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s I write this article, Germany is just weeks Twenty-seven countries are mem- from electing a new chancellor. That election and bers of the EU today. Most of them don’t events to unfold from it are going to bring devastat- know that they are “living largely by the ing consequences to this world. A dangerous political heritage of the .” It is Astructure has been built in the European Union, and it’s about a mystery to them. to get a lot worse. History thunders its strongest warning According to Bible prophecy, the num- ever! It’s time that people understood that history. ber of member nations or groups of na- gerald Flurry But there is a lot more than history involved in understanding tions will be reduced to 10 rulers. There Editor in chief European politics. are simply too many nations in the EU What is happening in the European superstate is a mystery to now for the Union to be ruled in the spirit of Charlemagne. Only most of the world. But that mystery is beginning to be removed. after it has been severely reduced in member countries can the Bernard Connolly wrote a bombshell book in 1995 titled The Holy Roman Empire function as it has in its extremely bloody past. Rotten Heart of Europe. For years he served at the heart of the Mr. Habsburg also said, “We possess a European symbol Exchange Rate Mechanism for the European Union. He headed which belongs to all nations of Europe equally; this is the the commission unit responsible for monitoring and servicing crown of the Holy Roman Empire, which embodies the the system. He labels the European superstate as rotten. Since he tradition of Charlemagne.” had a vital job on the inside, his comments deserve our attention. Just what is “the tradition of Charlemagne”? It is far from what most people think it is—even Europeans! The Spirit of Charlemagne “It is the battle for control of the European superstate,” Mr. Con- Charles the Great nolly wrote, “in which French technocrats confront German fed- The Franks were the first barbaric tribe to embrace Catholicism, eralists, both sides claiming to fight under the banner of Char- but it was for political gain, not religious reasons. Mostly of Ger- lemagne. The ‘collateral damage’ from this battle lies manic origin, the Franks used the Catholic Church to support mainly in the future, but it could be ghastly” (emphasis their expansionist policies, while the church relied on Frankish mine throughout). rulers for protection. It was a union based on politics alone. “It could be ghastly.” That is an understatement! The Frankish kingdom reached the pinnacle of its power during Who will get control of this great superstate? And just how the rule of Charlemagne (Charles the Great). Before Charlemagne’s ghastly is it going to be? The battle can be narrowed down to two emergence as world ruler, the political scene in Europe was greatly nations—France and Germany. Do knowledgeable people really divided. Germany was sliced into many different tribes. Much of doubt who has already won this battle? The nation that controls Italy was occupied by the Lombards. Byzantium was recognized the money will reign supreme. Of course, that has already proven as the successor to the eastern region of the old Roman Empire. to be Germany. Charlemagne, in conjunction with the papal throne, eventually changed all that—but not without Just what is “the tradition of Charlemagne”? It is far much bloodshed. Historians call his rule the First from what most people think it is—even Europeans! Reich—even though Charlemagne “Across the Rhine, successive German governments have, in was the second ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. ’s their pursuit of a ‘European’ cloak for German ambitions, rule became known as the Third Reich. been prepared to accept an apparent cession of national mone- Charlemagne felt it his duty to defend the church. In 774, at tary authority—as long as the new European monetary authority the request of Pope Leo iii, he entered northern Italy and con- looks, sounds, smells and acts exactly as the German monetary quered the Lombard kingdom, uniting Italy for the first time authority now does” (ibid.). in centuries. In 799, he again came to the aid of the pope, who The EU system has already been called a Trojan horse. Mr. was assaulted, brutally beaten, and thrown into prison by a band Connolly says it is a “cloak for German ambitions.” of conspirators. With the military backing of Charles and his Just what are those ambitions? And why should every person Frankish troops, the pope was exonerated of all wrongdoing and on Earth be deeply concerned? reinstated to his ecclesiastic office. Otto von Habsburg was one of the key figures in creating the The following year, in Rome, while Charlemagne was kneel- European Union. He had this to say about that union: “The [Eu- ing in prayer during a Christmas celebration inside old St. Peter’s ropean] Community is living largely by the heritage of the Holy Church, the pope placed a crown upon his head, pronouncing Roman Empire, though the great majority of the people who live him “the 73rd emperor of the fourth world empire.” by it don’t know by what heritage they live.” See germany page 33 ➤

The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 1 Special Report ◆ the holy Roman empire

once and future superpower The double-headed eagle, symbol of an empire that dominated east and west.

Resurrecting! The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation

A giant imperial power, destined to soon dominate the globe, is suddenly emerging from behind its benign facade! By Ron Fraser

2 n February 1934, Herbert W. Arm- advanced in its development that it will first—and they have carefully, methodi- strong launched a magazine, using suddenly, very soon, literally burst upon cally planned, in such eventuality, the third biblical prophecy as his guide, and the world scene with an impact that will round—World War iii! … [T]he Nazis have history and current world events as take our breath away! now gone underground. … They plan to Ihis frame of reference. It was to become As history demonstrates, there exist come back and to win on the third try. the most widely circulated of all periodic two prime entities that, when they operate “The Bible foretells that third round …. publications during the 20th century. in concert with each other, have created The third round is termed, in prophecy, Called the Plain Truth, the first edition of great havoc and resulted in the shedding an invasion by ‘Babylon’—a resurrected that fledgling publication carried a cover of the blood of countless millions: the Roman Empire—a European Union. I article headlined dramatically, “Is a World Vatican and Germany. have been proclaiming that since 1927” Dictator About to Appear?” Revisionists would have us believe that (Autobiography, Volume 2). By August of that year, Adolf Hitler, these particular leopards have changed Sigrid Schultz, who reported for the whose declared goal was global rule, be- their spots, the one becoming an embattled Tribune from within Germany came the führer of Germany. spiritual institution of little effect in a secu- after through the early years Yet Hitler, in alliance with Italian dicta- lar world, the other having miraculously of World War ii, wrote, “[T]he Germans tor Benito Mussolini, was not destined to morphed into a genuinely capitalistic, free- have brought chaos and agony to every realize his dream of global rule. He was but dom-loving democracy of the highest order. country within their long reach. They will a link in the chain of events leading to one Nothing could be further from the truth. cry chaos again, and still again … at the final attempt by one powerful individual first sign of weakness on our part, they’ll to become a “world dictator” before Al- try it again” (Germany Will Try It Again; mighty God intervenes to impose His own Most integral to the emphasis mine throughout). royal rule on this Earth (Revelation 19:16). On May 9 this year, the Mail Online In a letter Mr. Armstrong wrote on July ultimate fulfillment reported on a previously discovered se- 24, 1983, he spoke about that first Plain cret World War ii document. “The paper Truth issue. “The article starting on the of the Nazi vision was is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters cover page warned of a coming sudden slowly fading. But U.S. Military Intelli- appearance of a resurrected ‘Holy Roman control of the global gence report ew-Pa 128 is as chilling now Empire’ in Europe—a union of 10 nations banking system. as the day it was written in November 1944. in Europe under one government, with “The document, also known as the Red one united military force. For 50 years I House Report, is a detailed account of a have been crying out to the world the Bible We have written much on Vatican secret meeting at the Maison Rouge Ho- prophecies of this coming ‘United States of involvement in the successive seven res- tel in Strasbourg on Aug. 10, 1944. There, Europe’—a new united superpower per- urrections of the Holy Roman Empire Nazi officials ordered an elite group of haps more powerful than either the prophesied in your Bible (Revelation 12, German industrialists to plan for Ger- or the United States!” 13, 17). It is not our intention to dwell on many’s postwar recovery, prepare for the There is one core message, one key, that aspect of the equation in this article. Nazis’ return to power and work for a unfolding world event that the Trumpet Our purpose here is to highlight the very ‘strong German empire.’ In other words: has continued to monitor from the time advanced state that German elites have the Fourth Reich.” (This intelligence re- that Germany united, east and west, back reached in fulfilling the old imperial Teu- port is reprinted in full in our free booklet in 1990, coincident with this magazine’s tonic dream of global conquest. The Rising Beast.) birth. That is the same event headlined in Sigrid Schultz described how the Nazi the first issue of the Plain Truth: the rise The German Elites organization was set up as far back as 1940 of a European superpower. In reality this In instructions to his generals, Frederick to continue to pursue the Nazi dream of is none other than the seventh and final the Great declared, “In war, the skin of a world conquest underground in the event resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire, fox is at times as necessary as that of a lion, of German defeat in World War ii. “The which, due to its historic dominance by for cunning may succeed when force fails.” broad outline of the campaign aims at a a succession of Germanic emperors, be- During the last century, Germany ‘scientifically provoked and directed cha- came know as the Holy Roman Empire of failed twice, within just 30 years, in its os,’ with which they feel certain to win ul- the German nation! bid for world rule. Those losses taught the timate victory,” Schultz wrote. Seventy-five years on from Herbert German elites a lesson. These Nazis went Most integral to the ultimate fulfill- Armstrong’s cover story in that first edition underground to develop their plan for a ment of the Nazi vision, Schultz noted, of the Plain Truth, concerned observers of third attempt at global rule. They emerged was control of the global banking system! the rise of the European Union are noticing from their foxholes during the that certain elites within Germany and the period clad in the skin of Reynard, the How They Gained Control Vatican, in addition to banking and corpo- fabled red fox trickster. In 1982, Herbert Armstrong could foresee rate moguls, are coming out of the closet. After witnessing the 1945 meeting in the very financial and economic chaos These elites are united in their vision for San Francisco that inaugurated the United that is now a fact of daily life in the global the revival of an imperialist Europe. Nations, Herbert Armstrong observed: economy. Speaking from Vienna in a mes- This is a story to which the press and “We don’t understand German thorough- sage to his supporters, he declared that the mass media are largely blinded. Yet it ness. From the very start of World War ii, failure of any major bank in the U.S. “will is the most powerfully imminent event they have considered the possibility of affect the banks in Britain, in , in of global importance. It is even now so losing this second round, as they did the Tokyo, and in the capitals of the world.

CLEMENS BILAN/AFP/Getty Images The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 3 Special Report ◆ the holy Roman empire And the heads of the governments in those countries know it. The banking system is Military so interlocked between nations that if one goes under they will all go under, and that’s going to mean chaos—economic chaos all Empowerment by over the world for many nations and mil- lions and billions of people.” Well, that prophesied eco- Stealth nomic chaos is now affecting he recent ruling by the German Constitutional Court the daily lives of so many, and arguing whether the German-created Lisbon Treaty is the best of the pundits predict constitutional has more far-reaching effects than most even greater financial chaos Thave realized. At its roots, the ruling has more to do with em- ahead. powering Germany’s military force than anything else! In the light of Herbert Arm- The Lisbon Treaty, which is really the European Constitution strong’s prophecy and Sigrid in new clothes, opens the way for the European Union to exhibit Schultz’s observations, it is vastly more military clout than is apparent at present. Should interesting to note the timely the treaty be finally ratified, the next-to-last element cementing manner in which certain Ger- the EU’s global superpower status would be in place: the oppor- the way it is The German Federal Con- man, Italian and Swiss bank- tunity to become a united global military power, with an initial stitutional Court says submitting to the EU ing elites have maneuvered combined force of 2 million men at arms and a unified military treaty is fine—so long asB erlin dominates. into a position to gain control, equipment industrial output spanning the whole continent. via the EU, of the regulation of To counter the United States, the EU has superseded the U.S. in diplomatic, economic and in- the whole global economy! formational power. But the EU has yet to match, let alone exceed, U.S. military might. This is the full Here is how it came about. intention of EU/German elites, as it has been since their ideological forebears went underground to Sept. 29, 2008: Coming hard on the pursue their dream of global conquest by subterfuge during the closing stages of World War II. heels of the failure of subprime lenders However, what recently became obvious to German elites is that the very constitution of their Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stock mar- making, known as the Lisbon Treaty, had a glaring gap: While it creates the avenue for the forma- kets crash in the wake of Lehman Broth- tion of that penultimate element of national power to become a reality under German dominance ers’ bankruptcy. of the European Union, it denies Germany its sole sovereign right to decide on the deployment of October 10: Finance ministers from its military forces. The fact that all other 26 EU member nations were denied such a right is beside the G-7 (the United States, Canada, Ja- the point. Since the resurrection of the German High Command under its rather innocuous title of pan, Britain, France, Germany and Italy) the Military Command Council, German military and political elites have intended to secure sole meet in Washington to agree on a strategy power over the command of Europe’s 2 million-man combined military force. to stabilize the global economy. The EU The German Constitutional Court sought to fix that problem. “[T]he court used a trick by member nations propose a plan for cen- declaring the treaty per se as constitutionally compliant, but at the same time declaring that tralized regulation of the world economy. part of the accompanying legislation as unconstitutional, which was used by the Bundestag October 18: EU President Nicolas Sar- (lower house) and Bundesrat (upper house) to ratify the treaty …. An important aspect is the kozy and EU Commission President José decision-making process regarding military deployments of the European Union” (Informations- Manuel Barroso fly to Washington for an stelle Militarisierung, August 6; emphasis mine). emergency meeting with President George Yes, “The Lisbon Treaty creates vast new military competence for the EU,” this article W. Bush concerning the global economic continues. However, “One of the questions was, who is going to decide whether the German meltdown. federal army will participate in a military operation of the EU? The judges of the Constitutional November 14-15: Leaders of the world’s Court have now clarified that this is the exclusive authority of the Bundestag.” top 20 economies, known as the G-20, Through this “trick” of the German Constitutional Court, Germany must give the “go” on meet in Washington to consider global fi- any deployment of any EU battle group. In other words, should the Lisbon Treaty be ratified by nancial and economic regulation. The EU all EU member nations, following the forced Irish vote in October, the EU will find that not only plan is submitted to the leaders of these 20 are the most vital EU parliamentary committees now dominated by Germany, but the deploy- leading world nations. Commentator Dick ment of EU battle groups—should the relevant changes to German legislation be endorsed Morris observes, “The results of the G-20 by the German parliament—will be essentially at the direction of the German High Command economic summit amount to nothing less under German parliamentary approval! than the seamless integration of the Unit- To be sure, certain legal challenges will have to be faced in Germany so the parliamentary ed States into the European economy. … process does not inhibit rapid deployment of EU battle groups when required. But with Ger- Sovereignty is out the window. Without a many now having a firm hand on the whip of the European Parliament, and a legal prerogative vote, we are suddenly members of the Eu- likely that will trump the EU in the event of any legal conflict between that parliament and the ropean Union. … [M]erging with the Eu- German national will, it becomes patently obvious that the pace and the direction of the devel- ropeans is like a partnership with death.” opment of EU military power will be essentially Germanic! April 2, 2009: The G-20 meet in Lon- Once this element of power—military force—is in place within the EU, it will remain for don and agree to adopt the EU plan for just one final element of power to be added: the ideological glue that will bind the EU together: centralized regulation of the global econ- the Roman Catholic religion (article, page 11). Should the Lisbon Treaty proceed to ratification, omy. Dick Morris declares, “I’ve had a long then watch 2010 very closely for the Vatican to move ahead aggressively to enable that final experience in dealing with the European element of power to become a reality! RON FRASER Union, and this is how they operate. …

4 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet michael latz/afp/getty images [T]hey slip this in under the radar, which highly strategic experiment. Proof exists that operatives from the is absolutely creating an international eco- Four years ago, some of the most astute Naumann Foundation were actively in- nomic union. … Literally from April 2 of observers of the German condition, the volved in recent political turmoil in Hon- this year … it’s a whole new world of fi- team at German-Foreign-Policy.com, re- duras and in western China, as they are in nancial regulation in which, essentially, all ported that “Europe’s largest media com- various other South American and Afri- of the U.S. regulatory bodies and all U.S. pany, the German firm Bertelsmann ag, can political developments. companies are put under international reg- is taking over official tasks normally per- It is interesting to note that Chancel- ulation, international supervision. It really formed by public authority in Great Brit- lor Angela Merkel’s choice for a coalition amounts to a global economic government.” ain. From July 2005 a Bertelsmann subsid- partner, should she succeed in regaining Out of the chaos a beast arises, a regu- iary will undertake the majority of public the chancellorship in September, is the latory authority ruled by a banking cabal administration in a British local authority. Naumann Foundation’s affiliate, the fdp. significantly hailing from Rome, Berlin The plan is regarded by the German firm Few have noted the fact, as reported by and Berne, with the innocuous name of the as a ‘pilot project of strategic importance.’ analyst Christopher Story, that “Angela Financial Stability Board. Its work is done … Across Europe, Bertelsmann aims to Merkel was an activist in the East Ger- in secret, behind closed doors. The out- expand within the framework of the so- man Communist Party, and while she was come is prophesied in your Bible in Rev- called ‘Public/Private Partnership’ into attending Karl Marx University in East elation 13. Deeply involved in lobbying the areas which are presently under the con- Berlin, she was the secretary for agitation central bankers of Europe are the powerful trol of nation-states and to carry out ac- and propaganda in the Communist Youth global merchants (Revelation 18)—many of tivities … normally reserved [for] publicly Wing operating in that establishment. whom head the very corporations, on both responsible local authorities” (translation “The East German secret police, the sides of the Atlantic, that aided Hitler in by Edward Spalton; April 5, 2005). Stasi, operated throughout the Cold War his drive for global power. Coincidence? In an introduction to that piece, British period as a foil and substitute for the pan- political economist Rodney Atkinson com- German Nazi Abwehr (military coun- Men in Gray Suits terintelligence), today’s dvd [Deutsche In his book The Grand Design, Bavarian Verteidigungs Dienst—German Defense statesman Franz Josef Strauss openly ad- German elites have Service]. Merkel is almost certainly a ‘for- mitted that the only hope Germany had mer’ Stasi operative” (Global Analysis, of returning to world power status was to moved rapidly to con- Dec. 2, 2007). hide behind the facade of “being good Eu- After Germany’s reunification, Stasi ropeans.” The fact that Germans had never solidate Germany’s po- operatives, Story observed, “poured into in the entire history of Europe been “good the German political structures,” includ- Europeans” was beside the point. As Dr. sition at the head of a ing the fdp. One of the most infamous was Strauss viewed it, for Germany to make a European superpower. West German parliamentarian and chair- comeback as a global power, it would have man emeritus of the fdp William Bomm. to be seen as being “a member of an inter- Given these facts, it ought not be sur- national family, a member of a European mented that this very same Bertelsmann prising that Chancellor Merkel would Federation, [rather] than as a German was “both a loyal propagandist for the Na- seek out such bedfellows as a replace- Reich, a single national state. … We must zis in their rampage across Europe in the ment for her present coalition partner, understand that our European attitude was 1940s and [is] a loyal propagandist for the the Social Democratic Party, which is the the only escape hatch that we had, the only European Union, the European Constitu- political partner of her election oppo- approach that made comeback possible.” tion and the euro today. In the 1940s they nent, Germany’s Vice Chancellor Frank Over the 44 years since Strauss penned published propaganda for the German Walter-Steinmeier. those words, Germany has effectively used armed services.” Now, they have taken The above are but two examples of the the cloak of being a “member of a European over “administration of 350,000 Britons in methods that Brussels/Berlin has used to Federation” to unify and develop the “single Yorkshire” (Free Nations, April 14, 2005). penetrate EU institutions, as well as all national state” of Germany into a political, Our second example involves the Fried- continents, with emissaries of influence, economic and increasingly military power- rich-Naumann Foundation, which is af- to prepare for the takeover of whole na- house energizing the entire federation of 27 filiated with the German Free Democratic tional economies by the monolithic Euro- nation-states that comprise the European Party (fdp). German-Foreign-Policy.com pean Union. Union. Much of this has been achieved not reported in July that this foundation “is by armies in military uniform as in the directing the creation of a worldwide lob- Political Developments past, but via the penetration of German in- bying network” and is “coordinating the During the past 12 months, German elites stitutions and business entities into foreign fdp’s local lobbying. The Naumann net- have moved rapidly, before all EU states nations by armies in gray flannel suits. works are already spanning all continents ratify the Lisbon Treaty (which is, in re- Consider just two examples. and include several thousand executives, ality, the EU constitution originally envi- First, note that the official EU map of including government officials. … The sioned by the EU’s founding fathers), to Britain contains no country, nor county, target groups include … ‘eminent leaders consolidate Germany’s position at the head boundaries. On that map, England does and multipliers from politics, the econ- of a European superpower. This, at the not exist. The British Isles are divided into omy, science, the media and the security very time when their old Anglo-Saxon en- EU-designated regions. sector.’ The academy is particularly court- emies, Britain and America, are facing the Within the largest county in England, ing ‘young leaders from liberal parties’ all total collapse of their national economies. Yorkshire, Brussels/Berlin is conducting a around the world” (July 13). Space precludes us from going into

