: to blot out the name of Israel—America most of all. But the name of Israel. And the way they are going, he often works through human beings. And they would do it! this points to another prophecy we have drawn considerable attention to in recent Helping Judah years, that of an end-time political “Antiochus” 2 Kings 14:28 states that Jeroboam recov- who attacks America from within. ered Damascus and Hamath. The Soncino The prophecy begins in Daniel 8:9. Com- commentary states that Damascus was once mentaries agree the ancient type referred to ruled by King David, and that the king of here was Antiochus iv Epiphanes, a deceptive, Hamath paid tribute to David and became wicked Seleucid king who controlled the Jews part of his son Solomon’s kingdom (2 Samuel in the second century b.c. While peoples in 8:9-10; 1 Kings 8:65). So the indication is that other areas were allowed to keep their religions, Jeroboam reclaimed something to help Judah. Antiochus wrathfully tried to destroy not only Here is how the New International Version many Jewish men, women and children but also translates 2 Kings 14:28: “As for the other the Jewish faith itself. He robbed the temple, events of Jeroboam’s reign, all he did, and set up a pagan altar and idol of himself inside it, his military achievements, including how deceived then destroyed and enslaved tens of he recovered for Israel both Damascus and thousands of Jews in Jerusalem, and burned Hamath, which had belonged to [Judah], are and demolished much of the city. they not written in the book of the annals of The fruits show that America was ruled by the kings of Israel?” The Ferrar-Fenton trans- a political “Antiochus” for eight years, much lation reads, “For the other affairs of Jerabam, to the injury of the nation. Barack Obama and all that he did, how he warred, and how worked hard and fast toward his stated goal of he recaptured Damascus and Khamath of 5 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 Judah to Israel, they are recorded in the his- helped uncover King David’s palace. tory of events of the days of the kings of Israel.” It appears Mr. Trump may have to When Barack Obama was president, he was recover some of Judah’s freedom for us to very unmerciful to the Jewish nation of Israel. even deliver God’s message! But in President Trump’s first term, he saved God’s Church possesses the new throne of the Jewish nation (biblical Judah) from much David today (request a free copy of my book The of Obama’s tyranny. He supported Israel in New Throne of David). The Jews need to hear many ways, including helping it sign the “Abra- this message as a witness in this end time! But ham Accords” with Arab nations in the region. Satan and his Antiochus are working fiercely Respected columnist Lee Smith described the to beat out our message—which is the ultimate alliance between Israel and the Gulf states as expression of “the name of Israel”! “an impediment to the dream of a reempowered, nuclear-armed Iran backed by the United A Warning for Jeroboam States, which was Obama’s main foreign-policy The end of Jeroboam’s life and reign are aim—and an affront to peace processors con- recorded in 2 Kings 14:29: “And Jeroboam slept vinced of their own never-ending importance. with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; The Biden administration apparently aims to and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.” sink the accords by penalizing Israel and its This too indicates a second term for Donald peace partners for getting too close, and return- Trump. He will recover power, but not for long. ing the Palestinians to center stage—in order to That is when Amos’s prophecy will be fulfilled. prepare the ground for reentering the Iran deal” Amos 7 gives no hint of a political Antiochus. (March 21; emphasis added). This could mean that that individual will be Note that: “Obama’s main foreign-policy removed somehow. Will God somehow remove aim” was to align America with Iran—Israel’s him when Jeroboam “wars”? Will that be the enemy and the world’s number one terror- end of the political Antiochus’s work? God ist-sponsoring nation! Iran’s main goal is to does not say definitely, but I believe Amos 7 bring America down and to wipe Judah off indicates it. the map! For America to support Iran makes Now notice the prophecy more specifically. no sense, unless you realize that this leader is “And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest trying to blot out the name of Israel! Iranian thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the leaders talk about this all the time. This nation Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the wants to blot out the name of Israel. That midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass includes America and Britain. Yet Americans by them any more: And the high places of Isaac allowed their president to enact that foreign shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel policy. And now, that foreign policy is back! shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the Biden is empowering Iran so it may soon house of Jeroboam with the sword” (Amos obtain nuclear weapons. I am certain we will 7:8-9). Here God is giving His man a warning have more Palestinian terrorist attacks now message to deliver to Israel and to Jeroboam. because of who is in charge. The Prophet Amos was a type of a messenger God is wrathful about this. If this continues, who will have to proclaim this warning in the it will end very badly! You see how import- end time. God says this is the last time He will ant it is that somebody needs to “recover” warn Israel before its destruction if they don’t something. repent—and it is in the time of “Jeroboam.” Isaiah 40:9 shows that God’s Church in this Notice: God is not happy with Jeroboam! This end time has a message that must be delivered is important to recognize. God has a stern mes- to “the cities of Judah”—“behold your God!” sage for this man, and He will use this end-time Satan knows that. He also knows about God’s Amos, backed by God’s true Church, to deliver it. Church supporting archaeology projects in Look at the history of King Jeroboam i, the Jerusalem for the past 50 years, and how we first leader of the northern kingdom of Israel. 6 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 He broke away from the throne of David, pol- to suffer it! luted the priesthood, and established a false Right now, the big question revolves around religion—changing God’s holy days, priest- how Donald Trump will regain power. Amer- hood and worship, turning people to himself ica is in the throes of an Antiochus administra- rather than to God—though God warned him tion that is rapidly driving the nation toward not to (1 Kings 12:25-33). radicalism, socialism, amorality, class division This end-time Jeroboam is committing the and race war! As I wrote in our April issue same sins! Our free book The Former Prophets regarding 2 Kings 14:26, America’s affliction will explain this to you. The Amos 7 prophecy is very bitter, and the nation has no helper! shows that he promotes false religion and But God’s prophecies are sure. Jeroboam’s gets religious people to look to him, not God. clash with God’s Church is about as clear He also rejects the throne of David and what as any prophecy in the Bible. This has not God is doing with that throne in this end time. happened yet; therefore, President Trump God’s Church is going to have to show this man must regain office—one way or another. We what his great sin is and what his followers’ must have faith. God is always testing our sins are. faith in certain ways; we would never grow Amos 7:10 shows a false minister telling if He didn’t. We must reach the point where Jeroboam about Amos’s warning message, we totally believe God! If we are shown to be and he says, “the land is not able to bear all wrong, then we will change and believe God! his words.” This is a key verse. It shows that But everything God is showing us now makes it the message coming from God’s Church will look like, despite appearances to the contrary, achieve such notoriety and get so strong that we are right on target. the people cannot bear it! The bigger issue is what will happen “For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by AFTER Trump regains power. He will put a the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away stop to the immediate destruction. But this captive out of their own land. Also Amaziah nation is very far from God! And Jeroboam and said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away everyone else need a powerful warning and a into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, call to repentance. That is what God’s Church and prophesy there. But prophesy not again is here to provide, as loudly and clearly as we any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, can. If the American people do not heed God’s and it is the king’s court” (verses 11-13). Yes, warning message, this will be followed by the this end-time Jeroboam has “the king’s chapel,” most terrifying time you can imagine! But that a strong religious following. And he has kingly severe correction is what it will take for God to powers. The modern leader of Israel is com- reach people, and humble them, in preparation mitting the same sins that King Jeroboam i for the return of Jesus Christ and the establish- did anciently. And he and Amaziah and his ment of His Kingdom on Earth! n followers despise what God’s Church is saying. We are proclaiming a message that Jeroboam and his followers have the wrong religion, that the throne they have will not last, that they are not truly repenting toward God, that they are sinning, that God is cursing them for it, and that this will result in the destruction of this nation and the enslavement and death of its people! The rest of Amos 7 describes the horrific prophesied Great Tribulation. This will be the worst time of suffering ever, and the Americans, the British and the Jews will have 7 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 ‘This Verdict Is Not Justice’

Despite getting the conviction they wanted, Democrats and media pundits cry, It’s not enough! BY STEPHEN FLURRY

eorge Floyd’s death was clearly a appeased even if Chauvin gets the maximum tragedy. Whether Derek Chauvin sentence of 40 years in prison. Why? There is G received a fair trial, however, is far less a sinister reason. clear. Chauvin was the police officer at whose Embracing Mob Rule hand Floyd died, and who was convicted on Mob rule is becoming the law of the land in April 21 by a Minnesota jury of unintentional America. second-degree murder, third-degree murder Journalist Ami Horowitz went to the George and second-degree manslaughter. Was the trial Floyd memorial the day before the guilty ver- impartial? The media, politicians including dict was announced and asked questions of members of Congress and the president did black protesters to get their real views. The everything they could to intimidate jurors and truth was shocking. One person told him, witnesses into ruling that Chauvin was guilty. “There shouldn’t even be a trial; he should A bloody severed pig’s head was found at the be convicted just as is.” Another said, “Burn door of one expert witness who testified on the whole city down, what does it matter?” Chauvin’s behalf. Black Lives Matter protesters Another said, “I don’t want to say we need made it clear that they would engulf the nation to start killing all white folks, but it’s like— in flames if Chauvin were acquitted. maybe they need to feel the pain and the hurt.” “I hope we get a verdict that says guilty, guilty, When asked whether a civil war was necessary, guilty,” said Rep. Maxine Waters at a protest another protester said, “If that’s what it takes, two days before the verdict. “And if we don’t, then we have to do it.” we cannot go away. We’ve got to stay on the “How many unarmed blacks were killed by street. We get more active. We’ve got to get cops last year?” Horowitz asked. “Thousands! more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure Thousands!” one woman said. The correct that they know that we mean business.” answer was 18. Another chimed in, “It seems The judge in the Chauvin trial stated that like you’re trying to … destruct the whole Afri- Waters’s inflammatory remarks could result can-American race.” Several protesters agreed in the trial being overturned on appeal if that police are committing “genocide”—the lawyers can make the case that jurors were deliberate and systematic destruction of a intimidated into making their ruling. The racial, political or cultural group—against rioting that started after Floyd’s death last year blacks. killed at least 30 people and cost the nation an So Black Lives Matter extremists are prepar- estimated $2 billion. So we will never know ing to burn down cities and start a civil war over how much fear of rioting impacted the jurors’ 18 tragic deaths because the media are making decisions. it feel like thousands and instilling the fear that Whatever Chauvin’s guilt, his trial was a American police are systematically exterminat- classic example of mob justice. ing over 42 million African Americans. Making matters worse, the mob will not be Rhetoric inflaming such fears is coming 8 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 from almost every institution in the country: them to retrain.” But he sure acted like he corporations, tech companies, academia, Con- wanted to move in that direction. gress, even the presidency. When the Obama administration released In a livestream outside the Capitol, Rep. its Task Force on 21st-Century Policing Plan Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told her audience, after Freddie Gray died in police custody, it “This verdict is not justice. Frankly, I don’t even recommended imposing federal standards on think we call it full accountability because state and local police forces. Critics of the plan there are multiple officers that were there. It pointed out that it underhandedly worked wasn’t just Derek Chauvin. And I also don’t to nationalize law enforcement, violating a want this moment to be framed as this system crucial principle of the Constitution, by using working.” In other words, even if all four police federal tax dollars as bribes. But racial activ- officers present during George Floyd’s death ists did not seem to care. In fact, some openly were convicted of murder, Ocasio-Cortez still proclaimed that a national policing authority wouldn’t be satisfied until the United States is just what America needs. has a completely new criminal justice system. “There must be national policy and national Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison law on policing,” said racial activist Al Sharp- said, “I would not call today’s verdict justice, ton. “We can’t go from state to state; we’ve got however, because justice implies true resto- to have national law to protect people against ration. But it is accountability, which is the these continued questions.” first step toward justice. And now the cause In other words, because of racism, we must of justice is in your hands. And when I say take power from local governments and give it your hands, I mean the hands of the people of to the federal government. the United States.” Former President Barack The department head of Criminology and Obama published a statement saying, “Today, Justice Studies at Drexel University summa- a jury in Minneapolis did the right thing …. But rized the plan to federalize policing power if we’re honest with ourselves, we know that in an article he wrote last year. “Suppose we true justice is about much more than a single reimagined the nature of American polic- verdict in a single trial. True justice required ing?” he wrote. “And suppose we started by that we come to terms with the fact that black acknowledging that local policing has been Americans are treated differently every day a failure in this country since its origins in …. While today’s verdict may have been a nec- the 19th century? From slave patrols in the essary step on the road to progress, it was far South, to controlling the ‘dangerous classes’ from a sufficient one. We cannot rest. We will in the North, the foundations of local policing need to follow through with concrete reforms were built on the assumption that state-sanc- that will reduce and ultimately eliminate racial tioned coercion was to be weaponized by the bias in our criminal justice system.” white and wealthy against the poor, black What do these radicals mean when they and brown. … And so, at this crossroads, I say “get more confrontational” and “we mean pose the radical question: Why not disband business”? What do they mean when they most local police forces and federalize them?” say the entire system is not working, that the (Hill, July 17, 2020). conviction on all counts they hoped for is not This is why radical leftists will not be justice, that we cannot rest? If they aren’t appeased no matter what happens to Derek really after a Derek Chauvin conviction, what Chauvin. They do not really care about justice are they really after? for George Floyd. The leftists who are working out their agenda care about creating a national Toward Federalization policing authority. They are looking for a pre- During Barack Obama’s second presidential text to disempower local police departments term, he admitted that he “can’t federalize and to transfer that power to the federal gov- every police force in the country and force ernment. Thus they are deliberately fanning 9 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 flames of racial hatred in an attempt to ignite control.” race riots. They could then use that crisis as Some of those college-age students and high an excuse to deprive local voters of the power school adolescents that Mr. Armstrong wrote they have over local police. about now control the Democratic Party, and In his article “The Real Agenda they are still using the same racially charged Behind Black Lives Matter” (theTrumpet propaganda. Without racial hatreds, real and .com/13722), my father explained that this is perceived, they would have no influence or a Machiavellian strategy straight from the power over the American people! Communist playbook. “These leaders are still using phrases like ‘police brutality’ and ‘black Tearing Down the System power’ to further their agenda,” he wrote. “In Left-wing politicians hate the fact that there a 1950s tract titled ‘And Not a Shot Is Fired,’ are 18,000 state and local law enforcement Czech Communist Party theoretician Jan agencies that they cannot control from Wash- Kozák wrote about how Communists took ington, D.C. They want a centralized federal over Czechoslovakia through parliamen- policing authority that they can control, and tary maneuvers. The strategy he described they are willing to incite riots until they get it. required pressure for radical change from But the founders of the United States specifi- two directions simultaneously: from the upper cally avoided establishing a national policing levels of government and from provocateurs in power for a very good reason: to prevent gov- the streets” (Trumpet, May-June 2016). ernment tyranny. The Biden-Harris administration is using a Agents of the federal government exist only similar strategy to fundamentally transform to combat interstate crimes, such as counter- America. Radical politicians like Representa- feiting, treason and piracy. The vast majority tive Waters meet with street provocateurs who of the law enforcement power that would advocate rioting as a form of protest, while affect an American’s day-to-day life is left to “deep state” bureaucrats are pushing seizure of the states and to the people. Yet radical leftists police authority as a way to solve those riots. are distorting history to tell people that local This strategy may sound shocking, but police forces are systematically racist in a way the late Herbert W. Armstrong predicted it that federal police forces are not—for some decades ago. In his March 1969 Plain Truth unexplained reason. personal, he asked, “Why are our people Discrediting, disheartening, disarming and unable to recognize the Communist line— defunding local police departments across the Communist plan and conspiracy—in America is only a first step toward establishing college and university riots, in propaganda exactly what the founders blocked: a national accusing ‘police brutality,’ in ‘black power,’ policing authority. Yet Bible prophecy reveals ‘black panther’ and other slogans, even in that the radical left’s efforts to tear down ‘civil disobedience’ and ‘nonviolent’ move- America’s local police will spiral out of control. ments of protest which lead to violence?” The Prophet Ezekiel warned of these days: Then he answered with this shocking truth: “Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody “The guiding hand in student revolt is the crimes, and the city is full of violence. … Communist Party. Many students, their Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, emotions stirred and enraged to violence, and there shall be none” (Ezekiel 7:23, 25). do not themselves realize this. Yet, actually, A lot of Christians don’t realize it, but Jesus these young leaders of the ‘New Left’ move- Christ was also a prophet. He prophesied that ment are going beyond the Communist Party. the last days before His Second Coming would Their plan is to stir up college-age students be just like the last days before the Flood to revolt first, and the teenage high school (Luke 17:26). And what was human society like adolescents. If they can corrupt and/or win during the time period Jesus emphasized? over tomorrow’s students, they will gain “God saw that the wickedness of man was great 10 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 in the earth, and that every imagination of the emotions and anger that radical leftists thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” can exploit in their quest to fundamentally (Genesis 6:5). transform the nation. But by tearing down Jesus Christ was right. The world is again the police, radical leftists are actually in the descending into violence. We have multiplied process of tearing down the nation’s last line our evil and corruption, so our nation is filled of defense. The flames of hate these agitators with violence (Genesis 6:11), and our cities are are intentionally fanning will spread enough burned with fire (Isaiah 1:7). to the point where they can burn down the The racially charged rhetoric being hurled whole nation! n by politicians is intended to stir up negative

