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Macron v. Trump France is rejecting America— and empowering a German-led Europe COVER French President Emmanuel Macron has turned against the United States and President Donald Trump. FEBRUARY 2019 | VOL. 30, NO. 2 | CIRC.269,516 (brendan smialowski/afp/getty images, eric feferberg/afp/getty images)

SEEKING CHARLEMAGNE FEATURES French President Macron celebrates with German Chancellor Merkel 1 FROM THE EDITOR | COVER STORY after receiving the Charlemagne France Rejects America—and Prize in May 2018 for supporting European unification. Empowers Germany!

4 The Trumpet, in Person

7 A Message From Stephen Flurry

8 Invading Israel Iran’s war against Israel is heating up rapidly: Iran is moving beyond threats and mobilizing for hostilities.

10 Can America Afford Its Military?

12 Where Did Language Come From?

15 The Heart of Prophecy for the Last Days It’s one of the most mysterious, yet powerful, verses in the Bible!

18 INFOGRAPHIC The Reign of Gentile Kingdoms

20 Are You Already ‘Born Again’?

22 Brave New World (Made in China)

25 The Kremlin’s Strategy for World Domination

DEPARTMENTS 28 WORLDWATCH

31 SOCIETYWATCH

33 PRINCIPLES OF LIVING Does God Want You to Retire?

34 DISCUSSION BOARD

35 COMMENTARY Please Remember This Magazine

36 THE KEY OF DAVID TELEVISION LOG

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Trumpet executive editor Stephen News and analysis Regular news updates and alerts Flurry’s weekly television program Flurry’s television program updated daily from our website to your inbox theTrumpet.com/keyofdavid theTrumpet.com/trumpetdaily theTrumpet.com theTrumpet.com/go/brief FROM THE EDITOR France Rejects America— and Empowers Germany!

One day soon the French will come to realize that they are making the greatest mistake in their nation’s history.

ast issue, I wrote to you about the way French Presi- An Anti-American Army dent Emmanuel Macron is betraying Britain and France is already taking concrete steps to build a European L America—exactly as the Bible prophesied. This time I’d army alongside Germany. Perhaps this is why Macron is so like to show you how he is empowering Germany and helping bold as to criticize the U.S. His criticisms imply that Europe no resurrect the Holy Roman Empire. longer needs nato, because it is building its own army. President Macron visited Berlin on Nov. 18, 2018. One week Germany has been working on this European army for years. earlier he had hosted leaders around the world and used the Most of the Dutch Army has already been integrated into the occasion to be openly hostile to the United States. But during German Army. Thousands of Dutch soldiers now serve in Ger- his trip to Germany on November 18, man panzer divisions, under German command. Significant there were no harsh words or criticisms. chunks of the Czech and Romanian armies have also agreed “If you do not understand the words from to join the German Army and are currently moving under the France, remember that France loves German command structure. Now we see military cooperation you,” he told the German parliament between France and Germany increasing. (emphasis mine throughout). Did you know the European Union joint military budget is Macron has never said anything like already three times higher than Russia’s budget? And it is that to Britain or America. Instead, he about half of America’s. gerald flurry has called for a “true European army” to France and Germany are also collaborating on the develop- protect Europe “with respect to China, Russia and even the ment of new weapons and weapons manufacturing. Germany’s United States of America.” France certainly does not love the Leopard ii is already regarded as one of the best tanks in the United States. world. It is used by 18 different countries. Germany aims to Why would the French president say “France loves [Ger- have a new tank by around 2030, and experts are already pre- many]”? There is an important reason we all must grasp! dicting that it will be the world’s most powerful. And France These words from Macron were, I believe, a signal that and Germany are working on it together. The project, called France will never again have the will to stand up to the European Main Battle Tank, is a joint venture between Germany. The French today want to be close friends and allies French and German companies.

Macron recognizes that Germany lacks strong leadership right now. He knows Europe needs a strongman. And he thinks he can do the job. He believes that if he bashes America and woos Germany—Europe’s economic powerhouse—then he will become the new Charlemagne.

with Germany, and they are prepared to go to great lengths to These two countries are also working on an artillery system support Berlin. That is what Macron means by saying, “France called the Common Indirect Fire System. French and German loves [Germany].” It is really a groveling statement. Germany companies are also collaborating on a new fighter jet, which is Europe’s master, and it is as if France is begging to share in they aim to have ready by 2035 to 2040. Experts are predict- ludovic Germany’s power! ing it will also be one of the best in the world, outperforming Is this why Macron praised Nazi collaborator Philippe America’s F-35. marin Pétain? Pétain ruled Vichy France during World War ii. He France and Germany already have a strong record of accom- / afp collaborated with Adolf Hitler and even sent Jews to the gas plishment from working together. A previous joint venture, the / getty chambers. Is Macron signaling that he is willing to play the Eurocopter Tiger (EC 665), is one of the most powerful attack part of Pétain to give way to Germany? helicopters in the world. This is already built and ready to go. images The Bible prophesied that France would betray Britain and France really does love Germany—you can see it in these America. France is doing so right now by turning to Germany. important joint ventures! FEBRUARY 2019 1 “So as with the fate of his November 11 speech criticizing U.S. President Macron’s government Donald Trump and America, in France, the future of his nation has been rocked the EU might well depend by riots. Across France, on the willingness of its hundreds of thousands have marched, blockaded roads, rulers to get tough— and destroyed property, that is, converting the demanding change from democracy deficit into an the government. Paris was outright tyranny surplus. shut down for weeks on end as rioters burned cars, Could they? Would they? smashed windows, and The only thing we know clashed with police. for sure is that it’s The riots were sparked by happened before.” anger at a rise in fuel taxes RÉVOLUTION (to pay for Macron’s war on James Pinkerton, American Conservative Yellow Vest protesters rally against President climate change), but it is clear Macron near the Arc de that the people are angry Triomphe in Paris. about much more than that. “The demands of the protest- For decades we have forecast the rise of this European mil- ers have grown more radical as the weeks have passed,” wrote itary superpower that Germany and France are now building. the Times. “Many are calling for the overthrow of Mr. Macron In May 1953, Herbert W. Armstrong wrote, “[T]en powerful and a new political system to be introduced” (Dec. 11, 2018). European nations will combine their forces.” The European “I didn’t want this completely corrupt political class any- unification project is going to consolidate to 10 nations that more,” one protester told the Wall Street Journal. “We’ve had Germany can really dominate. You can read about this power the left; we’ve had the right. We’ve had everything, and it’s in Daniel 2 and 7, and Revelation 13 and 17. Mr. Armstrong the same policy. You have the sense that there’s no democracy discussed these scriptures time and time again. I explain them anymore” (Dec. 9, 2018). in my free booklet Daniel Unlocks Revelation. This rejection of the whole system of government is reflected Today, these powers are combining just as Mr. Armstrong in the graffiti and slogans smeared on walls and buildings said they would! across France. “Don’t vote, all rotten,” reads one. “Neither In Revelation 9:7-9, the Apostle John describes some of the Macron, nor Marine,” reads another, referring to the French weapons of this coming power. John saw these weapons in president and Marine Le Pen, Macron’s extremist rival. vision and wasn’t familiar with what he was seeing. He had This is a game-changing trend for France and Europe. Many never seen mechanized vehicles or modern technology. He people in France are tired of democracy and want a whole new described what he saw using terms he was familiar with, such as political system—and Bible prophecy shows that they will “locusts,” war horses and lions. “[T]he sound of their wings was get it! as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle,” says On Dec. 11, 2018, an Islamist gunman opened fire at a verse 9. This is talking about airplanes, jet fighters and helicop- Christmas market in the French border city of Strasbourg. ters that can go all directions and inflict punishing destruction! The terrorist killed five and wounded 11. The attack took place If you look back in European history, you will see previous within the secure area of the market. France at the time was instances when people tried to establish an empire in Europe: already on high alert and had imposed extra measures to stop Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Charlemagne and others. Those were terrorism. Clearly this didn’t work! Such security failures only all terrifyingly bloody times in Europe! That was the tyranny intensify France’s desire for a new, stronger leader—one who of the Holy Roman Empire! In World Wars i and ii, America can actually protect them against radical Islam. helped to set France free from the empire. But instead of show- France is just the latest country to be swept up in a wave of ing gratitude, France is now helping to raise it right back up! populist anger that is rising across the whole of the European Union. In many countries, people are protesting against the EU mehdi

A Prophesied Strongman and voting for anti-EU parties. taamallah It might not seem like it, but Europe has made important This is why the majority of people in Britain want to get out. strides toward becoming a new empire. It has a massive, rich Clear-thinking British see it is an undemocratic project and / economy. It has a powerful military and nuclear capability. It recognize that it is domineered by Germany. The main reason nurphoto has a commanding global presence. Now all Europe needs is they voted to leave was their sense that they lacked the free- /

a strongman to lead it. dom they should have. getty Last issue, I wrote about Germany’s need for a strongman. On Dec. 13, 2018, the American Conservative published an arti-

images Since then, France and much of the rest of Europe have cle by James Pinkerton that addressed the protests in France also been crying out for new leadership. After Macron gave and pointed out that the European Union is fundamentally 2 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET not a democratic project. In general, voters don’t want to hand mighty and the holy people.” The whole world is going to suffer over power to a superstate. Every time they have been asked in at the hand of this man! referenda, they have issued a clear “No!” However, as Pinkerton There is an evil spirit being behind this movement, this last pointed out, “[T]he dream of a united Europe will always endure, head of the Holy Roman Empire. That spirit is already visible in at least in the minds of would-be Charlemagnes.” Macron’s hatred of America. French President Macron is clearly a would-be Charlemagne! But the Bible also tells us this coming strong leader will not But Pinkerton went on to write, “Of course, such an impe- be French! rium requires a fist—the more mailed, the better.” To create Isaiah 10:5 says, “O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and such an empire in Europe, you must use an iron fist! That is the staff in their hand is mine indignation.” God uses this the only way it has been achieved in the past. strongman to punish the people of Israel. And this strongman Pinkerton continued: “So as with the fate of Macron’s govern- is a descendant of Assyria. We prove who Assyria is and tell ment in France, the future of the EU might well depend on the you all about that punishment in our book The United States willingness of its rulers to get tough—that is, converting the and Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert W. Armstrong. God says, democracy deficit into an outright tyranny surplus. “[H]e meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but “Could they? Would they? The only thing we know for it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few” sure is that it’s happened before.” (verse 7). Yes. Many times before! This strongman will command the army Macron is helping That is a powerful observation. Pinkerton made this obser- to build right now! But it will be a German that takes it to war. vation simply by analyzing Europe’s history with tyranny and “Macron’s bold stance for an independent European army despotism. He is talking about exactly what the Trumpet has has left him with no choice but to enter a deal with the devil: been saying for decades—and that Mr. Armstrong said for German industry,” we wrote on our website (Nov. 28, 2018). decades before us! There really shouldn’t be any mystery about Once Macron gets locked into that, he will have to remain in what we are witnessing in Europe. The empire rising in Europe lockstep with the Germans if he is to be part of the Holy Roman is the same one that has risen repeatedly throughout Europe’s Empire. It will soon become clear that Macron won’t be that history! But who studies this history anymore? strong leader—but by that time it will be very difficult for the In an earlier article, Pinkerton wrote, “Here in the U.S., the French to get out. EU is often seen as some sort of woolly-headed utopian pipe dream. However, the core of the EU has always been something ‘Broken Without Hand’ different—something hard-nosed, not soft-hearted. The EU There is good news here that we must remember. Daniel 8:25 is ultimately about European greatness, in the spirit of states: “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to pros- Charles the Great, better known as Charlemagne. And he, per in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and of course, was no peacenik” (July 11, 2018). by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the He certainly was not! Charlemagne waded through blood to Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.” This conquer Europe and convert Europe’s peoples to Catholicism! coming strongman is going to be destroyed “without hand.” We explain this history in our free book The Holy Roman He is going to be confronted and put down by God Himself! Empire in Prophecy. God is going to smash this final resurrection of the Holy Roman Pinkerton went on to write that he believes Macron wants Empire—the army Europe is building right now—and bring its to be Charlemagne. I agree! Macron recognizes that Germany bloody history of atrocities to a just end! lacks strong leadership right now. He knows Europe needs a France is going to end up suffering under this power, like so strongman. And he thinks he can do the job! He believes that many other countries. It will be the greatest shame the French if he bashes America and woos Germany—Europe’s economic have ever experienced—betraying their brothers and turning powerhouse—then he will become the new Charlemagne. That to Germany. But Jesus Christ is going to smash that empire and is why he is willing to sacrifice so much to be on even better rescue them from that shame. terms with Germany. He doesn’t mind his nation making sacri- God says these nightmares are all about to end! All the evil you fices and bowing to Germany, if he gets to be that strong leader. see in this world is leading directly into the Second Coming of The Bible says that the “iron-fisted” strongman Pinkerton Jesus Christ, and that’s the best news you could ever receive! n discussed is coming. Daniel 8:24 tells us that “his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power.” He will have real power—even more power than Europe’s worst tyrants. This leader Who will lead Europe? is going to bring power and might to all those military weapons! It will shock and stun this The leadership deficit in Europe is growing more world! And according to Bible prophecy, he critical all the time. The Bible’s prophecies provide will be a worse tyrant than either Charle- extraordinary detail about the man who will step magne or Hitler! up to the challenge. You can learn about them by This verse goes on to say that “he shall requesting your free copy of Gerald Flurry’s booklet destroy wonderfully [or mightily], and shall A Strong German Leader Is Imminent. prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the FEBRUARY 2019 3 THE TRUMPET, IN PERSON Live Personal Appearance Campaigns bring the Trumpet’s message of warning and hope to hundreds—maybe even you. by philip nice

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kassie Sunday, February 24. FEBRUARY 2019 7 INVADING Lebanon ISRAEL

Iran’s war against Israel is heating up rapidly: Iran is moving beyond threats and mobilizing West for hostilities. by brent nagtegaal Bank

TUNNEL WORKS An IDF entry point to a Hezbollah Gaza Strip tunnel from Lebanon j e r u s a l e m ISRAEL n Nov. 13, 2018, Israel Prime far more dangerous front by sending Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s numerous terrorists into Israel through O government was on the edge of these tunnels. collapse. In one 25-hour period, the The Israel Defense Forces (idf) posted a Iranian-backed terrorist group Hamas photograph of the tunnel on December 4. launched over 400 rockets, missiles and It shows a 6-by-6-foot tunnel 80 feet mortars into Israel from the Gaza Strip. below ground, equipped with ventilation, It was the largest single-day barrage electricity and communication lines. It ever. For those Israelis within range runs 130 feet into Israeli territory. Unlike of the missiles, it was the last straw. I the Hamas attack tunnels, which are dug spoke to Israelis who experienced the in Iran’s broader war against Israel. He through sandy soils in Israel’s south, this attacks, and most of them emphasized recognized that dedicating resources to tunnel was carved through solid rock. the need to push back against Hamas to the fight against Hamas would leave the Further proof that the tunnel was stop the incessant fire. Living under the rest of Israel vulnerable to Iranian attack, Hezbollah’s handiwork came soon after constant threat of war and the stress of especially the northern border commu- Israel inserted a robot inside the tunnel having less than 10 seconds to get to a nities. Since the Gaza rocket barrage, we to investigate. It sent back stunning bomb shelter is clearly taking a toll. have learned that Iran, via Hezbollah footage of a man approaching the robot During the rocket barrage, Netanyahu fighters, was preparing an even deadlier from the Lebanon side of the tunnel. convened his war cabinet to decide Isra- offensive: a ground invasion. He leans in to look, which puts his face el’s response. After six hours of intense close to the camera. The robot then sets discussion with defense and intelligence Invasion Tunnels Discovered off a small explosive device, startling officials, Netanyahu unexpectedly Three weeks after Hamas’s rocket him, and he flees back the way he came. decided to stand down Israeli forces and barrage, Israeli forces revealed that they Within days, Israeli intelligence and enter into a ceasefire with Hamas. had discovered a massive underground others revealed the man to be Imad This was a hugely unpopular move attack tunnel from Lebanon that pene- Fahs, a mechanical engineer who com- both among the public and within trates the Israeli border. It was the first mands both a Hezbollah observation his coalition. Defense Minister and publicly disclosed discovery of Oper- unit and a tunnel unit. Fahs obtained a coalition partner Avigdor Lieberman ation Northern Shield, a mission two Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from resigned over the inaction, reducing years in the making, intended to detect K. N. Toosi University of Technology in the ruling coalition’s majority to only and neutralize a network of sophisti- Tehran, Iran. He also reportedly trained one seat. Netanyahu’s position as prime cated secret tunnels built by Hezbollah with Mexican drug cartels near the minister was in peril. for the purpose of launching a ground United States border.