The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 5 Special Report ◆ the holy Roman empire incredible threat for all of society. The consequences of that depres- Nazism Is Returning sion was Adolf Hitler and, indirect- ly, World War II and Auschwitz.” Just as Herbert Armstrong warned it would By Brad Macdonald Just a little over a month later, German Finance Minister Peer ne day we shall BACK and to win on the third try” Nazi leaders and organizations. “It Steinbrück issued a similar warn- come back. Until (emphasis mine throughout). was soon obvious that many high- ing, saying, “Germany’s … rescue then, à bientôt.” It was a bold forecast—one ranking Nazis, especially members package for its financial sector T“Ohose ominous words—à bientôt, that time is proving to be alarm- of Himmler’s dreaded Gestapo, could be used to stir up feelings of “bye for now”—were spoken by ingly accurate! the SS, and S-D organizations, social injustice that would benefit an anonymous German military had disappeared; they were hid- far-right parties ….” spokesman on Nazi radio on Sept. Nazism Survives ing behind false identification These mainstream German 1, 1944. By that time, defeat was When World War II ended, the Brit- papers until such time as they politicians are looking at the na- knocking on Hitler’s door. But that ish Ministry of Economic Warfare could escape to or tion’s social climate, seeing that didn’t deter one of his cocksure estimated that the Nazis looted some other receptive asylum for it’s alarmingly similar to that of the officers from going on radio to nearly $27 billion from the nations ex-Nazis,” he wrote. 1930s, and suggesting that history forecast the future resurrection of they had conquered. Michael Say- The Nazi brain trust slipped could repeat itself. the Nazi death machine. ers and Albert E. Khan followed the out of Germany before the war If we look closely, we see that it This man was not alone in his dollars in their 1945 book The Plot ended. Then, loaded with billions already is. sinister prophecy. At the end of Against the Peace: “Since 1943, in cash and the belongings of In July this year, the German World War II, thousands of Ger- Nazi money, jewels and other valu- millions of incinerated Jews, they weekly Der Spiegel ran a cover mans believed and hoped Nazism ables have been streaming across began planning World War III! story suggesting that the Treaty would one day return. The major- the Reich frontiers and finding their But the war ended over 60 of Versailles is why the “Second ity in the West, however, underes- way by clandestine channels into years ago. Is there evidence of World War had to follow the First.” timated Nazism’s resilience. Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and Nazism’s existence or reemer- Imposed on Germany in June Herbert W. Armstrong was North and South America. … With gence today? 1919, the post-World War I treaty among the select few who es- these vast hidden sums at their was “humiliating,” “harsh” and caped this deception. As early as disposal, the Nazis have already A Nazi Renaissance too demanding of the debilitated spring 1945, he began warning reconstituted and reorganized their Conditions are ripe for the emer- German state, lamented Spie- that although Nazism had been wartime international fifth columns gence of Nazism in Germany and gel—thus it was a justifiable disfigured and dismembered, its and set up new propaganda agen- across Europe. Commenting on pretext for the rise of Hitler and heart was still beating—slowly, cies and terrorist leagues for the the global financial crisis in Oc- the Nazis. Hitler’s propaganda quietly, undetected—in dark postwar period.” tober last year, German Interior machine preached the same mes- crevices across the planet. Edwin Hartrich confirmed this Minister Wolfgang Schäuble drew sage about Versailles during the “Hitler has lost. This round of years later in his book The Fourth some eerie parallels between it late 1920s and the ’30s to foment war, in Europe, is over,” he told lis- and Richest Reich. He noted that and the economic woes that pre- hatred and instill a desire for retri- teners of his World Tomorrow radio when Allied forces moved into Ger- ceded World War II. “We learned bution among Germans. program on May 9, 1945. “And many at the end of the war, they from the worldwide economic This banter about Allied guilt the Nazis have now gone UNDER- found plenty of Nazi soldiers and crisis of the 1920s (1930s) that an for causing World War II is not GROUND. … They plan to COME sympathizers, but little evidence of economic crisis can result in an occurring in whispers among detail. Again, two examples of German Lisbon Treaty’s ratification—Germany has politicking designed to ensure Germany’s empowerment within the European Union jumped to the lead as the most dominant dominance of the developing European will suffice to demonstrate the point. political and legislative power in Europe! superpower is more intriguing. It involves German parliamentary members have If Germany ratifies the Lisbon Treaty, Germany’s own Constitutional Court been elected to three of the most powerful and the remaining dissenting nations— having ruled, in effect, that the Lisbon legislative committees in the new Euro- Ireland, and the Czech Republic— Treaty, a German creation from the be- pean Parliament: the influential industry, also sign up to it, the political power Ger- ginning, is not legal under Germany’s own research and energy committee; the en- many will then gain will be significantly national constitution. vironment committee; and the new legal greater, even above and beyond what it That court ruled in June that Germany affairs committee. In addition, a German won in the European Parliament in June. could only ratify the European Constitu- member of the European Parliament now European Voice commented, “If and when tion (Lisbon Treaty) given certain changes heads a special committee investigating the Lisbon Treaty comes into force, Germa- to its own sovereign law. This involves ap- the financial crisis. Industry, energy, en- ny stands to be the big winner. The intro- plying certain conditions to Germany’s vironment, legal affairs and the financial duction of a system of voting in the Council pending ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. crisis—about the sum total of all major of Ministers by double majority, taking into These conditions, for Germany, would as- EU business—are now under German account the population represented by the sert the primacy of German law over EU leadership in the European Parliament! member states as well as their allocation of law. In effect, they would overturn the With such powerful influences in the votes, will favor Germany” (July 9). present situation where EU law trumps formulation of EU law—even without the Our second example of Germanic any member nation’s sovereign law. This

6 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet Nazi sympathizers in log cabins in … that take a fresh … new look inordinate brutality, its homicidal resurrections of this empire in the backwoods of Germany. This at the Second World War almost racial chauvinism, have been Europe since Justinian’s Imperial was a cover story in a popular exclusively and often sympatheti- characteristic of past political Restoration. In each case—be it weekly newsmagazine which, cally from the Nazi point of view” manifestations of the Pan-German Charlemagne’s vicious empire in like Newsweek or Time in the (Dec. 22, 2008). secret ruling combine of Junker- the 8th century, Otto the Great’s United States, shapes national The history of Nazism is be- ism, Prussian militarism and eco- German empire of the 10th cen- conversation in Germany. And as ing rewritten. “What these films nomic feudalism.” tury, Napoleon’s in the early 19th, translators at German-Foreign- share is a common revisionist World War II was a short and or Hitler’s in the mid-20th—the Policy.com observed, the German tone,” the Times continued. vicious eruption of what historians Vatican was the primary influence daily Die Welt “takes a similar “‘Look,’ these movies seem to admit is a long-held German goal over the empire. That’s why it’s position” to Spiegel on this issue, say, ‘being a Nazi wasn’t that for continental subjugation—and called the “Holy” Roman Em- as does the Süddeutsche Zeitung, easy, and furthermore not every- world dominance. Mr. Armstrong pire, though the use of the term the most popular newspaper in body caught the bug.’” understood this reality, which “holy” is one of history’s cruelest southern Germany. This is dangerous fiction. is why he warned—as early as misnomers. Like all peace treaties, the “There is a tendency, perhaps Treaty of Versailles had its imper- derived from the sources that Mainstream German politicians are looking fections. But it was no harsher filmmakers use for these films, at the nation’s social climate, seeing that it’s than previous peace accords to show everyone as being very imposed by Germany on France rational and reasonable,” said alarmingly similar to that of the 1930s, and and Russia—and, after all, Ger- Richard Evans, regius professor suggesting that history could repeat itself. many had caused a conflict that of modern history at Cambridge ultimately snuffed out 10 million University and the author of a 1945—that Nazism did not die, The spirit of Nazism is the people. The Treaty of Versailles definitive Third Reich historical but went underground. same spirit as that of the Holy was not the true cause of the series. “Whereas only Hitler and Mr. Armstrong used another Roman Empire! Second World War. World War II just a few people around him— term to describe Germany’s long- Bible prophecy reveals there occurred because the minds of the top-level Nazis—are seen as standing quest for global domina- will be seven total resurrections of Adolf Hitler, his henchmen and absolute raving maniacs. And the tion: the Holy Roman Empire! the Holy Roman Empire. History millions of Germans were taken fact is that Nazi ideology did go The Holy Roman Empire is a shows that six of those resurrec- captive by the war-inducing spirit fairly wide and deep.” political, religious and military tions have occurred. Current events of Nazism! Those who fail to understand conglomerate that has risen show that right now, in Germany Now that spirit of Nazism is Nazi history will not recognize and fallen from power in Europe and the Vatican, and in Europe, the being resurrected. when that history is being over the past 1,500 years. As final resurrection—fueled by the “A specter is haunting Eu- repeated. is explained in our free booklet reviving spirit of Nazism—is rais- rope,” the Times wrote last year. Germany and the Holy Roman ing its terrifying head. n “It wears jackboots, a swas- The Holy Roman Empire Empire, this deadly empire began tika and a delicate tear-stained Both history and prophecy prove in A.D. 554, when the Roman You must know expression of angst-ridden that Nazism was not a historical Emperor Justinian recognized the where this trend will introspection. And it’s called anomaly. As Sayers and Khan supremacy of the pope and forged end. To find out, re- the Touchy-Feely Nazi. It can be observed, “[A]lmost all the pe- an alliance between Rome and quest your free copy found in your local multiplex in culiar features of Hitler’s regime, the Vatican. of Who and What Is a quartet of high-profile movies its unbridled aggressiveness, its There have been five the Prophetic Beast?

is the very reverse of the situation Germany Crucial Election Germany into the next crucial decade? has forced on other EU member nations to This all makes for a nail-biting run-up to Of the importance of this election, our ensure that they toe the EU line. the German federal election. Should any editor in chief has warned, “You need to The first reading in German parlia- part of the German or EU constitutional watch the September 27 election this year ment of the rushed legislation to conform process falter, the whole political process in Germany. It could very well produce to the Constitutional Court’s ruling is on in Germany and the EU could descend the political leader of the Holy Roman August 26 (after this magazine goes to into chaos. Empire—and through devious means. press). The bill’s final reading is set for Until Germany’s challenge to the EU The Bible prophesies that this man will September 8. The Bundesrat, Germany’s legal powers is settled, the very future of come to power with deceit and flatteries” upper house of parliament, is then due to the European Union hangs in the balance. (theTrumpet.com, April 6). pass the final bill on September 18, just Chancellor Angela Merkel can ill afford a There’s the real key to the upcom- before German elections on September 27. constitutional crisis at home as Germany’s ing German elections. The one destined But whichever way you slice the cake in federal election looms. to lead the final revival of the Holy Ro- Europe’s constitutional challenge, Germa- What will be the outcome of this cur- man Empire will be one who gains office ny wins. If Lisbon fails, Germany wins by rent political and legal crisis in Germany “through devious means … with deceit virtue of its dominance of the EU Parlia- and the EU? The effects will be enormous and flatteries” (Daniel 11:21). ment. If Lisbon is ratified, Germany’s own for the future direction of both. The final quarter of 2009 is crucial to sovereign law would trump EU law should What will be the outcome of Germa- EU elites in finalizing their dream of forc- a conflict develop between the two. ny’s September elections? Who will lead ing an overarching constitution on the

The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 7 Special Report ◆ the holy Roman empire 27-nation EU bloc. If Lisbon is ratified, political components of the resurrecting suddenly bursting upon the whole world! two powerful positions will be created to Holy Roman Empire are now extremely Remember, Jesus Christ said, “when ye be filled by officials unelected by EU con- well developed. It remains now for its mil- shall see all these things, know that it is stituents: the powerful EU foreign min- itary power to be consolidated, and finally near, even at the doors” (Matthew 24:33). ister, and the president of the European for the “holy” element to be enforced. The Watch events in Europe! Dramatic, Union. Technically, each will sit above the year 2010 could see both these final ele- prophesied world events will increasingly presidents, prime ministers and foreign ments of power rapidly instituted. swirl around this region, right on up to ministries of all EU member nations. Un- the doorstep of Jerusalem! der Lisbon, the EU would then proceed The Great Hope Remember the words of your Savior. to institutionalize its vision of a revival There exists the greatest of hope in the vi- His repeated admonition to His disciples of former “Holy” Roman greatness in an sion of the final resurrection of the Holy was, “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, orderly fashion. Roman Empire: It is the most powerful of that ye may be accounted worthy to escape If Lisbon fails, this could prove to be indicators as to the very closeness of the re- all these things that shall come to pass, a catalyst for the elites of Brussels/Berlin turn of the Savior of mankind to overcome and to stand before the Son of man” (Luke to move in aggressively and carve up the all earthly powers and impose the ulti- 21:36). n EU into major regions, and subservient mate government on Earth (Isaiah 9:6-7). minor regions. Out of the resulting chaos That’s the great hope that exists in the Request a free copy of our booklet Daniel could well emerge, even more rapidly, the prophecies of the rise of this beastly pow- Unlocks Revelation for a more final prophesied order of 10 leaders over er, even now resurrecting on the Europe- thorough understanding of the 10 regional groupings, all yielding to one an continent, as revealed in the books of dramatic prophesied events that ruling authority (Revelation 17:12-13). Daniel and Revelation, and in many other are leading to the seventh and It should be obvious to all that the prophecies in your Bible. final resurrection of the Holy Ro- economic, financial, commercial and You need to realize how close it is to man Empire of the German nation. the russia factor Besides the world economy, another powerful force is bonding Europe together: the Russians.

fter the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russia had no seat at the Russia could also table of major world affairs. Then came the 2000 Russian use its energy as a elections. potent weapon. russia 2.0 Vladimir Putin is nourishing the AVladimir Putin took office. Things changed. In the winter Russian bear back to a world superpower. The Russian strongman—who called the Soviet implosion the of 2005 to 2006, “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century— Putin turned off the pipeline to Ukraine for flirting with the has brought the Russian bear back to power as a force to be EU and the West and demanded far higher prices. reckoned with. And the Europeans have taken sharp notice. The message was not lost on Germany, Italy and France, They still remember how violent Russia was in World War who import 90 to 95 percent of their energy and the vast ma- II—and it now has massive piles of nuclear weapons. jority of their natural gas. Europe and World War II-foe Germany watched close- But the new Russia isn’t afraid of even more overt ly as KGB veteran Putin consolidated his own power and aggression. In 2007, it launched a massive electronic at- then his country’s. In the 2003 parliamentary elections, tack against Internet-reliant Estonia. Later that year, the he staged his own coup, used his presidential powers to Russian Air Force resumed Cold War-style nuclear bomber manipulate the process, decimated the anti-authoritarian patrols. At the end of his second presidential term in 2008, opposition in both chambers and won a two-thirds ma- Putin became prime minister and from there went to out- jority for his United Russia party. He would later consoli- right war on Georgia to keep Western influence away from date even more power in the Kremlin. Consider modern The Trumpet staff Russia-controlled energy infrastructure and to maintain Russia now post-democratic. has updated and Russia’s ability to pull Europe’s plug whenever it pleases. But Putin was about to grab control of something be- expanded one of our Russia’s bold moves are triggering a fear within Eu- sides his own government: oil. In 2003, the government most heavily read rope. This is another factor that will hasten the uniting began pressuring and even arresting the country’s richest of the European Union. It demands a strong, united re- prophetic booklets, energy oligarchs, and taking over their companies at rock- sponse. The powerhouse of Europe, Germany, cannot help bottom prices. The Kremlin forced foreign companies to Russia and China but react. Fear will motivate Germany and other European sell out or face heavy fines for trumped-up charges. in Prophecy. Even nations to want stronger leadership. Throughout history, Energy prices soared from 2003 to 2008, and cash if you already have Germany has often sought a strong leader. Bible prophecy flowed into the world’s second-largest oil supplier, much a copy, request says it will do so again—for the last time! of it from Europe, which depends heavily on imported a new, revised —Adapted from Russia and China Russian energy. Europe soon learned, however, that edition today! in Prophecy, 2009 edition

8 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet alexey druzhinin/afp/getty images The Greatest Heist of All Time Germany is conquering Europe without firing a shot. by robert morley

ov. 9, 1989, was a momentous the Trumpet magazine), warned that a mas- ten can’t agree on anything—but they are day. It was the day the Berlin sive banking crisis in America could “sud- united in one strange, ominous way: They Wall came crashing down. The denly result in triggering European nations blame the United States for wrecking the Soviet empire began to retreat to unite as a new world power larger than global economy. fromN Europe, releasing the Continent either the Soviet Union or the U.S.” (mem- German Finance Minister Peer Stein- from the clutch of communism. ber and co-worker letter, July 22, 1984). brück summed up European sentiment Nineteen years later, another—possi- During a message given that same year, in October last year: “The origin and the bly even greater—event shook the world, Mr. Armstrong related: “[I]n London, the center of gravity of the problem is clearly one that had a similar emboldening ef- economic conference was on while we in the U.S.” German Chancellor Angela fect on Europe. The sudden collapse of were there. … And I can tell you now that Merkel and French President Nicolas Sar- America’s banking system in September I learned things while in London that kozy agreed. It is America’s fault, and now 2008 opened the way for the emergence of have alarmed me very greatly. And I can the world has to deal with it. More recent- a European economic superpower—and see now the event that is going to trigger ly, in his encyclical released in July, Pope for the nation hijacking it. the formation of the reunification in Eu- Benedict xvi joined the chorus, calling for Last fall, America stood in stunned si- rope …. I believe that some event is going a new world financial order independent lence as it witnessed the largest corporate to happen suddenly, just like out of a blue of the U.S. bankruptcy in history (Lehman Brothers), sky, that is going to shock the whole world, But it is the Franco-German solution to the largest insurance company failure in his- Anglo-Saxon recklessness that is so omi- tory (American International Group) and nous. During the G-20 economic summit the largest corporate seizure in the history The global economic last November, the world’s most powerful of finance (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). economies quietly signed over their sov- “The week surrounding September 11 of crisis is sweeping away ereign rights to regulate their own econo- this year will prove to be a more significant mies. A new overarching international turning point than the one that occurred national powers and body charged with preventing future eco- seven years before,” we wrote in our Novem- nomic accidents, the Financial Stability ber-December 2008 issue. “It was a stark, forcing an unnatural Board (fsb), will now trump the national blaring announcement to the world that union of European law of individual signatories (article, page the American economic system has passed 2). Virtually overnight, the new head of the point of no return. And when America’s states. It is hastening the fsb, Mario Draghi, has become the economy goes, the world as we know it most powerful regulator of banking, fi- will be radically transformed.” the rise of a new global nance and commerce in the world. Mr. Nowhere is the transformation more Draghi, a former Italian banker, is also pronounced than in Europe. The global superpower! known for his close ties to the Vatican. economic crisis is sweeping away national The motive behind the creation of the powers and forcing an unnatural union of and is going to cause the nations in Eu- fsb may be far more sinister than just to European states. It is hastening the rise of rope to realize they must unite! … Well, make sure banking crises do not occur a new global superpower! now I think I can see what may be the very again. In the past, Paris and Berlin, sup- Politicians, business leaders and military event that is going to trigger it, and that is ported by Italy, Spain and most of the old- planners alike are about to be stunned by the economic situation in the world” (July er EU nations, have repeatedly attacked Europe’s sudden rise to prominence. The 7, 1984; emphasis mine throughout). the U.S.-British free-market economic international balance of power is already No one can argue that the world isn’t system. The worry now is that Germany shifting. New alliances are taking shape. locked in a global economic crisis that and France are using their newfound Economic systems are being challenged. originated in America. But now witness strength to loot it. Yet the events shaking the world today how fast the prophesied united European According to independent news agency were forecast many years ago. superpower is rising. EurActiv, a “new balance of power” is be- Back in 1984, Herbert W. Armstrong, ing worked out in Europe. “France and editor in chief of the globally circulated Europe Blames America Germany are openly challenging the rule Plain Truth newsmagazine (the precursor to The disparate leaders of Europe most of- of the City of London as Europe’s main