Hero Worship for Another Career Criminal he Democrat media complex has made pulled over Wright’s white Buick LaCrosse and another saint out of a career criminal then followed standard procedure by checking Twho was killed in an altercation with Wright’s name in their database. They learned police. Rioting broke out in the Minneapolis that he was a violent criminal with a warrant suburb of Brooklyn Center, where Officer Kim out for his arrest. Two officers then asked Potter fatally shot Daunte Wright as he tried Wright to step out of the car. Wright initially to escape arrest on April 11. The agenda of the complied, but then broke free and began to propaganda media is to deepen the narrative in drive away. Officer Potter shouted that she people’s minds that America is a racist country would tase Wright, but she unholstered her and its traditions and institutions must be gun instead of her taser and shot him in the torn down. In service of that agenda, they are chest. creating a hero out of Wright and a monster out Three days after the shooting, Officer Potter of Potter. was arrested and charged with second-degree But these characterizations leave out the full manslaughter. So there will be an investigation picture—and it’s not an accident. into the circumstances surrounding Daunte’s Anyone can search the Internet and immedi- death. But that has not stopped protesters ately find several of Wright’s own social media from making all kinds of accusations and posts in which he records himself making gang rioters from fighting with officers at police signs, showing wads of money, using drugs, headquarters. and waving a pistol. Court papers obtained by And it has not stopped race baiters from the Daily Mail show Wright had a warrant out forcing city officials out of their jobs for saying for his arrest when Potter and two other offi- that Potter should receive due process. Police cers stopped him for an expired registration Chief Tim Gannon was forced to resign despite tag. According to the Mail, “Daunte Wright having nothing to do with Wright’s death, and choked a woman and threatened to shoot her city manager Curt Boganey was fired after if she did not hand over $820 she had stuffed suggesting Potter deserves due process of law. in her bra …. Wright was due to face trial on a Now Mayor Elliot has called on Gov. Tim charge of attempted aggravated robbery—with Walz to have Minnesota Attorney General a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in Keith Ellison take over Wright’s case—despite prison.” the fact that Ellison is a far-left radical with You won’t hear about these assault charges Nation of Islam connections who wrote an at a “Justice for Daunte” protest, but they are editorial for the Communist Party USA argu- extremely significant to understanding what ing that grassroots socialist organizations are actually happened. Potter and her colleagues needed to bring about necessary reform in the 11 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 United States. He has always believed Ameri- and capitalism are what’s putting them in the can police are irredeemably racist, and in 1989 position they’re in.” told the Freedom Road Socialist Organization The evidence keeps piling up that the radical that the “responsible activist has to show left does not want justice. They want to destroy young folks out there that white supremacy the police! n

Gotten Your Jab Yet?

Vaccines have been hailed as the miracle that will help COVID-weary society return to normal. But one ingredient has been missing from the vaccine rollout: honesty. BY STEPHEN FLURRY

he response of American government homes, giving up their businesses and incomes, and our media to covid-19 is revealing a and sacrificing their constitutional rights. Tlot about our society and ourselves. It is The campaign is coordinated by liberals in showing us how quickly the world can change, politics, big media, Big Tech, big business and how much we take our rights for granted, and beyond. Many of its most virulent supporters how much or how little we value truth. call their “the party of science.” covid-19 was the subject of the first speech They accuse those who do not believe in their Joe Biden gave after entering the White House. cause of ignorance, hatred and lying (“Is Lying He recounted how countless Americans have Always Wrong?”, page 20). lost their jobs, businesses and homes; how Now the campaign has transitioned to pres- school closures have set children back a sure everyone to get vaccinated. It includes a year; how graduations, weddings and family mix of feel-good advertising, shaming and reunions have been canceled. He portrayed fear-mongering. And it is marked by the same these people as victims of covid, when in real- propagandistic and deceitful techniques that ity, they were victims of government-imposed were used for the lockdown campaign. lockdowns. He then stated that if Americans would obey the newest batch of restrictions, Vaccine Deaths the government might let them enjoy barbe- Many government officials count anyone who cues in their backyards with their families by, died within a few weeks of having a positive ironically, Independence Day. covid-19 test as a covid death. These are some Intentionally or not, it highlighted the fact of the numbers we see on the government and that the government’s gigantic, oppressive “cure” the media’s ominous “covid death” tickers. has been worse than the disease. But nobody in Many everyday people, on the other hand, the radical establishment will say that. Main- believe that dying with covid is far different stream media outlets, predictably, praised the from dying from covid. They say there are speech. They continue to support the govern- complicating factors. They say that many who ment’s radical agenda by emphasizing their get tested are at higher risk of death in the first covid coverage and prominently displaying place. They say that there are thousands of their death trackers. They are helping scare deaths from all causes every day in the United and shame Americans into wearing masks, States. They say that many who die after a then two masks, standing like chess pawns on positive test result actually died from other floor markers 6 feet apart, staying inside their causes (some as obvious as gunshot wounds). 12 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 But liberal elites reject these objections. allergic reaction so severe that it causes death The truth is, though, that some people have in 0.7 to 2 percent of cases. This study gives died after their bodies absorbed not the virus us an early indication that the covid vaccine but the vaccine. could be 10 times more fatal than the flu shot. So, is anyone who died 28 to 60 days after That is still a small percentage, but the same having the covid vaccine a “covid vaccine politicians and commentators who wring their death”? hands over every death they can tenuously tie No. The same officials, journalists, experts, back to covid-19 are suspiciously silent about commentators and other elites who want you any drawbacks connected to the vaccines. to think that dying with covid is the same as The anti-vaccine organization Children’s dying from covid stridently insist that dying Health Defense asked the cdc how it was with the vaccine is far different from dying investigating reports of covid-19 vaccine from the vaccine. They say there are compli- deaths, but their questions went unanswered. cating factors. They say that many who get vaccinated are more at risk of death in the first ‘Remember—Shots Are Safe’ place. They say that there are thousands of The numbers of reported vaccine-connected deaths from all causes every day in the United deaths is small, but we have no idea what the States. They say that many who die after a effects will be in the medium term or long vaccine actually died from other causes. term. When much is unknown, why are so They directly contradict themselves—and many so biased? Why do liberal, mainstream pressure you to believe both contradictions! news outlets give wall-to-wall coverage of This is not an accident. This is dishonesty. And everything to do with the virus, which has it’s dishonesty in pursuit of a radical agenda still killed fewer Americans per year than that affects you personally. heart disease or cancer, yet present much Since covid-19 vaccines were developed and more favorable headlines about the possible distributed at “warp speed” and began being dangers of the vaccine, like “Pfizer COVID administered in the U.S. on Dec. 14, 2020, Vaccine Probably Didn’t Kill Woman, 78, Who more than 219 million shots have been given Died Shortly After Having It,” “Woman Dies to more than 135 million Americans. Yet, as from Brain Hemorrhage in Japan Days After the Biden-Harris administration urges the Vaccine, but Link Uncertain” and “Macomb remaining 197 million Americans to follow County Man, 90, Dies After COVID-19 Vac- suit, disturbing details are emerging about the cine—but Doctors Say Shots Are Safe”? vaccine’s side effects. Why rush to emphasize “no evidence covid- Data released on April 16 by the U.S. Cen- 19 vaccines cause death”? Is it because they ters for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) want truth, or because they’re advancing an states that 86,080 people in America reported agenda? serious health problems after taking a covid- Thousands of real-life Americans whose 19 vaccine. These include birth defects (71 loved ones have died soon after getting vacci- cases), permanent disabilities (1,217 cases), nated from no other discernible cause would hospitalizations (6,271 cases), and deaths (3,186 probably like to talk to the elites who insist cases). There are somewhat similar reports there is “no evidence.” of adverse reactions and deaths in other Some of them might be from the family of countries. Kassidi Kurill. She was 39 years old, and she But there are no nightly news covid-19 vac- died within days of her second dose of the cine death tickers. Moderna vaccine. Her father said she was A January study from the same agency “healthy and good, then she took the shot,” but admitted that people who receive the vaccines soon began feeling poorly. After two days in experience anaphylaxis at a rate 10 times bed, she asked her father to drive her to the higher than the flu vaccine. Anaphylaxis is an emergency room. Doctors told him that her 13 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 liver was not functioning. Before they could the national economy—yet on the other, any- do anything further, her kidneys and heart one who expresses concerns about the safety stopped working. of the vaccines is ridiculed for their ignorance. There have been other scattered reports of The contrast is jarring. vaccines apparently killing people, including But the most salient common denominator miscarriages and stillbirths, in the United in both of these positions is that they involve States, Canada, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Swit- people sacrificing individual freedom, and the zerland and elsewhere. Gregory Michaels, 56, government gaining more control over our died of a hemorrhagic stroke two weeks after lives. The pressure is increasing to ignore the he received a jab, and his widow affirms that he risks and get the jab; for a growing number of died “due to a strong reaction to the covid vac- people it is becoming compulsory if they want cine.” Former Detroit news anchor Karen to keep their job (article, page 12). The right Hudson-Samuels, 68, died one day after taking to choose is being squeezed out. And once the vaccine, though public health officials say the government grabs that much power over the cause of her death is unknown. Daniel people’s rights, including their health, you can Thayne Simpson, 90, died within a day of get- be sure it won’t give it up! ting jabbed, prompting public health officials Experts like Utah’s chief medical examiner to once again repeat that covid-19 vaccines are say that proving a vaccine as a cause of death nothing to worry about. almost never happens. Is that because a vaccine One man interviewed by abc News talked almost never causes death, or could there be about “spurious relationships” and says that other reasons? There are powerful interests at sickness and death occurring “in proximity” stake, of moneyed pharmaceutical companies, to something does not prove that the thing the medical industry and the agenda of a big caused the sickness and death. Of course he government getting bigger. is correct that something happening before America has even deployed National Guard another thing is often not its cause. But why troops to inject millions of Americans with isn’t the same logic applied to covid death rapidly developed, rapidly approved, emergen- counts, which are engineered to be as high and cy-authorized vaccines that are still partially as terrifying as possible? under trial. This is not just the government doing its best with a bad situation. This is the The Common Denominator government taking a fairly standard flu epi- Plenty of people get these vaccines who seem demic and manipulating it to expand its power to have no ill side effects. These vaccines are and prepare for even greater manipulation. apparently preventing millions of people from Even when doing so could be killing some people. procuring coronavirus, and could facilitate a return to pre-covid normality for many. Witches’ Brew That said, there is also evidence of some How can public health officials be so sure dangers associated with these vaccines. The these vaccines are safe? It normally takes a concerns are significant enough that more than decade of research and development before 20 countries have revoked their authorizations medical professionals declare a vaccine “safe” for the distribution of certain covid vaccines for human use. Both Pfizer and Moderna (while permitting and promoting others). developed covid-19 vaccines in a single year. Yet America’s government, with the sup- These vaccines have barely been tested by port of the media and many businesses, are comparison to the normal process, which still ignoring this evidence and proceeding with doesn’t yield side-effect-free vaccines. efforts to make vaccinations universal. On one In 1976, when Army recruits at Fort Dix fell hand they have proven themselves willing to ill from a virulent form of swine flu, President take every possible measure to prevent covid Richard Nixon rushed out a vaccination pro- deaths—even to the point of shutting down gram. About 45 million Americans received a 14 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 new, experimental vaccine, and 450 of them nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing and developed a rare neurological condition called shock. And the AstraZeneca version was devel- Guillain-Barré syndrome. The connection of oped using kidney cells from a baby aborted in this syndrome to the vaccine is debated, but 1973 and a cold-causing virus isolated from the it still highlights the risks of “warp speed” stool of a chimpanzee. If you added the eye of vaccine rollouts. newt and toe of frog, Dr. Madej’s comparison to This risk becomes even more concerning a “witches’ brew” might become literal. Yet mil- when you realize that Pfizer and Moderna have lions are injecting themselves with this cocktail developed a brand-new type of vaccine. Normal of chemicals and experimental molecules in vaccines use killed or inactive pathogens to hopes that it will protect them. In some few prompt the human body to start manufac- cases, this brew ultimately kills them! turing antibodies against that pathogen. The covid vaccine is different. It is the first-ever Divine Healing mrna vaccine. It uses a specialized sequence Now is a good time to be thinking about where of ribonucleic acid to hijack a human cell’s you put your trust for health and healing. We protein-making machinery and instruct it to all put our trust in something. Most of us start manufacturing coronavirus proteins— place it partly or wholly in the medical estab- specifically the spike protein that gives the lishment—even when that establishment is coronavirus its crown-like appearance. So inherently limited to what human beings can instead of injecting people with dead covid-19 scientifically discover—even when what it cells, doctors are injecting them with highly discovers is then discovered to be wrong just engineered acids that make human cells months or weeks later—even when advance- manufacture coronavirus proteins instead of ments in science are constantly outpaced by human proteins. advancements in disease—even when the This is a game-changing and potentially medical method of “healing” is not to return dangerous technology. Despite claims to the the body to its natural state but to make it even contrary, scientists still have no real idea what less natural with chemicals and scalpels— the unintended consequences of injecting peo- even when much of the medical industry has ple with mrna will be. Tal Brosh, head of the nothing to do with science or healing and has Infectious Disease Unit at Samson Assuta Ash- everything to do with pharmaceutical stock- dod Hospital, told the Jerusalem Post, “There holders and political agendas. is a race to get the public vaccinated, so we are Regarding your health, your body, your life, willing to take more risks” (Nov. 17, 2020). He you need to understand the truth. The truth then noted that there are unique and unknown is that physical, biological laws exist. Obeying risks to mrna vaccines, including systemic them causes the effect of good health. Breaking inflammatory responses that could lead to them causes the effect of poor health. autoimmune diseases. The late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote It is too early to tell what the long-term effect in The Plain Truth About Healing, “Medical of this new technology will ultimately be. But ‘science’ operates primarily on that method— you would think people would take such warn- trying, with medicines, to prevent God’s law ings more seriously. from exacting its penalty. That theory says, in “This is not your normal flu vaccine,” noted effect, we can transgress God’s law and then Dr. Carrie Madej, an internal medicine spe- prevent God’s law from exacting its penalty. cialist in Georgia. “This is something totally The theory is: The sufferer has in his body different. This is a witches’ brew. I’ve never one poison, so we add another poison in the seen anything like this in science or medicine.” form of medicine. And one poison plus one The Pfizer and the Moderna versions of the more poison equals no poison!” The covid- covid-19 vaccine contain polyethylene glycol—a 19 vaccine rollout is a full expression of this petrochemical known to cause skin rashes, distorted theory. 15 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 It is amazing the lengths to which human This does not mean a true Christian never beings will go to “cure” themselves, so long gets sick. It means that a true Christian need as they can avoid submitting to the laws of not panic, get injected with a vaccine, and the very Creator of human bodies and minds. suffer the side effects. Sickness is the result God’s arithmetic is one poison minus that one of broken physical laws, and God promises poison equals no poison. And yes, it requires to heal upon repentance: “Bless the Lord, O obeying the laws of the Creator and even the my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who intervention of the Creator. forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all God has power to heal. He promises, “If thou thy diseases” (Psalm 103:2-3). wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord If you are interested in trusting and obeying thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his the Creator of human health, request a free sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, copy of The Plain Truth About Healing, by Her- and keep all his statutes, I will put none of bert W. Armstrong. It explains the scriptures these diseases upon thee, which I have brought proving that God wants to heal us, and how to upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that claim God’s promise to heal! n healeth thee” (Exodus 15:26).