Netanyahu is a savvy politician; he invasion into northern Israel. The construction shows it is not jack understood that his decision would Netanyahu reportedly discussed the merely for a quick entrance into guez / jeopardize his 10-year tenure as prime tunnels during his six-hour war cabinet Israeli territory to kidnap civilians or afp / minister. Still, he decided not to act meeting in November. Apparently it soldiers in order to grab a bargaining getty forcefully against Hamas. Why? was part of his rationale for not going chip in future negotiations. This large,

images It now seems clear that Netanyahu to war with Hamas. He was concerned sophisticated, structurally sound tun- viewed the Hamas attack as just one front Hezbollah would open a second and nel (and surely others like it, yet to be 8 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET EXCAVATION UNDER FIRE IDF soldiers and excavators A rocket launched from the Gaza search for tunnels near the Strip on Nov. 13, 2018, destroyed border with Lebanon. this house in Ashkelon.

discovered) is for the mass movement Missile Threat Is Real Airport, allegedly carrying gps-retrofit- of Hezbollah terrorists—evidence of a It would be a mistake to think of Hezbol- ting technology bound for nearby Hez- large-scale, Iranian-backed enterprise lah as just a regular terrorist group. bollah missile sites. The components to threaten civilians in northern Israel. Hezbollah has no tanks or planes, but would enable Hezbollah missiles to The tunnel confirms a long-publicized its army of fighters, its missile stockpile, strike within a 10-meter radius of their mission of Hezbollah to conquer Israeli its small arms and its combat training intended targets. communities in the Galilee region. make it a formidable force. The last U.S. intelligence tagged this plane in In “Hezbollah’s Operational Plan round of war it unleashed on Israelis April 2018 and followed its movements. to Invade the Galilee Through Under- in 2006 killed 44 Israeli civilians. Since In July, it flew from an air force base in ground Tunnels,” Israeli Brig. Gen. then, it has become far more powerful. Tehran, landed in Damascus and then Shimon Shapira (Ret.) summarized During the 2006 34-day war, Hezbollah continued to Beirut. In August, it again Hezbollah’s decades-old plan to invade fired about 200 rockets per day and had flew from Tehran to Beirut. It landed in northern Israel, a plan that was explic- a stockpile estimated at 12,000. An esti- Beirut again in early December. itly described by Hezbollah Secretary mated 99 percent of those were short- Over the last two years, Israel has General Hassan Nasrallah in 2012 as the range rockets, a few dozen of which were carried out more than 200 strikes “Conquest of the Galilee.” medium-range or long-range types. against Syria to keep Hezbollah from Shapira summarized Hezbollah’s plan Today, Hezbollah’s stockpiles have gaining capabilities such as this. Iran this way: 1) train Hezbollah forces to take multiplied 10 times. The idf estimates had been flying weapons to Damascus control of isolated Israeli communities that the group has 120,000 to 130,000 and then trucking them into Lebanon. along the northern border; and 2) con- rockets, including thousands of medi- But now it appears that Iran is flying struct tunnels under Israeli territory, um-range and hundreds of long-range weapons directly from Iran to Lebanon close to Israeli communities, to facilitate types that can reach anywhere in Israel. by cargo plane. infiltration by several hundred fighters, Israeli intelligence estimates that instead Hezbollah has stated that it has and not just to abduct soldiers or civilians. of firing about 200 per day as in 2006, precision missiles. On Sept. 20, 2018, According to Shapira, Hezbollah Hezbollah could launch 1,500 per day. even prior to the Fars Air Qeshm flight, forces studied the tunnels that North Israel has never experienced such Nasrallah said, “The resistance now images Korea constructed in the event of an a terrifying barrage of missiles. While owns precision missiles.” Then, right

getty invasion into South Korea. it has the most successful antimissile before Israel launched Operation North- / afp

/ The tunnels prove that Iran and shield on Earth—including the Iron ern Shield, he released a video showing Hezbollah’s longtime and oft-repeated Dome, David’s Sling and the Arrow 3— scenes of Hezbollah fighters preparing magen - threats to conquer Israel are not merely the sheer volume of such an attack to launch rockets, and the targeting of numerous strategic Israeli locations cohen rhetorical but are as real as the rock would be overwhelming. gil

, through which the tunnels are carved. This is especially true given recent such as the Dimona nuclear facility and However, the tunnels are only one reports of Iran acquiring precision the idf military headquarters in Tel Aviv. images aspect of Iran’s plan. According to the strike capabilities in its own missiles— The video includes the threat, “Attack,

getty “Conquest of the Galilee” plan, the invad- and reports that it has shared the and you will regret it.” /

afp ers are to cross into Israeli territory technology with Hezbollah. This video followed numerous boasts / under the cover of a mass barrage of On Oct. 16, 2018, at 2:04 p.m., a Fars by Nasrallah that any Israeli actions diea

ali Hezbollah missiles fired into Israel. Air Qeshm Boeing 747 landed at Beirut INVADING ISRAEL PAGE 32 u FEBRUARY 2019 9 welfare state and a functioning military Can America Afford Its Military? without racking up even more debt, or printing its way into hyperinflation. If China and the European Union con- When debt payments exceed defense costs, empires fall. tinue to boost their defense spending by andrew miiller toward 2 percent of gdp, their military capabilities will quickly catch up to the merica can no longer afford Budget Office (cbo) show that much more United States’. Chinese military spend- to protect its strategic interests. drastic cuts will be necessary. ing is projected to pass the U.S.’s by A Since the end of World War ii, As entitlement spending and interest 2035, and the European Union has the the United States has used its global mil- payments on the national debt consume ability to do likewise with the right kind itary and political presence to contain an ever increasing portion of the federal of political leadership. When America’s the spread of communism, to oppose budget, the government will be forced military power finally snaps, no human Islamic terrorism, to ensure the free to reduce its defense spending to 1930s’ power will be able to oppose Asia and flow of oil, to protect the world’s most levels. The U.S. will have to close over- Europe on the world scene. important trade routes and to prevent seas bases and bring troops home. Vital nuclear-armed madmen from launching trade routes and strategic resources will Closing Bases World War iii. Yet this period of relative come up for grabs. Most people do not think of the U.S. as an peace and unprecedented prosperity is Harvard professor Niall Ferguson has empire in the traditional sense. It has no about to abruptly end. Why? One reason warned that empires often fall when vassals and no colonies. But it has more is that America simply lacks the finan- the costs of servicing their cial resources to continue defending its debts exceeds the costs of interests and enforcing world peace. defending their interests. Foreign U.S. Military Installations The reason for this sobering state of Rising debt drove the Roman affairs goes deeper than finances. Empire and Soviet Union An astonishing Bible prophecy reveals to bankruptcy, rendering Canada/Greenland 4 that God raised up America to be a their militaries incapable of 330 superpower—a lion among the nations. halting the fragmentation The same prophecy shows that just as of their empires. The U.S. is America reaches the zenith of its power, dangerously close to such a Atlantic 2 God cuts off its armaments and throws tipping point. down its strongholds. He is going to The cbo recently dis- Pacific literally break America’s economic and closed that the interest on 66 military power. the national debt rose to The fact that God is stripping away the $371 billion in 2018. That is Latin America 71 financial resources that have allowed a 20 percent jump over America to fund the most powerful mil- the previous year. It is also itary in history is divine chastisement. about half of what the nation America will soon be spending more on spends on its military. Based its debt than its military. This means on current budget projec- the United States will have to drastically tions, the government will actually be bases in foreign lands than any other scale back its armed forces, allowing spending more on interest than on people, nation or empire in history. hostile foreign powers to fill the void. defense within five years. And within According to David Vine of American 10 years, it will be spending 85 percent University, the U.S. maintains roughly Rising Debt of all tax revenues on Social Security, 800 military installations in 80 foreign The federal budget deficit has ballooned health care and interest payments. That countries. American troops in Europe to $779 billion, and the national debt has means basic defense spending is pro- hold back an expansionist Russia. skyrocketed to $21 trillion. This crisis has jected to fall from 3.1 percent of gross Troops in Asia keep China from domi- prompted President Donald Trump to domestic product in 2018 to 2.6 percent nating the Pacific Ocean. Troops in the call on each cabinet office to slash 5 per- in 2028. The last time military spending Middle East contain Iran and ensure the cent from its budget by fiscal year 2020. fell so low was during the Great Depres- free flow of oil. And troops stationed on To meet this target, the U.S. military, sion, when Nazi Germany was rising. ships throughout the world guard vital according to Deputy Defense Secretary And if interest rates rise faster than trade routes like the Strait of Malacca, Patrick Shanahan, will have to slash its expected, the nation could reach this the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Man- budget by $33 billion. While the Pentagon tipping point much sooner. America deb, Gibraltar, the Turkish Straits, the could lower its budget by 5 percent sim- could soon find itself spending over Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. ply by cutting wasteful spending, newly $900 billion per year on interest—and These overseas troops and military released figures from the Congressional struggling to finance both a massive bases cost taxpayers over $156 billion 10 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET per year, almost one fifth of all U.S. blessings from God for the protection of and thou shalt have no more soothsay- military spending. If the nation is forced America and the world. Because of this, ers: Thy graven images also will I cut off, to reduce spending, overseas bases will and because of sin, God will strip away and thy standing images out of the midst likely be among the first to go. the power He gave to America, leaving of thee; and thou shalt no more worship “As Sen. Rand Paul often points out, the nation defenseless. Once America the work of thine hands” (Micah 5:10-13). bankruptcy is the Sword of Damocles loses the ability to protect and control Today, Americans worship the work hanging perilously close to Uncle Sam’s the world’s most strategic trade routes of their hands. Because of this, God says neck,” Hunter DeRensis wrote in the and maritime choke points, foreign that at the moment America reaches American Conservative. “What would powers will seize these powerful prizes. the zenith of its power, He will cut off transpire if Social Security checks America’s homeland will be vulnerable its weapons systems and throw down stopped showing up in mailboxes and to economic siege by hostile enemies. its bases. He will break not just the Medicare benefits got cut off? When pride of America’s power—which He presented with that choice, will the Prophesied Destruction has already done (Leviticus 26:18-19)— average American choose his social The late Herbert W. Armstrong but its very power! safety net or continued funding for explained in his landmark book The The United States and Britain in Proph- far-flung bases in Stuttgart, Okinawa United States and Britain in Prophecy that ecy explains numerous means and tools and Djibouti? Even the most militaristic the Anglo-Saxon peoples who settled the that God will use to accomplish His pur- congressperson will know which way to United States and Britain are descended pose—including economic troubles, loss vote, lest they find a mob waiting out- from ancient Israel. This astonishing of foreign assets and weather disasters. side their D.C. castles” (Nov. 20, 2018). truth means that all the Bible’s end-time Mr. Armstrong added: “As the ‘pride prophecies concerning Israel of our power’ continues to be broken, as are primarily directed at the the British continue to lose their foreign United States and Britain. sea-gates and possessions around the These prophecies describe Earth, as America signs away ownership the wealth and dominance of the Panama Canal—control over this of America today—and then vital sea-gate—as our gold supply drains 330 Europe prophesy of a nightmare soon away from this nation, weather upsets to come. increase, this focal prophecy alone “An important additional represents giant proof as to where Atlantic proof of modern Israel’s the modern ‘remnant’ of the peoples of 2 Middle East 73 asia identity is found in a fantastic, Israel reside today!” 210 detailed and most specific It is because America has turned away 24 Africa prophecy found in Micah 5:7- from God that He is stripping away its 15,” Mr. Armstrong wrote. “It ability to finance its military. The U.S. is speaking specifically about is borrowing trillions of dollars from the ‘remnant’ of Israel—mod- other nations. This rising debt will have ern Israel today—wherever a catastrophic end: the sudden collapse it is. It describes the wealth, of America’s military power. This trag- the beneficent dominance edy may seem like a simple matter of among nations, and then the fiscal mismanagement, but it is actually Shuttering foreign bases may buy coming downfall of the American and correction from God designed to cause the U.S. several months of financial British Commonwealth peoples in detail!” people to acknowledge their transgres- solvency, but it will also transform The Prophet Micah wrote that the sions, repent and seek Him (Hosea 5:15). America from a global hegemon, pro- “remnant” of Israel would be “as a dew This chastisement will affect the jecting power around the world, into a from the Lord” and “as a lion among the United States and Britain first, but then weakened, vulnerable nation just trying beasts of the forest.” This symbolism God will correct all nations. It is only to defend its borders. describes the last generation of Israel after this corrective punishment that Many people on both sides of the as a superpower, as two brother nations people will humble themselves and cry political spectrum would love to see with the wealth and power to help estab- out to God for deliverance. At this point, America bring its troops back. Many on lish peace and stability for all human life God promises to “wipe away all tears” the left view America’s overseas military on this planet (verses 7-8). from people’s eyes (Revelation 21:4). as oppressive colonial outposts. Many on What is next? “And it shall come to Until then, only those who voluntarily the right view them as a needless burden pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I repent before this horrendous calamity on taxpayers, or as a distraction from will cut off thy horses out of the midst of strikes will be accounted worthy to the threat of drug cartels and illegal thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: And escape (Luke 21:35-36). Individuals must migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico bor- I will cut off the cities of thy land, and make their own decisions, so it is vitally der. Neither side truly views this incred- throw down all thy strong holds: And I important to understand what the Bible ible military capacity and presence as will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; reveals about America’s collapse. n FEBRUARY 2019 11 For example, one study showed partic- Where Did ipants foreign or made-up words and asked what imagery the words invoked. For example, participants were asked which of the made-up words baluma Language and takete represents a round object, and which an angular. They almost Come From? always gave the same answer. Another common tendency is to arrange adjectives in the same order, even in a made-up language. There is also our ability to discern words from non-words. The list goes on.

