JANUARY 2021 | THETRUMPET.COM

Flaw in Mideast peace deals Abraham Lincoln’s view on tearing down sacred statues COVID-19’s economic impact Will blockchain block out America? 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

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. It was because God took pity on so they would differ from those kept in Jerusalem (verses 32-33). Israel in its affliction. It was because God did not want the name He rigged the system so he could lead the people and keep them of Israel blotted out. It was because God saved Israel! away from the house of David. That was his great sin! 2 Kings 14:26-27 show that God used Jeroboam ii as “a savior.” Jeroboam i created a false religious system built on contempt This is also true of the modern-day Jeroboam. It is a temporary for King David’s throne and legacy. This religion was perpetu- salvation, just as it was under Jeroboam ii before Assyria ated by all of Israel’s kings after him. Not one of Israel’s kings finally conquered the nation. Still, God uses this man to ensure was righteous! Satan and the men he uses do not blot out the name of Israel! This same sin is being committed today! There is a powerful And this job is not yet finished! religious dimension to Donald Trump’s presidency. In many The modern Jeroboam doesn’t know any of this, but the respects, his presidency is underpinned by support from prophecy in Amos 7 shows that God will explain it to him religious leaders and people—but the religion of Jeroboam is before it’s over. We have to get this message to him, and we false religion! haven’t done so yet. This is another reason I am confident Jeroboam is not going to disappear from the scene! Jeroboam II In 2 Kings 14 we learn about King Jeroboam ii, who reigned Israel’s Affliction during the first half of the eighth century b.c. During the rule 2 Kings 14:26 speaks of “the affliction of Israel, that it was of this Jeroboam, Israel experienced a sensational national very bitter.” As there was anciently, there are forces “afflicting” resurgence; it was a time of prosperity and growth. However, Israel, seeking to bring it down. These forces attacking Amer- toward the end of his reign, the kingdom began to suffer. ica today are terribly destructive—and the worst of them are Within a few years of his death, Israel was brutally conquered within the nation. They want to destroy traditional America, by the mighty Assyrian Empire. especially its Judeo-Christian heritage and its history with God. Jeroboam ii ruled in the same spirit as Jeroboam i: “And he (My free booklet America Under Attack explains this.) did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not Looking at this modern-day Jeroboam, you have to say God from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel gave Israel a “savior”—at least to the extent that He wouldn’t let to sin” (verse 24). King Jeroboam ii was not a righteous man. these enemies bring down the nation. Donald Trump has been He did evil and committed the same sins against God and the blocking this movement to “blot out the name of Israel [which throne of David that the first Jeroboam had. includes America] from under heaven.” 2 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Is his job finished? No, it isn’t. So I don’t believe at all that he plenty of evidence. But it is also absurd when you think about will depart from the scene! I still believe these prophecies are what the left has been doing for the past several years! You 100 percent accurate. would have to be naive not to think they are committing great This means this nation is about to be shocked. I believe frauds with this election. you are going to see frauds exposed like you’ve never even imag- Just look at the way it all happened: Several of the states ined! In a sense, you could say the left is fighting against God President Trump was winning on election night simply stopped and God’s prophecy! Who do you suppose will win that battle? counting for four or five hours. They were all synchronized. I In fact, prophecy shows that many earthshaking events are believe Democrats were beginning to see that they didn’t have certain to happen in the next few years. We are going to see enough votes—so they had to find a way to get them. things unfold that will astound us perhaps every week! Then, as mail-in ballots were counted, everything changed. I don’t know exactly how this will play out, but I believe God Those states all ended up switching over to former Vice Presi- is allowing it to happen this way to ensure that the evil and dent Biden. Isn’t that amazing? corruption in America are exposed! Mail-in ballots open the door for terrible fraud. Did you There is a spiritual dimension to what the radical left is know that among the 27 countries in the European Union, 17 doing that we must also understand. ban mail-in voting except in very rare cases? They know how The prophecy in Revelation 12:7-9 speaks of a war in heaven in susceptible such ballots are to fraud. Yet Democrats have used which Satan and his demons were cast down to Earth. This hap- the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to encourage as much pened in the end time. Now they are all confined here, and you mail-in voting as possible—and even to extend deadlines past A great deal of evidence has emerged of voting irregularities—and it always favors Joe Biden. Yet many speak as though there is nothing to be concerned about.

Election Day. I truly believe they did that to enable themselves to steal this election—and I say that without apology! They have a long history of using Supporters of President Trump gather outside the room where absentee voter fraud to sway elections. ballots for the 2020 election are counted in Detroit, Michigan. A great deal of disturbing evidence has been emerging of voting irregularities and fraud—and it always favors Joe Biden! Yet many Republicans see evidence of Satan’s influence increasing all the time. In verse and supposedly impartial journalists speak as though there is 9, the devil is referred to as “the great dragon … which deceiveth nothing to be concerned about. They say everything was above the whole world.” Satan’s deceptions are incredibly potent! board and that Donald Trump should concede. This shows Verse 10 calls Satan “the accuser of our brethren … which shocking naivety and delusion! accused them before our God day and night.” Satan continually Just remember what the Democrats and leftists have done in keeps grinding out his hatred! Verse 12 shows that the devil is the past! The Steele dossier was nothing but lies created by the in a rage because he knows his time is short. The way he views radical left. For three years they used it as “proof” that Donald it, he has nothing to lose. Trump was a Russian agent—and they knew from beginning to Satan’s goal is to blot out the name of Israel “from under end that it was nothing but lies! So do you think they wouldn’t heaven”—from all over the Earth! That is his passion! And steal some votes? I would be shocked if they didn’t! That America is the superpower among the end-time nations of report proved to be treasonous. Now they have moved on to Israel, so he has a special hatred for America and is working something perhaps even more treasonous! These are crimes furiously to destroy it. that must be brought to justice! The devil is ultimately the one behind what is happening. He is inspiring the radical left. This election fraud shows how The Left’s Goal determined and hate-filled he is. Nobody can stop him but God, Many on the left want a civil war. Some have already declared and this world has not learned that. war! They certainly want to bring the nation to the point where they can pounce on their opponents and destroy them. And Election Fraud they are going all out! The mainstream media insist there is “no evidence” the Demo- We don’t have to speculate on the goals of the left. They are

JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES KOWALSKY/AFP/GETTY JEFF crats tried to steal this election. This is patently false: There is pretty outspoken if you pay attention! For example, Mark Zaid JANUARY 2021 3 was the attorney for the cia employee who “blew the whis- Supreme Court tle” on President Trump for his phone call to Ukraine. On In the January 2019 Trumpet issue, I wrote an article titled “Is Jan. 30, 2017—just 11 days into President Trump’s term—Zaid America’s Supreme Court in Prophecy?” This article explained tweeted this: “#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebel- how Amos 7 prophesied that Mr. Trump would gain firm lion. #impeachment will follow ultimately. #lawyers.” Later control of the U.S. government and, specifically, his success in that day he tweeted, “#coup has started. As one falls, two more appointing judges to the U.S. Supreme Court. will take their place. #rebellion #impeachment.” This was one Amos 7:12-13 describe a religious man speaking to Jeroboam of the left’s highly placed lawyers speaking openly of a coup— and conspiring to expel the man who delivers this warning trying to overthrow the government! from the country. Who is this end-time “Amaziah”? He is America has changed like you have never seen it change—in described as “the priest of Bethel” (verse 10). Bethel is a name just months or even weeks—into a different country! It is not the for God’s house, which spiritually is the true Church of God. As country it was a couple years ago—or even at the start of 2020! I explain in my booklet The Lion Has Roared, this is prophetic And if you were to get the wrong leader in charge, things would quickly grow far worse because there are powers behind him that want to rule this nation—and rule it their way! They don’t want freedom. They tell you what to do, and you have to do it, or else! The left doesn’t want opposition. They want tyranny! That is because they are following Satan the devil, who has a stran- glehold on them! Powerful tech companies and corporations are willing to spend billions of dollars to get what they want. They’re not concerned about the will of the people. One billionaire spent $100 million in Florida to beat Donald Trump. $100 million! They spent a total of $7 billion in this campaign—compared to the Republicans’ $4 billion, which itself is a lot of money! The media, the high-tech industry, the educators, Hollywood—all these people have tremendous wealth—and they’re all together! And if they can win it with money and cheating or any other way, they will do it! Following the election, the tech companies censored and even deleted posts and messages that questioned the results. This is now common! What an affliction on our nation!

They get away with it so easily too. After all, none of them Amy Coney Barrett was nominated and confirmed ever seem to get punished for their transgressions. After the to the Supreme Court horrible Mueller ordeal, was anybody sent to jail? I haven’t on a very compressed timetable. seen it—yet they committed treason! There may be investiga- tions, but these drag on, and after a while people forget about it. So the crimes go unpunished. If you repeatedly let criminals go, they come to think they can do anything and get away with language for a minister who comes from the Worldwide it! And they are just about right! Church of God (wcg). This church changed its doctrines But maybe God has something in store for them that completely in recent years and turned itself into a mainstream they don’t know about! Protestant group called Grace Communion International. It is stunning to me how few Republicans are backing Pres- Amaziah is an arrogant man who cast God’s truth to the ident Trump. Those who don’t are truly ignorant of what is ground after the death of Herbert W. Armstrong (Daniel 8:11-12). happening in this nation. He is a man who lies profusely. That lying spirit plagues America Donald Trump certainly has his problems, and God sees today. It’s the spirit that drove those working against us in a six- those—but He chose him as a savior, temporarily, for Amer- year court battle with the wcg. And it is the spirit that will moti- ica! People don’t understand that and fail to recognize what is vate those who oppose us in the scenario described in Amos 7. really happening! This prophecy has not yet been fulfilled; this is another rea- CHENG MENGTONG/CHINA NEWS SOURCE/GETTY IMAGES I also marvel that so many people voted for the radical son Mr. Trump must remain president. This means we should platform the Democratic Party has embraced. They want to expect Amaziah, this false priest, to come on the scene soon! encourage illegal immigrants, even giving them free health But notice what Amaziah tells God’s prophet, on behalf care, welfare and education. They want to ravage the economy of Jeroboam: “O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of to combat “climate change.” They accept radical racist ideals Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: But prophesy and far-out sexual practices. They applaud lawlessness and a not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, and spirit of insurrection. It doesn’t take much to understand that it is the king’s court” (Amos 7:12-13). in a democracy, when that many people are so ignorant, it is Here is what I wrote in that 2019 article: “‘Prophesy not again over. This nation is lost, virtually. any more at Bethel,’ Amaziah says, referring to the capital 4 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET city—we could liken that to Washington, D.C., today—‘for The prophecy in Amos 7 strongly indicates that Mr. Trump it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.’ When this and the man who fills the role of Amaziah will reject God’s says “the king’s chapel,” it is talking about a place of worship warning and then use the Supreme Court to expel God’s Church that belongs to the king.” So the “king’s chapel” refers to from America. This prophecy has not happened—which is Mr. Trump’s powerful religious following, and the “religious” another reason why Mr. Trump must remain president! nature of his presidency in general. What does “king’s court” mean? That same 2019 article A Light Always answers. “[T]he word ‘king’s’ is a different Hebrew word than When Jeroboam i was on the scene, God sent the Prophet when he talked about ‘the king’s chapel.’ It means kingdom. Ahijah to tell him that He would strip the kingdom of The King James Version margin reads, ‘house of the kingdom.’ Israel from Solomon and give Jeroboam rule over 10 tribes Wycliffe translates it, ‘house of the realm.’ This is not a reli- (1 Kings 11:29-35). Then He told Jeroboam, “And unto his son gious entity, it is something else: the nation’s house. It is not will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there” (verse 36). Justice Barrett’s Wherever you find King David’s throne, you find a light! Wher- nomination could prove ever you find someone declaring the message about the throne decisive in this election of David, you will find understanding, truth and hope—light! What a blessing and miracle to understand these prophe- and to Mr. Trump cies and this truth! Thank God for the light of this word! remaining president. In verse 37, God promised Jeroboam tremendous blessings if he would just obey the way David did. Anciently, King Jeroboam and Israel would have been blessed enormously if something that is following Jeroboam, yet it they only would have followed David’s example; if they would favors him. It is helping him in some way. What have upheld the religious practices and the law established by is this referring to prophetically? I believe God through King David! this non-religious entity, the kingdom’s Today, God delivers the same message to Donald Trump house, is referring to the United States and America! We must submit to God and His laws and message Supreme Court.” as they are shared and declared through the throne of David! Later in the article I prophesied: “I believe The light of David’s throne continues to shine brightly! this prophetic account in Amos 7 implies The question is: Will we let it shed light on our flaws and sins that there is a conservative advantage in the and stir us to repentance? Supreme Court, one that favors Jeroboam.” We all must realize that no politician can save America. The Fast-forward to today. Less than two Republicans cannot save this nation. President Trump cannot. months before the election, on the evening of Only God can! We must see Him at work in what is happen- Sept. 18, 2020, something remarkable happened: ing here. He is going to use these events to expose the evil and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg corruption in America. And He will ensure that every one of died. Her death shocked the nation and caused His prophecies is fulfilled. Just watch! a political and judicial sensation. It also created Something has to happen, and for God to fulfill this proph- an opportunity for President Trump. Within days, the president ecy, it will have to be a miracle. But He is a God of miracles! nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacant seat on the court. And He is the one who ultimately places leaders in power Barrett is a constitutional originalist and very conservative. On (Daniel 4:17, 25; Psalm 75:6-7; Romans 13:1). October 26, she was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. These events are going to shock a nation that has already What a remarkable turn of events: Justice Barrett was the turned the page on our current president. But they should not third judge appointed by Mr. Trump to the U.S. Supreme shock you. Watch what happens, and when this comes Court! Her appointment just days before the election gave con- to pass you will be able to recognize servatives a significant advantage in the court. I believe it also God’s guiding hand! n marked the fulfillment of the prophecy in Amos 7:13! Justice Barrett’s nomination could prove decisive in this election and to Mr. Trump remaining president! After the election, attorneys across America, including Do you want Mr. Trump’s lawyers, filed lawsuits in several states alleging voter fraud. It is likely that some of these cases will end up in the to know what Supreme Court. I don’t know, but I would think the Supreme God is doing? Court is going to have to rule on this election eventually. The fact that Justice Barrett will be there when that happens increases God is simply keeping His word, the odds that the law will be upheld! And that would make but do you know what His Word all the difference for the president. I would think that is the way says? To find out, order your free God is going to solve this, but He may have other ideas. copy of Great Again. VOTE!

This is not just a contested election. BY STEPHEN FLURRY 6 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Bowe Bergdahl, leaving Americans to die to allow easily falsified mail-in ballots in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary “because of covid.” Clinton’s secret server, a nuclear deal to It’s easy to view the latest headline save the Iranian regime, spying on Asso- news, then flip over to a different chan- ciated Press and Fox News journalists, nel. But step back for a moment and look spying on members of Congress, spying at all of this. on the Trump campaign, and spying on Concentration of power in bureaucra- everyday Americans en masse? cies, control of news apparatus, control That was all before Jan. 20, 2017. After of technology, surveillance, spying and Donald Trump became the sitting presi- vote-rigging are now facts of life in the dent of the United States, Obama’s Federal United States of America. Bureau of Investigation continued spying This is all aimed at the same goal. This merica is embroiled on him and forced National Security is not just politics as usual. This is a in a rancorous Adviser Michael Flynn from office after revolution! election battle. Is only 22 days. From month five of Trump’s The radical left is making a coor- this just partisan presidency to month 27, the Department dinated, sustained, powerful, illegal, bickering and polit- of Justice tried to bring down the admin- immoral effort to seize power over the ical posturing? Is it istration with an illegal, politically moti- United States! a random, isolated vated investigation based on allegations of This is easy to forget while there’s scuffle here and Russia collusion that it knew were false. still food in the refrigerator and a game there while the rest The news media, which now include to watch on tv, but strong nations do of the nation sleeps former Obama spymasters, opened a decline. Revolutions do occur. And peacefully? Is it a phase that will eventu- continuous all-out assault on the presi- America—as is becoming increasingly Aally pass? Or is it something more? dent’s policies and legitimacy. Liberals obvious every week—is not immune. In recent memory, one major crisis raged against his judicial appointments. after another has dominated the news, People shouted administration officials Declaring the Winner only to give way to the next crisis. At out of restaurants. Congress impeached How brazen is this effort to seize power? this point, who even remembers the president for inquiring into Joe On Election Day, the New York Times how ruthlessly leftists attacked the Biden’s Ukraine dealings. Executive posted this revealing tweet: “The role of presidency of George W. Bush? Or how branch officials criticized him, leaked declaring the winner of a presidential openly the American media showed its information, and worked against election in the U.S. falls to the news bias to help elect Barack Obama? Or him. Leftists forced the biggest-ever media. The broadcast networks and cable the deluge of Obama administration shutdown of the American economy news outlets have vowed to be prudent.” scandals: the trillion-dollar “stimulus,” and American rights, then blamed him They later posted, “We’ve deleted an ear- lying to pass Obamacare, Operation for the economic consequences, not to lier tweet that referred imprecisely to the Fast and Furious gun proliferation, the mention for coronavirus deaths. role of the news media in the U.S. presi- Internal Revenue Service targeting Then, in the lead-up to the 2020 dential election. The news media projects conservatives, justifying drone strikes election, technology executives blocked winners and reports results; it does not on American citizens, pardoning traitor potentially incriminating evidence declare the winner of the election.” of massive Biden The news media’s role is to report family corruption facts—including credible evidence of and censored the election fraud, recounts and other per- president and his tinent information. But it has instead supporters. Main- colluded to declare that America is now stream journalists coming under a radical new administra- openly and routinely tion. This is no coincidence. After days called Mr. Trump of deliberating over which states to call and his supporters and when, the New York Times and every “racist” and “liars” other major news network in America without evidence synchronized perfectly with each other, or even explanation. with the Biden campaign and with the The infamously Democratic Party on Saturday, Novem- terrible polling of ber 7, at 11:30 a.m. when they decided 2016 returned as Joe Biden would become the 46th pres- a method of sup- ident of the United States. pressing voters. And A few days later, the Department of Democrats launched Homeland Security declared that we