Where Are Vaccine Passports Leading?

Could covid-19 usher in a brave new world of governmental control? BY RICHARD PALMER

apers please.” These are perhaps citizen might look like. the most un-American or un-British In the morning, you leave for work. On your “P words in the English language. The smartphone, you buy a train ticket to commute. Western world has established and prided The ticketing app checks your vaccine status, itself on love of individual freedom and limited verifying when and where you were vaccinated, governmental control. before allowing you to buy a ticket. You board That time could be ending. In America and one of the more convenient carriages. People Britain, and around the world, governments unverified as vaccinated must wait in a line are planning unprecedented surveillance and for the socially distant carriages, if they are control on the pretext of combating covid-19. allowed on the train at all. This new surveillance society will require You scan your security pass to get into work. no rustling of papers. Governments are Then you scan your covid vaccine app. Your working on the most convenient system of employer only allows vaccinated staff in the identification and surveillance ever using office. No jab, no job. smartphones and online tools. But the result At lunch, you leave the office to buy a is the same. New vaccine passports could soon sandwich. There’s a good coffee shop down the mean the government can track your every road. Scan the vaccine app, and you’re in. Scan move. the app again to get back to the office, and you Here is what the daily routine of a vaccinated are back at the desk. 16 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 After work, you stop by the gym. They it? This is Britain, after all, the mother of checked your vaccine status when you parliaments, the land of constitutional re-enrolled after lockdown. No vaccine, no monarchy. As slippery as all politicians can membership. After heading home to change, be, they would never attempt to oppress you stop by a friend’s house party. But the people with anything so un-British as a government rules prohibit group gatherings vaccine passport, would they? unless everyone is vaccinated. By law, your They have guaranteed that they won’t. In friend has to scan all your smartphone vaccine December, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi passes with his smartphone. It used to be said, “We have absolutely no plans for vaccine awkward, but now everyone is getting used to passports.” Cabinet minister Michael Gove it. said the same month: “I think mandating The result is the government knows where vaccinations is discriminatory and completely you are at every point of the day. It has a level wrong … and I would urge businesses listening of surveillance, and therefore control, that to this debate today not to even think about until recently the Chinese Communist regime this.” In a later interview, he said, “I certainly could only dream of. A government record am not planning to issue any vaccine passports, determines if you can work, travel, access and I don’t know anyone else in government entertainment or gather with friends. who would.” Does this seem far-fetched? It is actually They were lying. a reasonable picture based on plans already The very same month, a consulting firm being drawn up by governments around the published a government commissioned report world. into how vaccine passports could be used to keep unvaccinated people out of pubs, sports Real Plans events and other crowded venues. Some of this is already reality in the State of The government insists that it won’t force Israel. Restaurants and sporting venues are pubs and restaurants to require the vaccine. open—if you have a vaccine pass. Only with a Yet it seems prepared to require these same “green pass” do you have the freedom to stay in businesses to enforce measures like social a hotel, go to the gym, hold a wedding, or even distancing—unless they require vaccine attend certain religious gatherings. A teaching passports. The government claims to be assistant who refused one has been fired, and saying, We’re not requiring pubs check vaccine lost in court when she tried to recover her job. passports, but if they do it voluntarily, we won’t Gil Gan-Mor, director of the civil and social stand in the way. Meanwhile it crafts rules that rights unit at the Association for Civil Rights make it almost impossible for a restaurant to in Israel, sees no problem with this. “Anybody make a profit if it doesn’t require a passport. who is complaining can get the vaccine Fraser Nelson warned in the Telegraph tomorrow morning,” he said. And this is that “the fundamentals of a biosecurity state someone whose job is to uphold citizens’ are now under construction. This is what rights! ministers think the public now want: a big On April 5, the United Kingdom laid out its shift in the dial away from liberty so the state plans: requirements for vaccine passports can better provide security. It’s happening to attend concerts, theaters, nightclubs and incrementally, with no real debate” (March 25). large sporting events. One contractor working The is also marching on the pass boasts that the app could deny toward vaccine passports. Its efforts involve people tickets or entry to the office for those more than national tracking; with free travel unvaccinated. It even shows how the app could across many European borders, it needs a be used to prevent the unvaccinated from supranational system. This means a new private events like birthday parties. level of centralization, with data gathered It won’t get that dictatorial though, will on ordinary citizens across a couple dozen 17 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 countries to be united in a single centralized up on the screen of the train conductor, job system. Never has the EU exerted such control interviewer, café cashier, banker, school over the lives of Europeans. administrator, social worker, police officer Vaccine passport plans are underway or government agent if the person shows up even in America. New York is rolling out its in the government database as unvaccinated, “Excelsior Pass.” Without it, you cannot attend unregistered in some other government art and entertainment venues, or have more scheme, guilty of something the government than a certain number of people attend your has declared a crime, involved in a certain private gathering. And you can only get the political party, possessing membership in pass with proof of a recent negative covid-19 a certain religious group, having contacted test or vaccination. certain people, having read certain material, But something like this—or even more or having posted a certain opinion online. restrictive than this—could go nationwide. The infrastructure for vaccine passports The Biden administration used to say vaccine won’t do all these things, but it will do most passports should be left to states. But on of the heavy lifting. And crucially, it will March 29, they announced it was working break perhaps the first and biggest barrier of on a federal, standardized system. cnn cited all: citizens’ resistance to surrendering their an anonymous government official stating, rights. “Multiple government agencies are engaged in conversations and planning, coordinated by Should You Be Worried? the White House, as this kind of system will The infrastructure we are talking about—that play a role in multiple aspects of life, including elites in your national government are talking potentially the workforce.” about—can determine your ability to buy, to Like the British government, the U.S. sell, to work. This has reminded many people government has said that citizens will not be to think of a particular verse in the Bible: “And forced to accept a vaccine passport. Maybe it that no man might buy or sell, save he that will not pass a law explicitly stating that the had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the non-vaccinated shall serve a prison sentence. number of his name” (Revelation 13:17). But if the government gets its way, you will be This is describing the “mark of the beast,” a forced to accept a vaccine passport if you want dangerous, ungodly mark that Bible prophecy to resume a somewhat ordinary day-to-day life. says will be implemented during a terrible Governments have made all kinds of period in modern human history. promises that the data they collect and track Considering this verse, should Christians be will be private and not subject to tracking. But worried about the fact that their governments how much can you trust governments that have begun implementing vaccine passports? have been caught surveilling and tracking There are certainly general biblical their citizens in other ways, and have been principles at play that should cause us caught lying specifically about this issue? concern. Jeremiah 17:9 warns, “The heart is Even if the intentions of every powerful deceitful above all things, and desperately member of government are pure and good, wicked: who can know it?” Give flawed the track record of governments and even human beings such massive governmental businesses that engage in mass data collection power over other human beings, and they will is poor, to say the least. abuse it. Britain’s and America’s forefathers Not even the Soviet Union was able to track had enough Bible knowledge to know this. its citizens’ movements in real time. Such a That is what motivated them to limit and system could be misused in many ways. Once check the power of the national government. a government builds it, it could use the same What the Bible reveals about human nature, infrastructure to track, check and exclude human government and specific events people for any reason. A big red X could show prophesied for the future should prompt us 18 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 to pay close attention to what is underway in public transport and the workplace. our governments. Even if opponents to these kinds of passes However, a covid vaccine or passport is not succeed, look at how much liberty we have the biblically prophesied mark of the beast already lost over the course of the pandemic. (see sidebar). However, this system could Another assault on that liberty, in order to one day be used to set up such a mark—and implement a mark, will be that much easier. n exclude those that refuse it from business,