Evolutionary View Attempts to explain lan- guage development using evolu- tion have produced two main strains of thought, both centered around the fact that human language is incredibly complex. Indeed, there is nothing even close to it in the animal kingdom. Theory one (the “Conti- Evolution, the Bible nuity Theory”): Because and archaeology provide language is so complex, it two opposing answers. cannot have developed sud- by christopher eames denly. It must have devel- oped gradually from our primate ancestors. Thus, f everybody’s doing it, that makes finite number of simple, expressible primordial “grunts” and “squawks” it OK. Well, no. But that does make it “ideas.” Human language is an open sys- gradually developed into more precisely I a cultural universal—the anthropo- tem, infinite in what can be expressed. vocalized, meaningful words and sen- logical term for something done, in some Where did human language come tences. Dating for this is wild—perhaps form or other, by every human culture from? How did we begin talking and beginning around 2.5 million years ago around the world. This includes religion, writing? How does evolution explain and culminating in general linguistic music, art, marriage, war, families, gen- it, and what does the Bible say? Does “modernity” around 100,000 years der roles, laws, taboos, personal names, archaeology give us any leads as to the ago, at which point different human etiquette, morals and so on. The cultural earliest development of language? languages began diversifying. Most lin- universal can be difficult for evolution- guistic scholars believe the Continuity ists to try to explain. In a world where The Commonality of Language Theory to some degree. istock societies are supposed to have migrated, Aspects of language that are cultural uni- Theory two (the “Discontinuity The- . evolved, changed, developed and faced versals include synonyms and antonyms, ory”): Because language is so complex com /

various extinctions separately, how could metaphors, abstract concepts, “bad” and unique to humans, it must have photomaru it be that every culture does these things? words, classifications of various things, developed suddenly. Had it developed One primary and obvious cultural personal names and time. Based on his gradually from primate ancestors, then , universal is language. And not just lan- close study of 30 different languages, lin- we would expect some forms of human- istock guage in general. Many basic elements guist Joseph Greenberg derived a list of at like language among great-ape “cousins” . of language are also cultural universals, least 45 separate linguistic “universals.” or among other primates. Language com / used by all humans. Recent scientific studies have helped must have rapidly developed, perhaps uroshpetrovic Language is one of our greatest human show that language is hardwired into the around 150,000 years ago. attributes. The makeup and combined human brain. Scanned brains showed The famous American linguist and ,

use of the human tongue, larynx and common sensitivities to “language uni- philosopher Noam Chomsky adheres to trumpet related oral and nasal passageways versals.” Sound patterns in languages the Discontinuity Theory, believing that

enable the range and uniqueness of “reflect shared linguistic constraints a single, swift mutation caused the abil- illustration human speech, which is greater than that are hardwired in the human brain ity for human language to be realized. that of any other creature. “Animal lan- already at birth,” according to the North- “[S]ome random mutation took place, guage” is a closed system, with a small, eastern University College of Science. maybe after some strange cosmic ray 12 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET shower,” he stated in 2000, “and it reor- has language, but also why mankind This definitely supports the biblical ganized the brain, implanting a language universally shares the smaller unique record. If humans really started to organ in an otherwise primate brain.” aspects of language. evolve in “speaking” 2.5 million years Chomsky cautioned against taking The biblical account makes no signif- ago, and reached linguistic “modernity” this statement too literally, but insisted icant mention of language development 100,000 years ago, then nearly 95,000 it could be a more accurate description after creation until at the tower of Babel. years is a long time to wait before of events than other evolutionary expla- “And the whole earth was of one lan- recording the spoken word on “paper.” nations. And though his views are gen- guage, and of one speech” (Genesis 11:1). And it wasn’t just one single, isolated erally unpopular, scientists admit that After the Flood, the growing multitudes culture that began writing 5,500 years his ideas on language development are gathered in the plain of Shinar in order ago. From this time and just after, sev- being “validated” by new experiments, to establish a powerful, compact civili- eral peoples and cultures from different proving language to be an “innate,” zation and to build a tower that would areas in and around the Middle East and hardwired ability of the human brain. reach unto heaven—a tower that, later Asia started writing. In fact, the dates Within these two theories are a accounts explain, would enable man to for early writing across certain coun- number of other explanations for how survive another flood, in defiance of God. tries are so similar that scientists argue language developed—be it initially Verses 6-8 state: “And the Lord said, over which language developed first. through gesturing, by replicating sounds Behold, the people is one, and they have Some of the earliest examples are of animals or tools, or a development all one language; and this they begin to the Indus script (India, undeciphered, of natural grunts made while heaving do: and now nothing will be restrained around 3500 b.c.), Sumerian cuneiform objects or getting injured. There is an from them, which they have imagined (Iraq, 3100 b.c.), Proto-Elamite cunei- ocean of theories, few conclusions, and to do. Go to, let us go down, and there form (Iran, undeciphered, around 3100 a host of unanswered questions. confound their language, that they may b.c.), and Proto-Egyptian hieroglyphs not understand one another’s speech. (around 3300 b.c.). The earliest-discov- Biblical Origin of Language So the Lord scattered them abroad from ered texts are generally in the form of The Bible doesn’t describe an original thence upon the face of all the earth ….” pictographs—simple images represent- development of language. Rather, lan- God foresaw the rapid development ing ideas that gradually morphed into guage is shown to be a trait of God Him- of evil designs among a people of one even simpler yet more abstract signs. self. In just the third verse of Genesis 1, language living in one place. So He inter- Debate abounds regarding the dating, we read, “And God said, Let there be light vened to confound the language, forcing and even authenticity, of earlier discover- ….” In the creation account that follows, man to spread out around the world ies of writing, such as the European Vinča each feature of our planet was formed with those of his own language. symbols (dated roughly to 5500 b.c.). with a divine verbal command. This explains early major changes Excluding these controversial items, the The Bible states that animals were in languages and the existence of general consensus for writing is that it created “after their kind” (verses 21, “language isolates”—languages with no originated in the fourth millennium b.c. 24-25). Humans, though, were not—they known connection to or development were created after the God kind: “in our from other languages. From those Biblical Account and Archaeology image, after our likeness” (verse 26). As primary, separate languages, minor The Bible first describes language in such, man was given the divine ability to developments of languages and dialects the context of God speaking in order to think and translate thoughts into words. occurred naturally over thousands of create the Earth. An interesting creation After creating man and woman, God years, bringing us to the point today myth from Egypt centers around the god immediately spoke to them, “Be fruitful, where there are over 7,000 different Ptah, the Egyptian creator-god of the uni- and multiply …” (verse 28). languages around the world. verse. According to the seventh century The first reference to writing may be in The biblical account explains why b.c. Shabaka Stone, Ptah gave spoken Genesis 4:26, which can be translated as language is exclusively human and why commands to bring the world into being “to read, to publish the name of the Lord.” it is hardwired into our brains and vocal and to bring up dry land from the waters Whatever the case, writing is inferred as anatomy: because God deliberately that covered the Earth. The similarity developing early in human history. designed it as such. to the earlier Hebrew account reflects a Another significant biblical point What does archaeology tell us about similar memory of Earth’s origin and of about language is that God allowed man this cultural universal? claims that speech was already estab- flexibility and creativity in developing lished at the start of man’s existence. his vocabulary, coining new words. God Early Language The biblical account of the tower of brought the animals to Adam “to see what According to the biblical account, man Babel and the resulting development he would call them; And whatever Adam has been speaking and writing for of languages was recorded by various called each living creature, that was its around 6,000 years—the full course cultures around the world. Variations on name. So Adam gave names to all …” (Gen- of his existence. Archaeologists have the idea can be found in such far-flung esis 2:19-20; New King James Version). dated the earliest discovered, generally places as Korea, Mexico, Kenya, Estonia, The biblical view explains not only accepted use of written language to Guatemala, Greece and Alaska. These why all mankind (and only mankind) around 5,500 years ago. cultures join with the ancient Middle FEBRUARY 2019 13 Eastern traditions held by the Sumeri- at the time of the Flood with Noah’s sounded like. Researchers in this field ans, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syro-Phoeni- family. The confusion of languages have pointed to this “Edenic” language, cians and Hebrews. (Read our in-depth by divine intervention in Genesis 11 is from which various languages were article on the parallel tower of Babel evident. And in this Sumerian story, the divided, as being very similar to Hebrew. accounts at theTrumpet.com/16106.) ruler, to accomplish his goals, wanted (A thorough text on this subject is The According to biblical chronology, the a restoration of language unity after it Origin of Speeches, by Isaac Mozeson.) incident and spreading of languages had been changed and confused. These The evolutionary concept of language, probably occurred around 2250 b.c. connections are reinforced by the sim- however, is entirely speculative. It pro- An ancient Sumerian epic, dating ilarity in date between this text and the vides no concrete answers—only raises to around 2100 b.c., called “Enmerkar biblical chronological date for the tower more questions. Really, the Discontinu- and the Lord of Aratta,” has dialogue of Babel episode. ity Theory—which is far less popular regarding the sending of tribute to build Again, traditions of a “tower of Babel” but is gaining some validation through a tower at Eridu in Sumer. (Sumer is confusion and spread of languages can scientific linguistic experiments—is the equivalent of the biblical “Shinar,” be found all over the globe. One could closer to the biblical account. within which the tower of Babel was almost call it a “cultural universal.” According to the evolutionary hypoth- built. Additionally, there are further esis, language should be evolving from parallels between the city Eridu and Conclusions its “primitive” forms thousands of years biblical Babel, including a partially So what does it all mean? ago as society “progresses.” Instead, lan- completed tower.) Partway into the long As maligned as the biblical account guages worldwide have been measurably inscription is this passage: “Chant to is, it fits the material discoveries. devolving from higher, more complex him … the incantation of Nudimmud: Only deliberate creation satisfactorily forms. Just as the physical world is sub- ‘… the whole universe, the well-guarded explains how language is hardwired ject to degradation and degeneration, so people—may they all address Enlil into human beings. It explains how our is language. Witness the change from together in a single language! … for language is so entirely different and Shakespearean, King James Old English the ambitious lords, for the ambitious infinitely more complex than that of to today’s emoji-riddled text language princes, for the ambitious kings—Enki, any animal and is worlds apart from and barely coherent street slang. the lord of abundance … shall change the our supposedly “closest cousins,” the Akkadian, the lingua franca of ancient speech in their mouths, as many as he had great apes. The general biblical time Mesopotamia, is an early cuneiform placed there, and so the speech of man- frame for man’s existence matches with script that “should” be extremely simple kind is truly one’” (emphasis added). the general chronology of the earliest based on its age. It is actually incredibly Here we read, in the context of archaeological discoveries of writing, complex (and only redeciphered in the attempting to build a tower, an incan- stemming from exactly the same parts 19th century). Similar examples exist tation to try to cause people to all speak of the world from which mankind is said around the world. the same language. We see that the “lord to have emerged. The biblical account of The Bible has much to say on the of abundance,” Enki, had “placed” many the development of different languages, history of language. It also describes languages among the nations—and this starting at the tower of Babel is found the future of language. Zephaniah 3:9 incantation was intended to enable in different national histories all over prophesies of a time when mankind will mankind to work together in one the world. A common idea points to a return to one language, just as in the language. Other translations of the text common experience—the reality that days following the Flood. But this will bear even closer resemblance to the our forefathers really were dispersed be a somewhat different language. It biblical confusion of languages. Here is according to their new languages. Even reads: “For then will I turn to the people another translation of the same passage: the biblical account of Earth being cre- a pure language, that they may all call “Once … the whole universe, the people ated by the spoken word is corroborated upon the name of the Lord, to serve him in unison, spoke to Enlil in one tongue. by archaeological discovery. with one consent.” … Then Enki, the lord of abundance … A small scientific movement provides This describes a time following the changed the speech in their mouths, evidence for the world’s languages going coming of the Messiah, when mankind brought contention into it, into the back to one original mother tongue: will not have the same inventions of evil speech of man that had been one.” “Edenic.” Comparing words for various as at the tower of Babel. The corrupt, The connections with the biblical items across languages reveals core devolved languages of our day are to be account are clear. It is consistent with similarities—“shadow-like” trace ele- replaced by a pure language, from which the Earth being ments pointing back to what the original mankind will together serve God with of one language language of man may have been and one mind. The history of language helps prove the veracity of the Bible. Together with For more information on the veracity of the Bible, other cultural universals, the biblical and to prove it for yourself, request our free booklet account of man’s common heritage, The Proof of the Bible. Also read Does God Exist? going back to the original single created family, is made plain. n The Heart of Prophecy for the Last Days

It’s one of the most mysterious, yet powerful, verses in the Bible! by stephen flurry

evelation 17:10 is one of the greatest prophecies in The Revelation 13 beast pictures the Roman Empire. Verse 3 all the Bible! “Contained within this one verse is the notes that this beast was wounded but then healed. Though R heart of prophecy for these latter days.” That is what the Roman Empire was overrun in a.d. 476, it was healed, res- my father, Gerald Flurry, writes in Daniel Unlocks Revelation. urrected, in the Imperial Restoration of Justinian in a.d. 554. The heart of prophecy! The core understanding of end-time From that point forward, the empire’s relationship with the prophecy is packed into this one verse: Roman Catholic Church made it something quite different. “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the This church-state union is known in history as the Holy other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a Roman Empire. And this is specifically what is portrayed in short space.” Revelation 17. The seven heads of this beast symbolize seven Five are fallen—one is—and another is not yet come. What resurrections of this empire that are to occur. The picture of a does this mean? To understand, let us first examine the over- woman riding the beast shows that these resurrections were view of Revelation 17. guided by a church. “And upon her forehead was a name written, mystery, bab- Mystery, Babylon the Great ylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven of the earth” (verse 5). Verse 3 also notes that this beast is full vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will of blasphemy (as do Revelation 13:1 and 6). This is a great false shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth church that claims to be Christian but is steeped in the pagan upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have com- religious mysteries of ancient Babylon. It is a universal religion mitted fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been of Babylonian customs and traditions overlaid with a veneer of made drunk with the wine of her fornication” (Revelation 17:1-2). “worshiping Christ.” In Bible prophecy, a woman symbolizes a church. This pas- This church is also called the mother of harlots. Hundreds of sage is about a religion or church, one that is led by Satan! It daughter churches came out of her in protest. But they all came is a church that fornicates with the kings of the Earth. Verses from her. They squabble with her over her right to rule them, 4 and 15 show that this woman is fabulously wealthy and pre- yet their pagan teachings and festivals came from her. sides over many nations that speak different languages. This This prophecy was recorded 1,900 years ago—yet it describes is a worldly church that mixes religion with politics. She is like what has happened in the centuries since perfectly, and in detail! a prostitute selling her ability to influence people to political The name “Babylon” means confusion. The religion of Baby- governments in return for more power. She successfully gains lon was known as a “mystery religion.” Look at the traditional powerful influence over great nations. Christian world. There are hundreds and hundreds of denom- “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I inations, all differing, yet all sharing the same origin, the same dorning saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of mother, and the same teachings and festivals tracing back to gary

/ blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns” (verse 3). Reve- paganism—and all wrapped in a cloak of “Christianity.” lation repeatedly uses the term “beast” to symbolize a powerful We are accustomed to this state of affairs in traditional empire, for example in Revelation 12 and 13. Related imagery Christianity. But when you think about it, it is full of confusion! illustration

appears in Daniel 7. (These symbols are thoroughly explained “And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, by Herbert W. Armstrong in his booklet Who or What Is the and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I