The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 9 Special Report ◆ the holy Roman empire financial hub, and are keen to see Paris turmoil, the only way they can earn mon- back? Much of Europe is about to find out or Frankfurt as powerful financial cen- ey is to devalue their currency to increase it is utterly dependent on Germany for its ters in a new, more regulated global sys- exports. As a way out, they have looked to livelihood. tem” (July 31). It is proposed that the de- buy time by borrowing even more money. And here is the great irony in it all. The rivatives industry, which has been a huge France and Germany initially came to ecb, like its counterpart in America, the source of growth for London’s financial the rescue. “Sweeping bank bailouts unite Federal Reserve Bank, creates money by institutions, be regulated by new “clearing Europe,” was the Los Angeles Times head- fiat. The money it has lent out to Eastern houses” based elsewhere. Additionally, line on Oct. 14, 2008. “Like soldiers fall- Europe is just electronic bookkeeping en- new financial regulations will remove the ing into step, governments across Europe” tries—there are no tangible assets behind advantage of registering as a UK-based followed France and Germany’s lead to it. No gold or silver was collected and sent hedge fund. Large financial institutions bail out the banking system. “The time out. What this means is that the nations may be forced to flee London to escape of going it alone is fortunately over,” de- of Eastern Europe, by accepting both the scrutiny. clared President Nicolas Sarkozy. “United ecb loans and regulations, have sold their And the fsb’s authority will stretch far Europe has pledged more than the U.S.” sovereignty for literally nothing—not even beyond the G-20 nations. Any bank that Despite the confident rhetoric and bits of paper. wants to conduct business with a G-20 the magnitude of the bailouts, Eastern It is the coup of the century. The biggest member will have to comply with fsb European countries still wobbled on the heist of all time! Germany is stealing Eu- guidelines. edge of disaster. Analysts feared a second rope. History books will show that Germa- Meanwhile, the EU is also creating oth- round of crisis loomed. This was espe- ny conquered Europe without firing a shot. er new regulatory bodies with vast power cially bad news for Sweden, Austria and over EU nations: a European Banking Au- Greece. Over the previous decade, Sweden How Could He Have Known? thority in London; a European Insurance lent very heavily to businesses in Estonia, Go back and reread the forecasts made Authority in Frankfurt; and a European Latvia and Lithuania. Now those loans by Mr. Armstrong about the unification Securities Authority in Paris. All three of were threatened, and of Europe, the rise of a Eu- these agencies will report to Brussels. Swedish banks themselves ropean superpower, and Some officials in Britain are warning faced default—imperiling the event that would set it that all the new regulations are thinly Sweden itself. Similar pre- all in motion. Remember: veiled attacks on its financial industry. carious situations existed Mr. Armstrong made those But London has little power and few allies for the big banking houses statements when the Soviet in the aftermath of the financial crisis. in Austria and Greece that empire completely domi- The big losers in the financial crisis are invested in the Balkans nated Eastern Europe and easy to identify. But one winner has flown and East-Central Europe. Germany was still disunit- under the radar. But another rescue was ed. The European Union being put together. Ac- didn’t even exist until al- The Real Winner cording to Stratfor, the most a decade later, and it The forces unleashed during America’s fi- only long-term solution would be 14 years before nancial 9/11 quickly spread the economic for these Eastern Euro- herbert W. Armstrong the European Central Bank carnage to London, and from there to pean countries and their would be created. Yet Mr. Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid and beyond to banks “is a mad dash to the eurozone” Armstrong clearly forecast the future of vulnerable Eastern Europe. Credit froze (ibid.). The Eastern Europeans know this, Europe. How could he have known? up, asset values plummeted, exchange and consequently they looked to the Euro- Readers familiar with the Trumpet rates diverged, insolvency swept venera- pean Central Bank (ecb) as a savior. know that we have been proclaiming Mr. ble banking institutions, and government The European Central Bank is domi- Armstrong’s Bible-based warnings con- revenues plunged. nated by Germany. cerning Europe and the world. And that is A year after the initial crisis, Western On June 24, the ecb opened up an “un- where the hope is. God warned America Europe remains in economic malaise, but limited” supply of 1 percent one-year loans and this world that these events were com- Eastern Europe—including the Balkan to European banks as a means of keeping ing. He foreordained that they would hap- states, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Es- them afloat. Eastern Europe breathed a col- pen, and He recorded them in the Bible for tonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland lective sigh of relief and quickly borrowed us today so that we might be prepared. and Romania—stands on the edge of the over $620 billion. Germany became the God also recorded the ultimate conclu- abyss. It is these eastern countries that, ac- white knight of Europe. sion of these events for us. The Bible re- cording to Stratfor, have “borne the brunt But on some levels, the relief might be veals the future. As Mr. Armstrong said of the global financial crisis.” They are the short-lived. Additional bailouts may be in 1984, the Bible predicts that European new “ground zero” of the global recession. needed if the economic downturn is more unification “in turn, could bring on the These Eastern European nations are prolonged than expected. Additionally, Great Tribulation [a prophesied period of burdened by vast debts that have become Eastern European states (as well as Swe- warfare in the end of the age] suddenly. impossible to finance. Making the matter den, Austria, Greece and other countries) And that will lead quickly into the Second worse, much of this debt is denominated in are now incredibly indebted to the Ger- Coming of Christ …” (July 22, 1984). foreign currencies. This means these na- man-run European Central Bank, regard- That’s where America’s economic col- tions are caught in an economic Catch-22. less of whether or not their economies re- lapse and Europe’s unification under Ger- They need strong currencies to pay back cover. Plus, the rescue loans come due in man leadership is leading: to the return of the loans, but with their economies in only a year. How will that money be paid Christ. n

10 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet He replaced the Vatican secretary of state with his trusted former deputy in the Con- gregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a man who would help him clean house at the Curia and catholicize the masses. “I, bishop of Rome and pastor of the universal church … send to you, age-old Europe, a cry full of love,” the pope said July 24, 2005, quoting his predecessor, John Paul ii. “Return to yourself. Be yourself. Discover your origins. Revive your roots. Revive those authentic values that made your history glorious and your presence beneficial among the other continents.” In March 2006, Pope Benedict xvi chose to drop “patriarch of the West” from his list of official titles. Why? The Eastern Orthodox synod said the move implied that the Catholic Church still sought “universal jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome over the entire church.” The pope retains the titles “vicar of Christ” and “supreme pontiff of the universal church.” He cast off the title “patriarch of the West” not because it gave him too much jurisdiction, but not enough.

Striking Out, Causes Offenses By May 2006, after settling into his office, The Pope’s War Ratzinger took the opportunity to lash out against European secularism—and Islam—in his book Without Roots: The Positioning the church to fulfill its part West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam. In in a revived European empire By Joel Hilliker it, Benedict wrote that the only solution to Europe’s paralysis and the “advance of Islam” is Roman Catholicism. t’s a most unholy marriage. The In Europe, he is working to reestablish a In September that year, Pope Benedict union of church and state on the Eu- Catholic continent. Among non-Catholic traveled home to Bavaria for a six-day vis- ropean continent—the combination Christians, he seeks to draw worshippers it. There he discussed injecting “Christi- of spiritual influence and unifying under papal authority. In the world, he is anity” (read Catholicism) into the Europe- Ipower with military muscle and civil dis- leveling a strong attack against secularism an Constitution, and talked with German cipline—has been history’s most lethal. and godlessness. And to Islam, he has un- President Horst Kohler about the dangers Six resurrections of the “Holy” Roman mistakably shown a resistance, a tough- of Islamic penetration into German so- Empire have come and gone through the ness, that promises to grow stronger. ciety. But his most famous speech was a ages. The Bible prophesies that a seventh What Pope Benedict has done, in fact, lecture at the University of Regensburg, is upon us. is position the Roman Catholic Church to where he quoted Catholic Byzantine Em- Looking at present conditions in the fulfill its prophesied role in coming Euro- peror Manuel ii Paleologus: “Show me just historic seat of “holy” imperial power, pean and world events. what Mohammad brought that was new, many would scoff at the idea. Not only is and there you will find things only evil modern Europe politically fractious, but First Moves and inhuman, such as his command to it also seems incurably secular. The idea After assuming office, Pope Benedict spread by the sword the faith he preached.” that it could give rise to another kingdom xvi began placing his hand-picked con- Benedict was drawing his line in the sand. intoxicated by religion may seem, to some, servative troops in the top spots within The pope also visited the Auschwitz highly unlikely. the Catholic Curia (governing body). He Nazi death camp, where 1.5 million victims, But there is one powerful man who eliminated two senior positions and chose mostly Jews, died during World War ii. clearly will not accept that. a notoriously shy, controllable man for his In his carefully selected words, the self- His name is Pope Benedict xvi. His old job, prefect of the Congregation for styled “son of Germany” failed to even 4½-year papacy has provided ample evi- the Doctrine of the Faith. He switched out mention anti-Semitism or Nazis or Jews. A dence of his zeal to reassert Roman Cath- the cardinal in charge of Vatican relations German pope. Speaking at Auschwitz. olic relevance in the 21st century. with the developing world, replaced the Inside the church, he continues his Vatican’s longstanding press officer with The King-Breaker decades-long campaign to expel liberals a Jesuit priest, and shuffled the Vatican On Feb. 19, 2007, the Vatican summoned and stack the deck with conservatives. City governate and foreign-policy offices. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and

alberto pizzoli/afp/getty images The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 11 Special Report ◆ the holy Roman empire a contingent of senior Italian government missionary work “the church’s primary consistently attracted larger audiences to officials. The topic: homosexual couples. service to humanity today.” The message witness his weekly homilies in St. Peter’s On the 23rd, Catholic World News report- was clear: The church’s most important Square than did his predecessor. ed, “New Italian government would not job is to convert the world. require allies to support civil-union bill.” To that end, the pope resurrected the “A New Generation of Christians” The article showed that Prodi had caved on Tridentine Mass, a Latin-language ceremo- In a homily in September 2007, the pope the issue in order to gather enough support ny codified in 1570. In the 1960s, the church made it clear that Sunday worship is a “ne- to return to office. The Vatican had shown restricted the use of the ultra-conservative cessity” for all. “Without the Lord’s day we Prodi, and the world, who rules Italy. The Tridentine prayer book, which is peppered cannot live!” he declared. “Give the soul incident echoed of the Vatican’s past as with references that make Jews and non- its Sunday, give Sunday its soul!” It was a Europe’s kingmaker, the unifying political Catholics bristle (asking God to “lift the strong call for Christians to revive Sun- power that forged the Holy Roman Empire. veil from [their] eyes,” and that Jews “be day-keeping as an all-important religious Soon after, Benedict extended his reach delivered from their darkness” and con- practice. The underlying message: Your into Italian politics issuing his command verted to Catholicism). The more inclusive, life depends on worshipping on Sunday. to faithful followers: Vote Catholic. He modern mass the church adopted in its The Vatican went back to king-break- told Italian politicians March 13 they must place was scorned by hard-core Catholics, ing in January 2008, when it forced Prodi not vote for laws that went against the one of whom was a younger Joseph Ratz- to resign, bringing down the government church’s “non-negotiable values.” of Italy. Prodi lost a vote of confidence in Around the same time, the Times of the Senate after the Catholic leader of Ita- London reported, “Radical proposals to re- Remarkably, this ly’s Udeur Christian Democrat Party with- unite Anglicans with the Roman Catholic drew the party’s support from the coalition Church under the leadership of the pope sequence of provoca- government, taking away Prodi’s major- are to be published this year. The proposals ity in the Senate. According to the Italian have been agreed by senior bishops of both tive moves seems to newspaper La Stampa, this was directly churches. In a 42-page statement prepared the work of the Vatican. “Prodi’s govern- by an international commission of both have helped rather ment dared to challenge the ecclesiastical churches, Anglicans and Roman Catholics than hurt the pope’s hierarchy for the second time and this time are urged to explore how they might re- it has had its hands burned,” it wrote. unite under the pope” (Feb. 19, 2007). popularity. In March, the Vatican again meddled March 24 that year was the 50th anni- in national politics, launching a large versary of the Treaty of Rome, the agree- campaign against Spanish Prime Minister ment that led to establishing the European inger. In July, Pope Benedict reversed that Jose Luis Zapatero, another supporter of Union. Benedict took the occasion to warn restriction, reconnecting the church to its homosexual “marriage,” abortion and eas- that Europe is sliding into “apostasy.” He medieval past. German rabbi Walter Ho- ier divorce. The Vatican’s political cam- demanded that EU leaders recognize that molka said, “This kind of signal has an ex- paign cut Zapatero’s lead drastically and they had failed to embrace their spiritual tremely provocative effect on anti-Semitic nearly won the election single-handedly. and cultural heritage, and expressed dis- groups. The Catholic Church does not have In April, Benedict came to America, in- may that the Rome Declaration made no its anti-Semitic tendencies under control.” spiring a press frenzy reminiscent of John mention of the influence of “Christianity,” That same month, the Congregation Paul ii’s funeral. In a society where God meaning Catholicism. for the Doctrine of the Faith restated the and the Bible are often ridiculed, the sec- doctrines of “Dominus Iesus,” a document ular news media’s fawning praise for the Agitating the Masses Cardinal Ratzinger had signed in 2000 to pope was astounding. Tens of thousands In mid-May, the pope traveled to Brazil to proclaim that non-Catholics were “gravely filled stadiums and lined streets to hear open an assembly of the Latin American deficient” and that Protestant churches are or glimpse the white-clad “holy father.” bishops’ conference—not by invitation, “not churches in the proper sense.” The re- While in America, the pope addressed the but by personal choice. There he chal- statement added that Orthodox churches grotesque record of homosexual pedophil- lenged the bishops to galvanize a con- suffer from a “wound” because they do not ia in the priesthood of what he called “the tinent-wide crusade against competing accept the pope’s authority, a wound “still church in America”—by blaming much of non-Catholic religions (“sects,” he called more profound” in Protestants. The docu- the scandalous behavior on America’s bro- them), such as North-American evangeli- ment, approved by Pope Benedict, said that ken society. He accepted no responsibility cals. Latino bishops jumped on board, and denominations outside Roman Catholicism for cleaning up the problem. began lobbying national governments for are defective or not full churches. “Despite In September 2008, Pope Benedict legislation to ban and obstruct non-Cath- the fact that this teaching has created no spoke out to defend World War ii Pope Pius olics’ operation in Latin America. The little distress … it is nevertheless difficult xii. Benedict praised him for being “coura- visit illuminated Benedict’s aims to re- to see how the title of ‘church’ could pos- geous” in trying to save Jews: “Wherever energize Catholicism not only in Europe, sibly be attributed to them,” it said. possible he spared no effort in intervening but around the whole globe. Remarkably, this sequence of provoca- in their favor either directly or through in- Later that month, Pope Benedict prod- tive moves seems to have helped rather structions given to other individuals or to ded Catholics: It’s time to evangelize. He than hurt the pope’s popularity. It’s been institutions of the Catholic Church.” The spoke of the “urgent need to relaunch mis- said that crowds came to see Pope John historical record shows that this is pure fic- sionary activity to meet the many grave Paul ii, but they come to hear Benedict tion: Pius conspicuously ignored the Holo- challenges of our time.” He also called xvi. Over his pontificate, Benedict has caust and failed to come to the Jews’ aid.

12 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet Yet Benedict wants to make him a saint. Christian faith” within Europe—which Benedict xvi again pushed in early Sep- united an otherwise fractious European tember for “the birth of a new generation of populace into a mighty empire. Ever since, Christians involved in society and politics.” the “cultural unity” created by Roman Ca- He challenged Catholics who, “as far as the tholicism has helped Europe to unify time formation [of] new generations involved and time again as the Holy Roman Empire. in society and politics is concerned, seem The pope is working to sway Europe to to be falling asleep.” That same month, embrace the religion of Rome today—to the pope traveled to France, where he con- once again serve as the cultural glue en- vinced President Nicolas Sarkozy that the abling the restoration of that empire. country needs to rethink and redraw its The Bible informs us that he is destined church-state relations. The two leaders to succeed. It will happen just as Her- laid the groundwork for what could be the bert W. Armstrong, based on the Bible’s biggest change in France since the French prophecies, repeatedly said it would. “I Revolution—a move from a firmly secu- have been proclaiming and writing, ever lar society to one that accepts, as the pope since 1935, that the final one of the seven said, “the irreplaceable role of religion.” eras of the Holy Roman Empire is com- In November, it emerged that the pontiff prey Former Italian Prime ing in our generation—a ‘United States of Catholic Church wants Sunday obser- Minister Romano Prodi crossed the Vatican Europe,’ combining 10 nations or groups vance enshrined in EU law. Specifically, and got axed from his job—twice. of nations in Europe—with a union of the Vatican wanted a clause inserted in church and state!” he wrote in the the Working Time Directive that would the U.S.-style capitalism that many blame January 1979 edition of the Plain Truth. force every citizen in the European Union for the financial crisis. He called for regu- “The nations of Europe have been striving to rest on Sunday. Some members of the lation with “real teeth,” administered by a to become reunited. They desire a com- European Parliament tabled an amend- global political authority. Biblical proph- mon currency, a single combined military ment saying the minimum rest period ecy shows this is exactly what will happen: force, a single united government. They “shall in principle include Sunday.” The That authority will be European, and the have made a start in the Common Market. Brussels-based Commission of the Bish- Vatican will have control. They are now working toward a common ops’ Conferences of the European Com- The record is impressive: Pope Bene- currency. Yet, on a purely political basis, munity said the directive should state “the dict xvi has been active, determined and they have been totally unable to unite. minimal weekly rest must include Sunday.” aggressive in asserting Roman Catholic “In only one way can this resurrected In January of this year, the pope again authority and positioning the church to Holy Roman Empire be brought to frui- hurled a challenge at the Jews. The Vati- play a larger role in the time ahead. He tion—by the ‘good offices’ of the Vatican, can has been demanding the handover of even seems to view his actions in their his- uniting church and state once again, with six sites in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Is- torical context—facilitating yet another the Vatican astride and ruling (Revelation rael. Catholic media reports indicated that revival of that ancient church-state union. 17:1-5).” these negotiations were nearly finished, The European Union is now the greatest and idf Army Radio said President Shi- Looking to Benedict united trading entity in the world. It is ag- mon Peres was pressuring Interior Min- In April 2008, during a regular weekly ad- gressively developing a combined military ister Eli Yishai to cave in to the Vatican. dress in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict force. With its constitution nearing ratifica- It said he may find a way to sign away the made a telling statement about European tion, it could soon weld together politically sites without Yishai’s approval if neces- unity. He said that his namesake, St. Bene- as one supra-European continental govern- sary. Biblical prophecy shows that soon, dict, “exercised a fundamental influence ment. Yet it still lacks that key element: the the Vatican will gain control over the ter- on the development of European civili- ability to totally unite. As Mr. Armstrong ritory it seeks within Israel. zation and culture.” The pope praised St. wrote in the Aug. 28, 1978, Good News Also in January, Pope Benedict lifted Benedict for helping the Continent emerge magazine, European leaders “well know the excommunication of Bishop Richard from the “dark night of history” that fol- there is but one possibility of union in Williamson, a fellow arch-conservative lowed the fall of the Roman Empire. Europe—and that is through the Vatican. … who rejects the modern Vatican ii chang- This pope identifies strongly with his [T]his political union will put the Catholic es and is a Holocaust-denier. The move namesake, whose monastic system galva- Church right back in the saddle as it was attracted an outcry from Jews and from nized Europe during Justinian’s revival of from 554 to 1814—with the power of police German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who the Roman Empire. Clearly, he is trying to and military to enforce its decrees!” openly criticized the pope for his decision. spark a similar revival today. Today we see Pope Benedict working We watch to see whether her outspoken- By alluding to the period between the feverishly to enable that spiritual “vital ness adversely affects her political career. fall of the Roman Empire in a.d. 476 and lifeblood” of European unity. The result- As the world economy came apart at its revival under Justinian in a.d. 554 as the ing wave of evangelism will sweep the the seams like a cheaply sewn liturgical “dark night of history,” Benedict seems to Continent into Rome’s arms in a bonding vestment, the pope descended from on be implying that modern Europe has en- of church and state. high to suggest his own solution: “a true dured a similar “dark night” from which it It is all now so close to coming to pass. world political authority.” On July 7, the is now emerging under his influence. We are witnessing the beginning of the pontiff released a 144-page encyclical, The pope also said St. Benedict had seventh and final resurrection of the Holy “Charity in Truth,” which took a swipe at sparked “a new cultural unity based on Roman Empire. n

getty images The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 13 cosmic beauty Hovering above Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope (inset) has brought new defini- tion to the meaning of cosmos: “the universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system.”