Is Coronavirus the Mark of the Beast? he Bible warns of a specific event that those who disobey (Ephesians 5:6; Colossians will occur in our generation. It charac- 3:5-6). Those who reject the mark and thus are T terizes a certain human government as targeted by the beast are those who “keep the “the beast” and warns that it will implement commandments of God” (Revelation 12:17). the “mark of the beast.” Many will accept this God will not visit these terrible punish- mark: To them, it will make sense to do so. ments on someone who is scared by the But God warns that those who do will suffer government into receiving a vaccine. That terrible curses. decision will certainly have consequences. The Bible reveals exactly what the mark is But a loving God isn’t going to visit this kind and how to avoid it. But we must look “here a of punishment because someone is tricked little, and there a little” (Isaiah 28:10) to con- into receiving something. This mark revolves sider all the relevant scriptures. not around whether you have been vaccinated, Many think the mark will be something but around the question of whether you will brand new. What does the Bible say? accept or reject God’s commandments. Revelation 20:4 describes John seeing in The mark of the beast is connected directly a vision all those who have been killed for to one specific commandment. It has differ- Christ. He wrote: “And I saw thrones, and they entiated true Christians for millennia. It is sat upon them, and judgment was given unto the Fourth Commandment: “Remember the them: and I saw the souls of them that were Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the Generations of true Christians have been word of God, and which had not worshipped put to death for keeping Saturday and not the beast, neither his image, neither had Sunday. Then, as now, it was a “test com- received his mark upon their foreheads, or in mandment.” It was, and will be, easy to disobey, their hands ….” especially when persecution intensifies. This vision depicted true Christians who Who will you obey: the words of the Bible, or have been martyred over the past 2,000 years. the religious traditions of men? Will you keep Some of these Christians, already dead, also the day Jesus Christ kept (Mark 1:15, 38-39; refused the mark of the beast. This means that Luke 4:16), the day that first-century Christians the mark is not a 21st-century invention. kept? (Acts 13:14-15, 42-44; 16:12-15; 17:2). Or will The Bible also shows that this mark revolves you follow the churches and governments of around obedience to God and His law. The this world? Will it be God’s law that is figura- same passage in Revelation 14 that warns of tively written on your forehead and right hand the dire curses for those who accept the mark (Deuteronomy 6:6-8)—or will it be a law of men? of the beast shows how those who refuse it are Read a thorough biblical explanation of the different. They “keep the commandments of mark of the beast in your free copy of Who or God, and the faith of Jesus” (verse 12). Other What Is the Prophetic Beast? by Herbert W. scriptures state that the wrath of God falls on Armstrong. n 19 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 What Does Free Money Cost?

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

f you don’t save for the future, you more expensive? will starve. This is a truth that people We are going to find out. I learned from early in human history. It is obvious to all who farm, hunt and preserve Print and Spend food, and who watch the weather and climate. Since the onset of the covid-19 lockdown It is an ancient principle put into practice and resulting economic fallout, the Federal long before the creation of money, credit and Reserve has increased the nation’s money sup- just-in-time inventory management. Saving ply to record levels. Over the past 12 months, for the future is what people everywhere used the M2 money supply—which includes cash, to believe in. checking accounts and other easily spent Today, the United States is $28 trillion in money—has ballooned by more than 27 debt. We have no savings. There is no emer- percent! gency fund. We have already spent the taxes In other words, one out of every five on future earnings of our grandchildren—and dollars of all the easily spendable money in their children. existence since the founding of this nation But if you believe America’s leaders, every- was created over the past 12 months. And the thing will be fine because none of that matters Federal Reserve has used much of that money anymore. to buy trillions of dollars of government bonds, Leaders in Washington, Wall Street and treasuries and even people’s mortgages. even Main Street believe in a new economic This is how it works: The U.S. Treasury theory. Politicians love it, because it makes prints a bond, which is basically just a promise saving for the future obsolete. It theorizes that to pay back borrowed money with interest. It deficits and debts are actually good because sells it to the Federal Reserve in exchange for their main effect is to stimulate the economy. dollars that the U.S. government then spends. It theorizes that we won’t ever really have to Where does the Federal Reserve get dollars pay back borrowed money because our central to buy bonds? This is where the modern bank can create unlimited numbers of dollars monetary miracle comes in. The Fed doesn’t out of nothing—at the push of a button. The earn dollars by providing goods or services or theory has a name: Modern Monetary Theory. anything else, or even by collecting taxes. It Believers view it as a modern monetary mira- creates dollars out of thin air. It has the ability cle, a way to push economic problems into the to add as many zeros to its bank account as future forever. Washington wants. With the push of a key- These theorists think they have transcended board button, it can expand its dollar supply the basic laws of economics. to approach infinity. Can you borrow money and spend it without But according to the Federal Reserve, there ever having to pay it back? Can you print mas- is nothing of concern here. In March, it quietly sive amounts of money out of thin air without announced that it will no longer publish weekly destroying its value and making everything data showing the number of dollars coming into 20 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 existence. has dropped back down to just over 6 percent, “They are trying to hide something,” said gasoline demand is approaching pre-covid Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics levels. Housing prices are setting records of Johns Hopkins University. “They don’t all over the nation. And the stock market is want people paying attention to money sup- reaching record highs. ply growth.” As Hanke pointed out, “[Federal Yet the stimulus spending plans are not even Reserve] Chairman [Jerome] Powell has very close to over. explicitly claimed that money doesn’t mat- ter in recent testimony. He’s basically said Looming Inflation that money and the measurement of money The Biden administration is currently working doesn’t really matter because it’s unrelated to on a $2.3 billion infrastructure bill in addition inflation.” to another $2 trillion American Families Plan Hopefully Mr. Powell is right, because the infrastructure bill. “Together, the ideas inside U.S. government is spending a lot of it. Con- these plans aim to redefine what infrastruc- sider the scope of the “stimulus” bills over just ture is, by bolstering ‘human infrastructure’ the past 12 months: along with everything else,” writes Slate. “[It’s] $2.2 trillion for the Coronavirus Aid, Relief a new kind of American populism.” More and Economic Security Act of 2020. accurately, it’s American socialism. $2.3 trillion for the Consolidated Appropri- This spending comes in addition to the reg- ations Act of 2021. ular $1 trillion budget deficits the government $1.9 trillion for the American Rescue Plan was running before it began shutting down the Act of 2021 economy. $6.4 trillion! Where did all that money come And contrary to Fed Chairman Powell’s from? claims, the economic laws of supply and Some of it was borrowed and will have to be demand are asserting themselves. More paid back with interest. But an incredible $3.6 money (due to money printing, government trillion worth was created with the stroke of a spending and government handouts) chasing pen and a push of a button. a constant or shrinking supply of goods (due Pantera Capital gives some context. With to the global lockdown) means the same goods the first trillion dollars the United States and services cost more dollars. printed throughout its history, “We defeated “A little inflation feels good at first, because British imperialists, bought Alaska and the wages are rising, and people feel richer,” invest- Louisiana Purchase, defeated fascism, ended ment adviser Jared Dillian said. “But the laws the Great Depression, built the Interstate of economics are not to be conned. What Pow- Highway System, and went to the moon.” ell is doing is what I call central bank populism. What did we accomplish this past year with [T]here is inflation in the beginning. At the $6.4 trillion? end, there is revolution.” Initially, the government distributed money Notice the price of lumber lately? A sheet to businesses and individuals, many of whom of plywood at your local hardware store now had lost income because the government shut costs more than $65. A standard 2x4 costs $7. down much of the economy. This was one of Average lumber prices have surged close to the first times in American history that the 200 percent over the past year. Why? Because government gave direct cash handouts to of supply shortages due to government-man- individuals. The government also increased dated factory lockdowns and soaring demand unemployment benefits and issued grants to due to people with government handouts businesses. But much of the money went to remodeling their homes. other uses. Gasoline is also becoming more expensive, Now more than a year has passed since the with prices nationwide averaging $2.86 per first covid lockdowns. Official unemployment gallon before the summer driving season has 21 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 even hit. Corn is up 67 percent year over year. The U.S. government was running tril- Corn syrup is in just about everything. Wheat lion-dollar deficits under presidents Barack is up 24 percent. Milk is up 9 percent. Obama and Donald Trump. And that was in This is not just happening in America. Gov- relatively good times. ernments worldwide are printing money to “If you are spending $6 to $7 trillion per spend. Prices for basic necessities like food are year to stimulate the economy now, when the rising. The United Nations Food and Agricul- economy is recovering, what do you do when ture Organization reports that food prices are you get into a recession?” Puplava said. “How up 24 percent over the past year to the highest big will the stimulus have to be to get out of the levels since 2013. Remember the Arab Spring? next recession or depression?” Some say that, like so many revolutions before How sad that we are even asking this ques- it, it began as a hunger revolt. tion. America is the wealthiest nation in world Other commodities are costing more dol- history. Yet its economy is doomed. lars this year too. Copper: 82 percent more. Why doesn’t America manage its resources Silver: 62 percent more. Texas oil: 28 percent better? more. Concrete: 60 percent more. Powell and the Fed assure us that the infla- An Ancient Lesson tionary effects will be moderate and tempo- Before taking office, all politicians should rary. His comments sound eerily similar to read Genesis 41. So should Federal Reserve former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s comments chairmen and secretaries of the Treasury. Our that the subprime mortgage bubble was worsening boom-bust cycles, our imminent contained. That infamously led to the Great social upheaval, the causes of so much suffer- Recession of 2008. ing would be avoidable—if we had the humility One big difference between that crisis and to learn. this one is where the Federal Reserve has God inspired the leader of the wealthiest directed its response. In 2008, the money and most powerful nation in the world to have it created through quantitative easing was a dream. One of its vivid, haunting scenes was injected into the banking system. It caused seven fat, healthy cows being eaten by seven asset inflation in financial sectors like the emaciated, sick cows. He could not get the stock market and the housing market, but it dream out of his mind, and none of his advi- kept the banks from collapsing and caused less sory staff at the capital could tell him what it inflation in consumer goods than many people meant or what to do. feared. This time, the cash is being sent directly Then one of his staff remembered a certain to individuals and businesses. When spending imprisoned slave. He was brought in, and said increases, the velocity of money could send that the dream meant the nation would enjoy inflation soaring and the value of the dollar seven years of fantastic abundance, followed plummeting. by seven years of famine. He advised that the In other words, massive money printing did leadership save during the good years so that not fix the fundamental economic problem in the nation could survive the lean years. 2008, nor has it fixed the problem this year. This is the record of how God used Joseph to We temporarily papered over a volcanic eco- advise the pharaoh of Egypt. You might know nomic upheaval, and it cost us mountains of the story. So too might many of our modern money to do it. politicians, economic wise men and financial “Two years, we will be at $40 trillion in debt, magicians. But they reject the lesson: You must and in two years after that, if we continue this save for the lean years! stimulus we are going to be at $50 trillion” said Even during the best years of the last two Jim Puplava at Financial Sense Wealth Man- presidential administrations, not once did the agement. “At some [point], these debt levels government run a budget surplus. It took in are unsustainable.” record amounts of revenue through taxes, yet 22 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 spent even more. The national debt took more and the borrower is servant to the lender.” than 200 years to reach $1 trillion. It took only 26 more years to rise to $10 trillion in 2008, Heed the Lesson! and only 12 years to exceed $27 trillion. Our By following Joseph’s advice, Egypt went into national debt is now greater than the sum of the crisis from a position of strength and all goods and services all Americans produce turned into a superpower. Pharaoh promoted in an entire year. Yet our leaders—and many of Joseph to second in command. He was given us—refuse to change our behavior and comply such high esteem that his family was granted with economic laws of cause and effect. the choicest agricultural land in Egypt, and At least during President Trump’s term, he when his elderly father later died, the Egyp- cut taxes, allowing people to save more of their tians mourned him as if he were one of their income. But which of us did? Did a single poli- own. tician even worry about the rising debt during The good news is that, even if America the last presidency? refuses to learn this lesson, you can. God wants America’s leaders have instead motivated you to prosper, even during severe economic people to eat their grain, then borrow grain depressions. Joseph’s name became synony- from their neighbors (and other nations) and mous with prosperity. “And the Lord was with eat that too! Joseph, and he was a prosperous man …. And … When the government shut down the econ- the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his omy citing covid-19, no one was prepared. hand” (Genesis 39:2-3). Those who obey God’s The store houses were empty. America had to laws do face trials and tests—Joseph is a prime resort to even more radical, even more danger- example. But if God could take an unjustly ous monetary extremes to keep the economy enslaved, unjustly imprisoned foreigner and going. prosper him in character, stature and wealth, Heeding Joseph’s advice would have pre- He can prosper you, no matter your condition. vented much of this mess. Had Americans God prospered Joseph for a reason: Joseph saved instead of spent, denied themselves understood and followed God’s laws. instead of indulging themselves, they and their Believe it or not, this whole world could soon government would have abundant savings to have the opportunity to benefit from Joseph’s fall back on to survive the lean years—and economic management. we would not be implementing make-believe Longtime readers of this publication know monetary policy that is guaranteed to inflict that the economic situation for America future lean years on ourselves. and the nations of the world is hopeless. Yet Instead, America has an increasingly sickly God will soon personally intervene and save currency and an enormous pyramid of debt. humanity from itself, from lawless thinking Pharaoh was smart enough to heed Joseph’s that plunges us into disaster, suffering and advice. When the famine struck, the people of death (economic and otherwise). When Jesus Egypt had food to eat, probably preventing a Christ returns, as the Bible prophesies, He will revolution. The economies of neighboring return to assume governance of all nations. nations were destroyed, and Egypt actually He will teach and enforce God’s law. He will grew even wealthier as both Egyptians and inspire and compel human beings to follow foreigners were forced to sell their flocks the laws of cause and effect that produce peace, and herds and other wealth to the Egyptian prosperity and purpose (see Micah 4:1-4). government in exchange for food. In his booklet The Wonderful World If America had obeyed the fundamental laws Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like, Herbert W. of economics rather than becoming an even Armstrong described this future time, when more greatly enslaved debtor nation, it could people will obey God’s laws of economics have become a creditor to the world. As Prov- worldwide: “[Joseph’s] specialty was dealing erbs 22:7 says, “The rich ruleth over the poor, with the economy—with prosperity. And 23 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 what he did, he did God’s way. It seems evident, Universal prosperity! Universal hard work, therefore, that Joseph will be made director saving, self-discipline, wise spending, and of the world’s economy—its agriculture, its growth of wealth and character. industry, its technology, and its commerce— Lean years are coming. We will learn the as well as its money and monetary system. … hard way that the theories, systems and insti- “Undoubtedly Joseph will develop a large and tutions of human beings are flawed to their perfectly efficient organization of immortals foundations. But the Bible gives us hope for made perfect, with and under him in this vast the years that follow, when human beings will administration. This will be an administration finally submit to their Creator. This is our last that will eliminate famine, starvation, poverty. and best and only hope, for America and for There will be no poverty-stricken slums. There the world. n will be universal prosperity!”