trumpet Prophetic Beast?, which we will send you free upon request.) wondered with great admiration” (Revelation 17:6). This church FEBRUARY 2019 15 has a very dark history of persecuting and even killing many of for the sixth time. This sixth resurrection culminated in the those who actually were true Christians. Your Bible prophesied Hitler-Mussolini axis (1936–1945). this 1,900 years ago, and that has been the history ever since! In 2019, the same Holy Roman Empire is emerging out of the pit once again! This seventh resurrection is now taking shape. The Seven Resurrections “And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? One Is, the Other Is Not Yet Come I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast Now consider again this astounding verse: “And there are that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns” seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet (Revelation 17:7). The detail and precision in this prophecy are come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space” astounding! Yet many people are perplexed by it and assume (Revelation 17:10). the meaning is unknowable. The five that “are fallen” extend over a But why should we marvel? God unlocks period of 1,260 years, just as God prophesied these mysteries to true Christians who submit in Revelation 13:5. (Forty-two months equal to Him and let the Bible interpret itself. As 1,260 days. Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6 my father writes in Daniel Unlocks Revelation, establish the principle of substituting a day we can understand this if we put the pieces for a year in prophecy. In this case, these 42 together and face the facts! months equal 1,260 years.) From Justinian’s “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; Imperial Restoration in a.d. 554 (first king) and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1814 and go into perdition: and they that dwell Request your free copies of The Holy (fifth king) is precisely 1,260 years! on the earth shall wonder, whose names Roman Empire in Prophecy and The Apostle John lived hundreds of years were not written in the book of life from the The True History of God’s True Church. before the Holy Roman Empire began. But foundation of the world, when they behold in Revelation 17, God carried him forward in the beast that was, and is not, and yet is” (verse 8). The beast a vision to the time of that empire’s sixth resurrection, which symbolizes the Roman Empire. Its seven heads symbolize culminated in the Hitler-Mussolini axis. The reason God seven resurrections of that ancient system under a great false carried John forward to the sixth resurrection is that the full church: the “Holy” Roman Empire. meaning of this prophecy would be revealed during the time of Verse 8 describes this beast emerging from the “bottomless pit.” the sixth resurrection: the time when “one is.” God revealed this Verse 9 compares the seven resurrections to mountains. In other prophecy to His servant during the sixth resurrection, and that words, the history of this empire has peaks and valleys. In The man warned of another resurrection that was “not yet come.” Outline of History, H. G. Wells wrote: “The Roman Empire stag- That man was Herbert W. Armstrong. gers, sprawls, is thrust off the stage, and reappears, and—if we Here is what my father writes in his booklet Prophesy Again: may carry the image one step further—it is the church of Rome “This revelation is about the period when Mr. Armstrong, God’s which plays the part of the magician and keeps this corpse alive.” end-time Elijah, was doing this work of God. … During World Compare these scriptures to a snapshot of European history War ii, we saw the Hitler-Mussolini axis, but then it disappeared over the past 1,500 years. from the scene. It ‘was not’! And yet, God says, ‘it is’! The Axis In a.d. 554, East Roman Emperor Justinian recognized the powers lost the war, but as Mr. Armstrong preached time and supremacy of the pope. The old Roman system sprang back to again, they just went underground—into ‘the bottomless pit’ life, now as the “Holy” Roman Empire! The wound of Revela- (verse 8). They’re still there—they’re just underground.” tion 13:3 was healed! Verse 10 is not only about the last two resurrections of the In a.d. 800, Pope Leo iii crowned Charlemagne as emperor Holy Roman Empire. It’s also about the last two eras of God’s of the Romans. The pope even pronounced him “the 73rd Church! God revealed the full truth about this prophecy through emperor of the fourth world empire.” He recognized that this Herbert W. Armstrong, whom He also used as the human leader was yet another resurrection of the Roman Empire, that fourth of the sixth era of God’s Church (Revelation 3:7-13). Mr. Arm- world-ruling system of Daniel 7, Revelation 13 and Revelation 17! strong warned about the seventh and final resurrection, but the In a.d. 936, Otto the Great became king over the united seventh head had not yet ascended out of the bottomless pit German tribes when he was crowned at Aachen, the capital when Mr. Armstrong died in 1986. used by Charlemagne. In a.d. 962, his army entered Italy at Revelation 17:10 is the heart of prophecy for our time today! the request of Pope John xii, who was under siege and who crowned Otto Holy Roman emperor at the Vatican. The revived The Feeble Sixth Head church-state combine dominated central Europe. Another fascinating detail in this prophetic passage is the way In 1438, the throne of the Holy Roman Empire was revived God characterizes the sixth head of the beast in verse 8: it “was, by the monarchs of the Habsburg dynasty, who went on to hold and is not.” The reason for this description is because the Hit- the throne continuously until 1740. ler-Mussolini axis “was not in any sense the power-wielding old In 1804, with Pope Pius vii in attendance, Napoleon Bona- Roman Empire,” Mr. Armstrong wrote in Who or What Is the parte crowned himself emperor of the French Empire. The ter- Prophetic Beast? ritories he conquered included those of the Holy Roman Empire. We tend to think of the sixth head of the beast as being In 1870, Giuseppe Garibaldi revived the Holy Roman Empire much worse than the previous five resurrections because 16 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET of the widespread carnage caused by modern warfare: 60 to to power and set himself up as a strongman over all Europe. He 70 million people killed, hundreds of millions wounded. But in will effectively hijack the European Union! … Regardless of who terms of a world-ruling empire ascending out of the heart of the strongman is, it is clear that we are seeing a revival of the Europe, the Hitler-Mussolini axis was actually quite feeble and Holy Roman Empire in Europe in a way that has not been pro- short-lived compared to the previous five resurrections, which moted before. … When this man comes to power, it will affect conquered the established western part of the world. every human on this Earth in the most horrible ways—unless Hitler’s regime was not as powerful or wide-ranging. He con- God protects you! But God only protects those who repent.” quered Europe for about four years. But he never conquered We are facing the worst crisis in mankind’s history. In the past, Britain. And once his ally, the Empire of Japan, bombed the when Europe has been led by a strongman and allied with the United States into the war, Hitler’s war machine was no match Vatican, it has plunged the Continent and even the world into war. for America’s industrial might. But there is also great hope in these prophecies. The same Bible God knew the sixth head of the beast would be meager and that accurately forecast the last 1,500 years of European geopo- insignificant, comparatively speaking, because it would ascend litical history and the current resurrection of the Holy Roman out of the bottomless pit at the very time America and Britain Empire also forecasts that this resurrection will be the last one! together would reach their peaks in power. This involves yet Notice the conclusion of my father’s article: “We cannot predict another breathtaking prophecy in your Bible, in Genesis 35:10-11. or set dates; only God the Father knows the day or the hour (Mat- It was the descendants of biblical Ephraim (the British thew 24:36). But God warns us that we had better know when it Empire) who, with the help of European allies, vanquished the is at the door! (verse 33). We must be watching and praying. fifth head of the Holy Roman Empire, driving Napoleon into “The great hope of all of this is that just beyond that time of trib- exile in 1814. Napoleon attempted a comeback the following ulation is the greatest, most inspiring event to ever take place ….” year and was crushed by the British at Waterloo. As British historian Paul Johnson writes, “Waterloo was one of the most The prophecies of Revelation 17 came decisive battles of history and brought to an end the entire Rev- to pass, from A.D. 554 to A.D. 2019, in olutionary and Napoleonic period.” It was decisive because the 1,260 years that enclosed the “five [that] are fallen” had ended! fearsome, violent, living color. The next Then in the 1940s, it was the modern descendants of the bib- resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire lical brothers Ephraim and Manasseh (Britain and the United will wreak worse destruction in less time. States) who crushed Hitler’s dream of dominating Europe and then the world. We have been proving the prophecies of Revelation 17. We Just think on the detail of this stunning prophecy! have seen how they came to pass, from a.d. 554 to a.d. 2019, in fearsome, violent, living color. The Bible prophesies that the next The Seventh Resurrection resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire will wreak even worse Over the past 70 years, the Holy Roman Empire has once again destruction in even less time. Other Bible prophecies specify been in a historical valley. But now it is emerging out of the that this “time of tribulation,” because it is so destructive, con- pit once again. The seventh resurrection is taking shape. The tinues for an even shorter period than the Hitler-Mussolini axis. European Union today is an oversized group of 28 nations, But notice Revelation 17:14: “These shall make war with the but it is about to downsize to 10 nations or groups of nations. Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of Revelation 17:12 says, “And the ten horns which thou sawest are lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive and chosen, and faithful.” power as kings one hour with the beast.” The seventh resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire will That is referring to a “United States of Europe” led by 10 be the shortest resurrection—and the last resurrection. Why? kings, who are of one mind (verse 13). Those 10 kings, or heads Because the Lamb, Jesus Christ, will smash it! This evil empire, of state, are led by one fearsome leader, prophesied in Daniel 8. this combination of a false church and a beastly state, will Herbert W. Armstrong predicted that a united Europe would finally be destroyed permanently. The Bible prophesies that He arise out of crisis under the leadership of a strong German will then establish His government on Earth. leader. He wrote in the November-December 1954 Plain Truth: What a powerful, sobering but hopeful vision is contained in “Germany inevitably [will] emerge as the leader of a united Revelation 17. Six kings have now fallen. One is about to come. Europe. It will require some spiritual binding force to inspire He will continue, but only for a short space. n this confidence—to remove these fears—and that spiritual binding force must arise from inside Europe! All Europe is actu- ally ready—just waiting for the confidence-inspiring leader ….” God ends the Holy Bible with Revelation, a That seventh resurrection is rising right now. It’s just waiting book of intense, vivid, extraordinary symbols and warnings of widespread destruction. Its for that strong, confidence-inspiring German leader to unite prophecies are impossible to understand— Europe into a single power. As Mr. Armstrong wrote, it will until you realize that the book of Daniel require a spiritual binding force to inspire that confidence. unlocks the book of Revelation. Request My father wrote in the October 2018 Trumpet: “Bible prophecy your free copy of Gerald Flurry’s booklet makes clear: Soon, Europeans will get exactly what they are ask- Daniel Unlocks Revelation. ing for, another Charlemagne-type leader. This man will come The Bible is a book of prophecy. It reveals world-shaking events soon to change your life. One such THE REIGN OF event is the rise of the “beast” of the Apocalypse. This terrifying beast is a prophetic symbol. To understand the truth about this beast, you must let the Bible interpret its own symbols. To do this, GENTILE KINGDOMS you must study Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Revelation 13 and Revelation 17 together.

CHALDEAN EMPIRE (BABYLON) 625–538 b.c. n 1st kingdom of Daniel 2:32, 37-38, with a head of gold DANIEL 7 DANIEL 2 n Like a lion, the 1st beast of Daniel 7:4 n 1st head of prophetic Babylon

MEDO-PERSIAN EMPIRE 558–330 b.c. n 2nd kingdom of Daniel 2:32, 39, with breast and arms of silver n Like a bear, the 2nd beast of Daniel 7:5 n 2nd head of prophetic Babylon

GRECO-MACEDONIAN EMPIRE 333 b.c. n 3rd kingdom of Daniel 2:32, 39, with belly and thighs of brass n The beast of n Like a leopard with four heads, the 3rd beast of Daniel 7:6 Daniel 7:7 and the n 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th heads of prophetic Babylon Revelation 13:1-2 beast both represent the same history. Both have ROMAN EMPIRE 31 b.c.–a.d. 476 10 horns and represent n 4th kingdom of Daniel 2:33, 40-43, with legs as iron successive kingdoms of the Roman Empire. n Strong like iron with 10 horns, the 4th beast of Daniel 7:7 n 7th head of prophetic Babylon

VANDALS a.d. 429–533 n 1st horn of Daniel 7:7 n The first three horns were not ridden by the woman and were destroyed at n 1st horn of Revelation 13:1 the behest of the pope, symbolized by the little horn of Daniel 7:8, 20-22, 24-27. HERULI a.d. 476–493 n 2nd horn of Daniel 7:7 n 2nd horn of Revelation 13:1

OSTROGOTHS a.d. 493–554 n 3rd horn of Daniel 7:7 n 3rd horn of Revelation 13:1 REVELATION 13

IMPERIAL RESTORATION a.d. 554 n 4th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 1st head of Revelation 17:3, 7

FRANKISH KINGDOM a.d. 774 n 5th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 2nd head of Revelation 17:3, 7

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE a.d. 962 n 6th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 3rd head of Revelation 17:3, 7

HABSBURG DYNASTY a.d. 1520 n 7th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 4th head of Revelation 17:3, 7

NAPOLEON’S KINGDOM a.d. 1805 n 8th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 5th head of Revelation 17:3, 7

ITALY & FASCIST REGIMES a.d. 1870–1945 n 9th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 6th head of Revelation 17:3, 7 n The “one is” of Revelation 17:10

UNITED EUROPE Today n 10th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 7th head of Revelation 17:3, 7 n 10 horns of Revelation 17:3, 7, 12 n 10 toes of Daniel 2:41-43 SEVEN RESURRECTIONS OFTHEHOLY ROMAN EMPIRE IMPERIAL RESTORATION n A beast like no other. Revelation 13 a.d. 554 depicts the Roman Empire as an empire possessing the strengths n 4th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 of all its predecessors. This is n 1st head of Revelation 17:3, 7 represented in the collective seven heads of prophetic Babylon. FRANKISH KINGDOM a.d. 774 n 5th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n The seven horns of Revelation 13:1-2 n 2nd head of Revelation 17:3, 7 that are not uprooted represent the same resurrections of the Holy HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE Roman Empire as the seven heads of the Revelation 17 beast. a.d. 962 n 6th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 3rd head of Revelation 17:3, 7

HABSBURG DYNASTY REVELATION 17 a.d. 1520 n 7th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n The beast and the whore of n 4th head of Revelation 17:3, 7 Revelation 17 picture a beastly empire ridden by a false church. NAPOLEON’S KINGDOM a.d. 1805 n 8th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 n 5th head of Revelation 17:3, 7 n The 10 toes of ITALY & FASCIST REGIMES Daniel 2:41-43 and the 10 a.d. 1870–1945 horns of Revelation 17:3, 7, 12 represent 10 concurrent n 9th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1 rulers of the last n 6th head of Revelation 17:3, 7 resurrection of the n The “one is” of Revelation 17:10 Holy Roman Empire.

UNITED EUROPE Today gary n 10th horn of Daniel 7:7 and Revelation 13:1

dorning n 7th head of Revelation 17:3, 7 “Jesus Christ is about to return and destroy the Holy Roman Empire forever. As Daniel prophesied, ‘And in the /

n 10 horns of Revelation 17:3, 7, 12 trumpet days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom n 10 toes of Daniel 2:41-43 shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand

(3) for ever’ (Daniel 2:44). All of Satan’s present plans will fail miserably in the end.” —gerald flurry When you truly believe God, repent, obey and become baptized in His true Church, God gives you a portion of His Holy Spirit, which is His power, His life. Spiritually, you become like a fertilized egg: There was no spiritual life there before, but now there is! All because the Father begets you. If you continue to grow spiritually, you will definitely be born spiritually into the spiritual Family of God. The Father will make sure of it!

Jesus’s ‘Born Again’ Teaching Here is how Jesus Christ Himself described being born again: “Except Are You Already ‘Born Again’? a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Many No—but the truth is even more inspiring! by gerald flurry Christians think being born again is fig- urative—and many think the Kingdom of God is figurative. Not true! They are any Christians think or And where does that living hope come both real! assume that they are born from? The fact that God the Father has “That which is born of the flesh is M again. They are not. But the “begotten us.” flesh; and that which is born of the truth is even more inspiring! This truth Most Christians don’t understand this: Spirit IS SPIRIT” (verse 6). Do you is revealed throughout the entire Bible, They believe they are already “born again.” believe Christ’s plain words? When but nowhere is it more inspiring than in They think this “birth” is metaphorical or you are born the first time, of the flesh, the epistles of Peter. in the mind. As you will see, that is not you are flesh. But when a person is born When the Apostle Peter wrote these let- what the Bible teaches. Peter under- again, of the spirit, that person will be ters, God’s people were being persecuted stood what God’s Word reveals. His hope spirit! He will actually be composed and scattered all over the world. They was not that he was already “born again” of spirit. Someone who says he is were still spreading the gospel, but some because he had accepted Jesus. It was not “born again” and is still flesh and blood of them were losing hope. Jerusalem was that he would go to heaven after he died refutes Christ! about to experience a holocaust, and and become like an angel. His living hope In fact, it is impossible for you to enter Peter himself was about to be martyred. was that the Father has begotten us. the Kingdom of God without being liter- Yet in this dark period, Peter was not The hope is in the begettal. This ally spiritually born into the Family of depressed. The epistles he wrote at that transcendent hope is the only real hope God! You will never see, you will never time are the most hope-filled epistles in there is! experience, the Kingdom of God if you the Bible. Why was he so hopeful? What does begettal mean? Herbert are not born again. And you will never W. Armstrong often used the example be born again unless you are first spir- Peter’s Living Hope of human reproduction. Each human itually begotten by the Father. Peter began his first epistle by address- being was literally begotten by their When speaking with Nicodemus, ing the “elect” who were “chosen and physical father, grew in the womb of Christ compared being a powerful, invis- destined by God the Father” (1 Peter their mother, and was born into a family. ible spirit being to the wind. “The wind 1:2; Revised Standard Version). Notice It is exactly the same with spiritual bloweth where it listeth, and thou hear- his focus on God the Father. This is salvation. True Christians are literally est the sound thereof, but canst not tell

very different from what you hear in begotten by God the Father when whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: istock most “Christian” churches, which He gives us His Holy Spirit. We become so is every one that is born of the Spirit” . focus on “Jesus.” literal sons of God, and we are going to (verse 8). Christians who believe they are com / Here is a crucial verse: “Blessed be the literally be born into God’s Family! already “born again” because they have nullplus God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Christians don’t realize what a new beliefs or a new attitude are not like ,

[the Son], which according to his abun- tremendous event it is to truly be “born the wind. They are not composed of spirit, istock dant mercy hath begotten us again unto again”! It means becoming His chil- they are not in God’s Kingdom and they . a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus dren—literal God beings in the literal are not born into the Family of God—yet! com / g