This is not just a contested election. BY STEPHEN FLURRY GODDARD/TRUMPET JULIA and won lawsuits had just held “the most secure election JANUARY 2021 7 in American history.” Other security even family members of radical Califor- chief. He is now listed on Joe Biden’s agencies agreed. nia Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Dianne official website as a volunteer member This, despite the fact that when Dem- Feinstein. The company also allegedly of his Department of Homeland Security ocrat Al Gore challenged a presidential bribed election officials to purchase “agency review team.” election for 37 days in 2000, the media their systems. Despite the fact that election software said he needed his day in court. Despite the fact that Dominion soft- and hardware is not just vulnerable but And despite the following. ware can allegedly monitor and manip- likely malicious; despite the fact that ulate votes in real time using a portable millions of votes came from easily falsi- ‘Irregularities’ drive, or through Internet access, even fied mail-in ballots; despite the fact that Journalists, commentators, tech execu- from foreign nations. It can allegedly numerous statistical patterns of the “offi- tives, electoral officials, Democrats and ignore signatures, ignore down-ballot cial” vote vary wildly from previous elec- other elites expect you to believe that votes, or catalog votes for one candidate tions. Despite the fact that people were a majority of Americans voted for Joe while deleting those of another. Some misled and pressured on Election Day, Biden to become president. witnesses have filed affidavits saying the some people voted in multiple states, You are to believe this despite the fact software was designed for the purpose of ballots were counted multiple times, that voters awarded Republicans signif- manipulating elections. The company has non-eligible ballots were counted, sev- icant gains across the board—except for been implicated in several election “irreg- eral swing states inexplicably stopped the presidency. That President Trump ularities,” including altering the 2004 reporting their counts on election night, received 10 million more votes than he election in notoriously corrupt Venezuela. several batches of ballots arrived in the did in the last election, including more Despite the fact that Smartmatic, a dead of night (all favoring one candidate votes from women and minorities: 4 mil- company that manufactures voting and not even other candidates in his own lion more total votes than Hillary Clin- machines, is based outside the United party), tens of thousands of votes arrived ton or Barack Obama ever received. That States, like Dominion. Its chairman has after Election Day, some Post Office career politician Joe Biden conducted a been a former British leftist politician workers say their supervisors illegally campaign largely from his basement, with ties to far-left billionaire activist backdated ballots, some cities and dis- took few questions from reporters, held George Soros. The American subsidiary tricts reported improbably or impossibly tiny, infrequent campaign events, then of Smartmatic is led by Peter Neffenger, high voter turnouts, observers from one supposedly received more votes than who was President Barack Obama’s party were blocked from observing the President Trump—or any other presi- Transportation Security Administration counting process while other election dential candidate in American history. Despite the numerous “irregularities” that have emerged about the vote and the counting of the vote. Prior to the election, BATTLE FOR GOD’S TRUTH members of Congress wrote Dominion Voting Systems that its software was y father has made bold claims before. One of the boldest actually vulnerable to manipulation. A mysteri- had to do with a significant lawsuit and Bible prophecy. ous update was uploaded to Dominion M I wrote about this in my book Raising the Ruins, which is the history of software on the eve of the election. Vot- how the Philadelphia Church of God, publisher of the Trumpet, began publishing ing software “glitches” on Election Day Herbert W. Armstrong’s book Mystery of the Ages. This was a bold move, because switched votes from one candidate to the the church Mr. Armstrong had founded, the Worldwide Church of God, held other. Dominion’s director of security the copyright, was using it to destroy and censor everything Mr. Armstrong had and strategy graduated from the Uni- taught, and was much larger and wealthier than the pcg. My father made that versity of California–Berkley, perhaps move anyway. He believed God inspired Mystery of the Ages and would work the most radical leftist university in the miracles to get it back into print! country, was involved in a radical online The Worldwide Church of God sued us. We kept printing. We group that opposed “racial prejudice,” even began printing Mr. Armstrong’s other major and posted Antifa manifestos and songs books: The Incredible Human Potential, The Missing about killing police to his now-hidden Dimension in Sex and others, promoting and adver- Facebook page. A Dominion lobbyist was tising them and distributing them (for free, as all our “vote protection director” for the 2012 literature and Mr. Armstrong’s literature is free and Obama campaign, almost all recorded always has been). political donations of Dominion employ- We won in district court. Worldwide appealed. ees are for Democrats, and one former The case dragged on for six years! Then California’s Dominion employee moved on to a job Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against us: The at a state Democratic Party headquar- Philadelphia Church of God could not print Mystery ters, then ran for mayor as a Democrat. of the Ages and must pay damages to the Worldwide Dominion Voting Systems is also report- Church of God. We appealed to the Supreme Court, edly connected to staff members and but it declined to review the case. 8 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET workers cheered against them, and dead journalists. These are not the actions of fbi until after the vote is certified, if at people voted. lawful electoral officials. These are not all, and open himself up to even more Despite all this, and despite the fact the actions of representatives who serve wrath from leftists. that all these “irregularities” happened their voters. These are the actions of a “Now that the voting has concluded, it to benefit one candidate—the same can- faction attempting to seize power. is imperative that the American people didate that mainstream journalists and can trust that our elections were con- partisan election officials support—you Justice ducted in such a way that the outcomes are expected to believe that a majority The role of the Department of Justice accurately reflect the will of the voters,” of Americans voted for Joe Biden to is to investigate and prosecute crimes. Mr. Barr wrote. become president. It appears impossible that numerous The radical left attack on the election And you’re expected to ignore the fact major election crimes were not com- is an attack not only on President Trump that media and tech companies are even mitted in the 2020 U.S. presidential but on the American electoral system now working overtime to censor infor- election. So Attorney General Bill itself and on the American people’s trust mation about Smartmatic, Dominion, Barr published a letter on November 9 in their own government! the Biden family, other Democrats and empowering prosecutors to investi- Mr. Barr’s letter specifies that fraud anything that reduces the chances of gate voter fraud in the United States that would not affect a federal election radical leftists amassing power. presidential elections. He wrote that should not be investigated until after The radical Democrat media-tech prosecutors can “pursue substantial elections are certified, and only those complex is betting that enough of their allegations of voting and vote tabulation that could affect the outcome should be opponents are too confused, unin- irregularities prior to the certification of investigated immediately. formed, uncaring or scared to challenge elections in your jurisdictions in certain This is an even-handed, lawful their bold claim. Nothing to see here. cases, as I have already done in specific directive for the protection of elections, Go about your business—under the instances.” Prosecutors normally don’t which are the basis of the American Biden-Harris administration. investigate fraud until after an election constitutional republic. Yet it enraged Do you believe these elites who claim has been certified, so this is a big move leftists! They accuse the attorney gen- there is “no evidence” of fraud? Do you by Attorney General Barr. eral of meddling in an election to impact believe that this was the most secure The attorney general is indicating its outcome because he is investigating election in American history? that there are big problems. Otherwise, evidence of meddling in an election. These are not the hallmarks of a he likely would not send such a letter In response to Barr’s memo, Richard secure election. These are not the to all United States attorneys, assistant Pilger, director of the Department of actions of free, independent, unbiased attorneys general and the director of the Justice’s election crime unit, resigned immediately. Pilger protested that the attorney general was breaking a 40-year precedent by not waiting until the It looked like there was no way to get Mystery of the Ages to the world. It looked election was “certified and uncontested.” like Worldwide would not only censor that wonderful book but take thousands or Was his motive altruistic? It turns out perhaps millions of dollars away from the only Church trying to spread its message! that Pilger was appointed by the Obama Ralph Helge, a member of and lawyer for the wcg, wrote to a former pcg mem- administration in 2010, immediately ber that my father had “exhausted all legal remedies available to him. Any attempt worked with Lois Lerner at the irs in of [the Philadelphia Church of God] to acquire any court ordered right to print the infamous scandal that blocked non- [Mystery of the Ages] is over, done, finished. Legally there is no place else for him profit organizations with “tea party” to go on this issue. I don’t know how else I can say it. [The Philadelphia Church of or “patriot” from receiving tax-exempt God’s] only ‘right’ is to stand before the bar of justice and have damages assessed status, then gave Lerner a free pass from against them and attorney’s fees for the wrong that it has committed.” the elections crime branch. But appar- We did have some other legal options, but the situation did look pretty bad for us! ently his integrity will not allow him to Yet even in this situation, my father was adamant that “one way or the other, investigate election fraud. God will provide a way for us to mail that book again.” He said that Habakkuk This is the “deep state” at work! 3:2 and other scriptures were prophecies that God would “revive thy work in President Trump and those who the midst of the years.” Just a month after Helge’s victorious-sounding letter, the support him like Attorney General Barr Worldwide Church of God abruptly and inexplicably contacted us to sell us copy- are facing opposition and even treason rights to Mystery of the Ages and 18 other books and booklets by Mr. Armstrong! within their own government. My father, To many members and former members of the Worldwide Church of God, this Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry, was a stunning reversal. But we expected it! Because my father expected it. And wrote about this in “Can President he expected it because a miraculous copyright victory was absolutely necessary Trump Get Control of His Own Divided to fulfill Bible prophecy! Government?” (theTrumpet.com/20876). The United States of America may soon experience its own miraculous victory He called attention to how Barr “seemed as God intervenes and fulfills the prophecies He has recorded. We expect it, to come from nowhere” and noted based on Bible prophecy. that his nomination and confirmation JANUARY 2021 9 occurred on significant dates. (For more God’s Word warning message to the highest levels of on these significant dates, request Janu- It seems we are discovering more tumul- American government! ary 16—God’s Miracle Day.) He said that tuous, shocking news about the U.S. God is using these events and these he thought Barr would help President government every week! It is coming figures, and others, to show the nation Trump get control of his own divided so fast that people are finding it hard to and the world the truth: Our nation and government, writing, “When you begin even process. But Bible prophecy makes our world is hopeless without God! He to apply the law, as Barr is, lawbreakers the major factors crystal clear. is proving to mankind that our last and get nervous. … There are already whis- We live in the time when Amos 7 will only hope is to turn to Him! America’s tleblowers who see what Barr is doing be fulfilled. Verses 12-13 show a proph- days of “normality” are over. The nonvio- and are coming forward to reveal the ecy that King Jeroboam (fulfilled by lent war over control of our government wrongdoing they are privy to. I believe President Trump) will remain in power. is about to erupt into an ultra-violent that God had a hand in Mr. Barr coming These verses say he will have support explosion. All of us will be affected. It’s time to act. As Jesus Christ told us “Now that the voting has concluded, it is in Matthew 26:41, Watch—and pray! imperative that the American people can People are focused on this lawsuit or trust that our elections were conducted in that recount, but you must look deeper such a way that the outcomes accurately than that. Look at the deeper causes reflect the will of the voters.” and effects. Look at the fundamental william barr principles. Write God back into history and current events—and apply the Bible along. Somebody had to come in, reverse from a “chapel” (particularly evangeli- to the 2020 election! what the Obama administration had cals) and “the king’s [kingdom’s] court” Trump-supporting and conservative done, and help Jeroboam save Israel! (the U.S. Supreme Court and other fed- Americans might cheer these revela- And Amos 7:13 indicates that the pres- eral agencies). In fact, these verses show tions exposing the radical left. And ident is going to gain control of what is that he will receive, and reject, a warning the truth should come out. The truth done in those powerful federal buildings from God’s true Church, the publisher of is coming out. We will likely see more and be able to rule the country.” the Trumpet. Based on this prophecy in election bombshells almost by the week. President Trump fulfills the proph- particular, as well as others, my father But these shocking revelations of an ecy of God using a leader like King immediately rejected the declaration of elaborate plot, high-level criminality Jeroboam ii to lead a temporary resur- Joe Biden as the winner of the election. and massive voter fraud don’t just gence in the United States, one of the We don’t know exactly how these show that President Trump should nations that traces back to ancient Israel. prophecies will be fulfilled, but we win another term. It shows our entire Radical leftists and deep state elites know what to watch. Watch closely what electoral and political system is corrupt were daring President Trump to tell the happens in the Department of Justice, and compromised! In some cities, it has truth and thereby challenge the entire especially with Attorney General Barr, been that way for a lifetime! electoral system. And that is exactly and see how he helps the president get Even when President Trump emerges what he did. He has refused to concede more control over the largely hostile from this somehow still holding onto the election and called out voter fraud. executive branch and against the bra- power, the truth—that our system of But the faction that opposes him, zen election fraud. Watch the Supreme government is hopelessly corrupt and including former President Obama, is Court, particularly new Justice Amy vulnerable to enemies foreign and brazen, evil and powerful. It expects—it Coney Barrett. Prophecy shows these domestic who are willing to manipulate commands—that people follow along. branches of government will play it—will be plain for everyone to see. We And many people are following along. major roles in exposing the corruption need a lot more than brave whistleblow- Even most conservatives and Christians in American politics—corruption ers and top-notch lawyers to save this who strongly oppose Biden and the that must be exposed! And watch for country. We need the Bible, we need radical Democratic Party feel there is a prophet of God to take a powerful God, and we need repentance! n nothing they can do. But when practically every prominent and powerful voice says, This is the way it’s going to be—no dissent tolerated, that WILL AMERICA SURVIVE? is when God’s servants speak up and More people are finally asking this question seriously. say, This is what God says! And that’s The Trumpet has been answering it for 30 years. CHIP SOMODEVILLA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES exactly what my father did immediately Not based on pollsters or analysts or pundits, but based after the media declared Joe Biden pres- on a book written thousands of years ago. The Bible ident-elect. When everyone, including prophesies the future of the American experiment. many conservatives, felt the election To learn what is about to happen to your nation, request was over, he boldly claimed it wasn’t! our free booklets America Under Attack and Great Again.

10 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Europe vs. Donald Trump European leaders are boldly attacking America and its president. BY RICHARD PALMER

hen running for reelec- just how much Europe has turned election, he worked hard to boost Biden, tion, United States against the United States. who is a Catholic. President Donald Trump Typically, Americans think in In October, he published his longest faced off against a host terms of “the West vs. the rest”—the encyclical, which the Guardian’s Cath- Wof domestic enemies: Democrats, of English-speaking nations plus Europe erine Pepinster said “waded right into course; journalists; analysts; professors; versus the rest of the world. This elec- some of the key issues dominating the executives; actors—just about anyone tion has proved that Europe and Amer- U.S. presidential election” (Oct. 6, 2020). who could be classified as elite. ica are enemies, especially if Donald She noted that “the Democrats may well But he was also battling a host of for- Trump is in charge. be cheered” by much of what the pope eign enemies, including Germany, the wrote and concluded, “This clarion call European Union and the pope. Pope Campaigns for Biden from across the Atlantic could well be an None of these foreigners are legally Europeans’ dislike for President Trump election clincher.” entitled to vote, of course, and there is is well known. There is little that most This encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, makes only so much they can do to influence European leaders can do to persuade clear what the pope thinks about Presi- an election outcome. But you have to Americans to change their minds. dent Trump and about the foundations of understand the influence they exerted Except for one leader. America’s political and economic systems. in both campaigning against President With 51 million self-identified Cath- The pope makes the case for migration Trump and in claiming he lost to Joe olics in America, what the pope says and condemns “[c]ertain populist polit-

DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES, JOCHEN ZICK/GETTY IMAGES, LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, IMAGES, MARIN/AFP/GETTY LUDOVIC IMAGES, ZICK/GETTY JOCHEN IMAGES, ANGERER/GETTY DREW IMAGES BENEDETTI/CORBIS/GETTY ALESSANDRA IMAGES, KAHANA/AFP/GETTY MENAHEN Biden—the lengths they went to reveal carries weight. In the run-up to the ical regimes, as well as certain liberal JANUARY 2021 11 economic approaches” that “maintain It promotes a radical view of World Elmar Brok, one of Germany’s senior that an influx of migrants is to be pre- War ii. After condemning the Holocaust, members of the European Parliament, vented at all costs.” He singles out Latino the next paragraph says, “Nor must we gave a similar warning, saying, “If it is immigration into the U.S. for praise, forget the atomic bombs dropped on blatant, the EU would have to quickly saying these people bring “values and Hiroshima and Nagasaki”—implying take a position. It couldn’t act differently possibilities that can greatly enrich the that America’s use of atomic weapons to than it does in other instances.” He was United States.” end that war was as evil as Nazi Germa- saying that the EU should get ready to The pope took an even more direct ny’s murder of 6 million Jews. American treat the U.S. the same way it treats shot at a specific Trump administration soldiers were fighting, not to free the countries like Belarus: refusing to rec- policy by writing, “those who raise walls world from tyranny, but merely for one ognize its leader as the legitimate head will end up as slaves within the very empire that was as flawed as its enemy. of state, imposing sanctions, and so on. walls they have built.” Catholic journalist Damian Thomp- The EU is using the same rhetoric But his criticism goes deeper than the son wrote, “Francis dislikes the United the American left uses in attempting to Trump presidency. It targets the founda- States in general and its president in delegitimize President Trump. tion of the American republic. particular.” Little surprise, then, that The day after Americans voted, “Certain economically prosperous when U.S. Secretary of State Mike President Trump held the lead. As the countries tend to be proposed as Pompeo wanted to meet with the pope sun rose in Germany, journalists and cultural models for less-developed in September, he was denied. The Vati- politicians went a bit crazy. Even more countries,” he writes. For other coun- tries to copy the United States would “Some people are born into economically be a “shallow and pathetic desire to stable families, receive a fine education, grow imitate others,” which “leads to copying up well nourished, or naturally possess great and consuming in place of creating, and talent. They will certainly not need a proactive fosters low national self-esteem.” state; they need only claim their freedom.” Chapter 3 of the letter doesn’t spe- pope francis cifically mention the U.S. Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, can said the pope wanted to avoid giving extreme than their colleagues in the but it clearly mirrors many criticisms the impression that he supported any American media, German reporters made by American leftists. Equality, particular candidate before the election. claimed America is no longer the land the pope writes, is not “achieved by an The Catholic Church may not preserve of the free and is now ruled by its own abstract proclamation that ‘all men its alliance with the radical leftists for Robert Mugabe-like dictator. and women are equal.’” Believing that the long term, but as Thompson wrote, That day, Spiegel and Bild, the largest the government should stand back and “All that matters to the successor of magazine and the largest newspaper in allow individuals freedom to pursue Peter and vicar of Christ [as he believes] Germany, published stories they had happiness in their own way leads to is that, come Tuesday, Donald Trump ready that imply Mr. Trump is a mentally “radical individualism,” which is “a virus receives a good kicking.” deranged psychopath. “Psychologist Ana- that is extremely difficult to eliminate.” lyzes the U.S. President: Trump Shows “Some people are born into econom- Donald Trump the Dictator Three Personality Disorders at the Same ically stable families, receive a fine Other European leaders had nothing Time,” declared Spiegel, promising to education, grow up well nourished, or to gain and a lot to lose by openly cam- discuss “which characteristics make naturally possess great talent,” he writes. paigning against President Trump, so Donald Trump dangerous.” Bild quoted a “They will certainly not need a proactive they declined to do so. Instead, they took “communications scientist” who claimed state; they need only claim their free- it for granted that Biden would win, and that in President Trump’s behavior “the dom.” Everyone else, though, needs worried about Trump cheating. mentality of a dictator reveals itself, not something more “proactive.” “Words “What happens if Donald Trump that of a democratic politician.” like freedom, democracy or fraternity simply refuses to leave the White House, When President Trump spoke of prove meaningless,” Francis writes, even if he loses the election?” wrote voting fraud and said he probably won unless “our economic and social system Der Speigel. “Should that happen, the the election, Saskia Esken, leader of no longer produces even a single victim, stability of democracy in the United Germany’s Social Democrats party, said