Is Lying Always Wrong?

Society is confused. Are you? BY JOEL HILLIKER

ying is normal. Lying is necessary. Lying sins are routine, how people who weaponize is not a problem if you know how to use lying “proceed from evil to evil.” He said God L it. If you really know what you are doing, would be moved with sorrow and indignation you can even tell big, bold lies. We need lying by the boldness of people’s sin (see Jeremiah to make things work: our marriages, our 8:4-12; 9:1-3). Read Jeremiah 9:4-5, see what friendships, our businesses, our politics, our happens in a society that accepts lying, and ask security, our international relations. yourself if this sounds familiar: “Let everyone This is the standard attitude in our society. beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in And it is a lie! any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, Look at the role of lying over just the past year and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. with covid-19, with irregularities in America’s Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one election last November, with truth and facts speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue being censored by media and Big Tech, with left- to speak lies; they weary themselves commit- ist causes being promoted in spite of contrary ting iniquity” (English Standard Version). facts. There is an epic amount of lying in the The value we place on truth is central to our public sphere today. And in so many cases, life character. It’s the difference between thinking moves on; new headlines emerge and the truth like God and thinking like the devil. is overwhelmed by deceit. The God who inspired Jeremiah’s prophecy This is terribly destructive and dangerous to is the one, true, eternal Creator God. But this you and me and to our whole society. world is not God’s world. The societies humans have built are Satan’s societies. His influence A Prophesied Crisis permeates and dominates humanity. He is the The Prophet Jeremiah forecast the role of lying god of this world, he has deceived the whole in our society. He said God would be amazed world, he is the father of lies, and there is no at the boldness of people’s sin: how they “cling truth in him (2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation tightly to their lies,” how they rush toward sin, 12:9; John 8:44). how they are unashamed, how lying and other His influence reaches into even the closest 24 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 human relationship: One study has found that to battle. Adults learn to hide it somewhat, and an average of 10 percent of communication it is often more obvious in children. Yet one between spouses is deceptive. Lying is so easy. study shows that children as young as 3 years In fact, if you don’t prize and exalt truth, you old can commonly deceive adults without will easily slip into various subtle forms of being detected. In fact, all children lie until deception without even thinking about it. caught! Parents need to be vigilant and prayer- But even “small” lies that you seem to “get ful to catch it and prevent that tendency from away with” cut you off from the God of truth! becoming a habit. Humanity as a whole has indulged in lies One of the most dangerous forms of lying and hypocrisies from the beginning and has is hypocrisy: pretending to be something you plunged deeply into them in our lifetimes. And are not or to believe something you do not largely because of this sin, we are entering a believe, especially regarding religion. This is period of terrifying darkness. a deceptive, self-destroying burden—from which God wants to free us! When we walk in Why Do We Lie? the truth—not pretending to be something we God’s communication is 100 percent truth. The are not, living completely free of deceit, having Apostle Paul wrote that hope of eternal life itself nothing to hide, living with integrity even is based on faith in something that “God, that when others aren’t looking—we give God the cannot lie, promised before the world began” Father His greatest joy! (3 John 1-4). (Titus 1:1-2). Thank God He has set His will to never lie. Nothing can stop Him from keeping Lying Harbors Vice His word. Our hope in that is an anchor for our Sam Harris is a neural scientist, an atheist and souls (Hebrews 6:18-19). a prominent critic of religion. Disregarding God’s nature has not even a shadow of religion and the Bible, he has written a book deception (1 John 1:5). He wants us to walk called Lying that evaluates this subject from in the light as well, with our words in perfect his own narrow secular perspective. But his accordance with our deeds. Let sin in, let it conclusions are quite interesting. spread, and you have a world where the aver- “Most forms of private vice and public evil are age person lies every day as a way of life. kindled and sustained by lies,” Harris writes. People almost always lie to try to benefit “Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, themselves. They lie to hide wrong things they financial fraud, government corruption—even have done; to avoid punishment; to lower the murder and genocide—generally require an reputations of others, especially in comparison additional moral defect: a willingness to lie.” to their own; to raise their reputation, espe- But aren’t there some cases where lying cially in comparison to others; to hide personal works out for the best? “[E]very lie haunts insecurities; to avoid an issue; to let an untrue our future,” Harris writes. “There is no tell- statement go uncorrected; to receive more ing when or how it might collide with reality, money than they would otherwise receive; to requiring further maintenance. The truth avoid telling people no or other things they don’t never needs to be tended in this way. … The want to hear; to avoid hurting people’s feelings; liar must remember what he said, and to to flatter. whom, and must take care to maintain his But God forbids all lying with His Ninth falsehoods in the future. … When you tell the Commandment: “Thou shalt not bear false truth, you have nothing to keep track of. The witness against thy neighbour” (Exodus 20:16). world itself becomes your memory ….” Proverbs 6:16-19 show that God hates lying. It Sounds a lot like what the God of truth destroys relationships; it destroys character; reveals much more poetically in His Word: it destroys people. Not just sometimes—every “Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after- time. wards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. … Using our tongues to lie is a sin all of us have The lip of truth shall be established for ever: 25 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 but a lying tongue is but for a moment. … For anticipate and treating them like less than God shall bring every work into judgment, they deserve. “When we presume to lie for with every secret thing, whether it be good, the benefit of others,” Harris writes, “we have or whether it be evil” (Proverbs 20:17; 12:19; decided that we are the best judges of how Ecclesiastes 12:14). much they should understand about their own Harris writes, “Lying is, almost by definition, lives—about how they appear, their reputa- a refusal to cooperate with others. … Research tions, or their prospects in the world. This is suggests that all forms of lying—including an extraordinary stance to adopt toward other white lies meant to spare the feelings of human beings.” others—are associated with poorer-quality God does not command us to go out of our relationships. [T]he moment we consider our way to criticize others. Sometimes we should dishonesty from the point of view of those decline to share what we know (without giving we lie to, we recognize that we would feel the impression that we don’t know). But when betrayed if the roles were reversed. … Every lie asked for our opinion, we are disobeying God is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those and actually hurting our friends and acquain- we lie to.” tances when we pretend not to notice flaws. This is modern terminology for exactly Help them by being loving and positive, but what you will read throughout the Holy Bible, truthful. recorded by men without neural science back- Being truthful can lead to confrontation. In grounds but inspired by the God who created those situations, should we avoid confronta- the human brain and mind. tion or avoid truth? God commands in Ephe- Harris relates an example of a “poorer-qual- sians 4:15, 25 that we must be “putting away ity relationship”: a family in which the mother lying” and “speaking the truth in love.” was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The Pretending not to notice someone making a doctor told her husband but lied to her. The bad decision or being self-destructive shows no husband lied by concealing the truth from her. love. A true friend is willing to deliver what the She researched it herself, self-diagnosed, but Bible calls a faithful wound (Proverbs 27:6). One concealed it from her husband. Her son found paraphrase of Proverbs 24:26 states: “An honest out accidentally a year later, and the other two answer is the sign of true friendship.” A couple children found out two years later. The family of my closest friendships started with a difficult concealed it from the grandmother (and, there- conversation over a point of disagreement or fore, all other friends and family members). a personal problem. Willingness to confront One of the children said, “Rather than feeling a problem in love can actually open the door grateful and protected, I felt sadness that we to genuine friendship based on sincerity and hadn’t come together as a family to face her ill- truth. ness and support each other,” and “I think she Anyone who avoids awkward conversation deprived herself of the opportunity to have a by lying to someone will fail to develop valu- closer relationship with her mother.” Tragically able interpersonal skills and character traits, true. such as tact, discretion, unfeigned politeness and patience. A Form of Hatred “In committing to be honest with everyone, Yet surely there is some place for lying: For we commit to avoiding a wide range of long- instance, being positive and building up term problems, but at the cost of occasional, someone’s self-esteem—right? “A lying tongue short-term discomfort,” Harris writes. “How- hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flat- ever, the discomfort should not be exaggerated: tering mouth worketh ruin” (Proverbs 26:28). You can be honest and kind, because your pur- Harris writes that lying to friends—even pose in telling the truth is not to offend people: with flattery—makes them ignorant to part You simply want them to have the information of reality, harming them in ways we cannot you have, and would want to have if you were in 26 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 their position.” and good understanding in the sight of God Proverbs 3:3-4 give us a simple, powerful and man.” antidote to what is wrecking our society and Forsake the broad path of breezy deceit. threatens our lives and the lives of our chil- Commit to the straight and narrow way of dren. Believe, be grateful for, enjoy and use the truth. Be someone who means what you say, simple and powerful truth it communicates: whose word can be trusted, who walks what “Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind you talk, who praises but doesn’t flatter, who them about thy neck; write them upon the can deliver tactful, honest criticism, and who table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour speaks the truth in love. n

The Woman Who Saved the Man Who Saved the World

By serving a child selflessly, one woman had a profound impact on Western civilization. Who might the children in your life grow up to be? BY JEREMIAH JACQUES

t was a baby boy. He entered the world where he suffered bullying from classmates at 1:30 on the morning of Nov. 30, 1874, and even teachers due to a sickly disposition I born to a noble family in Oxfordshire, and speech impediments. England. Throughout these difficult years, Winston As a child, he had a large table for his thou- wrote to his father and mother, pleading for sands of toy soldiers and their momentous visits. “[C]ome and see me soon ….” “Come and battles, wonderful collections of books and see me soon, dear Mamma ….” “I am wonder- stamps, even his own log cabin, accessed over ing when you are coming to see me?” a small moat by a functioning drawbridge. All Except on rare occasions, neither his a boy could ask for. mother nor his father took the short train Almost. ride to see him. In fact, they rarely replied to This boy was Winston S. Churchill. His his letters. Nine-year-old Winston wrote his parents provided his physical needs and mother, “I have only had one letter from you luxuries, but deprived him of affection and this term.” even time together. In the Victorian era, high While father and mother were tending to society parents like his viewed their children things they viewed as more important, who at appointed times and received reports from watched Winston? The live-in caretaker they those who actually spent time with them, their hired when he was one month old, a 40-year- nannies. But Randolph and Jennie Churchill old woman named Elizabeth Anne Everest. had no time for even these brief interactions. The two saw very little of Winston during ‘The Fireside at Which his earliest years. When he turned 7, they sent He Dried His Tears’ him off to his first of several boarding schools, Most biographies include little mention of 27 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 nannies. But in biographies of Churchill, the ever seen.” situation is different. William Manchester’s Violet Asquith, a personal friend to Winston The Last Lion, for example, discusses Everest Churchill during his adult years, summarized in dozens of passages, many quite detailed. all that Woom was to him: “In his solitary That’s because the early history of Winston childhood and unhappy school days, Mrs. Churchill is largely the history of Everest. Everest was his comforter, his strength and For Winston’s first seven years, she was his stay, his one source of unfailing human under- world entire. This world was largely one of standing. She was the fireside at which he learning: Reading, writing and basic mathe- dried his tears and warmed his heart. She was matics were part of their daily routine in the the night light by his bed. She was security.” nursery. But Everest also allowed time for, and even joined him in, acting out scenes from the ‘Vast and Generous Moral Sense’ books they read. Everest warned her charge of the dangers of “Woom” was apparently the closest young debt, the perils of befriending bad influences, Winston could get to saying “woman.” This the importance of maintaining health, the became his name for her. “Woom” was more virtue of practicing kindness toward animals. than educator and playmate. She saved him She helped him develop concern for the poor, from emotional starvation. She shaped his which Manchester wrote would help make personality. She taught him to navigate the Churchill one of the two “most effective cham- vicissitudes of life. And Winston, neglected pions of the working class” in Britain’s political by parents, bullied and struck down by fre- arena. quent and prolonged illnesses, experienced Everest also taught Winston, as best she vicissitudes. But even as he grew and his world could, about his Creator. He would see her widened, he knew that whatever struggle he praying silently and ask about the purpose. faced, he had someone to turn to. She would explain, and pray aloud for him to In My Early Life, he wrote that she was his hear and learn. It was from her lips that Win- “confidante.” “[T]o her I poured out my many ston first heard passages of the King James troubles.” Bible. She helped him memorize parts of it, At age 11, Winston contracted double pneu- and taught him about the lives of men and monia and was violently ill for several days. women recorded in it. The two took frequent His doctor wrote his parents: “Forgive my walks together, during which she taught him troubling you with these lines to impress upon to sing hymns. you the absolute necessity of quiet and sleep In Never Give In, Stephen Mansfield describes for Winston and that Mrs. Everest should not Everest as a “low church” adherent averse to the be allowed in the sick room today—even the “ritual” and “popish trappings” of the Anglican excitement of pleasure at seeing her might do Church. “But she was … a passionate woman of harm!” prayer and she taught young Winston well.” The next year, Winston was living at Harrow Thanks to Everest’s influence, Churchill boarding school. His mother had not visited realized during his teen years that Britain’s him there for nearly a year, and his father colonial policy was noble and worth fighting never had. But one day, after months of Win- for only as long as it remained founded on ston beseeching his parents to send her, Mrs. what he called “a higher reason” and “a moral Everest arrived. “Public-school boys then force—the divine foundation of earthly power.” were ashamed of their nannies,” Manchester His belief that his country represented wrote. But Winston “paraded his old nurse, “Christian civilization” was central to his life- immensely fat and all smiles, down High long sense of mission. Growing inside him was Street, and then unashamedly kissed her in his now historic indomitable determination to full view of his schoolmates.” One later said stand and fight. that kiss was “one of the bravest acts I have “[W]ho put such moral steel in Churchill’s 28 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 heart and spine?” journalist Cal Thomas built his life. asked. “If his parents were not strong spiritual It was Woom who had always been there and ethical guides, who gave Churchill such when he was otherwise alone. Woom who had principles?” taught him compassion and humility. Woom Elizabeth Anne Everest. who had shown him endless love. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 2014 He held her hand until the end, at 2:15 the biography concludes that: “She it was, I reckon, next morning. He later wrote, “Death came who helped him to that vast and generous very easily to her. She had lived such an inno- moral sense.” cent and loving life of service to others and The “moral sense” Everest helped build in held such a simple faith that she had no fears young Winston is not incidental. It ultimately at all, and did not seem to mind very much. changed the course of history. “She had been my dearest and most intimate “There has probably never been a greater friend during the whole of the 20 years I had political watchman than Winston Churchill,” lived. … I shall never know such a friend again.” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes Used by God, Winston S. Churchill changed in his booklet Winston S. Churchill: The Watch- history and our lives. And Elizabeth Anne man. “His foresight saved the Western world Everest changed Winston S. Churchill. n from demise in World War ii.” The importance of Churchill’s uncompro- mising stand against Nazi evil, at a time when no one else was willing to confront it, cannot be overstated. It truly saved the world. Mr. Flurry makes clear that it was actually God who accomplished that, but He did so through Churchill. And Churchill would never have had the foresight, conviction and spine to be used in a mighty way without Everest.