14 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet The Perfect Seat for Viewing the Universe The heavens have a message for us. Do you hear what they are saying? By Joel Hilliker

undreds of miles the greatest discovery of the past century. Hubble makes about 20,000 observa- above the surface tions per year. It has recorded more than of our planet, the half a million pictures over the past two Hubble Telescope decades. These dazzling images inspire more questions. What are the laws of the Horbits the Earth every 97 min- universe? Where does it end? Where did utes. This 11-ton, 43-foot-long it all come from? Why is it here? Why, for instrument has made more that matter, am I here? than 100,000 trips around The Scientists’ Message our planet, covering 2.5 billion Besides observing, scientists are also try- ing to answer some of these major ques- miles. tions: Why does the universe follow such And as it flies through space at 17,500 mathematical laws? How did it get here in miles per hour above the gasses of Earth’s the first place? Is there any meaning behind atmosphere, it is taking some of the most it all? They have written volumes and vol- captivating photos ever seen. umes about the Hubble data. Using find- We see breathtaking images of purple ings from the Hubble Telescope, astrono- and blue-hued nebulae, and sparkling mers have published over 7,500 scientific diamond-like fields of galaxies where papers, and writers have published 35,000 we thought there was nothing but empty reports about the Hubble. space. We see awe-inspiring, brilliant pic- The Hubble scientists are really getting tures of stars and galaxies and clusters in their message out! In all the thousands of whites, golds, oranges, blues and greens. papers and articles about these fascinating We see infrared, luminous, ultra-lumi- discoveries, scientists are working to tell nous, radiant views of objects so far away, people why it is important, what it is all so gigantic, so dazzling our minds can’t about—what it means for all of us. even process them. These scientists deserve credit for build- From the Hubble, we have seen super- ing a masterpiece instrument and captur- novas, galaxies in their early stages, and ing these spectacular, previously unknown massive stars collapsing. We have seen views of our universe. But there is a prob- comets striking planets, and births of lem. They are ignoring the most important stars; we can recognize black holes. These source for answering those questions! images give us spectacular views of our Have you heard a single astronomer on expanding universe. this project mention one thing about the Some scientists believe these views are Creator of the stars? nasa (2) The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 15 The Hubble Telescope is helping us mic vantage point is how protected we are ural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully coax the cosmos into revealing its secrets from collisions. The four gas giant planets deliberate Creator,” wrote Dr. Hugh Ross and mysteries. And the more we study, in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Ura- (Why the Universe Is the Way It Is). the stronger the evidence becomes of an nus and Neptune—shield Earth from dan- Think about that the next time you absolutely remarkable truth: There is an gerous space projectiles like asteroids and look up at the stars. A superintelligent Author of the cosmos. And He intended comets with their gravitational pull, with- Creator went to a lot of trouble to make for us to be able to study the stars—to help out being so close as to block our view. Yet that view possible for you! us come to know Him! they’re not too efficient: The few smaller Think about this too when you study asteroids that have made it through and the images produced by the Hubble Tele- Beautiful Darkness hit Earth have actually aided in scientific scope. We can’t give all the credit to the Walk outside and look up on a clear night. discovery without wiping humans out. scientists. We have to acknowledge the su- You will see several hundred stars—per- perpowerful, deliberate hand that opened haps a few thousand if it is dark enough Not Just Luck these magnificent cosmic vistas to us. and your view is unobstructed. The more scientists learn about the uni- Do that, and then you have to ask your- Do you realize how unusual and special verse, the more of these outstandingly self, just why did He go to such lengths to that view really is? helpful conditions they identify. “For ensure we could see all that? Could you contemplate the night sky if some reason our earthly location is ex- all you ever saw was a canopy of impen- traordinarily well suited to allow us to The Heavens Declare God’s Glory etrably thick clouds? Happy for us, Earth’s peer into the heavens and discover its se- As King David wrote, “The heavens de- atmosphere is transparent. Not only is our crets,” say the grateful astronomers who clare the glory of God; and the firmament oxygen-rich air necessary for life, its invis- authored The Privileged Planet. A host of sheweth his handywork. Day [after] day ibility also happens to make gazing up at finely tuned factors “are not only neces- uttereth speech, and night [after] night the stars a whole lot more interesting and sary for Earth’s habitability; they also have sheweth knowledge” (Psalm 19:1-2). The informative than would be the case on been surprisingly crucial for scientists to word translated uttereth means pours most planets. measure and make discoveries about the forth. It could also be translated prophesies. This is only one of several unique phys- universe. Mankind is unusually well posi- Yes, God’s universe creation is ical conditions that make our study of the tioned to decipher the cosmos.” constantly pouring forth prophecy! heavens possible, and so richly rewarding. Even this moment in the history of Do you know what it is saying? What are Another favorable circumstance: our Earth and the universe is uniquely suit- the heavens communicating to us? position within our galaxy. The Milky Way ed to studying the cosmos. For example, They are pouring forth evidence of a is an incomprehensible 100,000 light years the fact that the universe is expanding Designer, and—it is becoming more and across, and we sit in its slim “galactic habit- suggests that earlier in its history, all the more clear—a Sustainer as well. All those able zone” (ghz)—just far enough from the bright matter would have been too close heavenly bodies are like a great orchestra center that we’re not killed by radiation, together for decent visibility. Today, every- that God is conducting! They demon- but just close enough that sufficient heavy thing is spread apart enough that we can strate perfect adherence to the laws given elements needed for life are present. At the see everything with remarkable clarity. to them by their Creator—a trait we would same time, our position is a perfect seat for Scientists have come to refer to Earth do well to emulate. viewing the rest of the cosmos. as a “Goldilocks planet.” That is, in every God clearly wanted us to make these For one, it is so beautifully dark here. conceivable way, conditions aren’t too hot cosmic discoveries. Romans 1:20 says that Light can be the enemy of astronomical or too cold, too large or too small, too “Ever since the creation of the world his discovery—for basically the same reason close or too far—too anything. No mat- invisible nature, namely, his eternal pow- that you want the lights off in the theater ter what is measured, it is “just right.” Not er and deity, has been clearly perceived in while watching a movie. Conveniently, only for the existence of life, but also for the things that have been made” (Revised our solar system is in the darkest part of discovery. And to a mind-boggling level Standard Version). the galaxy’s ghz, almost exactly halfway of precision. Even the minutest deviation “Clearly, Someone wanted human be- between the Milky Way’s spiral arms, would make cosmic observation difficult ings to exist and thrive. Just as clearly, which are crowded with radiant stars and or impossible—or would wipe out the Someone wanted us to see all He had done thick dust clouds that would obscure our prospect of life. in the universe,” Dr. Ross continued. “His view. Our vision is also free of any nearby Maybe it’s not luck after all. purposes for human existence must be gaseous nebulae or blinding star clusters. A growing number of astronomers are highly valuable” (emphasis mine). The Milky Way also happens to be in acknowledging the possibility—though, Indeed. the darkest habitable area of its galaxy clus- sadly, it banishes them from mainstream ter. While a typical galaxy cluster has over science—not only that the precise condi- A Message of Hope 10,000 tightly packed galaxies, ours has tions for life on Earth were specifically, Today we live in dangerous times. Bibli- only about 40, all but two of which (one be- painstakingly established by a creative cal prophecy shows that we are about to ing the Milky Way) are small or dwarf gal- mind of extraordinary intelligence, but plunge into the blackest, darkest period in axies. On top of that, our galaxy cluster is in also that this Power ensured we would be human history. The proliferation of weap- the darkest habitable part of the Virgo su- able to follow the signs back to their source. ons of mass destruction casts the survival percluster of galaxies. Thus, there is virtu- The multiplicity and exactitude of these of our race in doubt. In fact, Jesus Christ ally nothing in the way of our peering deep signs “reflects masterful engineering at a prophesied that if not for His Second Com- into the outer reaches of the cosmos. level far beyond human capability—and ing, no flesh on this planet would Another convenient feature of our cos- even imagination. It testifies of a supernat- See universe page 34 ➤

16 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet Opportunities United for teenagers and Youth Educational Service for pre-teens— Never was designed to bring families closer to- gether and to support parents in educat- ing their children in the ways of God. In 1981, at the age of 88, Mr. Arm- Too Old strong started a new magazine for young people—Youth 81. He regularly visited the church’s youth camps during the 1980s. to Learn In fact, it was while Mr. Armstrong was visiting a camp in Orr, Minnesota, in 1985 But we had better get that he became too ill to continue with his busy, while there’s still travels, which prompted his early return to Pasadena and eventual death. His last time. By Stephen Flurry field visit in 1985 was to a youth camp. Then, back in Pasadena, one of his last once spoke to an 80-year-old heap. “Thanks!” she said on her way out. public appearances was before students at woman whose numerous physical The old woman shut the door and Ambassador College. frailties had deeply discouraged her shook her head. “If I can learn something Mr. Armstrong wrote his best book, mental outlook. “Sometimes I think brand new from a little farm girl, there Mystery of the Ages, in the last year of his I would be better off dead,” she said to me. must be a lot I still don’t know. I better get life, while nearly blind. “With the writing “I mean, what can I do?” busy while I still have time.” of the new book Mystery of the Ages,” he Her question reminded me of a story Herbert W. Armstrong also answered wrote, “God has helped me this year to related in a Good News article years ago. a “knock at the door” during the twilight do the best work of my 93 years of life!” It was about life on the frontier, almost years of his fruitful life. Some of our read- Before he died, Mr. Armstrong said he un- 190 years ago, before there were matches. ers may not know that he nearly died of derstood more in the last 10 years of his People in that age used to “borrow fire” congestive heart failure in 1977 at the age life than he had in all the previous decades from neighbors by loading a bucket with a of 85. He had lived a long, productive and put together. few hot coals. It sure beat trying to start a prosperous life—50 years of which he That’s a tremendous level of achieve- fire with sticks. spent diligently serving God. ment for a man who would have rather As the story goes, one old woman on At the time of his heart failure, human- died at the age of 85. His greatest work the frontier felt just like the one I talked ly, he would have rather died right then, he came after God extended his life in 1977. to. She had spent her long life learning later wrote. But he instead rose from his During the last eight years of his life, as so many different things. She had raised deathbed to answer God’s “knock.” As a nearly blind, elderly victim of heart many children; she saw those children an elderly man in poor health physically, failure, he got the Worldwide Church of raise her grandchildren. She had traveled Herbert W. Armstrong almost single- God back on track, defeated the state of far and wide across the prairie. She was handedly put the Worldwide Church of California in a nationally known lawsuit, a woman of the land; knew the names of God, which had been derailed by internal became one of the most popular religious most plants and animals in her region. She strife and division, back on track! personalities on television, nearly quadru- was a wise old woman. But toward the end While recovering in 1978, Mr. Arm- pled the church’s growth in every major of her life, she felt she had learned every- strong intensified efforts to write more for category, raised up and promoted numer- thing there was to know. “I’m just going to the church’s publications. He completed ous youth programs, traveled the world to cuddle up in this rocking chair next to the work on his best book to that point, The meet with presidents and prime ministers, fire every day,” she said, “until I die.” Incredible Human Potential. and wrote a 363-page book. One day, there was a knock on the door. After a 12-year hiatus from television, Like that wise old woman, Mr. Arm- The agitated old lady opened the door to he resumed full broadcasting responsi- strong took full advantage of the extra a little girl, dressed in tatters, whose face bilities on The World Tomorrow, turning time he had late in life in order to fulfill all was smudged with soil. “Can I borrow it into one of the highest-rated religious of God’s will. He had learned early on in some fire?” the girl whispered softly. programs of its day. his training that education is for life— “What?” In 1979, Mr. Armstrong forcefully con- that you are never too old to learn. “I’d like to borrow some fire,” the girl fronted an attack brought on by six ex- It’s easy, at times, to feel we are limited repeated a little louder. members of the church who were working by age—or that we’re past our prime, or “Well where’s your bucket?” the wom- in cahoots with California’s attorney gen- maybe maxed out on the job, or at home, an asked impatiently. eral. In the end, Mr. Armstrong and the or in our local church congregation. Even “I don’t need one.” Worldwide Church of God successfully pre- those who are still young can be hindered “Well then, how are you going to get vailed against the unconstitutional attack. by such debilitating thoughts. the coals home?” the lady snapped back. As the church entered the 1980s, Mr. Whatever your lot in life, don’t limit “Easy!” said the little girl, smiling as Armstrong concentrated much of his en- your development and growth as a Chris- she brushed past the old woman on her ergy on family. He understood that the tian, or as a husband or wife, a parent, a way to the fireplace. She scooped up a pile church’s underlying strength depended student, or as an employee on the job. An- of cold ashes into the palm of her hand in large part on the stability of its indi- swer God’s knock. Then get busy while and plopped the coal on top of the ash vidual families. His two-fold plan—Youth there is still time. n

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France EUROPE North ermany should launch Korea an unmanned lunar mis- U.S. Japan G Lebanon china sion, German Economy Min- Syria Afghanistan istry State Secretary Peter Hin- Iraq Iran tze said August 12. “A German Pakistan moon landing is possible dur- India ing the course of the next de- cade, around 2015,” he told zdf honduras thailand television. It would cost $2.2 Nigeria billion, but would help Ger- Nicaragua many develop vital technology, said Hintze, who is also the government’s aerospace coor- dinator. Watch for Germany brazil to increase its expertise in this important military arena. German Chancellor Ange- Australia la Merkel and Russian Presi- dent Dmitry Medvedev met in Munich July 16, where they announced agreements on a A Palestinian man joint energy agency, trade and iceland took its first formal independent of nato. Europe July that the UK is As terror expert Michael tility toward Syria. Jumblatt is near the disputed greater cooperation in sci- step toward EU membership wants to increase its military financing projects Sheehan has said, it is just moving away from Lebanon’s neighborhood of ence. In exchange for energy July 27 : EU foreign ministers power, either outside of nato aimed at halting swatting the mosquitoes in- pro-Western forces in favor har homa security, Merkel said Ger- asked the European Commis- or by using nato as a tool. Israeli settlement stead of draining the swamp. of iran, Syria and Hezbollah many would provide credit sion to examine Iceland’s legal Three days of severe riots, activities. British A Stratfor source has re- most likely because he senses insurance to promote bilateral preparedness to begin mem- sparked by the worsening spokesman Martin ported that Hezbollah securi- momentum swinging in their trade between Germany and bership negotiations. Howev- economic downturn, ripped Day said, “One of these ty chief Wafiq Safa has vastly direction as America’s influ- russia, which has seen trade er, a Gallop poll shows 48 per- through France in mid-July, projects seeks to build new increased his authority over ence in the region wanes. As collapse during the economic cent of the nation is against which celebrated Bastille Day Palestinian neighborhoods in Shiite officers in lebanon’s of mid-August, a new Leba- crisis. Watch this growing re- joining the EU, with only 35 on July 14. Much of the riot- East Jerusalem and save Pales- military. Safa now has input nese government—follow- lationship. As the Trumpet has percent in favor. Iceland is a ing appeared to tinian houses from concerning all appointments, ing parliamentary elections explained before, a burgeon- strategic location for control- have originated with demolition.” Day’s promotions and deployments in June—still had not been ing German-Russian relation- ling the Atlantic. Watch for angry Muslims and comments further of these officers. He also re- formed. Jumblatt said his ship has historically indicated the EU to try to bring it under powerful union reveal the fissure portedly has an arrangement party would still be part of a that Berlin and/or Moscow are its control, with or without elements. With in Israeli-British with the Lebanese Army com- national unity government. preparing for conflict. the consent of its people. economic hardship relations. The UK’s mand whereby he is informed On August 3, iranian 4). But because Khamenei was al Maliki visited with Presi- Four disgruntled dairy For the first time in nato’s expected to worsen encouragement of of all the army’s movements Supreme leader Ayatollah forced to come out in open dent Obama in Washington farmers from Germany set out 60-year history, a non-Amer- across the Continent Palestinian settle- and plans. Stratfor sources in Ali Khamenei officially ap- support of Ahmadinejad as on July 22. The meeting came on their tractors for the Vati- ican is taking over one of its in coming months, ment in East Jeru- the Lebanese military admit proved Presi- a result of elec- three weeks after U.S. troops can on July 17 aiming to ask two strategic commands. the risk of social salem will only add “that the army has neither dent Mahmoud tion protests— pulled out of Iraqi cities and Pope Benedict xvi for help. Gen. Stephane Abrial, chief of unrest remains high. Europe’s more tension to this prophetic the capability nor the will to Ahmadinejad’s thereby yielding towns. All combat troops are dairy farmers across europe staff of the French Air Force, social turbulence is creating fault line. stand up to Hezbollah.” reelection. The up his public scheduled to leave Iraq by are suffering economic hard- becomes Supreme Allied ideal conditions for the emer- As U.S. operations in iraq Hezbollah is also mak- divisions within appearance of August next year. President ship; many are losing faith in Commander Transformation gence of more extreme forms wind down, Islamic terror- ing gains politically. In early Iran’s leadership, impartiality— Obama said he pressed Maliki the ability of European politi- on September 9. France has of leadership on the Continent. ists are moving into the Gaza August, Druze leader Walid however, remain. the president’s to include in his government cians to solve their problems. been outside of nato’s com- Strip. Haaretz reported in Jumblatt, head of Lebanon’s Khamenei chose hand has been and security forces all ethnic The convoy traveled under mand structure for 43 years, August that dozens of Sunni Progressive Socialist Party, Ahmadinejad be- strengthened. and religious groups to pre- the motto, “We have lost our although it has remained a Muslim terrorists had entered threatened to withdraw from cause he saw him We may now see vent a resurgence of ethnic faith in politics, but not in the member of the alliance. In re- MIDDLE Gaza during the previous 12 the ruling March 14 alliance, as the leader who Ahmadinejad violence in Iraq. The reality church.” Expect this to be- turn for rejoining nato’s inte- months. Foreign terrorists in which may open the door for could extract the pursue an even is, however, that with the U.S. come a growing trend: Euro- grated command, France has EAST Gaza are symptomatic of the Hezbollah to woo the Druze most concessions more aggressive retreating, Maliki’s Shiite- peans looking to the Vatican said the u.S. must accept the British government West’s fundamental problem leader. Jumblatt has backed in negotiations with the U.S., foreign policy. dominated government will for guidance and solutions. EU developing a military role Aspokesman admitted in in its approach to terrorism. away from his traditional hos- according to Stratfor (August Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri likely make more concessions