Christ from the dead” (verse 3). Two God Family! It starts with being spiri- Nicodemus did not understand - stockstudio sentences into his epistle, Peter focuses tually begotten in this life—and it ends what “born again” means. The religious us on a lively hope. The rsv translates it with being spiritually born as a child in leaders Christ preached to did not “a living hope.” the glorious Family of God! understand. The crowds of people who 20 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET listened to Him did not understand. And was horrific. Peter died a violent death. glory, bodies and minds like God’s! believe it or not, hundreds of millions of Thousands of other Jews were murdered. Jesus Christ will change our bodies Christians today do not understand! And this terrible violence right after to “be fashioned like unto his glorious The Apostle Paul agreed with Christ. Jesus Christ’s first coming is a warning body” (Philippians 3:20-21; Psalm 17:15; “As is the earthy, such are they also that and a prophecy for us prior to His Second 1 John 3:1-2; Revelation 1:14-16). How glo- are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such Coming! Our massive sins are leading to rious! Faces that shine like the sun at full are they also that are heavenly,” he wrote. a massive destruction far worse than strength! Eyes like flames of fire! When “And as we have borne the image of the even the a.d. 70 holocaust in Jerusalem. the Apostle John saw merely a vision of earthy, we shall also bear the image of In addition, the life of a true Christian the firstborn Son of God, he collapsed as the heavenly” (1 Corinthians 15:48-49). is full of difficulty. In verses 6-7, the if he were dead! (Revelation 1:12-17). As human beings, we can be spiritually apostle writes to God’s people, “Wherein The truth about being born again has begotten, but we cannot be spiritually ye greatly rejoice, though now for a all the glory and majesty you could imag- born—born again—until we are resur- season, if need be, ye are in heaviness ine! It is filled with hope—living hope! rected as spirit beings in the actual Fam- through manifold temptations: That Those who are begotten by God and ily of God. This is coming: It will happen the trial of your faith, being much more remain faithful to Him are going to in “the twinkling of an eye” (verses 50-52). precious than of gold that perisheth, become spirit beings—God beings! It is It is critical to understand the though it be tried with fire, might be going to happen. God already considers Father’s role in this process. Christ found unto praise and honour and glory His plan for His people accomplished said, “No man can come to me, except at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” (verse 6). This is why God created the Father which hath sent me draw him True Christians struggle against sin, human beings. Before He created the …” (John 6:44). Only those whom the against Satan and against society. They first people, He stated why: “Let us Father specifically calls can become true suffer persecution. Yet they “greatly make man in our image, after our Christians, and they only become true rejoice” (verse 6). Why? Because “the likeness” (Genesis 1:26). Christians when He begets them. Jesus God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” Once you are begotten by God the Christ (previously the Word) became has “begotten us again unto a [living] Father, you have the Holy Spirit. You God’s Son when He begat Him (Luke 1:35) hope”! (verse 3). And if we endure and know you are on your way. You are going and became His firstborn Son when grow through trial, at the return of Jesus to be born—born again—this time into He was resurrected (Colossians 1:15; Christ we will be born into God’s Family! the Family of God! Romans 1:4; 8:29). When we are born again, we won’t This is what Peter saw. This is why he God is the Father of the Family. Jesus be human beings. We won’t be like the was so filled with hope, why he really Christ is His Son. He is “the firstborn angels. We will be God’s literal chil- mastered that hope. This is why God among many brethren” (Romans 8:29). dren! Jesus was made “a little lower than inspired him to show us where that hope Who are those brethren, those fellow the angels” to make it possible for us to lies: in being begotten by God the Father, children of God? True Christians! be forgiven of our sins (Hebrews 2:9). He growing by the power of the Holy Spirit, Like Jesus Christ was begotten of God empowers us to spiritually struggle and and being born into the God Family! n and resurrected as His Son, you and I can develop and overcome our sins and grow. be begotten of God and be resurrected as Then Jesus Christ was resurrected and His sons. “[A]nd I will raise him up at the became God’s firstborn Son, far above last day,” Christ said (John 6:44). the angels (Hebrews 1:5, 13). What about How inspiring! Christ is the resurrec- us? Hebrews 2:5-8 tell us God has made PINCH tion. But the begettal comes from even us a little lower than the angels, but He higher: from God the Father Himself! has placed the universe not under them YOURSELF! Peter saturated his mind with this but under us! “Thou hast put all things astounding truth! That is how he wrote in subjection under his feet. For in that these hope-filled epistles at such a terri- he put all in subjection under him, he fying time. left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put God’s Children under him” (verse 8). As 1 Peter 1:5 shows, God was inspiring As human beings, we are certainly Did you feel anything? Peter to write for “the last time.” Lange’s lower than the angels. But when we are If you did, you have Commentary states that “Peter thought made spirit, we will be above the angels. just proved you are not immediately impending was that last Yes, even those resplendent spirit “born again”—yet. sean

_ time.” At that time, he did not realize beings will be in subjection to us! Learn what the Bible r this prophesied period would not occur Verse 10 states that God is “bringing says, with your free many sons unto glory.” Human beings copy of Herbert W. onandte until our lifetimes. / What happened to Peter and what will be born, not as angels, but as Armstrong’s booklet com . happened to the inhabitants of Jerusa- literal children in God’s Family. We Just What Do You istock lem shortly after he wrote his epistles will then have the appearance, power, Mean ... Born Again? FEBRUARY 2019 21 and aid is particularly enticing. That’s because unlike the United States or many European nations, China doesn’t make its investments conditional on “good governance.” China itself is an egregious abuser of BRAVE the human rights of its people and has no concerns about autocrats in other nations tyrannizing their people. So while Western powers sermonize and NEW punish authoritarian governments by withholding aid or even working to remove them from power, China has no compunctions about constructing air- WORLD ports for autocrats, dams for dictators, (MADE IN and terminals for tyrants. China “is seen as more flexible and less CHINA) bureaucratic,” the Brookings Institution wrote in 2017. “Given this situation, the emergence of China as a major funder of infrastructure projects has been welcomed by most developing countries.” The Chinese have signed bri contracts Chinese-funded roads, ports and bridges are transforming with numerous authoritarian govern- this Asian giant into an economic powerhouse—fulfilling ments, military regimes and several prophecies penned 2,700 years ago. by jeremiah jacques of the world’s most corrupt nations, including Uzbekistan and Turkmeni- ajor infrastructure proj- Laos, Rwanda and more than 60 other stan. China is also pulling in countries ects seem to be underway nations are all about. Beijing is sparing that are mired in conflict, such as M everywhere. In Pakistan, a new no expense to better connect the world Yemen, Afghanistan and Iraq. deepwater port is being linked to a vast to China. It calls this project the Belt and The corruption and conflict make it road and rail network. In Montenegro, Road Initiative, or bri. unlikely that many of these nations will the country’s first border-to-border The initiative consists of a land-based be able to repay China’s loans. In early motorway is being laid. In the remotest economic “belt” that will include six 2018, the Center for Global Development part of Kazakhstan, a bustling town corridors linking east and west, and a found that Djibouti, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, is springing up from scratch around maritime “road” of ports stretching from the Maldives, Mongolia, Montenegro, a massive new rail terminal. In Laos, the South China Sea to Africa’s east coast. Pakistan and Tajikistan are all at high a new bridge has broken the world It will link 60 percent of the global risk of being unable to repay. Several record for the longest span between two population, span three continents, other countries could be added to the list. piers. And in Rwanda, a new railway is and also connect to Latin America as a So why does China continue to hand out connecting the landlocked country to “natural extension.” At an estimated cost massive loans to such nations? Because Tanzania’s port of Dar es Salaam. of $5 trillion, it is the most ambitious the bri—and much of China’s related pol- The common factor in all these proj- infrastructure venture in history. icy—is about more than just economics. ects is that they are parts of an initiative The scope is astounding. And it all by one nation: China. has one underpinning purpose: to give Debt-Trap Diplomacy In a 2013 speech, Chinese President China dominance over world trade. Sri Lanka was among the most enthu- Xi Jinping mentioned the ancient Silk Many analysts are seeing the alarming siastic nations to welcome China’s Road. This was the network of trade implications of this seismic shift toward quick cash. It accepted billions of routes—some established as early as China. But there is something far more dollars in loans for such projects as the 200 b.c.—that facilitated movement momentous about China’s moves toward Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port of goods and ideas across Asia, the dominating global trade that few recog- in Hambantota. Middle East, Africa and Europe. Then Xi nize: It was prophesied in Bible scrip- This port is at a key location for

announced China’s plan to rebuild that tures written thousands of years ago. And China’s maritime “road.” But for the Sri istock ancient network. “This will be a great now these prophecies are being fulfilled. Lankan economy, the project was a bust. . undertaking,” he said. Instead of fueling growth, the port (and com / The Chinese promptly put the plan Airports for Autocrats other Chinese-funded infrastructure bluesilent into action, which is what the projects For nations with authoritarian gov- projects) plunged Sri Lanka into unsus- in Pakistan, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, ernments, the allure of China’s loans tainable debt. 22 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET By 2016, one third of Sri Lanka’s total more than $6 billion for these projects, the branding of the projects matters far government revenue went toward ser- and is paying exorbitant interest rates less than China’s determination to inte- vicing Chinese loans, and the country on some of the loans. “That kind of debt grate Latin America into its globe-gir- was forced to apply for debt relief with gives China some leverage,” Chris Chap- dling enterprise. the International Monetary Fund. From pell of China Uncensored said on Aug. 1, China is rebalancing the world econ- there, the situation only got worse. 2018. Thanks largely to that leverage, omy with the bri and related initiatives. As pressure intensified and options China has already taken control of Gwa- And its progress on this front takes on narrowed, Sri Lanka’s government deter- dar Port, with a 40-year lease. And now extraordinary significance when viewed mined that the only course of action was the Chinese are constructing a naval and through the lens of Bible prophecy. to hand China a controlling stake in the air force base nearby. Rajapaksa Port for 99 years. The transfer The Maldives, located right along the ‘The Times of the Gentiles’ set off alarms in Sri Lanka and beyond “string of pearls” route, is also heavily Bible prophecy says that in the “end because it represented a Chinese victory indebted to China, thanks mostly to time” shortly before the return of Jesus with potential military applications. the multimillion-dollar China-Maldives Christ, a global era called “the times of “The acquisition provided Beijing with a Friendship Bridge. As the Maldives’ eco- the Gentiles” will begin. Christ Himself deepwater port in the region in which nomic troubles intensify, many fear that used this term in Luke 21:24, saying: it can dock its navy, off the coast of its it will soon have no choice but to hand “[J]erusalem shall be trodden down of key regional competitor, India,” Foreign some key assets over to China. the Gentiles, until the times of the Gen- Policy wrote on Oct. 29, 2018. In Montenegro, feasibility studies said tiles be fulfilled.” Sri Lanka is often cited as the text- it was not economically viable to build a In our July 2014 issue, Trumpet editor book example of China’s “debt-trap highway from the Port of Bar through in chief Gerald Flurry wrote about this diplomacy.” But it is not the only country the nation’s rough terrain to Serbia. In quickly approaching era. “These ‘times where Chinese investment is going pear- 2014, China dismissed those studies, of the Gentiles’ are yet to be fully real- shaped for the debtor nation and creat- stepped in and gave Montenegro a loan ized,” but “we are in the outer edges of ing conditions for Chinese conquest. to build a long stretch of it. Now the this catastrophic storm,” he wrote. motorway is unfinished, and the tiny The term Gentile refers to “non-Isra- China’s Geostrategic Conquests European nation is in serious financial elite peoples,” he wrote. The Israelite Thanks to Chinese cash, the East Afri- trouble. If the situation in Montenegro peoples constitute “a lot more than the can nation of Djibouti is already hosting plays out as with Sri Lanka, Beijing little nation in the Middle East.” He China’s first overseas military base. could have “a port of entry into Europe explained that in end-time prophecy, But the country has borrowed more from the Adriatic,” Reuters wrote. “Israel” refers mainly to modern-day Chinese money than it can pay back And the list of nations where China’s America and Britain. (For a thorough and is now headed toward a debt-to-gdp control is growing goes on. explanation, order a copy of our free ratio of 88 percent. Analysts worry that book The United States and Britain in China could use its growing leverage BRI’s ‘Natural Extension’ Prophecy, by Herbert W. Armstrong.) to convince Djibouti to oust the United The bri originally focused on Asia, the Mr. Flurry continued: “Once you States military from Camp Lemonnier, Middle East, Africa and Europe, the understand who Israel is, then you can America’s only permanent military base regions connected by the ancient Silk understand how the Gentiles—the in Africa. Such a move would represent Road. But in 2017, Xi Jinping said China non-Israelite peoples—have started to a huge loss for the U.S. and a major vic- sees Latin America as a “natural exten- take charge of the world right now.” tory for China. sion of the Maritime Silk Road.” For decades, the U.S. and UK have In Pakistan, Chinese-built infrastruc- Six months later, China formally brought much stability to the world. ture stretches all the way from Gwadar invited Latin American and Caribbean But in “the times of the Gentiles,” they Port on the Arabian Sea up to the Paki- nations to join the initiative. Panama, will lose global power to two main stan-China border. For China, this is Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and blocs of non-Israelite nations. “While not just an invaluable crossroads where Tobago, and Bolivia have already signed there are many Gentile nations around the “belt” meets the “road.” It is also a on. More countries are poised to follow. today, when this prophecy is completely safeguard against one of China’s greatest Even before unveiling the bri, the fulfilled there will be two major powers,” fears: a potential U.S. naval blockade in main thrust of China’s approach to Latin Mr. Flurry wrote. One of these will the South China Sea. Before develop- America had long been in the same vein: revolve around Germany, and the other ment of port and road-rail networks infrastructure financing and develop- around Russia and China. through Pakistan, such a blockade ment. Starting in 2005, China extended China’s increasing power and connec- would have posed an existential threat $150 billion in financing to build ports, tivity is shifting global power away from to China. But now China has an alter- roads and railways in the region. Several the Israelite nations and toward these native route established for importing of such projects are being retroactively other nations. Prophecy shows that as goods—particularly the Middle Eastern rebranded as bri successes, prompting this shift continues, China will briefly oil and gas on which it heavily depends— criticism that China’s bri is merely cooperate in a history-altering way with into China. Pakistan also owes China pouring old wine into new bottles. But the German-led Gentile power. FEBRUARY 2019 23 A ‘Mart of Nations’ other nations, showing that they too will American countries will become vassal Some 2,700 years ago, God inspired the be part of this enormous trade bloc. states to Europe!” Prophet Isaiah to write about a vast To see China and Europe linked in With this level of control in Latin trade bloc that would be formed in our these Bible prophecies about the end America, the European and Asian pow- lifetimes. “[S]he is a mart of nations,” the time—and then to see the bri linking ers will be geographically positioned to prophet wrote (Isaiah 23:3). them economically today—is astounding. lay siege to the United States. “With a Verse 1 describes a leading nation in The groundwork is now being laid for German-led Europe … possessing great this trade bloc called “Chittim.” Chittim, this powerful “mart of nations,” prophe- maritime power, North America will be or Kittim, is an ancient name for China: sied of millennia ago, to come together! surrounded on the east by Europe and “Genesis 10:4 lists the sons of Japheth’s Even more astounding is what the the south by Latin America” (ibid). fourth-born son: ‘The sons of Javan were Bible shows this “mart of nations” will Deuteronomy 28:52 provides more Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim’ do in the years ahead. details about the besiegement of the (New King James Version),” Gerald United States and United Kingdom by the Flurry explains in his booklet Isaiah’s Superpower Under Siege “mart of nations” conglomerate: “And he End-Time Vision. “Kittim is synonymous “The Bible contains many prophecies shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until with the Chittim of Isaiah’s prophecy. … of that European power attacking thy high and fenced walls come down, After their migration through Central America—and many other prophecies wherein thou trustedst, throughout all Asia, the Kittim made their appearance of America being besieged,” Mr. Flurry thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all in modern-day northeastern China and writes. He explains that this besiege- thy gates throughout all thy land, which Mongolia under the name of Khitan in ment will be accomplished by the mart the Lord thy God hath given thee.” When the fourth century a.d.” of nations. “All of them are going to God was actively blessing the U.S. and the Isaiah 23 names “Tyre” as the other besiege America, Britain and the Jewish UK, He gave them control over numerous main power in this “mart of nations.” nation,” he writes. sea “gates,” including the Panama Canal, Mr. Flurry explains that this city “China and the giants of Asia,” he Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Hong Kong represents “the commercial center” of writes, will form a “brief alliance” with (Genesis 22:17; 24:60). Now, every one of modern Europe. He writes: “The spir- the European bloc. “Should Europe, the these strategic locations is under China’s itual center of the [modern European] resurrected Holy Roman Empire, find control or quickly headed that way. Holy Roman Empire is called Babylon in a way to take advantage—even for a The importance of China’s growing your Bible (Revelation 17:5; 18:1-3). But moment—of key resources and strategic dominance of world trade, and its here in Isaiah, the Bible refers to Tyre holdings of China, Russia and Japan, it strengthening links to Europe, is (and its allies Zidon, etc) as the com- would have more than enough power to revealed in these Bible prophecies. mercial center of this European power. besiege the Anglo-Saxon nations …. We are already at the outer edges of By understanding the spiritual and the “This is why Isaiah’s prophecy of an “the times of the Gentiles.” And China is commercial powers, you can understand end-time ‘mart of nations’ that includes now the world’s second most powerful what a colossus is rising in Europe.” both European and Asian powers is so economy, with the bri poised to further The prophecies also mention ancient intriguing. And why the trend of collu- expand its might. Control of the world’s names for modern Japan, Russia and sion between these two great economic sea “gates” is being handed over to the blocs is worth watching.” Chinese. This is all setting the scene for He draws special attention to Latin the prophesied siege against America. America, mentioning prophecies by the In the near term, these developments WHAT IS late educator Herbert W. Armstrong point to a grim future for America and about this region’s role in end-time some of its allies. The “mart of nations” CHINA events. “Herbert Armstrong long and the conflict associated with it con- prophesied, and we expect, the alliance firm the prophecies of the Bible. BUILDING? between Europe and South America And what else does the Bible prophesy, to grow extremely strong,” Mr. Flurry just beyond this economic siege and the China’s rising economic empire will writes. Europe already wields deep fall of the United States and Britain? The affect your future. Learn more in influence in parts of Latin America. And most hope-filled era in human history. Gerald Flurry’s free booklet once China enters a “brief alliance” with “[T]hat trading partnership won’t last Isaiah’s End-Time Vision. Europe, the influence China long,” Mr. Flurry writes. “Soon they will is now building will translate clash, just before Jesus Christ returns into even greater European and destroys both of them” (ibid). Christ control over the region. is going to return to Earth, put an end to istock .