‘My Dearest and Most Intimate Friend’ When Winston was 19, financial strain prompted his family to dismiss Everest, despite his adamant objections. She moved in with her sisters who, along with more financial support from Winston than he could sensibly afford, kept her from utter destitution. But the following year, Winston received a letter saying she had con- tracted peritonitis. He dropped everything and rushed to see her. Everest knew her own condition was seri- ous, but her worry was over Winston, who had traveled through rain to visit her. She refused to be comforted until he dried himself off. Soon after, she slipped into a coma. The young man sat at her side, holding the hand that had dressed him, helped him walk, turned the pages of his storybooks, pointed to the Scriptures, dried his tears, picked him up, and 29 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 The Former Prophets: How History Becomes Prophecy

The history recorded in the ‘former prophets’ might be ancient, but the lessons they carry are far more important today than they were 3,000 years ago! BY GERALD FLURRY

ow often have we heard that history that which was right in his own eyes,” shows repeats itself? It does—time and time what happens when a nation abandons God. H again. The books of Joshua and Judges contain The Hebrew Bible is divided into three main lessons about success and failure. sections: the law, the prophets and the psalms, The books of Samuel and Kings contain sim- or writings. The prophets include what are ilar relevant lessons. These books record the classified as the major and minor prophets. history of David and Solomon, the two kings There also are the former prophets, comprised responsible for uniting Israel and making it a of the biblical books of Joshua, Judges, 1 and regional superpower. These two books reveal 2 Samuel, and 1 and 2 Kings. These were orig- how a nation surrounded by enemies can inally just two books: Joshua-Judges and the remain independent and safe. They reveal how Book of Kings. They are all tied together; we national unity is crucial to national security. need to understand them individually and as They contain powerful lessons on leadership one prophetic unit. and how leaders determine the destiny of a The former prophets record a broad sweep nation. of history of the nation of Israel—from the time Israel today has many enemies. Its politics the Israelites entered the Promised Land under are divisive and unstable; the nation is divided, the leadership of Joshua until the two parts of not just politically, but ideologically and reli- the divided kingdom, Israel and Judah, were giously. Israel’s government is wracked with conquered and taken into captivity. There is disputes; the nation’s leaders spend more time a special message in all the former prophets. competing than cooperating. In many ways, the They are mostly about history, but they are nation is making the same mistakes it made called former prophets for good reason. The anciently. word former simply means they are the earlier This is why the people of Israel, especially prophets. These books were written by prophets the nation’s leaders, need to study and under- and they are filled with end-time prophecy. stand the former prophets! The Jews today, and all people, can learn a lot by studying the former prophets! Only History? Consider the basic message in Joshua and Many people believe the former prophets Judges, which is powerful and unique. When contain only history. That is not true, but even the nation followed Joshua’s way—which was if it were, it would make these biblical books really the way of Moses, which was really the extremely valuable. way of God and His law—things went well for Many authorities call history our most Israel. The period of the judges, when the nation effective teacher. There is a lot of truth to rejected God and His laws and “every man did that statement. Napoleon Bonaparte said if 30 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 you want to be a great general, you must study Thoroughly Researched the great generals of the past. That is good Some commentaries say that the former advice for us spiritually as well. Bible history prophets descended partly from “oral tra- is the greatest history of all because it is God’s dition.” This is provably false, and it is Bible history. We must learn about these spiritual criticism aimed at discrediting these inspired warriors of the past. We need to learn about scriptures and weakening people’s faith! Joshua and Samuel. We should understand In this case “oral tradition” could be almost why Saul failed even though he had such a anything. Only God’s Word, documented by great opportunity. We must learn about David, the prophets of God, can be fully relied upon. who has the greatest, longest biography in the God ensured that the material in the former Bible. We need to know about Elijah and Elisha. prophets was recorded and preserved mainly What were these powerful leaders all about? so we could understand it during the time that All this incredible history is recorded in the leads directly into the Second Doming of Jesus former prophets. It is ready for us to study and Christ. learn from. Of all people on Earth, the Jewish It took much intensive study by these bibli- people ought to be intensely interested in cal writers to collect this invaluable instruc- these biblical books! tion for our education! This history isn’t But the former prophets are far more simply oral tradition. In discussing the book valuable than if they were only history. These of Kings, the Cambridge Bible explains: “The books contain many direct prophecies—piv- compiler specifies three sources from which otal prophecies that are especially for this his narrative is drawn: 1) The Book of the Acts end time. Throughout these books we read of Solomon (1 Kings 11:41) as the authority for about the promised Messiah, for example. Solomon’s reign. 2) The Book of the Chronicles But the former prophets also give us indirect of the Kings of Judah, which is mentioned 15 prophecies. Of course they record history, but times …. 3) The Book of the Chronicles of the it is history that in most cases also becomes Kings of Israel, quoted 17 times” in Kings. The prophecy. Consider for example how the state writers and compilers of the former prophets of religion in ancient Israel revealed the state had many written sources—not just oral of the nation. If we have the same or similar tradition. They had to deeply study the pro- religious problems today, this is an indirect phetic books and the history of the prophets prophecy of what is happening to the modern in order to put it all together in the manner descendants of Israel and Judah—the end- God wanted. time nations of Israel and Judah, which are The compiler of Chronicles lists his sources primarily America, Britain and the Jewish in 2 Chronicles 9:29: “Now the rest of the acts state. (If you have not proved this important of Solomon, first and last, are they not written truth, study our free book The United States in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the and Britain in Prophecy.) prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the These books show that if we live the same visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the lifestyles our forefathers did, we will attain vir- son of Nebat?” In other words, the book about tually the same results—good or bad. If we live Solomon that he used consisted of the writ- like the people did during the time of Joshua, ings of these three prophets: Nathan, Ahijah we will experience the same beautiful results. and Iddo. If we live like people lived during the period “‘The Book of the Acts of Solomon’ comprised of the judges, we will experience the same three works written by prophets contemporary horrific results! History becomes prophecy. with Solomon and which embracing the whole Not all prophecy is history, but a lot of history period of his reign were naturally soon gathered becomes prophecy. History prophesies the into one treatise and called by one collective fate of nations—whether they will thrive or name” (ibid; emphasis mine). Note that care- collapse! fully: The sources used by the compiler of the 31 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 former prophets included The Book of the label it with names like “Hebrew history.” Yes, Acts of Solomon, which relied on source mate- it contains history of the Hebrews—but that rial written by prophets who were right there is hardly all it is. Such a title waters down with Solomon! God-inspired men gathered all the truth of God. It isn’t merely history of this material together to make a bigger book. the Hebrews—it’s the history of God and of That was then consulted in composing the what He is doing on Earth! This history was former prophets. arranged and inspired by God Himself! This process was much more thorough and If you and I aren’t studying this history, we meticulous than just “oral tradition.” This are missing out on an incredible, even life-sav- history was recorded in much the same way ing opportunity! our historians write history today. But there I encourage you to take time to really study was one vital difference: Their work was also the history recorded in the books of Joshua, inspired by God! Judges, Samuel and Kings. Some of the his- These men labored over these writings, tory is wonderful and positive. It is deeply building on previous records and manuscripts, inspiring to read about the joy and prosperity because of how important this history is! Israel experienced during the time of Joshua, Clearly it was extremely critical and meaning- Samuel’s devotion to true education, King ful to the righteous scholars of ancient Israel! David’s astonishing accomplishments and If only modern Israel valued it so highly! beautiful example of humility and repentance, Elijah’s faith-filled service to God, Elisha’s mir- History Recorded by Prophets acle-filled prophetic work, and many others. King David created offices to ensure this The history of these awesome biblical figures invaluable history was recorded and pre- teaches us how to be happy and successful served. “Now the acts of David the king, first today! and last, behold, they are written in the book The former prophets also flow with much of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan tragic history. These books recount a lot of the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer” suffering, conflict and depression. The book (1 Chronicles 29:29). The men who wrote the of Judges describes some of the most heinous, former prophets and Chronicles were highly gruesome behavior in the Bible. The life of educated. They knew the scriptures, and Saul is a sobering warning against vanity and they knew God’s history and prophecy. These self-reliance. The example of Jeroboam and prophets all recorded the history of David. the civil war he incited shows what happens They kept the flame of David’s throne shining when we depart from the true religion estab- brightly for any followers of God! lished in Jerusalem by King David. Education was of great importance in these Knowing this history will help us avoid former prophets. Samuel, Elijah and Elisha repeating the same mistakes! were educated! They all founded schools to The history in these books could actually educate others and to disseminate that invalu- save your life. Spiritually, it will lead you into able knowledge. Their schools were small a deeper, more fulfilling relationship with God. because most of the nation wasn’t following It will reveal how you can be protected by God the godly education. Still, that history—and when trials strike and how you can achieve even these men’s regard for godly education— your incredible human potential. Learning was recorded for us today. the lessons of these books will even help you I believe the Prophet Jeremiah was the physically. These lessons will help you grow as editor whom God inspired to integrate the a leader and as a mother or father, husband former prophets all together. But we are not or wife. They will reveal the path to material looking for Jeremiah in these books—we are prosperity. This history will show how you can looking for God all the way through. God put be content and at peace—with yourself, your this history together! Yet faithless scholars family and all those with whom you come into 32 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 contact. but their lessons are even more relevant and This history occurred thousands of years important today than they were three millen- ago, these writings are ancient and venerable, nia ago! They will change your life! n