a single person cast aside.” That could States would be put to the test. It could Trump’s claim means, “More than ever, ALESSANDRA BENEDETTI/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES have come from a speech by Kamala even call into question the future of … we have to defend our democratic Harris, who asserts that a just system democracy as a form of government” achievements against populist and “means we all end up at the same place.” (Oct. 16, 2020). nationalist agitation.” Martin Schulz, The pope’s letter throws the weight of Martin Schirdewan, a leader for Ger- another senior member of the party, his nearly 2,000-year-old office behind many’s Left Party, called on the Euro- said, “We in Europe are one of the last America’s radical Democrat faction. He pean Union to send in election observers bastions of parliamentary democracy.” shares that movement’s belief that the the way it does in Third World countries Manfred Weber, a senior member of U.S. is not a force for good. with dubious democratic legitimacy. the Christian Social Union party, wrote 12 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET that the divisions in America are “a says European leaders wait for an official America is likely to be focused on itself warning for Europe” and that Europe is announcement or for the incumbent to and China for some time to come.” failing to realize that “our democracies concede defeat. Not this time. are in danger.” Politico cited an anonymous EU A Multipronged Attack “Democracy in the United States has official who said European leaders Britain and America descended from long been regarded as the great, shining deliberately coordinated their congrat- ancient Israel. Both have received great example for many countries around the ulatory statements to legitimize the blessings and power not because of the world,” wrote Spiegel in its post-election American media’s pronouncement with particular merit of their people, but coverage. “No longer. That U.S. President international recognition. EU Observer because of God’s plan for mankind. Our Donald Trump would prematurely wrote that it “looked like a coordinated free book The United States and Britain declare himself the winner of the presi- dential election and accuse his political opponents of fraud, even though hun- “Whatever the final outcome of dreds of thousands of ballots still haven’t #USAElections2020, Europe needs been counted, is grotesque, absurd—and to grow up, and grow up fast.” anti-democratic. … Trump doesn’t care sophie in ‘t veld one iota about adhering to the norms that constitute a functioning democracy. Since becoming president, he has piece- effort to stop outgoing President Donald in Prophecy, by Herbert W. Armstrong, by-piece destroyed faith in his country’s Trump from challenging the result.” proves this from the Bible and explains democratic institutions” (Nov. 4, 2020). “European allies who regularly this plan. German leaders insist that a Trump clashed with Trump over defense Prosperity and power always breed victory would leave Europe as the only spending and trade were among some resentment. But if you believe the Bible, home of freedom and democracy. And of the first to congratulate Presi- then you must also believe in an evil to carry that burden, Europe will have to dent-elect Biden,” noted Foreign Policy. spirit power who works to oppose God. grow stronger. How much did Europe’s fulsome sup- If God has been blessing Britain and “Should Trump stay in office for port push other world leaders to offer America as part of His plan, you can be another four years, Europe would have swift congratulations? sure Satan is working to tear them down. to unite,” said Schulz. Dutch Member of But even the supposed Biden victory “Believe it or not, Satan the devil is European Parliament Sophie in ‘t Veld didn’t change Germany’s view that unleashing a multipronged attack on tweeted, “Whatever the final outcome democracy in America is dead. Spiegel what has until recently been the most of #USAElections2020, Europe needs to wrote that “the U.S. has often been the powerful single nation in history,” wrote grow up, and grow up fast.” anchor and guiding light of the Western Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry in world. However, the United States has “Why Is the Pope Meddling in American Intervening in a Foreign Election renounced that claim to leadership” Politics?” (theTrumpet.com/13725). “He After vote counting paused, key states (Nov. 7, 2020). is working within the population by swung toward Biden, and after four “The old certainty that the U.S. is an ally encouraging sin and perversion. He days, major American news networks Germany can count on in times of need, is turning factions within our people were ready to call the election in his regardless of any differences, no longer against one another, stirring hatred and favor. Just 15 minutes after cnn became exists,” it continued. “As such, Germany violence that are tearing us apart. He is working from within the nation through leaders that are destroying America’s values and embracing lawlessness and “Should Trump stay in office for another corruption. At the same time, he is four years, Europe would have to unite.” fomenting hatred among America’s ene- martin schulz mies, empowering them to aggressively work against the nation’s interests.” In this election, we saw that multi- the first major network to call the result, and the rest of Europe need to use this pronged attack come together. Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin next American presidency as a time to “If you look at the whole story in biblical sent his congratulations to Biden. Ger- prepare for a world in which they them- prophecy, you see that Satan has a three- many Foreign Minister Heiko Maas selves exhibit strength. They need to pronged attack,” Mr. Flurry writes in followed suit. Very soon, every EU leader learn to speak with one voice on import- America Under Attack. “First, he attacks had sent their congratulations. ant foreign policy and to consolidate their God’s Church. Second, he tears down the “[M]any European leaders cast aside power in a common defense policy. … values within the nations of Israel. Finally, caution and diplomatic protocol to swiftly “Trumpist forces could return to he will bring the Holy Roman Empire to send their good wishes to Biden,” wrote power as soon as four years from now. destroy those nations in the Great Trib-

TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, THIERRY MONASSE/GETTY IMAGES MONASSE/GETTY THIERRY IMAGES, SCHWARZ/AFP/GETTY TOBIAS Politico (Nov. 7, 2020). Standard protocol And this polarized, unpredictable ulation. That is Satan’s master plan for JANUARY 2021 13 destroying spiritual and physical Israel!” Ezekiel 5 describes the same time gifts, these powers are turning against That Holy Roman Empire refers to a period, specifying that destruction the U.S. united European power, led by the Cath- comes on the modern nations of Israel Germany’s attitude toward President olic Church—exactly the power now stage by stage. Destruction begins Trump shows it is already turning saying publicly that it must strengthen within the nation: People die in the against America. But America hasn’t itself in response to President Trump middle of cities. Then other nations even come close to realizing this yet. and America in general. attack, first by a starvation-inducing The “multipronged attack” Mr. Flurry The radical left is dividing America. siege—cutting America off from world warned about years ago is coming The nation’s collapse in moral standards trade and aggravating the violence together. This election revealed the extent and integrity has made that popular. within the cities. of the danger, both within and without. And the Holy Roman Empire is partici- How could Europe be capable of As Mr. Flurry wrote in “Why Donald pating in that attack. such an attack? Because America Trump Will Remain America’s President” All these trends will worsen. The trusts it. In a deadly irony, President (page 1), God is using President Trump Bible specifically prophesies about the Trump has pressured Germany to to save America, temporarily. He is destruction this violence will cause. spend more on its military and to stop giving the nation one more chance to But we have also warned that the most drawing close to Russia, and has pulled repent and turn to Him without suffer- destructive aspect of that unrest will some troops out of Germany. But he ing horrendous domestic destruction come from how other nations respond. Mr. has never really threatened to pull out and catastrophic foreign destruction. Flurry writes in his booklet Great Again: of nato. And he, like all other Ameri- The book of Revelation and dozens of “The rioters and violent protesters may can presidents, allows nuclear bombs other prophecies show that a reckoning think they will come out of this as the vic- to remain in German hands, ready to is coming as a result of rebellion against tors, but God says no. Your enemies from fly on German planes. God: the Great Tribulation. But even as God allows Satan to destroy our sinful nations, He promises He will measure In a deadly irony, President Trump that destruction precisely for the pur- has pressured Germany to spend pose of bringing us to repentance—in more on its military and to stop this life or in the resurrection. drawing close to Russia, and has Whether you’re watching American pulled some troops out of Germany. news or world news, you can see the destruction coming. But make sure without are going to exploit the division, Biblical prophecy warns that Israel you see God in it all and repent sooner violence and anarchy within your nation! will trust in “lovers”—foreign allies— rather than later. There won’t be any winners from within that will destroy it. “All thy lovers have Why? Repenting and turning to God the nation! That is what God is saying. forgotten thee; they seek thee not,” is the only way possible for America, “Bible prophecies make clear that warns God in Jeremiah 30:14. Britain, or you, individually, to receive even worse and more violent protests “They give gifts to all whores: but thou permanent blessings and prosperity. and riots are going to erupt in American givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and God wants to use as little punishment (and British) cities. This will fatally hirest them, that they may come unto as necessary to bring about that weaken the nation and lead to curses of thee on every side for thy whoredom,” repentance. If we won’t listen, it will a far greater magnitude!” says God in Ezekiel 16:33. Could this get severe. God is preparing for that Isaiah 1 is directed against a “sinful apply to any modern nation better severe punishment right now. But nation, a people laden with iniquity, a than the United States? America has ultimately it will lead to a world that seed of evildoers” (verse 4). Its correc- given away some of the most powerful listens to God and is finally full of joy tion is aimed directly at the modern weapons ever created. Despite all the and happiness. n descendants of ancient Israel, including the United States and Britain. God says, “Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers” Why so much hatred (verse 7). God warns that America’s cit- ies will burn. We have already seen this for Donald Trump? happening on a small scale, but it will

The answer is unseen, ungodly and unceasing in its JOCHEN ZICK/GETTYIMAGES get far worse unless we listen to Him. attack—but it is revealed in the Bible. You cannot If we do not, God says we will “be understand what is happening in America until you devoured with the sword” (verse 20). It see the spiritual dimension. To get this Bible-based won’t just be internal violence. Other perspective, request America Under Attack. nations will attack from without. 14 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET On Oct. 6, 2020, the foreign ministers of Israel and the U.A.E. met with Ger- man Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Holocaust Memorial in central Berlin. After touring the memorial, U.A.E. Foreign Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyah wrote a message in the guestbook commemorating the “Euro- pean Jewish victims of the Holocaust.” He finished with, “Never again.” The Times of Israel reported that visit as a “highly symbolic step, marking

From left: Israeli Prime Minister the shift in attitudes in the Arab world Netanyahu, U.S. President towards Israel and Jews.” Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Al Zayani and U.A.E. Foreign Maas called it “a great honor that the Minister Al Nahyan after signing the Abraham Accords. Israeli and Emirati foreign ministers picked Berlin as the site for their historic first meeting.” He then said, “The most important currency in diplomacy is trust, and I am personally thankful to both Deadly Flaw in my colleagues that they are placing this trust in Germany” (emphasis mine). You could view this choice of location Mideast Peace Deals as a sign of Arab and German repentance for their historic sins against the Jewish people. But the Psalm 83 prophecy warns Arab-Jew accords point to peace in this war-torn region. us not to accept surface appearances. Does Bible prophecy agree? It gives advance notice of the In fact, the Berlin meeting between actions of specific alliances now forming. BY GERALD FLURRY Israel and the U.A.E. is a sign that Ger- many is about to move into the Middle n the space of four months at the the descendants of Abraham’s sons— East in a powerful way. end of 2020, the Jewish state of the Israelis from Isaac and the Arabs I Israel forged peace agreements with from Ishmael. Psalm 83 Alliance three Arab states—the United Arab Mr. Netanyahu knows the price of Most people think Psalms is only a book Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. war: His own brother was killed in the of charming poetry. Not so. Some of the The quick succession of deals has legendary Operation Entebbe in 1976. psalms are prophecy, and some proph- given the Jews a sense that after 70 years Why shouldn’t he and everyone else esy specifically of our day. of being considered intruders, they are search hard for the blessings of peace? Psalm 83 is an end-time prophecy finally being accepted. Israeli Prime We all want peace. But sadly, these describing an alliance of moderate Arab Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called recent peace pacts have a deadly flaw. states and a united Europe led by Ger- these deals a “pivot of history.” Biblical prophecy gives us deep many. It provides the prophetic context Because this matchless achievement insight into these agreements. It actu- to understand Israel’s peace deals with in diplomacy was mediated by United ally foretells that moderate Arabs will the Arab states, especially Germany’s States President Donald Trump, it was unite, somewhat like we are now seeing. involvement. It describes an agreement largely ignored by the media in the U.S. But they are prophesied not to cooperate among nations that leads not to peace, But it isn’t being ignored in the Mideast! with the United States or Israel! but to war. President Trump said he is working A prophecy in Psalm 83 exposes a hid- “Keep not thou silence, O God: hold for the dawn of a new Middle East. den reality behind these peace deals. not thy peace, and be not still, O God. Certainly, Israel’s progress toward peace We are already in the beginning stages of For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and with surrounding Arab nations is a hope- its fulfillment. they that hate thee have lifted up the filled moment in a time when everyone There is another partner in this head. They have taken crafty counsel is searching for hope. The Jewish people prophesied moderate Arab alliance. against thy people, and consulted have prayed for peace for thousands of against thy hidden ones” (verses 1-3). years but never experienced it! A New Middle East Mediator? Enemies are conspiring, but against Israel’s deal with the U.A.E. was While the agreement between Israel and whom? God’s nation Israel. It is critical named the Abraham Accords, after the U.A.E. was mediated by the United to know who “Israel” is prophetically, the biblical figure. Prime Minister States, the first official meeting between in modern times. Prime Minister Net-

ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES WONG/GETTY ALEX Netanyahu spoke about hope for all the two took place in Germany. anyahu spoke of the Israelis and Jews JANUARY 2021 15 both descending from Abraham. That is Moab and Ammon with Jordan, and him spread pro-Nazi propaganda. Hitler true—but what most people don’t know Edom and Amalek with Turkey. also welcomed collaboration with Saudi is that the United States also descended The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain Arabia. What united them was their from Abraham! Abraham’s grandson and Sudan correspond to the Ishmael- hatred of the Jews. Jacob had 12 sons, who fathered the 12 ites in this prophecy. This list includes Psalm 83 reveals that Germany will tribes of Israel. The modern descen- Arab nations making overtures of peace once again ally with Arabs. And it shows dants of ancient Israel do include the toward the Jewish state and peoples that that their purpose will be similar to what Jews—but they are the children of only are presently embroiled in efforts to rede- it was during World War ii: Germany and one of those 12 tribes: Judah. The most fine themselves and their governments. the Arabs wanted to destroy the Jews— prominent modern nations, Britain Psalm 83 foretells where the significant effectively, to cut off the name of Israel! and America, descended from Joseph changes in this region will lead. Yet Israel appears blind to the dangers and the tribes that came from his sons While it seems that these nations are of this alliance. Ephraim and Manasseh. (We have been moving away from radical- teaching this truth for over 80 years. ism and violence, we must Request your free copy of Herbert W. look beneath the surface. Armstrong’s book The United States and After all, this prophecy Britain in Prophecy for proof.) reveals that they will take Of these enemies of Israel, Psalm 83 “crafty counsel”—subtle and continues, “They have said, Come, and shrewd dealing. This sure let us cut them off from being a nation; prophecy shows that these that the name of Israel may be no nations will ally to try to blot more in remembrance. For they have out the name of Israel forever! consulted together with one consent: That is intense hatred! they are confederate against thee” (verses 4-5). Why do these enemies With Help From Germany unite? To utterly destroy Israel! Notice too that Assur, or Adolf Hitler meets with the Verses 6-8 list the members of this Assyria, is on this list. This Grand Mufti of Palestine on Dec. 12, 1941. alliance: “The tabernacles of Edom, refers to modern-day Ger- and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the many. (Read “The Remark- Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and able Identity of the German People” at The King of the South Amalek; the Philistines with the inhab- theTrumpet.com/7490 and our free book- So why are moderate Arab nations itants of Tyre; Assur [Assyria] also is let Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.) making peace deals with Israel? One joined with them ….” This is a stunning detail. America is major factor is the threat they both face: No such alliance has ever occurred brokering these agreements between the Islamic Republic of Iran. This too is in history. The Anchor Bible explains, Israel and Arab states. But in this prophetically significant. “History transmits no record of the prophecy, America isn’t brokering or People want to view the Abraham national crisis when the nations enu- participating in the alliance—in fact, it Accords as evidence of newfound love merated in this psalm formed a league is being targeted by it! The main outside between Gulf Arabs and the Jewish state. to wipe out Israel.” Lange’s Commentary ally of these Middle Eastern states won’t The reality, as Ghaith al-Omari, a senior agrees: “The 10 nations who are here be the U.S., but Germany. And other fellow at the Washington Institute for enumerated as being combined against prophecies show that Germany will be Near East Policy, put it, is this: “Iran is at Israel, are never mentioned elsewhere the leading nation in a multinational the center of the convergence of interest as enemies allied at the same time and European empire. between Israel and the U.A.E., both of for the purpose of annihilating Israel.” It is not hard to imagine how the whom see it as an existential threat, and That is because this is a prophecy of an Middle East could shift from America to this step will bolster the anti-Iranian end-time alliance. Germany playing such an important role. axis” (Hill, Aug. 13, 2020). The key to unlocking this prophecy The U.S. is politically divided and wants This is a relationship of convenience, is to know the modern descendants of to pull out of foreign entanglements. rooted in the need to counter the radical these peoples. And God in this end time Meanwhile, Germany is becoming more Islamic state of Iran. has supplied this key. Based on biblical and more involved in the Middle East. Biblical prophecy reveals that the PHOTO 12/UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP/GETTY IMAGES and historical research and with God’s Germany’s part in this alliance may Iranian threat will soon be removed. inspiration, Herbert W. Armstrong gave seem strange. But it will not surprise Daniel 11:40-41 describe a colossal a good general idea of which nations students of 20th-century history. clash between the “king of the north” these peoples correspond to today, Germany started two world wars, and (German-led Europe) and the “king of equating the Ishmaelites with Saudi Ara- during World War ii it had the support the south” (Iran-led radical Islam). bia and the Gulf states, the Hagarenes of most Arab nations. Adolf Hitler met Verse 43 of this prophecy shows with Syria, the Philistines with the Pal- personally with the grand mufti of Jeru- that Iran’s allies in the war against estinians; Gebal and Tyre with Lebanon, salem, Amin al-Husseini, who helped German-led united Europe will include 16 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Egypt, Libya and Ethiopia. None of these enable a swift, sudden, whirlwind-like commanded it. Abraham placed his nations are listed in the Psalm 83 con- conquest of Iran by Germany. entire trust and confidence in God. For federation—and neither is Iran. That is After crushing Iran, Germany will this he is described as the father of the because this is a separate rival Middle “enter also into the glorious land, and faithful (Romans 4:19-22). To have true Eastern alliance. many countries shall be overthrown …” peace, we need the faith of Abraham, These two groups of nations are already (verse 41). Germany and its European In your own life, if you emulate Abra- forming—one led by Iran, and the other allies will enter “the glorious land,” ham’s example and follow his faith, you motivated basically by fear of Iran! Jerusalem—not by force, but under can have peace and hope that is a million What is interesting is that Germany the guise of peace. The indication times greater than what is being worked recognizes the same reality, and has the here is that Israel will actually invite the toward in the Middle East right now! same goal! This brings the prophecy in Germans in because they believe they Having peaceful relations with other Daniel 11 to life! already have peace with them. nations is a good goal to pursue, but not at the expense of trusting in God for Turkey protection. We should look into the Bible and be taught by Abraham’s example of faith. Syria Abraham looked to God for deliverance Iraq Iran ISrael This is a like few other men ever have. He fought and defeated Assyria, the forefathers relationship of of modern Germany (Genesis 14). God Egypt Bahrain convenience, would give our nations the victory Saudi Arabia today—He would give us peace and U.A.E. rooted in the Oman security—if we just followed Abra- need to counter ham’s example. Sudan the radical God hasn’t changed since the days of Yemen Abraham. He will reward Abraham-level Islamic state faith in a nation or an individual. As of Iran. impressive as Israel’s reconciliation with the Arabs is, the only way to per- This passage foretells Iran pro- The current peace deals between manent peace, collectively and individ- voking Germany into war—and the Israel and the Arab states are creating ually, is to follow the faith of Abraham German-led empire annihilating the this sense of security. But Israel should and trust God. Iran-led alliance! It even describes the be more aware of history and prophecy! God says about mankind: “The way of specific method Germany will use: “And What awaits the Jews at the hands of peace they know not …” (Isaiah 59:8). at the time of the end shall the king of this European-Arab alliance is one of the For mankind’s entire tragic history, we the south push at him: and the king of most treacherous betrayals in history! have proved we do not know the way the north shall come against him like of peace! Only God does! a whirlwind, with chariots, and with The Faith of Abraham The outcome of our misguided peace horsemen, and with many ships; and he In striking the deal with the U.A.E., efforts is always the same: God proph- shall enter into the countries, and shall Prime Minister Netanyahu referenced esies that “the ambassadors of peace overflow and pass over” (verse 40). Psalm 29:11: “… the Lord will bless his shall weep bitterly” (Isaiah 33:7). That Notice the word whirlwind. My free people with peace.” is a blanket statement—all ambassa- booklet Germany’s Secret Strategy to The question is, are these world dors for peace! Bible prophecy reveals Destroy Iran explains how Germany is leaders seeking peace God’s way? Mr. that very soon—within a decade—we already planning to confront Iran and win Trump and Mr. Netanyahu are talking will finally experience world peace, decisively with a “whirlwind” strategy. A about Abraham, but they are not prosperity and joy! But world peace map in that booklet shows the presence talking about what Abraham did and will not come by human Germany and its allies have in the Middle how he lived! effort! It will East. Germany has Iran and its allies sur- Abraham was so faithful and obedient, come at the Sec- rounded—and surrounded again, several he was willing to sacrifice his and his ond Coming of times! This strategic positioning will wife’s only son, Isaac, because God Jesus Christ. n