Mr. Flurry points out mankind’s self-destruction, and usher com

that the situation will in an age of peace and prosperity for the / wenjie eventually result in a Euro- peoples of China and all the world!

pean subjugation of Latin “Thank God,” Mr. Flurry writes, “there dong America, saying, “The Latin is great news beyond the bad news.” n 24 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Russia is going to play an instrumental role in the downfall of the United States. And that the devil is behind it all.

Atlanticism vs. Eurasianism Dugin’s manifesto begins by claiming that land-based and sea-based powers are in a state of permanent struggle against each other. Land-based nations like Germany, Iran and Russia represent “Eurasianism,” GLOBAL PLANS (From left) while sea-faring nations like the United Commander of States and Britain represent “Atlanticism.” the Russian Navy, President Putin For Eurasianism to defeat Atlanticism, and Russia’s Dugin claims that an anti-American defense minister coalition of nations must be established, including Germany, Iran, Japan and other countries in Europe and Asia. The Kremlin’s Strategy This theory was inspired by Karl Haushofer, the German geopolitician for World Domination who popularized the term lebensraum (living space). After Hitler came to power, Haushofer advised an alliance Vladimir Putin and his generals are following a blueprint laid out by a between Germany, Russia and Japan. neo-fascist political scientist to replace the United States as the world Since Dugin holds America responsible superpower. by andrew miiller for the collapse of the Soviet Union, he especially wants Russia to ally with he Kremlin is following a of “national bolshevism.” This ideology Germany against the United States. detailed plan to replace the United fuses Russian nationalism, Bolshevik This plot to undermine America is T States as the world superpower. socialism, Eastern Orthodox Christian- not just a crackpot theory concocted by Astonishingly most American leaders do ity, and a touch of mysticism. a Russian mystic. The famous British not understand this reality. Like former The Foundations of Geopolitics reads geopolitician Sir Halford Mackinder United States President Barack Obama, like a to-do list predicting Putin’s behav- delivered a lecture in 1904 titled “The they dismiss Russia as a “regional power” ior in international relations. While Geographical Pivot of History.” He argued attacking nations like Ukraine from a there are still some boxes unchecked, that whichever nation rules Eastern position of weakness, instead Russia is striving to make prog- Europe would rule both Eurasia and the of strength. Their assessment ress toward its ultimate goal: world. German geopoliticians like Frie- could not be more wrong. The unseating the United States as drich Ratzel and Karl Haushofer seized 2014 conquest of Crimea was the world’s lone superpower. upon Mackinder’s theory. Now Russian actually a calculated step in This should not come as a geopoliticians like Lt. Gen. Nikolai Russia’s strategy for world surprise to anyone who truly Klokotov and Dugin are doing the same. domination. understands Bible prophecy. If a Russo-German alliance can subju- And this strategy was drawn “Russia is the most danger- gate Eastern Europe, it will have power up years in advance. ous and aggressive nuclear enough to challenge America and Britain. Russian President Vladimir superpower in the world Specifically, Dugin believes Russia Putin is following a blueprint today,” writes Trumpet editor needs to recapture its former Soviet laid out in a 1997 book by neo-fascist in chief Gerald Flurry in his booklet The satellites. Dugin advises the Russian political scientist Aleksandr Dugin: The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia.’ “Surely that government to annex Bulgaria, Georgia, Foundations of Geopolitics (pictured). means Russia must be discussed in Bible Romania, Ukraine and all nations with This book is required reading for every prophecy. If you know its ancient biblical an Eastern Orthodox majority. Russian military officer above the rank name, you can find prophecies about this Putin agrees. He invaded Georgia in of colonel. Yet despite its importance, it nation in the Old and New Testaments.” 2008. He invaded Ukraine in 2014. He images has never been officially translated into These prophecies reveal the outline of effectively annexed Belarus and Kazakh-

getty English. Just as world leaders ignored Russia’s strategy for world domination, stan with the creation of the Eurasian / Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the 1930s, and much more. So while American Economic Union in 2015. Now he is tass / they are ignoring this manifesto today. leaders are naive to ignore The Founda- working toward additional annexations This will prove to be a tragic mistake. tions of Geopolitics, they really need to to create a Russian-dominated empire nikolsky Dugin glorifies Russia’s czarist and study The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia’ capable of working with other European

alexei Stalinist past, and espouses an ideology alongside their Bible. It reveals how and Asian powers against America. FEBRUARY 2019 25 “In principle, Eurasia and our space, the Catholic and Protestant nations of the heartland Russia, remain the staging Europe. He notes that both France and area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-Amer- Germany have a “firm anti-Atlanticist ican revolution,” Dugin writes in The tradition” that Russia can exploit to Foundations of Geopolitics. “The new accomplish this objective. Eurasian empire will be constructed International relations expert George on the fundamental principle of the Friedman gave a speech at the Chicago common enemy: the rejection of Atlan- CURRYING FAVOR Council on Global Affairs in February Putin meets with (from top) ticism, strategic control of the U.S.A., Germany’s Gerhard Schröder, 2015. He explained that the U.S. govern- and the refusal to allow liberal values to Iran’s President Rouhini and ment works to prevent a German-Rus- China’s President Xi. dominate us.” Yet rather than provoke sian alliance because the combination a direct military confrontation with of German technology with Russian the U.S., Dugin advises Russian leaders natural resources could create a power to build power and influence through bloc with the capability to challenge alliances with other Eurasian powers. America’s position as the world’s lone These ideas are guiding Vladimir superpower. Russian politicians and Putin—and it is all happening just as military strategists understand this, Bible prophecy forecasts. and projects like the Nord Stream The Old Testament book of Ezekiel Pipeline are designed to utilize German refers to an end-time personality called technology to transport Russian natural the “chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.” resources into Europe. Students of Bible prophecy know that As Dugin writes in The Foundations of the peoples of Meshech and Tubal Geopolitics, Russia and Germany “must settled in modern-day Russia. So the decide all disputed questions together chief prince of Meshech and Tubal is the and in advance.” The goal of the Russian leader of Russia in the end time. In Eze- General Staff is to ally with Germany to kiel 38:1-2, God instructs His watchman destroy nato and defeat America. to prophesy against this leader. Bible prophecy shows that these two “God’s watchman warns the nations powers will initially have great success of Israel in particular about the danger in accomplishing this goal, before they of Russia and China, and how events turn on each other. “The Germans made in these nations are all going to end,” a pact with Russia before it started Mr. Flurry writes in The Prophesied World War ii,” Mr. Flurry writes in The ‘Prince of Russia.’ “God specifically warns Rather than provoke Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia.’ “This three nations of Israel—America, the treacherous history is going to repeat British peoples and the Jewish state in a direct military itself in the near future. It is the way the Middle East.” He later explains how confrontation with they do business!” Putin is a former kgb agent animated In his September 2018 Trumpet arti- by a spirit of vengeance against the U.S. the U.S., Dugin advises cle, “Germany and Russia’s Secret War and out to restore the Russian empire. Russian leaders to Against America,” Mr. Flurry elaborated Dugin’s book explains the tactics build power and influence on this point by prophesying that coop- Putin is using to accomplish this goal; eration between Germany and Russia Mr. Flurry’s booklet explains Putin’s through alliances with is setting the scene for a huge “seething

role in prophecy and the ultimate inspi- other Eurasian powers. pot” to spill over and scald the people of sasha ration behind the Kremlin’s actions. America and Britain (Jeremiah 1:13-15).

Everyone in America needs to see what is mordovets Moscow–Berlin Axis advocacy for a Russo-German alliance. really happening in Germany and Russia. /

The Foundations of Geopolitics promotes “The task of Moscow is to tear Europe getty the formation of a Moscow-Berlin away from the control of the U.S. (nato), Moscow–Tehran Axis

alliance, a Moscow-Tehran alliance to assist European unification, and to Russia recognizes that Iran is the most images

and a Moscow-Tokyo alliance. General strengthen ties with Central Europe influential nation in the Middle East. In (2) ,

Klokotov noted in the 1990s that the under the aegis of the fundamental order to lure Iran into an alliance with lintao greatest periods of peace in Russian external axis Moscow-Berlin,” writes Russia, Dugin counsels giving Iran parts

history were during times when Russia Dugin. “Eurasia needs a united, friendly of Georgia and Azerbaijan. Despite the zhang /

was allied with Germany. He is rumored Europe.” In return for Germany’s reject- differences in religion, Dugin proposes getty to have recruited Dugin to write The ing nato and joining a Russian alliance, that Islam’s traditionalist nature makes

images Foundations of Geopolitics as a training Dugin proposes that Russia help the Islamic Republic of Iran a natural ally manual for Russian officers based on his Germany gain political dominance over of Russia and a natural enemy of America. 26 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET “The idea of a continental Russian-Is- published. Putin disagrees with him on Race War in America lamic alliance lies at the foundation this point. Russia’s strategy focuses on weakening of anti-Atlanticist strategy,” he writes. Since Vladimir Putin became presi- America. In The Foundations of Geo- “On the whole, the entire Islamic zone dent of Russia in 1999, he has worked politics, Dugin advocates spreading represents a naturally friendly geopo- to forge a strong Russian alliance with anti-Americanism around the world by litical reality in relation to the Eurasian China. So while Dugin still insists that making the U.S. the “main scapegoat” for empire, since the Islamic tradition … Russian relations with Germany, Iran everything. He also writes that Russia fully understands the spiritual incom- and Japan are more important than Rus- should use its federal intelligence ser- patibility of America and religion.” sian relations with China, he has toned vices to divide America from within. He A strong alliance with Iran would give down his vocal support for secession lists “Afro-American racists” as a demo- Russia access to the Persian Gulf and ful- movements in Tibet and Manchuria. graphic Russia should use “to provoke fill a centuries-old Russian dream of pos- all forms of instability and separatism sessing a warmwater port on the Indian Americans would be within the borders of the United States.” Ocean. To help Iran gain more strength “It is especially important to introduce over the Middle East, Dugin writes that naive to assume that the geopolitical disorder into internal Russia must help undermine Turkey and KGB disappeared along American activity, encouraging all kinds Saudi Arabia. Dugin even recommends with the Soviet Union. of separatism and ethnic, social and dismembering Turkey if possible. They would also be naive racial conflicts, actively supporting all The Kremlin wants a pro-Russian to think that a former dissident movements—extremist, racist regime in Iran to oppose the United KGB agent in the Kremlin and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing States. While Putin may not be keen on internal political processes in the U.S.,” giving up parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan, is not a dangerous enemy. he writes. “It would also make sense he is keen on helping Iran undermine simultaneously to support isolationist American interests in the Middle East. While many Russian analysts realize tendencies in American politics.” “Russia’s deep involvement in the that China’s growing power in East Asia Dugin is not the first Russian strat- Middle East has allowed the brutal Syr- represents a long-term threat to Russia’s egist to recommend stirring up racial ian regime to retain power,” Mr. Flurry control of Siberia, they also realize that tensions to undermine America. Putin’s writes in The Prophesied ‘Prince of if Russia and China work together in old boss in the kgb, spy chief Yuri Russia.’ “It has also been instrumental the short term, they can unseat the U.S. Andropov, used a similar strategy in the in helping Iran to continue pursuing as the world superpower. If Germany 1970s when he worked to inflame racial nuclear weapons. … Notice Hosea 7:9 dominates Europe, Iran dominates the tensions in the U.S. to distract it from in the Moffatt translation: ‘Foreigners Middle East, and China dominates East countering Russian hegemony. Putin eat away his [Israel’s] strength …’—for- Asia, Russia will need an alliance with learned this lesson well. eigners like Russia, China, Iran and each of these powers to secure a place of Americans would be naive to assume Germany—and ‘grey hairs are on him global prominence. that the kgb disappeared along with the here and there, unknown to him.’” The Bible foretells Russia’s alliance Soviet Union. They would likewise be America’s foreign policy is a disaster. with both China and Japan. “For many naive to think that a former kgb agent Yet people are unaware of it because they years the Russians have been allied with in the Kremlin is not a dangerous enemy. are ignoring the warnings of the Bible. China, at least to some degree,” Mr. Flurry “This man is not just an authoritarian writes in The Prophesied ‘Prince of Rus- leader,” Mr. Flurry wrote in the March Moscow–Tokyo Axis sia.’ “But there will also be other powers 2017 Trumpet issue. “He is an evil, ruth- The cornerstone of Dugin’s foreign involved. Ezekiel’s prophecy says the less, vindictive agent with Soviet-style policy in Asia is a proposed alliance Russian-led army will include ‘Persia, methods of psychological warfare, images between Russia and Japan. In return for Ethiopia, and Libya … Gomer, and all assassination and war! As one Russian

getty his bands; the house of Togarmah of the journalist put it, Putin ‘is a supersize

/ Japan allying with Russia, he proposes giving Japan the Kuril Islands. Dugin north quarters, and all his bands: and model of the kgb.’” Dugin has advocated

alliance also suggests stirring up anti-American many people …’ (Ezekiel 38:5-6). Gomer stirring up race riots in the United States,

sentiment in Japan to pull the nation refers to Japan, which wields some of and Putin is very familiar with this tactic. picture

/ away from the United States. He writes the world’s most advanced weaponry and Anciently, the Prophet Isaiah wrote that the anti-Americanism of the Japa- technology. Ethiopia and Libya should this regarding the terrible consequences nietfeld

nese, “who remember well the nuclear be translated ‘Cush’ and ‘Phut.’ Some of America’s grave national sins: “Your kay

