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The key to answered prayer RULE of LAW Why the president will prevail JANUARY 2021 | VOL. 32, NO. 1 | CIRC. 247,820 FEATURES FROM THE EDITOR : COVER STORY 1 Why Donald Trump Will Remain America’s President The Radical Left’s Ongoing Coup 6 Battle for God’s Truth 8 Europe vs. Donald Trump 11 Deadly Flaw in Mideast Peace Deals 15 INFOGRAPHIC Economic Virus 18 Lincoln’s View on Tearing Down Sacred Statues 20 Liberté, Égalité, and Down With Muslims! 22 A Military Alliance in All But Name 25 Will Blockchain Block Out America? 26 Guttenberg—an Expert on Financial Crises 27 DEPARTMENTS WORLDWATCH 28 SOCIETYWATCH 31 PRINCIPLES OF LIVING 33 The All-Important Key to Answered Prayer DISCUSSION BOARD 34 COMMENTARY 35 America’s Election: ‘Truth Dies in the Streets’ THE KEY OF DAVID TELEVISION LOG 36 WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES, COVER: GARY DORNING/TRUMPET GARY COVER: IMAGES, MCNAMEE/GETTY WIN Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s weekly television program theTrumpet.com/keyofdavid News and analysis updated daily theTrumpet.com Trumpet executive editor Stephen Flurry’s television program theTrumpet.com/trumpetdaily FROM THE EDITOR GERALD FLURRY Why Donald Trump Will Remain America’s President The media and virtually the entire world rushed to crown Joe Biden president. But Bible prophecy shows that God still has plans for Mr. Trump. n Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, just four days after the Amos 7:7 reads, “Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord presidential election, the American news media decided stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his O to declare Joe Biden the winner and the president-elect hand.” A plumbline is usually used in measuring a building or of the United States. in construction. But God uses it differently here: to measure The radical left in America have done everything in their power the destruction that is to come upon the nations of Israel, for the last four years to discredit and destroy President Donald especially America. This destruction is not random. God is Trump. They have spied. They have lied. They have cheated. They measuring it carefully and precisely, and in the end, it will have broken laws too numerous to count. They have committed bring about the most wonderful results imaginable. treason, trying to depose the duly elected government! And “And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And somehow, President Trump has weathered I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a all those storms. plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass What the left is doing now—all this the- by them any more” (verse 8). This is God talking! He has warned ater aimed at bullying people into accepting these nations several times to try to wake them up, but they Joe Biden as president—is more of the same. have ignored those warnings. So, He says, I’ll warn one last time! It should come as no surprise. We are living through this final warning right now! By most appearances, Joe Biden will be And notice: This final warning occurs during the time America’s next president. But I absolutely of an end-time Jeroboam. “And the high places of Isaac shall do not believe that at all. Mr. Trump will weather this storm be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; too. Regardless of what the media says or how things look right and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword” now, I am confident Donald Trump will remain president. I am also certain that we are about to see some of the biggest frauds exposed perhaps ever! The radical left in America Why? Because a Biden presidency is contrary to Bible prophecy. have done everything in their power for the last four years Unfulfilled Prophecies to discredit and destroy For more than 30 years now, I have explained many biblical prophecies that describe the events that will precede the President Donald Trump. return of Jesus Christ. Most of these revolve directly around Somehow, President Trump has the United States and the British Commonwealth, the modern descendants of biblical Israel, and the Jewish state. (Knowing weathered all those storms. the identity of origins of America and Britain is fundamental to understanding Bible prophecy; you can learn about this truth (verse 9). When God says, “I will not again pass by them any in The United States and Britain in Prophecy.) more,” He is talking about the time of Jeroboam. The Bible has a lot to say about Donald Trump and his To understand events in America right now, we must under- presidency. The main prophecies are in the book of Kings and stand the identity of this Jeroboam. This end-time figure is all in Amos 7, and several other passages speak more generally the way through this prophecy, from verse 9 to verse 17. As I about America under his leadership. God cannot lie! These have explained for more than four years now, this end-time end-time prophecies must be and will be fulfilled! Jeroboam is Donald Trump, America’s president. And these The prophecy in Amos 7 is crucial to understanding the 2020 prophecies about Jeroboam have not yet been completely election. It is about Mr. Trump, and much of it is yet unfulfilled! fulfilled, which is why Mr. Trump must remain president! JANUARY 2021 1 Jeroboam I Nevertheless, the Bible records something remarkable: God More is revealed about this end-time Jeroboam in the book of actually used this unrighteous king to help the nation! Kings, which records the history of Jeroboam i and Jeroboam ii, Notice carefully: “He [Jeroboam ii] restored the coast of Israel two kings in ancient Israel. Remember, the book of Kings is from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, accord- part of the former prophets; it contains prophecy for right now. ing to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the And Amos 7 reveals that Mr. Trump leads America in the same hand of his servant Jonah …” (verse 25). Israel was still in a sinful spirit as these ancient kings! state. So it wasn’t because of the repentance or righteousness of When King Solomon died, the nation of Israel split in two. the Israelites and their king that it experienced this resurgence. Jeroboam i ruled the kingdom of Israel, which was comprised Why then did God bless the nation in ways not seen since of the 10 northern tribes. King Jeroboam was a bold and tal- Solomon? “For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was ented leader, but he had terrible flaws that upset God deeply. very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any Jeroboam’s essential sin is recorded in 1 Kings 12: “And helper for Israel. And the Lord said not that he would blot out Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by to the house of David” (verse 26). He feared that the people the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash” (verses 26-27). would return to the house of David in Jerusalem. The 10 tribes Israel was in bitter affliction—on the verge of collapse! You had just broken away, and Jeroboam i wanted to keep them could say the same about America (and the rest of the nations separated from King David’s throne. God had even explained of Israel) today: It is in bitter affliction! the importance of the house of David to Jeroboam (read Anciently, had God not intervened, the devil’s plan to blot out 1 Kings 11:29-39), but he rejected God’s instruction. the name of Israel would have prevailed! But God granted mercy Jeroboam worked hard to prevent his people from looking to when Israel really didn’t deserve it. Rather than sending Israel King David’s legacy of faith and obedience. He went so far as to into captivity at that time, God used this king to save Israel and establish an entirely new religious system in Israel—a religious give it one last age of prosperity before Assyrian conquest. God system that oriented around himself. “Whereupon the king took saved Israel—“by the hand of” King Jeroboam ii. counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It Despite the curses, and despite Jeroboam’s personal wicked- is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O ness and the nation’s sins, Jeroboam ended up reigning 41 years! Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt” (1 Kings He was the longest-reigning king in the northern kingdom’s 12:28). Jeroboam took them right back to the false gods they had history. While most other kings died by intrigue or betrayal, before they knew the true God! Jeroboam did not suffer from such violence and curses. The Jeroboam then polluted the priesthood by ordaining priests nation experienced relative strength and stability, even prosper- from “the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of ity. This resurgence was not because of any personal greatness Levi” (verse 31). He changed the dates of God’s sacred holy days or leadership skill by Jeroboam.