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France EUROPE North ermany should launch Korea an unmanned lunar mis- U.S. Japan G Lebanon china sion, German Economy Min- Syria Afghanistan istry State Secretary Peter Hin- Iraq Iran tze said August 12. “A German Pakistan moon landing is possible dur- India ing the course of the next de- cade, around 2015,” he told zdf honduras thailand television. It would cost $2.2 Nigeria billion, but would help Ger- Nicaragua many develop vital technology, said Hintze, who is also the government’s aerospace coor- dinator. Watch for Germany brazil to increase its expertise in this important military arena. German Chancellor Ange- Australia la Merkel and Russian Presi- dent Dmitry Medvedev met in Munich July 16, where they announced agreements on a A Palestinian man joint energy agency, trade and iceland took its first formal independent of nato. Europe July that the UK is Argentina As terror expert Michael tility toward Syria. Jumblatt is near the disputed greater cooperation in sci- step toward EU membership wants to increase its military financing projects Sheehan has said, it is just moving away from Lebanon’s neighborhood of ence. In exchange for energy July 27 : EU foreign ministers power, either outside of nato aimed at halting swatting the mosquitoes in- pro-Western forces in favor har homa security, Merkel said Ger- asked the European Commis- or by using nato as a tool. Israeli settlement stead of draining the swamp. of iran, Syria and Hezbollah many would provide credit sion to examine Iceland’s legal Three days of severe riots, activities. British A Stratfor source has re- most likely because he senses insurance to promote bilateral preparedness to begin mem- sparked by the worsening spokesman Martin ported that Hezbollah securi- momentum swinging in their trade between Germany and bership negotiations. Howev- economic downturn, ripped Day said, “One of these ty chief Wafiq Safa has vastly direction as America’s influ- russia, which has seen trade er, a Gallop poll shows 48 per- through France in mid-July, projects seeks to build new increased his authority over ence in the region wanes. As collapse during the economic cent of the nation is against which celebrated Bastille Day Palestinian neighborhoods in Shiite officers in lebanon’s of mid-August, a new Leba- crisis. Watch this growing re- joining the EU, with only 35 on July 14. Much of the riot- East Jerusalem and save Pales- military. Safa now has input nese government—follow- lationship. As the Trumpet has percent in favor. Iceland is a ing appeared to tinian houses from concerning all appointments, ing parliamentary elections explained before, a burgeon- strategic location for control- have originated with demolition.” Day’s promotions and deployments in June—still had not been ing German-Russian relation- ling the Atlantic. Watch for angry Muslims and comments further of these officers. He also re- formed. Jumblatt said his ship has historically indicated the EU to try to bring it under powerful union reveal the fissure portedly has an arrangement party would still be part of a that Berlin and/or Moscow are its control, with or without elements. With in Israeli-British with the Lebanese Army com- national unity government. preparing for conflict. the consent of its people. economic hardship relations. The UK’s mand whereby he is informed On August 3, iranian 4). But because Khamenei was al Maliki visited with Presi- Four disgruntled dairy For the first time in nato’s expected to worsen encouragement of of all the army’s movements Supreme leader Ayatollah forced to come out in open dent Obama in Washington farmers from Germany set out 60-year history, a non-Amer- across the Continent Palestinian settle- and plans. Stratfor sources in Ali Khamenei officially ap- support of Ahmadinejad as on July 22. The meeting came on their tractors for the Vati- ican is taking over one of its in coming months, ment in East Jeru- the Lebanese military admit proved Presi- a result of elec- three weeks after U.S. troops can on July 17 aiming to ask two strategic commands. the risk of social salem will only add “that the army has neither dent Mahmoud tion protests— pulled out of Iraqi cities and Pope Benedict xvi for help. Gen. Stephane Abrial, chief of unrest remains high. Europe’s more tension to this prophetic the capability nor the will to Ahmadinejad’s thereby yielding towns. All combat troops are dairy farmers across europe staff of the French Air Force, social turbulence is creating fault line. stand up to Hezbollah.” reelection. The up his public scheduled to leave Iraq by are suffering economic hard- becomes Supreme Allied ideal conditions for the emer- As U.S. operations in iraq Hezbollah is also mak- divisions within appearance of August next year. President ship; many are losing faith in Commander Transformation gence of more extreme forms wind down, Islamic terror- ing gains politically. In early Iran’s leadership, impartiality— Obama said he pressed Maliki the ability of European politi- on September 9. France has of leadership on the Continent. ists are moving into the Gaza August, Druze leader Walid however, remain. the president’s to include in his government cians to solve their problems. been outside of nato’s com- Strip. Haaretz reported in Jumblatt, head of Lebanon’s Khamenei chose hand has been and security forces all ethnic The convoy traveled under mand structure for 43 years, August that dozens of Sunni Progressive Socialist Party, Ahmadinejad be- strengthened. and religious groups to pre- the motto, “We have lost our although it has remained a Muslim terrorists had entered threatened to withdraw from cause he saw him We may now see vent a resurgence of ethnic faith in politics, but not in the member of the alliance. In re- MIDDLE Gaza during the previous 12 the ruling March 14 alliance, as the leader who Ahmadinejad violence in Iraq. The reality church.” Expect this to be- turn for rejoining nato’s inte- months. Foreign terrorists in which may open the door for could extract the pursue an even is, however, that with the U.S. come a growing trend: Euro- grated command, France has EAST Gaza are symptomatic of the Hezbollah to woo the Druze most concessions more aggressive retreating, Maliki’s Shiite- peans looking to the Vatican said the u.S. must accept the British government West’s fundamental problem leader. Jumblatt has backed in negotiations with the U.S., foreign policy. dominated government will for guidance and solutions. EU developing a military role Aspokesman admitted in in its approach to terrorism. away from his traditional hos- according to Stratfor (August Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri likely make more concessions

FrANK bArrAtt/Getty IMAGeS; ASIF hASSAN/AFP/Getty IMAGeS; ebrAhIM ADAWI/AFP/Getty IMAGeS The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 19 WorldWAtCh to neighboring Shiite Iran for military purposes. Japan’s a high-tech enemy. With 2.3 defaulted on foreign debt to The U.S. State Depart- than to the Sunnis and Kurds. Ministry of Defense, in its an- million troops, China has the the tune of $92 billion in 2001, ment revoked the visas of four Meanwhile, a rift is emerg- nual white paper on defense largest standing army in the so the country’s creditwor- Honduran officials on July ing between U.S. and Iraqi released July 17, called for an world, and it is growing rapid- thiness hangs under a dark 29, confirming U.S. support forces in the wake of the U.S. expansion of the Japanese mil- ly. Associated Press reported cloud. Since President Cristina for the return of the ousted troops’ departure from the itary’s capabilities, including August 11 that China had an- Fernández de Kirchner has Manuel Zelaya. Nicaraguan cities. In July, insurgents at- exploiting space to strengthen nounced a 14.9 percent rise in attempted to bolster her popu- politicians announced that tacked an American convoy; national security. Japan has al- military spending in its 2009 larity by expanding social pro- they don’t want the exiled when U.S. soldiers returned ready changed its laws to align budget, to 480.6 billion yuan grams, Argentina has taken president in nicaragua either. fire and pursued their ak-47- with its increasingly aggressive (us$70.3 billion). out loans with poor interest The border curfews between armed attackers, they killed stance on space militariza- Over the past two years in rates (due to its poor credit). Nicaragua and honduras have three Iraqis. A senior Iraqi tion. With Japan’s security little-reported incidents, Paki- The global economic crisis has cost about $3 million per day Army commander charged guarantor, the U.S., declin- stan’s nuclear sites have been made its financial trouble even in trade while Zelaya makes the American troops with fir- ing in power in the region, attacked at least three times worse, necessitating the severe his symbolic stand on the bor- ing indiscriminately at civil- Japan has pretext to further by homegrown terrorists, the cutbacks. der of Honduras rather than ians, and ordered them to be develop its own already very Times of india reported August The Venezuelan govern- face prosecution at home. taken into custody. While the capable, technologically ad- 11. This suggests that Paki- ment concluded a $7.5 billion nigeria exploded in vio- confrontation was defused, vanced military. north Korea’s stan’s nuclear arsenal is not contract with a Chinese firm lence in late July with 700 be- the incident demonstrated nuclear tests earlier this year as secure as one would like on July 30 to construct 290 ing killed. After five days of both the dwindling authority give Japan additional cause to to think. Pakistan insists that miles of railway connecting clashes between an Islamic the U.S. has in Iraq and the remove its remaining consti- there is no chance of its nucle- four states. This is the largest sect called Boko Haram and emerging hostility toward tutional restrictions and ramp ar weapons falling into terror- Venezuelan/Chinese contract the Nigerian government, the reported that Americans were Once the safety nets expire, In its August 1 article, America among Iraqis. Iran is up its space efforts. ist possession. However, the to date outside of the oil indus- leader of the sect, Mohammed reacting to the president’s a deluge of social discontent “Forget the Great in Britain,” certain to fill the void Ameri- Burma may be trying to steps it has taken to safeguard try. Venezuelan officials also Yusuf, was captured, then health-care plan and frustra- could be on the way. Newsweek said the economic ca leaves behind. develop a nuclear bomb, ac- its nuclear weapons were origi- signed several agreements with killed while in police custody tion over the nation’s economic In anticipation of an Af- crisis will rapidly shrink Brit- cording to accounts by two nally designed to protect them Russia on July 27 for $4 billion on July 30. Boko Haram wants problems. The administration ghanistan war assessment ain’s last pretenses of empire. Burmese defectors. The from external attacks, and to- covering energy, military and to establish sharia law in Ni- responded to criticism of its from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Due to its dissipating eco- defectors—who had never day’s Pakistan is more vulner- agricultural cooperation. Pres- geria. The new leader of the agenda by releasing an e-mail U.S. Defense Secretary Robert nomic strength, 100-percent- ASIA met—both described a secret able to internal attacks. ident Hugo Chávez continues sect, Sanni Umaru, has prom- to Obama’s supporters that Gates said August 13 he didn’t of-gdp debt, “the worst public apan’s Democratic Party nuclear complex that Burma ised to continue a religious characterized opponents of the know how long the war there finances of any major nation,” leader, Yukio Hatoyama, was constructing with North war against the state in order plan as right-wing extremists, would last and said the “eco- and incoming unfavorable Jpublished an essay August 11 Korean help. “The evidence to Islamize Nigeria. “a tiny minority being stirred nomic and institution building international regulation, “the outlining his staunch support is preliminary and needs to up by special interests.” is a decades-long process.” country is having to rethink for an East Asian alliance of be verified, but this is some- Unemployment insurance After U.S. President Barack its role in the world—perhaps nations. Because Hatoyama is thing that would completely is the only thing keeping many Obama arrived home from as Little Britain, certainly as a poised to become the next Jap- change the regional security ANGLO- Americans in their homes and Russia with a promise for a lesser Britain.” anese prime minister after Au- status quo,” said the head of off the street. But time is run- pact with Russia to reduce British police arrested 33 gust 30 elections, his political thailand’s Institute of Security AMERICA ning out. The National Em- nuclear weapons, it emerged people in Birmingham in early philosophies give an indication and International Studies, .S. Postal Service of- ployment Law Project, a na- that in U.S.-brokered talks, August after a clash between of Japan’s probable geopolitical Thitinan Pongsudhirak. If Uficials said in early Au- tional advocacy group, released Britain agreed to reduce its Unite Against Fascism and direction in the near term. The Pyongyang is helping Burma gust they expect the Postal a study at the beginning of Au- 160-warhead nuclear arsenal right-wing groups transformed essay, published in the Japa- get the bomb, the big question Service to lose over $7 billion gust showing that over 140,000 in exchange for proof from the city into a war zone. Vio- nese journal Voice, revealed is, who else has it helped? A Pakistani solider guards the this year and are debating people in America had collect- would-be nuclear states that lence broke out when a group Hatoyama’s desire to distance China launched its largest- site of a suicide bombing attack. whether to cut out one day of ed the maximum unemploy- they were halting their weap- of white males began chanting, Japan from “U.S.-led market ever annual tactical military mail delivery, close hundreds ment benefit available under ons programs. Meanwhile, “England, England” in the fundamentalism.” Rather, he exercise on August 11. Dur- of post offices across the na- the law—despite the fact that these weapons are proliferat- city center and a larger group supports a drive toward politi- ing the two-month exercise, to prepare his country for an tion, and/or issue ious. Congress extended payouts for ing among the enemies of of black and Asian people cal integration into “an East the People’s Liberation Army economy that doesn’t rely on U.S. debt now stands at an additional 33 weeks. Waves America and Britain. arrived. One witness said it Asian community,” specifying (pla) will transport 50,000 LATIN U.S. participation. $11.5 trillion, and the admin- of workers will lose their aid On August 1, the bbc re- seemed to be “very systematic,” that the community should troops thousands of miles South American trade bloc istration is talking about an- as the year progresses, leaving ported that hundreds of Brit- with groups arriving in cars be modeled after the EU. The and undertake live-fire drills. AMERICA/ Mercosur wants to increase other round of stimulus ex- 1.5 million jobless Americans ons turned out and lined the and joining in the violence. shift in Japan’s priorities— Among these drills, accord- the use of local currencies in penditures. Interest payments who have exhausted their in- streets for the funeral of one of In early August, Australian away from the U.S. security al- ing to one of the directors of AFRICA place of the U.S. dollar. Argen- alone on the debt cost $452 surance by December. “[M]any Britain’s two last World War i police conducted pre-dawn liance and toward stronger ties the exercise, will be practice n August 12, Argentina’s tina and Brazil introduced this billion last year—the largest will have nothing left to get by veterans. Henry Allingham, raids in the Victorian state with China—is not new, but it in disrupting an enemy’s Odefense minister an- system in 2008, but to date, category of federal spending on even as work keeps getting who served in the Royal Naval capital of Melbourne, arrest- will likely gather momentum electronic devices and coun- nounced an immediate slash- relatively few industries have after Medicare/Medicaid, So- harder to find,” says Maurice Air Service and the Royal Air ing a number of suspected under Hatoyama. termeasures under a complex ing of the country’s military adopted it. It will take time for cial Security and defense. Emsellen, a policy director of Force, was the world’s oldest terrorists with Somali-Islamist Japan has for the first electromagnetic environment. budget by 50 percent. Another this system to spread, but that The White House is deal- the Employment Law Project. man when he died July 18 at associations, allegedly engaged time explicitly stated that it From the nature of such exer- 30 percent cut is anticipated time is getting shorter. When ing with approval ratings that This unemployment catastro- 113 years old. Harry Patch, in a plot to conduct a suicide recognizes the need to de- cises, it is clear that the pla is for the next quarter. Argentina it is up, U.S. influence in the dropped to 50 percent for the phe is a formula for trouble at Britain’s last World War i vet- mission on one of Australia’s velop space-based systems practicing for warfare against has the distinction of having region will be gone. first time August 6. The Times both local and national levels. eran, died a week later. best-known military bases.