Build your faith in prophecy. Before any government or institution recognized Iran as the real threat in the Middle East, the Trumpet did. This is because of the prophecies explained in Gerald Flurry’s booklet The King of the South. Order your free copy today. Economic Virus As COVID-19 stimulus packages weaken the dollar, governments worldwide  118% are looking for an alternative reserve currency. Over the summer, mandatory quarantines plunged the world into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In response, the U.S. government approved $2.4 trillion in emergency relief packages during the first half of 2020—the largest economic rescue deal in American history. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve pumped over $2.7 trillion into the U.S. economy—twice as much as during the 2008 financial crisis. These moves stand to dramatically weaken the dollar’s purchasing power, causing nations to fill their foreign-exchange reserves with other currencies.

$ 3 trillion All dollar amounts are adjusted for inflation with today’s dollar Major Spending Between March 6 and April 24, 2020, Congress passed four COVID-19 stimulus packages, approving $2.4 trillion in rescue funds. Now Congress is debating whether to pass another $2.2 trillion stimulus package. Even without further stimulus, COVID-19 has cost taxpayers twice as much as the Great Recession, and three $ 2 trillion times as much as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. A fifth package could make COVID-19 more expensive than World War II.

35% 

$ 1 trillion

FDR’s New Deal World War II Apollo Space Program 10%  1933–1939 total 1940–1945 total 1960–1973 total $ 781,052,642,018 $ 3,847,214,970,000 $ 275,757,000,000 1915 1910 1945 1925 1935 1940 1955 1965 1920 1930 1905 1950 1960 1900

18 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET  136%

Debt-to-GDP Ratio Interest

The national debt jumped $4.3 trillion Financial historian Niall Ferguson has Economic Virus last year to a total of over $27 trillion. warned that nations usually fall apart Meanwhile, gross domestic product fell when the cost of servicing their debts from $21.4 trillion to $19.8 trillion. The exceeds the cost of defending their result is that America’s debt-to-GDP borders. Taking COVID-19 stimulus into ratio rocketed from 106 percent to account, America will likely be spending 136 percent. The International Monetary more on interest payments than on the Fund notes a debt-to-GDP ratio of 60 military by 2028. And this assessment percent as a prudent limit for developed assumes the average interest rate 106%  countries. When nations exceed this America pays its creditor remains limit, investors usually start losing faith under 2.3 percent. If rates rise higher,  $ 3,309,700,000,000 in the currency and look for alternatives. the nation will reach this point sooner.

Money Supply Injection COVID-19 Pandemic $ In addition to the money Congress took 2020 total 2,384,300,000,000 from taxpayers and borrowed from First Relief Bill (March 6) $ 8,300,000,000 foreign nations, the Federal Reserve Second Relief Bill (March 18) $ 192,000,000,000 Third Relief Bill (March 27) $ injected $3.5 trillion into the U.S. 1,700,000,000,000  $ 2,384,300,000,000 Fourth Relief Bill (April 24) $ 484,000,000,000 economy last fiscal year to combat the COVID-19 economic crisis. That means  23 percent of all U.S. dollars in circulation 68% were put in circulation just last year. If the Federal Reserve keeps “printing money” to solve crises, hyperinflation could become a real problem once people stop buying U.S. treasury bonds.

Great Recession 2008 total $ 1,008,601,910,160 $ 1,045,600,902,252 

$906 b $884 b Defense spending Iraq War Non-defense 2003–2011 total spending $ 1,287,641,334,948

Apollo Space Program 1960–1973 total $ 275,757,000,000

$ 158,100,000,000  1975 1970 2015 1985 1995 1965 2010 1980 1990 2025 2020 2030 2005 2000 JANUARY 2021 19 The Lincoln Memorial in through this Book. But for it, we could Washington, D.C. not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare here and hereafter are to be found portrayed in this Book” (emphasis mine throughout). He was right: Without the Bible, we don’t even know the difference between right and wrong! We ought to be teach- ing our children from the Bible so they can understand right from wrong. The Bible itself commands this (e.g. Deuter- onomy 4:9; 6:6-7; 11:18-19; Ephesians 6:4), and Lincoln knew it. He knew the Bible and believed it. Yet today, the Bible is hardly allowed in education at all. Our failure to teach our children right from wrong as the Bible reveals it is the foundation of the problem we face. Lincoln’s knowledge of the Bible put him at odds with the so-called Christian- ity of his day. “They all claim to be Chris- Lincoln’s View tians and interpret their several creeds as infallible ones,” he told a friend. “I doubt the possibility or propriety of on Tearing Down setting the religion of Jesus Christ in the models of man-made creeds and dogmas.” He saw that most religion Sacred Statues is man-made and not following God! He told his friend he would “gladly unite Timeless counsel from one of America’s greatest presidents with” a church “that would assent BY GERALD FLURRY to the Savior’s statement of the sub- stance of the law.” But he never found cross America, radicals and demolish memorials of Lincoln, such a church! That is a serious problem. have been desecrating and the man responsible for emancipating Lincoln’s understanding of the Bible tearing down statues and the slaves in America! Does that make informed his view of how to handle the memorials. They condemn our sense? It shows that these radicals’ political problems of his day. How many Anation’s history and want to blot it out. motives aren’t truly about equality. politicians is that true of today? This is a serious problem. What is The word desecrate means to destroy the solution? Abraham Lincoln, consid- the sacredness. Many of these statues The Danger in Mob Rule ered by many to be America’s greatest and memorials really are sacred because In his Lyceum address, Lincoln warned president, had the solution. His advice they bring God into the picture. Is there about a dangerous trend at the time: remains relevant to this day. I believe a godlier example of a U.S. president “[T]here is, even now, something of ill- you will be moved by it. than Abraham Lincoln? So could this omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing In 1838, Lincoln gave a famous desecration of statues be anti-God? disregard for law which pervades the address to the Young Men’s Lyceum in We need to think seriously about this; country; the growing disposition to Springfield, Illinois. He was just 28 years physically, what could be more serious substitute the wild and furious passions, old. In that speech, Lincoln said this for our nation? in lieu of the sober judgment of courts.” about George Washington’s burial site: How do we solve this problem? Con- He then recounted many atrocities “During his long sleep, we permitted no sider Lincoln’s view. that were being committed by pro-slav- hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his ery forces in the nation at the time. Peo- resting place.” Lincoln demanded that A Biblical Foundation ple were taking the law into their own they simply not permit such desecration. Firstly, Lincoln had profound respect hands, being ruled by their passions

What a contrast to today! Now people for the Bible. He once said: “In regard rather than by the law. This horrified ISTOCK.COM/CELSODINIZ are tearing down statues of George to this great Book [the Bible], I have Lincoln—and it should horrify us. Washington and many other monu- but to say it is the best gift God has Lincoln believed in a strong govern- ments—supposedly in the name of given to man. All the good the Savior ment that would protect its citizens and equality and justice. They even deface gave to the world was communicated their property. He spoke of the danger 20 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET in its failure to forcibly restrain these Lincoln’s reverence for law earned him through a great trial, a fiery trial. In lawless forces. “[G]ood men, men who great respect in America at that time. But the very responsible position in which love tranquility, who desire to abide far too many Americans today disagree. I happen to be placed, being a humble by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, He talked about the passions that servant in the hands of our heavenly who would gladly spill their blood in fueled the American Revolution—and Father, as I am, as we all are, to work the defense of their country; seeing then said: “Passion has helped us; but out His great purposes, I have desired their property destroyed; their families can do so no more. It will in future be that all my work and acts may be insulted, and their lives endangered; our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, according to His will, and that it their persons injured; and seeing unimpassioned reason, must furnish might be so, I have sought His aid.” nothing in prospect that forebodes a all the materials for our future support Do presidents or politicians talk like change for the better; become tired of, and defense. Let those materials be this today? Again—it is rare to even hear and disgusted with, a government that molded into general intelligence, a minister speak in such terms! offers them no protection; and are not sound morality, and in particular, a Following two devastating defeats in much averse to a change in which they reverence for the Constitution and Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg, imagine they have nothing to lose.” laws: and that we improved to the last; the war effort hinged on Gettysburg. Lincoln condemned a government that we remained free to the last; that What did Lincoln do? “I went to my that failed in its duty to protect, and he we revered his [George Washing- room one day, and I locked the door, would do the same today. Why even obey ton’s] name to the last; that, during got down on my knees before Almighty the government if it won’t protect you?, his long sleep, we permitted no God, and prayed to Him mightily for he asked. He understood that continued hostile foot to pass over abuse of law-abiding citizens leads to or desecrate his resting Protesters attempt to pull revolution and war! place; shall be that which down the statue of Andrew Jackson in front of This spirit of lawlessness is overtak- to learn the last trump shall the White House. ing us today! In many cities and states, awaken our Washington.” our governments are surrendering to Lincoln discussed the destructive mobs! “last trump”—Jesus Christ’s Lincoln continued, “[W]henever return. How many politi- the vicious portion of population shall cians today ever mention be permitted to gather in bands of that? Few ministers even talk Lincoln’s reverence for law earned him hundreds and thousands, and burn about that. Lincoln spoke great respect in America at that time. But churches, ravage and rob provision about what he read in the far too many Americans today disagree. stores, throw printing-presses into Bible, and he believed it. rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn Why did he mention not obnoxious persons at pleasure and with allowing any “hostile foot to pass over or victory at Gettysburg. I told Him this impunity—depend upon it, this govern- desecrate [Washington’s] resting place”? was His war, and our cause was His ment cannot last.” There must have been people seeking to cause, but we couldn’t stand another What was Lincoln’s solution to this desecrate that grave—but Lincoln would Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville. And grave threat? To keep and enforce the ensure this never happened! How would then and there I made a solemn vow law of the land! he address the assault on statues in our to Almighty God, that if He would day? He would forcibly confront it by stand by our boys at Gettysburg, I Enforce the Law enforcing law and order! would stand by Him. And after that Read these wise words about how to We haven’t been teaching this history (I don’t know how it was, and I can’t stamp out the sins of rioting, vandalism like we should. Most of our young explain it) a sweet comfort crept and violence: “The answer is simple. Let people today are ignorant of these into my soul that God Almighty had every American, every lover of liberty, … important truths. taken the whole business into His never to violate in the least particular the Lincoln detested and despised slavery. own hands and that things would go laws of the country; and never to tolerate He literally put his life on the line to free all right at Gettysburg.” their violation by others. … Let reverence slaves. Yet people today would mar the Lincoln cried out to God for victory for the laws be breathed by every Ameri- sacred memorial of this godly man. At at Gettysburg! He brought God into the can mother to the lisping babe that prat- what cost? Civil War! And God used the Holy Spirit tles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, What if this history is erased, as some to comfort him and let him know He in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be are trying to do today? Surely we can see would give him victory. written in primers, spelling books and this would be a devastating catastrophe Today, we are about to suffer a civil in almanacs; let it be preached from the to the nation. war that will be far worse! Are we too far pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, beyond involving God this time? Lincoln and enforced in courts of justice,” he said. Bring God In brought God and His power and might “And, in short, let it become the political In 1862, during the Civil War, Lincoln in—and God heard that prayer. This is

TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES KATOPODIS/GETTY TASOS religion of the nation ….” wrote to a friend, “We are indeed going STATUES PAGE 36 u JANUARY 2021 21 French soldiers patrol Despite all the measures the French near the Eiffel Tower after terrorist attacks government has taken, attacks keep Liberté, put them on alert. coming. On Sept. 25, 2020, a man hacked two people with a meat cleaver outside of the former offices of the French satire Égalité, and magazine Charlie Hebdo. The attacker was an 18-year-old Pakistani migrant who arrived in France three years ago Down With as an unaccompanied minor. He said he was motivated by Charlie Hebdo repub- lishing the controversial caricature of Muslims! Mohammed that it originally published in 2015. Meanwhile, 14 suspects in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks are currently on trial. On October 16, a young man shouting, “Allahu akbar,” beheaded history teacher Samuel Paty in broad daylight in the Paris suburb of Conflans Sainte Hono- rine. The 18-year-old Chechen refugee, Abdullakh Anzorov, was retaliating for Paty having shown his class cartoons depicting Mohammed during a lecture about free speech. Anzarov didn’t know Paty and wasn’t even from Paris; he was from a town some 60 miles away. The murder caused thousands of Frenchmen to ignore covid restrictions and gather for mass protests in favor of free speech. On October 29, a man with a 12-inch knife entered Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice, before morning mass. He repeatedly shouted, “Allahu akbar!” before practi- cally decapitating an elderly woman. He slit the throat of a church official and Terrorist attacks are provoking dramatic changes repeatedly stabbed another woman across Europe and the Middle East. BY MIHAILO ZEKIC who later died of her wounds. The killer, Brahim Aouissaoui, is a 21-year-old Tuni- slamic extremism must be public’s support. Attitudes toward Islam sian national who had been in France crushed.” That was the bold, in France are hardening—fast. for about a month. He had entered the “I controversial statement made The Middle East is reciprocating. European Union via Italy on September by Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s Muslims are urged to boycott French 20, most likely as an illegal migrant; the far-right National Rally party (formerly products as leaders speak out against only identifying document he carried known as the National Front), in 2015 the shift in France. Hostility against not was a form from the Italian Red Cross. after a terrorist attack in Paris. “The only France but all of Europe is growing hate preachers must be expelled. The stronger. Islamic mosques must be closed.” UK For these comments, her rivals and France Under Attack Germany October 16 the media attacked her. Le Pen lost the President Macron has given police Conflans Sainte Honorine STEPHANE CARDINALE/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES 2017 presidential election to Emmanuel forces expanded powers of search September 25 November 2 Macron, who claimed to represent the and seizure with limited oversight CHarlie Hebdo Offices Vienna opposite of her xenophobia. from French courts. Police can shut Austria Three years later, Mr. Macron sounds down “places of worship in which are France Switzerland a lot like Le Pen. Islam, he says, is in cri- disseminated the writings, ideas or the- Italy sis. His government has assumed tough ories that provoke violence, hatred and October 29 new powers to shut down mosques discrimination,” wrote the Washington Notre-Dame de Nice and kick out preachers. And he has the Post (Oct. 13, 2017). 22 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET A few days later, on November 2, a the West African nation of Mali. Macron Macron then recalled his ambassador jihadist shot 27 people in an attack on pressured the Lebanese government to to Turkey in Ankara. Erdoğan has since the streets of Vienna, Austria, near the reduce the power of radical Islam and called for a boycott of French businesses city’s main synagogue. The street was to make other reforms in exchange for in Turkey, saying on October 26, “I appeal busy as Austrians were enjoying their aid in the aftermath of the Aug. 4, 2020, to my people. Don’t ever pay attention to last night of freedom before a covid Beirut blast. Macron’s popularity in Leb- French brands. Don’t buy them.” lockdown set in. Four were wounded anon has expanded so dramatically that He also said, “Muslims are now fatally before police killed the attacker. many Lebanese say they not only want subjected to a lynch campaign similar In response to these attacks, Presi- Hezbollah Islamic extremists out of their to that against Jews in Europe before dent Macron is hardening his country’s government, but to return to French World War ii.” approach to Islam. colonial rule. Macron has also stood up Turkey wasn’t the only Muslim state to an increasingly Islamic government in to boycott French businesses. Several France Rallies Turkey, sending French warships to the distributors in Kuwait and Qatar have On Oct. 2, 2020, one week after the first eastern Mediterranean to counter Tur- pledged to rid their shelves of French attack, Macron gave a landmark speech at key’s excursion into EU-claimed waters products. Qatar University has indefi- the Paris suburb of Les Mureaux propos- in the search for fossil fuel deposits. nitely postponed its “French Cultural ing new laws. He seeks to ban mosques Macron is also pushing for clearer, Week.” Outside the French Embassy from importing imams from abroad. stronger external borders around in Baghdad, Iraq, dozens of protesters Homeschooling would be outlawed for Europe as a whole. On Nov. 5, 2020, at burned French flags and photographs of French youth, with an exception for the Spanish border, he said Europe President Macron. In Gaza, Palestinian children with valid medical excuses. The needs a real border security police protesters tore down a banner hanging “burkini,” the modest female swimsuit force. He has also called for more in front of the Gazan French Cultural used by many Muslims, would also be central control over Europe’s borders, Institute and replaced it with a poster outlawed. He advocated more govern- with EU member states coordinating reading, “Our prophet will be victorious.” ment oversight over Arabic-language their individual security under federal Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed classes and private schools in general. direction. If Macron succeeds, it would Javad Zarif posted on social media on Already, one mosque in the Paris region be easy to make such a force completely October 26: “Muslims are the primary of Pantin has been ordered to close for six months as a result of these proposals. “Islam is a religion living through a “It was no coincidence that the terrorist crisis today, everywhere in the world,” killed a teacher, because he wanted Macron warned. During a speech after the Paty to kill the republic and its values. … beheading, Macron stated, “It was no The battle is ours and is existential.” coincidence that the terrorist killed a teacher, because he wanted to kill the centralized and beyond the powers of victims of the ‘cult of hatred’—empow- republic and its values. … The battle individual member states. ered by colonial regimes and exported is ours and is existential” (emphasis Macron is basically advocating an by their own clients. Insulting 1.9 [bil- added). He believes he is fighting for the interior ministry capable of controlling lion] Muslims—and their sanctities—for survival of France as we know it. both freedom of movement and the the abhorrent crimes of such extremists Macron’s government is taking his national borders of its member states is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of calls to arms seriously. Interior Minister across the entire European Union. speech. It only fuels extremism.” Gérald Darmanin has been aggressive, Seeing what Macron’s France is saying The EU quickly rallied behind France. arresting suspected radicals en masse and doing, the Islamic world is biting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and pledging to deport them. He has dis- back, with venom. said Erdoğan had hit a “new low” with solved at least 51 French Muslim organi- his attack on Macron. Dutch Prime zations, apparently with little more than Angering Islam Minister Mark Rutte said, “The Neth- the stroke of a pen, some at the personal Turkish President Recep Tayyip erlands stands firmly with France and request of President Macron. Darmanin Erdoğan reacted at a party congress in for the collective values of the European called one organization, the Collective the Turkish city of Kayseri on Oct. 24, Union.” EU High Representative Josep Against Islamophobia in France, an 2020: “Macron needs mental health Borrell tweeted in response to President “enemy of the republic.” treatments. What else can be said to a Erdoğan’s comments: “The President’s France is also combating Islamic head of state who does not understand remarks @RTErdogan against the extremism abroad. French troops freedom of belief and who behaves in President @EmmanuelMacron are fought in the coalition that defeated this way to millions of people living unacceptable. Call on Turkey to stop the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. in his country who are members of a this dangerous spiral of confrontation.” French peacekeepers maintain a heavy different faith? First of all, a mental When Austria suffered a terrorist

LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES MARIN/AFP/GETTY LUDOVIC presence against Islamic militants in examination is [necessary].” attack on Nov. 2, 2020, Macron quickly JANUARY 2021 23 showed solidarity with Vienna, tweet- This would be a major change to the ing: “This is our Europe. Our enemies French educational system, but the must know who they are dealing with. Islamist crisis is allowing it to be pushed We will not give up anything.” through with little debate. Under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, France prides itself on being a secular Austria responded to the attack by nation. But tensions with the French cracking down on Islamist operations in Muslim community are causing many to that country, including those of two Ira- reexamine what it means to be French. nian-affiliated terrorist groups, Hamas Many are turning from secularism French forces and the Muslim Brotherhood. participate in back to the religious root of France: operations in Africa’s Sahel (below) and the Catholicism. The southern French city A Prophesied Clash Mediterranean. of Avignon was once the headquarters Today it’s a major basilica on the French of the papacy in the Middle Ages. One of Riviera and the main synagogue in the major annual pilgrimages for Catho- Austria. Where will the next attack lics is to travel to Paris to see the alleged take place—at a Christmas market in crown of thorns displayed in Notre Munich? At mass in Saint Peter’s Basil- Dame Cathedral for Easter. Napoleon ica in Vatican City? These uncertainties was crowned “emperor of the French” and possibilities are putting the entire in the presence of the pope. The flag of Continent on edge. the Free French Forces in World War ii Europe and the Middle East are enter- featured the Cross of Lorraine, a historic ing a cycle of hostility that the Bible Catholic symbol of France. foretells will erupt into major warfare. The fact that one of the recent radical Daniel 11:40 prophesies of two power Islamic attacks took place in a church is blocs in the Middle East-Mediterranean an important reflection of Catholicism’s region: a “king of the south” and a “king of its borders. Now the government is integral nature in France. To an Islamist, the north.” As we show in our free booklet strengthening itself to confront that if you want to attack France, you attack The King of the South, the northern power problem. But aspects of the new a church. In response, many Frenchmen corresponds to a European bloc, led by approach point to a new authoritarian have rallied around the church. Germany—a successor to the old Roman direction for the country. The Bible also predicts that France— Empire. The southern power corresponds Macron’s proposed homeschooling with the rest of Europe—will return to to a radical Islamic bloc, led by Iran. ban would apply universally to France’s its Catholic roots, stamping out not only Daniel prophesied that the king of the estimated 50,000 homeschooled chil- Islam but all non-Catholic dissenters. south would “push” against the king of dren, not just those who are Muslim. The book of Revelation describes a the north. Gesenius’ Hebrew–Chaldee Homeschooling is the only way for beast power that directs public worship Lexicon defines push as “to strike—used parents to opt out of governmental (Revelation 13:11-18). It has the authority of horned animals,” or “to push with the propaganda in schools, which is why it to execute nonbelievers (verse 15) and horn.” The foreign policy of Iran and was banned by Adolf Hitler, for example. imposes a “mark” on “all, both small radical Islam is already pushy, and, by and great, rich and poor, free and bond” sponsoring terrorism, deadly violent in (verse 16). This mark is an identifying some cases. This is provoking Europe. sign enforced by a religious power that The French and all Europeans are excludes nonconformists from partic- escalating their involvement in the Mid- ipating in society (verses 16-18). This dle East, and this will accelerate as the prophesied beast power is the same United States pulls out. Bible prophecy power Daniel identifies as the king of

specifies, however, that this growing the north: Catholic Europe. MARIO GOLDMAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, DAPHNE BENOIT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES “clash of civilizations” does not mean France is already in early preparations Europe will go to war against all Islamic for the reinstitution of a religion backed nations. Europe will have allies among by governmental authority that outlaws more moderate Islamic states as it takes Here’s how some modes of worship. Islamic attacks on the most radical Islamic nations. will continue to drive the French and We can see this already as this push is World War III other European ideologies to become prompting Macron to draw closer to starts. more Catholic, and their governments Lebanon and look for bases across the to become more Catholic and more Middle East (read “Deadly Flaw in Mid- The Bible reveals startling details authoritarian. east Peace Deals,” page 15). on the next big global conflict. For Massive changes are underway in For years, France has refused to a preview of tomorrow’s headlines Europe that will fulfill some of the most confront radical Islam as it grew within today, request The King of the South. important prophecies in the Bible. n 24 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Chinese President Xi of our common affairs,” Putin said. “It Jinping. turns out that to say we have strategic The day after Putin cooperation is not enough anymore. called a world-changing This is why we have started talking Russian, Chinese and Mongolian troops alliance “certainly about a comprehensive partnership participate in the “Vostok-18” military imaginable” and added, and strategic collaboration.” It was an exercises. “time will tell how it acknowledgment that the relationship will develop,” Chinese is basically an alliance already, but that Foreign Ministry Russia is avoiding using that term. spokesperson Zhao Blank suggested that the shades of Lijian warmly welcomed nuance between these various terms is Putin’s remarks. “Under irrelevant given the nature of the rela- A Military Alliance the strategic guidance tionship. “It is hard to know,” he wrote, of President Xi and “how a privileged partnership expands in All But Name President Putin, mutual upon a comprehensive one” (op cit). political trust and strategic coordination Full Alliance Ahead The giants of Asia are being between the two countries has been The Trumpet watches and reports on coy about their relationship. enhanced,” he said, adding that Xi’s gov- strengthening Russia-China ties because BY JEREMIAH JACQUES ernment is “ready to work with Russia to the Bible prophesies that a multinational comprehensively implement our leaders’ Asian alliance will form in the end time. n official military alliance consensus” to develop even closer “stra- Revelation 16:12 calls this bloc “the kings between two of the three most tegic communication and coordination.” of the east.” Revelation 9:16 says the Apowerful nations on the planet. How close could the two Asian giants force will include a stunning 200 million An alliance containing the world’s largest end up? Zhao said there is “no limit.” soldiers, 15 times larger than the largest economy and its second and third most This talk of even greater cooperation army in history. These prophecies and powerful militaries. A Russia-China only adds to what some Asia experts say others make clear that this leviathan will alliance. That is what Russian President is already a Russia–China alliance in all play a major role in the Third World War. Vladimir Putin was asked about at the but name. Russia and China are prophesied to Valdai Discussion Club on Oct. 22, 2020. lead this bloc and are already fulfilling Putin said: “[O]ur relations have Euphemisms? the early stages of these prophecies. In reached such a level of cooperation and “It is long since time that analysts and 2014, after China backed Russia’s unlaw- trust that it is not necessary, but it is policymakers acknowledge the reality ful annexation of Ukrainian territory, certainly imaginable.” that is evolving right before their eyes,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry Such an alliance will change the world. Stephen Blank, a senior fellow with the said the support was “a stunning fulfill- Truly, the level of trust and coopera- American Foreign Policy Council, said ment of a biblical prophecy!” (Trumpet, tion between the Russian and Chinese on Jan. 19, 2019. He warned that Russian May-June 2014). militaries is already astoundingly high. and Chinese leaders declining to use He wrote: “[W]e have been proclaim- Russia-China relations did not begin the word “alliance” may be a deception. ing for over 50 years that Russia, China to warm until the end of the Cold War. “Moscow keeps inventing euphemisms and other Asian nations would ally Over the past two decades, their armies to disguise what is going on,” he wrote. themselves in the end time.” have held more than 30 joint military For years, the Russians called their Earlier in the article, he wrote: “[W]e exercises, in which each military has relationship with China “strategic are in that end time now. … When these been trusted with secret highly sensi- cooperation.” It was later upgraded to a Asian nations—extremely powerful tive information and insight into the “comprehensive strategic partnership” nuclear-armed countries—begin command, control, communications, and again more recently to a “privileged to show solidarity with each other computer, intelligence, surveillance and strategic partnership.” regarding moves like that, what does reconnaissance operations of the other. Blank characterized such labels as that portend for the world? I tell you it Also significant is the high volume of “attempts to deceive foreign observers as is woe to the world. It will cause many direct technology transfers taking place to the alliance’s real nature.” serious problems.” between the two, the coordination of A glimpse of the “real nature” of the To understand the Bible passages that nuclear forces, and China becoming the Russia-China relationship can be partly prophesy this gargantuan Asian military largest and most reliable customer for gathered from Putin’s remarks on what alliance request your free copy of Russia the Russian weapons industry. Further, to call it during a 2016 interview with and China in Prophecy. n Russia and China maintain long-term China’s Xinhua news agency. strategic dialogue at the highest levels “As we had never reached this level of What will a 200 million-man army do? To of government, including a close per- relations before, our experts have had study what the Bible reveals, request our

MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES ANTONOV/AFP/GETTY MLADEN sonal relationship between Putin and trouble defining today’s general state free booklet Russia and China in Prophecy. JANUARY 2021 25 WILL BLOCKCHAIN BLOCK OUT AMERICA? If central banks start issuing digital money, the dollar may face real competition as the world’s dominant currency. BY JOSUÉ MICHELS AND ANDREW MIILLER

ave you ever wondered why Many financial analysts predict that Bible prophecy shows these analysts money is made of paper? Most the future of money might be a digital are right: The dollar’s days are numbered. H people have probably never asked version of the cash in your wallet. And And when the dollar collapses, the U.S. this question, but there was a time when as in Marco Polo’s day, China is leading itself will collapse soon after. What will people marveled at paper money as an the currency revolution. this post-American world look like? And exotic innovation. When the Venetian In October 2019, Chinese President Xi what role will digital money play? merchant Marco Polo was traveling Jinping issued a ringing endorsement of around Asia in the 13th century, he blockchain—a new digital technology Digital Yuan noted that the Mongol Emperor Kublai that enables cashless transactions. When President Xi said he wanted Khan “causeth the bark of trees, made Supporters of this technology say it China to “seize the opportunity” to lead into something like paper, to pass for might be the greatest innovation since the blockchain revolution, he was not money over all his country.” With appar- the Internet. But President Xi is the first making an empty political promise. On ent astonishment, Polo noted that this major world leader to really get behind April 20, 2020, about six months after mulberry bark was issued “with as much it. He vowed to “seize the opportunity” his speech before the Central Politburo solemnity and authority as if they were to let China “take the leading position” of the Communist Party of China, the of pure gold or silver.” in the blockchain revolution. People’s Bank of China confirmed Kublai Khan’s paper currency was When most people hear about block- it was testing a digital yuan in four tethered not to limited supplies of chain-based cryptocurrencies, they cities: Shenzhen, Suzhou, Chengdu precious metals but to confidence in his think of privately owned currencies like and Xiong’an. This Digital Currency government, allowing him to finance his bitcoin, ripple and libra. But what Xi is Electronic Payment (dcep) has no paper empire. It also allowed his merchants proposing is a sovereign digital currency or coin equivalent. Users must register to conduct trade along the Silk Road issued by the People’s Bank of China. their mobile phones and download an unburdened by cumbersome strings of If central banks like the U.S. Federal app to make deposits or transfer money. metallic coins. Reserve, the European Central Bank, But since it is legal tender, it can be Such government-issued paper cur- and the People’s Bank of China start exchanged without needing a commer- rency is now standard around the world. issuing digital currencies managed on cial bank as a middleman. But this does not mean that the evolution a single blockchain network, it could China wants a digital currency ready of money has ended. Ever since Western upend the currency system that has to go national by the time the 2022 Win- Union conducted its first electronic dominated the world for decades. A ter Olympics are held in Beijing.

funds transfer via telegraph in 1871, the world of competing sovereign digital The launch of a government-run ISTOCK.COM/PANUWAT SIKHAM world has been moving toward digital currencies would set up a new kind of digital payment system is supposed to money. Today, 15 percent of all financial currency warfare. And some financial help the Chinese government combat transactions worldwide—and 60 percent analysts even believe that e-yuan and money laundering, gambling and terror of financial transactions in the United e-euro could end the dollar’s reign as financing. Unlike privately owned States—are electronic funds transfers. world reserve currency. cryptocurrencies, which boast about 26 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET their ability to use blockchain to create Digital Euro through the burdensome process of buy- financial transactions that cannot be China has been trying to move away ing dollars that are universally accepted. traced by the government, China’s dcep from what it sees as a suppressive Amer- But this changes if other economic blocs uses blockchain technology that can be ican payment system for years, but every also use a digital currency. traced by the government—because the attempt to increase the use of the yuan While China is spearheading the digi- government is the one issuing the digital in Asia alone was only mildly successful. tal currency revolution, former German strings of zeros and ones. Ironically, a When it comes to international trade, Minister of Economics and Technology tool designed to aid anonymous trans- a digital yuan would also be of limited Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is warning actions has become an Orwellian mass value. China would likely still need to go BLOCKCHAIN PAGE 32 u surveillance tool. Two senior fellows at the Atlantic Council, Hung Tran and Barbara Matthews, wrote an editorial in August GUTTENBERG— exposing the dangers of China’s digital currency. “The [Chinese central bank’s] AN EXPERT ON FINANCIAL CRISES ability to monitor dcep transactions can hile Chinese President Xi help improve the efficacy of monetary Jinping is publicly herald- and fiscal policy operations as well as W ing the digital currency make it easier to fight financial crimes revolution, another key figure is pull- including money laundering and the ing strings behind the scenes. Former financing of terrorism. However, this German Minister of Economics and will significantly strengthen the govern- Technology Karl-Theodor zu Gutten- ment’s social credit scoring system, used berg believes that if Europe steps up to control its citizens by rewarding or and leads in currency digitalization, punishing their behaviors. Basically, the it can lead the world. more citizens that use dcep instead of Guttenberg is the chairman and physical cash, the more the government a founder of the New York-based can monitor and control their lives.” investment firm Spitzberg Partners Using blockchain technology, if a llc, and since 2014 he has sat on the advisory board of Ripple Labs, a global Chinese citizen misses an automobile leader in cryptocurrency innovation. He was recently awarded a doctorate from payment, he could theoretically be the British University of Southampton. The subject of his thesis: “an analytical electronically locked out of his car; he reconsideration of the nature, scope and significance of correspondent banking also could find himself locked out of his and its application in historical precedence and selected case studies.” After apartment; even his electricity or water leaving politics, Guttenberg moved his family to the United States to study this supply could be automatically denied particular subject in greater detail. as soon as he stopped paying his bills. While in the U.S., he also worked as a distinguished statesman at the Center for Citizens who do not pay taxes could Strategic and International Studies (csis) in Washington, D.C. The csis website be excluded from all public services, claims that “he led a high-level trans-Atlantic dialogue initiative focused on global purportedly to prevent any individual or trends and current political, economic, financial and technology issues.” company from cheating the system. St. Moritz, Switzerland, hosted some of the world’s most high-profile investors And if the United States tries to use at the Crypto Finance Conference from January 16 to 18, 2019. The event focuses economic sanctions to punish China for on the financial system of the future. Guttenberg delivered a speech titled “Block- human rights abuses, its digital yuan chain and Geopolitics: A Powder Keg or a Solution for Global Crisis?” may make such sanctions nearly impos- The late theologian Herbert W. Armstrong believed that Bavarian politician sible to enforce. Like most of the world, Franz Josef Strauss, who led Germany’s Christian Social Union (csu) from 1961 to Communist China currently relies on 1988, could potentially fulfill Bible prophecy by leading a European financial super- the dollar payment system to make power. Though Strauss sought to grab power over Europe, he never reached his goal. international financial transactions. But However, Strauss left a political legacy that traces down to Karl-Theodor zu issuing digital yuan would help China Guttenberg today. He mentored former Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber, who move away from the dollar and ulti- was elected as csu party leader on Jan. 16, 1999. Like Strauss, Stoiber’s attempts mately bypass international financial to rule both Germany and Europe failed. But Stoiber mentored Guttenberg. systems subject to U.S. laws. Companies Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry directed the Trumpet staff to watch this and financial institutions that wanted man closely. Guttenberg left the political scene in 2011 after a plagiarism scandal, to do business with the People’s Bank of but he has remained a commentator on European affairs. He has become an China could do so directly, using wallets expert in financial technologies. Bible passages indicate that this man could of digital yuan, instead of having to work soon lead Europe. For more on the foretold strongman of Europe, read “Is KT zu through a network of commercial banks Guttenberg About to Come to Power?” (theTrumpet.com/21552) by Gerald Flurry.

