GLOBAL SECOND LIFE HOW TO AVOID WARMING People are using the Internet to improve their lives. POVERTY Politics clouds the issue Well, their fantasy lives, anyway. Timeless financial advice april 2007 www.thetrumpet.com THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET Prince William of Wales ROYAL HEIRS The inspiring story of the BRITISH CROWN THE PHILADELPHIA APRIL 2007 Vol. 18, No. 4 Circ. 295,000 TRUMPET12 6 18 32 WORLD ECONOMY FROM THE EDITOR 6 The Coming Storm 1 Jerusalem: City of Hope Clouds are converging over America’s economy. Here is how 2 There Is Hope For Israel! they may become a serious storm. With dangers gathering, many Israelis fear for the future of 8 Storm-Proof Your their nation. This is an opportu- Financial House nity to face a vital truth. 20 WORLDWATCH LIVING EUROPE Pushing Free Trade 17 Cleave to Your Mate With U.S. ■ Grabbing at Central Sage biblical advice for making Asian Energy ■ MIDDLE EAST your marriage stick Europe to Help Israel? ■ BRITAIN Muslim Youth More Radical ■ Crimes Against Jews Soaring SOCIETY ■ UNITED STATES L.A. Racial 18 The Cyberspace Hate a “Microcosm” Game of Life ■ VENEZUELA A New Dictator People are using the Internet to improve their lives—their 22 The Politics of fantasy lives. Global Warming WORLD The search for truth leaves some scientists in the cold. 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We are headed into the worst crisis ever on this planet. Our The Jews, like all of humanity, have a history of re- nations’ unity should be of paramount concern. Divided, we jecting God’s truth. When Christ walked the Earth, cannot stand. He condemned them for killing the prophets who brought About a.d. 135, the Jews again revolted against Rome. This AGod’s message. Christ also prophesied how Jerusalem would time, the Romans drove them out of the area and would not let be destroyed if they didn’t repent. them return. So the city became populated mostly by Gentiles. About 39 years after His prophecy, the Jews were invaded It remained that way throughout the centuries. In 1948, the by the Romans. Multiple thousands were slaughtered, others United Nations gave the Jews the newer part of Jerusalem, es- were enslaved, their temple was burned, and the city was left tablished in 1860. This adjoined the ancient city of Jerusalem, in a heap of rubble. which was still mainly populated by Gentiles. The Roman general who conquered them said he could It remains that way today, even though the Jews conquered never have done so had they not been so bitterly divided. There the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1967 war. The Arab popula- were three main factions fighting each other for control of the tion was allowed to remain in that half of Jerusalem. city. One faction even burned most of their food. Josephus re- According to biblical prophecy, one half of Jerusalem is cords how that act led to the worst kind of cannibalism. soon to be conquered by the Arabs. Almost any authority on The Jews are also extremely divided today. Is history about the subject knows that will be rather easy for the Arabs to do. to repeat itself, but on a much greater scale? If you doubt the Bible, consider this: There are several Abraham Lincoln said before the Civil War that a house prophecies about the Jews being in Jerusalem in this end time. divided against itself cannot stand. He was quoting the Bible. Those prophecies were written many years before Christ even America was in grave danger of splitting and becoming in- came to this Earth the first time. significant on the world scene, making the nation easy for its A good example would be the one in Zechariah 14:2: “For I enemies to conquer. will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city Anciently, Jerusalem was the capital of all Israel. End-time shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; biblical prophecy speaks of that city as a symbol, or type, of all and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue Israel—whose modern descendants include, specifically, the of the people shall not be cut off from the city.” Jewish nation and the birthright nations of America and Brit- That prophecy is specifically addressed to the nation of ain. So, essentially, what we see happening in Jerusalem will also Judah (see Zechariah 1:12). It says half of Jerusalem would go occur in America and Britain (including the Commonwealth into captivity. For that to be fulfilled, the Jews (the modern peoples of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). descendants of biblical Judah) would have to control all of Je- These facts are thoroughly explained in our book The United rusalem. In other words, this scripture includes a prophecy States and Britain in Prophecy, which we will send you free. that the Jews would not only control the new half of Jerusalem Have you noticed how shamefully divided America and in this end time, but the old half as well—even though the Jews Britain are today? That is a deadly disease in a democracy, es- had no control of that city from a.d. 135 to 1948! pecially in such dangerous times. So the Bible prophesied well over 2,000 years ago that the In a crisis, division can play a major role in a nation’s death. Jews would lose control of Jerusalem—which happened in a.d. That is what happened to Jerusalem in a.d. 70. And since that 70—and regain control in the end time. event is a type of what is going to happen in the end time to See JERUSALEM page 5 THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET APRIL 2007 1 WORLD There Is Hope Attacksfor continue, and warIsrael! is afoot. Many Israelis, angry at their government for failing to protect them, fear for the future of their nation. This is an opportunity for Israelis to face a vital truth. BY JOEL HILLIKER lacing your hope in the its response for fear of escalating the situa- But in the face of all these threats, wrong thing can be deadly.