, genocide and the disgrace of political of Cush and Phut migrated to African country is desolate, your cities are burned occupation,” must be unleashed. nations, but the rest settled in parts of with fire: your land, strangers devour it in images Interestingly, Dugin advocates dis- India. The context of this passage shows your presence, and it is desolate, as over-

getty membering China to help pave the way that it refers to modern-day Indians (and thrown by strangers” (Isaiah 1:7). God will / for Japan to dominate the Far East. Yet perhaps Pakistanis) rather than Africans.” use Gentiles to punish those descended gallup he has backtracked on this policy rec- All of these nations are currently from ancient Israel for their sins. sean ommendation since his manifesto was coalescing against America. KREMLIN PAGE 36 u FEBRUARY 2019 27 SANCTIONED mullahs in Tehran either change Iranians protest their behavior dramatically or the U.S.’s renewed sanctions in face economic disaster.” WORLDWATCH November. Iran appears restrained; its economy was forecast by the International Monetary Fund to contract by 3.6 percent by the end of this year. The U.S. appears China intensifies to be surging in power and in battle against favor among Iran’s enemies in U.S. dollar the Middle East. Europe appears U.S. exerts weak; its “diplomatic bravado” of ess than a year after appeasing Iran and trying to miti- China launched an oil more economic gate the effects of the sanctions, L futures contract denom- as the Straits Times wrote Nov. 6, inated in the Chinese currency, pressure on Iran 2018, “did not survive first contact the contract has been embraced with reality.” by global commodities traders. This renewal of American China launched an oil futures he United States nuclear deal, he gave Iran’s power is prophesied, but it’s contract on the Shanghai ratcheted up economic trading partners 180 days prophesied to be temporary. In International Energy Exchange T pressure against Iran to wind down their business Daniel 11:40, the Bible prophesies denominated in yuan on March on Nov. 5, 2018, reinstating yet ventures. Most of them scaled of a time in the near future when 26, 2018. Its trading volumes another batch of sanctions. back their business dealings Iran will be unrestrained and have now surpassed those of These sanctions target Iran’s with Iran accordingly, including implementing an aggressive the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, most crucial industries—oil, all major companies from foreign policy. At that prophesied making it the world’s third-most gas and shipping—which earn Europe, where leaders have “time of the end,” Iran will “push” popular benchmark. most of the revenue and hard largely opposed President not at the U.S. but at a European Due to the success, “China currency the nation desperately Trump’s actions. power. That power will respond will now pursue de-dollarization needs right now. The intended effect of these not with diplomacy, but with head-on,” wrote Project When President Donald sanctions on Iranian leaders an overwhelming, “whirlwind” Syndicate on December 3. Trump announced on May is to “squeeze them until the military attack. Trumpet editor in For some 50 years, the 8, 2018, that the U.S. was pips squeak,” as U.S. National chief Gerald Flurry expounds on Trumpet and our forerunner, the withdrawing from the Joint Security Adviser John Bolton this prophecy in his free booklet Plain Truth, have forecast that a Comprehensive Plan of Action explained. “[It’s] their choice. The The King of the South. n financial crisis originating in the U.S. will transform the current world order. Plain Truth editor Iran got far closer in November that in chief Herbert W. Armstrong to a nuclear bomb if Iran restarts wrote, “If the dollar is devalued, than realized its centrifuges, inflation will almost surely result— it could enrich and eventual economic collapse nformation gathered enough weap- for the United States” (co-worker by Israel’s raid on a ons-grade uranium letter, March 26, 1968). majid clandestine Iranian nuclear to build its first GOING NUCLEAR Workers at a uranium Mr. Armstrong’s forecast was

I saeedi archive in Tehran on Jan. 31, nuclear weapon in conversion facility in Iran in 2005 founded on Bible passages such 2018, has revealed the extent of seven to 12 months. as Leviticus 26, which reveal that / Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Albright’s Institute for Science remains, and likely some activities, if those who are descended from getty

which had been underestimated. and International Security have continued up to today. The the ancient Israelites (which images According to Congressional assessed that, by the end of question of where all this equip- includes the modern Americans) , testimony from David Albright, a 2003, Iran had managed to build ment and material is now located reject God, He will curse them. getty

physicist, former International the infrastructure for a “compre- is more urgent to answer.” If China’s contract keeps images Atomic Energy Agency inspector hensive nuclear weapons Bible prophecy does not luring nations away from the ,

and one of the experts invited by program” intended to produce say exactly whether Iran will dollar, the conditions for the istock the Israeli government to analyze five nuclear warheads, each with develop a nuclear bomb or not, prophesied collapse of the U.S. . the archive, “Iran conducted a 10-kiloton explosive yield. but it does state that Iran will economy could rapidly develop. com / many more high-explosive tests Its report also indicates that trigger a devastating war that To understand more about zhengzaishuru related to nuclear weapons there are still plenty of unknowns will involve nuclear bombs. That the accuracy of Mr. Armstrong’s development than previously about what still remains of Iran’s time might be much closer than Bible-based forecasts, order your known.” He told Foreign Policy nuclear program: “The program’s previously realized. n free copy of He Was Right. n 28 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Islamist revives terror in France

n Islamist terrorist The attack caused massive killed five people and disruption. A few miles away, the A wounded 11 more European Parliament building in the French border city of was locked down with members Strasbourg on Dec. 11, 2018. The of Parliament, officials and attack happened in the oldest journalists locked inside. Across Christmas market in France, the city, thousands of others ON ALERT dating back to 1570. It attracts had to stay put, including 5,000 Police officers stand guard after a shooting 2 million visitors each year. spectators stuck at a basketball in Strasbourg, France. Cherif Chekatt, 29, entered game until 1 a.m. the market’s secure zone Eyewitnesses reported that Islamist terrorist killed 12 and bombing attacks at restaurants, and began attacking people, Chekatt shouted “Allahu akbar” wounded 56 in an attack at a bars, concerts and a soccer apparently at random, with a as he opened fire. Islamists Christmas market in Berlin. stadium; and a 21-ton truck knife and an automatic pistol. He have a history of attacking In 2015 and 2016, Islamist ramming hundreds of people. then took a taxi driver hostage Christmas markets. In 2000, a terrorists killed more than 200 December’s attack reminded the and fled. Authorities tracked him well-developed plan by al Qaeda people in France, including (but nation that Islamist terror is still down in the city two days later, to attack the same Strasbourg not limited to) a mass shooting very real—and has the potential to and he was killed as they tried to market was uncovered and at a satirical magazine’s office; prompt Europe to take dramatic arrest him. stopped. Two years ago, an shooting, grenade and suicide action in the Middle East. n

Germany chooses Anti-Semitism still ‘mini Merkel’ rising in Europe

ermany’s ruling early 90 percent of party, the Christian European Jews believe Democratic Union anti-Semitism has NOT JUST HISTORY G N Swastika graffiti (CDU), met on Dec. 7, 2018, to increased in their home country mars a French graveyard. choose its course for the future in the past five years, according and its new leader. Chancellor to a Dec. 10, 2018, report by the an unfavorable attitude toward Angela Merkel, who had led the European Union Agency for Jews. In Poland, the figure was party since 2000, aims to remain Fundamental Rights. 15 percent, and in Hungary, it was chancellor until the next election. MORE OF THE SAME Twenty-eight percent of those 19 percent. Of those surveyed, The new CDU leader is her heir, in Kramp-Karrenbauer (left) surveyed claim they have been 20 percent said they believed the celebrates with Merkel after images line to succeed her as chancellor winning the CDU vote. harassed at least once in the past Jews were too influential in polit-

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/ election. The new leader could Party—which is traditionally they did not report the incidents 33 percent of Austrians surveyed even have a shot at forcing Ms. Germany’s main left-wing party to the police, because they felt said that Jews have too much bozon Merkel out of her job sooner. and one of the top two parties in that nothing would change. influence over financial matters. In the end, the vote came down the nation—dropped to fourth More than 16,000 Jews in 12 It also found that 34 percent of sebastien

, to a simple choice. On the one place in December. One INSA poll EU countries participated in the Europeans surveyed said they hand Friedrich Merz, a strong put the far-right Alternative für agency’s online survey, making knew nothing or very little about images critic of Merkel, wanted to move Deutschland at 15 percent of the it the largest survey of its type. the Holocaust. getty

/ the party much further to the vote and the far-left Left Party The 12 countries are home to an European history in the 1920s right. On the other hand, Anne- at 10 percent. That means 1 in 4 estimated 96 percent of Europe’s and 1930s reveals anti-Semitism koall gret Kramp-Karrenbauer was Germans wants to vote for these Jewish population. as a precursor to war. It began Ms. Merkel’s preferred candidate. radical, smash-the-system groups. In the survey, 38 percent of with anti-Semitic rhetoric, then carsten , Kramp-Karrenbauer has some Facing all this turmoil, the CDU Jews said they had considered violent attacks, then war and

images differences from Merkel, but voted for more of the same. leaving their home countries systematic mass murder. That is

not enough to keep some from Kramp-Karrenbauer’s election altogether because they felt it exactly what is stirring in Europe getty / calling her “mini Merkel.” is not going stop any of the polit- was unsafe to be a Jew in Europe. today. Just like in the 1930s, afp / Kramp-Karrenbauer won ical turmoil roiling in Germany. If A CNN-ComRes poll of 7,000 gradual acceptance of anti-Sem- 51.8 percent of the vote. anything, it will make it worse, as native Europeans from Austria, itism has led to an increase in mirdass But Germany’s politics are the elites opt to keep the same France, Germany, Hungary, violence against Jews, and many in turmoil. According to some course, while many on the street Poland, the United Kingdom and European Jews fear what will

abdesslam polls, the Social Democratic want a new direction. n Sweden found that 10 percent had come next. n FEBRUARY 2019 29 choke holds on the will be more!” He continued: “Will TERRITORIAL Ukrainian Navy Sea of Azov. a crisis occur over Ukraine? ships are detained by Due to Russia’s That area is the breadbasket of Russian forces in the Kerch Strait. ongoing and unlawful Russia, and surely it is willing to aggression there, wage war over that as well.” Kiev-based analyst Time proved that forecast Taras Revunets told accurate, with Russia’s March the Trumpet on Nov. 2014 invasion and annexation 26, 2018, that the of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. Kerch Strait has Putin has redrawn the borders become “the South of Europe—twice. And now, as China Sea of Europe.” evidenced by the Kerch Strait In 2005, Russian incident, Russia continues to President Vladimir tighten its grip on former Soviet Putin called the territories. Russia ramps up aggression on Ukraine demise of the Soviet Union “the You can learn more about greatest geopolitical disaster” of Putin’s crucial role in Bible he Russian Navy until 2014, when Russia forcibly the 20th century. He has been prophecy in Mr. Flurry’s booklet captured three Ukrainian and unlawfully annexed it. In working ever since to reverse The Prophesied ‘Prince of T naval ships on Nov. 25, May 2018, Russia completed that demise and to restore Russia.’ Mr. Flurry explains that 2018, after opening fire on them construction of a 12-mile-long Russian power to its Soviet levels. Putin is personally described in the Kerch Strait, marking an bridge across the Kerch Strait, In August 2008, Putin showed in ancient Bible prophecies in escalation in tensions between connecting Crimea to Russia. the world that he was willing to Ezekiel 38 and 39, and that his the two nations that have been A 2003 treaty designates the use force to re-create the Soviet rule indicates that “[w]e are mired in conflict since 2014. Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov Union’s geography when his entering into the The Kerch Strait, off the as shared territorial waters for forces invaded the former Soviet worst crisis ever eastern edge of the Crimean Russia and Ukraine. But since republic of Georgia, defeating in man’s history.” Peninsula, is a vital shipping completing the bridge, Russia all resistance. Trumpet editor But, Mr. Flurry route connecting the Black Sea has sporadically blocked access in chief Gerald Flurry wrote adds, these to the Sea of Azov and two of to Ukrainian vessels trans- in the October 2008 Trumpet prophecies are Ukraine’s most important ports. porting grain and steel exports that the attack “was the first “super-inspiring The Crimean Peninsula was part to and from eastern Ukraine, military strike of a rising Asian at the same of Ukraine’s sovereign territory effectively creating temporary superpower,” and said, “there time.” n

Chinese theft of trade secrets fulfills prophecy This is explained in our free book The United States and Nov. 1, 2018, report have been caught stealing U.S. Britain in Prophecy, by Herbert by the United States intellectual property regarding W. Armstrong.) A Justice Department jet engines, wind turbines, Verse 33 states: “The fruit shows that billions of dollars biopharmaceutical products and of your land, and all your worth of patented American genetically modified rice. labours, shall a nation which technology was stolen by a Even when China’s operatives thou knowest not eat up; and

Chinese state-owned company. are caught, its leadership thou shalt be only oppressed sergei The victim, Micron Technology remains undeterred. FBI agent and crushed alway.” In China’s

Inc., said the theft of its patented John Bennett told the LA Times ongoing theft of American malgavko dynamic random-access on Nov. 16, 2018, that Chinese intellectual property and trade /

memory (DRAM) chip technology leaders “don’t care if they get and $600 billion each year. secrets, it is clear that this tass

was worth up to $8.8 billion. caught or if people go to jail. As Deuteronomy 28, sometimes prophecy is being fulfilled. / getty This technological theft is far long as it justifies their ends, they called one of the Bible’s “bless- To understand

from an isolated incident. For are not going to stop.” ings and curses” chapters, lists more about images

more than a decade, China has Despite getting caught from specific ways God promised China’s role in , istock fueled its economic growth time to time, as with the Micron that He would bless the nations Bible prophecy, .

largely with systematic theft case, China’s efforts as a whole of Israel if they obeyed Him, and please order com /

of American commercial tech- are largely successful. Experts specific ways He would curse your free gorodenkoff nology and intellectual property. say that, altogether, China’s Israel if they rejected Him. copy of Russia In addition to Micron’s DRAM intellectual property theft costs (“Israel” here refers mainly to and China in chip technology, the Chinese the U.S. between $225 billion the United States and Britain. Prophecy. n 30 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET levels, such as increased plant climate are under His control. growth. As atmospheric carbon They are vast and complicated, dioxide levels rise, plant growth beyond human comprehension. SOCIETYWATCH increases. As plant growth “God thundereth marvellously increases, atmospheric carbon with his voice; great things doeth dioxide levels fall. he, which we cannot compre- The Heartland report also hend. For he saith to the snow, notes that because physical Be thou on the earth; likewise to processes in the atmosphere are the small rain, and to the great not well understood, scientists rain of his strength. He sealeth Climate report make guesses about the values up the hand of every man; that all of the variables in the equations men may know his work. Then is junk science they use, such as when they are the beasts go into dens, and predicting storms. This is why remain in their places. Out of weather predictions made more the south cometh the whirlwind: report released by climate scientists use to make than two weeks in advance are and cold out of the north. By the United States predictions are computer often hopelessly inaccurate. It the breath of God frost is given: A Global Change models. But these models is also why climate scientists and the breadth of the waters is Research Program on Nov. 23, oversimplify the Earth’s climate cannot decide whether warmer straitened” (Job 37:5-10). n 2018, blames extreme weather system, even to the point of ocean surface temperatures disasters on man-made global ignoring the basic fact that the increase or decrease the warming caused by burning heating effects of carbon dioxide frequency of hurricanes. Children abusing fossil fuels. But the conclusions are not linear. The first 20 parts The oldest book in the Bible, children—why? drawn in this report are based per million of carbon dioxide in the book of Job, states that on biased science. An analysis the atmosphere produce more God balances the vapors of the xposure to pornography published by the Heartland warming than the next 400 clouds and warms the Earth with is leading to an Institute in March 2018 brings parts per million. This means a south wind (Job 37:16-17). He E alarming number of some clarity to the subject. that carbon dioxide has already commands the clouds to do His sexual assaults being perpe- The Heartland Report warmed the atmosphere almost will, whether for mercy or for trated by children against others critiques a previous volume of as much as it possibly can. These correction (verses 12-13). Several their own age and younger, the U.S. government’s “Climate simulations also ignore many of chapters in the book of Job cover according to medical experts Science Special Report.” It the Earth’s climate systems that God’s explanations of how the at Children’s Mercy Hospital explains that the primary tools mitigate rising carbon dioxide mechanisms that control Earth’s in Kansas City, Missouri. Heidi Olson, the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Coordinator, told Americans dying younger news station KHSB in November 2018 that what shocked those he life expectancy for economically, who collected the data was that the average American militarily, nationally, “almost half of our perpetrators T is falling and has been internationally, are minors.” Hospital nurses since 2014. That is according human civilization are finding that many young to a report released by the U.S. itself is failing. perpetrators admit they are Centers for Disease Control and There is indeed acting out violent assaults they Prevention (CDC) on November a void in human have seen in pornography. 29. The cause? Drug overdoses life, and not just Despite its mainstream accep- and suicide. among the addicted tance, pornography is harmful to On average, 129 Americans and the suicidal. Herbert W. This is why our world is filled mental health. Jesus Christ said, commit suicide every day, Armstrong described this with so many distractions like “whosoever looketh on a woman mintr

/ according to the American void in the August 1962 Plain sports, entertainment, illicit sex, to lust after her hath committed com