ANGELIKA WARMUTH/PICTURE ALLIANCE/GETTY IMAGES ALLIANCE/GETTY WARMUTH/PICTURE ANGELIKA conducting business with dollars. JOSUÉ MICHELS JANUARY 2021 27 A Russian tank fires during the Belarus. This bloc “Caucasus 2020” military exercises. brings the former Soviet states of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz- stan and Tajikistan together under Russian leadership. From November 8 to 22, Russia and Yellow Cake, an intermediate Pakistan held their form of uranium Russia leads ten fifth annual iteration of the “Druzhba” Japan has enough nations at four war joint war drills in plutonium for 6,000 Tarbela, Pakistan, nuclear weapons drills in two months with special operations units he Japanese government practicing optical pledged on Oct. 21, 2020, ussian President Vladimir Meanwhile, President Putin surveillance, reconnaissance T to move forward with Putin has staged four personally supervised elements and electronic warfare. a nuclear energy policy that R sets of military drills with of the largest exercises, Revelation 9:16 foretells an extracts plutonium from used China, Belarus and other partner “Caucasus 2020,” which took Asian army at the end of this material. “The government will nations since September. place from September 21 to 26 in age that will field an army of firmly promote our nuclear From Sept. 14 to 25, 2020, southern Russia and in the Black 200 million soldiers. Ezekiel 38 energy policy and fuel cycle 900 Russian and Belarussian and Caspian seas and involved specifies which nations will make programs,” Chief Cabinet troops participated in “Slavic 80,000 personnel from Armenia, up this confederacy and shows Secretary Katsunobu Kato said. Brotherhood 2020” drills in Belarus, China, Iran, Myanmar, that it will be led by Russia. n Critics point out that since Belarus’s southwestern city of Pakistan and Russia. To understand the role of Japan already has a massive Brest, and Russian pilots flew From October 12 to 16, all Russia and Vladimir Putin in stockpile of plutonium and two supersonic, nuclear Tu-160 members of the Collective end-time events, order your free extracting more plutonium to bombers along the border with Security Treaty Organization copy of The Prophesied ‘Prince use for energy makes no sense the European Union. held a separate set of drills in of Russia,’ by Gerald Flurry. economically, there must be a different reason to extract the additional material. America’s alliance with South Korea is unraveling Japan already has 46 tons of weapons-usable plutonium, he United States may soon the U.S. 70 years ago does not more material than is in the remove troops from South mean it has to choose the U.S. nuclear arsenals of China, Korea. South Korean for the next 70 years, too.” France, India, Israel, North Korea,

T DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, PALAVA BAGLA/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES, OLIVER CONTRERAS/GETTY IMAGES media noted on Oct. 27, 2020, that One week before Lee’s Pakistan and the United Kingdom the phrase “keeping the current comments, the chairman combined. Should Japan choose level of U.S. military personnel of South Korea’s joint chiefs to weaponize that 46 tons, it in Korea” was omitted from the of staff told the nation’s would be able to produce 6,000 South Korean communiqué published after parliament that wartime President Moon warheads. And now it will spend Jae-in listens to the latest Security Consultative operational control of South President Trump. money and resources to extract Meeting between South Korean Korea’s forces must be even more of the world’s most and American officials. South rapidly transferred from the America to project power into potentially dangerous material. Korea’s Dong-A Ilbo wrote that United States to South Korea. East Asia; currently 28,500 Meanwhile, Japan’s military this is the first time South Korea’s Meanwhile, a special adviser American troops are stationed on has requested a record budget military has hinted at a reduction to South Korean President the Korean Peninsula. Eliminating of $51.9 billion for this year, of U.S. forces in the country. Moon Jae-in said the nation this alliance would drastically its ninth consecutive annual The news came just two weeks should not join the Quad, a weaken U.S. power and further increase. With this amount of after South Korea’s ambassador military alliance consisting empower the Asian economic money and a highly advanced to the U.S., Lee Soo-hyuck, of Australia, Japan India and and military behemoths of industry and economy, Japan addressed the South Korea the United States designed to China and Russia. The Trumpet could quickly build a huge National Assembly’s Foreign counter Chinese aggression. continues its decades-long arsenal of nuclear warheads Affairs and Unification Committee, For seven decades the U.S.- prediction that such a power shift and the missiles to carry them saying: “Just because Korea chose South Korea alliance has enabled will take place. n almost anywhere. n 28 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Iran takes nuclear development underground The Israeli Navy trains in the Mediterranean. ecent satellite images Meanwhile, the Wall Street would have been able to remove from Planet Labs Inc. Journal reports that Iran now all signs of uranium from the R and inspectors from the holds 12 times the legal amount area. Yet the inspectors still United Nations International of low-enriched uranium discovered traces of nuclear Atomic Energy Agency show that allowed by the nuclear deal, material. These are just Iran’s Iran has started constructing an enough to produce two nuclear most recent nuclear violations Historic Maritime advanced centrifuge assembly weapons and reduce Iran’s that have come to light—all in Talks With Israel Show facility underground in the nuclear breakout Hezbollah’s Weakened mountains around Natanz. It will time to two to three Grip on Lebanon replace the facility that exploded months: If it ignores this summer in what Tehran remaining restrictions srael and Lebanon called a sabotage attack. and purifies its began negotiations on A senior diplomat told Reuters, existing uranium to I Oct. 14, 2020, to end a “They finished installing one of weapons-grade, it can 30-year dispute over their the three cascades and they test—or use—its first maritime borders. The Lebanese have started installing a second nuclear bomb by the government insists that these cascade.” A cascade is a cluster end of January. negotiations do not signal of centrifuges that combines The International warming ties between the two to purify uranium. Each of the Atomic Energy Agency nations, but the fact that they three cascades being installed also reported that are taking place at all indicates in the new facility is increasingly Iran still has not a shift underway in Lebanon’s advanced and, presumably, able provided a believable power balance. A 2013 satellite image shows to enrich uranium faster. explanation for the the uranium enrichment In 1982, following Israel’s facility in Natanz that was This move is Iran’s newest discovery of uranium destroyed this past summer. invasion of Southern Lebanon, a flagrant violation of the 2015 at a site close to group of Lebanese Shiite clerics international Joint Comprehen- Tehran. After Israel exposed the space of a week. Despite the formed Hezbollah, a militant sive Plan of Action nuclear deal, the existence of the uranium nuclear deal—and in some ways, group and political party, with the which expressly forbids it from last year, Iran barred United due to it—Iran has continued goal of ousting Israel. After the installing advanced centrifuges Nations inspectors from the building a robust nuclear war ended, Hezbollah was one of underground. site for months, during which it weapons program. n few militia groups not disarmed by Syria. It remained in the nation, backed by Iran, and continued JCPOA signatories and Security defending against Israeli attacks. Iran launches a missile during war games near Council members rejected the But after years of Hezbollah’s the Strait of Hormuz. move as having no legal basis. mismanagement and corruption, Iran has a long history of the group is no longer viewed supplying money and weapons as Lebanon’s defender. Though to tyrants and terrorist proxies. it remains the most influential Now it can again supply these power in the nation, its sway groups not only with weapons it is waning. Thus Hezbollah had produces, but also with those it to let Lebanon negotiate with buys in the global market. Israel to prove that it is not The Trump administration limiting Lebanon’s access to Weapons embargo it as “a momentous day for the has warned that the U.S. will Mediterranean gas fields in on Iran ends international community … in penalize countries that buy or sell disputed areas. defiance of malign U.S. efforts.” weapons with Iran. Yet Turkey Based on Bible prophecy, the he weapons embargo The United States sought to and Russia have openly negoti- Trumpet has been expecting imposed on Iran five years preserve the embargo, arguing ated arms sales to Iran, China is Lebanon to pull free of Iranian T ago as part of the Joint that even though it withdrew working on a possible 25-year domination at the hand of Comprehensive Plan of Action from the JCPOA nuclear deal in strategic and military partnership, Hezbollah. The talks between (JCPOA) ended Oct. 18. 2020. 2015, it could call for restoration and North Korea has reportedly Israel and Lebanon represent Iran can now legally buy and of snapback sanctions under renewed its cooperation on a step toward this prophesied sell conventional armaments, United Nations Security Council ballistic missiles. America’s divide. To understand where including missiles, helicopters, Resolution 2231. But France, enemies are growing bolder these events are leading, order tanks and fighter jets. Iran’s Germany, the United Kingdom, and more willing to work openly your free copy of The King of

MEHDI MARIZAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, DIGITAL GLOBE/GETTY IMAGES, IMAGES, GLOBE/GETTY DIGITAL IMAGES, MARIZAD/AFP/GETTY MEHDI foreign minister characterized China, Russia, Iran and other against American interests. n the South. n JANUARY 2021 29 U.S. trusts Germany with latest annual military drills space war, nukes and rapid in which they practice using deployments fighter-bombers to use these bombs against enemy targets. n Oct. 22, 2020, the More and more NATO oper- North Atlantic Treaty ations are taking place in O Organization agreed to Germany, meaning that the U.S. establish a new space center at is trusting the German military Allied Air Command in Ramstein, with more and more of NATO’s Germany. The center could plans, strategies, intelligence be used to gather information and fears. Bible prophecy specif- on possible threats against ically warns Britain and America, satellites and could later expand the modern descendants of into a command center for ancient Israel, not to trust space defense. This comes after Meanwhile, the United States and Turkey have access to foreign allies. But American trust Germany was chosen in 2018 as is in the process of upgrading these weapons under a NATO in Germany appears total. n the location for a new planning its B-61 nuclear bombs that are agreement. In October, Germany Read “Europe’s Nuclear and command center for rapid deployed in Europe. Belgium, and other European countries Secret” by Gerald Flurry at troop and supply deployment. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands are believed to have held their theTrumpet.com/go/nuclear.

Pope urges Europe to restrictions, and Francis healthy secularism” but also ‘rediscover’ Catholicism responded with this open the end of “a certain laicism.” letter. In it he wrote: “Europe, This seeming contradiction, n an open letter on Oct. 22, find yourself. Rediscover your simultaneously advocating and 2020, Pope Francis called on most deeply rooted ideals. Be opposing the separation of I Europe to view its Catholic yourself! Do not be afraid of your church and state, makes sense past not as an “album of memo- millenary history ….” He wrote in light of Europe’s history and ries” but as “a window open to that “a divided Europe, made up its prophesied future. Europe’s the future more than the past.” of insular and independent real- “millenary history” has been Vatican Foreign Minister ities, will soon prove incapable marked by empires guided by Pietro Parolin was scheduled of facing the challenges of the the Catholic Church. Prophecy to meet with European Union future” and that the solution was shows that Europe will indeed officials to celebrate three “a Europe that is a united and “rediscover” the Catholic anniversaries of the Vatican’s fraternal community.” Church and unite with it in the ties to the EU. The meeting Francis said he dreamed next and final resurrection of POPE FRANCIS was canceled due to COVID of “a Europe marked by a the Holy Roman Empire. n ISTOCK.COM/FORPLAYDAY, GRZEGORZ GALAZKA/MONDADORI PORTFOLIO/GETTY IMAGES, NAINA HELEN JAMA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Fearful of Russia, Sweden boosts military spending A Finnish machine gunner participates in NATO exercises in Sweden. wedish Defense Minister to increase military cooperation with.” The new defense Peter Hultqvist intro- with Norway and Finland. bill “is a signal to the S duced a historic defense These proposals come in Swedish people and bill on Oct. 14, 2020. The bill response to an increase in our neighborhood would increase military spending Russian aggression in Europe. that we are taking by 40 percent ($3 billion) over the In 2014, it invaded Ukraine and the security situation next five years, double military placed Crimea under Russian extremely seriously.” personnel to 90,000, provide the control. It has repeatedly In his 2004 article air force with improved fighter violated Swedish airspace, and “Russia Frightens jets, equip the navy with new in September 2020, two Russian Europe—and Fulfills submarines and warships, and warships made unauthorized Bible Prophecy” make other upgrades that would entry into Swedish waters. (theTrumpet.com/1049) equate to Sweden’s largest mili- “[T]he Russian side is willing Trumpet editor in chief Gerald this moment—to a spectacular tary expansion in 70 years. The to use military means to achieve Flurry wrote that Europe’s fulfillment! All of these events military recently reintroduced political goals,” Hultqvist said. fear of Russia “gives us a flash in Russia and Europe are conscription, and it looks to rees- “Based on that, we have a new of light into a terrifying Bible working out according to God’s tablish five northern regiments geopolitical situation to deal prophecy. It is building now—at master plan.” n 30 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Missouri elects Black Lives Matter activist CORI BUSH

lack Lives Matter activist Cori Bush won 79 percent B of the vote in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District and will become Missouri’s first black congresswoman. She rose to Tech prominence after the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014. giants Bush and other newly elected progressive lawmakers plan to squash form an expanded “Squad 2.0” this far-left political group keeps with radical representatives adding members is an indicator Facebook cofounder, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of how many Americans have the truth chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of New York, Ilhan Omar of replaced the moral teachings Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of of the Bible with the beliefs of n Oct. 14, 2020, the of the story. Twitter actually Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley evolution, Marxism and Critical New York Post locked the account of the New of Massachusetts. The fact that Race Theory. n O published evidence York Post. that former Vice President Joe Bible prophecy foretold Biden’s son, Hunter, introduced that a movement would cast American universities are on foreign payrolls him to a Ukrainian energy truth to the ground in the end executive. This contradicted time (Daniel 8:12). Anciently, n Oct. 20, 2020, pursuing Eastern philosophies. Joe Biden’s repeated claim that Antiochus Epiphanes fulfilled this Secretary of Education “O house of Jacob, come ye, and he “never” spoke with his son prophecy when he attempted to O Betsy DeVos reported let us walk in the light of the Lord. about his overseas business force the Jewish people to give that since 2014, colleges and Therefore thou hast forsaken dealings and indicated that up their religion and embrace universities in the United States thy people the house of Jacob, the Biden family could have paganism. But the book of Daniel failed to disclose more than because they be replenished from been trading political favors is primarily for the end time $6.5 billion in funding from China, the east, and are soothsayers like for financial profit. Two hours (Daniel 8:17-19; 12:4, 9). Sadly, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United the Philistines, and they please after the story was published the principle described in this Arab Emirates, Qatar and other themselves in the children of online, Facebook announced prophecy is applying to America foreign nations. These that it was deliberately more and more, as “transgres- nations are using this changing its search algorithms sion,” or sin increases and truth outreach to influence to limit discussion or sharing is cast down. n the next generation of Americans for their benefit. This strategy Americans vote for more drugs harms America’s national security in the long term oters sent a clear terminal spiritual and in the near term. message on Election sickness. The Bible The Department of V Night: They want illegal calls this sickness pharmakeia, Education drew partic- drugs legalized. Residents of and it is listed as one of the works ular attention to funding Arizona, Montana, New Jersey of the flesh in Galatians 5:19-20. from Confucius Institutes, and South Dakota voted to legalize The King James translation which gives money to recreational use of marijuana renders this word as “witchcraft,” colleges in return for the on Nov. 3, 2020, joining 11 other but a more exact rendering opportunity to teach Chinese strangers” (Isaiah 2:5-6). Pres- states that have already done so. is “use of drugs.” Millions of language and culture to students. tigious universities like Harvard, Washington, D.C., voted to decrim- Americans use marijuana, Their goal is to teach future Yale, Princeton and Oxford inalize the use of psychedelic psychedelic mushrooms, cocaine, American leaders to take a more once required daily Bible study. mushrooms, and Oregon voted heroin, methamphetamines accommodating position toward But now they teach evolution, to decriminalize possession of all and other drugs—legally and Chinese human rights abuses in socialism and Eastern philosophy illicit drugs—including cocaine, illegally—for moments of fleeting Taiwan and Tibet. while accepting money from heroin and methamphetamines. hallucinatory euphoria in a vain The Prophet Isaiah specifically Communists and Islamists who Widespread approval of attempt to fill the spiritual void in corrected Americans’ ancestors want to promote their values to

ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES, MATT WINKELMEYER/GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCK.COM/NASTASIC, BROOKS KRAFT/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES KRAFT/CORBIS/GETTY BROOKS ISTOCK.COM/NASTASIC, IMAGES, WINKELMEYER/GETTY MATT IMAGES, WONG/GETTY ALEX drug use in America is a sign of their lives. n for forsaking God’s law and American students. n JANUARY 2021 31 u BLOCKCHAIN FROM PAGE 27 a digital euro would rock the world with yen and digital euros to be electronically that Europe is sleeping through the an entirely new way of doing business! traded would open up a myriad of alter- digitization. “I am convinced that native reserve currency options. blockchain will evolve and become very Currency War Prophecies about an end-time mart important,” he told an audience in Swit- If Europe and Asia acted together, they of nations are not limited to the Old zerland in 2016. “The technology could could dethrone the dollar and revo- Testament. Revelation 17 reveals that a speed up transactions and save banks lutionize global finance to an extent powerful religious entity will become money—the middle man would become not seen since the Chinese introduced a guiding force over a great economic obsolete. … I hope that Europe will come the world to paper money. Amazingly, powerhouse that intoxicates all nations to its senses, build a strong blockchain the Bible prophesied of an end-time with its wealth and splendor. Revela- hub, and not leave this development to economic alliance against America and tion 18:3 says that “the merchants of the other side of the Atlantic.” Britain long before the Lydians first the earth have become rich through The 200 German lenders represented started minting metallic coins. the abundance of her luxury” (New by the Association of German Banks In his booklet Isaiah’s End-Time Vision, King James Version). And Revelation believe a government-backed, digital euro Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry 13:17 shows that people will be unable would prevent decentralized alternatives, explains the Bible’s prophecies that the to buy or sell if they do not obey this such as bitcoin or libra, from destabi- world economy will be dominated by religious entity—a prophecy that may lizing Europe’s financial systems. They three power blocs in the end time: Tyre, require blockchain-like technology to also believe that such a currency would Tarshish and Kittim. Tyre, he explains, implement. enable the establishment of a stream- represents the commercial center of the These verses are specifically about lined pan-European payments platform. modern-day European Union; Tarshish a European financial power, but these merchants are not only active in Europe. They are doing business around the SUCH AN ANTI-AMERICAN world. China and Japan are going to ally with a revived Holy Roman Empire ALLIANCE WOULD OBVIOUSLY HAVE to replace the current Anglo-American economic system. This will require Euro- NO INTEREST TRADING IN DOLLARS. pean nations to unite in a powerful way. Herbert W. Armstrong wrote in 1984 Other eurozone nations also want is modern-day Japan; Kittim is mod- that a massive banking crisis in America to establish a digital euro, lest China’s ern-day China. Isaiah 23:1-3 say that the “could suddenly result in triggering digital revolution leave Europe behind. merchants of Tarshish will mourn when European nations to unite as a new In May, Banque de France announced Tyre is overthrown. This shows that world power, larger than either the the successful test of a blockchain Japan and China will be in a close eco- Soviet Union or the U.S.” This unification transaction with a digital euro. In nomic partnership with a German-led of core European nations could also be the test, Société Générale, one of European superstate. accompanied by a new digital currency. France’s biggest investment banks, Other Bible prophecies, such as As the 2008 financial crisis showed, issued €40 million (us$44.3 million) of Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, show a banking crisis could easily cause the covered bonds as security tokens. The that the nations of Israel (the United dollar to collapse. America’s enemies bonds were then directly registered States and Britain primarily) will be are aware of this fact, and may even try on a public blockchain and settled as besieged in their gates, until their high to purposely provoke such a crisis. We digital euros. Banque de France plans to and fenced walls come down. This have not yet seen the end of the push conduct more tests with other parties, shows that the Isaiah 23 mart of nations for new reserve currencies. Nor have eventually including financial institu- is an anti-American alliance. Such an we seen the end of hostility against tions and companies. alliance would obviously have no inter- America. Though the digital currencies Policymakers at the European Central est trading in dollars. This means the and Blockchain Services Network Bank have discussed the creation of a process of international trade that the are cutting-edge technologies, the Central Bank digital currency (cbdc) dollar currently provides would have economic trends unfolding today were similar to China’s Digital Currency to be replaced. A Blockchain Services prophesied thousands of years ago in Electronic Payment. Although, unlike Network allowing digital yuan, digital your Bible! n the People’s Bank of China, the Euro- pean Central Bank has not announced when it wants its digital currency to go national. Such announcements are How can you survive harder to make in the eurozone, where 19 individual states still have a say in the next financial crash? First, arm yourself with knowledge. Request our free booklet such financial decisions. But the near-si- The Financial Law You Can’t Afford to Ignore. multaneous launch of a digital yuan and 32 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET PRINCIPLES OF LIVING STEPHEN This is the key! “Effectual” prayer that “availeth much” must FLURRY be coming from “a righteous man” (James 5:16). This means an obedient man—not self-reliant and self-righteous, but humble and repentant. God answers the prayers of the obedient. So if your prayers are not getting real results, don’t question God: Look at yourself. Are you obeying God? It is not enough to The All-Important Key know God’s will. You must do God’s will. Did you know that loving God means not just saying you love to Answered Prayer Him but being obedient to Him? Most Christian churches do not teach this! But read 1 John 5:3: “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are What you can do to break through to God not grievous.” 1 John 2:3-6 say, “And hereby we do know that and get real results we know him, if we keep his commandments. … But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected.” s God answering my prayers? All of us have wondered 1 John 3:23-24 emphasize that Christ commanded us to love this at times. Maybe you know God hears you, but you one another and “he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth I aren’t seeing real results. Maybe you don’t know if God in him ….” (Study Psalm 66:18-20; Proverbs 15:8; 28:9; Ezekiel hears you at all. Let’s look in the Bible to find the most 33:30-32; Luke 13:24-28; John 9:31; 15:10.) often-overlooked key to answered prayer! Isaiah 55:8, 1 John 5:14, John 5:30, Luke 22:42 and many other The Bible is filled with awesome examples of God answering verses show that obeying God means giving up your will and prayers! Read Exodus 32:7-14 and see how Moses’s prayers doing His will instead. Most Christians don’t realize or admit actually changed God’s mind and saved the nation of Israel from being wiped out! Moses and every other individual in the Bible were imperfect. They had desires, passions, strengths, weaknesses, discouragements and limitations, just like those you and I have (James 5:16-18). Yet the prayers of these mere mortals changed how the Creator of the universe fulfilled His plan! They changed the course of history! They got real results. If your prayers The Bible teaches that to pray “effectual” prayers that “availeth much,” we must be bold; we must be energetic; we are not getting must remember history; we must study the promises God real results, makes in the Bible; we must know He desires to bless us; we don’t question God: must hold Him to His promises; we must pray according to His will; we must be diligent; we must put in hard work; we must Look at yourself. make prayer the most important part of each day! (Request our free book How to Pray to learn more.) But you can do all these things and not receive real results! None of these is the most often-overlooked key to answered prayer. Herbert W. Armstrong showed us the key in “You Can Have this, but our will is contrary to God’s will. This doesn’t just apply Living Faith!” (Good News, April 1980). He wrote: “[T]here is not to “bad people” but to all people (Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 8:7). one thing I have had to rely on God for and ask Him for in prayer, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; for myself and family or the wonderful work of His, which He neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities has committed to me, that has not been answered. You can get have separated between you and your God, and your sins have the same results—if you will be willing to learn what I have had hid his face from you, that he will not hear” (Isaiah 59:1-2). to learn, and to do what God has shown me I have to do.” “Many people, when they pray, have requests of God,” my What did God show him he had to do? What did God show father, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote. “But they Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah, James, Paul and other men of don’t think about what God expects of them” (“Is God Answer- effective prayer that they had to do? ing Our Prayers?”; pcg.church/go/prayer). We must obey! The formula is to search the Bible for God’s will and His prom- This is the key that so many overlook! We must not only pray, ises, stop sinning, strive to obey His laws, and and with all those other attributes, but we must also want to obey then faithfully believe! Not only can you get real God, and actually obey God! God tells us in 1 John 3:7, “[H]e that results, but you can know as you’re praying that doeth righteousness is righteous ….” Verse 18 states, “My little God will answer (1 John 5:15; Matthew 21:22). You children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed don’t know how or when , but you know He will and in truth.” Verse 21 shows that we have “confidence toward answer! There will not be one thing that He does God” only if we have obedient hearts. Now read verse 22: “And not answer! This is life-changing prayer! n whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his com-

ISTOCK.COM/SINENKLY mandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.” To learn more, request a free copy of How to Pray. DISCUSSION BOARD

For someone such as myself who has lived in the world for about 64 years, your use of the Scriptures is very helpful in giving us simple answers to our questions (“Does God Influence Elections?”, theTrumpet.com/23077). Your use of Psalm 2 actually made me laugh. Thanks for the scriptures that explain God’s view on voting. I’ve never heard anyone else explain this subject before. Don Woods e-mail response

I wanted to thank you for this in this period of hard, brutal everything in it thoroughly. I like on-point article about God darkness the world finds itself that nothing is sugar-coated or influencing elections. It is very in, God considers and gives us beat around the bush on current impressed by the knowledge bold, truthful and Spirit-filled. My the loving help we need in the events, but you stick to the truth and investigative findings. You daughter had an encounter at correction process: “God will use 100 percent. There are so many provide a worldview unlike most work yesterday regarding the the lightest touch He can to set us great articles I sometimes read publications, backed up by solid election. She was left feeling right. If we are judging ourselves over and over again. facts on subjects ranging from overwhelmingly guilty for not by God’s Word and purging Richard Reyes texas local activity to international standing up to the pressure. She our sin, then generally God’s movements and motivations. actually said she was voting chastening can be quite gentle.” Here in Nigeria our prayer is Bill Morin massachusetts for Biden to keep the peace as Ed Atkinson alabama that Donald Trump emerges the she felt so intimidated by her winner (“What the Election Has I appreciate the magazines. They co-workers. Her boss even turns I understand you have a Already Shown Us,” theTrumpet. are very informative because obvious Trump supporters away magazine called the Royal com/23110). We are looking at they tell the truth. True facts from the establishment, stating Vision. I would like to request a issues from a global perspective: are not the mainstream media’s there’s no room for them. I will be subscription to this if it is free. I Whatever happens to America strong point and neither is the sharing your article with others. thoroughly enjoy the Trumpet affects the world. Americans truth. The world is upside-down

Robyn Romanoff e-mail response and all its most interesting should not be too domestic about and obviously in Satan’s grip.

articles. You have an excellent this election. And the growing People’s beliefs and morals GARY DORNING/TRUMPET, TAYFUN COSKUN/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES, JIM WATSON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES, KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAGES, ISTOCK.COM/ 153175979 This article had the effect on me cast of writers and reporters! disunity within might give the are unbelievably twisted like a nice word I ran across Cheryl Conrad e-mail response enemy the upper hand, especially nowadays. I’m a prisoner who recently, fillip: “something Yes, we do produce Royal Vision, the ones who believe America was homeless for years living that acts as a stimulus” (“Is a bimonthly Christian-living has occupied the position of a in poverty and even I can see God Able to Correct You?”, magazine. It also is free of superpower for too long. While that defunding the police will November–December 2020, charge and we hope you enjoy we pray for the nation to stand, only hurt us all and result in mob theTrumpet.com/22954). So, I am your subscription. there are many who want it to fall. rule. I’ve tried to explain to other very encouraged to really be alert James nigeria prisoners that if this was the to correction from Bible study, Just a brief note of appreciation law of the Wild West most of us conversations, the examples for such a wonderful and I am very impressed, thankful would’ve been shot or hung. It’s of others and the situations in enjoyable magazine you all have and encouraged by the like talking to a brick wall. which you find yourself. Even sent me all these years. I read Trumpet. I am especially Chris Hughes north carolina

THETRUMPET.COM HIGHLIGHTS

top article top article top podcast top video Donald Trump Is Going The Election Exposes the Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Truly Psalm 83 Prophecy to Win This Election Radical Left’s Rolling Coup Prophetic’ Warning thetrumpet.com/22939 theTrumpet.com/23137 theTrumpet.com/23120 theTrumpet.com/23076 34 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET COMMENTARY BRAD Protesters march MACDONALD in Manhattan after America’s 2020 presidential elections.

AMERICA’S ELECTION: ‘Truth Dies in the Streets’

What the Prophet Isaiah foretold about this national crisis

ible prophecy is stunningly relevant to today’s news. Verses 5-6 read, “You spend your time and energy in spinning For example, a prophecy written more than 2,700 years evil plans which end up in deadly actions. You cheat and short- B ago perfectly describes America’s election crisis. Ameri- change everyone …” (Living Bible). Verse 7 in the Fenton trans- cans today are living the 59th chapter of Isaiah! lation speaks of “their genius” as being “contrivance of crime.” This chapter begins with sobering but reassuring words: “Lis- Many major cities where voter fraud appears to have occurred ten now! The Lord isn’t too weak to save you. And he isn’t getting are infamous for deep corruption. These people have been deaf! He can hear you when you call! But the trouble is your sins contriving crimes for so long, they are now criminal “geniuses.” have cut you off from God” (verses 1-2; Living Bible). God sees What is the outcome of all this crookedness? The Living Bible America’s plight. He doesn’t lack the power or the desire to help, says, “… wherever you go you leave behind a trail of misery but still He refuses. Why? Because of the people’s sins. and death” (verse 7). The radical left’s efforts to manipulate this God describes these sins in the next 13 verses. Notice, while election certainly drive the nation through a trail of misery. these include sins like violence and murder, they all spring “You don’t know what true peace is,” Isaiah warns in from the nation’s perverted relationship with law. Deceit and verse 8, “nor what it means to be just and good; you continually corruption are systemic. Law is subjective, and the rule of do wrong and those who follow you won’t experience any peace, law inconsequential. Isaiah 59 describes a nation of liars. As either” (Living Bible). a result, the reasoning, opinions and judgments of the people, Unless God somehow intervenes, there can be no peaceful and especially their leaders, are corrupt. outcome to this election. America will not experience peace “None pleads for the right; None decides for the as a result of this election, and it’s all ultimately because of the truth; They trust upon tricks and false speech, Conceive Satan-inspired spirit of lawlessness coursing through the land! mischief and bring forth deceit” (verse 4; Ferrar Fenton). Talk Verses 9-10 continue, “[N]o wonder you are walking in dark- about “trust upon tricks”—the radical left dug deep into its ness when you expected light. No wonder you are walking in box of tricks in the presidential election. The evidence of large- the gloom. No wonder you grope like blind men and stumble scale voter fraud is overwhelming: “glitches” in ballot counting along in broad daylight, yes, even at brightest noontime, as machines; hundreds of signed affidavits from witnesses though it were the darkest night!” (Living Bible). Think of all alleging fraud; poll watchers being sidelined; vote counts that the pre-election polls confidently anticipating an unambiguous impossibly favor Joe Biden; voters filling out multiple ballots; Biden victory. Informed by their magnificent models, pollsters illegal ballot harvesting; bags full of ballots arriving in the wee fully expected one outcome but experienced the opposite. They hours of the morning; ballots filed by people long dead. groped and stumbled like blind men, incapable of recognizing The more you dig, the more you realize this election scandal the extent of the president’s popularity even though, in massive was carefully orchestrated. For months, even years, people rallies, it shined brightly before them. “conceived mischief”; then they carefully executed their plan to In verses 15-16, the Prophet Isaiah begins to show how this “bring forth deceit.” The radical left can get away with it because prophecy ends: “Yes, truth is gone, and anyone who tries a “None pleads for the right; None decides for the truth ….” better life is soon attacked. The Lord saw all the evil and was There is a wholesale disregard for truth in the land! displeased to find no steps taken against sin. He saw no one Isaiah prophesies that “none”—not Fox News, not Republican was helping you, and wondered that no one intervened. There- politicians, not evangelical Christians—are interested in the fore, he himself stepped in to save you through his mighty truth. Verse 14 says, “truth falls dead in the streets, and power and justice” (Living Bible). justice is outlawed” (Living Bible). There are Pulitzer The lawlessness and injustice, and the nation-crushing vio- Prize-worthy stories to investigate here, but no one seems to lence and suffering that come as a result, will end. These verses want to seriously search for the truth. show that God will eventually step in and save America—but This isn’t just a political crisis. This is a moral and spir- sadly, not before the nation falls into catastrophic violence, itual crisis, and it infects virtually the entire leadership slavery and nuclear devastation. With God, there is always

ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY IMAGES MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET/GETTY ERIK structure of America. hope. But that salvation will not come without repentance. n JANUARY 2021 35 u STATUES FROM PAGE 21 the only solution to these nightmarish problems. In 2017, prominent members of President Donald Trump’s administration misquoted an important Bible passage, which reads: “If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:13-14). Those leaders omitted the parts about turning from Philadelphia Trumpet editor wickedness and receiving forgiveness for sin! in chief Gerald Flurry The Bible says our prayers are in vain if we don’t appears each week on The repent and obey God! Christ said, “[W]hy call ye me, Lord, Key of David explaining the Lord, and do not the things which I say?” (Luke 6:46). meaning behind world events Lincoln warned Americans about growing compla- and teaching the inspiring cent in their wealth and blessings. He said, “We have truths of the Bible. The been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. program is also available at We have been preserved, these many years, in peace keyofdavid.com. and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious ALL TIMES ARE A.M. LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and UNITED STATES Nationwide Satellite Colorado, Colorado Springs KXTU 10:30, Sun enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imag- Galaxy 3 Trans. 17 11:30 ET, Tue/Thu Denver KPXC 5:00, Fri ined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these DirecTV Grand Junction KJCT-DT 8:30, Sun ION, Chan. 305, 6:00 ET/PT, Fri; Chan. 306, Montrose KJCT-DT 8:30, Sun blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and 9:00 ET, 6:00 PT Connecticut, Hartford WHPX 6:00, Fri virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, WGN, Chan. 307, 8:30 ET, Sun Florida, Gainesville WCJB-DT 9:30, Sun Dish Network Jacksonville WPXC/WPXJ-LP 6:00, Fri we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity ION, Chan. 250, 6:00 ET, Fri Miami WPXM 6:00, Fri of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to WGN, Chan. 239, 8:30 ET, Sun Orlando WOPX 6:00, Fri Nationwide Cable Panama City WJHG-DT 8:30, Sun the God that made us!” (March 30, 1863). CW Plus, 5:30, 9:30 ET/PT, 4:30, 8:30 CT/ Tallahassee WTXL 7:30, Sun; WTLF/ This is certainly true of America today. This world MT, Sun WTLH-DT 9:30, Sun ION, 6:00 ET/PT, Fri Tampa WXPX 6:00, Fri bristles with nuclear bombs, so many in the hands of WGN, 8:30 ET, Sun West Palm Beach WPXP 6:00, Fri men who shouldn’t even be in charge of nations. Christ Alabama, Birmingham WPXH 5:00, Fri; Georgia, Albany WSWG-DT 9:30, Sun WVUA 8:30, Sun Atlanta WPXA 6:00, Fri warned of human extinction if He didn’t return to save Dothan WTVY-DT 8:30, Sun Augusta-Aiken WAGT-DT 9:30, Sun us! (Matthew 24:21-22). Yet most people are heedlessly, Montgomery-Salem WBMM-DT/WNCF-DT Brunswick WPXC 6:00, Fri 8:30, Sun Columbus WLTZ-DT 9:30, Sun foolishly pushing God aside. Very soon, all men will Opelika WLTZ-DT 9:30, Sun Macon WMAZ-DT 9:30, Sun stop making that mistake—at that last trump, which, Alaska, Anchorage KYUR-DT 8:30, Sun Savannah WSAV-DT 9:30, Sun Fairbanks KATN-DT 8:30, Sun Thomasville WTLF/WTLH-DT 9:30, Sun even if we don’t obey God, will be here in a very few Juneau KJUD-DT 8:30, Sun Hawaii, Hawaii Na Leo Chan. 54 6:30, Sun; years! That is how close we are to the Second Coming! Arizona, Phoenix KPPX 5:00, Fri; KASW 8:30, Wed 8:00, Sun Honolulu KPXO 5:00, Fri We must follow Lincoln’s example and look to God Yuma KECY-DT 8:30, Sun Kaui Ho’ Ike Chan. 52 9:30, Tue for solutions and deliverance. This is the only solu- Arkansas, El Dorado KNOE-DT 8:30, Sun Maui/Lanaii/Molokai/Niihau/Akaku Fayetteville KHBS-DT/KHOG-DT 8:30, Sun Chan. 52 6:30 pm, Sun; 3:30, Mon tion to America’s deadly division. The law is being dis- Fort Smith KFTA 9:30, Sun; KHBS-DT/ Oahu Focus Chan. 49 7:00, Sat carded, and passionate, violent mobs are gaining more KHOG-DT 8:30, Sun Idaho, Boise KYUU-LP/KBOI-DT 8:30, Sun Jonesboro KAIT3-HD 9:30, Sun; KJOS/ Idaho Falls KIFI-DT 8:30, Sun and more power. Our constitutional republic is at stake. WLMT 8:30, Sun Pocatello KIFI-DT 8:30, Sun Soon God will intervene to solve our problems. He will Rogers KFTA 9:30, Sun; KHBS-DT/KHOG- Twin Falls KMVT-DT 8:30, Sun DT 8:30, Sun Illinois, Bloomington WEEK-DT 8:30, Sun do it His way, the only way that works: by putting down Springdale KFTA 9:30, Sun; KHBS-DT/ Chicago WCIU 9:30, Sun; WCPX 5:00, Fri rebellion and establishing His perfect law! n KHOG-DT 8:30, Sun Peoria WEEK-DT 8:30, Sun California, Bakersfield KGET-DT 9:30, Sun Rockford WREX 10:00, Sun; WREX-DT Chico KHSL-DT 9:30, Sun; KRCR 9:00, Sun 8:30, Sun El Centro KECY-DT 8:30, Sun Quincy WGEM-DT 8:30, Sun Eureka KECA-LD/KVIQ-DT 9:30, Sun Indiana, Fort Wayne WISE-DT 9:30, Sun They aren’t just Los Angeles KPXN 6:00, Fri; KTTV 6:00, Sun Indianapolis WIPX 6:00, Fri toppling statues. Monterey KION 9:30, Sun Lafayette WLFI-DT 9:30, Sun Palm Springs KCWQ/KESQ-DT 9:30, Sun South Bend ESBT/WSBT 7:30, Sun Redding KHSL-DT 9:30, Sun; Terre Haute WTHI-DT 9:30, Sun Radicals are also tearing down religion KRCR 9:00, Sun Iowa, Cedar Rapids KPXR 5:00, Fri and morality, with deadly consequences. Sacramento KSPX 6:00, Fri; Des Moines KFPX 5:00, Fri Salinas KION 9:30, Sun Keokuk WGEM-DT 8:30, Sun But you can uphold these two pillars San Francisco KKPX 6:00, Fri Mason City KTTC-DT 8:30, Sun in your own life. To learn how, request Santa Barbara-Santa Maria KSBY-DT Ottumwa KWOT/KYOU-DT2 8:30, Sun 9:30, Sun Sioux City KTIV-DT 8:30, Sun Gerald Flurry’s Character in Crisis. Visalia KFRE Channel 59 7:30, Sun Kansas, Pittsburg CWPL 8:30, Sun; KSXF 36 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET 9:30, Sun Dickinson KXMD/KXMC-DT2 8:30, Sun Charleston WLPX 6:00, Fri For a free subscription to Topeka KTKA-DT 8:30, Sun Fargo KXJB 8:30, Sun Clarksburg WVFX-DT 9:30, Sun the Philadelphia Trumpet Kentucky, Bowling Green WBKO-DT 8:30, Sun Minot KXMD/KXMC-DT2 8:30, Sun Oak Hill WVVA-DT 9:30, Sun Lexington WDKY 7:00, Sun; WUPX 6:00, Fri Valley City KXJB 8:30, Sun Parkersburg WCWP/WOVA-LD2 9:30, in the U.S. and Canada, call Louisiana, Alexandria KALB-DT 8:30, Sun Ohio, Cincinnati WSTR 8:30, Sun Lafayette KATC-DT 8:30, Sun; Cleveland WVPX 6:00, Fri Sun KLAF 6:30, Sun Lima WBOH 9:30, Sun Weston WVFX-DT 9:30, Sun 1-800-772-8577 Lake Charles KPLC-DT 8:30, Sun Steubenville WBWO 9:30, Sun Wheeling WBWO 9:30, Sun Monroe KNOE-DT 8:30, Sun Youngstown WYTV 11:30, Sun Wisconsin, Eau Claire WXOW-DT/WQOW- STAFF New Orleans WPXL 5:00, Fri Zanesville WBZV 9:30, Sun DT 8:30, Sun Publisher and Editor in Chief Gerald Flurry Maine, Bangor WABI-DT 9:30, Sun Oklahoma, Ada KTEN-DT 8:30, Sun La Crosse WXOW-DT/WQOW-DT 8:30, Sun Portland WIPL 6:00, Fri Lawton KAUZ-DT 8:30, Sun Executive Editor Milwaukee WPXE 5:00, Fri Stephen Flurry Presque Isle WAGM-DT3/WBPQ 9:30, Oklahoma City KOPX 5:00, Fri Rhinelander WAOW/WYOW 8:30, Sun Sun Tulsa KTPX 5:00, Fri; KQCW 9:30, Sun Managing Editor Superior KDLH-DT 8:30, Sun Joel Hilliker Maryland, Salisbury WMDT-DT 9:30, Sun Oregon, Bend KTVZ-DT 9:30, Sun Massachusetts, Holyoke Eugene KMTR-DT 9:30, Sun Wausau WAOW-DT/WYOW-DT 8:30, Sun Contributing Editors Wyoming, Casper KCWY-DT 8:30, Sun Brad Macdonald, Richard Palmer, WWLP-DT 9:30, Sun Medford-Klamath Falls Jeremiah Jacques, Dennis Leap Springfield WWLP-DT 9:30, Sun KTVL-DT 9:30, Sun Cheyenne KGWN-DT 8:30, Sun Associate Editor Michigan, Alpena WBAE 9:30, Sun Portland KPXG 6:00, Fri Riverton KCWY-DT 8:30, Sun Philip Nice Cadillac WFQX-DT 9:30, Sun Pennsylvania, Erie WSEE-DT/WICU-DT Designers Detroit WPXD 6:00, Fri; WADL 10:00, Sun 9:30, Sun CANADA Steve Hercus, Reese Zoellner Grand Rapids WZPX 5:00, Fri Philadelphia WACP 9:00, Sun Nationwide satellite WPPX 6:00, Fri Contributors Lansing WLAJ-DT 9:30, Sun; WSYM, Galaxy 3 Trans. 17, 21 11:30 ET, Tue/Thu Andrew Miiller, Brent Nagtegaal, Wilkes Barre WQPX 6:00, Fri 7:30, Sun Nationwide cable David Vejil, Callum Wood Marquette WBKP-DT/WBUP-DT 9:30, Sun Rhode Island, Providence Vision TV 4:30 pm ET, Sun Production Assistants Traverse City WFQX-DT 9:30, Sun WPXQ 6:00, Fri Deepika Azariah, Aubrey Mercado South Carolina, Anderson WYCW 9:00, Sun CHCH 11:30 ET, Sun Minnesota, Duluth KDLH-DT 8:30, Sun Artists Mankato KWYE 8:30, Sun Charleston WCBD-DT 9:30, Sun Atlantic Provinces Gary Dorning, Julia Goddard, Minneapolis KPXM 5:00, Fri Florence WWMB-DT 9:30, Sun CTV Atlantic 11:00 AT, Sun Emma Moore Rochester KTTC-DC 8:30, Sun Greenville WYCW 9:00, Sun Alberta, Red Deer KAYU 8:30, Sun Prepress Mississippi, Biloxi WXXV-DT 8:30, Sun Myrtle Beach WWMB-DT 9:30, Sun Calgary CKCS-DT 10:00, Sun; KAYU Wik Heerma Columbus WCBI-DT 8:30, Sun Spartanburg WYCW 9:00, Sun 8:30, Sun International Editions South Dakota, Rapid City KLCO-DT 8:30, Sun Greenville WBWD 8:30, Sun Edmonton CKES-DT 10:00, Sun; KAYU Brad Macdonald Greenwood WBWD 8:30, Sun Sioux Falls (Mitchell) KSFY-DT 8:30, Sun 8:30, Sun French, Italian Gulfport WXXV-DT 8:30, Sun Tennessee, Jackson WNBJ 8:30, Sun Deryle Hope Medicine Hat KAYU 8:30, Sun Hattiesburg WHLT-DT 8:30, Sun Knoxville WPXK 6:00, Fri German Laurel WHLT-DT 8:30, Sun Memphis WPXX 5:00, Fri Lethbridge KAYU 8:30, Sun Hans Schmidl Meridian WTOK-DT 8:30, Sun Nashville WNPX 5:00, Fri British Columbia, Spanish Tupelo WCBI-DT 8:30, Sun Texas, Abilene KTXS-DT 8:30, Sun Vancouver CHEK 9:00, Sun; Carlos Heyer Missouri, Columbia KOMU-DT 8:30, Sun Amarillo KVII-DT/KVIH-DT 8:30, Sun CHNU 5:30 pm, Sun; KCPQ 7:00, Sun Beaumont KFDM-DT 8:30, Sun Hannibal WGEM-DT 8:30, Sun Victoria CHNU 5:30 pm, Sun Brownsville KCWT/KNVO-DT 8:30, Sun THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Jefferson City KOMU-DT 8:30, Sun Manitoba, Winnipeg CTV Winnipeg 9:30, (issn 10706348), January 2021, Vol. 32, Joplin CWPL 8:30, Sun; KSXF 7:00, Sun Corpus Christi KRIS-DT 8:30, Sun No. 1 is published monthly (except Kansas City KPXE 5:00, Fri Dallas KDAF 7:00, Sun Sun; CIIT Joy TV 11:00, Sun bimonthly May-June and November- CKCW-DT 11, Sun December issues) by the Philadelphia Kirksville KWOT/KYOU-DT2 8:30, Sun Harlingen KCWT/KNVO-DT 8:30, Sun New Brunswick, Moncton Church of God, 14400 S. Bryant Road, St. Joseph KNPG-LD 8:30, Sun Houston KPXB 5:00, Fri Saint John CKLT-DT 11, Sun Edmond, OK 73034. Periodicals Laredo KYLX 8:30, Sun Nova Scotia, Halifax CJCH-DT 11, Sun postage paid at Edmond, OK, and Montana, Billings KTVQ-DT 8:30, Sun additional mailing offices. Bozeman KBZK-DT/KXLF-DT 8:30, Sun Longview KYTX-DT 8:30, Sun Sydney CJCB-TV 11, Sun Send address changes to: Butte KBZK-DT/KXLF-DT 8:30, Sun Lubbock KLCW-DT 8:30, Sun Ontario, Ottawa CJOH/CTV 8:30, Sun POSTMASTER: KWAB-DT/KWES-DT 8:30, Sun the philadelphia trumpet, P.O. Box Glendive KWZB 8:30, Sun Midland Toronto WADL 10:00 Sun; 3700, Edmond, OK 73083. KRTV-DT 8:30, Sun Odessa KWAB-DT/KWES-DT 8:30, Sun Great Falls WUTV 10:30, Sun; U.S. HOW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION HAS BEEN PAID: Helena KTVH-DT 8:30, Sun Port Arthur KFDM 8:30, Sun CHNU 8:30 pm, Sun The Trumpet has no subscription Missoula KPAX-DT 8:30, Sun San Angelo KTXE 8:30, Sun price—it is free. This is made possible KWBL/KCWH-LD San Antonio KPXL 5:00, Fri P.E.I., Charlottetown CKCW-DT 11, Sun by the tithes and offerings of the Nebraska, Hastings membership of the Philadelphia 8:30, Sun Sherman KTEN-DT 8:30, Sun Quebec, Montreal WVNY 10:30, Sun Church of God and are tax-deductible Kearney KWBL/KCWH-LD 8:30, Sun Sweetwater KTXS-DT 8:30, Sun Saskatchewan, Saskatoon CFQC 5:30, Sun; in the United States, Canada and Lincoln KWBL/KCWH-LD 8:30, Sun Tyler KYTX-DT 8:30, Sun New Zealand. Those who wish to Victoria KVCT-DT3/KWVB 8:30, Sun voluntarily support this worldwide North Platte KIIT-LD2/KWPL 8:30, Sun CARIBBEAN work of God are gladly welcomed as co- Scottsbluff KGWN-DT 8:30, Sun Weslaco KCWT/KNVO-DT 8:30, Sun Regional satellite workers. © 2020 Philadelphia Church Nevada, Las Vegas KVCW 8:30, Sun Wichita Falls KAUZ-DT 8:30, Sun Galaxy 3 Trans. 17 11:30 ET, Tue/Thu of God. All rights reserved. printed Utah, Salt Lake City KUPX 5:00, Fri in the u.s.a. Unless otherwise noted, Reno KRNS-CA 6:30, Sun; KOLO3/KREN- Bahamas FOX W Chan. 216, 10:30, Sun scriptures are quoted from the King DT 9:30, Sun Vermont, Burlington WFFF 10:00, Sun; James Version of the Holy Bible. New York, Albany WYPX 6:00, Fri WVNY 10:30, Sun; WPTZ-DT 9:30 LATIN AMERICA CONTACT US: Please notify us of any Binghamton WBNG-DT 9:30, Sun Virginia, Charlottesville WVIR-DT 9:30, Sun change in your address; include Buffalo WPXJ 6:00, Fri; WUTV 10:30, Sun Harrisonburg WVIR-DT 9:30, Sun Regional satellite your old mailing label and the new Norfolk WPXV 6:00, Fri Galaxy 3 Trans. 17 11:30 ET, Tue/Thu address. The publishers assume Elmira (Corning) WENY-DT 9:30, Sun no responsibility for return of New York City WPXN 6:00, Fri; WWOR, Roanoke WPXR 6:00, Fri unsolicited artwork, photographs 8:00, Sun Washington D.C. WPXW 6:00, Fri AUSTRALASIA or manuscripts. The editor reserves Washington, Pasco KIMA-DT/KEPR-DT the right to use any letters, in whole Plattsburgh WPTZ-DT 9:30, Sun Australia or in part, as he deems in the public Syracuse WSPX 6:00, Fri 9:30, Sun Nationwide BOLD 7:30, Sun interest, and to edit any letter Richland KIMA-DT/KEPR-DT 9:30, Sun Utica WKTV-DT 9:30, Sun Adelaide TV44 11:30, Sun; 3:00 p.m., Mon for clarity or space. WEBSITE www. Watertown WWTI-DT 9:30, Sun Seattle-Tacoma KWPX 6:00, Fri theTrumpet.com E-MAIL letters@ Spokane KGPX 6:00, Fri; KAYU 7:30, Sun Melbourne C31 11:30, Fri; 8:30, Sat theTrumpet.com; subscription North Carolina, Asheville WYCW 9:00, Sun Philippines TV5 PH 6:30, Fri or literature requests request@ Charlotte WAXN 10:00, Sun Yakima KIMA-DT/KEPR-DT 9:30, Sun theTrumpet.com PHONE United Durham WRPX 6:00, Fri West Virginia, Beckley WVVA-DT 9:30, Sun New Zealand Kingdom: 0-800-756-6724; Australia: Bluefield WVVA-DT 9:30, Sun Choice TV 7:30, Sun 1-800-22-333-0 MAIL Contributions, Fayetteville WFPX 6:00, Fri Nationwide letters or requests may be sent to our Greensboro WGPX 6:00, Fri office nearest you: UNITED STATES P.O. Box 3700, Edmond, OK 73083 CANADA Greenville WEPX 6:00, Fri; WNCT-DT P.O. Box 400, Campbellville, on l0p 1b0. 9:30, Sun CARIBBEAN P.O. Box 2237, Chaguanas, Lumber Bridge WFPX 6:00, Fri CBS United Kingdom Trinidad, W.I. BRITAIN, EUROPE, MIDDLE New Bern WNCT-DT 9:30, Sun EAST P.O. Box 16945, Henley-in-Arden, Station Day Time b95 8bh, United Kingdom Africa Raleigh WRPX 6:00, Fri Postnet Box 219, Private bag X10010, Washington WNCT-DT 9:30, Sun CBS Justice Saturday 8:30 am Ch. 148 Ch. 192 Ch. 39 Ch. 137 Edenvale, 1610, South Africa AUSTRALIA, Wilmington WWAY-DT 9:30, Sun PACIFIC ISLES, INDIA, SRI LANKA P.O. Box CBS Drama Sunday 7:30 am Ch. 147 Ch. 197 Ch. 71 Ch. 134 293, Archerfield, qld 4108, Australia North Dakota NEW ZEALAND P.O. Box 6088, Glenview, Bismarck KXMD/KXMC-DT2 8:30, Sun CBS Reality Sunday 8:00 am Ch. 146 Ch. 148 Ch. 66 Ch. 135 Hamilton, 3246 PHILIPPINES P.O. Box 52143, Angeles City Post Office, 2009 Pampanga LATIN JANUARYAMERICA Att n:202 Spanish1 37 Department, P.O. Box 3700, Edmond, OK 73083, U.S. Why does this feel like the end time? Have you found yourself asking if America will survive or whether your children’s future will be brighter? Have you wondered if war, hot or cold, will break out? Have you questioned whether governments can actually solve the world’s problems? If it feels like you are in the end time, it is because you are! What does that mean for you, and how can you survive? Request Gerald Flurry’s free booklet Zechariah—The Sign of Christ’s Imminent Return.

To order print versions of our literature Limit three pieces of literature per order u.s. and canada united kingdom australia e-mail online mail 1-800-772-8577 0-800-756-6724 1-800-22-333-0 [email protected] www.theTrumpet.com/library P.O. Box 3700, Edmond, OK 73083 Write to the regional office near you. Addresses inside back cover.

n o c h a r g e • n o f o l l o w - u p • n o o b l i g a t i o n ISTOCK.COM/MARIOGUTI