The Real Rift Caused by the Royal Couple

All the Harry and Meghan coverage is missing the point. BY GERALD FLURRY

n March, cbs aired an interview that Harry were lies. We do need to address the Oprah Winfrey held with Harry, the duke sins in our societies, but let’s not lie about I of Sussex who has quit his royal duties, and it! Neither Britain nor America are horribly his wife, Meghan Markle. A storm of media racist countries. After all, people of all kinds coverage followed, but almost everyone over- of races are working hard to get in to both of looked one of the most important effects of this these countries. And people of various races interview: It drove a wedge in the middle of one enjoy tremendous success in these countries, of the greatest partnerships in history. including Meghan and Oprah. Britain and America have done great things Many in Britain were appalled by the inter- by working together. Winston Churchill ded- view. The popularity of Harry and Meghan icated much of his life to building a special fell to an all-time low. Meghan’s popularity relationship between America and Britain. dropped more than 10 percent; only 31 per- They fought together in World War i and won cent of Britons view her positively and 58 the war. The same occurred in World War ii. percent view her negatively. Polls before the Had Britain been left to itself, it could not have interview indicated more than half of Britons won! still viewed Harry favorably; afterward, that When these nations are divided, both are number dipped under half. less secure. The Oprah interview contributed It was a different story in America. One poll to that. of Americans who watched the interview indi- Harry and Meghan hurled explosive accu- cated that favorability toward both Meghan sations at the British monarchy, including and Harry increased. The U.S. media, which that the royal family is racist. Meghan heavily has exalted Meghan Markle, quickly sided implied that the only reason her son, Archie, with her. “Oprah Winfrey and Meghan Markle: was not a prince, was that she was part black. How Two Black Women Took Down Whatever She said she was distressed by the “idea of the Fantasies Remained About the British Monar- first member of color in this family not being chy” was the Washington Post’s take. “Markle titled in the same way that other grandchildren laid bare her own traumas to illuminate dark would be.” In addition to this bold claim, both truths about Britain, the royals—but also of them implied that the royal family killed more generally about life in a predominantly Princess Diana. white institution with a racist past,” it wrote. Of course, Britain and its monarchy have “Racism continues to seep through every facet faults. The Trumpet writes about them often. of British royal life” (March 8). The New York But the accusations made by Meghan and Times boldly targeted the royal family. On 33 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 March 9, it published “Meghan and Harry’s Churchill bust back into the White House. He Interview Shows the Monarchy Must Go.” This spoke warmly of relations with Britain and article claimed the interview showed “that the was a vocal supporter of Brexit. But now the British monarchy is a toxic den of backbiting pendulum has swung back again. One of Joe and racism” and compared it to “a bottle of Biden’s first actions after moving into the poison.” White House was to kick the Churchill bust White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki out again. And Harry and Meghan, like Biden, praised the “courage” of Harry and Meghan. are strongly connected to Obama. The two Hillary Clinton characterized the British reportedly took advice from the Obamas when press’s treatment of Meghan as “cruel” and considering their split from the royal family. “outrageous.” The Telegraph’s U.S. editor, Nick The division developing between our Allen, claimed the interview “set off a wave of nations is a deadly weakness. It’s a weakness anti-Britishness” and that the British “haven’t the radical left and especially Barack Obama been this unpopular in America since they have spent years creating and exploiting. Now burned down the White House in the War of these former royals are joining in. 1812.” In our April Trumpet issue, I wrote to you Historian Andrew Roberts wrote that the about a crucial scripture in 2 Kings 14:26, accusation of royal racism “is deeply damaging which states: “For the Lord saw the affliction for British soft-power abroad, especially in the of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was United States. Americans cannot be expected not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for to know the minutiae of royal protocol, but Israel” (“America Has No Helper,” theTrumpet. they have been left believing that prejudice com/23615). Prophetically, “Israel” refers to the has prevented Archie from both becoming a modern descendants of ancient Israel, mainly royal and receiving royal security, which is the British and the Americans (request your untrue.” free copy of The United States and Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert W. Armstrong). There No Helper are people working to blot out the very name The duke and duchess aren’t the only ones of Israel (verse 27). Tragically, many of them doing the dividing. After Barack Obama are within America and Britain! took office, he famously got rid of the bust These verses are prophecy of a time when of Winston Churchill in the White House, there would be no one to help these nations. which the British government had lent at the People are creating and aggravating divisions outset of the war on terror. This was a major within America and Britain—regarding race, insult to Britain. Obama has often and openly class, politics and anything else they can think expressed contempt for the British Empire. He of. Now they are sowing divisions between showed a lack of respect to the British prime these two nations. Splitting Britain and Amer- minister and even the Queen. A key theme ica apart from one another means that they of his time in office was alienating America’s cannot help each other. allies. The Obama administration repeatedly Threats in the world are increasing. Other targeted Britain with diplomatic snubs. One nations are betraying and attacking America State Department official reportedly said, and Britain and Israel. Many Bible prophecies “There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re show these trends will intensify. In a world just the same as the other 190 countries in the this hostile, Britain, America and the Jewish world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.” nation of Israel need to stick together and to Obama himself threatened that if Britain voted turn toward God. But they are splitting from to leave the European Union, the U.S. would God and from each other. There will be no put it at the “back of the queue” for trade helper for Israel—not even from other modern relationships. Israelite nations. President Donald Trump brought the It is shameful that we are causing so much of 34 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 this division and bringing it upon ourselves. It that God is letting it happen for a spectacular is going to lead to some dark times for Britain reason. n and America. But Bible prophecy also shows

Worldwatch France Holds First Military The has previously Space Exercise called for a ban on the Koran. Its leader, Thi- France conducted its first military space erry Baudet, once spoke of the Netherlands exercise from March 8–11. Along with the belonging to the “boreal world,” equivalent space commands of Germany and the United to the “Nordic” and “Aryan” race ideals once States, the French Air Force’s space command advocated by the Nazis. n simulated 18 threats against its satellites and assets, including missile launches, jamming Denmark Wants Muslims Out attacks, solar radiation storms and debris Denmark became the first European coun- falling to Earth. try to revoke the residency permits of Syrian The only other powers with military space refugees on March 1. This is part of a series programs are Russia and China. In large part of related events across Europe to restrict due to the threat of these powers militarizing Muslim migrants. space, France is aiming to become the world’s Denmark claimed that Syria is now safe third-largest space power and has shown enough for the 94 refugees to return. This plans to arm its satellites with machine-guns despite the decade-long, multi-sided and lasers. The French government has said conflict being nowhere near resolution and it hopes to avoid an arms race in space, but it the Syrian government recently shelling a may have already begun. n hospital in the rebel-held city of Aleppo. The government is also planning a bill to Fringe Right Wins Again in Netherlands limit the population of “non-Western” resi- During March 15–17 parliamentary elections dents in its cities (those who are not originally in the Netherlands, center-right incumbent from the European Union or the Schengen Prime Minister won reelection. Area). The cap will likely be 30 percent. The But its three hard-right parties also fared well, original wording of the bill included the term winning a historic-high 29 total seats. “ghetto,” which in Danish law is defined as ’s won third any neighborhood of more than 1,000 people place with 11 percent of the vote, the even more with certain employment education, crime extreme Forum for Democracy won 5 percent and income characteristics that is majority of the vote, and the JA21 party received enough “non-Western” and that meets other criteria votes (2.4 percent) to send a representative regarding employment, education, crime and to parliament for the first time. Together, income. Fifteen neighborhoods in Denmark the three parties earned 29 seats—the best currently meet the criteria. results the hard right has ever had. During These measures are being taken not in a his election campaign, Wilders said he wants right-wing nation by a right-wing govern- to see the Netherlands as “a country without ment but in a Nordic-model Scandinavian headscarves.” His hard-line stance against state known for its welfare and other Muslim immigration has pushed mainstream left-wing policies, and currently ruled by its Dutch politics to the right so much that Polit- center-left Social Democratic Party. ico describes it as “the Wilders effect.” This is a sign that Europe as a whole is 35 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 becoming much more right wing regarding said. immigration, especially Islamic immigration. On April 7, Germany published a plan to Europe may be ending its experiment in rebuild downtown Beirut, the Lebanese port multiculturalism. city devastated by an explosion in August 2020. Your Bible prophesies that Europe will soon The plan involves up to $3.6 billion in financ- embrace its historic culture, Catholicism— ing from the European Investment Bank and and clash culturally, politically, religiously and International Monetary Fund, the generation militarily with the Muslim Middle East. n of 50,000 jobs, and private German companies “The Whirlwind Prophecy,” (theTrumpet. rebuilding the port and its surroundings. com/go/whirl). “This plan is not going to come without strings attached,” reported Euractiv, citing French Generals Call For Military European diplomatic sources. “Germany and to Deal with Islamism France want first to see a government in place “The hour is grave; France is in jeopardy threat- committed to implementing reforms. There is ened by several mortal dangers,” an open letter no other way around it ….” addressed to French President Emmanuel “For Germany, Syria’s revolution isn’t about Macron and his government begins. This a humanitarian crisis at all,” Trumpet editor letter, signed on April 21 by 20 former French in chief Gerald Flurry explained in “How the generals and more than 1,500 members of Syrian Crisis Will End.” “It’s about geopolitics the military, police and gendarmerie, calls on and how Berlin can aggressively advance its France’s leaders to “safeguard the nation” from strategic interests in the Middle East!” (Trumpet, Islamic threats. September 2012). “We can see that there is no more time to Germany and Europe are making a move to procrastinate,” it continues, “otherwise civil draw Syria and Lebanon out of Iran’s orbit. war will tomorrow put an end to this growing Psalm 83 and Daniel 11:40 prophesy that chaos, and the deaths, for which you will be Germany will form a Middle Eastern alliance responsible, will amount to thousands.” against Iran. Both Lebanon and Syria will be Time is working against the government, and part of it. n every incident adds pressure. Just days after Request The King of the South, by Gerald the letter was signed, another terrorist fatally Flurry (theTrumpet.com/go/kos). stabbed a woman in a police station in France. Pushed by these radical Islamists, some- Iranian commander visits Iraq thing of a medieval Holy Roman Empire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) mentality is rising in France. More and more Brig. Gen. Esmaeil Qa’ani took a two-day trip people are ready for military conflict to safe- to Iraq in early April, meeting with Iraqi offi- guard their continent and historic roots. Just a cials and senior leaders of political parties and few years ago, such a turn of events would have movements. The visit took place on the eve been unthinkable. Yet, the Bible prophesied of of negotiations between Iraq and the United it millennia ago. Read The Holy Roman Empire States, including discussions about the pres- in Prophecy to understand why. n ence of U.S. troops in Iraq. Late IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Germany Offers Cash for Suleimani’s main goal was to drive the U.S. Change in Syria and Lebanon out of the region. Qa’ani, his successor, has German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas pledged pledged to follow the same path. Since 2018, $2 billion in aid to Syria at a March 30 donor the U.S. has withdrawn from eight bases in conference in Brussels, the largest sum Ger- Iraq and consolidated its forces to better pro- many has pledged in four years. In return tect itself from ongoing attacks. for the loan, Germany is requiring Syria to Perhaps the main purpose of Qa’ani’s trip undergo “a substantial political process,” he was to send a message highlighting Iran’s 36 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 power in Iraq and threatening the U.S. Iran Putin to have longest rule intends to control Iraq, and with the U.S. con- since Peter the Great? sidering withdrawing its remaining troops, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law fulfillment of Iran’s goals in Iraq appear to be on April 5 that formally gives him the option to only one executive order away. n remain in power until 2036. His second successive and fourth overall Russia pulls Venezuela and presidential term concludes in 2024. Under Cuba deeper into its orbit the previous constitution, he would have A high-level Russian delegation toured the been required to step down at that time. But Caribbean in March and April, signing a rash new legislation permits Putin, who turns 69 of cooperation agreements with Venezuela and this year, to run for two more six-year terms, Cuba, a sign of Russia’s deepening influence in enabling him to remain in power for a total the periphery of the United States. of 36 years, longer than Joseph Stalin or any On March 30, the delegation met with Russian leader since Peter the Great in the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and 18th century. signed 12 major energy, finance, military “This world has a lot of authoritarian rulers. and strategic agreements, as well as a plan But Vladimir Putin is one we need to keep a for Russia to supply Venezuela with more particularly close eye on,” Trumpet editor in coronavirus vaccine doses. The next day, the chief Gerald Flurry wrote in his 2017 booklet delegation conducted the 18th Session of the The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia.’ “His track Cuba-Russia Intergovernmental Commission record, his nationality and his ideology show with the Cuban government in Havana and that he is fulfilling a linchpin Bible prophecy. agreed to a plan to increase cooperation in The time frame of his rule also shows that energy, trade, agriculture, heath, defense and nobody else could be fulfilling the Ezekiel 38 communications. and 39 prophecy.” n In recent years, the Kremlin has docked its Order your free copy of The Prophesied warships in Havana’s harbor and given Cuba ‘Prince of Russia’ (theTrumpet.com/go/prince). $50 million to buy Russian military equip- ment and modernize Cuban defense firms. Biden’s Message to the It has also flown nuclear-capable bombers, a Taliban: ‘You Won’ squadron of Russian soldiers and 38 tons of On April 14, Joe Biden announced that he will military equipment to Venezuela. And it has withdraw all American troops from Afghani- sold numerous tanks, patrol boats, missile stan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of corvettes and light fighters to Nicaragua. the 2001 terrorist attacks. Following the news Watch for Russia to continue deepening its from Washington, the North Atlantic Treaty relationships with unstable, anti-U.S. coun- Organization stated that all NATO troops will tries led by socialist governments close to the leave this year. U.S. mainland. The withdrawal was announced last year “The Bible contains many prophecies of [a] under the Trump administration: It was European power attacking America—and scheduled to take place in June, pending the many other prophecies of America being Taliban’s meeting certain conditions. Biden’s besieged,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald unilateral September withdrawal is apparently Flurry writes in Isaiah’s End-Time Vision. unconditional. He explains that Europe will carry out this The U.S. currently has 2,500 troops in besiegement in cooperation with Russia and Afghanistan, in addition to counter­terrorism China. “All of them are going to besiege Amer- forces. After spending more than $1.5 trillion, ica, Britain and the Jewish nation.” n suffering more than 20,000 wounded, losing Request your free copy of Isaiah’s End-Time 2,400 servicemembers, and fighting for two Vision (theTrumpet.com/go/ISA). decades in a war that has killed more than 37 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 100,000 people, the Americans are now leav- as an extenuating circumstance. ing—with the Taliban still in control of half the Since the World Health Organization first country, the internationally recognized gov- declared COVID-19 a health emergency, the ernment controlling little more than the cap- U.S. Congress has approved over $4 trillion in ital city, and the nation still poverty-stricken. coronavirus-relief packages and the Federal “It is not the right time to withdraw their Reserve has pumped almost $6 trillion into troops,” Saifuddin Azizi, an Afghan commander, the economy. told . “It is unreasonable, If Americans continue gorging themselves hasty and a betrayal to us. It pushes Afghanistan on debt, they will suffer the same outcome as into another civil war. Afghanistan’s destiny will Venezuelans are suffering now, Zimbabweans look like it did two decades ago.” suffered in 2008, Yugoslavians suffered in From Cuba to Vietnam to Iraq and beyond, 1994, Germans suffered in 1923, and has been America has been fighting wars against small suffered by all societies who reject a crucial Third World countries for decades and has biblical financial principle: “The rich ruleth won none of them. over the poor, and the borrower is servant to News forecaster Herbert W. Armstrong the lender” (Proverbs 22:7). Soon, Americans knew this would be the case based on Bible may be using million-dollar bills that buy a prophecies like Leviticus 26:19-20: “And I will sixth of a gallon of gasoline. n break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: Record coal plant closures in U.S., EU And your strength shall be spent in vain: for offset by record openings in China your land shall not yield her increase, neither Global Energy Monitor published a report in shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.” April showing that a record number of coal- The losing battle in Afghanistan is a stark fired power plants in the United States and fulfillment of this prophecy. n Europe were retired in 2020, but were more Read “America Has Won Its Last War” than offset by massive coal increases by China. (theTrumpet.com/15709). Even while Chinese leader Xi Jinping was calling for nations to pursue a “green recovery Venezuela-Style Inflation May of the world economy” from the COVID-in- be Coming to America duced global recession, his government Venezuela’s economy is in a free fall. The Central commissioned 38.4 gigawatts of new coal Bank of Venezuela introduced a million-bolívar plants throughout the year, 76 percent of the bill on March 5: It is only worth 53 United States global total. New Chinese coal plants offset the cents. record decreases in the rest of the world (37.8 Shortly after the U.S. Senate passed a gigawatts) and meant that the worldwide total $1.9 trillion spending measure ostensibly to amount of coal plant construction projects has combat coronavirus, Sen. Rand Paul noted actually increased over last year. Almost 9 out Venezuela’s hyperinflation crisis and warned of every 10 new coal plant proposals globally that the U.S. is on the same path. Citing the come from China, completely ignoring its million-bolívar bill, he wrote, “Will U.S. be the pledge under the 2016 Paris Agreement. next Venezuela with Congress borrowing over Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry $6 trillion in one year?” discussed the Paris climate accord in 2017, The late President Hugo Chávez’s socialist writing: “What is happening here is not about policies ruined Venezuela’s economy, prompting the environment. It is about destroying the the government to raise revenue by printing United States. The regulations this accord banknotes. This caused the nation’s current binds America to abide by, and the funding it hyperinflation crisis, and it is a warning to the obligates America to provide, accomplish that rest of the world. Yet other governments are purpose very nicely.” n making the same mistakes, citing coronavirus 38 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 SOCIETYWATCH 2020: Deadliest year for U.S. U.S. military manufactures gun violence in decades maternity jumpsuits More Americans died from gun violence last “We need the young women just beginning year than in any other year in the last two their careers in the military service to see it decades, according to a March 27 report from and know that no door will be closed to them,” the from the Gun Violence Archive. Despite Joe Biden said during a Women’s Day speech the unprecedented lockdowns, almost 20,000 on March 8. “We’re making good progress Americans were killed in gun violence, and designing body armor that fits women prop- an additional 24,000 used a gun to commit erly; tailoring combat uniforms for women; suicide. creating maternity flight suits; updating According to the Centers for Disease Control requirements for their hairstyles.” and Prevention, this was the first time firearm The United States spends more on its deaths exceeded 40,000 since 1981. In a bid military than the next 10 nations combined, to push through more gun control measures, but it is also softening it. On January 25, former President Barack Obama said the Biden signed an executive order repealing a “pandemic cannot be the only thing that slows ban on transgenders in the military; he also mass shootings in this country.” But the data announced that taxpayers would fund sur- shows that the pandemic actually increased geries for men who want to become women or the number of victims. women who want to become men while they These shootings highlight much bigger issues are in the military. than the possession of firearms: depression, Isaiah 3:1-3 describe what is happening in mental illness, gang membership and contempt the United States armed forces: “For, behold, for law and authority. These triggers of violence the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away can only be solved by obeying the moral laws of from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the Bible. n the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, The mighty man, and the Sexualization of British man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the teens is finally a scandal prudent, and the ancient, The captain of fifty, The National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for and the honourable man, and the counsellor, child protection said, “I think that there is and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent a huge societal problem with what young orator.” n men are viewing online, the sexualization of women, and the complete blurring of those Majority of Canadians on lines in terms of what is a healthy relationship.” the Brink of Insolvency In Isaiah’s End-Time Vision, Trumpet editor A survey by MNP Consumer Debt Index in chief Gerald Flurry writes: “Anciently the published on April 8 found that 53 percent of Israelites sometimes physically sacrificed Canadians are within $200 of failing to meet their own children. Today we sacrifice our their monthly bills. This number includes 30 youth spiritually when we give them no percent who already have $0 left at the end of uplifting vision. We sacrifice them to sexual the month. lust and fornication. The Internet alone does Canadians have some of the highest debt- $10 billion to $13 billion worth of business in to-income levels in the world. In the fourth pornography every year just in America! It is quarter of 2019, just prior to government the most profitable online business. We also lockdowns, Statistics Canada reported that sacrifice our children to demoniac music, the average Canadian held $1.71 in debt for drugs and greed.” n every $1 of disposable income. In the second 39 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 quarter of 2020, many Canadians reacted to percent of Canadians felt more relaxed than the lockdowns by paying down some of their usual about going into debt, and 60 percent debts, but debt levels in the third and fourth said that since interest rates were low, they felt quarters has again increased past $1.61 in debt good about going into debt to buy things they for every $1 of disposable income. otherwise could not afford. n A survey in December 2020 found that 47