. Foundation for Suicide Preven- Truth: “[W]hat God created and worthier-yet-still-unfulfilling adultery with her already in his tion. And the CDC reported that in the first Adam was not yet pursuits like greatness in heart.” The Apostle James wrote, istock , an average of 200 people died complete. Man was made business, politics, science and “when lust hath conceived, it from drug overdoses each day in carnal, material—but he was the arts. This is why some turn bringeth forth sin” (Matthew 5:28; 2017. Since 1999, overdose rates made to need the Spirit of God. to drugs. It is why some turn James 1:15). The evil fruits of have jumped 255 percent. These Without this spiritual life from to suicide. They are trying to society’s lust for pornography seppfriedhuber / overdose and suicide rates show God, man experiences a sense of fill the void. But without the continue to multiply—to the point com . that people are lethally hopeless. emptiness—a hunger and thirst missing piece—the Spirit of their that educators see the effects

istock Civically, morally, legally, for that which will satisfy.” Creator—they cannot do it. n even on our children. n FEBRUARY 2019 31 u INVADING ISRAEL FROM PAGE 9 (Daniel 11:40). This king leads a group Palestinian campaign to violently take against Hezbollah targets inside Leba- of Islamist nations and is described in half of Jerusalem out of Israel’s control. non would result in catastrophic losses that verse as having a foreign policy that Another prophecy, Hosea 5:13, states that for Israel. pushes at other nations—not just with Israel will actually reach out to the king And Israel knows that Nasrallah is words, but with deadly force. of the north for help. That it seeks relief telling the truth. Daniel 11:40 reads, “And at the time of from the very nation that perpetrated the end shall the king of the south push the Holocaust is another indication of Leading to World War III at him: and the king of the north shall the intense pressure Iran and its proxies Iran and Hezbollah have been promising come against him like a whirlwind, with will put on the Jewish state. to destroy Israel for so long, it is easy to chariots, and with horsemen, and with Reaching out to Europe instead of dismiss their words as empty threats. many ships; and he shall enter into the reaching out to God, however, will not But these tunnels prove that Iran countries, and shall overflow and pass solve their problems. is actually enacting its plan to invade over.” In this prophecy, which is clearly Germany will answer Israel’s call Israel and conquer its territory. Iran for the “time of the end,” the king of and march its armies into the Middle is so committed to its plan that it the south pushes against the “king of East—not out of compassion for the funds Hezbollah’s efforts to the tune of the north,” whom we have identified Jews, but because of its own lust for $700 million per year even while the Ira- for over 70 years as the quickly rising control of the Holy City. While feigning nian economy is suffering under harsh German-led Europe. the role of peacekeeper, these armies financial sanctions. As Mr. Flurry writes in his booklet The will come into the “glorious land,” but Our modern, sophisticated, enlight- King of the South, the word translated when they arrive, they will actually turn ened societies like to believe that we “push” means “to wage war. Push is a vio- on the Jews in a sinister double cross. have evolved way past the time of nations lent word!” While there are likely many Their play for Jerusalem will echo the Crusades of the Middle Ages. These tunnels prove that Iran is enacting its plan to Unlike the Crusades, this final battle over Jerusalem has a hope-filled end. conquer Israel. Iran is so committed to its plan that it Another latter-day prophecy, in Zecha- gives Hezbollah $700 million a year even while Iran’s riah 14:1-2, shows how half of Jerusalem falling to the Arabs—an event which economy is suffering under harsh financial sanctions. prompts Israel’s call to Germany—is actually the first domino to fall in a being hell-bent on the destruction of ways that Iran could push at Europe, succession of events leading to the others. However, what we are witnessing including the control of Middle East return of Jesus Christ and the end of in the north of Israel is Iran’s manifest trade routes and terrorism, the context bloodshed on Jerusalem’s streets. (This desire to do just that. Remember, Hezbol- of Daniel 11:40 shows a contest over Jeru- is explained in detail in Mr. Flurry’s lah is not an independent force; it readily salem is part of it. Verses 40-44 reveal booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy. Request acknowledges that it receives all its that the European power will march its your free copy.) funding and mission objectives from Iran. armies into the Middle East to combat Armed with the understanding of It should be beyond clear by now that the pushy king of the south. In verse 41, these prophecies, we can know that Iran cannot be induced into becoming the “glorious land” refers to Jerusalem. when we see Iran pushing at the Jewish a responsible, peaceful nation in the Europe’s foray into Israel will be moti- state, we are close to this colossal, world community. Decades of efforts to vated by a successful Iranian-backed world-redefining event! n do this have failed miserably. The fruits of Iran’s long-standing radical agenda, including its unabashed funding of The Trumpet has been saying this since 1992 terrorist proxies, such as Hezbollah, are Editor in chief Gerald Flurry clear to anyone who considers the facts. first forecast Iran’s While Israel may be able to thwart dominance Iran’s attempts in the short term, Bible of the Middle prophecy shows that Iran will not give East more up its genocidal ambitions against Israel, than 26 years nor its quest for dominance in the ago. To learn region, until it is stopped by overwhelm- about the Bible ing force. War is inevitable. prophecies he As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald used, request Flurry has said for more than two your free copy decades, radical Islam, led by the fanati- of The King of cal Islamic regime in Iran, fulfills the role the South. of the biblical end-time “king of the south” 32 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET men—and many coming out of college every year. Part of my job is to continually keep ahead of them! God gave me a head PRINCIPLES start in years. But if I’m not on my toes constantly, some of OF LIVING these alert and eager young men, now approaching middle age, would leave me far behind as a has-been, and I might be forced to retire”—which he had no interest in! Does God Want Another major reason retirement has grown popular is the notion that a person’s productive years end around age 65. This You to Retire? reflects a terrible prejudice in Satan’s society against the aged. “People seem to assume that after the 50s, the human mind True Christians don’t finish working is supposed to decay,” Mr. Armstrong wrote in the December until they die—and actually, not even then. 1976 Plain Truth. “Perhaps some few, accepting the myth, have bogged down and grown senile. That is a tragedy. It happens id you know that there is no word for retirement in only to the mind that has not been used. A mind improves the Bible? The concept cannot be found in Scripture. with use and age. Wisdom comes with experience and age. D The closest thing to it is in Numbers 8:24-26: There “In my personal experience—and why shouldn’t I share the God instructed that full-time priestly tabernacle responsibil- benefit of that experience and knowledge with my millions of ities end at age 50. Remember, this was physically demanding readers—I have produced my greatest accomplishment since I work with large livestock. Priests older than 50 continued to hit the calendar age of 80. Of course that’s not my actual age— assist and serve as advisers or supervi- only what the calendar says. The most important knowledge sors, but the full-time physical labor was has been learned since then. I speak today with more vigor, done by the younger men. However, this effectiveness and power than in my 40s.” was not retirement as practiced today. Mr. Armstrong did his greatest work after “normal” retire- Retirement as we understand it is ment age. The work of his Church didn’t really go worldwide quite a recent concept. The first nation until after he turned 60. His experience paralleled many to introduce a social insurance program others whose greatest accomplishments occurred after age 65, for the aged was Germany—in 1889. The including Winston Churchill. Moses started his real life’s work joel hilliker emperor, William i, told parliament, at age 80, and he never retired. “Those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state.” The nation initially set retirement age at 70. Life expectancy at the time was less “IN THE ONLY HAPPY LIFE, than 50 years. THE TRUE CHRISTIAN For most of human history, people expected to work until LIFE, ONE MUST they died. If they became too infirm to do so, the family was KEEP ACTIVE—KEEP supposed to care for them. But in modern society, people INDUSTRIOUS, DILIGENT, believe that once you’ve “put in your time,” you deserve a ALERT, CONSTANTLY decade or two of work-free lounging, traveling and golf. IMPROVING.” One factor driving the push for retirement is an aversion to HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG work. A true Christian, however, has a positive attitude toward work and views it as the blessing it is. Work provides opportu- nity to design, produce and maintain, to embrace challenges, to interact with and serve others. God works (John 5:17), and Work produces goods and services for others, it produces wants us to do the same. physical and mental growth and development in yourself, and Obviously there is nothing that says you have to stay in the it provides a way to financially support others and to support same job your whole life. But disengaging from a life of service God’s work (Matthew 6:21). and turning wholly toward simply seeking your own enjoyment One should still save for old age. After all, some are forced is a trap, and ungodly. That’s not to say an older person can- into retirement because of declining health or other reasons. not enjoy extra leisure or family time—these are wonderful Lack of planning has caused great heartache for many elderly. blessings in the sunset years of a productive life. But one must God definitely promotes wise financial planning to secure beware wanting to withdraw from serving and contributing. prosperity for your family. “A good man leaveth an inheritance “In the only happy life, the true Christian life, one must keep to his children’s children” (Proverbs 13:22). This requires lucra- active—keep industrious, diligent, alert, constantly improving,” tive productivity and excellent planning. An ideal to strive for Herbert W. Armstrong wrote in the November 1965 Plain Truth. is to be financially capable of not working, but continuing to

86 He decried the modern premium on idleness and laziness—the work by choice, even if only part-time—certainly to stay pro- push for more leisure and the desire for retirement. “[T]hat’s ductive and keep your mind and body active—as long as able. geber / not for me!” he wrote. “Today I’m the oldest one in this Adopt a lifelong mentality of embracing work. God works, com . dynamic work of God, humanly speaking. Around me are bril- and He made us to do the same. After all, we are preparing for istock liant, intelligent, capable, industrious, hardworking younger an eternal life of noble, fulfilling, productive work! n FEBRUARY 2019 33 DISCUSSION BOARD

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Your articles are profoundly revealing The information is timely and accurately and accurate on the fulfillment of biblical captures the state of our world: The sin of prophecies. I am always excited to read them man is running wild, and the convergence because I also follow world events closely. It of end-time events are in a rapid-fire mode. was here in Port Moresby only a few days ago Mark Mullen alberta, canada translations tend to introduce errors that both the U.S.A. and China confronted because of license taken by translators. each other at the APEC leaders conference. I love the newsletter and articles and have But we will endeavor to use other accurate The issue was the geopolitical influence in really enjoyed reading them the past several translations when it will clarify the meaning. the Pacific. While watching this display by the years. I have one comment/request. The president of China and the vice president of Bible quotes in King James make it harder Re: Trumpet Brief: France’s Prophesied Betrayal of America the United States, I was reminded of all the to read than it should be. I’m 38, and I have Wow, what an amazing read! How can people lead articles the Trumpet editors have taken us no experience with the KJV wording, and I criticize this, it is just prophesy that is put through all these years of the eminent nearness have to sit and really think through the “thy’s” plainly! I think it especially intriguing that they of the “end times” and Second Coming of our and “thees,” etc. That wording is from a time are now calling for a European army! I can’t Lord Jesus Christ. I am following the events when people spoke that way, and we do not wait till the next one! I need more! in Germany and the Brexit debate. May God speak that way anymore, so it adds a barrier Youth south africa continue to bless your wonderful work. to our understanding. The NIV would be much

R. Yaki papua new guinea better for comprehension for everyone. But of I enjoy reading the Trumpet. It is biblical and course I’ll keep reading no matter what. accurate on Bible prophecy. You seem to Thank you for your dedication, due diligence Lynn know today what is coming tomorrow, and it and commitment to excellence. A compelling Thank you for reading, and for your input. has proved right. I am always blessed by your issue indeed; this issue (January 2019) is We use the King James Version because it publication. I cannot find words to thank you your best ever, in my opinion. Once I started is the most accurate Bible translation. The adequately for what you provide. to read, I could not stop until I finished it. New International and other more modern John Muttiah ontario, canada

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34 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET God of love has no need to inflict the Great Tribulation on them. The Trumpet goes to hundreds of thousands of subscribers, but only a handful have committed themselves to God’s way of life. Yet COMMENTARY we at the Trumpet have tremendous hope because of a prophecy in Revelation 7. Just after this New Testament book prophesies the unprecedented mass-scale suffering of the Great Tribulation, Please Remember it prophesies this: “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and This Magazine people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes …. These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them It may be a matter of life or death. by joel hilliker white in the blood of the Lamb” (Revelation 7:9, 14). Even during the horrifying period of Satan’s greatest wrath, ots of people say they believe in a God of love. They the God of love will bring out of the tribulation a multitude readily recognize God’s love in sending His Son to pay for the so great it cannot be numbered. They will have accepted God’s L sins of mankind. But the God of the Old Testament seems to correction, repented, and been spiritually washed by Christ’s be different: all plagues and punishments and prophecies. shed blood, and God will protect them. This magazine focuses on biblical prophecy. So much of that Undoubtedly, these will be people who are familiar with God’s prophecy involves tragedy and violence. warnings. They will be people like you, who read God’s prophe- Can you recognize the God of love in those prophecies? cies in the Bible and in the Trumpet, but who do not act on them Throughout history, people have considered God’s prophecies until they see some of the worst prophecies actually happening. to be unloving. They rejected His prophets and oftentimes exe- They will witness the nightmarish fulfillment, step by step, of cuted them. They rejected their warnings, as many still do today. what they had read: economic disaster, encirclement by ene- Jesus Christ condemned hypocrit- mies, civil war, cities destroyed by ical religious leaders who said, “If we weapons of mass destruction. had lived in the days of our ances- Many who read God’s They will finally recognize that tors, we would not have taken part prophecies in the Bible and the God of love warned them. in the Trumpet will not act with them in shedding the blood of They will turn to Him in heartfelt on them until they see the the prophets” (Matthew 23:30; New worst of them happening. repentance. When they do, God International Version). These same They will finally recognize will mercifully protect them from men were plotting to kill Christ! that the God of love further harm. They will live to see In verse 34, Christ prophesied warned them. the fulfillment of an even greater that people would continue to reject prophecy: the return of Jesus Christ God’s message: “Wherefore, behold, and the dawn of the Kingdom of God. I send unto you prophets, and wise If you continue to subscribe men, and scribes: and some of them to the Trumpet, watch the Key ye shall kill and crucify ….” of David television program, and Christ attracted great crowds and order books and booklets but do healed countless people. But at the end of His ministry, how nothing personally about the warnings of Bible prophecy, you many people actually followed His teachings? Only 120 (Acts 1:15). are actually described in a prophecy. In Ezekiel 33:30-32, God Why is prophecy—so hated by human beings—so important tells His prophet, “And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely to God? God is love (1 John 4:8). Through His Word, God loves song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an us by showing us how to live happy, meaningful, abundant lives. instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.” Anything contrary leads to misery and death (Deuteronomy Which choice will you make? If you heed the warning of 30:19; Proverbs 10:17). Human beings always seek happiness God’s prophet today, you can be protected. But we ask that if their own way, contrary to God’s way. As a loving father, He you choose to ignore it, do not forget it. When you experience warns them of what their actions are leading to. it, remember this prophecy from the God of love: “[W]hen this Prophecy is God’s way of showing you the end results of your cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a actions. For disobedience to His way, He prophesies suffering prophet hath been among them”! (verse 33). That means you. and death. For obedience, He prophesies joy and long life! It is We hope and pray every day that you will be among those a matter of cause and effect. who repent before the Tribulation that Jesus Christ prophe- In the Old Testament and New Testament, God prophesies cat- sied. But if you do not, remember this message. Remember, God astrophic suffering and death because of widespread sin. Jesus warned you in an attempt to protect you. Remember, even prophesied about it as a time of “great tribulation.” These proph- during that Tribulation, if you repent, He will protect you along ecies are certain, but so too are prophecies describing a small with the rest of this great multitude. This is a sure promise, grandfailure / group of people whom God will protect during that ordeal (e.g., prophesied by the God of love. n com . Revelation 12:13-14). These individuals have heard God’s warning, You can request a free one-year subscription to the istock accepted His correction, and turned from the way of death. The Philadelphia Trumpet. See the back cover for details. FEBRUARY 2019 35 u KREMLIN FROM PAGE 27 Armies at Armageddon The greatest prophet of all time, Jesus Christ, told His disci- ples that just before His return to Earth, the world would be dominated by non-Israelite nations. He said the people of “Jerusalem” would “fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke 21:24). Bible prophecy often uses Jeru- salem, the capital of ancient Israel, to symbolize all Israel. This means all the nations that have descended from the ancient Israelites will be conquered and trodden underfoot by Gentile powers: Russia, Germany, Iran, China and Japan. But just because God will punish Israel first, doesn’t mean the Gentiles are off the hook. God is Creator of all nations. So, while Dugin and Putin may think Russia will emerge as the next world superpower, the Bible reveals that Germany Philadelphia Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry appears will betray Russia. After America loses its superpower each week on The Key of David explaining the meaning behind status, a German-led European empire will conquer North world events and teaching the inspiring truths of the Bible. America. Then it will launch a preemptive military strike The program is also available at keyofdavid.com. against Russia and its Asian allies. The Apostle John proph- esies that Russia and China will amass an army of 200 mil- ALL TIMES ARE A.M. LOCAL TIME UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED lion men to counter this European attack. The Asian and European armies will gather at Armageddon before joining UNITED STATES Nationwide Satellite Connecticut, CaribVision, 7:00, Sun forces to counter a threat in Jerusalem (Revelation 9:1-16). 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