20 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet ebrAhIM ADAWI/AFP/Getty IMAGeS; LIU JIN/AFP/Getty IMAGeS; MANDeL NGAN/AFP/Getty IMAGeS; ALex WONG/Getty IMAGeS WorldWAtCh to neighboring Shiite Iran for military purposes. Japan’s a high-tech enemy. With 2.3 defaulted on foreign debt to The U.S. State Depart- than to the Sunnis and Kurds. Ministry of Defense, in its an- million troops, China has the the tune of $92 billion in 2001, ment revoked the visas of four Meanwhile, a rift is emerg- nual white paper on defense largest standing army in the so the country’s creditwor- Honduran officials on July ing between U.S. and Iraqi released July 17, called for an world, and it is growing rapid- thiness hangs under a dark 29, confirming U.S. support forces in the wake of the U.S. expansion of the Japanese mil- ly. Associated Press reported cloud. Since President Cristina for the return of the ousted troops’ departure from the itary’s capabilities, including August 11 that China had an- Fernández de Kirchner has Manuel Zelaya. Nicaraguan cities. In July, insurgents at- exploiting space to strengthen nounced a 14.9 percent rise in attempted to bolster her popu- politicians announced that tacked an American convoy; national security. Japan has al- military spending in its 2009 larity by expanding social pro- they don’t want the exiled when U.S. soldiers returned ready changed its laws to align budget, to 480.6 billion yuan grams, Argentina has taken president in nicaragua either. fire and pursued their ak-47- with its increasingly aggressive (us$70.3 billion). out loans with poor interest The border curfews between armed attackers, they killed stance on space militariza- Over the past two years in rates (due to its poor credit). Nicaragua and honduras have three Iraqis. A senior Iraqi tion. With Japan’s security little-reported incidents, Paki- The global economic crisis has cost about $3 million per day Army commander charged guarantor, the U.S., declin- stan’s nuclear sites have been made its financial trouble even in trade while Zelaya makes the American troops with fir- ing in power in the region, attacked at least three times worse, necessitating the severe his symbolic stand on the bor- ing indiscriminately at civil- Japan has pretext to further by homegrown terrorists, the cutbacks. der of Honduras rather than ians, and ordered them to be develop its own already very Times of india reported August The Venezuelan govern- face prosecution at home. taken into custody. While the capable, technologically ad- 11. This suggests that Paki- ment concluded a $7.5 billion nigeria exploded in vio- confrontation was defused, vanced military. north Korea’s stan’s nuclear arsenal is not contract with a Chinese firm lence in late July with 700 be- the incident demonstrated nuclear tests earlier this year as secure as one would like on July 30 to construct 290 ing killed. After five days of both the dwindling authority give Japan additional cause to to think. Pakistan insists that miles of railway connecting clashes between an Islamic the U.S. has in Iraq and the remove its remaining consti- there is no chance of its nucle- four states. This is the largest sect called Boko Haram and emerging hostility toward tutional restrictions and ramp ar weapons falling into terror- Venezuelan/Chinese contract the Nigerian government, the reported that Americans were Once the safety nets expire, In its August 1 article, America among Iraqis. Iran is up its space efforts. ist possession. However, the to date outside of the oil indus- leader of the sect, Mohammed reacting to the president’s a deluge of social discontent “Forget the Great in Britain,” certain to fill the void Ameri- Burma may be trying to steps it has taken to safeguard try. Venezuelan officials also Yusuf, was captured, then health-care plan and frustra- could be on the way. Newsweek said the economic ca leaves behind. develop a nuclear bomb, ac- its nuclear weapons were origi- signed several agreements with killed while in police custody tion over the nation’s economic In anticipation of an Af- crisis will rapidly shrink Brit- cording to accounts by two nally designed to protect them Russia on July 27 for $4 billion on July 30. Boko Haram wants problems. The administration ghanistan war assessment ain’s last pretenses of empire. Burmese defectors. The from external attacks, and to- covering energy, military and to establish sharia law in Ni- responded to criticism of its from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Due to its dissipating eco- defectors—who had never day’s Pakistan is more vulner- agricultural cooperation. Pres- geria. The new leader of the agenda by releasing an e-mail U.S. Defense Secretary Robert nomic strength, 100-percent- ASIA met—both described a secret able to internal attacks. ident Hugo Chávez continues sect, Sanni Umaru, has prom- to Obama’s supporters that Gates said August 13 he didn’t of-gdp debt, “the worst public apan’s Democratic Party nuclear complex that Burma ised to continue a religious characterized opponents of the know how long the war there finances of any major nation,” leader, Yukio Hatoyama, was constructing with North war against the state in order plan as right-wing extremists, would last and said the “eco- and incoming unfavorable Jpublished an essay August 11 Korean help. “The evidence to Islamize Nigeria. “a tiny minority being stirred nomic and institution building international regulation, “the outlining his staunch support is preliminary and needs to up by special interests.” is a decades-long process.” country is having to rethink for an East Asian alliance of be verified, but this is some- Unemployment insurance After U.S. President Barack its role in the world—perhaps nations. Because Hatoyama is thing that would completely is the only thing keeping many Obama arrived home from as Little Britain, certainly as a poised to become the next Jap- change the regional security ANGLO- Americans in their homes and Russia with a promise for a lesser Britain.” anese prime minister after Au- status quo,” said the head of off the street. But time is run- pact with Russia to reduce British police arrested 33 gust 30 elections, his political thailand’s Institute of Security AMERICA ning out. The National Em- nuclear weapons, it emerged people in Birmingham in early philosophies give an indication and International Studies, .S. Postal Service of- ployment Law Project, a na- that in U.S.-brokered talks, August after a clash between of Japan’s probable geopolitical Thitinan Pongsudhirak. If Uficials said in early Au- tional advocacy group, released Britain agreed to reduce its Unite Against Fascism and direction in the near term. The Pyongyang is helping Burma gust they expect the Postal a study at the beginning of Au- 160-warhead nuclear arsenal right-wing groups transformed essay, published in the Japa- get the bomb, the big question Service to lose over $7 billion gust showing that over 140,000 in exchange for proof from the city into a war zone. Vio- nese journal Voice, revealed is, who else has it helped? A Pakistani solider guards the this year and are debating people in America had collect- would-be nuclear states that lence broke out when a group Hatoyama’s desire to distance China launched its largest- site of a suicide bombing attack. whether to cut out one day of ed the maximum unemploy- they were halting their weap- of white males began chanting, Japan from “U.S.-led market ever annual tactical military mail delivery, close hundreds ment benefit available under ons programs. Meanwhile, “England, England” in the fundamentalism.” Rather, he exercise on August 11. Dur- of post offices across the na- the law—despite the fact that these weapons are proliferat- city center and a larger group supports a drive toward politi- ing the two-month exercise, to prepare his country for an tion, and/or issue ious. Congress extended payouts for ing among the enemies of of black and Asian people cal integration into “an East the People’s Liberation Army economy that doesn’t rely on U.S. debt now stands at an additional 33 weeks. Waves America and Britain. arrived. One witness said it Asian community,” specifying (pla) will transport 50,000 LATIN U.S. participation. $11.5 trillion, and the admin- of workers will lose their aid On August 1, the bbc re- seemed to be “very systematic,” that the community should troops thousands of miles South American trade bloc istration is talking about an- as the year progresses, leaving ported that hundreds of Brit- with groups arriving in cars be modeled after the EU. The and undertake live-fire drills. AMERICA/ Mercosur wants to increase other round of stimulus ex- 1.5 million jobless Americans ons turned out and lined the and joining in the violence. shift in Japan’s priorities— Among these drills, accord- the use of local currencies in penditures. Interest payments who have exhausted their in- streets for the funeral of one of In early August, Australian away from the U.S. security al- ing to one of the directors of AFRICA place of the U.S. dollar. Argen- alone on the debt cost $452 surance by December. “[M]any Britain’s two last World War i police conducted pre-dawn liance and toward stronger ties the exercise, will be practice n August 12, Argentina’s tina and Brazil introduced this billion last year—the largest will have nothing left to get by veterans. Henry Allingham, raids in the Victorian state with China—is not new, but it in disrupting an enemy’s Odefense minister an- system in 2008, but to date, category of federal spending on even as work keeps getting who served in the Royal Naval capital of Melbourne, arrest- will likely gather momentum electronic devices and coun- nounced an immediate slash- relatively few industries have after Medicare/Medicaid, So- harder to find,” says Maurice Air Service and the Royal Air ing a number of suspected under Hatoyama. termeasures under a complex ing of the country’s military adopted it. It will take time for cial Security and defense. Emsellen, a policy director of Force, was the world’s oldest terrorists with Somali-Islamist Japan has for the first electromagnetic environment. budget by 50 percent. Another this system to spread, but that The White House is deal- the Employment Law Project. man when he died July 18 at associations, allegedly engaged time explicitly stated that it From the nature of such exer- 30 percent cut is anticipated time is getting shorter. When ing with approval ratings that This unemployment catastro- 113 years old. Harry Patch, in a plot to conduct a suicide recognizes the need to de- cises, it is clear that the pla is for the next quarter. Argentina it is up, U.S. influence in the dropped to 50 percent for the phe is a formula for trouble at Britain’s last World War i vet- mission on one of Australia’s velop space-based systems practicing for warfare against has the distinction of having region will be gone. first time August 6. The Times both local and national levels. eran, died a week later. best-known military bases. ebrAhIM ADAWI/AFP/Getty IMAGeS; LIU JIN/AFP/Getty IMAGeS; MANDeL NGAN/AFP/Getty IMAGeS; ALex WONG/Getty IMAGeS The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 21 n e w s o f t h e w o r k Armstrong Auditorium Construction Update By Philip Nice

TWELVE PILLARS (Above) Soaring above the surrounding Oklahoma countryside, the five-story-high columns of Armstrong Auditorium stand watch over the building’s rapidly transfiguring lobby, where three massive, glittering crystal chandeliers (far right) will dangle above concertgoers as they view twin crystal candelabra (right).

22 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet ONE-OF-A-KIND DISTINCTION (Left) An artist’s rendering of Arm- Armstrong strong Auditorium’s final appearance. EIGHT HUNDRED EXPERIENCES (Below) Armstrong Auditorium’s theater, a venue for up to 800 visitors at a time, who will enjoy luxuri- ous appointments and fine art performers benefiting from the best Auditorium on-and-off-stage facilities.

nside the Trumpet offices, staff members scrutinize world news as daily headlines continue to fulfill Bible prophecy. But they are also excitedly watching another inspiring development—right outside their windows. Less than 100 yards from the Trumpet administration building in Edmond, Oklahoma, stands a stag- Igering sight. It amazes visitors as they enter the campus and stops staff members in their tracks as they walk out the office doors. Armstrong Auditorium is taking shape. Across the parking lot stands the building’s stately frontispiece stacked with 12 mighty, 48-foot pillars, behind which girders, ductwork, conduits, pipes, brick, glass, stone and concrete are transforming into an elegant concert hall, the crowning jewel of the campus. The capitals of these 12 iconic columns, almost complete as this issue goes to press, support an overhanging roof that shelters a grand lobby, to be encased in five-story-high glass walls, the frames for which professional glaziers have already installed. Ironwork- ers and other laborers have completed the structure of the lobby and the hallways that flank the auditorium, and are now preparing the site for glass, sheetrock and carpet installers and the artisans who will insert the final elegant finishes for the building’s

The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 23 n e w s o f t h e w o r k 44,775 square feet: Crema Marfil and Emperador marble from Spain, caramel onyx from Iran, and American cherry wood. Who Bombed The shimmering jewels of the building are also being prepared for completion and transport to the lobby. Three diamond-shaped chandeliers, up to 12 feet wide and weighing 4,800 pounds, will hang from the ceiling, each trimmed with thou- Pan Am Flight 103? sands of pieces of the finest crystal in the world: Swarovski Strass. Below, two 7-foot crystal candelabra, originally commissioned by the shah of Iran, will frame a cara- mel onyx wall, on which the building’s plaque will be affixed. Past this dazzling display, through two sets of double doors, workmen are trans- forming the scene into the warm heart of Armstrong Auditorium. Here, architects and acoustical engineers have created what will be a rich concert experience with ideal volume-to-seat ratio and a reverberation time of two seconds. This ratio will exceed those of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein, the three world standards used for acoustic quality. Workers are now readying the floor, ceiling and walls of the theater for craftsmen who will install approximately 800 plush seats, royal purple carpeting, elegant light- ing fixtures, acoustical enhancements, electrical wiring, plumbing and air condi- tioning for the seating area, the spacious stage, the orchestra pit, the dressing rooms, and the storage rooms created to house two concert grand pianos. Offering performers their choice between two of the finest-grade pianos is stan- dard among fine concert halls. The Philadelphia Church of God—which sponsors the Trumpet, Armstrong Auditorium and the Armstrong International Cultural Founda- tion—already owns one 1983 Model D concert grand Steinway piano, an artifact from the acclaimed Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, California. The church will pur- chase its second Steinway on November 24, when two of its musicians will travel to Hamburg, Germany, to select the exact piano for delivery by the end of December. Twenty years on, the December will mark the homestretch for the contractors, laborers, craftsmen, consultants, engineers, architects and other workers to see their work through to question is still up for completion for Armstrong Auditorium’s dedication and inaugural concert. The in- debate. By Stephen Flurry augural 2010 season begins February 14, with the Band of Irish Guards and the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The King’s Singers will perform two days later. The season he only terrorist ever convict- continues with the Canadian Brass, pianist André Watts, mezzo-soprano Frederica ed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight von Stade and bass-baritone Samuel Ramey, and the Romeros Guitar Quartet. It 103 was released from prison in Au- will conclude with a performance of Mendelssohn’s Elijah featuring members of the Tgust on “compassionate grounds” Oklahoma City Philharmonic and the Herbert W. due to a terminal illness. Relatives of the Armstrong College Choral Union. victims were understandably outraged. Greeting concertgoers as they stream through “He showed no compassion when he what will be a beautifully landscaped mall into murdered our son along with 269 other Armstrong Auditorium will be another restored people, and I see no reason why we should treasure from Ambassador College, Swans in Flight. show compassion anywhere but in the Herbert W. Armstrong originally commissioned prison cell he is currently in,” said one this striking 12-by-15-by-25-foot sculpture in 1968 victim’s father. from the great English sculptor Sir David Wynne. In December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 The pcg has purchased Swans in Flight from Am- exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, 38 bassador’s campus in Big Sandy, Texas, and is cur- minutes after departing from London. rently refurbishing it in Norman, Oklahoma. The explosion killed everyone on board, Why would the Trumpet and the Philadelphia Church of God invest such time the majority of them Americans. Falling and resources into this $18 million project? Because of this: As the Trumpet spreads debris from the explosion killed another 11 God’s critical message of warning, it also spreads a message of hope. Scottish civilians on the ground. Armstrong Auditorium embodies that hope. Guests to the campus’s crown jewel To this day, it is Britain’s deadliest ter- will enjoy rich environs where people try their best to live God’s happy, law-abiding, rorist attack ever. It would be for America dynamic way of life. Visitors will come to Armstrong to share in the best of God’s too, if not for 9/11. creation: the human body and mind expressing the art, finesse, emotion, and zeal of life in a pure, uplifting way: fine music. Together, performers and listeners will have Charade of a Trial the opportunity not just to read about, but to celebrate the excitement, the humor, the In 1991, American and Scottish authori- contentment, the insight and the joy of seeing and striving to live God’s way. ties indicted Libyan intelligence agents This tiny, work-in-progress microcosm of sharing God’s creation and way of life Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and Al-Amin is just the beginning. The Bible prophesies of a fabulous hope ahead of the conflicts Khalifa Fahima for carrying out the at- and woes of today’s evil world. A better, a happier, a most wonderful world is coming! tack. It wasn’t until 1999, after years of Armstrong Auditorium is a place to shout out that hope. Armstrong Auditorium will oppressive sanctions, that Libya’s leader be just what its founder, Gerald Flurry, has called it: the first building of the wonder- Muammar Gadhafi agreed to hand over ful World Tomorrow. n Megrahi and Fahima to international au-

24 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet roy letkey/afp/getty images David Horovitz, Jerusalem Post editor, So, if true, why did American and Who Bombed investigated the 800-page judicial review British investigators back off the Iran- in October 2007. “There was certainly no sponsored pflp-gc in 1990 and instead smoking gun,” Horovitz wrote. “No wit- assign blame to Libya—another infamous Pan Am Flight 103? nesses or forensic evidence tying Megrahi U.S.-antagonist at the time? The Guard- to the bomb itself.” He quoted several ana- ian wrote, “Those who question Libya’s lysts and intelligence officials—even a rel- involvement note that the U.S. and Britain ative of one of the bombing victims—who changed tack after the Gulf War in 1990, all maintain that Megrahi was wrongfully when they badly needed the quiescence of accused and that he would eventually be Iran and the support of Syria, which was set free through the appeals process. then protecting Jibril.” Amid widespread speculation in Au- Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs add sig- gust that Scottish authorities would release nificant weight to this argument. Thatch- him on “compassionate grounds,” Me- er, who was prime minister at the time grahi abruptly decided to end his appeal. of the Lockerbie bombing, failed to even (According to the Daily Telegraph, the ap- mention the attack in her book, which was peal process could have continued even released in 1993. She did, however, refer to if Megrahi had been granted sick leave.) President Reagan’s air strike against Libya Within days of dropping his request for in 1986, which killed Gadhafi’s daughter. “RAIN BLOOD” After Iran’s supreme appeal, Megrahi was set free. One member After the 1986 air strike, Thatcher leader said these words, 270 people of Scottish Parliament told Reuters that wrote, “There was a marked decline in died in the worst terrorist attack on Brit- unidentified Scottish authorities had been Libyan-sponsored terrorism in succeeding ain or America besides September 11. “exerting undue pressure” on Megrahi to years.” As Horovitz noted in his investiga- drop his appeal in order to prevent evi- tion, it is difficult to imagine her writing dence in the case from being reexamined. something like that if Libya had been the thorities. Gadhafi did so on the condition What’s pathetic about all the turns and primary sponsor behind the Lockerbie that the trial be strictly limited to ex- twists in this story is that the most impor- bombing, which happened two years after amining only the two suspects—no other tant question of all has been intentionally U.S. fighter jets bombed Tripoli. groups or states could be held responsible swept aside: Who was behind the Locker- Writing in the early 1990s, Thatcher, for ordering the attack. In 2001, the trial bie bombing? like so many in the intelligence commu- resulted in Fahima being acquitted of all “British relatives of the victims are nity, must have blamed Iran for the Pan charges, whereas Megrahi was convicted convinced of [Megrahi’s] innocence and Am massacre. of planting a suitcase bomb on a plane in had hoped that the appeal would help re- That’s not to say that Syria, or Libya, or Malta that was later transferred to a Pan veal who was behind the bombing,” the the pflp-gc—or Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, Am flight in London. Telegraph wrote (August 18). No chance for that matter—are without culpability. Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison. for that now. But debating over who pulled the trigger And that was that—a neat-and-tidy end to a misses the more important point. It’s been story about a crazed lunatic loner who con- Investigating Iran more than 20 years and the state spon- structed a sophisticated explosive device in For more than a year after the Locker- sors responsible for ordering the 1988 hit order to destroy a 747 en route to New York. bie attack, the international investiga- have not been prosecuted! And so, the hits What a charade that trial turned out to tion concentrated on an Iranian-backed, keep right on coming: the first World Trade be. “Britain and America insist on the trial Damascus-based offshoot of the Palestine Center bombing in 1993; the 1995 attack on as a show of strength,” we wrote in June Liberation Organization, known as the a U.S. military base in Riyadh; Hezbollah’s 2000. “But all we are doing is parading Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales- 1996 bombing at Khobar Towers in Saudi our pathetic weakness before the world.” tine–General Command (pflp-gc), headed Arabia; the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies The real story, we observed, was that the by Ahmed Jibril. According to a report that in Kenya and Tanzania, and so on. United States and Britain refused to go after appeared in the Guardian, early on, “the In his June 2000 article on the Locker- the state sponsors: “The evidence strongly widespread view was that the bombing was bie trial, my father wrote, “We are a ‘su- indicates that Syria and Iran were also funded by Iran in retaliation for the mis- perpower’ too weak to administer justice involved in placing the bomb on the Pan taken shooting down of an Iranian airliner for the victims and their families. We have Am Flight 103. But that evidence can’t be by the uss Vincennes, over the Persian Gulf the power but lack the will to use it.” presented at the trial either. We are afraid in July 1988” (August 13). Iran’s supreme “So,” he concluded—writing just a few to offend these terrorist nations. They too leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, vowed re- months before the attack on the uss Cole are probably guilty of mass murder against venge, saying the skies would “rain blood.” in Yemen; and a little more than a year be- our peoples” (emphasis mine throughout). Dr. Jim Swire, whose daughter was fore 9/11—“expect terrorism and violence As if that isn’t bad enough, now even killed in the Lockerbie attack, also blames to intensify against our peoples! This is the the evidence compiled against Megrahi is Iran for the bombing. “The Iranians had inevitable fruit of our shameful weakness.” being called into question. In 2007, after a told the world that they would seek re- And, since the primary state sponsors four-year study, a Scottish court granted venge for the Vincennes attack,” he told of the uss Cole attack and 9/11 also have Megrahi his request for appeal and indi- Horovitz in 2007. “They had colluded in not been prosecuted, we can say once cated the Libyan might have been wrong- the past with the pflp-gc under Jibril, and again: Expect terrorism and violence to fully convicted. now they colluded again.” intensify against our peoples. n

The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 25 Why JosephShould Be in Charge of the Economy The fat cows have been eaten. The lean years are here. But hope for future prosperity remains. By Robert Morley

ll politicians should be jobs to become real-estate agents, when The Time of Reckoning forced to read Genesis 41 before bankers were rock stars, and seemingly But where is the money coming from?, one taking office. So should Federal limitless money let janitors buy half-mil- may ask. I thought America was broke. It Reserve chairmen. The eco- lion-dollar homes—our leaders should is the greatest scam in history. The money nomicA famine that grips the nation was have been telling the nation to stop bor- is either fake—created out of thin air— avoidable—if those in charge had the hu- rowing and start saving. At the least, and thus will eventually destroy the val- mility to learn from Joseph. the government should have put its own ue of the dollar, or it is borrowed, which Pharaoh had had a dream of seven fat, house in order. means it has to be repaid out of future healthy cows being eaten by seven scraw- But no. Even amid the best years of the consumption. ny, sickly cows. None of his wise men or last decade, not once did the government And repaying that debt will not be soothsayers could tell him what the dream run a budget surplus. During President easy. Foreigners are catching on. It used meant. But Joseph could. Bush’s last term, America ran the highest to be that the Japanese or Germans would This humble slave told Pharaoh that deficits in history. Hardly a single voice lend America money for 30 years—con- Egypt would enjoy seven years of great urged people to live within their means. tent that the interest earned would be abundance followed by seven years of Instead, the Fed encouraged people worth the risk. Not anymore. Today, most famine. More importantly, he told Pha- to eat their grain—and not only that, but lenders only lend short-term. The risk of raoh what he should do: Save during the to borrow food from their neighbors and not getting their money back is too high. good years so the people would have food other nations and eat that as well! For America, that means that the trillions during the lean. Now the famine is here, and America we are borrowing to keep the economy You probably know the story. But our is resorting to radical, harebrained she- from collapsing will have to be paid back modern politicians and economic wise nanigans to keep the economy going. next year, or over the next few years, rath- men have missed the whole point: You ac- The people need food, so the government er than in decades. America is about to be tually need to save for the lean years! is handing out funny money as fast as it exposed. During America’s good years—when can. The national debt is growing like a Making matters worse, the trillions of secretaries and engineers alike quit their nuclear mushroom cloud. “stimulus” dollars haven’t done much of