PRINCIPLES OF LIVING STEPHEN FLURRY ‘Six Days Shall You Labor’

Are you overlooking part of the Fourth Commandment?

emember the sabbath day, to keep it to employment and work habits. It is God’s holy.” We keep this commandment nature to work diligently, and He wants us “R by resting on the seventh day of the to be just like Him. God is reproducing Him- week. But what are we resting from? Examine self—His character and nature, His drive and the other side of the Fourth Commandment: resourcefulness, and His diligent work ethic. “Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work” Human nature is lazy, but a true Christian is (Exodus 20:8-9). a diligent, productive, hard worker (1 Timothy This is not a suggestion. It is a command that 5:8). Jesus Christ said in John 5:17, “My Father is just as important as the first half of the com- worketh hitherto, and I work.” God forbids mandment. If we don’t labor, we are breaking being slothful (Romans 12:11). He says that the Fourth Commandment just as surely as if hard work is the only sure, godly way to avoid we worked on the Sabbath. This command- poverty (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12). He even ment points us back to creation (verse 11) and commands that anyone who does not work our Creator who works for a living. should not eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10). Also read The spirit or intent of this law shows that Ephesians 6:5-6 and Colossians 3:22, which people should be doing productive work for says, “Servants, obey in all things your masters the first six days of the week. God did the according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as labor of creation for the first six days; we are menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing to follow His example. God.” When Adam was first created, God placed We are responsible not just to our boss or him in the Garden of Eden and commanded customers to work hard, but to God. A good him “to dress it and to keep it,” which required employee constantly feels pressure to obey him to toil even to receive sustenance (Genesis Christ. Colossians 3:23-24 indicate that even 2:15-17). the service we give our physical bosses is con- God could have created an environment and sidered as service rendered to God. means of sustenance that did not require labor. “God is not going to settle for a cheap, sloppy, But He designed us to work and to work hard! careless, inferior bit of workmanship,” Plain Did you know that 30 percent of your life will Truth founder Herbert W. Armstrong wrote. be spent working? If God specifically created “He commands that we shall be ‘perfect, even us to do so much of it, why does work seem as your Father in heaven is perfect.’ A careless boring and difficult for so many people? We workman once complained to me, ‘The trouble have to grasp the spiritual principle behind it. with you, Mr. Armstrong, is that you are a per- The Bible contains about 900 references fectionist!’ I guess he was right. He should tell 40 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 God, ‘The trouble with you, God, is that you are of the Church, he wrote: “If we knew Christ a perfectionist!’ God is a perfectionist. And so should come tomorrow, and we needed a new am I. How about you?” (April 1965). building for His Work, and today was the day “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it to start building it, I would break ground and with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, start that new building on its way today! And I nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, would be busy building it tomorrow as I would whither thou goest” (Ecclesiastes 9:10). This be caught up to meet Him!” doesn’t say “whatsoever you are good at” or Christ said in Matthew 24:46 that His faith- “whatsoever you like to do, do with your might.” ful servants will be the ones who are found It most certainly includes our daily work. working and building right up until His arrival! “I must work the works of him that sent me, God doesn’t want us to just sit around and wait while it is day,” Jesus said, “the night cometh, for His return. He wants us to continue work- when no man can work” (John 9:4). The return ing and building, physically and spiritually. of Jesus Christ is drawing near. But instead of Imagine builders on top of their ladders, taking away our motivation to work, this ought hammering away, working on a new building, to serve as a prod to work harder! and all of a sudden, Christ returns. Then they Some people criticized Mr. Armstrong for all just set down their tools and rise to meet continuing to expand the work of God’s true Christ in the air. That’s the vision Matthew Church by constructing new buildings when describes, and that’s the vision Mr. Armstrong they thought Jesus Christ’s return was immi- had. He wanted to be found doing when Christ nent. In an Aug. 28, 1967, letter to supporters returns. And so should we. n

COMMENTARY JOEL HILLIKER Report: Britain Is Not Racist

This good news should have made banner headlines. The media disagree.

eftists ceaselessly decry “systemic and health. racism.” They insist that ethnic minori- In April, the commission released its find- L ties’ lower levels of education and income, ings. “Put simply we no longer see a Britain and higher levels of crime, family breakdown where the system is deliberately rigged against and other problems, can all be explained by ethnic minorities,” the report said. Yes, there this structural disease in modern society. are racial disparities, but “very few of them are Last summer the United Kingdom govern- directly to do with racism. Too often ‘racism’ ment tasked a group of 12 experts, all but is the catch-all explanation, and can be sim- one of whom was from an ethnic minority, to ply implicitly accepted rather than explicitly examine the facts. The Commission on Race examined.” and Ethnic Disparities was led by a black man: The report says accusations of “institutional Dr. Tony Sewell, ceo of a charity that helps racism” too often don’t follow actual evidence. disadvantaged students, including minorities, And the “widening charge of racism” can have study science and technology at top univer- ugly consequences—such as minority groups sities. Other members with backgrounds in abusing members of their ethnicity who are broadcasting, economics, education, health, police officers. The report did not claim that policing and science deeply studied the role racism does not exist in the UK, but it showed of racism in crime, education, employment by several metrics that race relations and the 41 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021 lives of ethnic minorities have significantly is sticking his head above the parapet for the improved over the past 50 years. Minority greater common good. He has encouraged students, for example, outperform white stu- many to exercise personal responsibility and dents. The pay gap has shrunk to 2.3 percent. individual initiative in order to overcome This is good news, isn’t it? Not for leftists. adversity and progress in life. And in doing so, Not to the media. he has been accused of being an establishment Much of the media condemned the commis- ‘sell-out’ and betraying the ‘racial-justice’ cause, sion for its findings. Dr. Sewell was branded as by identitarian grievance-mongers who would a “token black man,” “coon,” “coconut,” “race like to keep all non-white people locked in a traitor,” “house negro” and comparable to a Ku perpetual condition of miserable victimhood” Klux Klan member. The condemnations didn’t (April 5, emphasis added). address the facts of the report, cite flaws in it, This is the ugly truth behind the “systemic or present evidence and reason to refute it. racism” fiction. Everyone, of every race, faces They relied almost completely on anger and adversity. Radicals who convince people that the unassailable logic that denying systemic all their problems result from society being racism is proof of racism. stacked against them trap them in failure. Per- The left has no interest in significant, docu- suading people that the solutions lie in raging mented improvements in race relations. That against the world destroys individuals and is because their power comes from dividing encourages them to destroy society! people. “Personal responsibility and individual To address problems in society, you must initiative”—these truly are keys to success correctly identify the problems. If you attri- for everyone of every race. God wants each bute every social problem to racism when of us to exercise these, with His help, to rise every social problem is not caused by racism, above adversity in life. The more that people you will never solve the problem, and people reject victimhood, stop blaming society, and will continue to suffer. drive themselves, the better off they will be. This report found that family background is The more they embrace the duties of family, much more influential in a person’s success according to the design of the Creator of fam- than racial background. “In many areas of ily, the more they will mature and fulfill their investigation, including educational failure potential. and crime, we were led to family breakdown The mainstream media bullheadedly insist as one of the main reasons for poor outcomes. that whites have built a system that holds Family is also the foundation stone of success down non-whites. This report exposes that for many ethnic minorities” (ibid). Follow the narrative as a lie—one that ignores facts, facts, including the massive government data- incites emotion, accuses and divides. set studied by the commission, and you know Facts show there has been progress, and that to improve the lives of minorities, you that race relations do provide opportunity must strengthen the family. The data proves to succeed. They point to actual solutions to this is the real issue—yet it is one that leftists some of society’s problems. They give people refuse to address. the tools they need to remain aloof from those So often leftists say that society needs to who want to control them. They show people have a “conversation about race.” But they that they need to, and have the power to, take dominate that conversation and fill it with personal responsibility and improve their own accusation and grievance rather than facts lives. and real solutions. The more they “converse,” That really is good news! n the more divided we grow, and the more toxic race relations get. A Spiked columnist praised Dr. Sewell for “shedding light on uncomfortable truths. He 42 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET | JULY 2021