26 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet anything to fix the economy. Much has America’s system is broken. The thrown in jail, He can prosper you no been squandered—spent on things that trashed economy proves it. matter your condition. have nothing to do with creating growth. But God prospered Joseph for a reason. Yet over the next few years, America will Had We Heeded Joseph He prospered him because Joseph under- have to take all that money back out of the Heeding Joseph’s advice would have pre- stood and followed God’s laws. economy to pay off the loans—plus inter- vented much of this mess. Had America est. Where is the money going to come promoted savings instead of spending, Joseph’s Role in the Future? from? How will the economy be saved and hard work and thrift as opposed to Believe it or not, this whole world could then? Through more fake money? immediate gratification and borrowing, a soon have the opportunity to benefit from And now, in an astounding, almost bubble wouldn’t have formed in the first Joseph’s economic management. laughable turn of events, the Federal Re- place. And if for some reason disaster did Longtime readers of this publication serve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, say strike, or if some unforeseeable event did know that, thankfully, America’s—and the they are ready to assume the role of finan- occur, the nation would have abundant world’s—economic situation is not hope- cial regulator for the big banks and stock savings to fall back on. Instead, America less. Humanly, of course, it is. But God markets. They didn’t see the economic has an enormous pyramid of debt. will soon personally intervene in the af- catastrophe coming, and they don’t know Pharaoh was smart enough to take Jo- fairs of this world and save humanity from how to fix it, but America is supposed to seph’s advice. As the famine took hold, the itself, ushering in a new world of peace, trust them with new, powerful regulatory economies of neighboring nations were and prosperity for everyone (Micah 4:1-4). control. In actuality, the Federal Reserve destroyed. But Egypt became incredibly In his booklet The Wonderful World was possibly the one agency most respon- wealthy. The surrounding nations were Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like, Herbert sible for the crisis in the first place. It W. Armstrong described this future was the bankers’ banker that made so time, when God’s laws on economics much easy money available to people The good news is that will be put into practice worldwide. who couldn’t afford it in the first place. God wants you to prosper, “[Joseph’s] specialty was dealing But for the first time, the Federal with the economy—with prosperity. Reserve faces scrutiny; both interna- even during severe And what he did, he did God’s way. It tionally and nationally, its reputation seems evident, therefore, that Joseph is in tatters. Even now there is a pro- economic depressions. will be made director of the world’s posal in Congress to audit the Fed. economy—its agriculture, its indus- More than 222 co-sponsors have signed forced to bring their flocks and herds and try, its technology, and its commerce—as on. At present, the Democratic leadership whatever other wealth they had into Egypt well as its money and monetary system. is blocking the bill. to exchange for food. These systems will be on the international So far the Federal Reserve seems to be Egypt went into the crisis from a posi- level, the same in every nation. misjudging the depth of opposition grow- tion of strength. And it was Joseph’s ad- “Undoubtedly Joseph will develop a ing against it. People want to know where vice that turned Egypt into a superpower. large and perfectly efficient organization the money is going, why a private group of As a result, Pharaoh promoted Joseph to of immortals made perfect, with and un- bankers has the sole right to create the na- second in command of all Egypt. He was der him in this vast administration. This tion’s money, and why the government has held in such high esteem that Joseph’s Is- will be an administration that will elimi- to pay interest on its own money created raelite family was given the choicest agri- nate famine, starvation, poverty. There by the Federal Reserve. cultural land in Egypt (Goshen) to live on. will be no poverty-stricken slums. There “I don’t think the American people Unfortunately, America is heading will be universal prosperity!” want Congress running monetary policy,” into this crisis from a position of virtual Universal prosperity! True utopia. This said Ben Bernanke on pbs’s NewsHour. bankruptcy. America is about to become is the future that is prophesied to follow the “And I think that’s very, very critical for subservient to the nations that stored up coming lean years. This is where the true people to understand.” food for the famine. hope lies for America and the world. n Bernanke is half right. It would be The good news is that God wants you terrible to give Congress control of the to prosper, even during severe economic To read a thorough explanation of the printing presses. Congress has proven to- depressions. In the Bible, Joseph was syn- Bible’s description of this tally incapable of balancing a budget. But onymous with “prosperity.” “And the Lord soon-coming new world and leaving monetary policy in the hands of a was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous how it will be implemented, private bank, run by private individuals, man; and … the Lord made all that he did request a free copy of Herbert with virtually zero accountability except to prosper in his hand” (Genesis 39:2-3). W. Armstrong’s booklet The to their undisclosed shareholders, is prob- If God could prosper Joseph when he was Wonderful World Tomorrow— ably just as irresponsible. a slave, and even when he was unjustly What It Will Be Like.

The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 27 America’s Racial Time Bomb Is Ticking

A powerful historical example tells us why. BY BRAD MACDONALD

o most people, Noah’s Flood is wickedness and destruction that He actual- efforts toward integration and amalga- little more than a folk tale. But the ly regretted His decision to create humans mation of races, contrary to God’s laws” Bible’s account of this earthwide (Genesis 6:1-6). Christ informs us in Mat- (Mystery of the Ages). Tcataclysm is worthy of deeper study. thew 24 what upset God so much: People We must push aside sensitivities and Believe it or not, the history of God were “eating and drinking” (verse 38). prejudices, and consider this towering les- becoming angry with an evil world and That sounds pretty innocuous, espe- son. Jesus was warning us in Matthew 24 wiping out mankind, save one family, in cially since God created humans with the that, just as it was before Noah’s Flood, a deluge contains profound insight into need for physical sustenance. Why was racial tension and racial violence would current world conditions, and where they God so upset? Well, He was troubled by be pervasive in this world immediately are headed. the pervasive abuse of food and alcohol. before His Second Coming. In Matthew 24, Jesus Christ explained When God scanned the planet, He saw This world has long been wracked to His disciples the conditions that would mankind consumed by a self-gratifying by racial tension and violence. But look prevail in the world just before His Second “party spirit” that reveled in drunken- around. It’s steadily growing worse, par- Coming. In verses 38-39 He said, “For as ness, promiscuity, sexual perversion and ticularly in the United States. in the days that were before the flood they violence. were eating and drinking, marrying and But God was also saddened by the America’s Racial Healer? giving in marriage, until the day that Noah people “marrying and giving in mar- As a presidential candidate, Barack entered into the ark. And knew not until riage” (verse 38). Again, why would God Obama sold himself as the antidote to the flood came, and took them all away; so be upset at this? He created marriage. The America’s enduring racial infirmities. shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” reason is, humans were abusing marriage Many Americans believed Mr. Obama’s Jesus stated explicitly that the condi- as God intended it. This is obvious if you election heralded a new era of post-racial tions surrounding His Second Coming study the first six verses of Genesis 6. By political and societal progress. Identity would be similar to those that preceded the time of Noah, interracial marriage and politics would begin to fade into irrel- the destruction of mankind in the Flood. racial conflict had become widespread. In evance; America’s festering race wounds Thus, the more familiar we are with that fact, it was so pervasive, the Bible says only would begin to heal. America, united un- history, the clearer we will see the inevi- Noah remained unblemished, or “per- der its first black president, would now tability and imminence of Christ’s return. fect,” in his generations, or his ancestry. explore new and better frontiers in race What were prevailing conditions just An honest and objective study of both relations. prior to the Flood? What activities and Genesis 6 and Matthew 24 shows that They were wrong. Rather than soothe trends were so dire that God realized He race had burgeoned into a major issue by old wounds and diffuse racial tensions by needed to wipe the slate clean and start Noah’s day. Notice what the late Herbert avoiding race-based politics, America’s again? We must know. The story of the W. Armstrong wrote about racial tension president is making them worse. Flood is anything but a fairy tale—it’s a in Noah’s time, and the central role it By “consistently emphasiz[ing] racial warning to mankind! played in God sending the Flood. “[T]he identity to further his own advantage,” chief cause of the violence and chaos of wrote historian Victor Davis Hanson, Mr. The Cause of Noah’s Flood world conditions [prior to the Flood], was Obama has knowingly, perhaps intention- When God looked down on man before the racial hatreds, interracial marriages, ally, inflamed existing race wounds. In- Flood, He was so mortified by the universal and racial violence caused by man’s stead of leading America out of its “racial

28 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet beer summit President Obama (far right) and Vice President Biden (far left) attempt to douse the racial flare-up the president fueled between his friendH en- ry Louis Gates Jr. (left) and James Crowley (right).

in America: “[T]here is a long history in Already in his presidency, three major instances this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement have arisen where Mr. Obama had the choice disproportionately. And that’s just a fact.” The statement touched off a national to either stoke or douse a racially charged issue. brouhaha. Police forces and unions across the nation marched to the defense of Ser- In each instance, the president chose to geant Crowley; liberal elites defended the president. For a man so educated in and allow the issue to flare into a firestorm. sensitive to the race issue in America— not to mention a “post-racial” president morass,” the president so far has “only arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis supposed to help ease racial tension— pushed us far deeper into it” (National Gates Jr., who is black, by James Crowley, President Obama showed a remarkable Review, July 27). a white sergeant in the Cambridge Police absence of wisdom by weighing in on this President Obama’s sensitivity to the Department. The president was given a issue in this manner. This was a racially issue of race became fully apparent dur- choice: Disarm the loaded question (a charged situation from its beginning on ing a nationally televised address July 22. simple statement saying he couldn’t com- Mr. Gates’s doorstep, and the president The speech primarily revolved around ment because he did not know the details transformed it into a national debate on the president’s controversial health-care would have sufficed)—or pull the trigger. race. Why? plan, but in the question-and-answer ses- Mr. Obama chose the second option. sion afterward, he reignited a hot national After admitting on live television that Two More Examples debate on race. he was not there and did not know all the With the Gates story still front-page news, The president is an intelligent man, facts, the president confidently stated that Americans got another glimpse of Mr. well familiar with how combustible the the Cambridge Police Department had Obama’s tendency for race-based politics race issue is, particularly when oxidized “acted stupidly” in arresting his friend, less than a week later when on July 28 the by the mainstream media. He knew he Professor Gates. He then segued into a Senate Judiciary Committee approved his had been handed a loaded gun when short sermon on the problem of racial nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to he was asked to comment on the July 16 profiling that he evidently believes exists the U.S. Supreme Court.

saul loeb/afp/getty images The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 29 Judge Sotomayor is renowned for the caused by the man he appointed, the pres- ham. “It was chaos,” said Hannah Taylor, race-based underpinnings of her moral ident told the New York Times that had he from London. “I had only come up to do and judicial thinking, particularly her in- been advising the attorney general, “We a bit of shopping, and found myself in the famous racially charged remark: “I would would have used different language.” Dur- middle of a full-blown riot. People with hope that a wise Latina woman with the ing the interview, the Times reported, “the small children were running into shops richness of her experiences would more of- president said that despite Mr. Holder’s for cover. The whole city center just de- ten than not reach a better conclusion than choice of words, he had a point” (May 7, scended into some kind of war zone.” a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” emphasis mine). On August 8 in Glasgow, an Asian Mr. Obama did not merely select a Already in his presidency, three major man was attacked by a gang shouting rac- judge with an undeniable tendency for instances have arisen where Mr. Obama ist slogans. Meanwhile, figures released making decisions based on racial identity. had the choice to either stoke or douse a by the Community Security Trust, a Jew- His relative silence on the issue and un- racially charged issue. In each instance, ish community organization, showed willingness to condemn Ms. Sotomayor’s the president chose to allow the issue to that anti-Semitic hate crimes reached an racist remarks indicates that he more than flare into a firestorm. unprecedented high during the first half likely agrees with the judge. Is this really in America’s best inter- of 2009—more than double what had oc- Then there’s Eric Holder, President ests? Tension between the races has been curred in the first half of 2008. Obama’s feisty attorney general. In a an enduring problem in American history. In the coming months and years, sadly, speech in February commemorating These days, with the economy worsening, we should expect racial tension and racial violence to worsen, particularly in the Perhaps the most beautiful lesson embedded in U.S. and Britain. Like so many of the solu- tions concocted in the minds of men, the the history of the Flood is that God always sends antidotes to this world’s race problems of- fered by our leaders and intellectuals will prior warning—and then provides an escape continue to fail. In many instances, these solutions will exacerbate the tension and for those who love Him and obey His laws. make conflict all the more inevitable. As you watch this phenomenon devel- op, remember Noah’s Flood and Christ’s prophecy in Matthew 24. Jesus warned that His Second Coming—and the earth- shaking conditions that will accompany that event—will come upon man suddenly and surprisingly, just as the Flood came upon the people in Noah’s time. But you don’t have to be caught off guard, as so many were when the rains started pouring down in Noah’s time. Per- haps the most beautiful lesson embedded in the history of the Flood is that God al- ways sends prior warning—and then pro- vides an escape for those who love Him and obey His laws. Today a nuclear flood approaches— and God is providing an “ark” for those who heed His warning. In Scripture He real-life history Not only promises to supply a way to escape these was Noah's experience factual, it terrifying events if we are striving to obey holds lessons—and hope—for His laws and follow His direction. those who live in similar times: us. In the meantime, racial tension and violence will only grow worse—until God intervenes and sends His Son to Earth to Black History Month, Mr. Holder roasted unemployment rising, and many Ameri- solve such problems. How will He do this? the American people as a “nation of cow- cans growing increasingly disgruntled By removing human nature and replacing ards” for not regularly discussing and with the administration in Washington, it with the loving nature of God, imparted confronting America’s racial problems. the atmosphere is primed for greater ra- by the power of the Holy Spirit. He will As the controversy flared, conservatives cial strife and social upheaval. create a world where people of all races criticized Mr. Holder’s address to Justice will prosper and live in peace! Department employees for being abrasive Noah’s Hope That time is nearly here. Until it ar- and provocative, actually representing a Britain is also being primed for increased rives, remember the message in Noah’s partial explanation for people’s unwilling- racial tension and conflict. In August, 33 Flood: Racial tension and violence are a ness to discuss race. people were arrested after a violent race- precursor to the glorious return of Jesus In an effort to soothe the controversy based riot erupted in the city of Birming- Christ! n

30 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet gustav doré, harbour press, ltd nods toward negotiation to keep the West happy, but made it clear that violence re- “Moderation” in mains very much an option. “The fact is that in hopes of drawing support away from Hamas, Fatah is in- the Middle East creasingly and publicly drawn to its radi- cal roots,” the Washington-based Jewish Institute for National Security Policy said in response to the platform. “And the re- ality for American and European policy- makers who think they have the answer to the conflict is that Fatah, no less than Hamas, believes in Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea and ‘void’ of Jews.” “The Good guys” Members of Fatah Fatah’s relationship with Iran was also on the congress’s agenda. A draft leaked be- fore the conference stated, “We must work Fatah claims to be moderate. But it is working toward opening a strategic channel to Iran.” In July, the Palestinian Authority and Iran with Iran to take Israel down. By Richard Palmer held their first-ever high-level meeting. Fa- tah’s Jerusalem affairs liaison openly called arwan Barghouti is serving decision-making body. Ghneim, who re- for a stronger relationship with Iran three five life sentences in an Israeli turned to the West Bank at the end of July, days before the Fatah conference in com- jail for his crimes as head of received two thirds of the vote, and many ments to Ma’an News Agency. MFatah’s Tanzim terrorist group see him as a likely successor to Abbas. Iran and Fatah already cooperate, and founder of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Bri- “Watch this man,” says Rubin. “He is the but an open “strategic” dialogue would gades. He “led, operated, assisted, incited future of the Palestinian movement.” bring their relationship to a new level. Fa- and participated in acts of terror carried It’s hardly surprising that these men tah could soon become another Iranian out by field commanders and terror activ- are popular. Recent surveys suggest that proxy, just like Hamas and Hezbollah. An ists who were subordinate to them, and 52 percent of Palestinians support armed Iranian-backed Fatah could be even more thus willfully caused the deaths of hun- attacks against civilians inside Israel. dangerous than the other groups, as it op- dreds of Israelis,” the 2002 court ruling “[T]he desire for popular support has not erates right in the heart of Israel. stated. Yet liberal Israeli politicians clamor moderated Hamas, but has radicalized Fatah wants to work more closely with for his release, because he is a “moderate.” Fatah,” wrote David Schenker in Foreign a nation whose stated aim is to wipe Israel Abu Maher Ghneim is “an unrepen- Policy (August 4). off the map: hardly the position of a mod- tant hardliner, an open opponent of the The Middle East definition of modera- erate party. Oslo agreements,” according to Barry tion, it seems, is merely, “not a member of To the north, Hezbollah is getting Rubin, who directs the Global Research Hamas.” In truth, however, Fatah is one of stronger. The Iranian-created and -spon- in International Affairs Center. He was Israel’s most dangerous enemies. sored terrorist organization reportedly a close associate of former Fatah leader has up to 40,000 rockets and is training Yasser Arafat, fighting alongside him as a A Historic Conference fighters to use ground-to-ground mis- terrorist in the 1960s before being barred From August 4 to 11, over 2,000 Fatah siles that can reach as far as Tel Aviv. It is from the region because of his terrorist members gathered for their first conference gaining more control over both Lebanon’s activity. Ghneim was one of the founders in 20 years to discuss the group’s future. military and government. of the “moderate” Fatah movement. Right at the start of the conference—in the These developments pose an enor- “We do not demand that the Hamas opening line of the opening speech—Presi- mous threat to Israel. Iran could encour- movement recognize Israel,” said Mo- dent Abbas praised the “martyrs” who had age Hamas and Fatah to put aside their hammed Dahlan, a top adviser to Pal- died in terror attacks against Israel. differences and focus on uniting to fight estinian Authority President Mahmoud The conclusions of the conference were Israel. With Hezbollah threatening from Abbas in March. “On the contrary, we far from moderate. Fatah endorsed the al- the north, enhanced cooperation between demand of the Hamas movement not to Aqsa Martyrs Brigades—which has killed Iran and Fatah would leave Israel sur- recognize Israel, because the Fatah move- or helped kill over 100 Israelis in terror rounded and put Iran right on the door- ment does not recognize Israel, even to- attacks since 2001—as its official security step of Jerusalem. day.” YnetNews called Dahlan one of Fa- force. It accused Israel of murdering Yas- Watch closely. All it will take is for Iran tah’s “most moderate figures.” ser Arafat. It adopted a new platform that to kick down that door, and Aside from being “moderate,” what declared Jerusalem the “eternal capital of the world will become a very these men have in common is that they Palestine.” The platform stated that “Fatah different place. n are some of the most popular leaders will continue to sacrifice victims until Je- in Fatah. On August 11, all three were rusalem returns [to the Palestinians], de- For more information, voted onto Fatah’s 21-strong Central void of settlements and settlers.” In its re- request our free booklet Committee, the party’s most powerful vised platform, Fatah made the obligatory Jerusalem in Prophecy.

JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 31 societywatch n Britain, students who prescribed antidepressant Ispeak English as a first lan- medication, noted Dr. Mark guage are in the minority in 13 Olfson of Columbia Univer- out of London’s 33 boroughs, sity and Steven Marcus of the according to official figures University of Pennsylvania. released in August. Fifty-six By 2005, 27 million Ameri- percent of children in elemen- cans—more than 10 percent of tary schools in inner London the population—were found do not speak English as their to be using antidepressants. first language. Throughout “Significant increases in an- the country, English is not tidepressant use were evident the mother tongue to one in across all sociodemographic seven elementary-school-aged groups examined, except Afri- children. can Americans,” wrote Olfson High numbers of students and Marcus. The two con- unskilled in English are put- he post-feminist gener- loss of family stability through ducted the survey by analyzing ting a heavy burden on Brit- Tation is failing abysmally at parents’ divorce—or fear of data from Medical Expendi- ain’s education system. Far raising teenage girls, observed it—leaves many girls searching ture Panel Surveys performed more disturbing, however, is British author India Knight in elsewhere for attention. by the U.S. Agency for Health- that these figures show how the August 2 Sunday Times. Care Research and Quality, much immigration is chang- “The number of 15-year-old espite all sorts of involving more than 50,000 ing Britain. They “confirm girls experiencing psychologi- Dinnovative plans imple- people in 1996 and 2005. the huge impact immigration cal distress is rocketing; the mented in the American is having on our society,” said [recent study, “ghq Increases school system over the past 30 eing negative is bad for Sir Andrew Green, from the Among Scottish 15-year-olds years, American education is Byour heart. Not only is that Migrationwatch think tank. 1987–2006,” published in So- in deep trouble. “Today, Amer- a paraphrase of Proverbs, it The situation has gotten so cial Psychiatry and Psychiatric ica is the only industrialized also encapsulates a new medi- bad that, as Green pointed Epidemiology] shows they are nation in the world where chil- cal study on heart disease. The out, “In inner London it’s the most mentally ill group of dren are less likely to graduate analysis spanned 15 years and hard to know who immigrant people in the country, with 43 from high school than their included 97,000 healthy senior children are supposed to inte- percent emotionally distressed parents,” noted the Washing- women. Surveyors found that grate with since they heavily and 27 percent suffering men- ton Times. “A student drops women who answered “yes” to outnumber local children.” tal illness (severe depression out of high school every 26 questions like “If something or anxiety).” seconds, 1.2 million children can go wrong for me, it will” he Telegraph reported Dr. Dee Dawson, medi- each year. Three in 10 students and “It is safer to trust no- TJuly 27 that divorce dam- cal director at Rhodes Farm fail to graduate with their body” were 16 percent more ages a person’s health: “Divorce clinic in London, a center for class, a percentage that doubles likely to die. Women who an- and widowhood have anorexic children, for minority, urban and low- swered “yes” to questions like a long-term negative says teenage girls income students” (July 19). “In unclear times, I usually effect on physical are coming under How bad is this national expect the best” had a 9 per- well-being that is enormous pres- crisis in education? “Simply cent lower risk of heart disease only marginally ame- sure to achieve put, the high school dropout and a 14 percent lower risk of liorated if the person academically, far and college-readiness crisis is death from any cause. finds a new partner.” more than in the the greatest long-term threat Pessimists were more likely According to a past, and that that to our economic security and to have diabetes, high blood University of Chi- competitiveness moral authority as a nation” pressure, high cholesterol cago study, the stress is seeping into all (ibid.; emphasis ours). and depression. “We don’t of divorce can affect a person’s parts of their life. Some girls know exactly why, but attitude health for decades and di- say they are made by their par- se of antidepres- does appear to matter when vorced people have 20 percent ents and teachers to feel that Usant drugs in America it comes to heart disease and more chronic health condi- unless they get great grades doubled between 1996 and health,” one doctor said of tions than married people. The and go to university, they will 2005, two medical research- the impact personality has on health benefits of marriage, be a failure for life. Their peers ers revealed in the Archives of health. The writer of Prov- which are well-established, are and the glossy magazines make General Psychiatry in August. erbs seems to have had more actually significantly reduced them feel that unless they have In 1996, roughly 13 million insight: “A merry heart doeth in a second or third marriage, the “perfect” body, they are people—about 6 percent of good [like] a medicine: but a the new study found. worthless. Additionally, the the population—had been broken spirit drieth the bones.”

32 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet istockphoto(2) ➤ germany from page 1 At this point, we should note that throughout the Middle dissolved, the peoples on the western side of his empire even- Ages, many scholars, theologians, even popes, knew the Roman tually became known as French. The German-speaking peoples Empire was the fourth world-ruling kingdom. Many of them between the Rhine and the Slavs in the east developed into Ger- even identified this fourth kingdom with the one Daniel many. The fact that he ruled over both peoples is why some dis- spoke of in his prophecy (see Daniel 2:37-43). That’s why Euro- pute the national heritage of Charlemagne. peans and Catholics kept trying to revive the empire! The Bible said there would only be four such empires. However, the fourth Hitler and the Crown Jewels empire would have 10 resurrections, according to Bible prophecy. Look again at what Otto von Habsburg said about the crown jew- The last seven of those resurrections would be called Holy Roman els: “We possess a European symbol which belongs to all nations Empires, because they were ruled by church and state. of Europe equally; this is the crown of the Holy Roman Em- As king of the Franks, Charlemagne was able to subjugate ev- pire, which embodies the tradition of Charlemagne.” ery single German tribe but one: the Saxons. The Saxons clung to Adolf Hitler was the leader of the sixth Holy Roman Empire. He their own faith and refused, even on pain of death, to submit to knew all about the crown of Charlemagne and the crown jewels. Roman Catholicism. Charlemagne determined to force his brand Much of the world looks upon the Jews as God’s chosen peo- of Christianity on them with the sword. For years the Saxons ple. In Vienna, Hitler came to believe that God had replaced the obstinately resisted. At one point, out of sheer frustration, Jews with the Germans and the Holy Roman Empire. He believed Charlemagne executed 4,500 Saxon prisoners. This barba- the Germans were God’s chosen people. This is why the crown rous act angered the Saxons even more. jewels of that empire meant so much to him. It took 30 years for Charles to completely extinguish the In 1938, at a rally in Nuremberg, “Hitler had brought from Vi- “Saxon” problem, but not before multiple thousands had been enna, after 140 years, the insignia of the First Reich [Char- executed for their religious beliefs. After more than 18 conquests lemagne]—the imperial crown, the orb of empire, the scepter against the Saxons, Charles finally prevailed. In the end, Sax- and the imperial sword. At the presentation of these symbols of ons either subjected themselves to the rule of Charles, imperialism he solemnly vowed that they would remain in or their defiance ended in death. Nuremberg forever” (John Toland, Adolf Hitler). The Holy Roman Empire has never been democratic. It could That was a strong statement. He “solemnly vowed” that the never be. Even Pope Pius xii said the church had twin enemies: crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire were to “remain in the democracies and communism. He was pope at the peak of Nuremberg forever.” This is like a death-defying commitment Communist power. to the Holy Roman Empire and his god! He made a vow forever! As emperor of the “Holy” Roman Empire, Charles felt it his Hitler ruled the Third Reich. He knew the crown jewels would duty to spread the Christian faith using whatever means nec- be a powerful symbol of Charlemagne’s First Reich. essary. The New Encyclopedia Britannica says, “The violent Hitler came in the tradition of Charlemagne! He, methods by which this missionary task was carried out had like Charlemagne, savagely and brutally destroyed peo- been unknown to the earlier Middle Ages, and the sanguinary ple as no empire before him! [bloody] punishment meted out to those who broke canon law The next leader of the Holy Roman Empire is going to commit or continued to engage in pagan practices called forth criticism the most monstrous crimes ever against humanity. It’s all going in Charles’ own circle” (“Charlemagne, Emperor”). to be done in the tradition of Charlemagne! It’s time for The violence Charlemagne used to enforce the Catho- this world to wake up to what is happening in Europe! lic religion on his subjects was simply unknown in earlier Many scoffed at what Margaret Thatcher said in 1995: “You empires! He forced his brand of Christianity on everyone. His em- have not anchored Germany to Europe; you have anchored Eu- pire may have had distinct ties to the ancient Romans, but it was rope to a newly dominant, unified Germany. In the end, my certainly not “holy”—even if there was a great church guiding it. friends, you’ll find it will not work.” Mrs. Thatcher knew it would have a bad ending. Saxons either subjected themselves to the rule She knew it “could be ghastly,” as Bernard Connolly said. It will be ghastlier than you can even imagine! of Charles, or their defiance ended in death. We have forgotten our own recent history. Hit- And yet, for centuries to come, the aim of succeeding emper- ler started World War ii. About 50 million people were killed. ors was to restore the traditions of Charlemagne in their quest to After the Allies defeated Hitler in World War ii, Prime Minis- revive the Roman Empire! ter Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt signed a Even today, Germany and a great church are working to restore document to prevent Germany from ever coming in the tradition the tradition of Charlemagne. They have almost completed the of Charlemagne again. They said, “It is our inflexible purpose to structure. Still, it is a mystery to most of the world’s inhabitants. destroy German militarism and Nazism and to ensure Germany Let the world beware! That power structure is ready to burst will never again be able to disturb the peace of the world.” on the world scene—again! Germany started both world wars. It has a history of starting Charlemagne’s bloody conquests were the worst ever in the wars. Churchill and Roosevelt understood Germany’s history of history of the previous empires. The conquests of the next Holy warfare. But America and Britain have forgotten that history today. Roman Empire are going to be the worst suffering ever inflicted That lapse of memory will be the costliest ever for both nations. on human beings in the history of man! (Matthew 24:21-22; Dan- (Request our free booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.) iel 12:1; Jeremiah 30:1-10). Germany is about to start World War iii—according to your It will all be done in the spirit of Charlemagne. Most people Bible. It will be the deadliest war ever on Earth. Thankfully, the won’t awaken out of their stupor until it’s too late! seventh and last head of the Holy Roman Empire will usher in Charlemagne’s empire, one of the greatest ever to rule in the coming of the Messiah. No nation will ever again be ruled in Europe, did not even outlive his son and successor. After it the tradition of Charlemagne. n

The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 33 ➤ universe from page 16 survive (Matthew 24:21-22). As conditions worsen and get nearer to their violent climax, people’s hearts will be failing them for fear (Luke 21:26). This is a time when the world needs hope. It is no coincidence that right now, amid these dire global threats, we are also in an astronomy revolution! We are prob- ing deeply into the universe as never be- fore—observing the Creator’s handiwork, which declares His glory. You can be sure God is paying close attention—maybe even blessing these endeavors. Those Hubble pictures should give this whole world great hope. 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The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 35 letters is Russia and Germany trying to reconcile War Against Family their past mistakes in the relationship, Radical Social Engineering To our disgrace, we have become a which have left two great nations killing I just finished reading your article, world of political correctness and com- each other …. This is another sign that “Radical Social Engineering” in the July promise (“The War Against although the U.S. will still be 2009 issue of the Trumpet magazine. You Family,” September). We bask a big player in world politics, are to be commended on how well you in the theory of “whatever it will no longer be the boss have covered this subject. I wish every- feels good is right for you.” of everything. I think your one in the U.S. could read it, and maybe This thought process has article in some ways reflects enough people would wake as to what moved us to a place far be- this fear. Dmitry—Russian is happening and do something to stop yond Sodom and Gomorrah. Federation the gay rights march. I do not under- Anita Lloyd—Morgan- stand the apathy of people in general on town, W.Va. Michael Jackson this subject, and especially those within With all the Jackson- our church organizations. Every time I All through history, the mania, I thought I was the broach the subject, I get the brush-off. … foundation of every produc- only one who was not a fan of David H. James—Pocahontas, Ark. tive society has been the family unit. M.J. (“America’s Decline—From Sinatra Without a stable family, empires, nations to Jackson,” September). Wonderful ar- First I would like to thank God for and kingdoms fail. Everywhere around us, ticle. I wish the whole world could read it you, and all the work you are doing, in it is evident that the traditional family is and wake up. Thank you so much. spreading His true meaning of what the being torn apart and radically redefined, Audrey Clarke—Trinidad Scriptures say. I was raised as a Catholic even rebuilt into something very differ- …. I had always felt that there was some- ent. … When God’s way of life is totally As a conservative, I too felt that thing wrong about what they preached. I ignored or lampooned as out of date and Michael Jackson was weird in the presen- asked myself, “How could a loving God be hopelessly sneered at, it only makes mat- tation of himself and his music. However, so cruel?” I searched for the truth through ters worse. … God’s intervention is what he was a troubled child. How many of us other religions, but still was frustrated we need, and I can’t wait until it takes know how we would have turned out with with the information I got. I knew and be- place. As Christ instructed us to pray, the same set of circumstances? Still he lieved the Bible was the inerrant Word of “Your Kingdom come, your will be done poured all his energy into what he knew God, and so I started reading it from cover in earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). best! … Was he perfect? He was a far cry to cover, but I was having trouble under- Doug Cline—Chapmanville, W.Va. from perfection, and so are we! He created standing what was written. When I was a what he did musically to escape the ravag- young man in my early 20s, I finally gave Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? es of inner pain, grief, and deep sorrow. … up trying, and I prayed with all my heart Personally, Brad, I think the deep- Dorothy Johnson—Baltimore, Md. to our Lord to show me the truth of how ening of ties between Germany and Rus- He wanted me to be and what I should do. sia is a good thing (“Another Molotov- I agree with the thrust of your ar- He gave me my answer through Herbert Ribbentrop Pact?”, September). Besides ticle, but disagree on some points. You W. Armstrong. I was first introduced … the two world wars, our countries have mention the decadence of Elvis Presley. while listening to Herbert W. Armstrong enjoyed friendship and cooperation for What decadence? His movies are constant- on my radio while on police patrol many centuries prior to that. Even Otto Von ly replayed on television and he portrays years ago. I also found copies of the Plain Bismarck said that for Germany to be suc- a very decent person. That was his public Truth magazine at a supermarket that I cessful it must maintain good relations image as well, and it’s only after his death shopped at. I didn’t know it at the time, with the Russian empire. And he was the that his drug problems became known. … but God was giving me my answer. … I father of German unification! We par- Bill Shaun—Perth, Australia am at present taking your Bible course, titioned Poland together and prevented which I have found to be both enlighten- another power from rising in Europe and Shaking the Nations ing and spiritually rewarding. … destabilizing the situation even further. It Mr. Flurry’s editorial in the latest Michael Beeson—Wittmann, Ariz. is Europe’s fault that Russia and Germany Trumpet (“How President Obama’s Cairo fought two bloody wars. It is largely Great Speech Will Shake the Nations,” August) Although I am not a very religious Britain who longed for its lost empire and is fantastic. You’re not going to find any- person, I do appreciate your magazine did everything possible to prevent a Rus- thing like that in the New York Times or and some of its views. Our “public” news so-German union which would dominate the Wall Street Journal. sources are junk, on the whole, and lack- European geopolitics. In my opinion, in Don Burke—Minneapolis, Minn. ing for propaganda of poor merit. Thanks World War i Germany and Russia should again for your free gift—a true gift. have fought on the same side. But we did American Gold? David Varner—North Richland not. Result, we both came out as losers Very good article (“American Gold? Highlands, Tex. and our nations crumbled. Instead we No Thanks!”, August). I had some de- allied ourselves with the entente whose posit in usd. I got rid of it in 2004. My best interest was to see the Russian em- heart bleeds for those guys still holding Comments? pire fall—especially Great Britain, with the stuff. Let them keep holding. [email protected] whom relations were always extremely Tomy Mathew—Australian or: The Trumpet, P.O. Box 1099, tense. Hopefully what we are seeing now Capital Territory Edmond, OK 73083

36 October 2009 The Philadelphia Trumpet Commentary Respect President Obama Why the office should not be maligned. By mark jenkins

ast year, President Bush was on the receiving end which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute of an airborne shoe. Rather than express outrage, other beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.” That was talk- leaders mocked the incident. Dozens of games appeared ing about the most evil being ever to exist. online where people could throw shoes at a digital Presi- The Apostle Paul wrote: “For there is no authority except from dentL Bush. Still, the shoe incident was mild compared to the ver- God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore bal bombs hurled at him for the last eight years. he who resists the authorities resist what God has appointed …” Now, President Obama’s visage is plastered across conserva- (Romans 13:1; Revised Standard Version). We may have elections, tive websites made up to look like Heath Ledger’s Joker, a gro- but no man takes office without God allowing him to do so. tesque caricature of a clown The spirit of rebellion bent on destruction. President against those in office comes Obama is now subject to simi- from Satan. He expressed his lar harassment as that which own desire to overthrow God’s his predecessor suffered. government. “How art thou Regardless of politics, re- fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, ligion, social class, gender, son of the morning! how art race, the president represents thou cut down to the ground, the highest office in Ameri- which didst weaken the na- ca. When the leader of what tions! For thou hast said in claims to be the most power- thine heart, I will ascend into ful country in the world is heaven, I will exalt my throne insulted, do we add our voice above the stars of God: I will to the discontent—or do we sit also upon the mount of the register our disagreements congregation, in the sides of respectfully? This matter isn’t the north: I will ascend above about Barack Obama as a the heights of the clouds; I man; it’s about his lawfully will be like the most High. Yet obtained office and the coun- thou shalt be brought down try he represents. to hell, to the sides of the pit” But his agenda!, some (Isaiah 14:12-15). might respond. And yes, the A person might say, cap-and-trade, auto-bailout, universal-health-care, quasi-social- though, God’s government is perfect. President Obama’s is not! ist agenda he promotes incenses many of us. His support of abor- Well, neither was Pontius Pilate’s; neither was King Saul’s. Nei- tion, homosexuality and other parts of his stated intent for our ther was Ronald Reagan’s or Winston Churchill’s. No human country directly contradict the Bible. We can and should attack leader has ever led a perfect government. God does not sanction sin—and the Trumpet does—but that does not justify disrespect- abusive leadership, but He will judge those men—not us. ing the office President Obama holds. The real question here, then, is not about the men who hold In ancient Israel, was David against King Saul’s agenda to these positions of power. It is about us, our respect for their of- murder him? Of course, but David still knew it would be wrong fices—and our respect for the God who allows them to hold their to kill King Saul when the opportunity came, instead cutting off offices! only a small piece of his robe (1 Samuel 24:3-4). The next time you read a news source slamming one of this Even that turned out to be more than the future king could world’s leaders, ask yourself what the intent is. The United States stomach (verse 5). King Saul was no longer in favor with God, was built on freedom of speech, and every man should have a prophesied to lose his office, and chasing David himself like a wild voice—especially as we see the American economy systematically animal for slaughter. Still, David’s respect for King Saul’s God- dismantled and society collapsing morally. But there is a differ- ordained office came first: “The Lord forbid that I should do this ence between simply exposing a wrong agenda and disrespecting thing unto my master, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch forth mine a dignitary—something a true Christian should never do. Do the hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord” (verse 6). news sources you use deliberately strip President Obama’s title as Jesus Christ showed respect to every human ruler He came into a means of removing the dignity of his office? Do they mock him contact with—not because of the men, but because of the offices with cartoons and use the worst images of him they can find? Do they held. He didn’t even rail against those who murdered Him! the discussions you join go beyond attacking a wrong agenda— Jude 8-10 warn about speaking evil of dignities, pointing out attacking sin—and descend into speaking evil of dignities? that the archangel Michael, while contending with Satan for Mo- Rather than join in with a show of disrespect, honor the high- ses’s body, “durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but est office in the country—the president of the United States—by said, The Lord rebuke thee. But these speak evil of those things attacking sin, not the sinner, just as Jesus Christ would. n

leon neal/afp/getty images The Philadelphia Trumpet October 2009 37 The Fourth Reich is rising.

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